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Low-code platform providers' legal tussle ends with 'largest damages award in Virginia state court history' Appian has been awarded more than $2 billion in damages from Pegasystems for "trade secret misappropriation."…

Is spy-tech outfit trying to distract from underperforming results? Palantir's CEO invoked the specter of nuclear war as the US spy-tech company posted net losses of $101 million and revenue guidance undershot market expectations.…

One of the most battle-tested OSes out there hits commodity kit, but does anyone still care? VMS Software Inc. has announced the release of OpenVMS 9.2, the first production-supported release for commercial off-the-shelf x86 hardware.…

Updates aim to ease complexities of building applications for a hybrid cloud environment Red Hat Summit Red Hat has expanded its Red Hat Cloud Services that support the OpenShift application platform, adding new components to help with the development of hybrid applications such as a Service Registry, plus middleware to make it easier to link to cloud database services.…

Gaudi 2, Greco AI chips, plus more details on Arctic Sound-M server GPUs Intel Vision Intel is ramping up its efforts to take on GPU giant Nvidia in the accelerated computing space with a strategy that focuses on a diverse portfolio of silicon built for different purposes.…

Big Blue claims it'll have a 4,158 qubit system by 2025 IBM Think IBM has big plans for its quantum computing gambit, including the launch of a 4,158-qubit system by 2025. To put that in context, the company just launched it's 127-qubit "Eagle" system in 2021.…

SEO techniques employed to increase visibility of poisoned documents claims Netskope Most malware attacks now originate from the same region as the victim, according to a new report, a sign that malicious actors are changing their tactics.…

Chip giant sticking with multi-architecture ASIC/FPGA approach through 2024 Intel Vision Intel's two-pronged ASIC/FPGA infrastructure processing unit (IPU) strategy was on full display at this week's Intel Vision event, where the chipmaker teased its upcoming 400Gbit/sec and 800Gbit/sec devices.…

Follow the blue rabbit! Graphics driver developer lead talks to The Reg Progress was made in persuading 3D graphics to work in Linux on Apple's M1 over the weekend – in the form of a blue rabbit.…

For the first time, more respondents indicate a preference for instant messaging, says SWZD The COVID-19 pandemic may trigger the end of email's dominance in business communications.…

Cites 'payment system disruption' as credit card companies pull out of region Google has begun blocking downloads of paid apps and their updates in Russia as of May 5, citing compliance issues.…

Rockets could fly from the UK as soon as next year The UK's SaxaVord spaceport has agreed a deal with Astra Space to launch satellites from the Unst facility from 2023.…

Twitter thread reveals Redmondian machinations PowerShell inventor Jeffrey Snover has aired some grievances about how his indispensable tool once got him demoted.…

A little bit of DDR5 in my life, a little bit of storage by my side, a little bit of compute is all I need Marvell Technology has announced its intent to acquire compute express link (CXL) startup Tanzanite in an all-cash deal it says will accelerate its composable infrastructure aspirations.…

Providing both old Airwave system and its replacement boosted supplier's profits, says British Home Office The UK's Home Office has admitted Motorola has "very significantly benefited" from the delay to the Emergency Services Network (ESN) because it also profits from the extension of the current Airwave communication network used by police, fire brigades and the like.…

CEO Michel Paulin on coming back from a datacenter blaze and playing nicely with others Interview OVHcloud is perhaps best known for cloud computing, hosting, and dedicated servers in its network of datacenters but the company has also made news in other arenas. For instance, taking on Microsoft in the European courts or the fire at one of its datacenters that destroyed customer data.…

That's more than the total that are actively maintained, study claims A study has found more outdated apps in Apple's App Store and Google Play than actively updated ones. …

PCIe 5.0 device hints at servers with lots of memory, maybe shared Samsung has unveiled a 512-gigabyte Compute Express Link (CXL) DRAM module, which awaits servers to make it sing.…

Filling in a form at 4am improves infosec or privacy how, exactly? Opposition is building to India's recently introduced rules on reporting computer security breaches, which have come under fire for being impractical, ineffective, and impinging on privacy.…

Caveats apply, your privacy may vary Clearview AI has promised to stop selling its controversial face-recognizing tech to most private US companies in a settlement proposed this week with the ACLU.…

Is winter coming already for the US tech sector? Some tech companies are tightening their belts as they adjust to ongoing financial turbulence, with Uber and Meta both looking to reduce expenses and hiring.…

Privacy rules increase cost, reduce choice, slash revenues, study concludes Europe's data protection regime has reduced the number of apps available in Google Play by "a third," increased costs, and reduced developer revenues, according to a study published Monday.…

All part of a larger push by the Feds to improve cybersecurity reporting US President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill that aims to improve how the federal government tracks and prosecutes cybercrime.…

NASA drops heater temp to boost batteries as dust hits solar supply The long-lived Ingenuity helicopter has made contact with NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars after an unexpected communications blackout.…

Budget-friendly tool breaks the you-get-what-you-pay-for rule A budget-friendly remote access trojan (RAT) that's under active development is selling on underground Russian forums for about $7 for a two-month subscription, according to BlackBerry researchers today. …

The State Department notice comes in wake of the cybercrims’ attack on Costa Rican government The US government is offering up to $15 million for information about key leaders of the notorious Conti ransomware group and any individual participating in an attack using a variant of Conti's malware.…

