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Yes/No/Cancel culture at its worst Something for the Weekend "We all know what we're doing today? Good. Do your best!"…

Less than 5% of users are spam accounts? Show us your working Elon Musk has hit the brakes on his proposed takeover of Twitter in light of the platform's insistence that spam accounts accounted for less than 5 percent of its daily active users.…

Farewell to scheduling your emergencies in advance Microsoft is to permit unscheduled breaks into its exams, bringing relief to students working through the often lengthy process.…

Make it work like it does at home On Call In this week's episode of our On Call column, an exasperated Register reader nearly walks the plank after failing to break the laws of physics.…

‘Cooperative mutation’ spots problems that checking scripts alone will miss Black Hat Asia Security researchers have devised a tool that detects flaws in the way apps like Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat process JavaScript, and it's proven so effective they've found 134 bugs – 59 of them considered worthy of a fix by vendors, 33 assigned a CVE number, and 17 producing bug bounty payments totaling $22,000.…

As well as chip design licensing, 5G smartphones, cars ... who needs Nvi-whatchamacallit? With Arm looking to re-enter the public market at some point, the British chip designer is hoping to get would-be investors excited with figures that indicate it achieved record revenues and profits in 2021.…

Guess you could call this Mercury Ryzen Here's a new data point that will rile Intel up: AMD now accounts for nearly 30 percent of x86 CPU market share, and the chip designer got there during an industry downturn.…

Less demand will see prices fall, and gaming laptop sales rise – which is nice as the rest of the PC market has cooled Taiwanese hardware giant ASUSTeK says demand for GPU used to mine cryptocurrency is "disappearing" – and so is about ten percent of demand for personal computers.…

Around the time Beijing banned online gambling, RATs started targeting operators, say Taiwanese researchers Black Hat Asia Keep an eye on new Chinese government policies, if you want to anticipate malware attacks, a threat intelligence analyst suggested at the Black Hat Asia conference on Thursday.…

Reverse-engineered code redirects visitors to dodgy corners of the internet A years-long campaign by miscreants to insert malicious JavaScript into vulnerable WordPress sites, so that visitors are redirected to scam websites, has been documented by reverse-engineers.…

Yes, give those smartNICs something to do Trusted platform modules (TPMs) got a bad rap for headaches they caused some PC enthusiasts. One place they are arguably more palatable is the datacenter, or so AWS, at least, hopes with the actual, real launch of its NitroTPM for Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).…

OK includes an outage, plummeting cryptocurrencies, falling stock price Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has scrambled to alleviate fears that customers storing cryptocurrencies at the digital cash exchange will lose everything if the biz goes under.…

Microsoft probes complaints of domain controller headaches Microsoft is warning a security update may cause authentication failures for Windows domain controllers.…

If your stock or crypto-coin holdings look like crap today, this might help you feel better SoftBank lost a lot of money over the past 12 months.…

So. Many. BIOS. Bugs Intel has disclosed high-severity bugs in its firmware that's used in datacenter servers, workstations, mobile devices, storage products, and other gear. These flaws can be exploited to escalate privileges, leak information, or stop things from working.…

That bit in Ghostbusters when they shut off the containment unit? That, but with social networks On Wednesday, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to undo a preliminary injunction that for the past few months has been blocking Texas's law prohibiting online content moderation while that legislation is being challenged.…

Team Xeon reveals 'Trust-as-a-Service' while Google Cloud details deeper ties with Team Zen Analysis As cloud service providers increasingly look to x86 architecture alternatives, Intel and AMD are trying to find ways to gain or hold favor in the market – and this includes baking in security features and forming services and partnerships.…

German software giant reprises old motifs at annual show Sapphire SAP has attempted to energize its annual Sapphire shindig by expounding the virtues of its strategy since €28 billion was wiped off the company's value in 2020 due to the pandemic.…

Latest version of Red Hat's free distro family arrives, a day after the paid one Version 36 of Fedora, the free community Linux distro sponsored by Red Hat, is here.…

CEO points to two very different multi-cloud markets, says it's already spoken to potential buyer Rackspace Technology is considering selling off at least part of its business following a strategic review, with CEO Kevin Jones admitting that "everything is on the table."…

Lincoln College shuttering after 157 years, ransomware attack from Iran final straw A December attack against a long-standing college in Illinois has pushed the institution to permanently close. …

It looks like you've copied a phone number, would you like help? The Windows Insider Dev Channel has introduced a feature it is calling "Suggested Actions" to the work-in-progress build of Windows 11, and testers love it so much they are already asking how to turn it off.…

Startup aims to add more than 150 workers by the end of 2022 Cloud storage company Panzura has received an $80 million injection in a Series B funding round, which CEO Jill Stelfox says it'll use to build a "different" kind of storage company.…

DigitalBridge Group and global infrastructure investor IFM Investors to acquire all outstanding shares US datacenter operator Switch Inc is to be purchased by private investors led by DigitalBridge Investment Management in an all-cash transaction for approximately $11 billion.…

Analysts also insist organizations need to get data ops for AI in gear or face 2-year delay By 2025, half of analytics will be developed by business users via a low-code or no-code modular assembly experience, according to Gartner.…

Microsoft embraces Nuance to deepen its healthcare connections Microsoft's purchase of AI company Nuance got Redmond's foot in the door of the healthcare industry, and it's widening the opening as Nuance helps form an industry group to explore applications of AI in hospitals and clinics.…

