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Countries propose grouping in cartel as demand for EVs continues to rise Indonesia is looking to use its position as the nickel capital of the world to set up a cartel with other like-minded mining empires, similar to the way OPEC joins forces to control the global crude oil market.…

3D models and maps show similarities in how the planet and Earth share sediment strategies If new 3D models of Mars's surface are accurate, we finally possess the most convincing evidence to date that much of the northern hemisphere of Mars was once an ocean.…

And just for balance kills off version 2 of its own format, WebP, as well A note on Google's bug tracker for the Chromium browser specifies that version 110 won't get JPEG XL support after all.…

Don't listen to the claims of slowing growth – Gartner has the lowdown Despite global economic concerns that are taking a bite out of confidence across much of the tech industry, mystics at Gartner say "cloud migration is not stopping."…

Taming high heat in compact form factors is old hat in the gaming community Analysis It's no secret that CPUs and GPUs are getting hotter. The thermal design power (TPD) for these components is already approaching 300W for mainstream CPUs, and next-gen datacenter GPUs will suck down anywhere from 600W-700W when they arrive later this year.…

The Capital of VA? Virtual assets have to live somewhere and HK thinks it has the regulation for it Hong Kong is trying to push its vision of a local virtual asset (VA) industry in the hopes of developing a new revenue stream for the country.…

Plus: Why some manga and anime fans hate AI-generated art, and ex-Google boss funds AI students In brief Bumble has open sourced an AI image classifier model designed to automatically blur nude pictures sent on its dating app.…

Latest James Webb Space Telescope photos looks positively haunting The James Webb Space Telescope team has released its latest snap of the Pillars of Creation that strikes a perfect eerie, dusty tone for Halloween. …

Businesses that achieve full-scale deployment don't always get the outcomes they hoped for, says Deloitte Many organizations are struggling with artificial intelligence deployments despite believing that AI will be critical to business success over the next five years, according to a report by Deloitte.…

Detachment from users' lived reality is how corporates shoot themselves in the foot Opinion Last week, one fundamental problem for IT cropped up in three very different stories. One story was Google's parent Alphabet doing an internal audit of all its products on the back of falling profits. One was a highly critical look at Meta's efforts to put business into VR. And one was Linus Torvalds getting cranky that the i486 architecture was still in Linux's first-class lounge when it should be packed off to the Old Codes' Home.…

Plus: Misconfigured server leaks Reuters data; VMware patches critical flaw in retired software; MalwareBytes apologies for a hoodie In brief Apple has patched an iOS and iPad OS vulnerability that's already been exploited.…

Phones weren't made to fly Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? The Register's weekly walk-through of readers being just a little bit bad … but mostly getting away with it!…

Oh great. Now you get to be that person logging on to vid confs a couple of minutes late Video conferencing outfit Zoom has revealed it will require users to update their client apps at least every ninety days and introduce a "minimum client version" requirement.…

Amendment to bill doesn’t name Chinese companies ... but is eerily similar to regs that target Huawei and ZTE The Irish government has amended its Communications Regulations Bill 2022 with clauses that will allow it to blacklist networking equipment vendors on national security grounds.…

Shares misinformation, re-litigates takeover trial, complains about on-boarding process, and more Chief Twit Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and shown he is well and truly up to the job title he gave himself after paying $44 billion for the micro-blogging platform.…

Three million datasets to be thoroughly integrated in the name of efficiency, e-government, and surveillance China's State Council has outlined a plan to create a National Integrated Government Affairs Big Data System that, by the year 2025, is expected to make millions of government data sets available from one place.…

Oh, we don't think we needed science to pinpoint biggest windbags Instruments installed on the International Space Station to examine Earth's atmospheric dust have been found to have another useful purpose: detecting airborne methane plumes contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.…

PLUS: China’s digital currency surges; Infosys tax portals wobble again; Singapore crypto protections; and more Asia In Brief India's government has given itself the power to compel social networks to take down content.…

So crazy, it just might work A sample depot will be set up on Mars for NASA's Perseverance rover to stash Martian rock and gas specimens ahead of a lander arriving to return the material to Earth sometime in the 2030s ... hopefully.…

'They may not work yet, or indeed ever,' says ICO's deputy commissioner Companies should think twice before deploying AI-powered emotional analysis systems prone to systemic biases and other snafus, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) warned this week.…

Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year Obituary Professor Kathleen Booth, one of the last of the early British computing pioneers, has died. She was 100.…

The party's over and the pain begins Analysis For a company hoping to make a grand comeback in a few years, things are not looking great for Intel.…

Pocket change for troubled Facebook giant, plus more US election news Despite warnings of Chinese and Russian mischief and manipulation ahead of the US midterm elections, it seems American companies and citizens are perfectly capable of denting democracy on their own.…

Raspberry Robin hits 1,000 orgs in just one month Raspberry Robin, a worm that spreads through Windows systems via USB drives, has rapidly evolved: now backdoor access is being sold or offered to infected machines so that ransomware, among other code, can be installed by cybercriminals.…

Urges peace in space, while also threatening to shoot western war zone internet out of the sky Russia has warned the United Nations that commercial space systems – like Starlink – risk becoming legitimate military targets if they continue to be used in places like Ukraine. …

