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We'll have what Europe's having Smartphones and other mobile devices sold in India must have a USB-C charging port as standard by March 2025.…

Actions speak volumes Mass production of 3nm components has begun at TSMC's south Taiwan facilities, the silicon slinger announced on Thursday.…

There's more than one way to beat the heat – and save serious money Comment Hype around liquid and immersion cooling has reached a fever pitch in recent months, and it appears that the colocation datacenter market is ready to get in on the action.…

Turns out patent trolls don't like being outed by their lawyers Intel and SoftBank-backed VLSI Technology have agreed to end a $4 billion patent dispute, according to documents filed in Delaware District Court this week.…

Have they tried turning it off and back on again? Winter storms and staff shortages were only the tipping point that sent Southwest Airlines IT infrastructure over the edge, leaving thousands still stranded across the US, chief operating officer Andrew Watterson has explained.…

Having claimed North America and Europe, the cloud giants hope to add Latin America and Africa to their empires Opinion When the major cloud providers warned of slowing customer demand earlier this quarter, many expected them to pull back on their capex expenditures until the latest macroeconomic headwinds had blown over. Only, they didn't.…

When the chips are down, bet the farm In spite of uncertain economic conditions, Kyocera is reportedly putting its stake in Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI on the line to expand its semiconductor footprint.…

ByteDance ban for federal devices awaits Biden’s signature The US government's New Year's resolution for 2023: no more TikTok at work.…

Plus: Cracked Piers Morgan spews offensive tweets, not the usual kind A miscreant this Christmas weekend said they are willing to sell public and private info on more than 400 million Twitter accounts.…

Teachers need to work harder to get students to write and think for themselves Feature As word of students using AI to automatically complete essays continues to spread, some lecturers are beginning to rethink how they should teach their pupils to write.…

What to do with the boss who refuses to answer the phone? Or wants a bigger cubicle? Revenge, that's what Who, Me? The Reg's weekly confessional column, Who, Me?, is on holidays with shoes off, a festive drink in hand, and a warm fire. That's a combination that's set our mind wandering into the Who, Me? mailbag for a roundup of some stories we think deserve to be told together.…

Users may be the product, but we come with a hell of a price tag Opinion Consequences can come at you fast or slow. If you’re a trillion-dollar company, you get to choose which, a bit, but you can never escape completely.…

Plus ArtStation cracks down on rebellious creators and lame-duck AI laws in the US on the cards In brief Sundar Pichai is apparently all in a pickle over OpenAI's ChatGPT engine, and is gearing up Google to meet the perceived threat.…

Also, script kiddies are coming for your gift cards, and Meta's Cambridge Analytica pathetic payout Merry Christmas, Linux systems administrators: Here's a kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10 in your SMB server for the holiday season giving an unauthenticated user remote code execution. …

Some terms and condition may apply Hot off the heels of the US Department of Energy's (DoE) sort-of nuclear fusion breakthrough, the agency is offering up $33 million for researchers that can wrangle artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other data resources to the cause.…

As if you needed another reason to delete the app right now Video sharing platform TikTok and its parent company Bytedance are leakier than a sieve – and it has emerged that in an attempt to plug the holes, members of Bytedance's internal audit team tracked the physical location of journalists via their IP addresses.…

'No plans at this time,' it tells us, but won't rule it out amid reports execs are visiting Dresden, Germany TSMC told The Reg it has no "plans at this time" to site one of its factories in Europe but wouldn't rule anything out amid reports that the world's most strategically important chipmaker was sending senior suits to Dresden, Germany, to discuss the possibility of a factory there.…

Ideal if you're looking for something to play with over the holidays As the end of the year and the holiday season both approach, so do new previews of both SUSE's new enterprise Linux distro, ALP, and the NetBSD OS.…

Xbox maker responds to US regulator's lawsuit to block the acquisition Microsoft has put forward its argument against the US trade regulator's attempt to block its massive purchase of games dev Activision Blizzard from going through, claiming the deal would be good for consumers.…

Fintech, you're better than this. Time to concentrate on more helpful stuff Opinion With the quick one-two punch of FTX and Binance, crypto is finally losing its luster as the next revolution in money.…

'Plague' of ageing, inadequate data systems strikes again as state struggles to cut £22b maintenance bill The UK government has failed to get a grip on the management of its £158 billion ($190 billion) property portfolio because of a failure to replace an ageing database system.…

We really should have known better than to end up with siloed applications on different platforms Opinion Enterprise IT infrastructure has consistently given us worthy investments to make and jobs to do in the last 20 years.…

For one thing, an ignorant user could shut down all of IT On Call Welcome, dear reader, to On Call, The Register's regular column in which we share your stories of being asked to fix the ridiculous.…

Thankfully a well encrypted copy that could take an eon to crack, unless users practiced bad password hygiene Password locker LastPass has warned customers that the August 2022 attack on its systems saw unknown parties copy encrypted files that contains the passwords to their accounts.…

This has the ring of truth to it because Chinese giant has disclosed similar worries on earnings calls Tencent CEO Pony Ma has reportedly dumped on his own company in a company meeting, railing against corruption, low quality products, and failing business units being propped up.…

