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Cue robot armies of whiny digital seven-year-olds complaining they're being 'cancelled' Something for the Weekend A robot is performing interpretive dance on my doorstep.…

Does your disaster recovery plan include a mysterious missive at a funeral? On Call Every disaster recovery plan needs to contain the "hit by a bus" scenario. But have you ever retrieved a password from beyond the grave? One Register reader has. Welcome to On Call.…

A tougher nut to crack than the regular flavor, some will find it very tasty Canonical's Linux distro for edge devices and the Internet of Things, Ubuntu Core 22, is out.…

Compliance with onshore data storage laws took almost a year – far longer than India has given the rest of the tech world to comply with infosec changes India’s Reserve Bank has lifted its ban on Mastercard issuing new cards within the nation.…

Six percent of revenues at risk if Code of Practice broken Meta, Twitter, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies and publishers have agreed to fight disinformation online in accordance with the European Commission's latest Code of Practice rules, which were published on Thursday.…

This is how Beijing illegally accesses US tech, say Feds The former director of the University of Arkansas’ High Density Electronics Center, a research facility that specialises in electronic packaging and multichip technology, has been jailed for a year for failing to disclose Chinese patents for his inventions.…

Pockets plenty of savings and illustrates success with the cutest cartoon sysadmin ever Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed it’s completed a massive migration of its own apps to its own cloud.…

1,770 premises raided, 2,000 arrested, $50m seized Law enforcement agencies around the world have arrested about 2,000 people and seized $50 million in a sweeping operation crackdown of social engineering and other scam operations around the globe.…

Search biz hits back at 'misleading' claims, saga lifts lid on Microsoft's web tracking advice Brave CEO Brendan Eich took aim at rival DuckDuckGo on Wednesday by challenging the web search engine's efforts to brush off revelations that its Android, iOS, and macOS browsers gave, to a degree, Microsoft Bing and LinkedIn trackers a pass versus other trackers.…

Lawsuit took its time, just like your older iOS handset Another day, another legal claim against Apple for deliberately throttling the performance of its iPhones to save battery power.…

The internet giant, a doomsday religious sect, and a lawsuit in Silicon Valley A former Google video producer has sued the internet giant alleging he was unfairly fired for blowing the whistle on a religious sect that had all but taken over his business unit. …

That, and Black Hat, are about to reveal risk assessment skills of our cyber-risk experts RSA Conference Quick show of hands: who came home from this year's RSA Conference without COVID-19?…

Severe security flaw won't be fixed – as patches released this week for other bugs If you thought you were over the hump with Patch Tuesday then perhaps think again: Cisco has just released fixes for seven flaws, two of which are not great.…

We want $56 million, systems integrator tells court Oracle has been sued by Plexada System Integrators in Nigeria for alleged breach of contract and failure to pay millions of dollars said to be owed for assisting with a Lagos State Government IT contract.…

Via a cloud subscription, natch – this is the 2020s D-Wave Systems has put its next-generation Advantage2 quantum computer into the cloud, or at least some form of it.…

High unit costs and fixed capex budgets propelling enterprises cloudwards The major hyperscalers and cloud providers are forecast to spend 25 percent more on datacenter infrastructure this year to $18 billion following record investments in the opening three months of 2022.…

Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why A group of employees at SpaceX wrote an open letter to COO and president Gwynne Shotwell denouncing owner Elon Musk's public behavior and calling for the rocket company to "swiftly and explicitly separate itself" from his personal brand.…

Figure is 'value at stake' but 'not the actual value' which itself is a quantum statement In the hype-tastic world of quantum computing, consulting giant McKinsey & Company claims that the still-nascent field has the potential to create $80 billion in new revenue for businesses across industries.…

Tombstones, memes, Clippy, and probably a cat or two. The web pays its respects Internet Explorer breathed its last for many users this week, and netizens have observed its passing in their own special way.…

Plus: Non-fungible tokens for dummies Comment Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has declared that "expensive digital images of monkeys are going to improve the world immensely."…

Well you told us to rip and ... hang on, we're not getting any money? The saga of the US government's plan to rip and replace China-made communications kit from the country's networks has a new twist: following reports that applications for funding far outstripped the cash set aside, it appears two-thirds of such applications lack adequate cost estimates or sufficient supporting evidence.…

GNOM is small, but packs a mighty 7.62mm punch The latest drone headed to Ukraine's front lines isn't getting there by air. This one powers over rough terrain, armed with a 7.62mm tank machine gun.…

Overal price-performance in Big 3 hyperscalers a dead heat, says CockroachDB research AMD's processors have come out on top in terms of cloud CPU performance across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, according to a recently published study.…

Surface Pro X users advised to dodge another Dev Channel build or risk the ultimate Dark Mode Microsoft celebrated the demise of Internet Explorer by releasing another Insider Dev Channel build of Windows 11 and no, Surface Pro X users need not apply.…

'I think it is a time for everyone to be prudent' says networking giant's CFO Networking kingpin Cisco is hiring more cautiously to indicate that it, like many peers, is taking note of macroeconomic red flags.…

