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Which doesn't help when there's a £47.1m hole in the budget Facing a £47.1m budget shortfall, Surrey County Council has been forced to delay the implementation of a £30m Unit4 ERP system, incurring additional annual support fees of £700,000 on its ageing SAP system.…

Blackberry says APT41 gang used lumpen remixes of Microsoft domain names to lure the unwary Blackberry's Research and Intelligence Team has uncovered three phishing schemes targeting Indian nationals, and says a Chinese state-sponsored malware gang is the culprit.…

Majority of MEPs want end to police face-ID'ing anyone and everyone in public, and more Police should be banned from using blanket facial-recognition surveillance to identify people not suspected of crimes. Certain private databases of people’s faces for identification systems ought to be outlawed, too.…

Analyst firm says new OS doesn't offer much to biz, so doesn't warrant rapid upgrade Analyst firm Gartner has advised its customers what to do about Windows 11: get familiar with it and plan for eventual adoption, but don't rush to implement.…

Community not happy with justification for actions taken without consultation or recent engagement .NET Foundation executive director Claire Novotny has apologised for her actions, after other members objected to her intervention on one of its projects and a board member resigned over the organisation's direction.…

But who needs the latest and greatest when 17nm has been boosted, eh? Samsung has added a 2nm process node to its foundry roadmap, and said products built with the new tech should go in sale in 2025.…

Or will do in practical terms when devices start appearing, anyway A key standard set to double data transfer speeds between the main components of computers will be finalized in a matter of months.…

Octeon 10 packs Arm CPU cores, crypto and AI acceleration, and more Marvell has produced samples of a server microprocessor with up to 24 Arm-compatible cores that could be used for applications involving artificial intelligence as well as network management, a spokesperson told The Register.…

Monopoly is a board game, not a handbook Apple's decision to only allow Apple Pay to access the NFC chip in iPhones could result in the Silicon Valley giant paying hefty anti-monopoly fines in Europe.…

Protect your deployment from ransomware attacks with Kasten by Veeam Sponsored Who do you consider the most innovative, agile tech team out there? Sadly, it’s probably the cybercriminal community, particularly those who specialise in ransomware attacks.…

Eleven. Eleh-ven. Ala-vuhn*. Oh never mind Google has launched a speech identification system aimed at commercial call centres – leaving some biometric security questions unanswered at the same time.…

Drivers slip into the kernel as team ponders GPU hardware Efforts to bring Linux to Apple Silicon have resulted in a basic functional desktop, according to the Asahi Linux team.…

Unless you want to leak like a sieve The Apache Software Foundation has hurried out a patch to address a pair of HTTP Web Server vulnerabilities, at least one of which is already being actively exploited.…

High shipping costs barrier to access for many of continent’s inhabitants Raspberry Pi said yesterday it would be pushing to get its miniature computers into more shops across Africa, admitting that its presence on the continent was limited to a single approved reseller with commercial ops in a few countries in southern Africa.…

MonkaS Updated Links to torrents that contain 128GB of data seemingly pulled from the Amazon-owned Twitch streaming service have been posted to 4chan.…

Learn more about the operational side of AI on October 7 at 11am BST Special series If you’ve ever worked with an application that uses some form of machine learning, you’ll know that some component or other is always evolving. If it isn’t the training data that’s changing, you’ll surely come across a model that needs updating, and if all is well in those areas, there’s a good chance a feature request is waiting for implementation so code modifications are due.…

Demand for components at a 10-year high Cisco is warning customers that the base price of its hardware is scheduled to jump from the start of next month amid the "ongoing industry-wide global supply chain challenges" – and sources have told The Reg the rise will be 7 per cent.…

Microsoft does not recommend this Microsoft has softened its stance on hardware requirements for Windows 11 by documenting a way to bypass them – though it warns against doing so and states that it is unsupported and will not be entitled to updates.…

Newcomer specialist and elderly data integration generalist make their pitches Two software vendors with very different backgrounds are launching technology aimed at understanding operational processes based on IoT and streaming data this week.…

Kudos given to Signal. Not so much for Facebook and Whatsapp Interview Matrix-based communications and collaboration app Element has continued its mission to make bridges into the decentralised network a little more commercially acceptable with connectivity for Signal.…

'Technology has been a source of pain,' CIO admits to investors UK construction supplier Travis Perkins has picked Oracle Fusion Cloud's Financials solution for its core corporate system of record following the failed implementation of Infor ERP.…

I fought the bork and the bork won Bork!Bork!Bork! With travel restrictions set to ease, bork has skipped lightly across the Atlantic after a brief sojourn in France and into the New York Civil Court, where the long arm of the law appears unable to reach Ctrl, Alt or Delete.…

Sovereign cloud meets hyperscale Google and French defence and industry titan Thales have cooked up an interesting arrangement that will see the latter create a sovereign version of the G-Cloud.…

Singapore pulls plug on 'Ask Jamie' after it also suggested polio jabs and other 'misaligned replies' A chatbot used by Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) has been switched off after providing inappropriate answers to residents' queries on COVID-related matters.…

