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Gartner finds pandemic-related trend is becoming the norm By the end of 2023, only 9 percent of knowledge workers worldwide will be fully remote, but 39 percent will combine remote and office-based work, according to analysis by Gartner.…

Entrance of SpaceX and others into airline Wi-Fi eases worries. Next stop: US and EU regulators The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally approved Viasat's planned multibillion-dollar purchase of fellow satellite builder Inmarsat, yet the proposal has other regulatory hurdles to clear.…

Framework offers refurb kit and parts – for instance, to upgrade a decades-old subnotebook If you are lucky enough to own an IBM ThinkPad 701C, with its famous "butterfly" keyboard, options are appearing to help you bring it back to life – and some are quite dramatic.…

This could have practical applications for human technology, say boffins Scientists have discovered that the tiny insects commonly known as sharpshooters use superpropulsion to ensure they can efficiently eject the huge volumes of urine they produce each day.…

We're not just your grandmother's data warehouse, CEO tells El Reg CEO Interview Cloud ambitions came with a plan to pull out of on-prem consultancy and services at Teradata, the data warehousing specialist whose userbase includes some of the world's largest banks and retailers.…

Cupertino not entirely off the hook – yet The European Commission on Tuesday reduced the scope of its investigation into Apple's allegedly anticompetitive App Store rules for music streaming providers.…

DLL side-loading does the trick, again Cybercriminals are disguising the PlugX remote access trojan as a legitimate open-source Windows debugging tool to evade detection and compromise systems.…

For one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems There are a lot of technical challenges humanity will have to tackle as we prepare a long-term presence on and around the Moon, and the European Space Agency just reminded us of one more: we don't have an agreed, coordinated method of telling time on our natural satellite. …

Local officials say fire suppression equipment wasn't operational Apple supplier Foxlink has admitted a fire damaged its plant in Tirupati, India, and that disruptions to production are to be expected as a result.…

Regulator warns it's far from finished and the deletions will continue until morale improves The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has put numbers to its drive to reshape the local internet, claiming it cleaned up 54.3 million pieces of information it deemed illegal and bad in 2022 alone.…

32 virtual qubits are yours to manipulate with classical C or Python code Intel has released a Quantum software development kit (SDK) that simulates a complete quantum computer using conventional hardware.…

Mainframes dating back to 2017 can run forthcoming OS, which has something for everyone – even COBOL coders IBM has teased a Q3 2023 release for a major upgrade to its z/OS mainframe operating environment.…

Personal Gmail users still out of luck Google continued its client-side encryption rollout, the feature generally available to some Gmail and Calendar users who can now send and receive encrypted messages and meeting invites.…

Last chance to film yourself doing a ByteDance, in the US and abroad The White House has ordered all federal government employees to delete TikTok from work devices, over fears the video-sharing app could be used to spy on Americans. …

Where's my money? You got money for wafers, where's my money? Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and other semiconductor foundries stand to receive billions in American taxpayer funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to expand fab capacity on US soil, according to documents released by the government's Commerce Department.…

Who apart from Microsoft is happy with the ship now, oh just fix it later approach? What's more dangerous than Chinese spy balloons? Unsafe software and other technology products, according to America's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly.…

Exaggerated claims? About unproven technology? Ask your chat bot if it knows what fraud means Analysis The US Federal Trade Commission has re-upped its admonition to businesses that they should not exaggerate the role or capabilities of artificial intelligence in their products.…

Outage-hit telco still won't confirm ransomware infection, or if it's paying up Dish has confirmed what everyone was suspecting, given the ongoing downtime experienced by some of its systems, that the US telco was hit by criminal hackers.…

Otherwise Uncle Sam risks the whole purpose of the CHIPS Act The semiconductor industry is seeking to bypass US environmental protection rules to speed up fab construction, warning US government that delays derail the purpose of the CHIPS Act; to outpace China in technology.…

This is starting to become a common theme Tesla and Elon Musk are establishing a pattern. Less than a month after defeating one shareholder-led class action securities fraud lawsuit, another has begun.…

Code update will remove the need for translation layer in Linux distros With WINE 8 out, the team is merging in the code changes to add support for the Wayland display server protocol.…

Battery usage optimization comes to Apple MacBooks Google's code gremlins have been tweaking the company's Chrome browser under the hood to help Apple's MacBooks consume less power.…

Talos team warns on third-party threats, but will it work? Betteridge's Law may apply SCSW Supply chain attacks are a serious problem – yet they're long-term operations, and that gives canny admins a chance to nip them in the bud. Always remember to check the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), and never drop your guard.…

Fiscal 2023 'not without its challenges' as bottom line tumbles 76% Zoom, poster child of pandemic web comms, is experiencing the same readjustment as other online tech providers whose businesses ballooned in recent years, but is still managing to pick up more paying customers.…

Syndicate wants to see health service 'stay in control' in face of fierce competition from Palantir The contentious procurement of the UK health service's £480 million ($580 million) Federated Data Platform (FDP) – which US spy-tech firm Palantir is tipped to win – has seen a new competitor enter the fray in the form of a UK consortium of vendors.…

Another option for devs burned by VMware snubbing Apple platforms Apple developers can now access macOS instances orchestrated by Kubernetes on AWS with MacStadium's Orka platform.…

