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Time to get moving if you still rely on this deprecated feature Microsoft has finally decided to add the venerable NTLM authentication protocol to the Deprecated Features list....

Coming SiB boom will be a Chinese one while the West is years behind, industry watcher tells us Interview The burgeoning sodium ion battery industry is poised for a big year, says one analyst, though the US and its friends may miss out as China whizzes by....

Experts say Big Red will probably re-release patch in an upcoming cycle A seven-year-old Oracle vulnerability is the latest to be added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog, meaning the security agency considers it a significant threat to federal government....

Someone noticed Britain's about to elect a new govt, amirite? The latest CEO of UK telecoms giant BT says that Scandinavian nations are far more developed than Britain when it comes to telco infrastructure, and the government needs to overhaul regulations to fix this....

What's that Lassie? Our nefarious AI overlords are about to take over the world? You must be barking People who want to understand their dogs might be about to be given a helping paw by AI, according to the latest study....

As tool emerges to probe OS feature's SQLite-based store of user activities Asked to explore the data privacy issues arising from Microsoft Recall, the Windows maker's poorly received self-surveillance tool, Jaime Teevan, chief scientist and technical fellow at Microsoft Research, brushed aside concerns....

We're from the government and we want you to find love and procreate The city of Tokyo plans to launch a dating app in coming months, in the hope it helps to address Japan' declining population....

May come in handy for healthcare orgs, or to turn you off private 5G Computex Delta is a Taiwanese company that specializes in power management kit, the sort of thing that datacenters need. It's therefore very much in demand right now but also, as revealed in the final keynote address of the 2024 edition of the Computex conference, undertakes some tangential R&D...

Legacy apps on Chromebooks is the goal, which won't terrify VDI incumbents like Citrix and Omnissa Google has decided to take on the likes of Citrix and VMware by acquiring an outfit called Cameyo whose tech makes it possible to stream apps into browsers - including on Chromebooks....

Would like to vanquish Veeam and Veritas, but tidying up backup rigs is an easier job Computex Taiwanese storage vendor Synology has revealed a range of backup appliances....

No, this isn't the weird logic of cryptocurrency infecting the IRS. It's a 'Fight us and everyone loses even more' kinda deal Imploded cryptocurrency exchange FTX owes a lot of people a lot of money - but has convinced America's tax collectors at the IRS to give it a massive discount on its $24 billion tax bill....

Tycoon's private firms got Nvidia GPUs first because automaker couldn't use them yet Comment Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed he redirected Nvidia H100 GPUs intended for the car manufacturer to X and xAI, two private firms he owns....

Beware of zero-click malware sliding into your DMs Miscreants exploited a zero-day in TikTok to compromised the accounts of CNN and other big names. The app maker has confirmed there was a cyberattack, and that it has scrambled to secure accounts and prevent any further exploitation....

Think biologically not digitally to go from megawatts to watts, HAI gathering told The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on Wednesday celebrated five years of cat herding, which is to say shepherding the responsible development of machine learning....

Malware code potentially sold off, tweaked, back at it infecting victims RansomHub, a newish cyber-crime operation that has claimed to be behind the theft of data from Christie's auction house and others, is "very likely" some kind of rebrand of the Knight ransomware gang, according to threat hunters....

Bristol researcher granted 375K to improve airborne wind energy systems We may be inching closer to a post-turbine wind energy future if a grant awarded to a University of Bristol boffin for wind-harvesting, ground-tethered drone research is any indication of things to come....

In-process OLAP database flies the nest DuckDB has become a fully fledged database release with its 1.0 iteration, promising a new data model and greater stability to enhance backwards compatibility....

Let's get that brave duo to the ISS and then home to Earth safely Boeing's NASA-backed Starliner crew capsule, at long last, successfully blasted off from a Florida launch pad today with two brave humans onboard....

'We love our farms' says Culpeper, but we also like internet mega-souk and others setting up servers Interview When we last checked in on Culpeper County, Virginia, folks there were contesting the construction of an Amazon datacenter while officials sought to attract more server-hosting estates to the area....

That backdoor's not meant to be there? Zyxel just released security fixes for two of its obsolete network-attached storage (NAS) devices after an intern at a security vendor reported critical flaws months ago....

So about that commercial servicing mission, hmm? NASA has confirmed that the time has come: the venerable Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is to run in one-gyro mode from now on....

Chocolate Factory entangled in yet another anti-competitive claim The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled that a class action lawsuit accusing Google of anti-competitive practices can proceed....

'Current and former employees should retain their freedom to report their concerns to the public' open letter says Current and former Google DeepMind and OpenAI staff have signed an open letter calling for support and protection for whistleblowers and accountability among companies at the leading edge of AI development....

Despite unbundling video and chat app from Office, Redmond 'committed to find a resolution to regulators' concerns' Microsoft says it will likely take "additional steps" in a bid to resolve the European Commission antitrust investigation into its bundling of Teams with Office....

Shipments of servers used for artificial intelligence jump more than 100% to $900M, share price up double digits Two magical letters, A and I, helped lift Hewlett Packard Enterprise's share price by as much as 15 percent in after-hours trading following a ramp in orders for systems to train and run customers' AI models....

