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National provider considering cost increase of 8%, which could be passed on to tech customers Taiwan's state-owned energy company is looking to raise prices for industrial users, a move likely to impact chipmakers such as TSMC, which may well have a knock-on effect on the semiconductor supply chain.…

Some providing out-of-state medical expenses, others spout general pro-choice statements Several US tech companies have taken a stance or issued statements promising healthcare-related support for employees following the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v Wade last Friday.…

Gives cloudy email a kicking, too – but VDI should be safe in its bastions Cloudflare has added the ability to access private networks to its browser isolation service, and suggests the combo represents an alternative to virtual desktop infrastructure.…

Evosys bags £2m in bid to replace SAP at Borough of Waltham Forest Oracle and systems integrator Evosys have won contracts to implement a new Oracle Fusion ERP system for the London Borough of Waltham Forest as part of a project which expects £12 million capex over three years.…

Also, Chrome add-ons are great for fingerprinting, and hacked hot tubs splurge details In brief A Japanese contractor working in the city of Amagasaki, near Osaka, reportedly mislaid a USB drive containing personal data on the metropolis's 460,000 residents.…

Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back Opinion Edge is terribly trendy. Move cloudy workloads as close to the user as possible, the thinking goes, and latency goes down, as do core network and data center pressures. It's true – until the routing sleight-of-hand breaks that diverts user requests from the site they think they're getting to the copies in the edge server. …

But I was only following the procedures! Who, Me? Monday is here, and with it a warning that steadfast determination to ignore instructions might not be such a silly thing after all. Welcome to Who, Me?…

Live and work in Bali, pay tax at home The government of Indonesia has once again raised the idea of creating a "digital nomad visa" that would allow foreign workers to live and work in the tropical paradise of Bali, tax free, for five years.…

VMware-powered sovereign cloud not going to challenge hyperscalers, but probably won't be the last such venture Hitachi has taken a modest step towards becoming a public cloud provider, with the launch of a VMware-powered cloud in Japan that The Register understands may not be its only such venture.…

It's easy to see why – the question is, why now? China's internet regulator has launched an investigation into the security regime protecting academic journal database China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), citing national security concerns.…

Plus: Yandex releases 100-billion-parameter language model for free, and more In brief US hardware startup Cerebras claims to have trained the largest AI model on a single device powered by the world's largest Wafer Scale Engine 2 chip the size of a plate.…

Private offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds Customer service as-a-service vendor Zendesk has announced it will allow itself to be acquired for $10.2 billion by a group of investors led by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, investment company Permira, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.…

But welcomes fast cross-border payments in central bank digital currencies In the same week that it welcomed the launch of a local center of excellence focused on crypto-inspired central bank digital currencies, Singapore's Monetary Authority (MAS) has warned crypto cowboys they face a rough ride in the island nation.…

Startup EdgeQ believes pay-for-what-you-use model will make 5G transition more cost-effective Interview While the IT industry waits to see if and when Intel will introduce software-defined silicon in Xeon CPUs, one startup us is moving ahead with plans to bring a pay-for-what-you-use pricing model to the telecom market with its "base station-on-a-chip" later this year.…

Why screw around with cryptography and keys when just stealing the info is good enough Feature US and European cops, prosecutors, and NGOs recently convened a two-day workshop in the Hague to discuss how to respond to the growing scourge of ransomware.…

We're going hybrid or off-prem to retain and lure staff, say polled managers For bosses suffering the effects of the Great Resignation, IT decision makers taking part in this survey have a suggestion: go remote and you won't have any trouble hiring people.…

NASA probe reveals strange hole created by suspected Chinese junk Pic When space junk crashed into the Moon earlier this year, it made not one but two craters on the lunar surface, judging from images revealed by NASA on Friday.…

Those town hall meetings that go off the rails? That's the internet all day, every day The two US senators behind a proposed law to bring order to cryptocurrency finance have published their legislation to Microsoft's GitHub to obtain input from the unruly public.…

We asked what they will do to prevent cases being built against women. So far: Nothing Period- and fertility-tracking apps have become weapons in Friday's post-Roe America.…

'A humbling and unfortunate reminder' that monsters lurk under bridges Blockchain venture Harmony offers bridge services for transferring crypto coins across different blockchains, but something has gone badly wrong.…

First steps by humans to recapture planet's natural satellite NASA is finally ready to launch its unmanned Orion spacecraft and put it in the orbit of the Moon. Lift-off from Earth is now expected in late August using a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.…

Because data flows into the United States, not because of that user interface Another kicking has been leveled at American tech giants by EU regulators as Italy's data protection authority ruled against transfers of data to the US using Google Analytics.…

Hopes of securing London listing for UK chip designer may be in vain Arm is most likely to list on the US stock exchange Nasdaq, according to Masayoshi Son, chief executive of SoftBank Group, which bought the chip designer in 2016 for $32 billion.…

In grayscale, though. Optimistic plans for daylight-readable display and long-life laptop E-paper display startup Modos wants to make laptops, but is starting out with a standalone high-refresh-rate monitor first.…

Meanwhile, 'search highlights' will tell you 'what's special about each day' Microsoft has dropped a preview of its next batch of Windows fixes, slipping a resolution for broken Wi-Fi hotspots in among the goodies.…

