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Apple jacks up Mac, iPhone, iPad battery replacement fees
Prices blowing up makes a change from, well, you know If your phone, iPad, or MacBook is in need of a new battery, you might want to make your way to the Apple Store before the end of February. Apple plans to increase the cost of battery replacements for most out-of-warranty devices by $20-$50. …
'Multiple security breaches' shut down trucker protest
10-7, there buddy, sorry An anti-government protest by truckers in Canada has been called off following "multiple security breaches," according to organizers, who also cited "personal character attacks," as a reason for the withdrawal.…
Patients wrongly told they've got cancer in SMS snafu
We wish you a very merry chemo and a happy new year Askern Medical Practice, a general practitioner surgery based in Doncaster, UK, managed to muddle its Christmas holiday message to patients by texting them they'd been diagnosed with "aggressive lung cancer with metastases."…
Tesla misses Q4 delivery expectations as stock keeps sliding
How many more straws can you fit on an electric car company's back? Tesla has finished 2022 with a dismal fourth quarter that saw it fail to meet analyst vehicle delivery predictions, fall short of its 50 percent growth objective and watch its stock rappel downward, shaving billions from the electric car maker's market value.…
Vanilla OS 22.10: An Arch and Fedora-compatible Ubuntu
Despite its name and looks, this is quite the radical departure for a Linux distro The first release of Vanilla OS is based on Ubuntu 22.10, but a slightly different desktop conceals much more dramatic changes under the hood.…
HPE to offload remaining stake in Chinese joint venture H3C
Nothing to do with Washington and Beijing butting heads, says US giant HPE intends to sell its remaining interest in China-based joint venture H3C, despite professing itself pleased by growth in the Chinese market just a few months ago.…
Microsoft-FTC dispute over Activision deal hits court
Wildly popular Call of Duty game at the center of the antitrust tussle The battle over Microsoft's controversial $69 billion bid for game-maker Activision Blizzard is due to shift to the courtroom Tuesday for the first pre-trial hearing in the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit to block the deal.…
Google gets off easy in Indiana, DC location tracking lawsuits
$29.5 million and we don't have to admit wrongdoing? Where do we sign? Google has settled two more of the many location tracking lawsuits it had been facing over the past year, and this time the search giant is getting an even better deal: just $29.5 million to resolve complaints filed in Indiana and Washington DC with no admission of wrongdoing.…
South Korea to offer tax breaks to hedge semiconductor woes
Large chip manufacturers may be offered tax credits of up to 15% to invest in the country South Korea is prepared to offer big tax breaks to semiconductor manufacturers and other technology companies in a bid to boost its cutting-edge industries and the broader economy.…
Atos opens 'exploratory talks' with possible investors in breakaway Evidian biz
Aircraft maker Airbus linked with IT services provider's security, digital and big data unit Atos is holding "exploratory talks" with potential investors - believed to include Airbus - over taking a minority shareholding in the IT services group's breakaway security, digital and big data businesses.…
Elon Musk's cost-cutting campaign at Twitter extended to not paying rent, claims landlord
Owner of our SF digs sues for $140,000 While we all enjoyed a brief holiday season of not having to think about Twitter or its new owner, one landlord has alleged that Elon Musk's cost-cutting campaign at the company has extended to not paying rent.…
Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system
New Year's Day debacle strands thousands of passengers, attributed to decade-old tech While weather and workforce strikes have affected air travel in Europe and the US this holiday season, Southeast Asia experienced disruption of its own due to a New Year's Day power outage at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) that shut down both flights and airspace.…
$20m SAP ECC replacement project delayed because UK university unsure what it wants
After 10 month’s deliberation, abandons current competition as ERP support deadline looms City, University of London has abandoned procurement of a new £17 million ($20 million) ERP system following a 10-month-long competition exercise after it initially failed to understand the complexity of its own requirements.…
Riding in Sidecar: How to get a Psion online in 2023
Using a gigahertz-class computer to get an 36MHz computer onto the internet – or even just printing Code whizz and tinkerer Kian Ryan's ingenious "Sidecar" is a self-contained, battery-powered Wi-Fi-to-RS232 bridge that enables his elderly Psion 5MX PDA to access a little bit of the modern internet.…
Apache Iceberg promises to change the economics of cloud-based data analytics
Adopted by Snowflake, Google and Cloudera, we look at why the Netflix-developed table format is important Feature By 2015, Netflix had completed its move from an on-premises data warehouse and analytics stack to one based around AWS S3 object storage. But the environment soon began to hit some snags.…
Citizen Coder? Happiness Concierge? Here come 2023's business cards
A pose by any other name would pay as sweet Opinion Information technology has a long tradition of making up new job titles to emphasize how futuristic we all are. Who can forget IBM's Worldwide Head Of Objects?…
Non-binary DDR5 is finally coming to save your wallet
Need a New Year's resolution? How about stop paying for memory you don't need We're all used to dealing with system memory in neat factors of eight. As capacity goes up, it follows a predictable binary scale doubling from 8GB to 16GB to 32GB and so on. But with the introduction of DDR5 and non-binary memory in the datacenter, all of that's changing.…
Should open source sniff the geopolitical wind and ban itself in China and Russia?