Out-of-the-box integration with Salesforce and Dynamics: SAP, Oracle CRM customers must wait Microsoft Outlook, Office 365, and Teams are set to automatically load data in Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics CRMs using a product launched by the Redmond-based software and cloud giant today.…

'EnergyAware' systems to help electricity grids' transition to renewables Microsoft and power management specialist Eaton are working together on "grid-interactive UPS technology" using Eaton's EnergyAware UPS systems to help electricity grids with the transition to renewable energy.…

But some still skeptical it'll be in production in near future. Plus: mystery Huawei quantum patent surfaces While business leaders expect quantum computing to play a significant role in industry by 2030, some experts don't believe the tech is going to be ready for production deployment in the near future.…

Faced with rising software supply-chain attacks, package registries are locking things down Slowly but surely, software package registries are adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) to reduce the risk of hijacked accounts, a source of potential software supply chain attacks.…

Holograms, brands, NFTs, and a 1,000-consumer survey Opinion Consulting giant McKinsey & Company has been playing a round of MythBusters: Metaverse Edition.…

New versions of both desktops drop... with one the oldest FOSS 'top around Right after the latest release of the KDE Frameworks comes the Plasma Desktop 5.25 plus the default desktop for the forthcoming Linux Mint 23.…

POS and online ordering vendor StoreHub offered free Asian info takeaways Researchers at security product recommendation service Safety Detectives claim they’ve found almost a million customer records wide open on an Elasticsearch server run by Malaysian point-of-sale software vendor StoreHub.…

Jupiter added to HPC solar system Germany will be the host of the first publicly known European exascale supercomputer, along with four other EU sites getting smaller but still powerful systems, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) announced this week.…

Flying, swarming, decision making already in production in nature Roboticists could learn a thing or two from insects if they're looking to build tiny AI machines capable of moving, planning, and cooperating with one another.…

Law will be reviewed after three years amid debate on free speech vs civility Japan has updated its penal code to make insulting people online a crime punishable by a year of incarceration.…

Second Nuri rocket stalls with problem similar to those that caused first mission to mostly fail South Korea's ambition to launch a space industry on the back of a locally developed rocket have stalled, after a glitch saw the countdown halted for its latest attempt to place its Nuri vehicle into orbit.…

Is this the end of Switchzilla's dashboard creep? Cisco Live In his first in-person Cisco Live keynote in two years, CEO Chuck Robbins didn't make any lofty claims about how AI is taking over the network or how the company's latest products would turn networking on its head. Instead, the presentation was all about working with customers to make their lives easier.…

Graphcore processor outperforms Nvidia rival in team's experiments GPUs are a powerful tool for machine-learning workloads, though they’re not necessarily the right tool for every AI job, according to Michael Bronstein, Twitter’s head of graph learning research.…

Player Four has entered the game Japan is reportedly hoping to join the ranks of countries producing leading-edge 2nm chips as soon as 2025, and it's working with the US to make such ambitions a reality.…

By free speech, he means freedom to flip the bird at the SEC Elon Musk still hopes to quash a 2018 settlement agreement with the SEC requiring Tesla-related tweets to be approved by a lawyer before he can post them: on Wednesday, he took his case to the US Court of Appeals after a lower court denied this request.…

South Korean giant says it's in no way goosing TV HDR brightness Samsung has once again been accused of cheating in benchmark tests to inflate the apparent abilities of its hardware.…

What do we want? Safeguards on information! How do we want it? Er, someone help! American lawmakers held a hearing on Tuesday to discuss a proposed federal information privacy bill that many want yet few believe will be approved in its current form.…

WhatsApp messages possibly the worst Father's Day present in the world There's no such thing as free beer for Father's Day — at least not from Heineken. The brewing giant confirmed that a contest circulating on WhatsApp, which promises a chance to win one of 5,000 coolers full of green-bottled lager, is a frothy fraud.…

'We’re not necessarily replacing Snowflake' is an interesting choice of words Aerospike, the value-key NoSQL database, has launched a collaboration with data connection vendor StarBurst to offer SQL access to its datastores.…

Will play nicely in Earth orbit A letter has been filed with America's communications watchdog confirming that SpaceX and OneWeb, which are building mega-constellations of broadband satellites, are content to play nicely.…

This silicon business ain't cheap, you know, say execs at Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia etc Big Tech in America has had enough of Congress' inability to pass pending legislation that includes tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to boost semiconductor manufacturing and R&D in the country.…

Tech stock crash fails to deter Goldman Sachs as it leads funding round in the real-time data specialist DataStax, the database company based on the open-source Cassandra system, has secured $115 million in funding for a $1.6 billion valuation.…

First of its kind report from NHTSA comes with caveats, though – the new tech also saves lives First-of-its-kind research on advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) involved in accidents found that one company dominated with nearly 70 percent of reported incidents: Tesla.…

Brains to be added to the Customer Security and Trust in defense against 'foreign adversaries' Microsoft has opened its wallet once more to pick up New York-based cyber-threat analyst Miburo.…

We pick the creator's brains on why he would undertake such a marvelous ordeal The Floppotron computer hardware orchestra has reached version 3.0. The question is, where do you even find 512 floppy disk drives? Its creator, Paweł Zadrożniak, tells all.…