Arm ecosystem elbowing its way into third largest server vendor in the world China-based server maker Inspur has joined the Arm server ecosystem, unveiling a rackmount system using Arm-based chips.…

As industry and governments push to get workers crammed into commuter trains, glass box edifices, tech boss says: 'Why?' Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has doubled down on his company's stance on working from home and flexible working, that great pandemic debate.…

Record revenues buoyed by surge in demand over the last couple of years, but nothing lasts forever The semiconductor market is flattening out after a period of record revenues, according to research outfit Omdia.…

More support engineers needed to keep the email flowing, it seems Microsoft has added a certification to augment the tired eyes and haunted expressions of Exchange support engineers.…

A virtual world at your fingertips with the idea that you feel something gripping your hand Virtual reality is all well and good, but decent haptics and a bit of force feedback are essential for it to be truly immersive. The Register donned the Teslasuit Glove at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this week.…

Watching people's every move and collecting their info – not on our watch, says web ads giant Spyware developed by Italian firm RCS Labs was used to target cellphones in Italy and Kazakhstan — in some cases with an assist from the victims' cellular network providers, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG).…

I have decided to become a double-spaced, three-word sentenced, humble-bragtastic genius Something for the Weekend "I have just read your profile. Have you ever thought about becoming a real estate agent?"…

And we would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling geeks! On Call A tale of theft, fraud and understanding the meaning of "Delete" to end your working week. Welcome to a legally questionable episode of On Call.…

Congrats, AWS, you’ve boldly gone where the Raspberry Pi has already been Amazon Web Services has proudly revealed that the first completely private expedition to the International Space Station carried one of its Snowcone storge appliances, and that the device worked as advertised.…

Still no closer to releasing timeline for its '128 exaflops' AI super, though – and no one's tested the chips yet Tachyum, the outfit aiming to develop a "universal processor" for HPC and artificial intelligence workloads, has joined the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC), a think-tank promoting European HPC research and innovation.…

They're not lying when they say 'We stole your data' – the lie is about which data they lifted A state-sponsored Chinese threat actor has used ransomware as a distraction to help it conduct electronic espionage, according to security software vendor Secureworks.…

And it's like, what ... 12, 13,000 total targets a year max, exec says NSO Group told European lawmakers this week that "under 50" customers use its notorious Pegasus spyware, though these customers include "more than five" European Union member states.…

Networking titan to shutter Russia and Belarus presence, after previously stopping operations Cisco has decided it's time to leave Russia and Belarus, almost four months after stopping operations in response to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.…

Beijing also outlines its GovTech vision and gets very excited about data China's government has outlined its vision for digital services, expected behavior standards at China's big tech companies, and how China will put data to work everywhere – with president Xi Jinping putting his imprimatur to some of the policies.…

Space boffins task engineers with creating 40kW lunar fission plant that can operate for ten years NASA has chosen the three companies it will fund to develop a nuclear fission reactor ready to test on the Moon by the end of the decade.…

The catch: It hooks up to desktop-as-a-service and runs Android – so while it looks like a laptop ... Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced what it claims is the first "cloud laptop" – an Android-powered device that the consumes just five watts and links to its cloud desktop-as-a-service.…

$20b factory construction start date unchanged – but the x86 giant is not happy Intel has found a new way to voice its displeasure over Congress' inability to pass $52 billion in subsidies to expand US semiconductor manufacturing: withholding a planned groundbreaking ceremony for its $20 billion fab mega-site in Ohio that stands to benefit from the federal funding.…

Did they get GitHub Copilot to write it? Amazon at its re:Mars conference in Las Vegas on Thursday announced a preview of an automated programming assistance tool called CodeWhisperer.…

It would be easier to take this complaint seriously if Elon wasn't so Elon If the proposed addition of the 12GHz spectrum to 5G goes forward, Starlink broadband terminals across America could be crippled, or so SpaceX has complained. …

Maintainer lack of familiarity won't be an issue, chief insists, citing his own bafflement when faced with Perl At The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, Linus Torvalds said he expects support for Rust code in the Linux kernel to be merged soon, possibly with the next release, 5.20.…

Software toolkit offered to save developers time, effort, battery power Qualcomm knows that if it wants developers to build and optimize AI applications across its portfolio of silicon, the Snapdragon giant needs to make the experience simpler and, ideally, better than what its rivals have been cooking up in the software stack department.…

Linux fondleslab effort continues to update 16.04-based phone/tablet distro The UBPorts community is in the final stages of preparing its next release and it's calling for testers.…

ThinkStation P360 Ultra packs latest Intel Core processor, Nvidia RTX A5000 GPU, support for eight monitors Lenovo has unveiled a small desktop workstation in a new physical format that's smaller than previous compact designs, but which it claims still has the type of performance professional users require.…

A pit and 4,500 gallons of water were needed to put it out A totaled Tesla Model S burst into flames in a Sacramento junkyard earlier this month, causing a fire that took "a significant amount of time, water, and thinking outside the box to extinguish," firefighters said. …

Now we can squeeze required boxes into a smaller datacenter footprint, says Big Red Oracle has slimmed down its on-prem fully managed cloud offer to a smaller datacenter footprint for a sixth of the budget.…