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Used to tweeting? Get ready for Yeeting After public spats with Twitter and Instagram, Rapper Ye – formerly known as Kanye West – is buying social network Parler, an alternative micro-blogging site often associated with far-right extremists, conspiracy theorists, and others booted from mainstream platforms.…

The funding will continue, until the atoms fuse The US Department of Energy is handing out more fusion power funding, this time doling out $47 million to 38 projects that are exploring the feasibility of tokamak reactors. …

75 collars felt, $1.2m seized in bid to cut off crime network’s financial lifeline Interpol arrested 75 suspected members of the Black Axe West African crime syndicate, and intercepted over $1 million in various bank accounts as part of a wide-ranging multi-country operation aimed at thwarting the group's cyber-fraud efforts that fund its criminal operations.…

The company already sells penguin-infested laptops and desktops, but an x86 Linux fondleslab is new Linux kit shifter, Juno, has a new gadget available for pre-order: a $425 x86-64 tablet with a choice of Linux distros on it. In the UK, that's £449 including VAT.…

Search giant's 'Shopping Units need to go,' say coalition of 43 online comparison tools A group of European comparison shopping service (CSS) companies say Google hasn't been true to the terms of a 2017 settlement requiring it to be more fair to competitors. The coalition now wants EU antitrust regulators to force Google's hand.…

Complaint filed by Daedalus Prime – wasn't he a Transformer? Samsung and TSMC are facing an investigation by the US International Trade Commission (USITC) over allegations of patent infringement involving chips and mobile devices containing those chips.…

Based on Rust, on top of seL4 – a big deal in the microkernel world Google, one of very few tech companies willing to experiment with new operating systems, has unveiled KataOS for embedded machine learning devices.…

'Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $' One problem of dealing with a prolifically tweeting billionaire is that the subjects of those mind burps can have the rug pulled from beneath them.…

Also, Senator Warren says banks need to grow the Zelle up, an AirTag does some good – if you’re a Democrat, and more In brief Advanced persistent threat group (APT) Budworm has shifted targets after hitting the Middle East, Europe and Asia, and was caught this week trying to break into the systems of an unnamed US state legislature.…

Latest U-turn follows a series of clown-car maneuvers that spooked financial markets The UK government has reversed its decision to axe IR35 tax reforms — announced little more than three weeks ago — following a volatile market reaction to its planned tax cuts.…

Some estimates say the sector will have contracted by as much as 23% by the end Shares in key Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC may have been up in the past few days after it reported better than expected Q3 results, but many financial analysts have downgraded their forecasts for the company amid warnings the tech downturn is likely to be deeper than feared.…

Spare a thought for the techies hauling on-prem mega-platform of one of world's biggest mobile companies to the fluffy stuff Vodafone has announced it is migrating its SAP S/4HANA ERP platform from an on-premises installation to Google Cloud.…

Home Office and emergency services appear to be locked in with monopoly provider, market watchdog says The UK's competition watchdog is proposing price controls on Motorola's role in running a controversial communications network for emergency services.…

Diversification much? Datacenter energy arm part of larger $50m+ battery test center, electric vehicle lab Castrol – the oil lubrication company – is planning to build development and test facilities for datacenter immersion cooling technology at its UK HQ to support validation programs for its products, and customers.…

Jam today, jam tomorrow? Opinion On October 7, Ukrainian soldiers fighting on the front line reported outages on the Starlink satellite internet service. The outages were most notable in the southern Kherson region, where the most intense fighting was taking place.…

Local outlet claims to have insider docs that prove takedown powers. Meta says they're fake. And around and around they go Meta's complex relationship with India's citizens and government is again in the spotlight after allegations it rolled out the red carpet for government censors.…

Release candidate one for Linux 6.1 has appeared Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for version 6.1 of the project and added an appeal for developers to make his life easier by adding code earlier in the development cycle.…

This wasn't WarGames – it was far more serious Who, Me? The working week is upon us again, so what better way to mark it than with another of The Reg's weekly tales of readers getting away with it after perhaps not having done their very best work.…

Azure Stack HCI and Azure Kubernetes Service can be free for Windows Server customers. Microsoft hopes that price will encourage you to stick around Microsoft last week extended its Azure Hybrid Benefit to some on-prem workloads.…

People reveal passwords if you ask nicely, so AI panic is overblown Panic over the risk of deepfake scams is completely overblown, according to a senior security adviser for UK-based infosec company Sophos.…

Sub-par disaster recovery plans leave Naver and Kakao with savage service interruptions South Korea's two largest domestic internet companies, Naver and Kakao, have experienced significant service interruptions after the datacenter that hosts much of their infrastructure was shut down by a Sunday fire.…

Samsung and TSMC hit with chip tech patent suit; Ant Group's DB hits AWS; PayPal drops Hong Kong rights group; and more Asia In Brief Chinese president Xi Jinping has opened the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party with a call for the nation he leads to win the race for development of “core technologies” and to become self-reliant in strategic tech.…

Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode In brief A freaky-looking humanoid robot wearing dungarees and named Ai-Da became the first machine to speak at a House of Lords committee hearing on AI art this week.…

Lucy in the sky, with good-byes, then Space watchers hoping to get a glimpse of a near-Earth object of the NASA kind will want to look to the skies this weekend as Jupiter-bound probe Lucy makes a close pass of our planet for a gravity assist, just in time for its first anniversary.…