Investor money set to help the software vendor make its AI analytics tech a thing Pyramid Analytics, the BI company which counts Siemens, VW Ireland and Dell among its customers, has secured Series E funding of $120 million.…

AI is meant to solve solve tech challenges innate in designing, running complex system Tesla has started legal action against a former employee the company alleges was copying confidential data from its Project Dojo supercomputer onto his own systems outside the company. It further alleges he then tried to conceal his actions by submitting a substitute laptop for inspection by the carmaker's information security team.…

$30 plans from ISPs and 'up to' $30 monthly credit means free internet for some The Biden White House has put forward a plan that could see 40 percent of households in the United States getting subsidized high-speed internet, with some having service free of charge.…

Lead times still lengthy as chipmakers continue to make bank on what little is available Infineon joined the ranks of chipmakers that are benefiting from the industry-wide global semiconductor shortages, more than doubling profits in a sector where lead times are severely protracted.…

John Deere rival says it may be days or 'potentially longer' before some production facilities are back in action US agricultural machinery maker AGCO is the latest high-profile organization to fall victim to ransomware, which it says affects operations at some of its worldwide production facilities.…

"We live this fight ourselves everyday," Microsoft says of enterprise attacks Microsoft is rolling out its "Security Experts" managed service with an eye on stomping down threats and malware.…

Plus: Unpatched DNS bug puts IoT devices at risk, SolarWinds hackers set up new digs, and a CEO faces hard time for massive mining fraud In Brief Colonial Pipeline is facing an almost $1 million fine for control room management failures after the US Department of Transportation alleged they contributed to the nation's fuel disruption in the wake of the 2021 ransomware attack.…

Check 16, 32, and 64GB DIMMs made in the middle to end of 2020, blames manufacturing errors Cisco is warning that some of its DIMMs are failing prematurely due to a manufacturing error and have advised users to replace the memory component to avoid a server failure.…

From protein prediction to drug generation, neural networks are revolutionizing drug discovery Analysis AI can study chemical molecules in ways scientists can't comprehend, automatically predicting complex protein structures and designing new drugs, despite having no real understanding of science.…

Internet regulator puts a few practices in place – including viewing curfews and bans on tips China's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), has published guidelines that aim to stop minors from giving tips or other forms of payment to livestreamers, watching after 10pm, or livestreaming themselves.…

Forget the days of NT (Nineties Tyranny), let's change that to New Trust. Corporate IT is watching Opinion We concentrate on their technical aspects, but file systems can get pretty political. They're one of the last fronts still fighting in the Interoperability Wars. While you can plumb any number of open file systems to Linux if you need what they have, NTFS remains a problem. …

All routers are equal, but some are more equal than others Who, Me? Welcome to an edition of Who, Me? where some configuration confusion left an entire nation cast adrift.…

Same goes for Arm, for the same reason: Power efficiency Comment AMD’s plans to integrate AI functionality from its Xilinx FPGAs with its Epyc server microprocessors presents several tantalizing opportunities for systems builders and datacenter operators alike, Glenn O’Donnell, research director at Forrester, told The Register.…

Stalled law satisfies few and has even been identifed as likely to damage growth Analysis NSO Group's Pegasus spyware-for-governments keeps returning to the headlines thanks to revelations such as its use against Spain's prime minister and senior British officials. But there's one nation where outrage about Pegasus has been constant for nearly a year and shows little sign of abating: India.…

Plus: SoundCloud acquires startup for better algorithmic curated playlists In brief OpenAI's image-generation model DALL·E 2 may be fun to play with but it exhibits common stereotypes, biases, and can create NSFW pictures making it risky to deploy in the real world, experts have warned.…

We speak to the head of ISA's governing body on industry adoption, timelines, and more Interview The CEO of RISC-V's governing body says she wants to nothing less than "world domination" for the rising open-source processor technology, but to do that, the nonprofit needs buy-in from a variety of organizations, even those steeped in dominant, proprietary architectures, such as x86 giant Intel.…

Just like it was supposed to do in 2019 Authorities in China have reportedly directed government agencies and state-run companies to bin all personal computers made by foreign companies and replace them with homegrown hardware within two years.…

NSA director says he doesn't know of a 'big one' that was successful False-flag cyberattacks represent a red line that even nation states like Russia and China don't want to cross, according to Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia.…

Telco 'ripped off customers by charging high-speed prices for slow service', says watchdog The FTC has settled a case in which Frontier Communications was accused of charging high prices for under-delivered internet connectivity.…

Sonoma Creek to target non-AI experts, according to docs seen by El Reg Exclusive Intel plans to start selling a software platform that promises to simplify and speed up the training of AI models for computer vision, according to internal company documents seen by The Register.…

You have died of dystopia Amazon plans to build five more datacenters in rural Oregon at estimated cost of $11.8 billion, according to documents filed in Morrow County last week.…

Cloud grammar police more Keystone Kops Google Docs, the search giant's web-based word processing app, has been resuscitated after it was found choking on a series of conjunctions and other parts of speech.…

Helping North Korea? Uncle Sam would like a word The US Treasury has sanctioned cryptocurrency mixer Blender for its role in helping North Korea's Lazarus Group launder stolen digital assets. …

Parallel retrocomputing project of the week, er, month, no, year The astonishing PicoPuter emulation project can run a transputer emulator on multiple Raspberry Pi Picos, and clustering them using the transputer's native inter-processor link protocol.…