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It brought you Monty Python and Jimi Hendrix, but Auntie Beeb must compete with digital monsters like Netflix The BBC has failed to plan for switching to internet-based media and move away from traditional broadcasting at a “more wholesale, strategic level,” according to a public spending watchdog.…

Sing it in the key of C-suite, because operations truly doesn't care Whether it's because they have vast real estate investments they can't shift without hemorrhaging cash, or genuinely think their workers perform better in that space, C-suite execs are working hard to convince staff to return to the workplace.…

Cancelled bit barns the latest casualties following mass layoffs last month Meta has canned two datacenters under development in Denmark as part of a broader plan to deepen investments in artificial intelligence.…

Cause of weeklong outage was under tech support's nose – but not on their mind On-Call The week, and indeed the year, may be ebbing away to their respective conclusions, but The Register continues to toil away at On-Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of techies triumphing under trying circumstances.…

Surely it must realize regulators aren't going to go for this? With its telecoms and consumer electronics businesses prevented from addressing rich overseas markets, Huawei has set itself on the road to a new industry: electric cars.…

Redmond and Cupertino criticized for slow and weak responses by Australian regulator Australia's e-safety commissioner, a government agency charged with keeping citizens safe online, has delivered a report on seven tech platforms' mechanisms to protect children from online sexual abuse – and found most don't respond quickly, or have the processes to do so well.…

Some are suspected of helping other banned suppliers get around sanctions The United States Department of Commerce has added 36 Chinese companies or subsidiaries to its list of companies that cannot import certain US technologies without a license, citing national security, foreign policy interests, and the possibility that some might help already banned companies to evade restrictions.…

More ways to boot, with less overhead – just what's needed in the embedded market Version 4.17 of the Xen project's eponymous hypervisor has debuted, bringing with it the first look at Hyperlaunch capabilities that allow the creation of multipole VMs on startup.…

How about right now? Right now is good The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) says it's time to retire Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1), a 27-year-old weak algorithm used in security applications.…

Free speech? Or 'roving internet censors' An internet trade association whose members include Amazon, Google, Meta, TikTok and Twitter has sued the state of California to block a recently signed law that aims to protect kids online by requiring websites to verify the ages of all users. …

Putin it into operation will take a while at this rate The debut of Bill Gates' advanced nuclear power plant will be delayed for at least two years because the only company that makes its fuel in sufficient quantities to make it work is located in Russia.…

We sure do love those government subsidies says industry cheerleader This year's shaky economy has tripped up a some semiconductor companies, although plenty of them apparently feel excited enough that they are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on new chip manufacturing plants.…

It's a Jersey thing, and the $26,000 can be filed under business expenses The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Wednesday that it reached a settlement with Secureapp Technologies LLC, an IT recruiting firm based in New Jersey, to resolve the department's determination that Secureapp discriminated against US-based job applicants.…

Cops give denial-of-service sites an extra special denial of service Police around the globe have seized as many as 50 internet domains said to be involved in tens of millions of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks worldwide. Seven people were collared during the swoop.…

Frankly my dear, I do give a DAAML A bipartisan bill introduced in the US Senate could finally bring the cryptocurrency industry to heel by, among other things, extending existing banking regulations to cover digital currencies and designating cryptocash sellers as money service businesses. …

If electric car ownership keeps going up, they’ll be coining it Microsoft is one of the investors contributing to the latest funding round for Group14 Technologies, a company developing silicon battery technology for applications including electric vehicles.…

Say what you want – until Elon decides it affects him, too Updated Twitter has suspended an account dedicated to tracking Elon Musk's private jet trips using public flight data – a month after the world's second-richest man said his "commitment to free speech" prevented him from doing so. …

Cross-platform so you can run it on a Windows box, too Two of the leading open source video editing programs got new versions in the same week… and they're both cross-platform, so you don't need to be a penguin-botherer to try them.…

When putting software on trial is a good thing An AI application that aids early stage breast cancer screening has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for commercialization, software developer MedCognetics announced this week.…

Pitches storage, cloudy software compliance to twitchy EU customers thinking about GDPR Microsoft has confirmed that from the beginning of 2023, it will introduce an EU Data Boundary solution designed to help customers in the European Union and the European Free Trade Association comply with legislation including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…

Transfers group of employees to new owners, makes 400 other local staff redundant Swedish network system maker Ericsson is the latest tech business to offload its remaining operations in Russia to local management, months after saying it was going to pull out of the country "indefinitely."…

Defendants allegedly 'discussed their scheme’ in recorded chats on Discord and Twitter that ‘they believed were private’ Eight braggadocious social media influencers fond of posing next to sportscars are facing charges from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Department of Justice (DoJ), who claim they manipulated their 1.5 million followers in order to help themselves to $100 million in "fraudulent profits."…

But the 'push to higher frequencies is driven by engineers, not end users,' says analyst The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has unveiled a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) to undertake preliminary work on the potential use of terahertz frequencies in 6G communications.…

Sees opportunity on one side, dictatorial control on the other Comment As Qualcomm tries to fight off a lawsuit from Arm demanding Qualcomm destroy its custom cores, the Snapdragon giant has signaled it may have a bigger future with RISC-V.…

But don't get too excited. It's as preliminary as the kernel support Preliminary support for compiling the Rust language has been merged into the codebase for GCC 13, which will be the next version of the GNU compiler collection.…

