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It's better to get lithium from used batteries than from the ground, says Elon Musk Car makers are electrifying fleets at such a pace that battery makers can't keep up. So Tesla, GM, Ford and others are investing in battery recycling to cut costs and mitigate risks posed by an erratic international supply chain.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QP5G)
Only a million or so miles to go The multinational James Webb Space Telescope – named after a former NASA administrator – has arrived in French Guiana, home to Europe's Spaceport, with launch finally in sight.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5QP5H)
US market – where 70% Chromies are sold – nears saturation The march of the Chromebook looks to be over for now, at least in the United States, as consumers and students had their fill during the pandemic and are now buying far fewer machines.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QP2D)
Is it really hyperconverged if it has vSphere but not VSAN? Big Mike says 'yes' Dell has made a play for the edge, with pretty much the same stuff it offers in most other places.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5QP2E)
Remember those car-crash results in Q3 a year ago? No repeat collision this time round A year after outlining horrific calendar Q3 financials that caused the share price to crash by €28bn, SAP had no nasty surprises up its sleeves this time.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5QP05)
Just don't mention WPF Microsoft has come up with its usual monthly splurge of .NET news, including the ability to compile native dependencies into Blazor WebAssembly, and a release date of 8 November for Visual Studio 2022.…
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Ex-camera biz Olympus investigating 'suspicious' network activity again a month after ransomware hit
by Gareth Corfield on (#5QNY4)
Plus: Extortionist gang threatens victims who talk to the press Olympus, the Japanese company once known for making cameras, is investigating "suspicious" activity on its networks again – a month after those same networks were ravaged by ransomware.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QNW0)
Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to reverse this delta Microsoft is boasting of how it reckons to have reduced the size of Windows 11 updates. Surprisingly "cutting hardware support" didn't feature.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5QNTA)
Users running non-Windows VMs or existing deployment not affected It is shaping up to be a Black Wednesday for providers of online services after Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines users suffered lingering near-global glitches that prevented them from spinning up new Windows-based systems.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5QNTB)
Christie's 'Science and Natural History' collection isn't joking when it says it's 'a journey in time' Is the NFT craze dead yet? Right, good, then we can return to a cool auction world where the well-heeled can get their mitts on rather more tangible relics from tech history.…
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by Dominic Nutt on (#5QNR1)
You want my medical records? Good, take them – now find me a cure Register debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers and experts go head to head on 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.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5QNNZ)
'No impact expected' then pop – and weren't they in the process of an IPO? Hosting provider OVH reckons that its servers are "gradually returning" following a worldwide outage that lasted for around an hour.…
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by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on (#5QNP0)
Microsoft's New Technology File System has been with us for decades and at long, long last it's going to be fully supported for penguins Opinion Love it or hate it, Linux users in a Windows world must deal with Microsoft's New Technology File System (NTFS). This has always been a pain in the rump. Even after Microsoft finally gave up on its anti-Linux rhetoric and released its patents to the open-source community and expressively opened up its exFAT patents, we still couldn't get into NTFS.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5QNKV)
Award delayed nine months due to pandemic Oracle has won a deal to supply ERP software to East Sussex County Council, on England's south coast, in a delayed £25m project to replace the authority's ageing SAP R/3 system.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5QNJ3)
Investigation to continue into early 2022 Nvidia’s $54 billion bid to takeover British chip designer Arm is reportedly facing more hurdles than expected as the EU Commission extends its antitrust investigation of the deal.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QNGF)
Much of the 2.4Tbit/sec came from across Asia and targeted a single Euro-customer Microsoft claims its Azure cloud has fended off the largest DDOS attack it's detected, which clocked in at 2.4Tbit/sec.…
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Oh my, Grandma, what a big meteorite you have right there on your pillow under that hole in the roof
by Laura Dobberstein on (#5QNF0)
Canadian woman's lovely floral linen besmirched by recently-arrived space rock It was almost midnight in Golden, British Columbia, Canada, a Rocky Mountain city near the border with Alberta, when a meteorite crashed through the roof and landed next to the head of 66-year-old grandma Ruth Hamilton.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QNAT)
Mashes the Sorry button, offers to reverse forced code migration, and promises not to ever mess with projects again The beleaguered .NET Foundation has apologised, again, and reversed one of the policies that saw its members revolt.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QN99)
Now with an extra layer of extreme ultraviolet Samsung has announced it's fired up mass production of DDR5 DRAM built using five-layer extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV).…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5QN8J)
Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS Google Android devices transmit telemetry data while idle, even when users have opted out, according to study conducted earlier this year by Trinity College Dublin computer scientist Douglas Leith.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5QN80)
Astronomers will be searching for clues on how the Solar System formed NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set to embark on its 12-year tour, traveling almost four billion miles, to visit eight asteroids near Jupiter during its mission to reveal the Solar System’s origins.…
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Two faults, around $2bn to pay LG Electronics will pay a minimum of $1.9bn to General Motors after defective batteries it supplied for the car maker's Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles caused car fires.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5QN1M)
With 71 new CVEs, there are patches enough for everyone Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday has arrived with fixes for 71 new CVEs, two patch revisions to address bugs from previous months that just won't die, and three CVEs tied to OpenSSL flaws. That's in addition to eight Edge-Chromium CVEs dealt with earlier this month.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5QN1N)
'So sorry' says Microsoft Identity VP – but its unhelpful support systems will be hard to fix Interview Konstantin Gizdov, an IT professional, was locked out of his Microsoft account by a bug in the company's Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), but says support refused to acknowledge the bug or recover his account.…
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Chip crunch pulls focus AI chip startups are thinking more about bang-for-the-buck on their processors amid a historic semiconductor shortage and rising prices of silicon.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5QMW7)
