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Calls to avoid C/C++ and embrace Rust grow louder Memory safety, a longstanding concern among serious software developers, has finally met with mainstream stardom.…

Tech behemoth says it will appeal 'certain aspects' of the decision Google appears to be ready to abide by an Indian court's antitrust verdict that it was exploiting its dominant position on Android, and will allow OEMs to license individual apps for pre-installation on devices and let users select their own default search engine.…

'Targeted restructuring' could have been worse, analyst points out SAP is targeting its CRM business with 3,000 job cuts despite full year 2022 revenue of €30.9 billion, up 11 percent.…

Last (failed) attempts at such an endeavor happened a decade ago, but AstroForge thinks it can do better Cast your mind back to the year 2012 and you might stumble upon a very similar story, but this isn't a flashback: There's a new startup in town that wants to mine asteroids, and this one claims to be ahead of the game.…

Software to support 46,000 users as group part of £900m program to simplify central government back end The UK government has kicked off procurement of an ERP system for eight Whitehall departments which consolidates nine different software systems – a project potentially more complex than a snake's wedding.…

Human Capital leaves the building IBM is the latest tech company to jump on the layoff bandwagon, with news it would reduce its workforce by around 3,900.…

Yeah, and make it something better than just asking Arm to dual-list in London... Tech industry luminaries have politely asked the UK Prime Minister to pull his finger out when it comes to delivering a strategy for the future of the UK semiconductor sector, or it may not have one at all.…

Looks like a reboot of SWIV Lockheed Martin this week showed that a 50kW laser being developed for air defense scenarios can be turned on to create a coherent beam, a milestone the defense giant calls "first light."…

If true, was it worth the $500k and prison jumpsuit? A man suspected of stealing personal data belonging to tens of millions of people worldwide and selling that info on cybercrime forums has been arrested by Dutch police.…

Unless it's hooking up all those panels to your PCs and servers With just seven years left to achieve its 100 percent renewable energy goals, Microsoft said it would add as much as 2.5 gigawatts of solar power to its operations under a partnership with South Korea's Hanwha Qcells.…

Second system to be knocked offline The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is currently offline, and all science observations using the instrument will have to be rescheduled as engineers try to repair the thing.…

Nokia radio units working with Ericsson distribute units? What's next? Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants to prevent supply chain challenges and vendor lock-in that might get in the way of US carrier's 5G rollouts.…

You know when we all said quit using MD5? We really meant it Most Windows-powered datacenter systems and applications remain vulnerable to a spoofing bug in CryptoAPI that was disclosed by the NSA and the UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) and patched by Microsoft last year, according to Akamai's researchers.…

Nice of someone to give SpaceX a little competition Video Rocket Lab this week successfully launched its first Electron rocket from American soil, and put three satellites into low Earth orbit.…

No, it's not install Fedora Linux, sadly Microsoft has offered a workaround of sorts for Windows 10 and 11 users who've noticed their Start menu is suddenly unresponsive and that some applications won't open or work correctly.…

Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind Tesla's Autopilot "self driving" technology has slipped to the middle of the active driver assist (ADA) software pack, says the nonprofit Consumer Reports, as companies like Ford and General Motors have overtaken the Musketeers in the automotive code lane.…

More of them used by baddies since Redmond blocked VBA macros Microsoft in March will start blocking Excel XLL add-ins from the internet to shut down an increasingly popular attack vector for miscreants.…

Toys that can then be purchased at... you guessed it, say critics in letter to watchdog Rights organizations have asked a US children's ad watchdog to audit an app from Walmart, claiming it is "deceptively marketing" to young children who play Roblox by way of an "advergame" called Walmart Universe of Play.…

Reports suggest Don Johnson left after 6 months in charge of strategic unit The head of Oracle Health engineering has abruptly left the business, according to reports.…

Two facilities to cost $3.6B, some truckers unimpressed with the machines Tesla's original gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada is getting a $3.6 billion makeover that will add two fresh facilities and thousands of additional jobs, the electric automaker has confirmed.…

Atlassian thinks it’s made that possible by extending automation from Jira to Confluence Atlassian has extended the automation it acquired from Code Barrel in 2019, and has run in Jira for most of the time since, to its Confluence collaboration environment.…

Netherlands still facing pressure from US to ban exports to China Dutch producer of chipmaking equipment ASML beat financial analysts' estimates for Q4 of 2022, and expects continued momentum for the year ahead, despite the likelihood of further export restrictions increasing.…

So is AI artwork copyrightable? Not quite as case remains up in the air A glitch in the record-keeping software being piloted by the US Copyright Office (USCO) accidentally revoked the copyright registration of an AI-generated graphic novel.…

Version 3.7 shows Google's cross-platform, Dart-based UI framework maturing Flutter developers gathered on Wednesday in Nairobi, Kenya, and at stream-fed screens elsewhere in the world to learn about the alpha release of Dart 3 and Flutter 3.7, the next iteration of Google's open source Dart-based UI toolkit.…

GMB union demands 45% pay rise as members struggle with cost of living Brits have never been afraid to strike, and the wave of industrial action hitting various sectors over the crushing cost of living has found its way over to Amazon for the first time in the UK.…

