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Analyst warns that if upgrades frustrate, users might just give phone conferences a comeback If the new normal for workplaces fails to facilitate proper human collaboration, employees may fall back to old and outdated tech, according to chief analyst Matthew Ball at the Canalys Forums APAC 2021 on Tuesday.…

Canalys CEO reckons up to 30 per cent of big Chinese clouds' infrastructure is under-used, new datacentre builds deferred China's decision to limit minors to three hours of gaming each week has proven problematic for the nation's clouds, which find themselves with unused capacity.…

Britain's former deputy prime minister among execs sued on behalf of pension fund, other investors Facebook was sued by Ohio’s Attorney General Dave Yost on Tuesday for allegedly deceiving shareholders about the potential harm its social media platform inflicted on young users.…

Intros x64 emulation for Windows on Arm – but only on Windows 11 Microsoft has officially released the Windows 10 November 2021 Update, and revealed that the OS will henceforth only be upgraded once a year. Redmond has also made life hard for those who like to emulate x64 apps on Windows 10 for Arm. What a day.…

Sleuthing leads to suspected RAM-gobbling culprit Apple's macOS Monterey, the iGiant's latest desktop operating system release, turns out to have an insatiable appetite for memory if you use certain apps.…

Settlement is little more than a minor cost-of-business expense Amazon will cough up $500,000 to settle a case brought by California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta for concealing from health agencies and its own staff the number of COVID-19 cases among its workers.…

Funny how these things turn out Qualcomm saw what Apple's M1 chip could do for performance and battery life, and claims its next Arm-compatible microprocessors will do exactly that for Windows PCs.…

Ongoing typosquatting attacks target kids as Discord drags its feet Since early September, Josh Muir and five other maintainers of the noblox.js package, have been trying to prevent cybercriminals from distributing ransomware through similarly named code libraries.…

Nice to have nearly a year off from that malspam threat, but now it's returned The Emotet malware delivery botnet is back, almost a year after law enforcement agencies bragged about shutting it down and arresting the operators.…

If your favorite site was acting up, this might be why Updated Google Cloud suffered a brief outage, seemingly bringing down or disrupting a whole bunch of websites relying on its systems.…

CentOS 8.5 also available ... but with only 6 weeks before end of life AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, both of which provide community builds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), have released builds matching RHEL 8.5, with Rocky's work catching up with Alma by being signed for secure boot.…

Caution: Story contains questionable Lego recreation Northrop Grumman has assembled a team to come up with a design for a new Lunar Rover.…

Flaw allowed 'an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package' GitHub said it has fixed a longstanding issue with the NPM (Node Package Manager) JavaScript registry that would allow an attacker to update any package without proper authorisation.…

Coincidentally, the same day President Biden signed the infrastructure bill Two massive real estate investment trusts (REITs) that both focus on data centre buildouts, management and financing will both be taken over in $10bn+ acquisitions.…

You want more than five email aliases? Sure, but it'll cost you Mozilla hopes to ramp up the monetisation machine with a paid premium version of its Firefox Relay service, upping the current limit of five email aliases to a near-unlimited number.…

Now's a good time to read up on Cyber Essentials Plus A government crackdown on British MSPs' security practices is drawing ever closer after the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) floated plans to make Cyber Assessment Framework compliance mandatory.…

Digi Secretary Nadine Dorries: CMA to 'report to me' on the next steps UK government has asked the Competition and Markets Authority to do an even deeper dive into Nvidia's $40bn takeover of Arm after initial findings unearthed negative implications for chip design choice.…

Cloudy analytics contender is also having a look at Amazon's Graviton silicon Cloudy data-cruncher Snowflake has added Python support to its "Snowpark" developer toolkit.…

Woman tells New Zealand police she was held hostage by small marsupial Though it pales in comparison to the bloodlust seen in last year's tale of "mortal wombat" – where the marsupial allegedly went berserk on a family in the Australian outback – a possum holding a woman "hostage" in New Zealand is just as absurd.…

Another nice Nest you've got me into, Google Users of Google's Nest Hub are reporting problems with the smart screen, with some comparing its functionality to that of a brick.…

Some punters not happy with former Capita-owned biz, now under control of Montagu Private Equity Education Software Solutions – a one-time Capita-owned school software provider now under the control of Montagu Private Equity – is being marked down by customers for moving to minimum three-year licensing contracts.…

Going back to the future with smaller data centres and a Patchwork Kilt British-based open source advocacy company OpenUK rounded off the COP26 summit by donating a Net Zero Data Centre Blueprint to the Eclipse Foundation.…

Teradata also sees wings clipped in ongoing battle with German ERP giant A SAP patent was not "inventive enough" to be legally binding, according to a US judge in an intellectual property case which also saw Teradata's claim in the dispute reduced.…

And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary Sheffield University's failed Student Lifecycle Project went through three leaders, several changes in scope and was ultimately superseded by government policy change before the bulk of the £30m project was abandoned in what is shaping up to be a classic IT disaster.…

Testing times for Chipzilla as it emits patches to protect PCs, equipment Certain Intel processors can be slipped into a test mode, granting access to low-level keys that can be used to, say, unlock encrypted data stored in a stolen laptop or some other device.…

