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by Gareth Corfield on (#5TMZV)
Fallen Silicon Valley darling defrauded investors, says jury Elizabeth Holmes, founder of US health-tech firm Theranos, has been found guilty of defrauding investors after a California jury found she had lied about her company's technology.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5TMWT)
Information Commissioner faces a year of upheaval in data law The Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed that former New Zealand privacy commissioner John Edwards has started his new role as the UK's Information Commissioner.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TMSW)
When marketing meets coding Microsoft has ushered in 2022 with an amusing (and now deleted) tweet from its Windows Developer account that answers oh so many questions about the quality of code emitted from Redmond nowadays.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TMQA)
Processing goes a bit TITSUP* at UK finance outfit The UK's Nationwide Building Society has started the new year with a bork as customers found payments to and from accounts stalled as 2022 arrived.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5TMNC)
Even if you've got no other EU legal presence Companies anywhere in the world that offer Patreon subscriptions in pound sterling are subject to EU data protection laws, according to a startling Court of Appeal ruling in England and Wales.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TMKF)
The last time Ubuntu went to space ISS astronauts got menaced by CIMON* 12BoC We take a trip across the Channel in today's penultimate instalment of the 12 Borks of Christmas, with a reminder that bork will find you, wherever you are.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5TMJD)
Stock up on schadenfreude, it may be 2022's most popular commodity Opinion We've had nearly two years of the type of uncertainty that could make even the most avant-garde quantitative analyst fiddling with a risk management model weep. And now we're all on board for another trip around the Sun.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5TMFS)
Z690 Hero motherboards recalled because batch is borked, design itself is fine A few weeks ago a curious thing started happening to gamers whose PCs are powered by the ASUS Z690 Hero motherboard – their systems started to catch fire.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TMCZ)
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered an antitrust investigation into Apple’s business practices.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TMB7)
Not as bonkers as it sounds seeing as Sammy suggests they’re already works of art Samsung has given its 2022 smart television range the ability to trade in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the blockchain-dependent certificates of authenticity for digital assets.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TM76)
Happy New Year. Welcome back! Now apply this patch – which Microsoft warns isn't easy – if you want email to work Microsoft has kicked off 2022 by issuing a patch for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, which both possessed a “latent date issue” that saw emails queued up instead of being dispatched to inboxes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TKFR)
Sometimes a screwdriver is not the only tool you need Who, Me? The right tool for the job is a motto to live by. But in this week's Who, Me? a Register reader recalls what happens when the wrong tool is used by a right tool.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TKEG)
Keeping things consistent in the Pi department 12BoC There is something wrong with IKEA's Raspberry Pis, as another branch suffers a suspiciously familiar failure in our 12 Borks of Christmas.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TJJW)
Woo... woo... don't forget to back up your files... woo... 12BoC Bork goes big in the latest edition of The Register's 12 Borks of Christmas, with Windows reporting problems in the southeast London district of Bermondsey.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5THWD)
A mystery error message bedevils Mass Transit Passengers 12BoC Some errors are descriptive. Some errors are misleading. And some errors… well, your guess is as good as ours. Welcome to another entry in our 12 Borks of Christmas.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TH20)
Scrub-a-dub-dub, we work in a fug On Call We all know users can be disgusting. However, not all of us have to get up and close and personal with their filth. Welcome to the grimier side of On Call.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TH0Q)
Go on. Click Continue. We dare you 12BoC Microsoft goes large today in our 12 Borks of Christmas as the .NET Framework muscles in on a reader's attempt to pay for his parking.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5TGZ7)
We confidently predict that the predictions in this article will turn out wrong Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have been looking intently at my ball again and I'm about to reveal everything.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#5TG0S)
DPUs in the data centre, object and file get cosy, 3D layer Jenga plus cloud, capacity, and ransomware advances Analysis While much of the world was in lockdown in 2021, storage boomed. It was a year of ransomware, tech advances, hybrid multi-cloud, a switch to subscriptions and services, hypergrowth in analytics startup funding, and building a DPU data centre makeover.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TFX0)
Who is going to install this Daim patch? 12BoC IKEA, furniture retailer and place where relationships go to die, features large in our final run of borks. It also appears unable to configure Windows, as demonstrated in this edition of The Register's 12 Borks of Christmas.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5TF0M)
Swedish city refuses to make tradition of setting fire to a tradition a tradition Some traditions ought to be set on fire, but sadly for Sweden's Gävlebocken – a giant Yule goat made of straw – setting fire to traditions has become a tradition in itself.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TEXT)
Lucky that new Crossrail thing is late – who knows how Windows will cope? 12BoC London transport is notable for the occasional twee messages on its whiteboards. However, it is also rather good at the odd whoopsie, as today's entry in the 12 Borks of Christmas shows.…
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by Bruce Davie on (#5TE7H)
Amar and Bruce explain how cloud native principles can be applied to wireless connectivity Systems Approach This month's column was co-written by Amar Padmanabhan, a lead developer of Magma, the open-source project for creating carrier-grade networks; and Bruce Davie, a member of the project's technical advisory committee.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TDYT)
No, not that sort of Rust 12BoC The Register's Bork column is coming to an end, and to mark the occasion we present the 12 Bork's of Christmas. Today: an unwanted appearance by the Windows command line.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5TDD4)
Historians a thousand years hence will talk about us. Let's not muff it Opinion It's the end of the year, when the tradition is to look back at what just happened. Let's not do that. Let's take a step back and look at the wider picture, because while we've been worrying about data breaches and OS updates, we've rather missed the point.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TD4W)
Modern drinks are rubbish Who, Me? Before one can organise a piss-up in a brewery, one must first get the brewery started. Something a Register reader found difficult in today's Who, Me?…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TD4X)
Tesco parking screen reminds customers of the glory days of 2012 12BoC Every little bit doesn't help in today's edition of our final run of 2021 Borks: The 12 Borks of Christmas.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TCMA)
It’s brilliant and lovely. But it doesn't quite meet the moment with a new experience that satisfies Review Smartphones aren't very exciting anymore, but Apple insists its mutually optimised operating system, online services, and proprietary silicon combine to deliver an uncommonly fine experience.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TCF4)
I'll just pay the- OH MY GOD 12BoC We take a trip to the seaside in our 12 Borks of Christmas as a parking machine touchscreen goes rogue... with inevitable consequences.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TBZD)
This won't buy me beer 12BoC Welcome to The Register's Twelve Borks of Christmas (12BoC), a final festive hurrah for digital signage silage and, behind today's window, a reminder that wherever Windows might turn up, Notepad has always got your back.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5TBDE)
Let’s take a look into the future cher-cher-cher… Something for the Weekend, Sir? Twas the night after Christmas, but I felt all alone.