Please season with pinches of salt as necessary Apple may ditch its exclusive Lightning port in favor of the more widely used USB-C for future iPhone models.…

In fact, most of them are great people Opinion You might be excused if you think most Linux and open-source leaders are, ah, rude.…

Launches almost 1,000 raids, plenty with upgraded malware Black Hat Asia The advanced persistent threat gang known as SideWinder has gone on an attack spree in the last two years, conducting almost 1,000 raids and deploying increasingly sophisticated attack methods.…

Pasqal to provide compute based on approaches by Qu&Co acquisition BMW has become the latest company to give quantum an early chance, with the goal of shrinking development cycles beyond traditional means.…

'Mischief abroad' is the Middle Kingdom's goal – without the possibility of using Chinese sites to fight back Black Hat Asia The time has come to remove Chinese voices from global social media, according to Samir Saran, president of Delhi-based think tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF), a commissioner of The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, and a member of Microsoft's Digital Peace Now Initiative.…

If we're gonna go through this again, can we just literally go back in time? Proposed Europe regulations that purport to curb child abuse by imposing mass surveillance would be a "disaster" for digital privacy and strong encryption, say cybersecurity experts.…

Private orgs that flex with Russian bans may do more harm – to themselves – than good Black Hat Asia The war in Ukraine, and the Declaration for the Future of the Internet signed by 60 nations in late April, should be understood in the context of a global effort to recruit the nations of the world into blocs with different attitudes to internet governance.…

A Turing point for the graphics chip giant, perhaps? Nvidia on Wednesday published the R515 driver release of its Linux GPU kernel modules under an open source, dual GPL/MIT license.…

Snyk, JFrog, ReversingLabs spend weeks investigating modules that turn out to be pen-test code Malicious packages in the NPM Registry that security researchers for weeks believed were being used to stage supply-chain attacks against prominent industrial companies in Germany turned out to be part of a penetration test run by a cybersecurity company.…

Your essential de-hyped guide to what the Chocolate Factory teased at developer shindig Google IO Google I/O, the ad biz's annual developer conference, returned to the Shoreline Amphitheater in California's Mountain View on Wednesday, for the first time in three years. The gathering remained largely a remote event due to the persistence of COVID-19 though there were enough Googlers, partners, and assorted software developers in attendance to fill venue seats and punctuate important points with applause.…

We can think of one thing the S stands for in some unfortunate cases Miscreants are targeting managed service providers (MSPs) to break into their customers' networks and deploy ransomware, steal data, and spy on them, the Five Eyes nations' cybersecurity authorities have formally warned in a joint security alert.…

Human-free seafaring isn't going swimmingly The crewless AI-powered Mayflower ship, which was on its second attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean alone, is being hauled back to shore after suffering a mechanical failure.…

v3.0 has also gained a Casual Games Toolkit Google I/O Google's Flutter development framework finally achieved its cross-platform aspirations with a stable release of Linux and macOS support.…

Records for revenue, gross margin in Q1 as others take a hit While some chipmakers have reported a hit to their revenue due to COVID-19 lockdowns in China and other effects, New York-based GlobalFoundries said its business stood strong in the face of various global disruptions.…

Classic internet ideas matter less now that CDNs and private networks dominate traffic Comment The internet has become smaller, the result of a rethinking of when and where to use the 'net's intended architecture. In the process it may also have further concentrated power in the hands of giant technology companies.…

Plus: iXsystems' NAS OS has a new Linux-based sibling called SCALE BSD vendor iXsystems has released the latest version of its FreeBSD-derived Network Attached Storage (NAS) OS, TrueNAS 13.0.…

Slips some extra grunt into Snapdragon X70 5G chipset before devices launch Qualcomm has updated its Snapdragon X70 5G chipset to extend range and balance the transmit power for better performance. It also claims the Snapdragon modem will be the first to support a standalone 5G mmWave connection once it is available.…

RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, how about that? We talk to founder about HPC, open source and more Interview CIQ, founding sponsor and services partner of Rocky Linux – a community build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) – is to receive a $26m injection of private funding led by Two Bear Capital.…

The progress bar of lies reborn as a cheery 'Checking' message Microsoft Visual Studio appears to be having a bad Wednesday with users of the development suite forced to jump into Microsoft's feedback forum to complain about prolonged problems with the software's installer.…

Secureworks' investigation only the latest evidence Kaseya and JBS attackers are on the move again New ransomware samples analyzed by Secureworks' threat intelligence team are the latest indication that high-profile ransomware operation REvil is once again up and running after months of relative inactivity.…

Going for a walk: Good. Doomscrolling: Bad What are your peers doing to stave off burnout? Research from Stack Overflow suggests about half of developers are still spending their breaks in front of a screen.…

eVocore processor line aimed at high-performance, real-time compute applications MIPS is back, but this time the company is bringing processors to market based on the RISC-V open instruction set architecture, rather than the MIPS architecture the chip designer is synonymous with.…

Link between compliance and sales appeared to boost cloud performance in case disputed by Big Red A US class-action case claiming Oracle falsely inflated its cloud revenue by threatening customers with audits is set to continue after a federal judge approved the damages model proposed by the plaintiffs.…

Fire the update engines if you haven't already Microsoft has pulled the plug on support for .NET 5 and the Pro and Home versions of Windows 10 20H2.…