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Coming out party for Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and independent cable builder and operator Inligo Networks have signed a memorandum of understanding to construct an 18,000km submarine cable linking Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, Japan, and the US.…

The slogan 'Privacy is built in' was more an aspiration until now Apple on Thursday said it is modifying its AirTag tracking devices to prevent them from being used for the wrong sort of tracking.…

A whole different kettle of phish For the past decade, unidentified miscreants have been planting incriminating evidence on the devices of human-rights advocates, lawyers, and academics in India seemingly to get them arrested.…

While Nvidia loses an Arm, this acquisition has legs AMD on Tuesday said it has passed all the regulatory hurdles to complete its $35bn acquisition of Xilinx, which will close on Monday.…

How to get nothing for something SaaS CRM provider Salesforce has proposed to launch a platform for trading non-fungible tokens (NFTs).…

But should free tier users in universities not invest in their own IT infrastructure? Educational users of Google Workspace will soon be facing a new storage policy that limits the free tier to 100TB shared between all users at a site, and some are expressing their dissatisfaction with the change.…

Easier observability for when you have eggs in many baskets Application monitoring outfit Dynatrace has extended its platform's support for serverless architectures to cover all the major cloud platforms, providing observability for developers working with multi-cloud application deployments.…

€1.9bn goodwill writedown, another profit warning, going to focus on cloud, digital and security from now on The bad news keeps rolling for Atos after its third financial warning in eight months, this time accompanied by confirmation the French integrator will start to lessen its focus on "classic infrastructure services" and unified comms in favour of the cloud.…

Unnamed website manager given 1 month to strip GA from his site French data protection authority CNIL has declared that Google Analytics breaches Euro privacy law the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) because it transfers European netizens' data to America.…

Big Zoomer is listening to us, complain users Apple Mac users running the Zoom meetings app are reporting that it's keeping their computer's microphone on when they aren't using it.…

Pick a language, any language (from a list of 38) Fancy some Windows 365 Cloud PC in your life, but less than keen on throwing yourself into the world of Azure infrastructure? Microsoft has added AD Join as a Cloud PC join type option.…

Operations at Yokkaichi and Kitakami affected Production at Kioxia and Western Digital's 3D NAND fabrication facilities in Japan is being disrupted by chemical contamination, with at least 6.5 exabytes of capacity lost.…

Historical drama as Cabinet Office crowns Crown Hosting Data Centres The UK government's Cabinet Office is seeking to negotiate a new agreement for hosting services for public-sector customers, but appears set to award the contract to its own joint venture with Ark Data Centres.…

Party like it's 2007 Wafer builders have just enjoyed their best year since 2007, according to industry body SEMI.…

Plucky probe exceeded expectations. What's your excuse for that keyboard? Recent photos from NASA's Mars InSight lander demonstrate that even the Register readers' filthiest PCs cannot compare to the effects of Martian dust.…

Questions remain over whether Surrey's £3.2m budget increase will avoid further delay A Surrey councillor has slammed his county council's £1bn-budget effort to replace its ERP system, describing it as "inept project management."…

Opinion so controversial the Party may have had it pulled A report from a major Chinese research university has asserted that China currently trails the US's technological prowess, and that progress towards matching its rival will be slowed by the current "decoupling" of the two nations. That opinion appears to have proven so controversial that the research paper expressing it has been taken down by the the institution that published the document, possibly after pressure from on high.…

Internal letter reveals detailed strategy for combining with TIBCO can wait until deal is done Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital, the two private equiteers behind the plan to take Citrix private and merge it with TIBCO have given assurances to Citrix staff their benefits aren't in immediate peril – but warned workers on H-1B visas they'll likely face a review…

Warns that foreign interference needs more attention than terrorism Nations running online foreign influence campaigns have turned to dating apps to recruit people privy to sensitive information, according to the director general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the nation's security agency directed against external threats and a key partner in the Five Eyes security alliance.…

Vietnam, India, Philippines set to outpace Middle Kingdom China's tech market growth will slow from 9.7 per cent in 2021 to 8.2 per cent in 2022, in large part thanks to the Middle Kingdom's zero-COVID strategy, analyst firm Forrester predicted in a report released this week.…

Won't say why world's fastest-growing region doesn't deserve its own management nor detail impact on customers Data management and protection software vendor CommVault has merged its Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region into its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations.…

Video killed the radio star, pictures came and broke your car In January, drivers of older model Mazdas in the area around Seattle, Washington, started seeing their HD Radio receivers crash upon tuning to the local public radio station.…

Windows giant will say anything at this point to protect $69bn deal – and stick boot into Google, Apple Microsoft, a monopolist of yore that recently disallowed third-party browsers from handling a protocol associated with its Edge browser, has pledged to uphold a set of Open App Store Principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows and future game marketplaces.…

UEFI support adds attractions for the security-minded, GUI goes fully virtual The Qubes compartmentalised operating system developers have put out version 4.1.0. The new version has experimental support for running the GUI and audio server in their own VMs, and an optional remote-support facility.…

I want to be your SledgeMAMR Toshiba plans to use its proprietary recording technologies, FC-MAMR, MAS-MAMR, and disk stacking tech to lift nearline HDD capacities to 30TB from the end of its 2023 fiscal year. …

