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Search engine was banned so no surprise no one was using it Google has discontinued its China-based Google Translate app and site, translate.google.cn, allegedly because no one was using it.…

It is the exponential changes in the course of human history that worry Serg Bell Acronis founder Serg Bell is afraid of his own vacuum cleaner, he told The Register in Singapore last week.…

Here's what 1,100 incident responders say about their jobs, just in time for NSCAM Remember the good old days of cyber-incident response, when the job involved digital forensics and lots of stolen credit cards, as opposed to power-grid-breaking malware and multi-million-dollar ransom demands?…

Data more essential than ever, says analytics chief as Liz Truss U-turns on tax, and world+dog remembers Bank's there to manage risk The Bank of England had a busy end to September. On Wednesday last week, it said it would buy £65 billion (c $72 billion) of government bonds after the pound tumbled to historic lows and pensions funds went into meltdown, all seemingly the result of the government's mini-budget days earlier.…

It’ll take an army of billions to hold them back. Let’s make one Opinion China and Russia have been colluding to try to get a Chinese Internet protocol, New IP, adopted as a global standard. It's needed, they say, to improve quality of service guarantees. (Oh, and by the way, it also lets countries take complete control of their national networks, adding user registration requirements and shutting off interoperability.)…

Sure, I’ll sit here all day taking notes because you’re too cheap to print them out Who, Me? Welcome once again to Who, Me?, in which The Register celebrates the working week stretching out ahead of us all with readers' tales of messes they made, and escaped.…

$22 trillion of global rated debt has 'high' or 'very high' cyber-risk exposure About $22 trillion of global debt rated by Moody's Investors Service has "high," or "very high" cyber-risk exposure, with electric, gas and water utilities, as well as hospitals, among the sectors facing the highest risk of cyberattacks.…

Barely adequate as a desktop alternative, but delightful as a dual purpose monitor Desktop Tourism Samsung's vision for a smart monitor tantalizes: the company suggests you park your PC and instead use Bluetooth input devices to work with a monitor that bakes in a browser and Office 365. If you really need a PC, the device can remote into a PC or Mac.…

Linux boss' launch message is more ‘6.0 is overrated’ than ‘The joy of 6.0’ Linus Torvalds has released a stable cut of version 6.0 of the Linux kernel.…

Now that's sticker shock Internet snoops have been caught concealing spyware in an old Windows logo in an attack on governments in the Middle East.…

Also, Amazon's Ring footage TV shows draws criticism, US v Soviet spying docs found, and more In Brief The BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, has allegedly broken into IT firm NJVC, a provider of services to civilian US government agencies and the Department of Defense.…

Plus: Bruce Willis sells his image rights to AI biz creating deepfakes, and more In brief AI progresses rapidly. Just months after the release of the most advanced text-to-image models, developers are showing off text-to-video systems. …

300 red teamers walk into a bar… Once they've broken into an IT environment, most intruders need less than five hours to collect and steal sensitive data, according to a SANS Institute survey of more than 300 ethical hackers. …

Wait, wait, hear us out Prosthetic teeth turn out to be effective carriers of vibrations, making them suitable as potential hearing aids.…

Busineses get a little longer with Manifest v2, everyone else... it depends Google has delayed its browser extension platform transition for enterprise customers, giving those using managed versions of Chrome with the deprecated Manifest v2 (MV2) extensions an extra six months of support.…

You will or won't do it voluntarily? Doesn't matter, we'll mandate it The Federal Communications Commission today issued rules codifying a voluntary 2016 agreement between cellular networks that they cover for their competitors knocked offline during a natural or cyber disaster.…

Unless your app really needs AVX 512, AMD and Ampere's cores may be a cheaper, better bet Google Cloud really, really wants enterprises to keep using its Intel-powered virtual machines. This week it unveiled a “white-glove” service to convince customers the silicon is worth paying extra for.…

IARPA unleashes TEI-REX to better track nuclear sources The research arm of US intelligence has begun investigating methods for spotting low doses of ionizing radiation to better protect American service personnel and provide evidence of nuclear technology use.…

World's largest VRFB was built with inadvertent help from the Department of Energy The world's largest vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) has been connected to the grid in Dalian, China, where it was built using technology patented in the United States.…

Graviton2 processors trials with infrastructure vendors and telco as work on standalone 5G continues NTT Docomo and NEC have conducted tests that demonstrate Arm-based Graviton2 processors consume 72 percent less power compared to X86 chips while running NEC's 5G core software as part of the NTT Docomo 5G network.…

Google-owned Wing said it was a 'precautionary controlled landing' – right into 11,000 volts A delivery drone operated by Alphabet subsidiary Wing crashed into power lines in the Australian town of Browns Plains yesterday, knocking out power for more than 2,000 customers.…

Insert your Year of Linux joke here, we dare you Amazon WorkSpaces, the company's persistent desktop virtualization product, now offers Ubuntu as an option.…

Researchers mince 'digital gold' claims with study showing cryptocurrency's impact Far from being the "digital gold" some claim, Bitcoin's relative climate change impact is greater than the beef industry, and over seven times more than actual gold mining.…

Telescope hasn't been superseded by JWST, so why not try to keep it going? Though it may have been eclipsed by the launch of its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, long-lived Hubble continues to gaze deep into the universe.…

