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IDC says AsiaPac market growing, rest of world isn't, Dell wins on volume, and IBM on sale price The global market for servers was mostly steady in the second quarter of 2021, according to analyst firm IDC, as the market recovers from 2020's unusual demands.…

Promises to offer App Store as an option, but needs its developer account to be reinstated to do that Epic Games has decided to put South Korea's new law requiring Apple and Google to offer third-party payment options in their app stores to the test.…

German-Australian outfit Quantum Brilliance thinks it can deliver product that runs on your desk in five years, for DBAs and boffins alike IBM's Quantum Ambassador for EMEA and Asia-Pacific – a business development role – has jumped to a little-known startup called Quantum Brilliance that believes it can bring diamond-powered quantum accelerators into conventional computers within five years.…

Meet Amazon OpenSearch Service, more or less the same code, without the trademark infringement Amazon Web Services on Thursday fulfilled its commitment to rename Amazon Elasticsearch Service with its expected new identity, Amazon OpenSearch Service.…

Devices were supposed to arrive Friday, November is new target Google and giant Indian telco Jio have announced the jointly developed budget 4G smartphone, and the accompanying made-for-India cut of Android, have been delayed.…

Plus: President Biden wants businesses with 100+ staff to get vaccinated or test weekly Microsoft will let its employees in the US continue working from home until further notice as the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread through the country. The Windows giant had planned to recall staff to their offices next month.…

* Terms and conditions apply. See in store for caveats. No purchase necessary Amazon on Thursday said more than 750,000 of its US-based operations employees will be eligible to receive at least some funding to cover college tuition costs though only at schools that partner with the internet giant.…

Time to hit the road Orolia – the Resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) outfit with its European HQ in France – has won two contracts worth €70m to provide atomic clocks for the first 12 satellites of the Galileo Second Generation System (G2S).…

There’s room for you and your cowboy boots, we’ll even get you a rhinestone suit The State of Tennessee has agreed to pay Oracle $65m in incentives in order to relocate its headquarters from California to the state capital of Nashville.…

Maybe they were using, you know, Microsoft's collaboration service As the majority of the desk-based workers lurched to working from home during the pandemic-induced lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, communication between teams fell and working hours increased.…

Air purified, everyone back to bed, says Roscosmos, studiously ignoring smoke, burning smell Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) had their preparations for an important spacewalk rudely interrupted early this morning when an emergency alarm woke them all up just before 2am UTC.…

Companion mode? We've got that too says Google Microsoft is adding features to Teams meetings to support hybrid office/remote meetings, including an AI-powered "speaker coach" that will notify users who interrupt others.…

Another way to run Kubernetes - though connector to AWS console still in preview, as are plenty of the AWS controllers Amazon Web Services has emitted EKS Anywhere, enabling users to create on-premises Kubernetes clusters with tooling consistent with that in the public cloud service – though currently only VMware is supported for production.…

'Fundamental errors' in CMA's findings, claims The Social Network Facebook has hit back at the UK's regulatory challenge to its decision to buy gif slinger Giphy, claiming the provisional findings by the competition watchdog are based on "fundamental errors."…

Finder tells El Reg of struggle to report snafu McDonald's customers who won a prize draw competition got more than they hoped for after the burger chain emailed them login credentials for development and production databases used to power the campaign.…

Customers pulling forward orders to mitigate mounting supply worries The mood music in tech land isn't so much about workspace projects - that's so 2020 - it's more about biz customers again investing in data centre hardware, when they can get hold of it.…

Ideally, will speed up biz's answer to the question: How much should we charge for that? Workday has paid an undisclosed price for pricing engine and guided selling firm Zimit, a software company specialising in helping companies quote for their services.…

Chuck that on top of £63m firm already has from related projects The UK Home Office has handed Fujitsu a £5m contract to support a border system beset with delays.…

For when it's time to kick that shadow IT habit Element, the commercial face of the Matrix messaging system, may have added to the woes of WhatsApp with the introduction of a bridge from the Facebook tentacle into the federated messaging world of Matrix.…

Yes, that Amazon. The one that's been fined for breaches of privacy and labor laws and accused of price-fixing, making life hell for unions … Amazon.com has written a very-colorfully-worded letter to the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging it to take a strong stance when considering SpaceX's satellite broadband business because Elon Musk is a cheat who messes things up – for those who need better internet connections, and totally not for Amazon itself.…

And names a new CTO VMware has kind-of announced a hypervisor for Arm processors, or at least one of them: Apple's M1 system-on-a-chip.…

This thing better not explode on the pad The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to launch – surprise, surprise – a little later than expected. Space agencies in America, Europe, and Canada said on Wednesday they're now aiming for December 18, 2021 rather than October.…

It's hip to be competing with Square for space on retail counters PayPal has announced it will acquire Japanese internet payments outfit Paidy.…

Policies revealed after long battle for transparency and accountability Los Angeles police are instructed to collect social media details from people they stop and talk to, even if those civilians aren’t suspected of breaking the law, according to documents finally revealed after a lengthy legal battle.…

No data went awry, Cosmos DB had a similar bug just two weeks ago Microsoft today revealed it fixed a vulnerability in its Azure Container Instances services that could have been exploited by a malicious user "to access other customers' information."…

Her attorney argues she made mistakes ... like trusting her former partner and COO Sunny Balwani Attorneys representing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and the US Justice Department presented their opening arguments on Wednesday in a federal court in San Jose, outlining how they intend either to clear or convict Holmes of conspiracy and fraud charges.…

