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More support for multiple platforms, Arm architecture, and the cloud in release 7 Microsoft's unveiling this week of the production release of .NET 7 advances the company's efforts over the past few years to unify the open source development runtime to support multiple architectures and platforms.…

They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market A recent demonstration has proven the feasibility of the European Space Agency's (ESA) plan to beam power to Earth from space, giving the astro agency some additional ammunition as it prepares to ask its governing body for more cash to fund solar energy research. …

Addressing social media's baked-in flaws starts with users realizing its true worth Opinion I've decided to sign up for Twitter's subscription-based service for a simple reason: to put my money where my mouth is.…

'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent An Cygnus cargo ship has successfully made it to the International Space Station despite the failure of half its solar panel array.…

We're the malware of Nim! A malware loader deemed in June to be a "work in progress" is now fully functional and infecting thousands of Windows corporate and home PCs.…

Today's messes: a possible crypto venture; blue tick blackflips; advertiser assurances; and a promise to try dumb things The Twitter "Official" label that showed up on the platform yesterday as a way to fix an arguably unbroken verification system has apparently disappeared from many accounts in less than 24 hours.…

And they don't like the states' 'patchwork' privacy laws, either US federal rulemaking on surveillance and data privacy should be left to Congress, not American consumer watchdog agencies — or states — according to a trio of Republican senators.…

Federal judge won't revisit fraud case, sets a date for sentencing instead Elizabeth Holmes, founder of debunked blood-testing startup Theranos, will be sentenced next week after a federal judge denied her request for a new trial.…

Customers 'more than twice' as likely to be hit by scams, says Dem Senator Wells Fargo customers who use Zelle to send and request payments suffer more than twice the rate of fraud and other online scams as people using other big banks, according to US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).…

Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful' A startup that bet on the old concept of analog chips to provide energy-efficient AI computing has run out of capital.…

Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it Cloud-sim platform Rescale believes its forthcoming Compute Recommendation Engine can cut the time needed to optimize AI/ML and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads, giving people more time to actually run the software.…

Foundries folk pity the fool who writes off whole of 2023, though analyst says GF crew is 'optimistic' Semiconductor manufacturing biz GlobalFoundries expects weakening chip demand to bottom out in the first half of 2023, as it announced better than expected results for Q3 2022.…

The metaverse is shaping up to be such an inviting place Palmer Luckey, originator of the device that evolved into the cornerstone of Mark Zuckerberg's crumbling metaverse empire, has developed a new headset with a twist: It can kill gamers in real life when they die in VR. …

America's Chip Act looking a bit less like 'expensive exercise in futility' Taiwan's chipmaking giant TSMC is said to be preparing to build another semiconductor fabrication plant in Arizona, alongside the facility it completed this summer, in a move that may be seen as a vindication of the US government’s CHIPS Act funding.…

Meanwhile, more advertisers pause spending on loss-making social media platform and user base said to be declining What's the latest in the life of the world’s richest man? Elon Musk has offloaded almost $4 billion in Tesla stock after buying Twitter, the social media platform that is losing advertisers, money and maybe users.…

The COVID-era hiring spree which saw thousands onboarded comes to an abrupt end Salesforce is set to lay off hundreds of staff as the COVID-19-related hiring boom runs out of steam.…

x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory Intel's latest plan to ward off rivals from high-performance computing workloads involves a CPU with large stacks of high-bandwidth memory and new kinds of accelerators, plus its long-awaited datacenter GPU that will go head-to-head against Nvidia's most powerful chips.…

Of course the IT giant's Epyc 4 systems will still ship first For the first time in years, Intel's CPUs will be at the heart of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Cray supercomputing platforms, following the launch of new systems based on the chipmaker's Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable processors in early 2023.…

Zuck admits biz recruited too hard during pandemic and decline in advertising forced his hand Meta is making more than of 11,000 employees redundant following the dramatic decline in profits and the subsequent share price dive at the end of last month.…

Thousands behind Airbus and Boeing, but the backlogs of western airliners might sweeten the deal Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (Comac), the maker of China's domestically made single-aisle passenger jet – the C919 – has secured orders for 300 of the recently certified aircraft.…

Reg FOSS desk chats with one of the core architects Ubuntu Summit Canonical remains committed to its Snap format as the coverage at its first public gathering in a few years shows.…

Whatever's happening with Qualcomm, server chip outfit says it knows of no tweaks to model Interview Arm-based server chip outfit Ampere's chief product officer says its licensing with Arm is not changing, as the company prepares to launch the latest processors built with its own fully custom core design.…

Officials are concerned acquisition could reduce competition and lock gamers to Xbox and Microsoft PCs The European Commission launched an antitrust investigation examining Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of computer games maker Activision Blizzard on Tuesday.…

Ah, so now we know who to blame for all of this Scientists taking a look at the second-most distant observed quasar believe it's actually the remnants of one of the universe's earliest stars – the so-called Population III stars that seeded the early universe with material that eventually formed life. …

Crisis mode led to more formal meetings and lists, which just make more useless work Researchers from Germany's Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik have studied how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the way systems administrators work, and found the profession was negatively impacted.…

CISPE says Redmond's recent concessions did not level the playing field A trade group representing 24 cloud infrastructure providers in Europe is filing a formal competition complaint with the European Commission over Microsoft's licensing of software in the cloud.…

