The Register

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.…

Hushpuppi swaps private jet, Dubai penthouse for prison duds and $1.7m to victims An international cyber-scammer and Instagram star who plotted to launder more than $300 million over the course of 18 months was this week jailed – and he must pay back more than $1.7 million to his victims. …

Chipmaker tired of Putin choking the supply chain of the gas Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is reported to be seeking local sources of neon gas for use in its fabs, following disruptions to global supply chains caused by the Russian war in Ukraine.…

Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim AMD's status as scrappy underdog trailing in Intel's wake has been upended. The chipmaker has managed to pull out ahead of rival Intel with the launch of its fourth-generation Epyc "Genoa" processors this week.…

Canonical is working on a new way to prove to employers you know your stuff Ubuntu Summit Canonical is working on a new training and skills-testing scheme, currently codenamed CUE, to help people without formal certifications to show that they've got what it takes.…

Taps mic: Elon? Elon are you there? Care to comment? Electric carmaker Rivian is reporting more trouble – this time it's the loss of $1.7 billion in Q3 alone, although the biz said it has enough cash on hand for three more years of business. …

The Toebbes tried selling US Navy secrets, but handed them right to the FBI A woman and her husband, who both copped to trying to sell nuclear warship secrets to a foreign government, have been sentenced to prison, with each set to spend around two decades behind bars.…

As social media giant grapples with Musk takeover, a safe pair of hands reaches for the door Troubled social media giant Twitter has lost the services of its chief information and security officer to cap off another chaotic week following its acquisition by Elon Musk.…

Difficult decision did not end with RISE with SAP, analyst tells The Reg SAP’s plans for moving customers to S/4HANA in the cloud – the assumed destination for the majority of SAP's ERP users – belies the complexity of decision in terms of software licensing, infrastructure and business processes, according to Gartner.…

Alleges agreement choked resellers using Amazon Marketplace, eliminated 98% of competition Apple and Amazon stand accused of colluding to push up the price of iPhones and iPads by trying to suppress the competitive threat from resellers using Amazon's Marketplace.…

Hasn't escaped Europe's notice that US, China, Russia are launching sat after sat The EU is said to be nearing a deal on building a satellite internet service to fill in gaps in terrestrial broadband coverage, as well as providing "strategic independence" for the region.…

Still quite a way to go before fabled 4,158-qubit system lands, scheduled for 2025. Plus: Fujitsu details quantum/HPC hybrid calculation tech IBM has officially unveiled its Osprey quantum processor featuring 433 qubits, more than three times the qubits seen in its Eagle processor introduced just a year ago.…

Can't do anything about their musical taste though Japanese telecommunications megalith NTT released details on Wednesday of ambitious headphone tech that eliminates pesky sound leakage – even on open-ear earphones.…

Or, how to make an unsupported printer work on Windows 11 with Ubuntu and WSL2 Ubuntu Summit The OpenPrinting project – together with Windows Services for Linux – enables printers that Windows no longer supports to work on Windows 11.…

Weakness of local currencies vs the dollar will force US vendors to act and act again Chief information officers in Western Europe should buckle up for enterprise tech price inflation in 2023 unless local currencies stage something of a dramatic recovery against the US dollar.…

More support for multiple platforms, Arm architecture, and the cloud in release 7 Microsoft's unveiling this week of the production release of .NET 7 advances the company's efforts over the past few years to unify the open source development runtime to support multiple architectures and platforms.…

They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market A recent demonstration has proven the feasibility of the European Space Agency's (ESA) plan to beam power to Earth from space, giving the astro agency some additional ammunition as it prepares to ask its governing body for more cash to fund solar energy research. …

Addressing social media's baked-in flaws starts with users realizing its true worth Opinion I've decided to sign up for Twitter's subscription-based service for a simple reason: to put my money where my mouth is.…

'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent An Cygnus cargo ship has successfully made it to the International Space Station despite the failure of half its solar panel array.…

We're the malware of Nim! A malware loader deemed in June to be a "work in progress" is now fully functional and infecting thousands of Windows corporate and home PCs.…

Today's messes: a possible crypto venture; blue tick blackflips; advertiser assurances; and a promise to try dumb things The Twitter "Official" label that showed up on the platform yesterday as a way to fix an arguably unbroken verification system has apparently disappeared from many accounts in less than 24 hours.…

And they don't like the states' 'patchwork' privacy laws, either US federal rulemaking on surveillance and data privacy should be left to Congress, not American consumer watchdog agencies — or states — according to a trio of Republican senators.…

Federal judge won't revisit fraud case, sets a date for sentencing instead Elizabeth Holmes, founder of debunked blood-testing startup Theranos, will be sentenced next week after a federal judge denied her request for a new trial.…

Customers 'more than twice' as likely to be hit by scams, says Dem Senator Wells Fargo customers who use Zelle to send and request payments suffer more than twice the rate of fraud and other online scams as people using other big banks, according to US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).…

Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful' A startup that bet on the old concept of analog chips to provide energy-efficient AI computing has run out of capital.…

Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it Cloud-sim platform Rescale believes its forthcoming Compute Recommendation Engine can cut the time needed to optimize AI/ML and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads, giving people more time to actually run the software.…

