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Goggles giant on how it gave its Android apps a Kotlin makeover Meta, parent of Facebook, is in the midst of migrating its Android app Java code to Kotlin, a younger programming language that also relies on the Java Virtual Machine, or JVM.…

And get over here, NFT slingers, Cupertino wants a word, too In a move antitrust watchdogs will surely have no problem with at all, Apple this week revised its App Store rules to limit NFTs, take a cut of paid-for "boosts" for social media posts, and crack down on developers in a few other ways.…

Flaming 'eck! GPUs have been a hot commodity but this is ridiculous. Nvidia's use of a 600W power socket and cable with its RTX graphics cards may have sounded like a good idea at the time but some users have reported overheating issues.…

No more reusing, recycling passwords PayPal has added passkeys for passwordless login to accounts across Apple devices.…

Latest release brings better speed and more comprehensible error messages Python 3.11.0, the latest iteration of the exceedingly popular programming language, debuted on Monday, to the delight of software developers who care about such things.…

Available in Japan now, with international rollout to follow next year Fujitsu has opened up access to its Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS) portfolio along with an Accelerator Program to help develop use cases of its CaaS platform.…

Datacenters, cloud services shut down but keep maintaining DBs for the nation's businesses SAP has delayed its withdrawal from Russia after struggling to find a buyer for its operations in the region.…

Only just installed? You may need another upgrade all the same Linux kernel 5.19.17 is here, the last of the version 5 series, as used in the current release of Ubuntu.…

Even better, upgrade to Windows 10 at the very least Google has joined the funeral procession for Windows 7 and 8.1, announcing the last Chrome update for the aging OSes will come in early February.…

Intel CEO not surprised by US export controls on tech to China Intel chief, Pat Gelsinger, reckons US export controls on chip technology to China are an inevitable part of rebalancing the country's supply chains. Where those semiconductor fabs are located will be more important in future than where the oil wells are.…

If your mobile's not 18k gold with diamonds, do you even crypto bro? Vertu, the ostentatious luxury phone brand that began as a brainchild of Nokia, has launched METAVERTU, the "world's first Web3 phone."…

Just don't forget Enclave data is held in memory and costs can ramp when processing digital reams AWS has updated its Nitro Enclaves feature for confidential computing so users can now operate it on Arm-based Graviton EC2 instances.…

Massive spike in user reports on DownDetector, no word on cause Updated An outage has hit global messaging system WhatApp early on Tuesday morning.…

Arcan sub-project reinvents command lines and GUIs at once Lash#Cat9 is a new type of typing-driven UI, which moves beyond terminal emulators. Cat9's power comes from its close interaction with its display server, Arcan. This picks up some of the ideas from X11 and Wayland then goes much further.…

Staff member bit on lure, ultimately exposed up to 113,000 colleagues' personal information Britain's data watchdog has slapped construction business Interserve Group with a potential £4.4 million ($4.98M) fine after a successful phishing attack by criminals exposed the personal data of up to 113,000 employees.…

Warns of class action lawsuits and personal injury claims in wake of health product recall The recently installed CEO at Philips has confirmed a restructuring blueprint that includes making 4,000 staff redundant to reduce overheads following sliding sales and steep losses.…

Ancient hardware deserves ancient kernels, but cannot justify consuming developers' valuable time Linux boss Linus Torvalds has contemplated ending support for the i486 processor architecture in the Linux kernel.…

Bet ya can't wait to slap that 22H2 on your machine Microsoft is finally making good on its promise to address a printing problem holding back its latest Windows 11 upgrade.…

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5G was meant to top a billion subs globally this year – China may have done it single-handed China's big three mobile carriers have posted customer data for September 2022 that reveals they collectively operate over a billion subscriptions to 5G services.…

Windows Dev Kit 2023 packs Qualcomm's AI toys and an all-Arm environment for Windows coding Microsoft has delivered on its May 2022 promise to give devs a cheap piece of Arm-powered hardware on which to run AI-accelerated workloads for Windows, by revealing the Windows Dev Kit 2023 and placing it on sale at $599.…

Demand for consulting eases and that's often – gulp – the canary in the economic coalmine Despite economic uncertainty, India's four major IT outsourcers – Infosys, HCL, Wipro and TCS – have reported strong growth and a healthy pipeline of new contracts, but also warned of likely future slowdowns.…

Shuttling sensor data all the way into the cloud is so 2014 Red Hat and Intel today agreed to take their relationship to the next level – out of the datacenter and out to the edge.…

RealPage's algorithm screwed tenants by inflating costs, it is claimed The maker of an algorithm that calculates the optimum rent to charge for homes has been accused of causing an unfair and artificial hike in costs for tenants.…

Interference in case against Huawei, recruitment of academics and officials, and more claimed American prosecutors on Monday accused 13 people of committing espionage-linked crimes in the US on behalf of the Chinese government.…

With shops leaving VNC and RDP open, quelle surprise Cybercriminals have used two strains of point-of-sale (POS) malware to steal the details of more than 167,000 credit cards from payment terminals. If sold on underground forums, the haul could net the thieves upwards of $3.3 million.…

