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Best hedge against a slowing PC market? Take some design tips from Apple Dell has pulled the lid off the latest pair of laptops in its XPS 13 line, in the hopes the new designs, refreshed internals, and an unmistakably Apple-like aesthetic of its 2-in-1 approach can give them a boost in a sputtering PC market. …

Chip price hikes keeping sector healthy but new fabs could lead to 'overcapacity' The global economy may be in a tenuous situation right now, but the semiconductor industry is likely to walk away from 2022 with a "healthy" boost in revenues, according to analysts at IDC. But beware oversupply, the analyst firm warns.…

Impact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried The James Webb Space Telescope has barely had a chance to get to work, and it's already taken a micrometeoroid to its sensitive primary mirror.…

320 million units forecast, still well above pre-pandemic, but boom is over for now Orders for PCs are forecast to shrink in 2022 as consumers confront rising inflation, the war in Ukraine, and lockdowns in parts of the world critical to the supply chain, all of which continue.…

Twitter sprays mogul's team with 'firehose' of data as unending saga continues Twitter has reportedly thrown its $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk to a shareholder vote, which could take place around late July or early August.…

Zero day? Yeah, we'll get to it. Running Windows 11 on old CPUs? OMG WE MUST FIX THIS NOW! Microsoft has accidentally turned off its controversial hardware compatibility check, thus offering Windows 11 to computers not on the list.…

CRM slinger set to be challenged on lack of progress at investor meeting A shareholder activist group has found that tech sector workers from minority ethnic backgrounds are more than twice as likely to have experienced explicit racism than employees in other sectors.…

'Having to go buy paper is very painful' for customers, says CEO. Let's just say the profit margins aren't HP Inc is piloting a paper delivery service for Instant Ink subscribers as it looks to increase the amount of profit it can wring from customers.…

Meanwhile Microsoft still hasn't patched the fatal flaw While enterprises are still waiting for Microsoft to issue a fix for the critical "Follina" vulnerability in Windows, yet more malware operators are moving in to exploit it.…

MOOC dropouts, boot camp avoiders, and college-averse students sought Developers in the US with $11,000 to spend, three spare nights a week, and a desire to level up to become an engineering manager or architect have a new education provider to consider: Indian company Scaler, which has made America its first overseas destination.…

Multiple accounts, local storage, calendars, and feeds make it worth the wait Browser maker Vivaldi's email client has finally hit version 1.0, seven years after it was first announced.…

Team lead Clement Lefebvre takes over maintaining backup tool from UMix creator The Linux Mint XApps suite of cross-desktop accessories has a new member – the Timeshift backup tool.…

More evidence of where that half-a-billion-a-year cost of Emergency Services Network delay is going The UK's police service is set to spend up to £50 million ($62.7 million) buying hardware and software for a legacy communication network that was planned to become obsolete in 2019.…

Claims world record run took 157 days, 23 hours … and just one Debian server Google has put its cloud to work calculating the value of Pi all the way out to 100 trillion digits, and claimed that's a world record for Pi-crunching.…

Bins non-competes and promises salary transparency Microsoft has announced changes to labour relations policy for its US workforce that touch on noncompete clauses, confidentiality agreements and pay transparency.…

It may sound like a trivial feature, but this sort of thing matters, and not only to gamers In a sign of how display handling is evolving, the GNOME desktop's 3D-compositing Mutter window manager is gaining support for variable refresh rate (VRR, also known as Adaptive Sync) displays.…

Search fail added to list of embarrassing issues since debut Infosys celebrated the first anniversary of the e-filing portal it built for India's tax authorities fixing another prominent glitch – this time a search functionality error.…

To find dark matter and early galaxies, Morpheus could be The One Scientists around the world are gearing up to study the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, which are to be released on July 12.…

Bot was booted for being bothersome A prankster researcher has trained an AI chatbot on over 134 million posts to notoriously freewheeling internet forum 4chan, then set it live on the site before it was swiftly banned.…

Crims have weaponized tech and certain States let them launder the proceeds Australian Federal Police (AFP) commissioner Reece Kershaw has accused un-named nations of helping organized criminals to use technology to commit and launder the proceeds of crime, and called for international collaboration to developer technologies that counter the threats that behaviour creates.…

Takes on global players with data sourced from customers, plus paid contributions from delivery drivers Singapore's Uber equivalent, Grab, has decided to offer its homegrown maps as a service and asserts it will offer faster and more accurate spatial services than the likes of Google and HERE Technologies.…

Do you know all of your software dependencies? Spoiler alert: hardly anybody is on top of it RSA Conference Major supply-chain attacks of recent years – we're talking about SolarWinds, Kaseya and Log4j to name a few – are "just the tip of the iceberg at this point," according to Aanchal Gupta, who leads Microsoft's Security Response Center.…

Gartner advises renegotiating subscriptions now to avoid ‘dramatic’ and ‘extraordinary’ price rises Analyst firms S&P Global Market Intelligence and Gartner have both offered negative evaluations of Broadcom's takeover of VMware.…

Data-stealing malware also paired with Black Basta ransomware gang Miscreants are reportedly exploiting the recently disclosed critical Windows Follina zero-day flaw to infect PCs with Qbot, thus aggressively expanding their reach.…

No AR/VR glasses but at least RoomPlan will let you make rapid 3D room maps WWDC Apple this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference delivered software development kits (SDKs) for beta versions of its iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9 platforms.…

