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Recent report on IT-led change must be acted on by NHS leaders to address pandemic fallout A group of MPs in the UK Parliament have called on NHS leadership to end an approach to health service IT that allows a fifth of NHS trust to remain largely paper-based.…

Any colour you like as long as it's black. Or white Something for the Weekend, Sir? Isn't 2022 great? What do you mean, "no"? Jeez, you lot are hard to please. If you're reading this, it means you're still alive. What did you want instead?…

Yes, but are you sure? Really sure? On Call The customer is always right. Except when they're not. Here we have a story from the On Call archives concerning connectors, telephones, and a user blessed with a little too much confidence.…

Will these figures wash? The year 2021 proved to be a tough one for anyone affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, though it was awesome for crime involving cryptocurrencies.…

Neither cough nor sneeze nor gloom of coronavirus stays these chip makers from their appointed rounds Micron expects to resume normal operations at its Chinese DRAM facility in Xi'an later this month despite it being under lock down following a COVID-19 outbreak about two weeks ago.…

Jeff Wilcox led efforts to build M1 and T2 processors Apple’s top silicon lead Jeff Wilcox, who led the iGiant's push to develop homegrown chips, has left his role to start a new job at Intel.…

Maybe the days of entering lotteries for graphics cards will be over Buyers may not have to resort to treasure hunting for elusive GPUs in the second half of this year as semiconductor companies expect supply and prices to start normalizing.…

Honda probes issue, has yet to identify the cause of the problem Owners of older Acura and Honda vehicles marked the new year by revisiting 2002, a consequence of a bug affecting the cars' clock software.…

South Korea thinks they just went ballistic North Korean state media announced Wednesday that the country has completed its second reported hypersonic weapons test.…

Homespun database trackers also see PostgreSQL and MongoDB as hotshots for 2021 Snowflake, that cloud-only data warehouse much loved by investors, has been named DBMS of the Year for 2021 by tracker site DB-Engines.…

It avoided Aero. Missed Modern. Now the update edges ever closer to release It is with a heavy heart we report that Microsoft's redesigned Notepad has begun to make its way to the Windows Insider Beta channel, taking one step closer to end users already reeling from the Windows 11 experience.…

COPA load of that A man who claims to be the secret inventor of Bitcoin has failed in a legal bid to throw out a High Court lawsuit saying he's talking tosh – and will be accused of forging proof he is Satoshi Nakamoto.…

Christmas is gone and so, it seems, was a chunk of Big Blue's services this morning IBM is having a torrid start to 2022, including a lengthy period of "provisioning issues" in IBM Cloud around the world this morning.…

Here in my car, I feel safest of all... The global chip shortage is likely to have an impact throughout this year and into 2023, affecting some sectors worse than others, with UK car sales likely to be one of those hit.…

But creator runs server from home – we can forgive him A young man who would have been around 10 when the plug was pulled on Ceefax has recreated the BBC's teletext information service online, replete with a digital remote control to punch in the number of your choice.…

They'll have to cough €100,000 a day if they don't fix it within 3 months... Google and Facebook have come a little unstuck in the cookie department as French watchdog Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) slapped the pair with a €150m and €60m fine respectively.…

Not going to get stuck in first gear again with supply-chain crises The battle between chip giants in the autonomous vehicle space isn't a two-horse race like it was for desktop PCs. Car makers have a somewhat wider choice of silicon vendors.…

Telco won't be gone until 2026 as Land and Property Services plans epic project timeline Northern Ireland's Land and Property Services, part of the Department of Finance, is planning an IT procurement worth up to £125m to replace an ageing BT system running since 1999.…

We all make mistakes, but we just need to solder on Still waiting for your Spectrum Next to arrive? Yeah, us too. But it's not the only modern Sinclair clone – and a quick way to get your hands on one is to build your own.…

Specialist software providers in education, health, and policing can look forward to fireside chat The UK government's procurement wing is looking to have a chat with specialist software suppliers before it readies to launch a competition for contracts which could be worth a total of £1.8bn.…

Wanted killer cuffed in Spain after more evidence from Facebook One of Italy’s most wanted gangsters was finally tracked down after being on the run for 20 years, thanks to a chance sighting on Google Street View.…

* And a passerby who happened to be a doctor An autonomous drone carrying a defibrillator helped save a 71-year-old man having a heart attack, a first in medical history, a Swedish search-and-rescue tech company has claimed.…

New keyboard API will let online Office apps handle shortcut keys better Google Chrome 97 arrived on Tuesday, bringing with it a Microsoft-backed keyboard API rejected by Apple and Mozilla on privacy grounds.…

But is the telco backing itself into a corner? Analysis Microsoft has given more info on its efforts to draw telcos to its Azure cloud platform, building on intellectual property and skills gained from last year's partnership with AT&T, under which the telco opted to move its core 5G network operations to Azure.…

Apply fixes responsibly in a timely manner or face the wrath of Lina Khan The US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday warned companies that vulnerable Log4j software needs to be patched … or else.…

You're spitting fire, fox A few days ago, Mozilla Foundation invited netizens on Twitter to send in cryptocurrency donations via a new payment service provider.…

