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The official word is 'scheduling conflicts,' but NASA's safety panel has expressed concerns too The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner has been delayed again, this time being pushed back to April 2023 from an earlier planned launch date of February.…

'You'll be hearing from us,' say privacy campaigners who previously forced the government to back down The UK government is set to extract patient-identifiable data from NHS hospital systems and share this with its data platform based on technology from Palantir, a move that seems set to provoke another legal challenge.…

Just hang on while we convince the rest of the world, Commerce Sec tells makers US companies that build chipmaking equipment have been told to tough it out as they face a ban on selling to customers in China, while their rivals elsewhere in the world currently have no such restrictions.…

Alphabet Workers Union says it's an illegal block of workers' right to discuss pay The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) claims the company blocked access to a shared spreadsheet in which it reckons "hundreds" of subcontracted workers had shared their salary details and "up to 50,000" of those staffers are now prevented from looking them up.…

Watchdog claims add-ons to computer purchases appeared to be discounted but did not reflect the standalone RRP Dell's Australian business is in trouble with the country's consumer watchdog for allegedly misleading buyers about the price of displays purchased as an add-on with its computers.…

What forced the change in attitude? The impact on 40,000 broadband connections possibly The Communication Workers Unions (CWU) claims BT Group has agreed to re-enter negotiations to find a solution to the protracted pay dispute that has caused thousands of engineers and call center operators to strike.…

Don't everyone rush at once NFTs are dead. And stupid. Don't just take our word for it – Bill Gates, widely considered a pretty smart guy, described them as "100 percent based on greater fool theory" and analyst Forrester recently said "most consumers aren't interested in NFT stunts."…

Freedom isn't free The Ukraine government will continue to be able to run its digital infrastructure through the Microsoft Cloud for free in 2023, the tech giant confirmed today.…

Magnetic north is on a walkabout, and your OCD will benefit UK map lords at the Ordnance Survey have some big news for people with obsessive compulsive personality disorder or otherwise like everything to be neatly lined up.…

Extension cords are good for power. Extension tubes? Not so good for air On Call As two precious days of free time loom, The Register offers a two-minute taste of the energy-draining drama that makes weekends so important in another instalment of On-Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of the messes IT people are asked to address.…

But investors aren't impressed by losses and unpleasant outlook Atlassian sees the current round of layoffs and hiring freezes across the tech industry as an opportunity on which it hopes to capitalise – even as its own share price slumps.…

Smooth 'OPERA1ER' hit orgs around the world over four or more years A French-speaking criminal group codenamed OPERA1ER has pulled off more than 30 cyber-heists against telecom organizations and banks across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, stealing upwards of $30 million over four years, according to security researchers.…

A weighty lens, placed off-centre on a lightweight smartphone – what could possibly go wrong? Chinese smartphone darling has shown off a phone with a full camera lens bolted to its back – which looks very dorky, but thankfully is only a concept device.…

Execs say enterprise hardware biz is flying – don't mention the sub-one-percent profit In February 2022 Lenovo shared a slightly special number: $17 million. That's the first profit made by its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) since its predecessor was formed by the 2014 acquisition of IBM's x86 server business.…

Email to your personal account is bad news, email to your work account means you still work at Twitter Twitter owner, sole director and – according to his Twitter profile, now also "Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator" – has reportedly informed company staff that layoffs begin tomorrow.…

Sanctions? What sanctions? Just look at the low, low, power consumption figures Alibaba Cloud has revealed that it plans to power 20 percent of its operations with its own homebrew CPUs by 2025.…

Monetary authority presses ahead with Ubin+ cross-border CBDC trial anyway While central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are often advanced as a way to improve the world's creaking cross-border payments infrastructure, some financial experts believe the government-issued tokens may be usurped by stablecoins and other products.…

After two previous failures, will third time be the charm? NASA will roll its Space Launch System back out to the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday to prepare for a third attempt to put its most powerful rocket yet into the sky on November 14.…

Chiplet-based RNDA 3 GPU fans have been waiting for AMD has come out swinging at Nvidia with new flagship Radeon graphics cards that are cheaper than its rival's fresh GeForce RTX products.…

Overwhelmed by waves of push notifications, worn-down users inadvertently let the bad guys in Analysis The September cyberattack on ride-hailing service Uber began when a criminal bought the stolen credentials of a company contractor on the dark web.…

While Elon may just dump half of Twitter and scrap work-from-home Citing the likelihood of recession and increases in rideshare insurance costs, Lyft is laying off 13 percent of its workforce, with no team left unaffected.…

Also one of the first distros we've seen with Kernel 6.0 Nitrux OS is one of the most stylish and innovative distros we've seen so far: systemd-free, based on AppImages, and with a very unusual desktop.…

The decision comes as the e-commerce giant stuggles with soaring energy prices and cash-strapped customers Amazon is freezing hiring of new corporate positions across the company for the rest of 2022 amid worsening economic conditions.…

How to turn a classic infrastructure biz into something fit for the cloud era Shapeshifting infrastructure services biz Kyndryl can't plug its revenue leak but cutting costs did cut losses in half.…

