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All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together, use them in peace Scientists at top universities in China propose sending a spacecraft powered by nuclear fission to orbit Neptune – the outermost planet in our solar system – in 2030.…

The whiff of rebellion among Cloud Solution Providers is getting stronger Microsoft has indefinitely postponed the date on which its Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) will be required to sell software and services licences on new terms.…

Yes. Of course I human. Why asking? Also, when you give passwords to database? The US FBI issued a warning on Tuesday that it was has received increasing numbers of complaints relating to the use of deepfake videos during interviews for tech jobs that involve access to sensitive systems and information.…

Hyperscalers have ordered more than they need, and the ripples are nasty The world's server market will grow in 2022 – but more slowly than in the past – and could dip further, according to analyst firm TrendForce.…

Rogue insider generated keys, resold them to blow the cash on gold, crypto, and more, prosecutors say Three people accused of selling pirate software licenses worth more than $88 million have been charged with fraud.…

It’s not IaaS, it's reserved for test and dev – and will feed the golden goose that is the z/OS ecosystem IBM has quietly announced its first-ever cloudy mainframes will go live on June 30.…

Store giant brands watchdog's lawsuit 'factually misguided, legally flawed' America's Federal Trade Commission has sued Walmart, claiming it turned a blind eye to fraudsters using its money transfer services to con folks out of "hundreds of millions of dollars."…

Looks like it went with Ampere – which means a certain Reg writer lost a bet Arm has a champion in the shape of HPE, which has added a server powered by the British chip designer's CPU cores to its ProLiant portfolio, aimed at cloud-native workloads for service providers and enterprise customers alike.…

NOAA makes it rain for General Dynamics IT, HPE, AMD Predicting the weather is a notoriously tricky enterprise, but that’s never held back America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).…

Just after Big Tech comes under fire for left and right-leaning message filters Google has reportedly asked the US Federal Election Commission for its blessing to exempt political campaign solicitations from spam filtering.…

Beijing-linked Dragonbridge flames biz building Texas plant for Uncle Sam The US Department of Defense said it's investigating Chinese disinformation campaigns against rare earth mining and processing companies — including one targeting Lynas Rare Earths, which has a $30 million contract with the Pentagon to build a plant in Texas.…

Websites may be forced to verify ages of visitors unless changes made California lawmakers met in Sacramento today to discuss, among other things, proposed legislation to protect children online. The bill, AB2273, known as The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, would require websites to verify the ages of visitors.…

Gun-detecting AI outfits want to help while root causes need tackling Comment More than 250 mass shootings have occurred in the US so far this year, and AI advocates think they have the solution. Not gun control, but better tech, unsurprisingly.…

Chip design house reveals brains of what might be your next ultralight notebook Arm has at least one of Intel's more capable mainstream laptop processors in mind with its Cortex-X3 CPU design.…

What's your contingency plan? OPINION Broadcom has yet to close the deal on taking over VMware, but the industry is already awash with speculation and analysis as to how the event could impact the cloud giant's product availability and pricing.…

Epic copyright saga rumbles on as US giant vows to keep fighting UK data analytics firm The long-running battle between software giant SAS and British data analytics outfit World Programming (WPL) appears to be almost over – after a US court lifted an injunction on sales of the latter's products.…

Plus: IT giant expands relationship with Red Hat and SUSE, tackles hybrid data fabrics Extending a public-cloud-like experience to on-prem datacenters has long been a promise of HPE's GreenLake anything-as-a-service (XaaS) platform. At HPE Discover this week, the company made good on that promise with the launch of GreenLake for Private Cloud.…

Inertia of embedded BI and analytics a limiting factor, however Databricks, the company born out of the Apache Spark boom, has let loose a raft of updates at its San Francisco conference, including an elastic compute option for analytics.…

Just one more wafer-thin feature to pop in Microsoft's swelling dev suite Microsoft has added the ability to edit code while in Visual Studio's All-In-One Search user interface.…

Cloudy vSphere+ can manage multiple on-prem environments but not VMw-powered public clouds… for now VMware today revealed details about Project Arctic, the vSphere-as-a-service offering it teased in late 2021, though it won't discuss pricing for another month.…

British chip designer’s reveal comes months after mobile RT moves by AMD, Imagination Arm is beefing up its role in the rapidly-evolving (yet long-standing) hardware-based real-time ray tracing arena.…

Gyrotrons can super heat plasma, maybe vaporize 20km of rock, too A piece of Soviet-era physics equipment may be the key to worldwide geothermal energy.…

Relative cybercrime newbies not clear on whether they're alleging to have gigabits or gigabytes of chip biz's data If claims hold true, AMD has been targeted by the extortion group RansomHouse, which says it is sitting on a trove of data stolen from the processor designer following an alleged security breach earlier this year.…

Meanwhile, CEO wants to vacuum up engineering talent amid return to stock market Updated Arm today told The Reg its restructuring ahead of its return to the stock market is focused on cutting "non-engineering" jobs.…

It's easier than retraining PostgreSQL devs, says distributed relational database startup YugabyteDB, the self-styled double-decker distributed relational database, has introduced a read-committed isolation level, allowing for more flexibility for devs and bringing it into step with its more established RDBMS rivals.…

Appointments said to 'strengthen the alignment between shareholders and management' Toshiba has appointed two directors from activist hedge funds to its board in a move that could tip the balance in favor of a sale that would take the company into private ownership.…