The world may never be free of unsmashable ads LG Display has shown off a thin, lightweight, stretchable and twistable micro-LED screen – an innovation South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) hopes will boost the nation's electronics industry.…

Big Blue tries the Domino's approach IBM is so confident in its hardware supply chain that it's promised to ship storage arrays by the end of 2022 – and if it's late you get free software as compensation.…

Also teams up with cinema chain AMC to let you Zoom at the movies Zoom has decided to take on the software world's most dangerous mission: attempting to offer productivity tools that rival those bundled into Microsoft Office 365.…

Anyone can pretend to be your Windows IT support and take command of staff devices VMware has revealed a terrible trio of critical-rated flaws in Workspace ONE Assist for Windows – a product used by IT and help desk staff to remotely take over and manage employees' devices.…

Plus: Fixes from Intel, AMD, Citrix and more Patch Tuesday November's Patch Tuesday also falls on election day in the US, so let's hope that democracy fares better than Microsoft, which reported six of today's bugs are already being exploited in the wild by miscreants.…

Just call it the Sad Launch System NASA's plans to launch its Space Launch System (SLS) super rocket this November from the Kennedy Space Center may be foiled yet again if a tropical storm continues gaining strength on its predicted path toward Florida.…

The chipmaker's Prestera DX1500 family brings Ethernet to OT networks At a rather pedestrian 10Gbps, Marvell's latest networking silicon isn't going to win any races. But then again the chipmaker's Prestera DX1500-series switch chips and Alaska E1781 PHYs aren't destined for your typical enterprise or campus network.…

Stay warm this winter by fragging some baddies Intel wants to put a small form factor space heater — err PC — on your desk with the launch of its 13th-Gen NUC Extreme platform, codenamed Raptor Canyon.…

Giant forecasts premiums rising to $23b by 2025 As insurance companies struggle to stay afloat amid rising cyber claims, Swiss Re has recommended a public-private partnership insurance scheme with one option being a government-backed fund to help fill the coverage gap.…

Frankly, it's the least of Musk's problems right now Tesla has initiated a voluntary recall of more than 40,000 Model S and Model X vehicles thanks to a bad firmware update that could cause the cars to lose power steering "due to forces from external road dynamics," also known as bumps.…

Germany blocks sale of fab to Chinese firm, Taiwan's investments challenged in Lithuania China is at the center of two conflicts in Europe as the continent strives to shore up domestic chip manufacturing capabilities.…

Phishing-as-a-service group's toolset now includes ways to get around MFA Robin Banks, the phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) platform that was kicked off Cloudflare for malicious activity, is back in action with a Russian service provider and new tools to make it easier to bypass security measures.…

Two breaches: one in 2012, another in 2015 – saw 18m folks' records stolen Experian and T-Mobile US have reached separate settlements with 40 states in America following a pair of data security breaches in 2012 and 2015. The settlement will net authorities $16 million, along with assurances it won't happen again.…

Advertising? 'Anything for that sweet sweet KPI' Windows appears to be testing ads in the user session flyout menu (where you sign out, lock, or change settings) of Windows 11 preview builds, with clearly annoyed Windows Insider, Albacore, sharing screenshots on Twitter.…

Nvidia’s A800 is the new A100, but slower; and Biren’s A100 now 64GBps slower Systems that once contained Nvidia and TSMC chips, which are now restricted by the US government, are popping up this week with slower specs to meet US export controls to China and evade the hassles of obtaining special licenses.…

Maybe they can use more renewable energy – oh crap, that needs semiconductors too A newly created semiconductor industry body is attending the COP27 climate conference this week to talk about members’ aims to hit net zero emissions by 2050 – and hopefully clean up the chip industry's act.…

Pilot project in Geneva ends potential danger to welfare of the birds Yet another squadron of anti-drone eagles is being grounded after officials in Geneva, Switzerland decided advances in the technology made success rates uncertain and even dangerous for the birds to manage.…

If Eliyan’s designs work, this could lower reliance on Asia for chip manufacturing Silicon Valley startup Eliyan thinks its technology for enabling chiplet-based designs can best those from semiconductor giants Intel and TSMC by providing better performance, higher efficiency, fewer manufacturing issues, and more supply chain options.…

Need Another Special Artisan? The US space agency does NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory failed to launch the Psyche asteroid-visiting mission originally scheduled later this year due to an "imbalance between the workload and the available workforce," it admitted in an independent report released late last week.…

Apparently, you can still get laptops with good keyboard feel Review Tuxedo Computers offers an unusual machine: a Linux-based laptop with, of all things, a mechanical keyboard.…

Reveals closer ties to Equinix and Wipro as Broadcom finds new ways to promise peace VMware has used the European edition of its Explore conference to outline a plan to package software for consumption as SaaS while keeping it out of the reach of the extraterritorial jurisdiction enabled by the USA’s Cloud Act.…

Holiday property landlords' vacation from regulation is coming to an end The EU proposed rules this week requiring Airbnb and similar companies to share with officials the identities of hosts renting houses and apartments to tourists.…

Pay is middling, hours are long, but millions of jobs are out there Chinese employers have recently advertised for nearly a million employees with technical AI skills, according to an analysis from US think tank the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).…

Other than that, results are some of the least bad news about hardware sales we've read in weeks Electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd – better known as Foxconn – has reported strong growth in plenty of product categories but warned its Chinese operations may drag it down during Q4.…