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EuroHPC's LUMI upgrades secure narrow lead over all-new Leonardo system SC22 Despite expectations that we might see the long-awaited Aurora supercomputer crest the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful systems, the US Department of Energy's 1.1 exaflop Frontier machine at Oak Ridge National Lab continues to hold the number one spot.…

Plan is to consolidate DCs, cut costs and carbon under one-CSP-to-rule-it-all deal The United States Department of the Interior has posted a final solicitation for a $1 billion cloud computing services contract that runs for 11 years and will be awarded to a single vendor.…

Steady now. It's not the full-fledged quantum that will suddenly let you crack encryption algos SC22 Dell is expanding its high performance computing (HPC) portfolio with the addition of a quantum computing platform - where customers can start testing out quantum algorithms - plus an overhauled APEX service and PowerEdge systems based on Intel's Sapphire Rapids next-gen processors.…

Bro do u even GraphQL? When Elon Musk promised to improve Twitter's technical performance at the weekend, it was one of the company's own engineers who rubbished the new CEO's claims. Then a stampede of software engineers trundled in to support their comrade.…

Russia and strong dollar weigh heavy on 2022, but OpenText is ready for COBOL expert Unaudited fiscal 2022 financial results for Micro Focus indicate that potential new owner OpenText still has some work to do to convert the app and infrastructure management software house into a growth engine.…

GPU maker wants more of your money with next wave of servers Nvidia plans to bundle a five-year license of its commercial AI Enterprise software with every PCIe-based H100 GPU coming to servers soon.…

For when millions of years of evolution and timekeeping are not good enough Walking – what a drag. How are you supposed to keep on the trillionaire crypto mogul grindset when you have to do something as mundane as placing one foot in front of the other to get to your next high-flying presentation?…

Contract chipmaker fails to detail numbers of layoffs or planned timeframe in email to staff GlobalFoundries is planning job cuts to reduce overhead amid weakening demand for semiconductors.…

Fellow crypto-exchange Gate.io spots error, returns funds Over the weekend it was revealed that cryptocurrency exchange company Crypto.com accidentally sent over $400 million to another cryptocurrency exchange and was miraculously able to get it back.…

BrachioGraph: 'The cheapest, simplest possible pen-plotter' Ubuntu Summit BrachioGraph is a DIY pen-plotter built from a Raspberry Pi Zero, a few $2 servomotors, plus household parts such as clothes pegs and bulldog clips… and controlled in Python.…

Edinburgh Uni says it interrupted its financial processes in summer to test new system The UK’s University of Edinburgh continues to struggle to pay staff, students and suppliers months after the introduction of a new Oracle Fusion-based accounting and HR system.…

We must immunize the Mastodon Opinion There is a euphemism in rocketry often heard at SpaceX – Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. A catastrophic explosion, in other words. Until now, it was not a phrase that applies to social media.…

Tune in to hear how it works on Spotify, or hook up with choice on Bumble Google’s resistance to allowing third-party payment systems to touch its Play digital store appear to be ebbing away, with the search and ads giant last week announcing it has commenced tests of payment choice in the USA.…

Speech did not mention IPO, did say CEO's close involvement is good for humanity Japanese tech investment giant Softbank appears to be committed to keeping British-based chip designer Arm under its influence, after the parent company’s CEO and chairman, Masayoshi Son, pledged his life to growing the semiconductor subsidiary in its Q2 2022 earnings report last Friday.…

When RTFM goes bad Who, Me? Welcome, gentle reader, to another instalment of Who, Me? in which Regizens recount records of rancor and remorse. This week, a tale of instructions designed to make life easy that did, in fact, nothing of the sort.…

Creates 100-strong squad comprising cops and spooks with remit to disrupt ransomware ops Australia's government has declared the nation is planning to go on the offensive against international cyber crooks following recent high-profile attacks on local health insurer Medibank and telco Optus.…

PLUS: US/Singapore CBDC trial; Digital Ocean down under; Boeing's Indonesian touchdown; and more Chinese web giant Alibaba has declared this year's 11.11 "Singles Day" e-commerce frenzy a success, but for the first time has not revealed the value of product shifted on the day.…

Plus: Amazon debuts AI warehouse robot, Midjourney releases latest ML art generator In brief GitHub is testing a new feature that will allow developers to instruct its AI-powered programming assistant Copilot to generate code using voice commands.…

Plus: CISA has a flowchart for patching, privacy campaign goes after face search engine In Brief A suspected member of the notorious international LockBit ransomware mob has been arrested – and could spend several years behind bars if convicted.…

Lost among the Twitter chaos? We'll try to sort it out for you, so far You could say Twitter, now in its second week of Elon Musk's reign, has had an interesting week. That would be an understatement.…

Unless you're fine with Qatar snoops remotely accessing your phone With mandated spyware downloads to tens of thousands of surveillance cameras equipped with facial-recognition technology, the World Cup in Qatar next month is looking more like a data security and privacy nightmare than a celebration of the beautiful game.…

Only one of the two new 3D XPoint-based drives offer a performance improvement From the rotting corpse that is Intel's axed Optane memory business come a pair of new 3D XPoint-based SSDs for servers and workstations. Only one of them seems like an upgrade from drives released two years ago.…

Licensing down 53% due to major one-off deals signed a year ago Chip designer Arm reported record revenues for its latest quarterly trading update as it continues to diversify the business beyond licensing.…

Hopefully servers will sweat a little less than the ones in Doha Microsoft is building four datacenters in North Carolina as part of a phased development that will see it invest at least $1 billion over the next decade.…