Timely application as delinquencies rise with interest rates A patent application from automaker Ford was published last week for embedded vehicle systems that facilitate an automobile's repossession, including autonomously moving it to a repossession agency.…

And, ahem, seven-figure ad campaigns on publications with a vulture for a logo – right, Joe? There are more than a few strings attached to the $52 billion in funding set aside by the CHIPS and Science Act for domestic chipmaking projects, and this week the Biden administration added another: affordable childcare.…

Join us in the 'new world of opportunity' says GSMA chief The annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) shindig for the telecoms industry has begun in Barcelona, with one of the over-arching themes being the ongoing efforts by IT vendors to muscle their way into the telecoms market.…

Board chairman Hasso Plattner lines up successor to take ERP giant into uncharted territory SAP has begun the succession process which will see the replacement of co-founder Hasso Plattner as chairman of the German software giant's supervisory board amid a seismic change in technology landscapes.…

All the news that's fit to pwn The miscreants who infiltrated News Corporation's corporate IT network spent two years in the media monolith's system before being detected early last year.…

Not that we're urging them to try harder or anything A series of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down nine Danish hospitals' websites for a few hours on Sunday, but did not have any life-threatening impact on the medical centers' operations or digital infrastructure.…

It’s not just another data breach when the victim oversees witness protection programs The US Marshals Service, the enforcement branch of the nation’s federal courts, has admitted to a “major” breach of its information security defenses allowed a ransomware infection and exfiltration of “law-enforcement sensitive information”.…

What’s the frequency, Kenneth? Radio interference can be a pain to deal with, regardless of whether it's a rogue baby monitor interrupting your Wi-Fi or a stadium full of smartphone signals drowning each other out.…

Updating the nation through the power of games. And ads. Lots of ads Ten Japanese companies, including IT services giant Fujitsu and automobile manufacturer Mitsubishi, have embarked on a collaboration to create an advertiser-friendly immersive gaming environment they've grandly named the "Japan Metaverse Economic Zone."…

While we're here, what do you think of Zuck announcing a vague catchup plan to build 'AI personas'? ChatGPT, the buggy generative AI chatbot that is apparently going to change every industry forever by responding to written prompts with slabs of stilted, shabby and sometimes entirely fictional prose, is unable to explain why it experienced an outage on Monday.…

But not the giant ones Musk previewed last year – those still can't get to space without Starship Starlink has sent the first batch of its second-generation satellites into orbit today, but not the full-sized hardware CEO Elon Musk promised last year.…

Those that signed up for the $15,000 package told to queue behind those waiting for safety upgrade Tesla has hit the brakes on the rollout of its Full Self-Driving Beta software to new customers, while it delivers an update to faulty code in existing at least 362,758 cars already using the software in North America.…

Chainguard CEO explains how to secure code given crims know to poison it at the source SCSW The vast majority of off-the-shelf software is composed of imported components, whether that's open source libraries or proprietary code. And that spells a security danger: if someone can subvert one of those components, they can infiltrate every installation of applications using those dependencies.…

Reminder: Elon spent $44 billion on this. Forty-four thousand million dollars Twitter has reportedly axed about another 200 employees, equivalent to roughly 10 per cent of its workforce.…

Elites won't accept anything that takes away power, we're not dazzled by fake predictable intelligence Comment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said his upstart is preparing for the coming of artificial general intelligence – though there's disagreement about what AGI actually means and skepticism about his claim that OpenAI's mission is to ensure that AGI "benefits all humanity."…

When AI gives you lemons, you make orangeade Microsoft is aggressively pushing OpenAI's artificial intelligence technology into seemingly every nook and cranny of its universe.…

If at first you don’t succeed, spy, spy again A former ASML worker accused of stealing trade secrets for advanced chip-making equipment from his employer is now suspected of spying for the Chinese government.…

Techies 'hard at work' and all of that US telco Dish said it is investigating a multi-day network "issue" that knocked some of its systems offline, leaving customers stranded from the web.…

Crew-6 will have to wait to go to space, and everyone in orbit will have to wait that much longer to come home NASA and Space-X scrubbed this morning's launch of the Crew-6 mission to the ISS due to a ground systems issue that made it impossible to measure the Falcon 9 rocket's fuel levels.…

Latest twist in long saga of trying to monetize desktop penguinistas The GNOME and KDE organizations are working on a proposal to crowdsource a big change in Flathub: to make it an app store for Linux – including for paid software.…

QED, NFTs are securities A New York federal judge has ruled that emojis used in certain situations can only "objectively mean one thing" – financial advice indicating a return on investment.…

Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors Job losses at Salesforce appear to be far from over as the CRM specialist sets out its plan to appease a gang of circling activist investors that are influencing its strategy.…

With spares and tools coming from iFixit, no less HMD Global, which took over the Nokia brand for phones, has launched a smartphone designed to be fixed by the owner, with repair site iFixit providing guides and replacement parts.…

Add-on package manager for macOS (and Linux if you need it) FOSS Fest Homebrew is a handy tool if you work in a terminal window on a Mac, which lets you quickly and easily install a wide variety of familiar tools from the wider FOSS world.…