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Energy and air costs rise, inflation is up... and Russia 'likely turn to Chinese vendors' says analyst The pandemic revived the fortunes of PC makers but now another crisis, the gut-wrenching invasion of Ukraine by Russia, threatens to disrupt the supply chain in Western Europe and beyond.…

One malicious network packet can theoretically spark billions more against a victim Miscreants have launched massive, amplified distributed denial-of-service attacks by exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel collaboration systems.…

Fall is coming: Devs encouraged to prune 'leaf packages' Following discussion on the mailing list, the Fedora team is taking another small step away from x86-32 support, with developers urged to stop building i686 versions of "leaf packages" – in other words, packages that nothing else depends upon.…

No more than 10 alphanumerics, no special characters – in 2022? A Register reader has raised concerns over UK ISP Virgin Media's password policies after discovering he couldn't set a password longer than 10 characters or one that includes non-alphanumeric characters.…

The plan? Pay for low code and Azure services subscription in one shot. The price? Double pre-paid plans Microsoft is adding a pay-as-you-go tier for users of its low-code Power Apps platform, linking usage to an Azure subscription. However, this comes at a cost compared to pre-paid plans.…

Thanks for that GPU purchase, we'll start a tab for you Nvidia is repositioning itself as a software and services company, allowing it to regularly extract revenue from those using its graphics processors.…

Ukraine's digital transformation minister asked for action to bore Russians into protest – he has his wish Sony Interactive Entertainment has suspended all software and hardware shipments to Russia and closed the local PlayStation store.…

Keep Russia's citizens online but block its military networks, say The former head of ICANN, two EU parliamentarians, and a handful of technical, security, and legal experts on Thursday plan to publish an open letter to the internet governance community arguing that the time has come to develop a targeted internet sanctions system.…

Knights depart Chinese mega-corp's round table Updated Multiple reports have surfaced claiming that two members of Huawei's UK board have resigned over the company's stance – or lack thereof – on Russia's illegal invasion of the Ukraine.…

Pony.ai pulls three of its test fleet from Californian roads Chinese driverless car company Pony.ai has scored an unwanted first: it's recalled some versions of its AI software from US roads after admitting to faults.…

Secondary sanctions well and truly in play now US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has suggested Chinese companies consider Huawei's recent history before they sell their wares to Russia.…

A billion here, a billion there, after a while it starts adding up to real money NASA's request for $24bn in funding for its 2022 fiscal year will be considered by US lawmakers this month.…

Now is the time to be a prepper – the computer security kind As the invasion of Ukraine heads into its third week with NATO allies ratcheting up sanctions against Russia, infosec vendors have urged Western governments and businesses to prepare for retaliatory cyberattacks.…

We just want to make sure you do only good everyday with these coins President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an Executive Order directing US government agencies to develop a framework to promote and police digital currencies.…

And it'll be in an 8-K for all to see A new rule proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would force public companies to disclose cyberattacks within four days along with periodic reports about their cyber-risk management plans.…

Modest cash infusion to boost Great White North's computing industry The Canadian government is investing CA$240m ($187m) to boost the country's semiconductor and photonics segments in hopes of bolstering its role in the global market.…

Enterprises should shift left to protect themselves, says Immersive Labs Enterprises need to create a more strategic alliance between their application security and cybersecurity teams if they are going to better protect themselves against cyberthreats.…

This doesn't align with our approach, PC giant tells us Yet another top-tier PC maker seemingly isn't interested right now in Microsoft's vision of hardware-level security for Windows 11 systems.…

Expansion of 5G plus 4k and 8k video help drive ever-higher networking tech speeds Spirent Communications has announced availability of new test appliances for high-speed Ethernet networks, including what the firm claims is the industry's first 800G test platform.…

It's close as Microsoft finds favor with surveyed enterprise IT pros Microsoft Azure has nosed ahead of AWS in the public cloud adoption stakes, according to a report from IT Management outfit Flexera.…

Never can say goodbye to those documents? Now you can Lurking within this month's Patch Tuesday batch of updates is a fix for a Windows issue in which locally synchronized OneDrive data was not always deleted during a reset.…

'Ithaca' brings deep learning to the Greek epigrapher set AI software can help historians interpret and date ancient texts by reconstructing works destroyed over time, according to a new paper published in Nature.…

Toward a globally recognized standard for understanding business technology assets The ITAM Forum, the professional body for IT asset management, is in the final validation stage of an independent, globally recognized standard for understanding business technology assets.…

Latest iteration of procurement in model dating back to 2011, how has that cloud first policy gone? The UK government is launching a set of deals for cloud services and software which could be worth up to £5bn ($6.58bn).…

Both companies say they're doing everything they can to support associates affected by Ukraine war Red Hat has joined the growing list of tech companies to withdraw from Russia over the war in Ukraine, stopping sales just a day after Linux rival SUSE announced a similar move.…

The more intricate in-car chippery gets, the happier it is Execs from chipmaker NXP Semicondcutor spoke in San Francisco this week about industry supply chain problems, but also noted the increasing complexity of in-car networking was working in the firm's favour.…

