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Playbook on how to sell into market worth tens of billions The UK government has published a guide to public-sector technology procurement which promises to offer vendors insight into forthcoming technology spending in the £46bn ($60bn) market.…

German retailer stops selling flying cameras from firm the US labels an arm of China's government Chinese drone-maker DJI has denied multiple allegations it has aided Russia's military during the illegal invasion of Ukraine – an extraordinary claim, as the firm has previously come to the attention of US authorities for leaking data and aiding human rights abuses.…

Software will figure out number of beds needed – up to three weeks ahead At least 100 NHS trusts in England are to start using machine-learning software to predict the number of patients expected to be admitted to Accident and Emergency departments each day.…

Of course it will officially be massively popular – regardless of how many actually use it China's top government officials have a new space to meet and "build the [Chinese Communist] Party": a custom-built metaverse.…

JD.com's own servers, sold by the rackful, using cold plate cooling tech to tease possible 1.1 PUE Chinese kit-maker to the stars, Inspur Technologies, and local e-commerce titan JD.com have started jointly offering servers – the very kit the web bazaar uses in production.…

Windows backdoor shows off some interesting techniques Cyber-criminals are using compromised Microsoft Exchange servers to spam out emails designed to infect people's PCs with IcedID,…

Massive job losses reported across Middle Kingdom's tech sector China's big tech companies are making deep job cuts, and at least one is framing them as "graduation" from the company.…

Chrome trials scheduled for FLEDGE and Topics APIs Google is preparing another round of tests for the latest iteration of its purportedly private-preserving ad technology, after last year's Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) experiment revealed the need for further refinement.…

Don't forget about our big stateside expansion plans, say Asian foundries Contract chip manufacturers TSMC and Samsung Electronics reportedly want to ensure they can receive some part of the $52 billion in subsidies the United States plans to use to expand the country's chipmaking footprint.…

Privateer to help avoid collisions and more debris around our planet Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak opened up about his space startup Privateer at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this week.…

Gosh, some apps are flatter than others? Whatever shall we do? GNOME 42 is here, but its new look and feel doesn't yet include all of the environment. This is already causing rumblings of discontent.…

Says he wasn't given leave options available to women colleagues Michael Stickler, a former IBM data scientist, has sued Big Blue for gender discrimination and retaliation after he complained that he was not being offered the same family leave options available to his women colleagues.…

CPU clock versus cache The CPU horse race continues between Intel and AMD, this time with the impending availability of Intel's Core i9-12900KS, which is said to be able to hit 5.5GHz on two cores.…

Authentication bypass followed by remote-code execution at the network boundary Sophos has patched a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its firewall gear that was disclosed via its bug-bounty program.…

Another bug squashed in JavaScript engine Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have been updated to patch a security flaw an exploit for which is said to be in the wild.…

More than 70 businesses created fake profiles to close sales Two Stanford researchers have fallen down a LinkedIn rabbit hole, finding over 1,000 fake profiles using AI-generated faces at the bottom.…

Mustang Panda deploys variant of Korplug malware to target European officials and ISPs A China-based threat group is likely running a month-long campaign using a variant of the Korplug malware and targeting European diplomats, internet service providers (ISPs) and research institutions via phishing lures that refer to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and COVID-19 travel restrictions.…

Plantronics and Polycom have a new parent company HP Inc sees the future of its business as one supporting a workforce partially based at home and partially in the office, and appears to have bought office telecom giant Poly for that reason.…

'Tiny' testbed already crushes Oak Ridge's past supercomputers The United States has opened up a small but powerful test system for researchers to get a taste of what is expected to become the country's fastest supercomputer and one of the world's fastest. And the tiny testbed, named "Crusher" is already faster than previous top US supercomputers.…

'Not all open source is created equal' says HashiCorp's Armon Dadgar Interview Cloud infrastructure outfit HashiCorp has traditionally been all about the freemium model and sold plenty of self-managed subscriptions for its services to customers over the years. That is changing.…

Subsidiary sales, enterprise division may be responsible for the buoying Chinese telecom giant Huawei's 2021 report is out, showing the company had a massive drop in total revenue last year, but an even bigger bump in profit. …

Refurbed former Thomson Reuters DC adds 12,000 sqm to holdings Colocation firm Telehouse has opened its fifth datacenter in London Docklands, claiming it will be the company’s largest global facility once fully up and running. The firm has invested £223 million into refurbishing the building, which was formerly the site of a datacenter operated by Thomson Reuters.…

Plus: Ransomware gangster sentenced, Dell patches more Log4j bugs, and cartoon apes gone bad In Brief Triton malware remains a threat to the global energy sector, according to an FBI warning.…

Plus: GPT-NeoX-20B, the largest open-source language model available yet, and a new AI Silicon Valley VC fund In brief Ukraine's vice prime minister has confirmed Clearview AI's controversial facial recognition system is being used to identify dead Russian soldiers just weeks after it started using the tech in the conflict.…

ECASH Act calls for Treasury to develop electronic currency, no blockchain required House Democrats on Monday plan to introduce a law bill that calls for the development of an electronic version of the US dollar that has the same legal status and privacy expectations as physical currency.…

Android messaging heist isn't the action of a well company. Let us help Opinion One of the joys of academic research is that if you do it right, you can prove the truth. In the case of computer science professor Douglas Leith, this truth is that Google has been taking detailed notes of every telephone call and SMS message made and received on the default Android apps.…

