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Why are some of Moz's axed projects bigger than its flagship? Comment As Firefox's share of the browser market continues to slide, the Waterfox Project shows some of the ways that Mozilla is failing to listen to its users – and it's far from the only example.…

Azure, Teams, Office integration might offer a leg-up, though Analysis Microsoft scattered tidbits about new features and products over the already well-served enterprise application market during its Ignite virtual shindig running.…

It's a good time to be a wireless communications architect or an AI engineer Apple hasn't put homegrown 5G modems in its iPhones yet, but is already looking for a jump-start on 6G modems.…

Featuring two sidekicks: A rover using Nokia's 4G and a hopping recon bot NASA has selected a ridge close to Shackleton, a deep impact crater on the Moon's South Pole, to conduct its first-ever ice-water-mining expedition, which is expected to blast off late next year.…

Cost of some supplies is up 200 per cent, so vendors start 'protecting margins' Good luck upgrading your network any time in the next year or two: key vendors Arista and Juniper have both warned they're waiting up to 80 weeks – aka 560 days, taking us to some time in May 2023 – to get their hands on some components.…

We're on a highway to RHEL IBM tentacle Red Hat on Wednesday unveiled the beta for version nine of its eponymous Enterprise Linux product, now built from CentOS Stream.…

Came for the people, the supply chain, and with hopes of building new servers, storage, HPC, and 5G kit. Don't mention the increasing geopolitical tension Hewlett Packard Enterprise has made a big new investment in Taiwan, covering hardware design and supply chain smarts.…

Rolls out usual lines about national security being pretext for competitive action, more strident voices keep quiet China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has responded with mild indignation to the USA's decision to revoke the operating licence that allowed China Telcom to operate in the land of the free.…

We drill into what's available in this public preview Ignite Microsoft is extending, as a public preview for now, Azure Virtual Desktop to Azure Stack HCI so that if you want to host remote Windows desktops on your own on-premises equipment using this service, well, you can.…

One lucky bod gets $28,000, on average it's a few hundred bucks each America's consumer watchdog has sent checks totaling nearly $60m to more than 140,000 Amazon drivers who were said to have been screwed out of their tips between 2016 and 2019. The delivery workers have until January to cash them.…

Yeah, that ought to do the trick The US government's Dept of Commerce on Wednesday sanctioned four companies in Israel, Russia, and Singapore for selling software used to break into computer systems and by foreign governments to suppress dissent.…

Promises to stop ordering combustion engine vehicles by 2025 SAP expects its fleet of 27,000 corporate cars to be free of tailpipe emissions by 2030 and will no longer allow the ordering of vehicles with combustion engines from 2025.…

Chief product officer takes over world's palatable social network Updated GitHub CEO Nat Friedman announced today he's leaving the organization on November 15 and will be replaced by chief product officer Thomas Dohmke.…

Endpoint security for firms with under 300 staffers Ignite Sniffing the wind after the large uptick in ransomware attacks across the corporate world, Microsoft said it plans to roll out an SMB version of Defender for Biz.…

Plans to hook up New Zealand's South Island and Indonesia too Submarine cable company Hawaiki is to build a trans-Pacific cable system, dubbed Hawaiki Nui, that links up Southeast Asia, Australasia and North America. It's slated for completion in 2025.…

And you need to do it during a pandemic while working from home How does one rebuild an aeroplane, at 40,000 feet, while it is still full of passengers? That was the question posed by Daniel Tao, head of engineering at Bitbucket, while discussing the source shack's move to AWS data centres.…

Just like the last time. Don't get your hopes up A member of the BlackMatter (aka Darkside) ransomware gang has publicly claimed the extortionists are shutting down, causing much excitement within the infosec world.…

As membership website goes TITSUP* The UK's Labour Party, the official opposition to the country's ruling Conservatives, has suffered a humiliating data breach.…

Kubernetes under the covers, with a Microsoft flavour Interview At its recent Ignite event, Microsoft rolled out a preview of Azure Container Apps, a managed service for deploying containers with features including scale to zero.…

Who needs big pockets, right? Other than, you know, literally everyone With the exception of iPhone fans, have you ever bought a mobile and thought, "I'm going to base my entire identity around owning this item of cellular technology"?…

Nuisance call companies... and others... are quite the nuisance More than half of data protection fines issued by the Information Commissioner's Office over the last two years, totalling more than £5m, have not been paid.…

In preview. For Insiders. By end of 2021. Two full years after Surface Pro X Ignite Microsoft will at last bring a native version of its OneDrive cloud storage service to Windows on Arm users, months after announcing the same for Apple silicon.…

Show you’re worth it, demand more Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…

£30m project uncertain amid cuts to academic departments The UK's Sheffield University has abandoned the original design of a £30.4m project to update its student record management system after a vital integration with an Oracle corporate information platform stumbled.…

Computer Misuse Act campaign gets down to brass tacks Campaigners want a new code of practice alongside a proposed public interest defence for the Computer Misuse Act 1990, in the hope it will protect infosec pros from false threats of prosecution.…