But old 'go nuts, show nuts' attitude is dead for good Tumblr has reversed course on its 2018 nudity ban, welcoming some – but not all – adult content creators back to the platform after a four-year hiatus.…

Commitments include international wallet info sharing, KYC requirements, and an AML crackdown The White House's second International Counter Ransomware Initiative summit has concluded, and this year the 36-nation group has made clear it intends to crack down on how cryptocurrencies are used to finance ransomware operations.…

Public will be able to test each system as part of development process The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has conditionally approved 13 proposed automated frequency coordination (AFC) systems to manage spectrum access for unlicensed devices in the 6GHz band.…

Acquisition of Ukrainian startup to help broaden appeal beyond popular cache Database provider Redis has acquired RESP.app, a popular developer tool used to ease developer experience on the popular key-value database.…

But overall profits are up thanks to cost cutting and success in other divisions Lenovo revenues declined for the first time in 10 quarters due to a steep fall in demand for PCs and tablets. Still, profits rose due to cost-cutting measures and growth in other areas such as its services division.…

National telecom giant admits strike action is impacting customer broadband connections BT Group is looking to wrench out higher savings amid rising inflation in the relentless pursuit of improved profits.…

The init system that everybody loves to hate The fall version of systemd is here, with support for increased boot security, including tightened full-disk encryption.…

Project beginning in 2019 has left employees and suppliers waiting on payments Scotland's University of Edinburgh has paid staff and suppliers late owing to the troubled implementation of a new Oracle-based HR and finance system.…

Just as providers prepare to crank up their fees Cloud networking outfit Aviatrix has extended its platform with a new capability that monitors network usage to help enterprises more accurately track costs and enable chargeback to individual departments.…

Customers complain of exposed order info, multiple charges — but still no postage A technical SNAFU shut down the UK's Royal Mail Click and Drop website on Tuesday after a security "issue" allowed some customers to see others' order information. …

Artemis orbit tester back in the pipe, five by five NASA has corrected the trajectory of the CAPSTONE cubesat, which is now set to reach lunar orbit on November 13.…

Predicts heir to Twitter, without its problems, is waiting to fly. Hopes the same improvements come to crypto Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin told an audience at Singapore's FinTech Festival on Thursday he believes a social media platform to replace Twitter – one that avoids many of the bird-brand's existing problems – is already on the way.…

For now, have a hiring freeze to preserve fat profits Qualcomm CEO and president Cristiano Amon has tipped 2024 as the year in which PCs using his company’s Snapdragon silicon make a mark.…

Laptop-shaped thin client tied to DaaS also illustrates the concept, and its downsides Alibaba Cloud has kicked off its annual Apsara conference by declaring an ambition to become a "computility" – a service that provides an endless stream of computational resource that users can consume as if it were electricity.…

Nice chip and EV factories you're building there. Would be a shame if they couldn't get any rare earths to work with China has immense leverage over technology supply chains due to the happy accident that its territories contain most of the rare earths needed to manufacture electronics and batteries, and that it dominates industries that ready them for use.…

But if you authorize or handle delivery of factory kit – or service it – you're out Remember that warning that the USA's new restrictions on semiconductor technology transfer to China would prevent any American from working in the Middle Kingdom's chip-making industry?…

Things could get real for RealPage real fast A US Senator has urged the FTC to scrutinize algorithms used to calculate the optimum rent for properties over fears the software could potentially allow landlords to illegally collude in cities with a housing shortage.…

900MW coming web giant's way ... in 2024 Google has just inked a deal with a Softbank subsidiary to buy 75 percent of the power from four solar power installations the Japanese firm is building in Texas, the largest combined clean energy purchase Google has made in the Lone Star state. …

Ending anti-democratic attitudes not so easy stateside, researchers claim Researchers have found that working to reduce emotional partisan attitudes across the US political divide does not reduce anti-democratic tendencies.…

Yet another pathetic 'stunt' from pro-Kremlin criminals The US Treasury Department has thwarted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that officials attributed to Russian hacktivist group Killnet.…

So that means everything just works now, right? Arm has added two cloud instances from Google and Oracle Cloud, both powered by Ampere’s Altra datacenter processors, into its SystemReady certification program.…

Let us go, let us gooooooo It's a small world (after all) but it got a lot smaller for the heaving masses who were trapped inside Shanghai Disneyland as a result of China's zero-COVID policy.…

Prepare to be confused 9front is a fork and continuation of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, which is what the minds behind UNIX and the C programming language went on to do next. It is also rather strange.…

They better hop to it – Team Red's PC chip business nosedived in the third quarter AMD is investigating reports of "unexpected" variations in performance across the company's new Ryzen 7000 processors for certain games.…

Want a low-cost machine? Agree to be bombarded and the Windows giant could have a solution for you In a world where global sales of PCs are declining and more work is shifting to the cloud, what can the maker of the world's ubiquitous operating system do to keep money coming in?…

Let's just go get a pint and wait for it to blow over As Elon Musk gets a rapid crash course in running and moderating a social network used by millions of angry people, major advertisers are reportedly advising their clients to pause ads on the tycoon's Twitter platform until brand safety can be assured.…