2nm and beyond: Interesting time to get into bed with American chip giant Japan looks set inject 70 billion yen ($500 million) into a new semiconductor company amid plans to jump-start next generation advanced chip production with the help of IBM.…

Narrowing permissions could be difference between mildly pwned and totally pwned corporate network Microsoft is bringing a granular personal access token (PAT) to its Azure DevOps REST APIs to try to reduce the damage that can happen when credentials are leaked or stolen.…

Alleged genius behind electric car spots one thing that might save company from the abyss: ending WFH Comment Twitter CEO Elon Musk has told employees of the risk of short-term bankruptcy as corporations — hence potential advertisers — get trashed by spoof accounts set up under the new blue checkmark scheme he introduced.…

Tasteless food chain claims 'semi-automated' process skipped internal review process US fast food chain KFC has apologized for a promotional message sent via its app that encouraged customers to commemorate Kristallnacht by ordering extra cheese on their chicken.…

CEO says UK government cap on energy has given it wiggle room, hopes payment will end further strikes BT says UK government’s price cap on energy bills will allow it to provide financial assistance to employees struggling with relentless rises in inflation - a marked change on the CEO’s previous stance.…

C/C++ on the bench, as NSA puts its trust in Rust, C#, Go, Java, Ruby and Swift The US National Security Agency (NSA) has released guidance encouraging organizations to shift programming languages from the likes of C and C++ to memory safe alternatives – namely C#, Rust, Go, Java, Ruby or Swift.…

It won't be the last Opinion GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI-driven, pair-programming service, is already wildly popular. Microsoft broke out GitHub's revenue and subscription numbers in its latest quarterly report for the first time.…

You'd think tech support people would stick together … On Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday frolic through readers' memories of support jobs that had odd endings.…

EC veep: 'Cyber is the new domain in warfare' The European Commission on Thursday proposed a cyber defense policy in response to Europe's "deteriorating security environment" since Russia illegally invaded Ukraine earlier this year.…

Boffins baffled: There's, like, zero magnetic field and very little atmosphere. What gives? A coronal mass ejection from our Sun sent a shower of charged particles to Mars, generating two types of ultraviolet auroras astronomers have never seen at the same time before.…

Crims accessed 10 million customer records and are releasing intimate medical details The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has pointed to Russia as the location of the attackers who breached local health insurer Medibank, accessed almost ten million customer records, and in recent days dumped some customer data onto the dark web.…

Both firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine AMD has grown its share in the server processor market against Intel once again, though the chip designer lost out to its much larger rival in the broader x86 market.…

Hushpuppi swaps private jet, Dubai penthouse for prison duds and $1.7m to victims An international cyber-scammer and Instagram star who plotted to launder more than $300 million over the course of 18 months was this week jailed – and he must pay back more than $1.7 million to his victims. …

Chipmaker tired of Putin choking the supply chain of the gas Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is reported to be seeking local sources of neon gas for use in its fabs, following disruptions to global supply chains caused by the Russian war in Ukraine.…

Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim AMD's status as scrappy underdog trailing in Intel's wake has been upended. The chipmaker has managed to pull out ahead of rival Intel with the launch of its fourth-generation Epyc "Genoa" processors this week.…

Canonical is working on a new way to prove to employers you know your stuff Ubuntu Summit Canonical is working on a new training and skills-testing scheme, currently codenamed CUE, to help people without formal certifications to show that they've got what it takes.…

Taps mic: Elon? Elon are you there? Care to comment? Electric carmaker Rivian is reporting more trouble – this time it's the loss of $1.7 billion in Q3 alone, although the biz said it has enough cash on hand for three more years of business. …

The Toebbes tried selling US Navy secrets, but handed them right to the FBI A woman and her husband, who both copped to trying to sell nuclear warship secrets to a foreign government, have been sentenced to prison, with each set to spend around two decades behind bars.…

As social media giant grapples with Musk takeover, a safe pair of hands reaches for the door Troubled social media giant Twitter has lost the services of its chief information and security officer to cap off another chaotic week following its acquisition by Elon Musk.…

Difficult decision did not end with RISE with SAP, analyst tells The Reg SAP’s plans for moving customers to S/4HANA in the cloud – the assumed destination for the majority of SAP's ERP users – belies the complexity of decision in terms of software licensing, infrastructure and business processes, according to Gartner.…

Alleges agreement choked resellers using Amazon Marketplace, eliminated 98% of competition Apple and Amazon stand accused of colluding to push up the price of iPhones and iPads by trying to suppress the competitive threat from resellers using Amazon's Marketplace.…

Hasn't escaped Europe's notice that US, China, Russia are launching sat after sat The EU is said to be nearing a deal on building a satellite internet service to fill in gaps in terrestrial broadband coverage, as well as providing "strategic independence" for the region.…

Still quite a way to go before fabled 4,158-qubit system lands, scheduled for 2025. Plus: Fujitsu details quantum/HPC hybrid calculation tech IBM has officially unveiled its Osprey quantum processor featuring 433 qubits, more than three times the qubits seen in its Eagle processor introduced just a year ago.…

Can't do anything about their musical taste though Japanese telecommunications megalith NTT released details on Wednesday of ambitious headphone tech that eliminates pesky sound leakage – even on open-ear earphones.…

Or, how to make an unsupported printer work on Windows 11 with Ubuntu and WSL2 Ubuntu Summit The OpenPrinting project – together with Windows Services for Linux – enables printers that Windows no longer supports to work on Windows 11.…

Weakness of local currencies vs the dollar will force US vendors to act and act again Chief information officers in Western Europe should buckle up for enterprise tech price inflation in 2023 unless local currencies stage something of a dramatic recovery against the US dollar.…