New version of the desktop brings in major new features to rival GNOME The new release of KDE's Plasma desktop brings a GNOME Shell-like instant overview and other improvements.…

Don't pay extortionists? Firms shelled out $5bn in Bitcoin in 6 months Ransomware attacks are proliferating as criminals turn to gangs providing turnkey post-compromise services, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned.…

Shiny new kit a bit more environmentally conscious Samsung sought to show off its eco credentials as it released the latest set of smartphones and tablets ahead of the Mobile World Congress.…

£500m tech consultancy procurement in the offing The UK health secretary has invoked "the latest technology" to clear a 6-million-strong waiting list in England as the National Health Service struggles with a patient backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.…

UK.gov flings cash at software solution to local planning problem New 5G cell sites will be sprouting from streetlights, traffic signals, and CCTV poles across the country as part of Britain's plans to spread low-latency mobile connectivity to the masses.…

Don't all rush to sign up, DC operators Data centre operators could deploy uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems which link up with the electricity grid so as to increase its reliability by smoothing out the unpredictability of renewable energy resources, according to research firm Omdia.…

Next stop, ITER? Scientists and engineers running the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford have announced a record-breaking 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion, more than double the previous record achieved by JET.…

How could you put down a chapter that intones: The information here is not of great interest to most users Systems Approach If, like me, you were a computer-science graduate student who cut your teeth on Berkeley Unix – complete with the first open-source implementation of TCP/IP – you know Section 8 as the cryptic System Maintenance Commands section of the Unix User's Manual.…

Finds half of public-sector orgs determine contractors' IR35 tax status without outside help Britain's tax collection agency has released a survey whose results downplay the impact of IR35 tax reforms in the public sector, apparently showing those in the private sector that everything went swimmingly.…

Devs and maintainers getting paid – but not to concentrate on security Column Open-source software has always been more secure than proprietary software, but that doesn't mean it's "secure." To lock it down, we need to invest serious cash in developers and maintainers.…

This is the final software update from Google for the Pixel 3, 3 XL, too The February edition of Google's monthly Android security update tackles, among other vulnerabilities, an eyebrow-raising critical flaw in Android 12.…

Biometric IDs for all, cross-border interoperability not on the table Sri Lanka has decided to adopt a national digital identity framework based on biometric data and will ask India if it can implement that nation’s Aadhaar scheme.…

Beta for now, but Pi from the cloud will eventually become a factory option The minds behind the Raspberry Pi have revealed a beta version of its bootloader that allows network installation of an OS.…

SpaceX launched even though the space weatherman predicted tricky conditions could follow a solar flare SpaceX last week launched 49 shiny new Starlink broadband-beaming satellites, which is good. But 40 of them have already, or will shortly, meet their demise due to a geomagnetic storm that struck a few days after their ascent. Which is bad.…

ByteDance's Douyin strikes up a conversation with Apple's digital assistant The publisher of TikTok, China's ByteDance, has revealed it has enlisted Apple's Siri digital assistant to power its first voice search service.…

Excitement this month can be found in SAP code, with critical Log4j repairs and a CISA warning Patch Tuesday Microsoft for its February Patch Tuesday gave Windows admins just 51 fixes to apply, the smallest number of patches since the meager ration of 44 in August 2021.…

Perpetual software and hardware licenses dive in Q4, consultancy withers on vine Teradata is still working to shake off its image as an on-premises data warehouse provider by highlighting annual recurring revenue in public cloud of $202m for calendar 2021, nearly doubling from $106m in the prior year.…

Ilya Lichtenstein (yes really) and partner cuffed via blockchain records Updated Two New York-based "tech entrepreneurs" were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5bn in stolen cryptocurrency, the US Department of Justice said, adding it's so far recovered $3.6bn in purloined digicash - based on current prices.…

Crim has 80 months to think on choices made in life A Canadian who used the Netwalker ransomware to attack 17 organisations and had C$30m (US$23.6m) in cash and Bitcoin when police raided his house has been jailed for more than six years.…

Quantum computing biz takes the easy route to IPO and future capital Quantum computer company D-Wave will go public after reaching a deal to merge with the SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) DPCM Capital, in a deal that values the advanced-computing firm at $1.2bn.…

Memories are made of this Microsoft has increased the lifetime of Azure Site Recovery points from 72 hours to 15 days.…

Additional €43bn in the pipeline, but it's still chickenfeed, say critics The European Commission has presented its European Chips Act with an initial investment of €11bn to strengthen research and development, and drive greater self-reliance in the semiconductor market.…

Age verification for large chunks of WWW to be mandatory Adults will have to hand over credit card or passport details before they can access social media sites, the British government threatened this morning.…

Onehouse's Apache Hudi managed service makes sense but has a long way to go, analysts say Tiny Californian startup Onehouse has won $8m in seed funding from which it hopes to grow a business worthy of taking on the giants of data engineering.…

Women, on the other hand, haven't seen much difference The internet is a lovely place? Perhaps not, but online civility has improved since 2016, according to research from Microsoft.…