French startup helping oil giant see how its business can benefit from the tech Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil producer, is working with French startup Pasqal to find out if quantum computing can give it a boost in the energy sector.…

Critical zero-day vulns spotted in popular Schneider kit If you're managing a smart model from ubiquitous uninterrupted power supply (UPS) device brand APC, you need to apply updates now – a set of three critical zero-day vulnerabilities are making Smart-UPS devices a possible entry point for network infiltration.…

When 8.8 isn't as lucky as one hopes Trade restrictions, sanctions, and other challenges are putting a dampener on China's ambition to become a chip manufacturing hot spot.…

Former Red Hat boss Jim Whitehurst's $22.5m share award got shareholders all steamed up, documents confirm IBM moved to appease shareholders that last year revolted against executive compensation proposals when they contested the massive one-time equity award granted to former Red Hat boss Jim Whitehurst.…

Sure, HermeticWiper and IssacWiper are bad, but they're not BAD in capital letters Column I'm heartsick over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But, before it began, I'd been really worried about Russian cyberattacks, which would overrun Ukraine and flood into the West's infrastructure. …

Great Resignation? Flexibility and work-life-balance key factors in how IT staff choose next employer Researchers at Gartner are finding that only 29 per cent of IT workers globally have a "high intent" to stay in their current roles.…

Just say no to websites bypassing privacy protections with sneaky redirects Browser maker Brave has developed a new way to ground "bounce tracking," a sneaky technique for bypassing privacy defenses in order to track people across different websites.…

Crowdsourced and unofficial info for when you want to run ESXi for fun ... or when official rigs aren't right Vendors' hardware compatibility lists detail the kit on which they guarantee their software will work at useful levels of performance.…

This time the intelligence is not artificial An algorithm capable of estimating the risk that a particular patient will develop prostate cancer over the next five years should be used in a national screening program in the UK, one of the software's creators has said.…

Disconnects small group of customers to protect 'integrity of the global internet' Lumen Technologies, the internet backbone provider formerly known as CenturyLink, has quit Russia.…

Step right this way, budding Azure addicts – er, sorry, entrepreneurs Microsoft has flung open the doors to its Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, a means for the Windows giant to give people free Azure credits to run stuff on its cloud.…

Just splashed $236M on Oz SI, can't quite say how it plans to tackle China NCS, a Singaporean IT serivces outfit part owned by state-controlled carrier Singtel, has advanced its plans to create an Asia Pacific regional services giant, but remained silent on how it will realize its vision of entering the Chinese market.…

Tech to 'relay our thoughts and ideas' to machines? Oh yes, sign us right up LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, and ex-DeepMind AI expert Karén Simonyan announced on Tuesday a new venture of theirs named Inflection AI.…

Japanese giant tries its own digital transformation, 50-something staff aren't wanted Fujitsu has warned investors its full-year profits will fall 23.6 per cent below previous forecasts because it's extended an offer for older workers to leave in favor of youngsters more likely to deliver the DX, or "digital experience," customers demand.…

Energy biz, financial services, governments, and IT outfits targeted The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has so far infected at least 52 critical infrastructure organizations in America across sectors including manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology, according to an FBI alert this week.…

And Adobe, SAP, Intel, AMD, Cisco, Google join in Patch Tuesday Microsoft has addressed 71 security flaws, including three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, in its monthly Patch Tuesday update. The IT giant is confident none of the bugs have been actively exploited. …

Now that's breaking moos Beijing's spies compromised government computer networks in six US states by exploiting, among other flaws, a vulnerability in a cattle-counting system, according to Mandiant.…

Latest Pro 5000 WX series good for AI, engineering, maybe metaverse? AMD introduced its Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX family today, which could be useful for building code, running specialist high-end software, and developing artificial intelligence on the desktop.…

Plus another phone, laptop, monitor On Tuesday at one of Apple's periodic product reveals, the iGiant introduced a low-end iPhone, a mid-tier iPad Air, a 27-inch Studio Display, and a conjoined chip called M1 Ultra that powers a compact desktop workstation dubbed the Mac Studio.…

Whoever tripped over the cable, plug it back in, please Spotify, Discord, Google Cloud, and possibly some other online services suffered technical breakdowns today, preventing netizens from using them as expected.…

Affected OPPO owners due an OTA update. OnePlus and Realme to follow Microsoft this week issued advice for smartphone users cast adrift from Intune following an update to Android 12.…

Complexity and scale of the internet hold back our ability to tackle disaster Analysis In a report published this week addressing "systemic" cybersecurity risks, several infosec experts noted that as the number of significant network intrusions rises, an understanding of the problem and the ability to address the larger issues remain lacking.…

Workarounds today and fixes coming soon for fTPM tech AMD has confirmed there is a performance problem with some of its Zen-family processors and Microsoft's operating systems.…

Don't Panic! Out in the uncharted end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun The Dent Project has released version 2.0 of its open source network operating system, carving out features designed to make it easier for small or mid-sized enterprises to support edge deployments.…