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Redmond rolls back network change after cloud services dip in sympathy with profits Microsoft is currently rolling back a network change across its wide area network that it believes toppled over a raft of its cloud services this morning, perhaps in solidarity with the company's tumbling profits.…

There's good advice here for any IT pro dealing with the transition The US National Security Agency (NSA) has published a guidance document for system administrators to help them mitigate potential security issues as their organizations transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).…

UK government applies 'hypercare' to applications to try to avoid security and stability risks The UK's department for farming and agriculture has said it is "confident" it is managing the risk related to a whopping 30 percent of its applications being out of vendor support.…

Ongoing investigation into cloud storage attack finds customer data exfiltrated Remote access outfit GoTo has admitted that a threat actor exfiltrated an encryption key that allowed access to "a portion" of encrypted backup files.…

Q2 results include modest revenue increase, steep consumer and net income decrease Microsoft has posted modest growth for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, with its consumer-centric products recording marked revenue dips.…

Good luck blowing up a pile of rubble. Boffins suggest we'll need to create a diversion instead An asteroid named Itokawa that's been identified as potentially hazardous to Earth would be difficult to destroy, according to new research analyzing dust particles collected from the ancient rock.…

Something to keep manufacturers happy while they wait for the joy of LPDDR6 South Korean memory maker SK hynix announced today it has delivered samples of what it claims is the world's fastest mobile DRAM, and expressed its belief it will eventually be used in more applications.…

BharOS is based on the Linux kernel and is apparently incapable of running malware A mere week after an Indian government official teased the possibility the nation could create its own mobile OS to challenge the dominance of Google and Apple, minister for education and minister of skill development & entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan has demonstrated just such an OS at work and endorsed it as the sort of the India should be doing.…

You know the drill: patch before criminals use these bugs in vRealize to sniff your systems VMware has issued fixes for four vulnerabilities, including two critical 9.8-rated remote code execution bugs, in its vRealize Log Insight software. …

Well played, feds. What's next? Ransomware is rampant? Strong passwords are important? The FBI has confirmed what cybersecurity researchers have been saying for months: the North Korean-sponsored Lazarus Group was behind the theft last year of $100 million in crypto assets from blockchain startup Harmony.…

Oy, teacher, protect those kids online A report by the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on security shortcomings at America's K-12 schools isn't good news. …

And within days of scrapping about a billion dollars in projects Comment The chairman of Intel’s board of directors, Omar Ishrak, is stepping down just days before the chipmaker is due to report its Q4 earnings and after a series of high-profile cutbacks.…

NuScale plants could begin construction as soon as February 21, when new rule goes into effect The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has finalized rules allowing construction of nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs) – the first time a design has been certified for commercialization.…

I'm feeling yucky The US Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet's Google subsidiary on Tuesday claiming the web giant has unfairly monopolized the buying and selling of digital advertising.…

Also: Yay for Data Privacy Day! Apple has issued an emergency patch for older kit to fix a WebKit security flaw that Cupertino warns is under active attack.…

Heavily hyped tech bound for some sort of milestone by decade end Research conducted by Fujitsu suggests there is no need to panic about quantum computers being able to decode encrypted data – this is unlikely to happen in the near future, it claims.…

Brian Birmingham claims he walked after refusing to give team member a 'low' rating Former Blizzard World of Warcraft co-lead dev Brian Birmingham took to Twitter this morning to confirm that when given a choice between stack ranking his employees – obeying a mandate to give a poor "developing" rank to an employee – or leaving the company, he decided to walk.…

Out of the valley of death and into operational use, ideally Interview An agreement between US Cyber Command and DAPRA aims to move innovative technologies out of the "valley of death" and into the hands of warfighters.…

Bundeskartellamt already had a bite at FAANG firms, now former Musk co is starting to look appetizing German antitrust enforcers known for leveling charges against high-profile tech companies have a new target for accusations of dominant market position abuse: PayPal.…

We unpack a few and look at which nations have it together with IDC research boss Interview It's Government Tech Week on The Register and to get a handle on the challenges facing the public sector we sat down with Massimiliano "Max" Claps, research director of the European IDC Government Insights team.…

One appears to not have been remunerated, Crown Estate tells High Court More landlords are piling on Elon Musk's Twitter alleging unpaid rent – including, funnily enough, the British monarchy.…

Staff in Q&A session yesterday to discuss 12,000 job cuts Google's top brass told employees at a town hall meeting that executive bonuses will be cut this year as upper management addressed wide-ranging questions from staff following confirmation of extensive job cuts.…

Web developer is the most likely role to be offered the arrangement A web developer is the tech role most likely to be offered to work from home and also gets 39 percent more pay for the arrangement than other jobs, according to research.…

6,000 netizens can't be wrong One-third of IT and security professionals globally say they are either indifferent or unconcerned about the impact of cyberwarfare on their organizations as a whole, according to a survey of more than 6,000 across 14 countries.…

Attempts to fix glitch ditched – but never give up, never surrender NASA's Lucy spacecraft will have to soldier on to reach eight asteroids within Jupiter's orbit – a journey expected to last 12 years – with a glitch in one of its solar arrays for now.…