Foundries folk pity the fool who writes off whole of 2023, though analyst says GF crew is 'optimistic' Semiconductor manufacturing biz GlobalFoundries expects weakening chip demand to bottom out in the first half of 2023, as it announced better than expected results for Q3 2022.…

The metaverse is shaping up to be such an inviting place Palmer Luckey, originator of the device that evolved into the cornerstone of Mark Zuckerberg's crumbling metaverse empire, has developed a new headset with a twist: It can kill gamers in real life when they die in VR. …

America's Chip Act looking a bit less like 'expensive exercise in futility' Taiwan's chipmaking giant TSMC is said to be preparing to build another semiconductor fabrication plant in Arizona, alongside the facility it completed this summer, in a move that may be seen as a vindication of the US government’s CHIPS Act funding.…

Meanwhile, more advertisers pause spending on loss-making social media platform and user base said to be declining What's the latest in the life of the world’s richest man? Elon Musk has offloaded almost $4 billion in Tesla stock after buying Twitter, the social media platform that is losing advertisers, money and maybe users.…

The COVID-era hiring spree which saw thousands onboarded comes to an abrupt end Salesforce is set to lay off hundreds of staff as the COVID-19-related hiring boom runs out of steam.…

x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory Intel's latest plan to ward off rivals from high-performance computing workloads involves a CPU with large stacks of high-bandwidth memory and new kinds of accelerators, plus its long-awaited datacenter GPU that will go head-to-head against Nvidia's most powerful chips.…

Of course the IT giant's Epyc 4 systems will still ship first For the first time in years, Intel's CPUs will be at the heart of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Cray supercomputing platforms, following the launch of new systems based on the chipmaker's Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable processors in early 2023.…

Zuck admits biz recruited too hard during pandemic and decline in advertising forced his hand Meta is making more than of 11,000 employees redundant following the dramatic decline in profits and the subsequent share price dive at the end of last month.…

Thousands behind Airbus and Boeing, but the backlogs of western airliners might sweeten the deal Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (Comac), the maker of China's domestically made single-aisle passenger jet – the C919 – has secured orders for 300 of the recently certified aircraft.…

Reg FOSS desk chats with one of the core architects Ubuntu Summit Canonical remains committed to its Snap format as the coverage at its first public gathering in a few years shows.…

Whatever's happening with Qualcomm, server chip outfit says it knows of no tweaks to model Interview Arm-based server chip outfit Ampere's chief product officer says its licensing with Arm is not changing, as the company prepares to launch the latest processors built with its own fully custom core design.…

Officials are concerned acquisition could reduce competition and lock gamers to Xbox and Microsoft PCs The European Commission launched an antitrust investigation examining Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of computer games maker Activision Blizzard on Tuesday.…

Ah, so now we know who to blame for all of this Scientists taking a look at the second-most distant observed quasar believe it's actually the remnants of one of the universe's earliest stars – the so-called Population III stars that seeded the early universe with material that eventually formed life. …

Crisis mode led to more formal meetings and lists, which just make more useless work Researchers from Germany's Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik have studied how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the way systems administrators work, and found the profession was negatively impacted.…

CISPE says Redmond's recent concessions did not level the playing field A trade group representing 24 cloud infrastructure providers in Europe is filing a formal competition complaint with the European Commission over Microsoft's licensing of software in the cloud.…

The world may never be free of unsmashable ads LG Display has shown off a thin, lightweight, stretchable and twistable micro-LED screen – an innovation South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) hopes will boost the nation's electronics industry.…

Big Blue tries the Domino's approach IBM is so confident in its hardware supply chain that it's promised to ship storage arrays by the end of 2022 – and if it's late you get free software as compensation.…

Also teams up with cinema chain AMC to let you Zoom at the movies Zoom has decided to take on the software world's most dangerous mission: attempting to offer productivity tools that rival those bundled into Microsoft Office 365.…

Anyone can pretend to be your Windows IT support and take command of staff devices VMware has revealed a terrible trio of critical-rated flaws in Workspace ONE Assist for Windows – a product used by IT and help desk staff to remotely take over and manage employees' devices.…

Plus: Fixes from Intel, AMD, Citrix and more Patch Tuesday November's Patch Tuesday also falls on election day in the US, so let's hope that democracy fares better than Microsoft, which reported six of today's bugs are already being exploited in the wild by miscreants.…

Just call it the Sad Launch System NASA's plans to launch its Space Launch System (SLS) super rocket this November from the Kennedy Space Center may be foiled yet again if a tropical storm continues gaining strength on its predicted path toward Florida.…

The chipmaker's Prestera DX1500 family brings Ethernet to OT networks At a rather pedestrian 10Gbps, Marvell's latest networking silicon isn't going to win any races. But then again the chipmaker's Prestera DX1500-series switch chips and Alaska E1781 PHYs aren't destined for your typical enterprise or campus network.…

Stay warm this winter by fragging some baddies Intel wants to put a small form factor space heater — err PC — on your desk with the launch of its 13th-Gen NUC Extreme platform, codenamed Raptor Canyon.…

Giant forecasts premiums rising to $23b by 2025 As insurance companies struggle to stay afloat amid rising cyber claims, Swiss Re has recommended a public-private partnership insurance scheme with one option being a government-backed fund to help fill the coverage gap.…