25kg CubeSat the size of a bar fridge will plot course for Gateway space station, pave way for human boots on Moon Rocket Lab has sent NASA's Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft on its way to the Moon atop an Electron rocket launched from New Zealand.…

UK outfit's all-electric 630 three-wheeler is eccentric, but supply chain issues are less whimsical Electric vehicles continue to generate headlines while slurping energy from the power grids, but even smaller producers are struggling with supply chain issues.…

Moving to series production and dealing with the US, where things are done slightly differently Interview NASA has set late August as the launch window for its much-delayed Artemis I rocket. Already perched atop the booster is the first flight-ready European Service Module (ESM). Five more are in the pipeline.…

DOS isn't dead. You can still run it and its apps, even now FOSS Fest There are still ways to run DOS apps under 64-bit Windows and Linux, and a lot of free apps to choose from.…

Communists reckon Bill Gates and Warren Buffet got it right Executives at China's Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) – a state-backed initiative aimed at driving the commercial adoption of blockchain technology – labelled cryptocurrency "the biggest Ponzi scheme in human history" in state-sponsored media on Sunday.…

Fanless fun for the whole family (if the supply chain functions) Cisco has shrunk its Catalyst 9200 switches into three compact models.…

Cash had been burning a hole in company's pocket after deal to buy Siltronic fell through Taiwan's GlobalWafers announced on Monday a new use for the $5 billion it first earmarked for a purchase of Germany's Siltronics: building a 300-millimeter semiconductor wafer plant in the US state of Texas.…

Could it be Beijing was right about games being bad for China? Chinese web giant Tencent has admitted to a significant account hijack attack on its QQ.com messaging and social media platform.…

Now those are some phishing boats Carnival Cruise Lines will cough up more than $6 million to end two separate lawsuits filed by 46 states in the US after sensitive, personal information on customers and employees was accessed in a string of cyberattacks.…

Helpfully announced extension on deadline day India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the local Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) have extended the deadline for compliance with the Cyber Security Directions introduced on April 28, which were due to take effect yesterday.…

How many messaging services does this web giant need? It's gotta be over 9,000 Google is winding down its messaging app Hangouts before it officially shuts in November, the web giant announced on Monday.…

Though severity up for debate, and limited chips affected, broken tests hold back previous patch from distribution The latest version of OpenSSL v3, a widely used open-source library for secure networking using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, contains a memory corruption vulnerability that imperils x64 systems with Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512).…

Don't worry, the tweetings will continue until morale improves Employees at Tesla suffered spotty Wi-Fi and struggled to find desks and parking spots when they were returned to work at the office following orders from CEO Elon Musk.…

Uncle Sam tells of crooks exploiting Pride Month The FTC is warning members of the LGBTQ+ community about online extortion via dating apps such as Grindr and Feeld.…

Well, they did say from July, now they really mean from July 2023 America's aviation watchdog has said the rollout of 5G C-band coverage near US airports won't fully start until next year, delaying some travelers' access to better cellular broadband at crowded terminals.…

Just days after being ordered to provide messages, Big Blue opts out of public trial Less than a week after IBM was ordered in an age discrimination lawsuit to produce internal emails in which its former CEO and former SVP of human resources discuss reducing the number of older workers, the IT giant chose to settle the case for an undisclosed sum rather than proceed to trial next month.…

Ad tracking poses a privacy and security risk in post-Roe America, lawmakers warn Democrat lawmakers want the FTC to investigate Apple and Google's online ad trackers, which they say amount to unfair and deceptive business practices and pose a privacy and security risk to people using the tech giants' mobile devices.…

Confuses rather than destroys unmanned aerials to better bring back intel, says Ukrainian designer What's said to be a Ukrainian-made long-range anti-drone rifle is one of the latest weapons to emerge from Russia's ongoing invasion of its neighbor.…

Fab frenemies: x86 giant set to give Taiwanese chipmaker more money as it revitalizes foundry business In yet another sign of how fortunes have changed in the semiconductor industry, Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC is expected to surpass Intel in quarterly revenue for the first time.…

It's good to highlight some alternatives, but security issues are overblown Analysis A blog post calling for a boycott of the well-known 7-Zip compression app is attracting some discussion on Reddit.…

Toyota says 'all of the hub bolts' can loosen even 'after low-mileage use' Toyota and Subaru are recalling several thousand electric vehicles that might spontaneously shed tires due to self-loosening hub bolts. …

Company claims standard will improve performance in dense environments Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is the latest networking outfit to add Wi-Fi 6E capability to its hardware, opening up access to the less congested 6GHz spectrum for business users.…

Then again, why develop your own software à la HPE GreenLake when you can use someone else's? Analysis Lenovo fancies its TruScale anything-as-a-service (XaaS) platform as a more flexible competitor to HPE GreenLake or Dell Apex. Unlike its rivals, Lenovo doesn't believe it needs to mimic all aspects of the cloud to be successful.…

What will it take to loosen the x86 giant's edge stranglehold? Analysis Supermicro launched a wave of edge appliances using Intel's newly refreshed Xeon-D processors last week. The launch itself was nothing to write home about, but a thought occurred: with all the hype surrounding the outer reaches of computing that we call the edge, you'd think there would be more competition from chipmakers in this arena.…