Women who do join get paid and promoted less, leave faster. What can be done to stop that? Feature The infosec industry remains mostly a boys club. And while there are some indications that it's becoming more diverse, bringing women into the room continues to move at a glacial pace.…

How software can help some grieve, perturb others Feature Death is inescapable. Everyone experiences grief at some point in their lives, whether it's when a relative, friend, or pet passes away.…

Never mind, still plenty of time to that 2023 orbital test Scottish space startup Skyrora's first attempt to launch its Skylark L rocket ended in failure after it unexpectedly came crashing down into the Norwegian sea.…

Too young to drive, old enough to bribe AT&T staff, apparently A man who lost $24 million in cryptocurrency in an elaborate SIM swapping scam has won a multi-million-dollar judgment against the thief, who was 15 at the time of the hustle.…

Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) this week announced it is delaying pending deployments of the Oracle Cerner electronic health record (EHR) system until June 2023 because of ongoing problems with the system.…

The cheapest 40-series card now starts at [checks notes] $1,199 Just weeks after unveiling its 40-series cards powered by the all-new Ada Lovelace architecture, Nvidia said Friday it was pulling the plug on the RTX 4080 12GB before the card had even hit store shelves.…

A contract is a contract, says Brit CPU designer Qualcomm has painted Arm as a greedy, capricious bully that's fixated on extracting more and more licensing fees for its designs.…

Redmond says OME isn't supposed to be used for security, just for something else Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption claims to offer a way "to send and receive encrypted email messages between people inside and outside your organization."…

That's roughly 300,000 Shein crop tops Online retailer Zoetop will fork out $1.9 million after account data belonging to 46 million customers was stolen in 2018.…

How can Elon mess up geopolitics today? The Starlink-Ukraine honeymoon period appears to be at an end: SpaceX reportedly wants the US to begin picking up the tab for more of its war-zone services, while CEO Musk's tweets have only served to upset the situation.…

But you get a super practical patch that prints CPU, core, and socket when you get a segfault The merge window for contributions to Linux 6.1 is still open and incoming features include Wi-Fi security fixes and hardware tests.…

New-fangled cloud storage now an option. What's that internet app the kids are all using again? Whatsupp? The world's financial regulators seem to have only become aware of the possibilities of OTT apps like WhatsApp and Signal over the past year or so, and now they have learned about cloud storage too.…

But it's OK because we use non-carbon energy, argues CEO Conspicuous energy consumption is a feature of the Bitcoin model, rather than a flaw, according to a crypto-miner defending the power-guzzling activity.…

Now let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers Researchers have succeeded in growing brain cells in a lab and hooking them up to electronic connectors proving they can learn to play the seminal console game Pong.…

Happy International E-waste Day! Alongside National Dessert Day, National Boss's Day, and World Egg Day, October 14 is also International E-waste Day. To celebrate, the unfortunately named WEEE Forum (that's waste electrical and electronic equipment) has compiled some grim reading.…

What should R&D focus on, and how should we structure grants so they're not just a swap for private sector cash? Momentum is building behind the US CHIPS Act, which aims to revitalize semiconductor manufacturing in America. Now, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is set to ask for public input on two of the programs authorized under the legislation.…

Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears Comment The Metaverse, as the company formerly known as Facebook defines the term in its financial filings, is "an embodied internet where people have immersive experiences beyond two-dimensional screens."…

And by worse, we mean: The endless casinos Scientists have successfully launched a prototype aerial robotic balloon 4,000 feet high over a desert in Nevada to test whether it could one day be sent on a space mission to roam Venus' clouds.…

But, it won't play out the way you think it will Opinion It has become a running joke. "20xx will be the year of the Linux desktop." The punchline is, of course, it will never happen. But the real jape is that there will soon be a year of the Linux desktop. It's just not going to happen the way Linux fanboi have believed it will.…

'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios' SAP couldn't be clearer with its customers about the challenges they face in application upgrades and cloud migration, but for one reason or another they struggle to get the message. Or perhaps hope it will go away.…

Managed software provider Advanced admits some customer data 'exfiltrated' in August ransomware attack Advanced, a managed software provider to the UK National Health Service, has confirmed that customer data was indeed lifted as part of the attack by cyber baddies that has disrupted operations for months.…

No chance of any peace, not even at 8,900 metres Video Drone maker DJI has claimed a world first by flying one of its Mavic 3 drones around the peak of Mount Everest, capturing some pretty great footage in the process. …

Partners may be dragging the chain a little – perhaps you'd like to hurry them up? Microsoft's campaign to improve the security of its customers and partners – by letting the latter set roles in clients' Active Directory implementations without asking permission – has been extended by four months.…

The demarcation line between IT and stationery is not electricity, but the line between dumb and nasty clearly starts at staplers On Call The seasons turn, the tides ebb and flow. Just as regularly, each Friday The Register delvers another instalment of On-Call, our reader-contributed tale of another sad constant: IT people being asked to do amazingly dumb things.…

Pundit tips next wave of bans will target foreign investment in Chinese tech The USA's restrictions on semiconductor technology transfer to China are about to wreak havoc on the lives of Americans working in the Middle Kingdom, according to former Department of Transportation official and US political expert Steven Okun.…

This is not why this mission was dubbed the 'Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration' The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is in damage control mode after a launch of its Epsilon rocket was terminated with a self-destruct command on Wednesday.…