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Network? What's that when it's at home? On Call This week we bring you a shocking incident for a Register reader who was party to an electrical engineer's earthly delights.…

Startup QuSecure is the latest vendor to jump into the field with its as-a-service offering Analysis Startup QuSecure will this week introduce a service aimed at addressing how to safeguard cybersecurity once quantum computing renders current public key encryption technologies vulnerable.…

Gitee apologises but won't explain why this is happening China’s approved GitHub clone, Gitee, has warned users that it will make all existing repositories private pending a mysterious review of their content.…

Browser makers line up for Google's extension system but complaints persist Mozilla on Wednesday launched a Developer Preview program to solicit feedback on Firefox extensions that implement Manifest v3, a Google-backed revision of browser extension architecture.…

Ban on shopping from September, rip and replace order with 2024 deadline The Canadian government has joined many of its allies and banned the use of Huawei and ZTE tech in its 5G networks, as part of a new telecommunications security framework.…

But also makes it plain that offshore entities must comply India has slightly softened its controversial new reporting requirements for information security incidents and made it plain they apply to multinational companies.…

Two becomes one as ThinkPad P16 stands alone and HX replaces mobile Xeon Lenovo has halved its range of portable workstations.…

Well, that clears things up? Maybe not. The US Justice Department has directed prosecutors not to charge "good-faith security researchers" with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) if their reasons for hacking are ethical — things like bug hunting, responsible vulnerability disclosure, or above-board penetration testing.…

AI chips are sucking down 600W+ and the solution could be to drown them. Intel this week unveiled a $700 million sustainability initiative to try innovative liquid and immersion cooling technologies to the datacenter.…

Swiss banks cough up around half of the proceeds of crime The US government has recovered over $15 million in proceeds from the 3ve digital advertising fraud operation that cost businesses more than $29 million for ads that were never viewed.…

Running ad auctions while also buying and selling ads may be outlawed for large firms A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has proposed legislation that would likely force Alphabet's Google, Meta's Facebook, and Amazon to divest portions of their ad businesses.…

Cupertino's 51% control is why NA market grew while the world shrunk, says Canalys Smartphone markets the world over are in decline, but that news doesn't appear to have reached North America, where the market grew by 4 percent in the first quarter of 2022.…

With few options, Russia will look to half-fast chips from Chinese maker With Russia cut off from foreign processor makers Intel and AMD, the country has been scrambling to switch to more local CPUs and components.…

MS's TPM tip finally gets a grip – but shh – don't mention the Chromebooks You can imagine the sighs of relief all round in Redmond, Washington this week as Acer launched its new TravelMate range, which has Microsoft's Pluton silicon built-in.…

Working to compete with Intel as FastConnect comes to AMD-processor-powered PCs AMD and Qualcomm have rolled out a joint effort that brings remote management capabilities over Wi-Fi for AMD business systems, potentially boosting their appeal for corporate IT departments.…

CDN biz hopes merger will add a new way to use its edge services Updated Content delivery network Fastly is purchasing Glitch, the company behind the web-based IDE of the same name.…

If you're on Windows 10, and meet requirements, it's ready to rumble... and 22H2 is waiting in the wings Microsoft has quietly updated its release health dashboard and declared Windows 11 "designated for broad deployment."…

Just because companies are publicly decreasing carbon footprints doesn't mean their cash isn't doing the opposite Many large corporations are taking measures to reduce their carbon footprints, but a new report claims that for some, the greatest source of emissions is actually from investments being made with their wealth, and this is undermining their own environmental efforts.…

They're using the invasion 'to take aim at the usual adversaries,' Mandiant told The Reg Pro-Beijing and Iran miscreants are using the war in Ukraine to spread disinformation that supports these countries' political interests — namely, advancing anti-Western narratives – according to threat-intel experts at Mandiant.…

Attempt to be interactive meets cries of 'Someone dumped a text box right in the center of my desktop!' Microsoft has rolled out an Insider Build threatening "interactive content on the Windows desktop."…

Share price collapses 19% as COVID-19 policy hits supply chain Cisco Systems surprised Wall Street by warning investors that the Shanghai lockdown and the war in Ukraine will eradicate any revenue growth prospects in its current – and final – quarter of 2022.…

So that's who to blame when its IT crashes, huh? American Airlines named Microsoft Azure its preferred cloud platform this week in a deal it says will cut costs, boost efficiency, and support its eco-sustainability goals.…

At the Haba, go, go Habana. The hottest research north of Havana The University of San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) says it's ready to run test workloads on its experimental Voyager AI system, which looks to be the first-ever Intel Habana-based supercomputer.…

Singapore issues injunction against the sale of image procured through questionable foreclosure For the first time, a court has issued an injunction to stop the sale and transfer of a non-fungible token (NFT) at the request of a previous owner.…

Crew's raids continue worldwide, Talos team warns The US government's alert three months ago warning businesses and government agencies about the threat of BlackByte has apparently done little to slow down the ransomware group's activities.…