Good for AMD and Apple? Now let's make it easier for everyone, Taiwanese chipmaker says AMD turned to advanced packaging to create chiplet designs and become a formidable CPU player again. Apple used the tech to beef up the power of its M1 Ultra chip. And Intel is pinning its future success on 2D and 3D multi-die packaging technologies as part of its ambitious comeback plan.…

Report claims thousands of orgs are still happily writing checks Only a "handful" of US states have stopped buying Chinese technologies deemed by the government to pose security threats, according to a report from a Washington policy research group.…

The software giant expects a fix, but not until at least next week An October Patch Tuesday update for Windows 10 is causing OneDrive and OneDrive for Business cloud storage services to crash, Microsoft has confirmed.…

Chief twit celebrates closing deal with characteristic humility Comment Famed cave rescue expert Elon Musk has realized his dreams and completed the acquisition of influential social media platform Twitter.…

Ducks Zuck's bad luck as fanbois chuck bucks at M2 SoC... but CFO warns it's unlikely to last Apple bucked negative sentiments in a tough week for big technology businesses by meeting analysts’ revenue estimates for its latest quarter, yet it too is now warning of economic ripples ahead.…

Cray EX beast deployed to improve weather forecasting in country that has basically one season HPE has booked another supercomputer win, this time providing compute power for the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) to deliver improved weather forecasting and tropical climate research for Singapore and Southeast Asia.…

Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma, the median? Ratio to Redmond's average employee pay is 289 to 1 Relying on the karmic forces of the universe is clearly working out for Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, judging by his expanding compensation package.…

It may be in the dock over Horizon software scandal, but it's still on UK.gov gravy train UK government has awarded Fujitsu a £52 million (c $60 million) contract in the same week political leaders called for all local deals with the company to be stopped while it is in the dock over the Post Office Horizon scandal.…

Where's your spirit of Ventura? Apple has opened up a bit about its product security, though the iGiant's slightly chattier demeanor, via a new security blog, may be appreciated less than its bug bounty upgrade.…

Less than half of next gen networking users say it has improved speed or reliability for them Fewer than half of 5G users say they've experienced improvements in speed or reliability over 4G according to a new survey, but that is not going to stop some in telecoms pushing ahead with efforts to deliver an enhanced version branded 5.5G.…

We appreciate power but sometimes it's about getting up and running sooner Column The fact that I like the Linux desktop will come as no surprise to anyone who reads my work. I mean, I was once the lead writer and editor for a long-gone publication called Linux Desktop. So why is it as I sit at Kubecon North America in Detroit that I'm writing this on an HP Chromebook x360?…

Just because the client touches a computer doesn’t make a mess their fault On Call As the holiday season nears, prepare for the smaller celebration that is the end of the week with another edition of On-Call, The Register's weekly walk through the worst of the world of work.…

If not for Apple, this addition to this week's orgy of bad economic indicators would be even less pleasant Sorry to bring you another item of news focusing on indicators of poor economic conditions, but analyst outfit Counterpoint Research has just revealed data that finds sales of smartphones have dipped to levels not seen since 2014.…

As progress revealed on Android port to the open ISA Canonical has brought its Ubuntu Linux operating system to another RISC-V system: this week, Sipeed's LicheeRV single board computer.…

We've spotted the massive ice-hole it left behind Data collected from two Mars missions has been combined to explain why the red planet shook on Christmas Eve 2021.…

Amazon shares pummelled, but cloud operation thinks Graviton CPUs can save the day Amazon has joined other major tech players in offering a gloomy view of its financial future, earning itself a massive share price cut – and even its booming cloud business is not immune.…

It worked for Lee Jae-yong, who now gets to handle a nasty profit plunge Here's an unconventional career plan for you to consider:…

Staff, products on the chopping block to save billions annually Intel plans to lay off a "meaningful number" of employees and dump some products as part of a massive reduction in spending the chipmaker expects will reach up to $10 billion annually by 2025.…

Surely staff organizing is Bias for Action and Think Big on those blasted leadership principles? Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been accused of breaking US labor laws by spouting anti-union comments in the media.…

Control panels facing the internet? Data stolen? You gotta keep an ion this stuff The White House is adding the chemical sector to a program launched last year to improve cybersecurity capabilities within America's critical infrastructure industries.…

'No, no, they're shoppers, not employees' ain't gonna fly with DC AG Shipt, a delivery service owned by Target, has been sued by the Attorney General of Washington DC for allegedly unlawfully misclassifying employees as independent contractors to avoid paying for worker benefits.…

Won't somebody please think of the Cyberquad children? Tesla's Cyberquad for Kids – a $1,900 mini-ATV that's the closest most people will get to a Cybertruck – has been recalled by US watchdogs over numerous safety issues.…

It has a workaround. Plus: Software giant also has a round of tweaks to Windows 11 22H2 Microsoft has cooked up a workaround for a newly disclosed problem: losing data when you try to reset virtual disks using the vendor's Server Manager console in some versions of Windows Server.…

Troubled space capsule cost $195 million this quarter, bringing total losses on it since 2020 to $883m The Starliner losses just keep adding up for Boeing, whose troubled crew capsule spacecraft is closing in on $900 million in cumulative losses for the aerospace giant.…

It's worth it, though. And it's easy to install the latest KDE on the latest Kubuntu KDE 5.26.2 is out with an emergency fix for a memory leak – so if you already have the new version, you should update. If you don't have 5.26, we're here to tell you how.…