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by Richard Speed on (#5TBBF)
More 0898 than 0208 in 1998 On Call Welcome to On Call, and a telephone mystery solved only after an innocent party found themselves on the receiving end of a most unexpected conversation.…
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Three years of R&D and design work to be tested with plans to build native ‘super in 2023 The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has concluded the first phase of its efforts to create made-in-Europe chips, an effort it is hoped will reduce reliance on imports, improve sovereign capabilities, and create the continent's first exascale supercomputer.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TB6S)
Firm that found the flaw also spotted ChaosDB and OMIGOD, confident this one’s been exploited Microsoft has revealed a vulnerability in its Azure App Service for Linux allowed the download of files that users almost certainly did not intend to be made public.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5TB5T)
Hey Elon, it's no secret that distracted driving is a major cause of US car fatalities A software upgrade will disable a "feature" that allows the touchscreen on Tesla cars to play video games - even while the vehicles are in motion- after the USA's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigated a complaint about the tech.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TB3P)
Don’t mention the human rights abuses, focus on the need for compliance Intel has expressed regret for the way its warning its suppliers not to use labour, or source goods, from China’s Xinjiang region, has been interpreted inside the Middle Kingdom.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TAQ4)
Surprise dividend for shareholders may also yield approval from monopoly-wary Beijing While Chinese web giant Tencent has announced an unheralded special dividend: shares in giant Chinese e-tailer JD.com.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5TAEQ)
Cloud-native RDBMS is coming, on AWS and Azure. Yet IBM's only preaching to the choir It's the time of year when one might wonder what happened to that avuncular family figure whose existence was so reliably dull they passed into history almost forgotten - a little like Db2, IBM's flagship relational database that has faded from users' collective memory.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5TA9X)
Firm admits problem and then tries to cash in from own screwup Members of the British Armed Forces Soldiers have reacted with anger after a British Wi-Fi provider failed to automatically end their time-limited contracts before charging them for consuming data "without subscription".…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TA8V)
‘Chatter’ can be bugged thanks to kindergarten-grade security A Bluetooth phone designed to evoke the carefree days of early childhood has been found to instead threaten the very adult prospect of being surveilled in your home.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5TA62)
Beijing's not saying what cloudy contender did wrong China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has suspended Alibaba Cloud's membership of an influential security board to protest its handling of the Log4j flaw.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TA4N)
New launch date could be a marvelous Christmas gift to humanity The James Webb Telescope has been cleared for launch, only for weather to delay its ascent for at least a day.…
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by Agam Shah in New Jersey on (#5TA46)
Intel, Nvidia, and others have figured out you need help getting started with AI Some chip makers are starting to supply data as a value-added service.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TA1W)
Some servers and EBS volumes won’t make it back A small group of sysadmins have a disaster recovery job on their hands, on top of Log4J fun, thanks to a power outage at Amazon Web Services’ USE1-AZ4 Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5T9HR)
With Vivaldi. While parked Chromium-based browser Vivaldi has ported its eponymous Android Tablet browser to Android Automotive, making it the first web browser on the operating system and available in the Polestar 2 electric car.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5T9EB)
The five grams of Ryugu we got suggests it's made of the same stuff as the outer Sun Researchers have published the first analyses of samples plucked from asteroid 162173 Ryugu by Japan's spacecraft Hayabusa2, revealing, for the first time, the physical properties and composition of a carbonaceous asteroid.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#5T9BH)
Empty your inboxes, people, we can duck this problem together Column It’s often said that the second most important job in Australia – behind Prime Minister – is captain of the Australian men’s cricket team.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T98A)
But did so operating as NICs – the real fun starts in mid-2022 when VMware’s hypervisor for SmartNICs should land Nvidia has claimed a world record for storage IOPS using its Bluefield data processing units (DPUs).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5T95X)
The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test was connected to the internet of woefully insecure things for a while Security vendor F-Secure has faked a COVID test result on a Bluetooth-equipped home COVID Test. Thankfully the vendor’s since fixed the device.…
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More advanced manufacturing processes will attract the big rupees, but scheme seems unlikely to make India a major player India’s government has revealed more details about its plans to become a major chip manufacturing hub .…
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