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Big Blue follows in footsteps of Google in pulling plug on services Exclusive IBM is set to put its Watson IoT Platform service on IBM Cloud into retirement.…

Aiming for somewhere between US 'Wild West' and EU's strict GDPR Even though Japan lags behind the rest of the developed world in digital transformation, it hopes to create global data flow standards for discussion at next year's G7 meetings.…

Naming no names, but study finds trustworthy techs are hard to find Computer scientists affiliated with Canada's University of Guelph have found that electronics repair services lack effective privacy protocols and that technicians often snoop on customers' data.…

Buggy update will be pulled in next 24 hours Microsoft continues to fix problems that pop up after users have installed the latest updates to Windows 10 and 11 – including one that causes problems with the Direct Access remote connectivity feature.…

After a troubled journey CAPSTONE marks Lunar Gateway for humans NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft has become the first cubesat to make it into lunar orbit, despite suffering a navigational glitch that briefly caused it to lose communication with Mission Control en route. …

Better for AI, but Frontier's still top of the heap Waferscale AI chip and systems maker Cerebras says its Andromeda supercomputer has more compute cores than Frontier – the world's first and only publicly verified cluster to break the exascale barrier.…

Russian data trackers … what could possibly go wrong? US government agencies including the Army and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled apps running Pushwoosh code after learning the software company – which presents itself as American – is actually Russian, according to Reuters.…

US states win case for privacy Google will pay $391.5 million to settle a location tracking lawsuit brought against it by 40 US states that claimed the big data behemoth continued surveilling consumers' movements even after these users explicitly told the Chocolate Factory to stop tracking them.…

Bankruptcy filing for $32 billion firm follows inability to give customers their money On Friday, cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. and 134 affiliated firms filed for bankruptcy protection, and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried resigned as CEO, turning over control to John Ray III, who also oversaw the liquidation of Enron Corp.…

Alexa, do I have a job? Staff in corporate and technology positions in line of fire Online megacorp Amazon is the latest tech giant to be linked with sweeping layoffs following reports that up to 10,000 redundancy notices will start to be distributed to employees from this week.…

No need for ignominy when a flaw is found GitHub is offering a scheme for security researchers to privately report vulnerabilities found in public repositories.…

Come September '23, scientists might be able to learn more rapidly how we're failing to control global warming When a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate simulation tool comes online in 2023, it'll have Nvidia digital twin technology and analytics wares from Lockheed Martin under the hood.…

Chips are only as fast as the memory that feeds them Analysis During the recent launch of its 96-core Epyc Genoa CPUs, AMD touched on one of the biggest challenges facing modern computing. For the past several years, the rate at which processors have grown more powerful has outpaced that of the memory subsystems that keep those cores fed with data.…

Doesn't matter what the data is, they thought they pushed the off switch, argues complaint Apple is facing another lawsuit, this time over allegations it's tracking iOS users and turning that data into profit, even if said users have selected "do not track" options. …

EuroHPC's LUMI upgrades secure narrow lead over all-new Leonardo system SC22 Despite expectations that we might see the long-awaited Aurora supercomputer crest the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful systems, the US Department of Energy's 1.1 exaflop Frontier machine at Oak Ridge National Lab continues to hold the number one spot.…

Plan is to consolidate DCs, cut costs and carbon under one-CSP-to-rule-it-all deal The United States Department of the Interior has posted a final solicitation for a $1 billion cloud computing services contract that runs for 11 years and will be awarded to a single vendor.…

Steady now. It's not the full-fledged quantum that will suddenly let you crack encryption algos SC22 Dell is expanding its high performance computing (HPC) portfolio with the addition of a quantum computing platform - where customers can start testing out quantum algorithms - plus an overhauled APEX service and PowerEdge systems based on Intel's Sapphire Rapids next-gen processors.…

Bro do u even GraphQL? When Elon Musk promised to improve Twitter's technical performance at the weekend, it was one of the company's own engineers who rubbished the new CEO's claims. Then a stampede of software engineers trundled in to support their comrade.…

Russia and strong dollar weigh heavy on 2022, but OpenText is ready for COBOL expert Unaudited fiscal 2022 financial results for Micro Focus indicate that potential new owner OpenText still has some work to do to convert the app and infrastructure management software house into a growth engine.…

GPU maker wants more of your money with next wave of servers Nvidia plans to bundle a five-year license of its commercial AI Enterprise software with every PCIe-based H100 GPU coming to servers soon.…

For when millions of years of evolution and timekeeping are not good enough Walking – what a drag. How are you supposed to keep on the trillionaire crypto mogul grindset when you have to do something as mundane as placing one foot in front of the other to get to your next high-flying presentation?…

Contract chipmaker fails to detail numbers of layoffs or planned timeframe in email to staff GlobalFoundries is planning job cuts to reduce overhead amid weakening demand for semiconductors.…

Fellow crypto-exchange Gate.io spots error, returns funds Over the weekend it was revealed that cryptocurrency exchange company Crypto.com accidentally sent over $400 million to another cryptocurrency exchange and was miraculously able to get it back.…

BrachioGraph: 'The cheapest, simplest possible pen-plotter' Ubuntu Summit BrachioGraph is a DIY pen-plotter built from a Raspberry Pi Zero, a few $2 servomotors, plus household parts such as clothes pegs and bulldog clips… and controlled in Python.…

Edinburgh Uni says it interrupted its financial processes in summer to test new system The UK’s University of Edinburgh continues to struggle to pay staff, students and suppliers months after the introduction of a new Oracle Fusion-based accounting and HR system.…