TCI Fund run by Brit billionaire Chris Hohn also wants ad biz to slash salaries The billionaire hedge fund manager who runs a major Google investor isn't satisfied with the record 12,000 redundancies the US tech giant is making, and wants to see thousands more forced out of the organization.…

Fission reactor rocket should get them going quite fast US research agencies NASA and DARPA are teaming up to create a nuclear thermal rocket engine in hopes the tech will one day carry crewed missions to Mars.…

Redmond rolls back network change after cloud services dip in sympathy with profits Microsoft is currently rolling back a network change across its wide area network that it believes toppled over a raft of its cloud services this morning, perhaps in solidarity with the company's tumbling profits.…

There's good advice here for any IT pro dealing with the transition The US National Security Agency (NSA) has published a guidance document for system administrators to help them mitigate potential security issues as their organizations transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).…

UK government applies 'hypercare' to applications to try to avoid security and stability risks The UK's department for farming and agriculture has said it is "confident" it is managing the risk related to a whopping 30 percent of its applications being out of vendor support.…

Ongoing investigation into cloud storage attack finds customer data exfiltrated Remote access outfit GoTo has admitted that a threat actor exfiltrated an encryption key that allowed access to "a portion" of encrypted backup files.…

Q2 results include modest revenue increase, steep consumer and net income decrease Microsoft has posted modest growth for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, with its consumer-centric products recording marked revenue dips.…

Good luck blowing up a pile of rubble. Boffins suggest we'll need to create a diversion instead An asteroid named Itokawa that's been identified as potentially hazardous to Earth would be difficult to destroy, according to new research analyzing dust particles collected from the ancient rock.…

Something to keep manufacturers happy while they wait for the joy of LPDDR6 South Korean memory maker SK hynix announced today it has delivered samples of what it claims is the world's fastest mobile DRAM, and expressed its belief it will eventually be used in more applications.…

BharOS is based on the Linux kernel and is apparently incapable of running malware A mere week after an Indian government official teased the possibility the nation could create its own mobile OS to challenge the dominance of Google and Apple, minister for education and minister of skill development & entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan has demonstrated just such an OS at work and endorsed it as the sort of the India should be doing.…

You know the drill: patch before criminals use these bugs in vRealize to sniff your systems VMware has issued fixes for four vulnerabilities, including two critical 9.8-rated remote code execution bugs, in its vRealize Log Insight software. …

Well played, feds. What's next? Ransomware is rampant? Strong passwords are important? The FBI has confirmed what cybersecurity researchers have been saying for months: the North Korean-sponsored Lazarus Group was behind the theft last year of $100 million in crypto assets from blockchain startup Harmony.…

Oy, teacher, protect those kids online A report by the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on security shortcomings at America's K-12 schools isn't good news. …

And within days of scrapping about a billion dollars in projects Comment The chairman of Intel’s board of directors, Omar Ishrak, is stepping down just days before the chipmaker is due to report its Q4 earnings and after a series of high-profile cutbacks.…

NuScale plants could begin construction as soon as February 21, when new rule goes into effect The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has finalized rules allowing construction of nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs) – the first time a design has been certified for commercialization.…

I'm feeling yucky The US Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet's Google subsidiary on Tuesday claiming the web giant has unfairly monopolized the buying and selling of digital advertising.…

Also: Yay for Data Privacy Day! Apple has issued an emergency patch for older kit to fix a WebKit security flaw that Cupertino warns is under active attack.…

Heavily hyped tech bound for some sort of milestone by decade end Research conducted by Fujitsu suggests there is no need to panic about quantum computers being able to decode encrypted data – this is unlikely to happen in the near future, it claims.…

Brian Birmingham claims he walked after refusing to give team member a 'low' rating Former Blizzard World of Warcraft co-lead dev Brian Birmingham took to Twitter this morning to confirm that when given a choice between stack ranking his employees – obeying a mandate to give a poor "developing" rank to an employee – or leaving the company, he decided to walk.…

Out of the valley of death and into operational use, ideally Interview An agreement between US Cyber Command and DAPRA aims to move innovative technologies out of the "valley of death" and into the hands of warfighters.…

Bundeskartellamt already had a bite at FAANG firms, now former Musk co is starting to look appetizing German antitrust enforcers known for leveling charges against high-profile tech companies have a new target for accusations of dominant market position abuse: PayPal.…

We unpack a few and look at which nations have it together with IDC research boss Interview It's Government Tech Week on The Register and to get a handle on the challenges facing the public sector we sat down with Massimiliano "Max" Claps, research director of the European IDC Government Insights team.…

One appears to not have been remunerated, Crown Estate tells High Court More landlords are piling on Elon Musk's Twitter alleging unpaid rent – including, funnily enough, the British monarchy.…

Staff in Q&A session yesterday to discuss 12,000 job cuts Google's top brass told employees at a town hall meeting that executive bonuses will be cut this year as upper management addressed wide-ranging questions from staff following confirmation of extensive job cuts.…

Web developer is the most likely role to be offered the arrangement A web developer is the tech role most likely to be offered to work from home and also gets 39 percent more pay for the arrangement than other jobs, according to research.…