Despite having €4.2b reasons from Onepoint to ditch Evidian strategy and sell up Shape-shifting outsourcing biz Atos has rejected a joint bid of €4.2 billion ($4.09 billion) from tech consultancy Onepoint and Brit private equity fund ICG to buy its digital, big data and security divisions.…

Wafer starts cut back as slump in demand hurts bottom lines... especially Micron's Chipmakers are cutting back on production capacity and investment as demand for semiconductors continues to fall away, with Micron and Kioxia the latest to announce adjustments in light of the worsening outlook.…

Vendor and resellers offer conflicting advice about subs and upgrades, though vendor says it's been 'clear' SME accounting software vendor Sage stands accused of misleading customers following statements detailing when clients will be forced to migrate to subscription-based licensing, enraging the user community.…

The project with the thumbs up from CERN ... and China Red Hat has released the latest iteration of its OpenStack Platform 17, with a strong slant towards network operators building out modern infrastructure such as that needed to deliver 4G and 5G services.…

Made your old computer faster but too quiet? Here's a fun fix The best way to make a sluggish old computer quicker is to replace spinning rust with some flash chippery. The snag is that loses part of the experience: the sound.…

How to win friends and admit how you lost them earlier? Open Source Summit What's the difference between the Citrix Hypervisor and Xen? Well, one has quite a big crowd of upset current and former community members.…

Pack your bags, we're off to huddle on some alien ice caps. It beats Earth Liquid water may be lurking beneath the southern polar ice cap on Mars, according to fresh evidence reported in Nature Astronomy.…

Support chap braved fire and a mile-long run, only to find Windows 95 was the final hurdle On-Call Welcome yet again to On-Call, The Register's Friday festival of futility in which readers share their stories of being asked to fix foul-ups inflicted by fools.…

State-sponsored ZINC allegedly passes on malware-laden open source apps Microsoft has claimed a North Korean crew poses as LinkedIn recruiters to distribute poisoned versions of open source software packages.…

Can't even spin up the compute necessary to reply Digital Ocean has cloud capacity issues and won't say what the problem is.…

Remember this next time Microsoft talks about how seriously it takes security Security researchers have warned a zero-day flaw in Microsoft’s Exchange server is being actively exploited.…

Still to come: Civil RICO lawsuit against eBay and former top brass Two now-former eBay executives who pleaded guilty to cyberstalking charges this year have been sent down and fined tens of thousands of dollars.…

And no, the tiny fine print in search results doesn't cut it Google is still effectively directing women seeking abortions to anti-abortion centers that masquerade as legit abortion clinics.…

Top tip, don't give your secret login box the HTML form type 'password' For almost a decade, the US Central Intelligence Agency communicated with informants abroad using a network of websites with hidden communications capabilities.…

But overpriced, useless fighter jets? That's something we can get behind Discovering and reporting critical security flaws that could allow foreign spies to steal sensitive US government data or launch cyberattacks via the Department of Defense's IT systems doesn't carry a high reward.…

You even have until the end of the 2030s to get it done The US Department of Energy has announced plans to award up to $50 million in funds to private businesses to develop a working fusion pilot plant (FPP) by the 2030s. …

And bundles its best bits at bargain price in case someone wants you to work their way for a while Atlassian is plugging away at its version of the future of work with an eye on the needs of the admins who tend its software.…

When you combine it with DHCP, that spells TRACK ME Computer scientists at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have found the interplay between the internet and local networks can be analyzed to reveal private data and facilitate tracking.…

We gave the cloud gaming service two years to live. It managed three Google on Thursday said it will shut down Stadia, its cloud-based game streaming service, because few people use it.…

Where we're going, we don't need efficiency cores. But we may need 1.21 jiggawatts Analysis At this week's launch of Intel's 13th-gen Core series, it appears staff accidentally left out on display a wafer of previously undisclosed 34-core Raptor Lake processor dies.…

Curb your enthusiasm – coal-fired power went up too In a global first, wind and solar energy combined to generate more than 10 percent of the world's electricity in 2021 – though coal-fired power plant generation and emissions jumped to new highs in the same period, too.…

An internet advertiser as your service provider – what could go wrong? Google is planning to offer much faster broadband speeds in the US areas where it operates its fiber networks, all the way to 100Gbps.…

Plus RHEL has fresh release goodies out too Red Hat has released betas of RHEL 8.7 and 9.1 while its parent company IBM is offering Linux mainframe instances in the cloud, although only in some regions.…

Office Insider? You might want to check refreshed email client Microsoft has a preview out for its "Unified" Outlook for Windows app for all users on its Office Insider program, and said it will be available for those on the Windows Insider program in the near future.…

Project with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries marks shift in policy since Fukushima disaster over a decade ago Japan is about to change course on energy policy following the Fukushima disaster in 2011 with a focus on developing safer nuclear reactors.…

Mandiant tracks back operators, finds ties to China Emerging covert malware can target VMware environments to allow criminals to gain persistent administrative access to hypervisors, transfer files, and execute arbitrary commands on virtual machines, according to VMware and Mandiant, which discovered such a software nasty in the wild earlier this year.…