Devs also urged to ditch 'pedantic' lint rules Google on Wednesday updated Flutter and Dart, the Chocolate Factory's cross-platform app framework and its associated programming language, bringing performance and tooling improvements to devs.…

COVIDiot caught on film harassing others for following pandemic precautions Updated SAP says it is investigating after a video went viral allegedly featuring one of its employees coughing on fellow shoppers in a US store. And that's viral in the internet sense, at least.…

Good news for chap abused by online mob. Not so much for page admins Australia's High Court has ruled that companies running Facebook pages can be held liable for user comments on them, a ruling with severe consequences for any business with a presence on the Mark Zuckerberg-owned platform.…

Nobody from government will say a word about who's behind it Banks and post offices in New Zealand have been hit by a cyber offensive, according to reports, consisting of sustained DDoS attacks against a number of critical online services.…

'I am a firm supporter of privacy,' Sir Tim declares - even as the service is lambasted over IP logging Privacy-centric communications specialist Proton, best known for its ProtonMail encrypted email platform, has announced the appointment of web daddy Sir Tim Berners-Lee to its advisory board.…

What have we learned during that time? Quite a bit, it appears The OpenSSL team has released version 3.0 of its eponymous secure communications library after a lengthy gestation period.…

Nice if you want to store extra attributes with changing relational schema, but not a threat to NoSQL specialists Google Cloud has introduced support for JSON documents in its distributed RDBMS Spanner – a move the Chocolate Factory says offers advantages in adding new data attributes without changing the schema.…

Swale Borough Council faced with hefty bill for junior IT hero's whimsical afternoon's work A borough council in the English county of Kent is fuming after a software test on the council's website led to five nonsensical dummy planning application documents being mistakenly published as legally binding decisions.…

Like Windows Movie Maker on the web Microsoft has purchased Clipchamp, maker of browser-based video editing tools, and claimed it is "a natural fit to extend the cloud-powered productivity experiences in Microsoft 365."…

4 million holes dug in the UK each year... many in the wrong place The UK is pushing ahead with the next phase of a project to map the UK’s underground utility pipes and cables as part of its National Underground Asset Register (NUAR).…

You can't reduce such a vital issue to concern over paedophiles and terrorists Opinion The British government is preparing to launch a full-scale policy assault against Facebook as the company gears up to introduce end-to-end encryption across all of its services.…

Quietly adds that it hasn't yet received regulatory approval Intel's Mobileye arm has announced a partnership with car rental giant Sixt to launch a fully autonomous robotaxi in Munich, showcasing the tech at the IAA Mobility conference this week – before admitting the platform won't open to the public until regulatory approvals are granted.…

Chimaera toolkit found on 'thousands' of Windows, Linux, and container systems worldwide AT&T's Alien Labs security division has sounded the alarm on a malware campaign from TeamTNT which, it claims, has gone almost entirely undetected by anti-virus systems - and which is turning target devices into cryptocurrency miners.…

'Years of pain' behind the change, said Torvalds, but with Clang a problem it has been weakened Pushback from the Linux kernel community over defaulting to -Werror (make all warnings into errors) for compiling has resulted in a compromise where this default only applies to test builds.…

Chartered Institute of Information Security reveals what you're all thinking The COVID-19 pandemic was good for business, according to British infosec workers – although half of them still say they feel burnt out amid the surge in work.…

Crackdown on open-ended, unfiltered simulations branded 'a hyper-moral stance' In-depth “OpenAI is the company running the text completion engine that makes you possible,” Jason Rohrer, an indie games developer, typed out in a message to Samantha.…

Microsoft's finest just needs a nudge Bork!Bork!Bork! Our overseas adventures in bork continue today with Microsoft's finest supplanting one of The Netherlands' funnymen in the entrance of retailer Lidl.…

Am I only dreaming, or is this burning an Eternal Blue? Some vulnerabilities remain unreported for the longest time. The 12-year-old Dell SupportAssist remote code execution (RCE) flaw – which was finally unearthed earlier this year – would be one example.…

Looking beyond the programmers Is Linus Torvalds important to open-source software? Of course. Guido van Rossum, who created the popular programming language Python? Sure! Michael "Monty" Widenius of MySQL fame? Certainly. OK, what about Robert Love? Eben Moglen? Or Jono Bacon?…

CPU cores, memory, and disk now PAYG if you want, and so are new hybrid offerings with VMware and Microsoft Lenovo has thrown everything it's got into its TruScale IT-as-a-service platform.…

Plans to cut patent renewal time from five days to five minutes The UK’s Intellectual Property Office has awarded two new contracts in it's bid to get up to speed in the 21st Century.…

Fujifilm and HPE selling cartridges, Quantum selling drives, IBM tape libraries add support The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) organisation has signed off on efforts by Fujifilm and Sony to create tapes that conform with the LTO-9 standard – meaning that new-generation tapes with 45 terabytes of capacity are now on sale.…

CEO also said it'll use its fab in Ireland to crank out parts for automakers amid shortages Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger on Tuesday said he would be willing to pour up to €80bn (£68.8bn, $94.7bn) into its semiconductor fabs in Europe to increase capacity over the next decade.…

22-megawatt rig to be built by Mitsubishi – apparently the first direct sale agreement of its sort in Japan Amazon's Japan outpost will power its operations with over 450 solar plants under a power purchase agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation's retail energy arm, MC Retail Energy.…