Can it even do that? And does FOSS deserve an exemption to sanctions? Opinion In 2022, information technology collided with geopolitics like never before. After Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, many nations decided that Vladimir Putin's regime and populace should be denied access to technology and even to services from the companies that make and wield it.…
With Mastodon, decentralization strikes back
ActivityPub isn't just what we've been doing over the Christmas break Systems Approach Toward the end of 2022, we joined the masses of people leaving Twitter for Mastodon. The fact that Mastodon, building on some earlier ideas for federated social networking, is a decentralized approach, has renewed our interest in, and hope for, the decentralization of the internet.…
Computing's big question for 2023: How many more questions can we endure?
The answers aren't much fun either Would you like to use Edge as your default browser?…
Nvidia revives canceled RTX 4080 as 'new' 12GB RTX 4070 TI
Hopefully it comes with a 'new' competitive price, too Nvidia this week quietly, and perhaps unintentionally, revealed the previously canceled RTX 4080 12GB would be reborn as the RTX 4070 TI.…
Miniature nuclear reactors could be the answer to sustainable datacenter growth
Did someone say teenage mutant ninja servers? Datacenters use a lot of power and despite our best efforts, a big chunk of that still comes from burning fossil fuels. But what if instead of relying on local utilities for power, these facilities generated their own – maybe using a relatively itty-bitty nuclear reactor?…
Nexperia calls in the lawyers to save Welsh chip fab deal
Oh, Shapps Blocked by the British government from acquiring Newport Wafer Fab — Britain's largest chip factory — Nexperia has solicited the help of US law firm Akin Gump in the hopes of overturning the ban.…
An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while
Sometimes bringing your work laptop on a trip pays off On-Call Much of the world may be on holiday, but On-Call – The Register’s weekly tale of readers being asked to rescue tortured tech, is still hard at it.…
New York gets right-to-repair law – after some industry-friendly repairs to the rules
We can already imagine Louis R's reaction Video New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has approved a comprehensive right-to-repair law for tech products – the first of its kind for a US state – though not before some changes were made to the fine print.…
NASA may tap SpaceX to rescue ISS 'nauts in Soyuz leak
And Elon's still distracted by Twitter, yes? OK, that's probably for the best NASA is considering using SpaceX to bring three astronauts back to Earth from the International Space Station after the Russian spacecraft due to return the crew suffered a significant coolant leak. …
India sets USB-C charging deadline for smartphones
We'll have what Europe's having Smartphones and other mobile devices sold in India must have a USB-C charging port as standard by March 2025.…
TSMC ramps up 3nm chip baking at Taiwan plants
Actions speak volumes Mass production of 3nm components has begun at TSMC's south Taiwan facilities, the silicon slinger announced on Thursday.…
As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave
There's more than one way to beat the heat – and save serious money Comment Hype around liquid and immersion cooling has reached a fever pitch in recent months, and it appears that the colocation datacenter market is ready to get in on the action.…
Intel settles to escape $4b patent suit with VLSI
Turns out patent trolls don't like being outed by their lawyers Intel and SoftBank-backed VLSI Technology have agreed to end a $4 billion patent dispute, according to documents filed in Delaware District Court this week.…
Southwest Airlines blames IT breakdown for stranding holiday travelers
Have they tried turning it off and back on again? Winter storms and staff shortages were only the tipping point that sent Southwest Airlines IT infrastructure over the edge, leaving thousands still stranded across the US, chief operating officer Andrew Watterson has explained.…
The era of cloud colonialism has begun
Having claimed North America and Europe, the cloud giants hope to add Latin America and Africa to their empires Opinion When the major cloud providers warned of slowing customer demand earlier this quarter, many expected them to pull back on their capex expenditures until the latest macroeconomic headwinds had blown over. Only, they didn't.…
Risk-averse Kyocera gambles nearly $10b of own shares on semiconductor growth
When the chips are down, bet the farm In spite of uncertain economic conditions, Kyocera is reportedly putting its stake in Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI on the line to expand its semiconductor footprint.…
US House boots TikTok from government phones
ByteDance ban for federal devices awaits Biden’s signature The US government's New Year's resolution for 2023: no more TikTok at work.…
Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts seemingly up for sale
Plus: Cracked Piers Morgan spews offensive tweets, not the usual kind A miscreant this Christmas weekend said they are willing to sell public and private info on more than 400 million Twitter accounts.…
University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?