US investigators probe Bay Bridge multi-car smash A serious accident on San Francisco's Bay Bridge has been blamed on Tesla's "full-self-driving" software by the driver, and the US government is investigating.…

The hack wraps up a year of bad security incidents for identity Intruders copied source code belonging to Okta after breaching the identity management company's GitHub repositories.…

Lower demand? Bid adieu to 10% of workers and cut production American chipmaker Micron Technology plans to cut 10 percent of its workforce and significantly reduce capital spending next year as demand for its memory and storage silicon have reached lows not seen since the Great Recession in 2009.…

5 billion calls over three months. Was your phone spammed? US regulators want to fine the operators of a claimed massive robocall operation almost $300 million that made more than 5 billion pre-recorded calls over three months early last year.…

We don't have the power It turns out Meta isn’t the only one cancelling datacenters this month. Google has reportedly walked away from a $600 million bitbarn project under development in Becker, Minnesota.…

Upgraded threat, time to patch The Zerobot botnet, first detected earlier this month, is expanding the types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices it can compromise by going after Apache systems.…

Woohoo! Cameras on robot's belly confirm it isn't going to drive over it A titanium tube that looks a bit like a steampunk telescope has been dropped off by the plucky Perseverance rover, stuffed with a Mars rock sample that NASA astrobiologists are hoping might reveal traces of ancient microbial life.…

Asks Florida judge to sanction 'American-Latino centric version of Netflix’ for alleged fraud The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a media company based in Florida with defrauding investors about its ability to stream content on a functioning media platform, and accused its CEO of misappropriating over $450,000 of investor funds.…

Samuel Bankman-Fried in FBI custody to face court 'as soon as possible' Two members of Samuel Bankman-Fried's inner circle have pleaded guilty to defrauding equity investors in the moribund FTX cryptocurrency trading platform.…

First satellite to be launched into orbit from western Europe... when it takes off After some tension around a delayed launch of what will be the first satellite to go into orbit from British soil – or indeed from anywhere in western Europe – UK regulators have confirmed they've issued all licenses necessary for Virgin Orbit to deploy a rocket for horizontal takeoff from a modified Boeing 747 from Spaceport Cornwall.…

The term has become so ambiguous it's verging on irrelevance Opinion What exactly is the edge? What makes something an edge appliance? These are trickier questions than you might think, and depending on who you ask — and honestly, what they’re trying to sell you — the answers can vary wildly.…

The scam was lurking behind the content of an adult website Scammers using Google Ads, stolen blog articles, and a "popunder" ad scheme on adult websites pulled in more than $275,000 a month by generating millions of ad impressions every month.…

Activists note absence of VPNs ponder whether Apple may put revenue above human rights in some markets Apple has been accused of selling out human rights for the sake of profit by cooperating with authoritarian censorship demands in China and Russia, according to two reports issued on Thursday.…

So long and thanks for all the science As expected, NASA’s Mars InSight lander has run out of energy, leaving the space agency no alternative but to end the mission.…

But will be bigger than gaming consoles, so maybe this metaverse thing has legs Analyst firm IDC has crunched the numbers for sales of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets and found they’re not going to be a big seller any time soon – at least compared to conventional computing devices.…

Two test missions fly first, before Gaganyaan makes India just the fourth nation to put people into orbit India has named the fourth quarter of 2024 as the likely date for the nation’s first crewed space mission.…

No horse heads in beds...that we know of Crooks are using an Android banking Trojan dubbed Godfather to steal from banking and cryptocurrency exchange app users in 16 countries, according to Group-IB security researchers…

Nearly three weeks and no email for customers As the Rackspace email fiasco approaches week three with the company's hosted Exchange customers' data in limbo, Rackspace execs still won't put an exact number on how many customers were affected by the ransomware-induced email outage, or when — if — they'll be able to recover their old messages and contacts.…

No Girl Scout cookies for you A Girl Scout troop trip to see the Rockettes in New York City didn't go as planned for mom Kelly Conlon, who was turned away at the door of Radio City Music Hall because a facial recognition system pinned her as a prohibited person.…

Huawei to the chipless zone prediction Chinese telecom giant Huawei has reportedly run out of homegrown advanced chips for smartphones due to Trump-era US sanctions that were enacted.…

Designers' jobs to crash or GLIDE OpenAI has extended the capabilities of its text-to-image software from two dimensions into three with the release of Point•E, an open source project that produces 3D images from text prompts.…

Redmond accused of monopolising a market! How shocking First the FTC threw a legal wrench in the works, and now a group of gamers has filed a class action lawsuit in California to stop Microsoft from purchasing Activision Blizzard.…

The emergency OOB release should solve those frustrating failures Microsoft has pushed out an emergency fix for a problem in Windows Server caused by patch updates that made it impossible for some organizations to create virtual machines on Hyper-V hosts.…

More cash will still be needed to maintain service come spring, says Ukrainian deputy PM Ukraine's hunger for Starlink service continues unabated, and several EU countries have stepped in to help the war-torn nation foot the bill for an additional 10,000 terminals set to be delivered in the coming months.…

Tech IPOs down 85 percent on last year, research finds Analysis MariaDB has celebrated going public a few weeks before the end of a year which has seen a dramatic shift in the fortunes of tech companies raising money on the world's stock exchanges.…