Tech exploits electromagnetically induced transparency to form highly sensitive electric field detector Brit telecoms giant BT is undertaking a trial of new antenna technology that may boost the range of 5G networks and reduce mobile network energy consumption.…

For tiny Venn diagram wedge who want the feel of a mechanical keyboard plus, er, emoji keys So many mechanical keyboards put function ahead of form. Put less charitably, they're ugly as sin. The Logitech Pop, a $100 wireless mechanical keyboard, tries to play both sides of the field.…

No 'reportable concerns' yet plenty of concerned feedback As Google's self-imposed "late 2023" deadline to kill all third party cookies in its Chrome browser looms, the giant has handed in its first quarterly Privacy Sandbox report to the UK's competition regulator.…

Miners behind the Great Firewall may never have downed tools, say Cambridge crypto-boffins China has become the world’s second most prolific miner of bitcoin – or maybe it always was – according to new data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF).…

British startup Wayve gets supercomputing leg up Microsoft is pumping supercomputing oomph as well as funds into a British-born autonomous vehicle startup.…

Engineers debugging at 160 bits per second, with 41 hours latency NASA engineers are investigating anomalous telemetry data produced by venerable space probe Voyager 1.…

No, you're not really gonna be hacked. But you may be surprised Some research into the potentially exploitable low-power state of iPhones has sparked headlines this week.…

Well short of planned 70 percent domestic capacity China’s integrated circuit (IC) production has failed to keep pace with its appetite for silicon, with market research firm IC Insights predcicting the nation will produce only one in five ICs it uses in 2026.…

Cutting costs across sprawling business as COVID makes life hard in China Chinese tech giant Tencent has recorded its first ever quarter-to-quarter revenue fall, warned that COVID-19 lockdowns will hurt messing with its business, and cautioned against assumptions that Beijing is ready to enthusiastically support tech companies.…

We're shutting down as we can no longer pay staff, bills, web giant says Google Russia is shutting down and filing for bankruptcy after Vladimir Putin's government confiscated the Chocolate Factory's bank account in the nation.…

Critical authentication bypass revealed, older flaws under active attack Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued two warnings in a single day to VMware users, as it believes the virtualization giant's products can be exploited by miscreants to gain control of systems.…

Foreign workers favored over US residents because that's what clients wanted, allegedly Amtex Systems Incorporated, an IT staffing and recruiting firm based in New York City, has agreed to settle claims it discriminated against American workers because company clients wanted workers with temporary visas.…

A sneak peek at a notebook that could be revealed this year Pic As Apple and Qualcomm push for more Arm adoption in the notebook space, we have come across a photo of what could become one of the world's first laptops to use the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture.…

Biz tells us: Won't someone please think of the ... fraud we've stopped Democrat senators want the FTC to investigate "evidence of deceptive statements" made by ID.me regarding the facial-recognition technology it controversially built for Uncle Sam.…

Russia-linked crime-as-a-service crew is rich, professional – and investing in R&D Analysis Wizard Spider, the Russia-linked crew behind high-profile malware Conti, Ryuk and Trickbot, has grown over the past five years into a multimillion-dollar organization that has built a corporate-like operating model, a year-long study has found.…

Everyone's entitled to a viewpoint but what's your viewpoint on what exactly is and isn't a viewpoint? A coalition of advocacy groups on Tuesday asked the US Supreme Court to block Texas' social media law HB 20 after the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week lifted a preliminary injunction that had kept it from taking effect.…

FBI and co blow lid off latest PHP tampering scam The FBI and its friends have warned businesses of crooks scraping people's credit-card details from tampered payment pages on compromised websites.…

Rocky and Alma are here for those CentOS Linux users who are still smarting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6, Alma Linux 8.6 and Rocky Linux 8.6 are all out now, for various platforms.…

Still no damages number, likely to be way less than $5 billion When an accounts assistant asked Autonomy founder Mike Lynch to approve a $700,000 purchase order in December 2010, the British exec "wrote 'ok' from his iPhone."…

OVHcloud and Nextcloud lawsuits hit the spot as Windows giant admits to potential competition issues Microsoft is offering a series of concessions over its software licensing policies to European cloud providers in a bid to address their accusations of anti-competitive tactics and cool any interest from local regulators.…

Less than half said business leaders in their bank understood 'opportunities of cloud' A report into cloud adoption in the international banking industry shows that despite a broad appetite for cloud services, only around a third of banks have migrated more than 30 percent of their applications.…

Irish Council on Civil Liberties said this is first time the scope of real-time bidding is being measured The average American has their personal information shared in an online ad bidding war 747 times a day. For the average EU citizen, that number is 376 times a day. In one year, 178 trillion instances of the same bidding war happen online in the US and EU.…

2 days a week still compulsory but U-turn gives credence to worker concerns Apple has postponed employees' scheduled return to the office for three days a week amid a jump in COVID-19 infections.…

Facility supports a flurry of HPC development, centered in the Czech Republic Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) expanded its European footprint this week as it revealed plans for a new manufacturing facility in the Czech Republic, dedicated to building high-performance compute (HPC) systems.…