Machine-to-machine communications, AI, DevOps tech all coming together Analysis Adding robots or automating machines in old factories isn't as easy as it sounds. Retrofitting factories with new technologies for machines and robots to operate in sync requires a new system architecture.…

Brit watchdog considering next steps, Australia's orders deletion of scraped image trove A joint probe conducted by the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found that facial-recognition-as-a-service company Clearview AI breached Australian privacy laws.…

And if the electronics aren't available, features are simply removed Car makers are shutting down factories because of semiconductor shortages – and whatever chips they can get their hands are going into more expensive vehicles.…

US sanctions mean the Intel chip well has run dry, so China's champion has little alternative but to offload Huawei is reportedly poised to offload its x86 server business after US sanctions left it unable to buy the silicon it needs to build boxes, according to Bloomberg.…

Consoles are in short supply everywhere, which may be why this one aroused suspicion Australia's federal police (AFP) have arrested a chap for attempting to import cocaine inside a PlayStation 5.…

Ah well, back to panicking over imaginary drones, then Video Passenger jet pilots who reported what looked like a man in a jetpack flying over Los Angeles may have just been seeing runaway balloons.…

Unvaxxed can vaxx off for unpaid leave during which Switchzilla can fire them or erase their jobs Exclusive Cisco has updated its COVID-19 vaccination policy for US staff to make the jabs mandatory – even for those who work remotely.…

Says she is not 'without hope' for biz Jen Oneal is ending what has turned out to be a brief stint as co-lead of Blizzard.…

Text'n'code-emitting system still available from OpenAI Ignite Microsoft will provide access to OpenAI’s text'n'code-generating GPT-3 model via an API service in the Azure cloud.…

Big Red, for now, has the upper hand in battle over agreements A San Francisco federal court judge has dismissed NEC Corporation of America's (NECAM) counterclaim of fraud against Oracle, which sued NECAM in July alleging copyright infringement and breach of contract related to the use of Oracle's database software.…

Plus: Why the distro isn't in the Microsoft Store for WSL The Fedora project has released version 35, complete with GNOME 41 desktop and easy installation of proprietary software like Teams, Zoom, and Spotify.…

Social network is going to sit this one out until clear rules are formulated Having last week sidelined the tarnished brand Facebook to conduct business under the name Meta, the social ad biz intends to deactivate its Facial Recognition system in a few weeks.…

Software upgrade hits snack production for over a week Potato snack maker Walkers has seen the semiconductor chip shortage and raised it a deep fried crisp* between two oily fingers.…

Common format and license floated to foster greater exchange of info for ML The non-profit Linux Foundation on Tuesday said it has teamed up with dataset management platform Graviti to develop Project OpenBytes, an initiative to make open data less legally risky through the development of data standards and formats.…

The direction of travel is clear – cloudwards Ignite Be afraid, be very afraid. The "most Azure-enabled" release yet of Microsoft's flagship database has arrived in preview form at the company's Ignite shindig. Welcome to SQL Server 2022.…

Vid chat app gets 3D virtual meetings while users hope for more reliable connections Ignite Microsoft's virtual Ignite event, aimed at IT admins, kicked off today with a focus on Office and Teams, among other cloudy news. Office is getting a new application called Loop, while Teams users get mixed reality meetings based on Microsoft Mesh.…

惊叹号 Yahoo! has confirmed it is quitting China due to the "increasingly challenging" business and legal environment just as the country's new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) comes into effect.…

We say GMT, you say BST, let's call the whole thing off Sky+ set-top boxes have failed to set themselves back an hour after the UK stumbled from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time at the weekend.…

Resellers: Cupertino is doing OK compared to PC makers A component shortfall is reportedly forcing Apple to divert supplies of essential innards to the iPhone 13 at the expense of the iPad – though European suppliers are not yet seeing elongated lead times for buyers in all but the basic models.…

Indian service provider tasked with getting authority from SAP R/3 to Oracle Fusion Infosys has won a long-awaited contract worth around £22m to swap out SAP R/3 systems with Oracle Fusion for East Sussex County Council (ESCC), a local authority on the south coast of England.…

Science suspended as engineers study synchronisation issue Attempts to restore NASA's stricken Hubble Space Telescope by turning it off and on again appear to have failed.…

Xi Jinping announces to G20 he wants in on 3-nation agreement China's Ministry of Commerce said on Monday the country has officially applied for entry into the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA).…

Even if we kept the business moving during the pandemic, it's all forgotten by the next service ticket Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…

Amazon tech requires fork of PostgreSQL, is not fully compatible with SQL Server Canonical is offering joint support with Microsoft for SQL Server on Ubuntu running on Azure, all while Amazon is nudging users towards PostgreSQL with general availability of the Babelfish compatibility extension, now open source.…

Deloitte already has the deal to guide organisational structure and strategy The UK's Foreign Office has entered the market for IT hardware, software, and specialist services with up to £40m on the table.…