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National Labor Relations Board says company had not met the burden of proof for its objections Amazon's attempt to rerun the election that resulted in workers unionizing at a warehouse in New York City have been shut down by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).…

Or so says a hopeful IDC after releasing latest forecast of doom The pandemic fueled buying frenzy in the PC industry looks to be well and truly over with analysts at IDC forecasting a double digit decline in shipments this year, and growth hopes for next pinned on a Windows 10 enterprise refresh.…

OS support includes Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC and Linux options Intel has made available versions of its 12th-generation Core processors optimized for edge and IoT applications, claiming the purpose-built chips enable smaller form factor designs, but with the AI inferencing performance to analyze data right at the edge.…

What could possibly go wrong? The UK government has suggested IT contractors should challenge errors in their tax status and reclaim overpaid tax through self-assessment yet some experts think the plans are impractical and misguided.…

Rules for devices including phones aimed at reducing environmental impact of scroll addiction The European Union is proposing legislation which will make manufacturers of tablets and smartphones offer longer-life batteries and spare parts for at least five years after the model is removed from the market.…

Brit watchdog says what we're all thinking, motions for deeper investigation Following the launch of a merger inquiry into Microsoft's acquisition of video game developer and publisher Activision Blizzard in July, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said yesterday it had identified potential concerns about the tie-up.…

When the PCs were pilfered by ram raiding rotters, green screens proved their worth On Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register’s trawl through readers’ reminiscences of tech trials and tribulations.…

vSphere users can start smaller without paying cluster-bucks VMware Explore VMware has made a profound change to its partnership with AWS by removing the need to run its wares on dedicated clusters.…

Not worthy of the name 'smart glasses' and not sold outside China until 2023 Lenovo has launched a face-mounted wearable monitor.…

Increased ‘configuration not supported’ heartbreak sparks move Microsoft’s networking team has made a change to the way certifies network interface cards (NICs) for use in Windows Server.…

You’re going to need new cables and learn to recognize revised logos The USB Promoter Group has announced version 2.0 of the USB4 spec and promises it can carry data at 80Gbps.…

From hero to zero-day ... to plain zero Three former US government cyber-spies who, among other things, illicitly compromised and snooped on Americans' devices for the United Arab Emirates government have been banned from participating in international arms exports under a deal reached with Uncle Sam.…

Producing vital gas out of Red Planet's hostile atmosphere? Truly a test of Perseverance The oxygen-generator onboard NASA's Perseverance rover, which has repeatedly extracted the vital gas from the Martian atmosphere in tests, has been detailed in a scientific paper published this week.…

They were asking for it, energy giant says Thousands of Xcel Energy customers in Colorado this week discovered they’d been locked out of their smart thermostats, unable to adjust their air conditioning systems as local temperatures rose about well above 90°F this week.…

How Fog Data Science sells records of your whereabouts, according to the EFF For less than $10,000, and without a warrant, cops can buy large amounts of location data on private citizens and track people's movements over long periods of time.…

Illinois, Arizona and Iowa are the big winners in connection plan The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says it's ready to disburse nearly $800 million to fund rural broadband deployments in 19 states, with Illinois, Arizona and Iowa getting just over half of the total pot. …

$15 billion Idaho facility is the first step as chip biz feeds on CHIPS Act US memory vendor Micron will spend $15 billion over the next decade to construct what it claims is the first memory fab built by a US manufacturer in America in the last 20 years.…

Stephen Thaler is fighting the law, and the law is winning Analysis Stephen Thaler, founder of software biz Imagination Engines, has waged a years-long campaign fighting for machines to be legally recognized as inventors around the world. Now, it looks as though his struggle may have been for nothing.…

Looks like the bird site didn't need Musk's money to get the feature added, after all Twitter's long-awaited edit button is being tested internally, and in the coming weeks will be available to Twitter Blue subscribers before a wider rollout, the social media company said today. …

Not a great look for the state that just vowed to phase out gas-powered cars in favor of battery-powered ones One week after announcing plans to phase out autos powered by gasoline, California energy authorities are facing a heat wave so severe residents are being asked not to charge their electric vehicles during "flex alerts" designed to reduce stress on the grid.…

Latest versions of the KDE Plasma and LXQt desktops now available Kubuntu and Lubuntu desktops have been upgraded but you won't automatically get the new versions. Here's how to get the optional lifts.…

Just weeks after milestone permit to charge for robotaxi rides using autonomous-driving tech General Motors autonomous unit Cruise has issued a Safety Recall report, pulling software that governed how its AVs behave when making an unprotected left turn after one of the vehicles was involved in a crash.…

Apple's web engine to take advantage of Git’s distributed nature, GitHub’s large community Apple web rendering engine WebKit, the basis of its Safari browser, is migrating to Git.…

Affixes magnetically attached Bluetooth unit instead of soft keyboard after feedback Lenovo has exhibited an updated version of its ThinkPad X1 Fold portable, a device that is a mash-up of a folding-screen tablet and a Windows laptop, with a sleeker, slimmer design sporting Intel's 12th-gen Core processors and Windows 11.…

Subsea Cloud boasts 1MW of capacity for up to 90% lower costs compared to landlubber facilities A company called Subsea Cloud is planning to have a commercially available undersea datacenter operating off the coast of the US before the end of 2022, with other deployments planned for the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea.…