Reg reader sighs at 'Orwellian gig economy' sums Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has responded to last week's breach of its source code by increasing bug bounty pay-outs from $3,000 to $5,000, sources have told The Register.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5QMRP)
Tech breakdown and proof-of-concept code is already out there If you're using an iPhone, install the iOS 15.0.2 update immediately: Apple has warned that the latest OS upgrade patches an "actively exploited" zero-day.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5QMRQ)
Legal action aims to give players a say in how data about them is traded A group of footballers – soccer players for US readers – are set to launch legal action over what they consider to be the unauthorised use of their personal and performance data.…
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Amazon CEO: Directors and team leaders will determine return to work policy for white collar workers
by Paul Kunert on (#5QMNX)
And warehouse staff, data centre engineers, retail staffers? 'Thanks for your dedication' but no flexible work for you Amazon says team leaders will determine when white collar workers return to the office and how many days they’ll be expected to be in.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#5QMJE)
Yes the same mega-org at centre of Facebook data centre trade secrets spat Mega conglomerate Emerson will buy a majority stake in asset optimisation software biz AspenTech and merge its software units with the firm in an $11bn deal.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5QMDM)
Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says Baroness Dido Harding's tenure as head of NHS Test and Trace – a vital plank of the UK's COVID-19 pandemic response – has been given a damning verdict by a committee of MPs.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5QMBT)
Google Cloud Next '21 brings Distributed Edge, emissions metrics, and a Cybersecurity Action Team Google is taking its cloud platform to the network's edge while aiming to arm customers with data about the damage their compute workloads are doing to the Earth's atmosphere.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5QMBV)
Have you tried reading books? Facebook-owned Instagram is to start testing a new feature which informs users they may not be able to post or view snaps of dinner, memes, selfies, or whatever it is people are interested in showing off to others because the service is broken.…
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by Phil Booth on (#5QMA1)
Who really benefits from 'secondary use' of your medical data? Register debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers and experts go head to head on 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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5QM8E)
It's what The Chef would want Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork is taking a trip back to its spiritual home with yet another warning for administrators who fail to attend to their flock of Windows PCs.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5QM8F)
Usernames and passwords could be read (and abused) by anyone in since fixed flaw An email marketing company claiming to hold details on a million UK teachers and school admin personnel was potentially exposing those to the public internet thanks to a misconfigured error page on its website.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5QM76)
Outsourcing giant Wipro secures a spot among others Wipro is among the tech suppliers on a £500m housing association framework agreement which is expected to flex to meet the needs of legislation resulting from the tragic Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in a high rise London block.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#5QM5N)
Turkeys on tables, petrol in cars, chips in 'puters, etc... or that's the idea, anyway The UK has appointed Sir David Lewis, formerly the CEO of Tesco, as the government's supply chain adviser.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QM5P)
WSL will still be baked in if you want it – but Redmond wants you to get it from the Store Microsoft has revealed a new version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – in the form of an app you acquire from the Microsoft Store. And the software giant will steer WSL users to this new version in future.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5QM4H)
Policies pushing local vendors help, as does huge investment in AI Chines buyers are spending up big on storage, servers, and security, according to reports by International Data Corporation (IDC) released this week.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QM23)
PC-and-server-slinger planned to invest in R&D and bolster capital, says everything's fine without that boost The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has withdrawn approval for Lenovo's listing on the bourse.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QM24)
Big Tech's Australian lobby responds with more governance for its disinformation suppression code Big Tech's Australian lobby has "bolstered the governance" of The Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation, after the nation's Prime Minister and Deputy PM both lashed Facebook and Twitter for doing too little to prevent anonymous trolls.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5QKZF)
It could help us find more exoplanets far out in the universe Astronomers may have stumbled upon four exoplanets when surveying distant red dwarf stars using only low-frequency radio waves.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5QKYW)
MT-NLG is a beast that fed on over 4,000 GPUs Nvidia and Microsoft announced their largest monolithic transformer language model to date, an AI model with a whopping 530 billion parameters they developed together, named the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5QKXB)
Cybersecurity Advisors Network gets backing from Bugcrowd, infosec luminaries, even the OECD Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN), the Paris-based body that represents infosec pros, has created a new working group to advocate for legislation that stops vendors from suing when security researchers show them zero-day bugs in their kit.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5QKVA)
Chocolate Factory says its fingerprinting spec is unfinished Google's Privacy Budget, a plan to reduce the amount of information available in Chrome as a defense against browser fingerprinting, runs the risk of performing poorly, of breaking websites, and of creating a new tracking mechanism.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5QKSQ)
Figma dominating Adobe XD in UIs A survey of Jamstack developers shows rising use and popularity for cloud functions and the TypeScript programming language - along with a warning for entrenched content management system WordPress.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5QKHA)
Chatham House speech targets non-state baddies as well as grey zone and nation states A new national cyber strategy will be launched by year-end, the National Cyber Security Centre's chief exec has promised – while calling out spyware vendor NSO Group as a "red flag" for the UK infosec community.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5QKEG)
Or should that be the community's issues with Microsoft? Analysis .NET Foundation executive director Claire Novotny resigned last week, but board member Shawn Wildermuth said that this did not solve "issues with the community" on which the foundation will now focus.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5QK9W)
Ok, time to call death to PC again? No, definitely not. Did we mention prices due to go up again? Global PC shipments are still expanding but the pace was more moderate in calendar Q3 following a US slowdown in spending caused by the gridlock in the supply chain.…
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