Okay Google, rustle me up a Lone Star State virtual machine. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) roped the Lone Star State into its cloud empire this week with the launch of its Dallas, Texas region.…

Our window to have leading server chips again is narrowing, exec admits While Intel has bagged Nvidia as a marquee customer for its next-generation Xeon Scalable processor, the x86 giant has admitted that a broader rollout of the server chip has been delayed to later this year.…

Embrace, extend technology into other products ... and extinguish On December 15, Microsoft's GitHub plans to turn out the lights on Atom, its open-source text editor that has inspired and influenced widely used commercial apps, such as Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Slack, and GitHub Desktop.…

2022 in a nutshell: Missing SLAs, failing to meet customer expectations Infrastructure operators are struggling to reduce the rate of IT outages despite improving technology and strong investment in this area.…

It'll ruin Gmail, claims web ads giant Google has a fresh list of reasons why it opposes tech antitrust legislation making its way through Congress but, like others who've expressed discontent, the ad giant's complaints leave out mention of portions of the proposed law that address said gripes.…

x86 giant giddy about making chips on the continent, its foundry rival not so much Intel is reportedly set to receive €6.8 billion ($7.3 billion) in subsidies for a massive chip manufacturing campus it's planning in Germany, and the x86 giant apparently won't have to worry about foundry rival TSMC setting up shop anywhere nearby for the time being.…

Mixed Reality to cold reality Microsoft has sought to clarify the reasoning behind the imminent departure of HoloLens boss Alex Kipman.…

And not enough customers, Shirley? IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna says it offloaded Watson Health this year because it doesn't have the requisite vertical expertise in the healthcare sector.…

SSNDOB sold email addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, SSNs and more US law enforcement has shut down another dark web market, seizing and dismantling SSNDOB, a site dealing in stolen personal information.…

Messrs Elliott strike again Western Digital has confirmed the board is considering "strategic alternatives" for the storage supplier, including spinning out its flash and hard disk businesses.…

OEMs thrown a NetSec Accelerator that plugs into server PCIe slots RSA Conference Intel has released a reference design for a plug-in security card aimed at delivering improved network and security processing without requiring the additional rackspace a discrete appliance would need.…

Database titan 'does not buy companies and then lowers costs' Oracle has closed the acquisition of Cerner Corporation, a specialist in healthcare software, in a deal set to be worth $28.3 billion.…

Microsoft's flagship OS still leagues behind predecessor in terms of adoption The next major version of Windows 11 is drawing near with the code hitting the Insider Release Preview Channel.…

Are you working, or watching daytime TV? 80% of leaders have either installed monitoring software or are considering it... Research by Citrix shows business leaders don't entirely trust their employees when it comes to hybrid work.…

A full two years after the release of Surface Pro X, but they're ready for action There was good news overnight for the niche of Windows on Arm users as Microsoft released a native Arm64 version of PowerToys.…

But only if enough customers sign new contracts... confirmation deadline is 21 June Managed service provider Redcentric is buying the "business and assets" of three datacenters owned by troubled Sungard Availability Services but it'll only complete if a volume of customers agree to new contracts.…

'Staggering amount of computation' deployed to solve big problems uses a lot of electricity AI is killing the planet. Wait, no – it's going to save it. According to Hewlett Packard Enterprise VP of AI and HPC Evan Sparks and professor of machine learning Ameet Talwalkar from Carnegie Mellon University, it's not entirely clear just what AI might do for – or to – our home planet.…

Fragmentation has put paid to the dream of Linux ever being bigger than Windows Comment Recently, The Register's Liam Proven wrote tongue in cheek about the most annoying desktop Linux distros. He inspired me to do another take.…

NSA, FBI and CISA issue joint advisory that suggests China hardly has to work for this – flaws revealed in 2017 are among their entry points State-sponsored Chinese attackers are actively exploiting old vulnerabilities to "establish a broad network of compromised infrastructure" then using it to attack telcos and network services providers.…

We ask again: Has science gone too far? Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania say they've developed a photonic deep neural network processor capable of analyzing billions of images every second with high accuracy using the power of light.…

Promises new alert notices but warn 'we can sometimes predict thunderstorms but not lightning strikes' RSA Conference A heightened state of defensive cyber security posture is the new normal, according to federal cyber security chiefs speaking at the RSA Conference on Tuesday. This requires greater transparency and threat intel sharing between the government and private sector, they added.…

Overhaul of Chrome add-ons set for January, Google says it's for all our own good Special report Seven months from now, assuming all goes as planned, Google Chrome will drop support for its legacy extension platform, known as Manifest v2 (Mv2). This is significant if you use a browser extension to, for instance, filter out certain kinds of content and safeguard your privacy.…

Bit barns in Saudi Arabia, all-digital bank in Singapore Alibaba's cloud business and financial services affiliate Ant Group has expanded further out of China this week, by opening a pair of datacenters in Saudia Arabia and a digital wholesale bank in Singapore.…

This is why the Viasat attack – rated one of the biggest ever – had little impact RSA Conference The Kremlin-backed cyberattack against satellite communications provider Viasat, which happened an hour before Russia invaded Ukraine, was "one of the biggest cyber events that we have seen, perhaps ever, and certainly in warfare," according to Dmitri Alperovitch, a co-founder of CrowdStrike and chair of security-centric think tank Silverado Policy Accelerator.…

New Delhi now fighting criticism of eroding free speech and privacy with two proposed regulations India's tech-related policies continue to create controversy, with fresh objections raised to a pair of proposed regulation packages.…