...8 years after role in controversial £10bn IT deal with UK tax authority was set to end The UK tax collector has extended its relationship with French IT service provider Capgemini in a £215m contract, which awards the outsourcer work to look after tech provided under the controversial 2004 Aspire contract at least eight years beyond the first proposed end date for the deal.…

Forgive the self-taught Visual Basic programmer, for they know not what they do. Or do they? Who, Me? Thank goodness for code reviews. However things weren't always so squeaky clean as one Register reader discovered while attempting to sort another's sweary source. Welcome to Who, Me?…

Teams-like application boasts 500 million users, but Microsoft has more active users Alibaba Cloud has decided to make its DingTalk collaborative workplace platform more attractive to enterprise customers, in China and beyond.…

Just look at Ericsson and ISIS, Ashley Yablon says If ZTE and other Chinese giants defy bans on selling American technology to Russia, it will be because they can't help but chase the revenue, says Ashley Yablon, the whistleblower whose evidence led to ZTE being fined for willfully ignoring the US ban on exports to Iran.…

COBOL and Itanium to keep the job well into 2023 – past original 2020 go-live date The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is attempting to replace its core trading systems with a blockchain-powered alternative – an effort often touted as one of the world's most significant blockchain implementations. Unfortunately, the project has struck trouble, again.…

Changes story again to say customers weren't in danger, admits it waited for incident report instead of asking tough questions Identity-management-as-a-service outfit Okta has acknowledged that it made an important mistake in its handling of the attack on a supplier by extortion gang Lapsus$.…

First Russian addition to FCC's Very Naughty List apparently unconnected to illegal invasion of Ukraine The United Stations Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has labelled Kaspersky, China Mobile, and China Telecom as threats to national security.…

'Competition is critical to our success,' says US agency boss NASA is offering a second lucrative contract to fund a lunar lander for its upcoming mission to put men and the first woman on the Moon, it announced this week.…

As more and more biz pays up to restore data, we're told Ransomware is among the most feared of the myriad cyberthreats circulating today, putting critical data at risk and costing some enterprises tens of millions of dollars in damage and ransoms paid. However, ransomware doesn't occur in a vacuum, according to security startup Lumu Technologies.…

Or: What kind of research Google's getting in its Mandiant takeover GTC Disassembling and analyzing malware to see how it works, what it's designed to do and how to protect against it, is mostly a long, manual task that requires a strong understanding of assembly code and programming, techniques and exploits used by miscreants, and other skills that are hard to come by.…

Think about Tesla charging extra for features like Autopilot, then look at your GPU card, and you'll get the idea GTC Nvidia has laid out its roadmap, of sorts, to a trillion dollars in revenue.…

Conti, REvil declared most active criminal gangs The average ransom demand hit $2.2 million in 2021, a 144 percent rise from the year prior, according to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 consultants, while the average ransom payment grew 78 percent to $541,010.…

Ex-senior director also claims Feds have seen evidence and done nothing Yasser Elabd, who formerly served as a senior director at Microsoft, has accused the Windows giant of paying illegal bribes to close business deals in the Middle East and Africa.…

CSPs, social giants behind bulk of colocation leasing activity in 2021 Datacenter demand is booming in North America as the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from CBRE.…

Nvidia says it has sped up NeRF rendering to mere tenths of a millisecond Nvidia has hashed out a new approach to neural radiance field (NeRF) technology that will generate a fully rendered 3D scene from just a few still photos, all in a matter of seconds, including model training time.…

Cluster tech vulnerability means either patching or port tinkering could be on the cards Atlassian has demonstrated the interconnectedness of all things with a warning that some versions of Bitbucket Data Center and Confluence Data Center require patching courtesy of the Hazelcast Java deserialization vulnerability.…

Any models made between 2016 and 2020 can have key fob codes sniffed and re-transmitted If you're driving a Honda Civic manufactured between 2016 and 2020, this newly reported key fob hijack should start your worry engine.…

Transatlantic data sharing deal confirmed but court challenges ahead, warn lawyers The US and the EU have reached an agreement to enhance Privacy Shield following almost two years of work since the European Court of Justice struck down the data-sharing arrangement in 2020.…

Owner SoftBank pursues valuation higher for the chip designer than Nvidia's initial offer Goldman Sachs is reportedly lined up to be the lead underwriter for Arm's public offering in a move expected to value the chip designer at up to $60bn, higher than the purchase price first offered by Nvidia.…

Digital Markets Act rules agreed, set to include fines of up to 10% of turnover and power to break up businesses Sanctions for non-compliance with new EU powers could hit tech giants with fines of up to 10 percent of their worldwide turnover – that's around $21.bn in the case of dominant online retailer Amazon.…

You can now read your comics in the metaverse Something for the Weekend? Here lie the bones of Good Ideas: child of impressionable managers, twin of floundering projects, much-beloved parent to scope creep. We will miss you. Not.…

SMEs' software spending subsidy continues As the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer struggles to bring cheer to the nation's greatest cost of living crisis in 50 years, he let slip a few nuggets for the tech industry.…

Robo-worker manipulates test tubes and pipettes, images skin cells to classify disease A robotic system armed with AI-powered cameras can grow and image skin cells from test tubes to diagnose Parkinson's disease with minimal human help, according to researchers from Google and the New York Stem Cell Foundation.…

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