Frees up some of the cash Chipzilla's already sunk into Fab 34 Intel is to pocket $11 billion from private equity biz Apollo Global Management in exchange for 49 percent of a joint venture that will effectively run Intel's fabrication plant in Ireland....

Keeping things neutral will be harder, say critics, as tiny startup acquired In September last year it was a company with around 25 employees, all working remotely. Last night, Tabular was bought by analytics and machine learning platform Databricks for a reported $1 billion....

Windows Insiders set to get first hands on feature updates Microsoft is reopening the Windows 10 Beta Channel for Windows Insiders in a clear sign that there is still life in the old dog....

Public officials allegedly bribed to allow extradition-dodging travel Four arrests were made this week as part of an international probe into two overlapping corruption schemes that allowed cybercrims on INTERPOL watch lists to travel freely without flagging any alerts....

Swedish furniture giant has 10 paid in-game jobs to fill First Ryanair, now flatpack chairs - IKEA is coming to Roblox....

Group founder reveals all to The Reg Interview Sometimes people want to abuse AI systems to leak corporate secrets. Other times they just want to force an LLM to talk like a pirate....

Splitting hotly contested spectrum could get messy Nokia and Swedish telco Telia have completed a pilot deployment using the upper 6 GHz spectrum band, hoping to add capacity and coverage for future expansion. However, some regulators such as the UK's Ofcom think this band should be available for both mobile and Wi-Fi....

In praise of knowing the requirements before you start cranking out code A study has found that projects adopting Agile practices are 268 percent more likely to fail than those that do not....

Because who doesn't love a $373M toy? ASML and Belgian R&D biz Imec have opened a lab giving chipmakers access to the latest High NA EUV lithography equipment and associated tools to accelerate development of their next-gen products....

I feel the need, the need for ... a Euro-made military drone AI-piloted drones that accompany and assist human-piloted fighter jets are very much on military minds - and Airbus is showing off its take on the technology....

Let customers interfere with other tenants? That's our cloud working by design, Redmond seems to say A vulnerability - or just Azure working as intended, depending on who you ask - in Microsoft's cloud potentially allows miscreants to wave away firewall rules and access other people's private web resources....

Probably won't cost him his job, meaning India's messy tech to-do list remains his problem India's Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, has lost his bid for election to the lower house of India's parliament, the Lok Sabha...

Musky network celebrates free speech win ... after not opposing takedown of similar fare Australia's eSafety commissioner has ended legal action that aimed to compel social network X to take down a video depicting a knife attack on a clergyman classified as an act of terror under local law....

Upgrading to improve density is the new green Computex SuperMicro CEO Charles Liang expects liquid cooling will be installed in 30 percent of racks the company ships next year - vast growth, given the market for such kit has been moribund for decades....

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger wants benchmarks to go beyond TOPS but warns we're in for months of uncertainty Computex Analysis The dominant theme at this year's Computex conf in Taiwan is that tens of millions of "AI PCs" will sell this year, and more the year after. But despite all the enthusiasm, the qualities of an AI PC have become even more uncertain - and clarity is many months away....

We sifted through hours of presentations so you don't have to Computex At the annual Computex conference in Taipei this week Intel, AMD, and Nvidia showed off their latest datacenter and AI kit, and offered a tantalizing glimpse of what's coming next on their respective roadmaps....

We had a record quarter, so sorry to see you go Analysis Microsoft plans to lay off about 1,000 people across the tech giant, despite what CEO Satya Nadella described during the corporation's April earnings call as "a record third quarter."...

If the grid can't keep up, DCs may be forced to roll their own primary supplies, Sharp tells El Reg Interview It's no secret the GPUs used to train and run generative AI models are power hungry little beasts....

If you're wondering why connectivity seems toast at the moment Many AT&T subscribers in America have been unable to make calls to folks on other carriers for several hours today....

In the Navy, no, you cannot have an unauthorized WLAN. In the Navy, no, that's not a good plan The US Navy has cracked down on an illicit Wi-Fi network installed on a combat ship by demoting the senior enlisted leader who ordered it to be set up....

Says UALink and Ultra Ethernet won't be threat for years as he reveals successor to Blackwell and free NIMs Computex Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has shrugged off Big Tech's attempt to attack his networking strategy....

'We are updating our terms to clarify this' Pixel giant tells The Reg Google has disavowed language in its terms'n'conditions that says the Pixel and Chromebook giant will confiscate devices sent in for repairs that contain unapproved parts....

Tesla left out due to HD mapping roadblock China has given the go-ahead to nine local car brands to start testing level three autonomous vehicles on public roads....

Meanwhile Mr Smith goes to Washington to testify before Congress The Pentagon is "doubling down" on its investment in Microsoft products despite the serious failings at the IT giant that put America's national security at risk, say two US senators....

When the Middle Kingdom starts making its own processors, it won't buy ones made by me! Computex Further US export restrictions on China may force the country to develop its own advanced semiconductors and significantly compete against US chipmakers, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger cautions....