After four years of talks, competition goes to incumbent supplier NHS England has awarded a £108 million ($139 million) ERP contract – without competition – to the incumbent supplier, a joint venture between the NHS and French outsourcer Sopra Steria.…

Witness the awesome power of this somewhat operational bug-buster Google this week released OSV-Scanner – an open source vulnerability scanner linked to the OSV.dev database that debuted last year.…

Why, when standard version costs a mere $1,349? Cloudy multi-premises management, perhaps VMware has created a subscription service based on vSphere Standard, an edition of its flagship that's mostly aimed at server consolidation.…

Королёв, we have a problem … We don't mean to alarm you, but a Russian Soyuz vehicle docked at the International Space Station (ISS) is leaking a "significant" amount of something, resulting in the cancellation of a spacewalk.…

Beijing cracks down on undeletable pre-installed bloatware and dodgy apps This week the kings of the Middle Kingdom issued directives to address some of the biggest annoyances associated with smartphones applications: copycat apps and bloatware.…

Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers Updated Microsoft has quietly banned cryptocurrency mining from its online services, and says it did so to protect all customers of its clouds.…

Meanwhile, Moscow ponders a ban on offshore tech workers China has reportedly banned the export of chips that use the locally-designed Loongson architecture.…

If you get email from 'Samantha Wolf', congrats: you're important enough to make a decent target An Iranian cyber espionage gang with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has learned new methods and phishing techniques, and aimed them at a wider set of targets – including politicians, government officials, critical infrastructure and medical researchers – according to email security vendor Proofpoint.…

Would you ride to the Moon in a sightly used spaceship? Yeah, it's got some miles on it … NASA's Orion capsule – built to send the first woman and another man to the Moon – has arrived at a US naval base in San Diego, California, and will be dragged ashore for inspection.…

Big Red doesn't charge more when users add cores, so Big Blue plans to triple the count. Because why not? IBM has quietly announced it's planning a 24-core Power 10 processor, seemingly to make one of its servers capable of running Oracle's database in a cost-effective fashion.…

… a working Exchange inbox tree There's no end – or restored data – in sight for some Rackspace customers now on day 12 of the company's ransomware-induced hosted Exchange email outage.…

Handy tools to kill off security protections get Redmond's stamp of approval Microsoft says it has suspended several third-party developer accounts that submitted malicious Windows drivers for the IT giant to digitally sign so that the code could be used in cyberattacks.…

Nuclear, hypersonic hardware is one thing, but you can probably keep the quantum computer stuff, Vlad The US Department of Justice unsealed a 16-count indictment today accusing five Russians, an American citizen, and a lawful permanent US resident of smuggling export-controlled electronics and military ammunition out of the United States for the Russian government.…

Not Amazon's fault buckets are exposed, but the loaded shotgun and your foot are all there ready and waiting Amazon wants you to know that it's not to blame for the data you've exposed though its cloud storage service. AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is, after all, simple.…

'Challenging economic conditions' blamed for delays, but here's $13,000 for your troubles Amazon is reportedly delaying the start date for an unknown number of college graduate hires, telling them in an email they wouldn't be able to start until well after their planned May 2023 start dates.…

If you listen really closely, you can hear Mark Zuckerberg's excitement The US government's crackdown on TikTok continues, with the latest salvo being a bipartisan bill that would outright ban the popular social media app from doing business in the country.…

That's a lot of personal data and cat videos per second Arista Networks is expanding its 7050X4 Series and 7060X5 Series of leaf and spine datacenter switches with an eye on hyperscale and enterprise buyers and their ever growing bandwidth requirements, including support for 800Gbps connections.…

Something's broken, mom! Microsoft offers workaround while trying to think up a fix Updates to Windows Server that were included in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday batch of fixes this week could trip up users who want to spin up new virtual machines in some Hyper-V hosts.…

'Kristina' is a sculpture of a woman with her face in a bowl of soup We doff our caps to the two London police officers who smashed down the doors of a small art gallery to rescue a woman who appeared to have collapsed and drowned in a bowl of soup.…

Campaigners say it's unlikely to pass a test in the courts, though The EU has issued a draft decision agreeing that measures taken by the United States ensure sufficient protection for personal data to be transferred from the region to US companies.…

Alibaba reportedly pulled into the fray, plus: world's top chipmaking equipment maker, ASML, pushes back Chinese companies are being further hit by US-led export controls on advanced chip technology, with reports that the e-commerce giant Alibaba is being denied access to Arm's Neoverse V-series processor designs.…

'Technical issues and proliferation of hateful content' blamed More than 32 million Twitter users are forecast to ditch the social media platform within the next two years as they become "frustrated" by technical matters and the rise in post they deem offensive.…

As customers grapple with pricey AI systems and nontraditional compute, HPE, Dell, and Lenovo circle in wait Comment There's no arguing that the cloud has changed the way we think about deploying our applications and workloads. It served to normalize consumption-based pricing and gave birth to a slew of as-a-service platforms from legacy vendors desperately trying to keep up with changing customer appetites.…

Don't worry, there are some other improvements thrown in too The last new version of Firefox for 2022 is out on Mozilla's FTP server, with a more widespread release to follow soon.…

So says Samsung, which wants to add your cat's collar to the Internet of Stuff Forget lines of business, et cetera – it is people's pets that are shaping the future of tech.…