Atos-led group to protect European infrastructure from impact of future pandemics – using Horizon cash Atos is leading the Sunrise project that aims to develop measures to protect vital European infrastructure against the impact of incidents with catastrophic consequences, including future pandemics, climate change or resource scarcity.…

Attack was three times the size of anything company had seen – they couldn't shake it off Live Nation Entertainment's CFO is expected to testify that the breakdown of its Ticketmaster website at the release of Taylor Swift concert tickets last November was caused by a deluge of bots.…

Unclear where IonQ’s funding for its $1 billion investment plans will come from IonQ plans to open a quantum computer manufacturing plant - the first on US soil it claims - as part of broader plans to invest $1 billion into an expansion in the Pacific Northwest region over the next decade.…

'Now Russia will have to play defense' Ukraine has taken another step toward deepening its ties to NATO by signing an agreement to formalize its participation in the security alliance's Joint Center for Advanced Technologies in Cyber Defense (CCDCOE). …

Is a critical account of PM's past actions a real emergency, a political emergency, or a free speech emergency? India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting appears to have filed takedown requests to prevent access to a BBC documentary series titled India: The Modi Question that investigates prime minister Narendra Modi's policies and actions toward India's Muslim minority.…

My god, it's full of TVs If you thought 8K was high res, then this supercomputer lab's newly revamped Stallion tiled display system invites you to think bigger — much bigger.…

Take that, China India is responsible for five to seven percent of Apple's manufacturing, and the iPhone maker aims to grow that number to 25 percent, according to India's minister of commerce and industry, Piyush Goyal.…

Modest, low-volume chips will pay off over time, apparently Chinese supply chain analyst outfit Jiwei has suggested local smartphone makers are having limited success with their attempts to create homegrown silicon.…

Microsoft pulls the plug as of January 31, alternatives are easy to find Microsoft has named the day on which it will end paid downloads of Windows 10 Home and Pro from its website: January 31, 2023.…

This perhaps says more about the tests than the artificial intelligence on display OpenAI's chat software ChatGPT, if let loose on the world, would score between a B and a B- on Wharton business school's Operations Management exam, and would approach or exceed the score needed to pass the US Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE).…

Federal depts ignore almost 60% of IT defense recommendations Since coming into office two years ago, the Biden Administration has made the cyber defenses of US government agencies – as well as the private sector – a key focus.…

Just so, so much enthusiasm for Second Life 2.0 right now Microsoft in March will shut down its AltspaceVR outfit as it shifts its virtual reality efforts from catering to ordinary folks to businesses.…

Dr Dev Palmer talks us through a JUMP in materials, algorithms, tools Interview Uncle Sam's research nerve center DARPA is known for championing all kinds of breakthrough technologies. Might semiconductors be part of that? You might be right.…

Someone's got no chill A $700 million research and development facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, is the latest project on Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's chopping block.…

Embrace, extend ... extinguish, but whom or what this time? Microsoft announced its latest "multi-year, multi-billion dollar" investment into OpenAI on Monday, cementing its position as the startup's exclusive cloud provider.…

CEO Ek admits he never stopped to consider whether pandemic boom was temporary Stop us if you've heard this one before: the CEO at a well-known technology company writes a letter to staff, laying off hundreds. Said CEO accepts responsibility for assuming a pandemic boom year would mean higher sustained growth rates, but it didn't, so sacrifices must be made.…

Teachers hopefully get their hands on the tool within months Feature Turnitin, best known for its anti-plagiarism software used by tens of thousands of universities and schools around the world, is building a tool to detect text generated by AI.…

$20b investment in Ohio semiconductor fabs is all go, though Intel looks set to shed over 500 jobs in California following last year's warnings that layoffs were in the pipeline.…

These are the litigation specialists hired to get Musk to acquire the platform Global consultancy Charles River Associates (CRA) has joined the queue of companies claiming Twitter walked away without paying its tab.…

Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy The boss of European database-as-a-service upstart Aiven is the latest tech exec to apologize to his workforce for making one in five redundant after recruiting too ambitiously in the past 12 months.…

You know where they eat, where they sleep, where they live... then figure out how to whack them One of the applications science fiction has found for AI is pest control – sometimes cute, sometimes extremely violent – and the direction of travel suggests we are moving into the realms of science fact.…

It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it Activist investor Elliott Management has taken a multi-billion dollar stake in Salesforce, which has disappointed markets with its recent growth, in a move that could signal further cost-cutting or divisional selloffs at the CRM giant.…

Adapt or die Microsoft's move last year to block macros by default in Office applications is forcing miscreants to find other tools with which to launch cyberattacks, including the software vendor's LNK files – the shortcuts Windows uses to point to other files.…

Yeah, we know: cost alone won't lead to success. But it may be hiring, unlike certain other tech giants The server virtualization market has a new/old player that wants to make waves with keen pricing and a plan to improve its tech: XenServer.…

New system 'commercially sensitive' but set to go live in October Leeds City Council is keeping the replacement of its Oracle finance system secret after deciding to abandon plans for a £44 million ($54 million) ERP system to support finance, HR and payroll.…