But will 'examine options that allow us to maintain the service fees that keep Android free' Google's South Korean operation has decided to comply with the nation's new law that prohibits it from restricting payments to its own Play Store, either to pay for apps or for in-app purchases.…

Explains mega-outage with boilerplate response: We try hard, we're sorry we failed, we'll try to do better Facebook has admitted buggy auditing code was at the core of yesterday's six-hour outage – and revealed a little more about its infrastructure to explain how it vanished from the internet.…

Uh, cool? Google is going to automatically enroll 150 million users and two million YouTube creators into using two-factor authentication for their accounts by the end of the year, it announced on Tuesday.…

Lawmakers urged to solve 'this crisis' of corporate America putting profits before people Whistleblower Frances Haugen today urged Congress to regulate Facebook and its algorithms that she said put immense profit before safety and society.…

And if it works, you could play with it in a cloud around 2024 D-Wave calls quantum computers "solvers." And as with PCs today, these solvers are going to segmented into fast, faster, and fastest.…

Not quite business as usual for Microsoft Microsoft has released Windows 11, a refreshed version of the operating system with internal improvements but tarnished by onerous system requirements and usability shortcomings.…

Still plans to raise €350m and aim for non US-cloud fans OVHcloud, the French cloud services provider, has trimmed roughly €50m off its IPO target as it seeks a capital injection from the financial markets.…

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in Google Cloud's UK and Ireland boss Pip White has quit to return to Salesforce and take control of the EMEA operations at collaboration division Slack.…

Poor securing of Elasticsearch cluster strikes again Updated The Telegraph newspaper managed to leak 10TB of subscriber data and server logs after leaving an Elasticsearch cluster unsecured for most of September, according to the researcher who found it online.…

Hardware compatibility, testing fury... though under the hood there are things to like Microsoft has launched a new operating system today, but whether you'll be able to run it is open to question. As is if you'll want to run it.…

vSphere as-a-service on the way too, along with software-defined memory VMworld VMware will move its whole stack to the Arm architecture, as part of a new offering aimed at what it's labelled "edge-native apps".…

Undisclosed information allegedly shared earns one $350k, but he doesn't get to keep it Two tech execs, one at Infosys and another at Wipro, are in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) after they were accused of insider trading of Infosys stock, according to a late September filing.…

Back-to-analogue computing model designed to mimic emergent properties of the brain Researchers in Italy have developed a physical system to mimic properties of human brains that they hope will massively reduce the power costs of neural networks fundamental to AI development.…

'Don't tell us you're about the community and then go do the business of Microsoft' Interview The role of Microsoft's .NET Foundation, set up for the governance and support of open-source .NET and related projects, has been questioned by a former board member who resigned in frustration.…

As replacement system faces delays, the incumbent reaps rewards Airwave, the company behind the supposed-to-be-defunct legacy data and voice network for the UK emergency services, is on track for projected profits of £1.2bn for the technology's extension period.…

Strategy shift to double down on Asia's continued digital economy boom nets a cool $1.38B from AustralianSuper Singapore-based telecoms provider Singtel is selling a huge chunk of its Australia Tower Network (ATN) to fund its 5G rollout, and beef up its data centre holdings.…

Freebie can manage production container workloads in rival clouds VMworld VMware's biggest admirers are also among its biggest challenges to growth.…

Stuff that’s already pretty much sorted with real money – like scaling transactions, security, and stopping crooks – need work The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has issued a technical perspective paper on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), suggesting two viable designs but also finding seven issues that need to be nailed down before it would be comfortable implementing the "e-HKD".…

Automaker accused of using software to cover up defects. Regulator says non-crash blazes are 'rare events' America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday denied a request to investigate the safety of Tesla’s electric car batteries following a series of vehicle fires in 2018 and 2019.…

It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s just DNS. It was BGP Updated Facebook has struggled back online today, though at the time of writing glitches are still very much a part of The Social Network™ experience.…

Blown up like a Death Star The US Supreme Court has brushed off Oracle’s complaint that it wasn't awarded the Pentagon's $10bn winner-takes-all Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract.…

Deal could value chip maker at $25bn GlobalFoundries has filed for an initial public offering in the United States.…

Plus Russia arrests security boss, two Chrome flaws exploited In Brief A hospital that continued to admit patients during a ransomware attack has been sued over claims that a baby died after doctors and nurses failed to spot there was a problem due to networks being shut down.…

Did someone at Menlo Park flick the wrong switch? Updated Facebook and its other social media sites, WhatsApp and Instagram, fell offline today.…

High end workloads with Hyperscale (Citus) Microsoft has pushed PostgreSQL 14 into General Availability on Azure Hyperscale (Citus) regions and the company, famed for the occasional outage of its cloud and desktop platforms, has given an insight into what was involved.…

William Shatner joins crew for Bezos' number two The game of billionaire one-upmanship has continued with the confirmation that Blue Origin's next flight of its New Shepard sub-orbital capsule will contain veteran actor William Shatner.…