Don't thank Elon Iranians are reportedly smuggling SpaceX Starlink broadband satellite terminals into their country as Tehran restricts internet access amid an ongoing uprising.…

Start with dumping a fifth of staff, capping that VR capex, firm urges In a sternly-worded letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta stockholders have urge the mega-corporation to "get fit and focused" by cutting 20 percent of staff and shaving $5 billion off annual capital expenses and metaverse investments.…

With Microsoft and LinkedIn close on shipping giant's heels DHL is the most spoofed brand when it comes to phishing emails, according to Check Point.…

Told no by SpaceX, uni eggheads went ahead by themselves Researchers rebuffed by SpaceX have taken matters into their own hands and reverse-engineered Starlink's satellite signal for potential use as a GPS alternative. …

Gang was behind the attack on OakBend Medical Center Federal agencies are warning of a threat group called Daixin Team that is using ransomware and data extortion tactics to target US healthcare organizations.…

But Gen 2 faces an uphill battle in market share and technology Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison canceled its first cloud after an internal struggle, he told investors gathering at the company's CloudWorld event.…

That's 6.7 billion fewer chips than was delivered in September 2021 The chip wars appear to be biting in China, as the country’s semiconductor imports dropped 12.4 percent in the month of September, according to official customs data published by the country.…

Economics dictate decisions even as resignations remain high The great resignation has ceased to be a talking point despite continued high quit rates and what appears to be a shift in worker motivation away from finding jobs with purpose toward finding one that simply pays enough to combat inflation.…

New versions of two next-gen Linux storage engines may belie fading interest Intel's DAOS is a distributed parallel filesystem for supercomputers, while Stratis is Red Hat's answer to ZFS – new versions of each were released today.…

Company won't stop until you need an iPhone to operate every facet of your life Apple devotees now have another reason to dump hundreds of dollars into the iGiant's ecosystem with the release of the Level Lock+, an exterior door lock that can be operated by an iPhone or Apple Watch.…

And what about a madman with a truck-mounted junkyard EMP? The devastating potential posed by solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other space weather are well publicized. These storms have been known to snipe satellites and disrupt power grids, but the risk to datacenters isn't as well understood. …

Server farm power concerns as winter nears and fears of blackouts grow Amazon has applied to have 105 diesel generators installed at a new datacenter site in Dublin amid concerns over the impact on electricity networks and the potential for energy shortages across the sector this winter.…

Now, who talked up that market to begin with? Canalys Channels Forum HP Inc. CEO Enrique Lores says orders for 3D printers are falling short of early promise, with some analysts saying the tech has failed to cross into the mainstream despite a relative boom during the pandemic.…

Also: Iranian election hackers are back, the TSA gets regulatory on train cybersecurity, and more In brief Google has released a new open source software tool to help businesses better understand the risks to their software supply chains by aggregating security metadata into a queryable, standardized database.…

Big Blue now claims upsides to EU exit that others have failed to see IBM has extolled the benefits of the UK's departure from the world's richest trade bloc in an apparent U-turn on its earlier Brexit stance.…

The ghosts of dead trees haunt us still Comment It's not sexy but it is good. Mozilla deserves our love for implementing a better PDF reader in the new Firefox browser, 106. It takes away the pain, just a bit, by doing in-browser renderings that can be annotated, decreasing the chance you'll have to find a third-party reader that does what you need.…

McKinsey forecasts market value of $5 trillion by 2030, Citi says up to $13 trillion, but Canalys doesn't agree Canalys Channels Forum The metaverse is a solution looking for a B2B problem – that problem being how to help Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg drum up billions of dollars in revenues – and it's going to fail in the not-too-distant future.…

CWU also planning to re-ballot entire workforce, claims stoppages are delaying fiber and network builds Exclusive The union behind the protracted strike action at BT is today scheduled to meet with the British telecoms giant's shareholders – one of the screws it is turning to press for pay talks to be reopened.…

Your IT storage may go from terabytes to Exbytes At least one affiliate of the high-profile ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group BlackByte is using a custom tool to exfiltrate files from a victim's network, a key step in the fast-growing business of double-extortion.…

When switches really were switches, one reader managed to avert a potential disaster Who, Me? Welcome, gentle readers, to another instalment of Who, Me? in which citizens of the Reg universe (Regizens?) recount their tales of technological near-misses.…

The truth is out there and 16 people have been tasked to find it NASA has announced the names of 16 individuals who will be a part of its unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) research group that begins work today.…

Yet more nagware to use the Edge browser, plus some usefully re-imagined tools liberated from the maze of the Settings menu Something interesting has popped up in a Chinese language corner of Microsoft's website: a tool called PC Manager that provides easier access to utilities that dwell somewhere in Windows' Settings menus.…

The black hole information paradox and quantum error correction codes overlap almost completely It's hard for professor Brian Cox to hide his enthusiasm for black holes, and he didn't really try as he explained to The Register how progress in understanding the celestial phenomena contributes to the development of quantum computing.…

Tehran laughs it off as foreign psyop or media stunt. Just don't remind them about Stuxnet, OK? Iran's Atomic Energy Organization has laughed off claims that the email systems of a subsidiary were compromised, revealing important operational data about a nuclear power plant.…