Doug Merritt thanked for service, but no explanation offered for change Analytics firm Splunk’s CEO Doug Merritt has stepped down, effective immediately, without warning.…

Company claims it poses no threat, yet regs want China influence out The US subsidiary of China Telecom has filed an emergency appeal it hopes will prevent the impending revocation of the company's license to operate in the USA, which the The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) terminated in October on grounds the carrier is a national security threat.…

Texas and pals are back with more details of Chocolate Factory's alleged efforts to unfairly rig the online advertising world More than a dozen US states have filed yet another amended complaint against Google to include what they say is more evidence of the web giant abusing its dominant position in online advertising.…

Average cloudy data stash hits 15TB and and median value tripled to over 3TB Data management software vendor Veeam has offered a snapshot (pardon the pun) of how its customers put different public clouds to work.…

Moscow slammed for 'reckless, dangerous, irresponsible' weapon test In a test of its missile technology, Russia destroyed an old space satellite on Monday, littering Earth's orbit with fragments and forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to temporarily take shelter.…

System Two takes modular, data-center-inspired approach. Plus: 127-qubit Eagle Big Blue hopes will fly Huge, monolithic quantum computers aren't in IBM's vision of the technology. Rather, the IT giant sees parallel, distributed systems made up of different kinds of quantum computing units working in unison.…

Middle Kingdom floats fresh data security rules, too, with eight-hour privacy breach notification requirement China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has expelled a communist party member for allowing cryptocurrency mining to happen, corruption, and other infractions.…

That's year on year from a base close to zero ... but still, that makes it the fifth biggest in the Middle Kingdom right out of the blue A Chinese smartphone chip designer has come out of nowhere to take on capitalist rivals, though questions remain over whether the outfit can continue its meteoric rise amid financial troubles at its parent company.…

Blacksmith is latest hammer horror Boffins at ETH Zurich, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Qualcomm Technologies have found that varying the order, regularity, and intensity of rowhammer attacks on memory chips can defeat defenses, thereby compromising security on any device with DRAM.…

Now would be a good idea to check you're up-to-date US-sanctioned Positive Technologies has pointed out three vulnerabilities in Zoom that can be exploited to crash or hijack on-prem instances of the videoconferencing system.…

All stacked up and nowhere to go NASA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has administered a kicking to the US space agency over its handling of the Artemis project, making grim reading for anyone hopeful of even a 2025 crewed lunar landing.…

Microsoft's Raymond Chen was tasked with digging into the issue One of the most consistently interesting and entertaining Microsoft blogs, Raymond Chen's Old New Thing, recently covered the dissection of a best-selling bit of software for Windows 95 – SoftRAM 95. There are few lessons about modern software in there as well.…

For all your Windows-on-Snapdragon developer needs Developer hardware for Windows on Arm has finally debuted with a low price matched by an even lower specification.…

Illegal irritant raises its head again after drone investigation A radio-controlled aeroplane operator blamed the crash of his replica WWII model in a lorry park on 2.4GHz radio jammers.…

Hardcopy sales plunge double digits in Western Europe, both inkjets and lasers impacted The Paperless Office strategy might be working finally ... but only because print vendors can't make enough hardware to satisfy demand.…

Also: Emergency patch for Windows Server after Patch Tuesday broke single sign-on for some users An update to the Insiders version of Windows 11 includes a massive list of bug fixes, many of them serious, showing the wisdom of holding back on an early upgrade from Windows 10.…

Check your outputs, kids Bork!Bork!Bork! There is a reminder to check your outputs in today's edition of signage sileage as the actor Megan Fox finds herself upstaged by Microsoft Windows.…

Guaranteed Telecom, Met Technologies nurse £35k penalty, and to them that's meaningful Ofcom has slapped two small telcos, Guaranteed Telecom and Met Technologies, with a financial penalty for switching the home phone services of more than 100 people without their knowledge or consent.…

Which, alongside its £20-a-pop COVID-19 tests, isn't a great look If you're paying for a vital service such as a COVID-19 test when travelling abroad, it's reasonable to expect it to be backed by an approved app from one of the major app stores. However not if that test is from health lab Randox.…

Saving the planet is sexier than the next iPhone Opinion War! Huh! What is it good for? Our survey said: absolutely nothing.…

Submission to USA's call for chip supply chain warns on 'blunt interventions', making it far more colorful than most Google has suggested the US government's National Institute of Standards and Technology develop standards for some silicon, in hopes of improving the semiconductor supply chain.…

For when a terse email just won't do Who, Me? Passive aggression lurks in today's tale from the Who, Me? archives, replete with naughty words and cartoon scribblings of a corporate life satirist.…

Shall we call it Die-Fi? Or NoTooth? Either would be unkind, as this experiment used little radiation, but much exotic hardware Boffins from the UK's Lancaster University and the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia have transmitted and received data wirelessly using nuclear radiation.…

One company for devices, one for office kit, another for infrastructure, batteries & tech services, Kioxia stake to be sold Japanese industrial giant Toshiba has announced it will divide into three companies, and that its governance needs a thorough overhaul.…

Looks like feuding hackers wanted to expose Feds' failings as a public service. We want to believe The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has admitted that a software misconfiguration let parties unknown send email from its servers.…