Teachers need to work harder to get students to write and think for themselves Feature As word of students using AI to automatically complete essays continues to spread, some lecturers are beginning to rethink how they should teach their pupils to write.…
Meet the merry pranksters who keep the workplace interesting, if not productive
What to do with the boss who refuses to answer the phone? Or wants a bigger cubicle? Revenge, that's what Who, Me? The Reg's weekly confessional column, Who, Me?, is on holidays with shoes off, a festive drink in hand, and a warm fire. That's a combination that's set our mind wandering into the Who, Me? mailbag for a roundup of some stories we think deserve to be told together.…
Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free
Users may be the product, but we come with a hell of a price tag Opinion Consequences can come at you fast or slow. If you’re a trillion-dollar company, you get to choose which, a bit, but you can never escape completely.…
Alphabet reshuffles to meet ChatGPT threat and Sundar's not having a happy holiday
Plus ArtStation cracks down on rebellious creators and lame-duck AI laws in the US on the cards In brief Sundar Pichai is apparently all in a pickle over OpenAI's ChatGPT engine, and is gearing up Google to meet the perceived threat.…
Back to work, Linux admins: You have a CVSS 10 kernel bug to address
Also, script kiddies are coming for your gift cards, and Meta's Cambridge Analytica pathetic payout Merry Christmas, Linux systems administrators: Here's a kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10 in your SMB server for the holiday season giving an unauthenticated user remote code execution. …
Since humans can't manage fusion, the US puts millions into AI-powered creation
Some terms and condition may apply Hot off the heels of the US Department of Energy's (DoE) sort-of nuclear fusion breakthrough, the agency is offering up $33 million for researchers that can wrangle artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other data resources to the cause.…
TikTok confirms it tracked journalists' locations as part of leak investigation
As if you needed another reason to delete the app right now Video sharing platform TikTok and its parent company Bytedance are leakier than a sieve – and it has emerged that in an attempt to plug the holes, members of Bytedance's internal audit team tracked the physical location of journalists via their IP addresses.…
TSMC said to be considering first European semiconductor plant
'No plans at this time,' it tells us, but won't rule it out amid reports execs are visiting Dresden, Germany TSMC told The Reg it has no "plans at this time" to site one of its factories in Europe but wouldn't rule anything out amid reports that the world's most strategically important chipmaker was sending senior suits to Dresden, Germany, to discuss the possibility of a factory there.…
Fancy climbing into ALP over New Year's? Fresh preview versions of SUSE's distro and NetBSD 10 are here
Ideal if you're looking for something to play with over the holidays As the end of the year and the holiday season both approach, so do new previews of both SUSE's new enterprise Linux distro, ALP, and the NetBSD OS.…
$69B Activision deal totally helps gamers and saves them money, says Microsoft
Xbox maker responds to US regulator's lawsuit to block the acquisition Microsoft has put forward its argument against the US trade regulator's attempt to block its massive purchase of games dev Activision Blizzard from going through, claiming the deal would be good for consumers.…
Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too
Fintech, you're better than this. Time to concentrate on more helpful stuff Opinion With the quick one-two punch of FTX and Binance, crypto is finally losing its luster as the next revolution in money.…
Management of UK govt's £158b property estate held back by failed IT project
'Plague' of ageing, inadequate data systems strikes again as state struggles to cut £22b maintenance bill The UK government has failed to get a grip on the management of its £158 billion ($190 billion) property portfolio because of a failure to replace an ageing database system.…
Hybrid multi-cloud is a mess to clean up, not an innovation to excite
We really should have known better than to end up with siloed applications on different platforms Opinion Enterprise IT infrastructure has consistently given us worthy investments to make and jobs to do in the last 20 years.…
Don't lock the datacenter door, said the boss. The builders need access and what could possibly go wrong?
For one thing, an ignorant user could shut down all of IT On Call Welcome, dear reader, to On Call, The Register's regular column in which we share your stories of being asked to fix the ridiculous.…
LastPass admits attackers have a copy of customers’ password vaults
Thankfully a well encrypted copy that could take an eon to crack, unless users practiced bad password hygiene Password locker LastPass has warned customers that the August 2022 attack on its systems saw unknown parties copy encrypted files that contains the passwords to their accounts.…
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