Buy a new phone or pay food and household energy bills? Shipments to crash in 2022 Smartphone shipments are forecast to shrink globally by 6.5 percent this year as many households feeling the pinch of inflation decide to prioritize paying for food, energy and other essentials over refreshing handsets.…

Starting with Google Firebase and Apache Camel repos Security researchers at Legit Security identified vulnerabilities in the GitHub automated workflows used by Google Firebase and Apache Camel that could have been abused to compromise those open-source projects through their GitHub CI/CD pipeline and insert malicious code.…

Spoiler: They used hard-coded AWS credentials Massive amounts of private data – including more than 300,000 biometric digital fingerprints used by five mobile banking apps – have been put at risk of theft due to hard-coded Amazon Web Services credentials, according to security researchers.…

Could just be a coincidence ... let's keep going into space and see what happens Analyses of blood taken before and after spaceflight have confirmed astronauts undergo genetic mutations that could make them more susceptible to developing cancer and heart disease.…

You'll just have to learn to code instead – oh wait, computers can do that, too By 2026 the call center industry could save up to $80 billion by replacing humans with AI chatbots, according to analysts at Gartner.…

Is nothing sacred? Scumbags are using a photo from the James Webb Space Telescope to smuggle Windows malware onto victims' computers – albeit in a roundabout way.…

You're under app-vest Traffic cops in Surrey, England, have drawn criticism after revealing how they game Waze to spook drivers into slowing down while out on patrol.…

Makes Nvidia tense with ban on Tensor tech that could cost it $400m this quarter alone As part of ongoing efforts to restrict China and Russia accessing advanced American technology, the US government last week banned AMD and NVIDIA from selling some AI kit to China.…

But keep your attorney on a 'short leash' against Tiversa, court warns LabMD, the embattled and now defunct cancer-testing company, will get another chance at suing security firm Tiversa for defamation following an appeals court ruling. …

DeFi, as in, defying belief The FBI has urged people to be cautious and heavily research a DeFi – decentralized finance – provider before putting your money into it, after more than a billion dollars was stolen from these providers in three months.…

Which should make you see red because using renewable energy is supposed to cut their costs SaaS vendors plan to hike prices by between 15 and 20 percent in the next three years, and one of the justifications they’ll use is the cost of their environmental sustainability programs – despite expectations that those efforts would lower their costs.…

As vCEO Raghu Raghuram tells us Big B won’t treat VMware like its other slash and burn acquisitions VMware Explore VMware customers are waiting to see what changes Broadcom will bring to the virtualization giant, with many optimistic the impact will be positive.…

British chip designer unhappy key customer is using lucrative blueprints Updated Arm is suing Qualcomm, one of its key customers, in a row over the latter's Nuvia custom CPU cores.…

Doxing and hate-spreading websites deserve as much space on the internet as you or I, says CEO On Wednesday content delivery network Cloudflare published a blog post explaining the circumstances under which abusive websites are eligible for service, just as a storm is brewing on that very topic.…

All part of an extra 40GWh of production capacity in US, Japan by 2026 Toyota says it plans to invest up to an additional $5.3 billion in electric vehicle (EV) battery production that it will split between facilities in the US and Japan. …

Payment from Crypto.com was off by five zeroes because bank account number was mistakenly entered An Australian woman has been sued after she received part of an erroneous refund from a cryptocurrency exchange – erroneous by five zeroes – that it failed to notice for seven months.…

Original shows, games, the company's other apps, and more also being axed Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has confirmed layoffs at the struggling social media biz, telling employees in a letter that 20 percent of them will lose their jobs, mostly from teams working on one of the variety of projects it also plans to ax.…

Issues ranging from design to banner ads are justified criticisms of a button coming under heavy fire The one-time director of user experience at Microsoft has added his voice to the ongoing chorus of Windows 11 users who are criticizing the design and usability of the latest operating system's Start menu.…

Meanwhile ongoing supply chain difficulties reportedly hampering fab-building efforts Taiwanese chip giant TSMC is to begin volume production of 3nm silicon within weeks, amid warnings that demand for semiconductors is weakening with Korean companies reporting the first drop in shipments for three years.…

We took our first official test drive and became a little infatuated There are so many Debian derivatives out there that a few months ago, we did a roundup that compared some of the leading ones. We mentioned antiX and MX Linux, saying that we planned to come back and give MX a fuller review. The project just put out its second point-release of 2022, which seemed like a good time to do so.…

Minister says it needs to copy Vietnam and China's 'first globalize, then localize' strategy India's Ministry of State for Electronics & Information Technology released a report this week exploring how the subcontinent might increase electronics production by roughly 400 percent and exports by an ambitious 750 percent by 2026.…

Deeply impressive that NASA engineers fixed telemetry transmit glitch on 1970s probe in the first place NASA knows the "how" but not the why of a telemetry data routing snafu that caused "garbled" information about the 45-year-old Voyager 1 probe's position to be sent to mission controllers on the ground.…

Set to take the controls next year as software giant executes tricky maneuver in the cloud SAP has appointed Airbus's Dominik Asam as the CFO who will replace long-serving finance boss Luka Mucic at the German software giant.…

Customers should be able to 'move freely' says Google cloud veep as AWS brands move 'unfair' Microsoft's cloud competitors have reacted negatively to changes the company announced this week to licensing, claiming that they are anti-competitive and will deter customers from moving to other cloud providers.…

The solution? Inventing another 'transformation programme' to transform previous transformation HP is putting together a recovery plan to counter a sharp slowdown in its PC and printer businesses, including yet another transformation program.…