We must immunize the Mastodon Opinion There is a euphemism in rocketry often heard at SpaceX – Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. A catastrophic explosion, in other words. Until now, it was not a phrase that applies to social media.…

Tune in to hear how it works on Spotify, or hook up with choice on Bumble Google’s resistance to allowing third-party payment systems to touch its Play digital store appear to be ebbing away, with the search and ads giant last week announcing it has commenced tests of payment choice in the USA.…

Speech did not mention IPO, did say CEO's close involvement is good for humanity Japanese tech investment giant Softbank appears to be committed to keeping British-based chip designer Arm under its influence, after the parent company’s CEO and chairman, Masayoshi Son, pledged his life to growing the semiconductor subsidiary in its Q2 2022 earnings report last Friday.…

When RTFM goes bad Who, Me? Welcome, gentle reader, to another instalment of Who, Me? in which Regizens recount records of rancor and remorse. This week, a tale of instructions designed to make life easy that did, in fact, nothing of the sort.…

Creates 100-strong squad comprising cops and spooks with remit to disrupt ransomware ops Australia's government has declared the nation is planning to go on the offensive against international cyber crooks following recent high-profile attacks on local health insurer Medibank and telco Optus.…

PLUS: US/Singapore CBDC trial; Digital Ocean down under; Boeing's Indonesian touchdown; and more Chinese web giant Alibaba has declared this year's 11.11 "Singles Day" e-commerce frenzy a success, but for the first time has not revealed the value of product shifted on the day.…

Plus: Amazon debuts AI warehouse robot, Midjourney releases latest ML art generator In brief GitHub is testing a new feature that will allow developers to instruct its AI-powered programming assistant Copilot to generate code using voice commands.…

Plus: CISA has a flowchart for patching, privacy campaign goes after face search engine In Brief A suspected member of the notorious international LockBit ransomware mob has been arrested – and could spend several years behind bars if convicted.…

Lost among the Twitter chaos? We'll try to sort it out for you, so far You could say Twitter, now in its second week of Elon Musk's reign, has had an interesting week. That would be an understatement.…

Unless you're fine with Qatar snoops remotely accessing your phone With mandated spyware downloads to tens of thousands of surveillance cameras equipped with facial-recognition technology, the World Cup in Qatar next month is looking more like a data security and privacy nightmare than a celebration of the beautiful game.…

Only one of the two new 3D XPoint-based drives offer a performance improvement From the rotting corpse that is Intel's axed Optane memory business come a pair of new 3D XPoint-based SSDs for servers and workstations. Only one of them seems like an upgrade from drives released two years ago.…

Licensing down 53% due to major one-off deals signed a year ago Chip designer Arm reported record revenues for its latest quarterly trading update as it continues to diversify the business beyond licensing.…

Hopefully servers will sweat a little less than the ones in Doha Microsoft is building four datacenters in North Carolina as part of a phased development that will see it invest at least $1 billion over the next decade.…

2nm and beyond: Interesting time to get into bed with American chip giant Japan looks set inject 70 billion yen ($500 million) into a new semiconductor company amid plans to jump-start next generation advanced chip production with the help of IBM.…

Narrowing permissions could be difference between mildly pwned and totally pwned corporate network Microsoft is bringing a granular personal access token (PAT) to its Azure DevOps REST APIs to try to reduce the damage that can happen when credentials are leaked or stolen.…

Alleged genius behind electric car spots one thing that might save company from the abyss: ending WFH Comment Twitter CEO Elon Musk has told employees of the risk of short-term bankruptcy as corporations — hence potential advertisers — get trashed by spoof accounts set up under the new blue checkmark scheme he introduced.…

Tasteless food chain claims 'semi-automated' process skipped internal review process US fast food chain KFC has apologized for a promotional message sent via its app that encouraged customers to commemorate Kristallnacht by ordering extra cheese on their chicken.…

CEO says UK government cap on energy has given it wiggle room, hopes payment will end further strikes BT says UK government’s price cap on energy bills will allow it to provide financial assistance to employees struggling with relentless rises in inflation - a marked change on the CEO’s previous stance.…

C/C++ on the bench, as NSA puts its trust in Rust, C#, Go, Java, Ruby and Swift The US National Security Agency (NSA) has released guidance encouraging organizations to shift programming languages from the likes of C and C++ to memory safe alternatives – namely C#, Rust, Go, Java, Ruby or Swift.…

It won't be the last Opinion GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI-driven, pair-programming service, is already wildly popular. Microsoft broke out GitHub's revenue and subscription numbers in its latest quarterly report for the first time.…

You'd think tech support people would stick together … On Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday frolic through readers' memories of support jobs that had odd endings.…

EC veep: 'Cyber is the new domain in warfare' The European Commission on Thursday proposed a cyber defense policy in response to Europe's "deteriorating security environment" since Russia illegally invaded Ukraine earlier this year.…

Boffins baffled: There's, like, zero magnetic field and very little atmosphere. What gives? A coronal mass ejection from our Sun sent a shower of charged particles to Mars, generating two types of ultraviolet auroras astronomers have never seen at the same time before.…

Crims accessed 10 million customer records and are releasing intimate medical details The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has pointed to Russia as the location of the attackers who breached local health insurer Medibank, accessed almost ten million customer records, and in recent days dumped some customer data onto the dark web.…

Both firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine AMD has grown its share in the server processor market against Intel once again, though the chip designer lost out to its much larger rival in the broader x86 market.…