Patching over the cracks in partner relations and pressurised modules for a few extra years While scientists celebrated the successful launch and ongoing deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA had another thing to bring cheer in the new year – the extension of the International Space Station (ISS) from 2025 through 2030.…

No more chip factories would surely change Beijing's mind about unification A top US Army War College paper suggests Taiwan should credibly threaten to eradicate its semiconductor industry if threatened by China so that Beijing would no longer be interested in unification.…

How far's the Moon now? ... Here's 'How Soon Is Now?' from your Spotify playlist As if NASA's troubled Artemis program didn't have enough to worry about, tech utilising Amazon's Alexa and Cisco's Webex is set to be on board for the first mission around the Moon and back to Earth.…

They really want that display ad and user tracking service Facebook has filed its legal challenge to the UK's ban on its Giphy merger, saying officials ignored "plainly relevant information" in their November decision.…

Disable anti-tamper features first and you'll be all right Norton antivirus's inbuilt cryptominer has re-entered the public consciousness after a random Twitter bod expressed annoyance at how difficult it is to uninstall.…

Originally launched as 'minimum viable product', GVMS has the necessary upgrades, UK taxman says Glitches in IT systems designed to manage the movement of goods from the EU to the UK are holding up shipments.…

They're guiding kids through museums, moving food in mega-kitchens – and cleaning where you can't see them Feature Robots largely remain the stuff of trepidation and speculation – but in Singapore they've suddenly become very easy to find.…

Elon Musk's satellite internet company 'remains excited to serve' the country The Indian government has reportedly told Elon Musk's internet satellite company, Starlink, to refund pre-orders it could not yet fulfil because it didn't have the licences.…

Yes, you're going to have to get a new CPU (again) It's been a while coming, but it looks like PCs with Microsoft's Pluton security processor are just around the corner. So long as your silicon of choice comes from AMD, for the time being at least.…

TSS UK redundancy selection was 'biased, superficial and wholly inadequate' An IBM salesman was wrongly sacked after being blamed for the failure of a joint venture with Tech Data, being subject to a "biased, superficial and wholly inadequate" redundancy scoring exercise by vindictive sales managers.…

Bork bless us, everyone 12BoC We reach the end of our 12 Borks of Christmas today and, really, there is only one place to end: where it all began, with an unhappy touchscreen at McDonald's.…

343 Industries brings open world to the long-running military sci-fi epic The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. Although the outside world keeps going to shit, at least the closing months of 2021 saw the biggest shooter properties duke it out in time for the festive period. Battlefield 2042 was void of Battlefield feeling while Call of Duty: Vanguard was similarly said to be "meh" – though I wouldn't really know, I stopped playing the franchise over a decade ago. However, in terms of quality at the point of release, Halo Infinite has stepped out as the clear winner.…

And game over, Stackoverflow Boffins affiliated with dev tools biz JetBrains and HSE University in Moscow have devised an open-source plugin for the company's Java development editor that guards against copy-and-paste coding.…

Rock detonated with same force as 30 tons of TNT (or 0.002 Little Boys) The loud boom heard over the skies of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on New Year’s Day was due to an exploding meteor with the blast energy equivalent to 30 tons of TNT, NASA has confirmed.…

Plus: RIP classic QWERTY BlackBerry phones – they'll no longer work properly Google has fixed a bug that blocked some people from getting through to 911 when they dialed for help on Pixel smartphones.…

Plus teases 'monster' RTX 3090 Ti graphics chip Nvidia thinks the metaverse, omniverse, or whatever you want to call it will be a vast interconnected galaxy of 3D worlds, and wants you to use its tools to build that animated universe – tied to its RTX GPUs, natch.…

Telcos miffed, pilots are fine with it AT&T and Verizon have agreed to further delay the US rollout of their previously delayed 5G C-band wireless service only one day before the planned launch date.…

Lisa Su tells CES her biz has cracked the daily power cord issue AMD's next-generation Ryzen 6000 microprocessors, announced at CES this week, should provide another option for the Intel faithful to rethink options when buying laptops.…

Mark Himelstein talks about the open ISA's future and challenges Interview Chip technologies from Arm and x86 are getting the most attention amid semiconductor shortages and trade wars. But in the background, the open-source RISC-V chip architecture is stealthily emerging as a viable third architecture that is cheaper, flexible, and free of political intrigue.…

Has the sustainability trend infiltrated the space industry? Kyoto University and Japanese logging company Sumitomo Forestry are designing a wooden satellite, with hopes of achieving the goal by 2023.…

CPUs will compete with AMD's Ryzen and Apple's Arm-based M1 Intel went mega with its latest round of Alder Lake chip releases, announcing 60 processors that will be used in 500 new laptops and desktops.…

French regulator's investigation finds multiple breaches of GDPR SlimPay, a Paris-based subscription payment services company, has been fined €180,000 by the French CNIL regulatory body after it was found to have held sensitive customer data on a publicly accessible server for five years.…

'Too early to make any statement on the damage' Dutch lithography giant ASML has reported a fire at its factory in Berlin, Germany, acquired from optics company Berliner Glas in 2020.…

Engineers on Earth have five and a half months more of this The James Webb Space Telescope has continued to notch up the milestones on its journey to its L2 destination with the tensioning of its sunshield.…