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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5Z51W)
Pasqal to provide compute based on approaches by Qu&Co acquisition BMW has become the latest company to give quantum an early chance, with the goal of shrinking development cycles beyond traditional means.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5Z50E)
'Mischief abroad' is the Middle Kingdom's goal – without the possibility of using Chinese sites to fight back Black Hat Asia The time has come to remove Chinese voices from global social media, according to Samir Saran, president of Delhi-based think tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF), a commissioner of The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, and a member of Microsoft's Digital Peace Now Initiative.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5Z50F)
If we're gonna go through this again, can we just literally go back in time? Proposed Europe regulations that purport to curb child abuse by imposing mass surveillance would be a "disaster" for digital privacy and strong encryption, say cybersecurity experts.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5Z4XM)
Private orgs that flex with Russian bans may do more harm – to themselves – than good Black Hat Asia The war in Ukraine, and the Declaration for the Future of the Internet signed by 60 nations in late April, should be understood in the context of a global effort to recruit the nations of the world into blocs with different attitudes to internet governance.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5Z4SP)
A Turing point for the graphics chip giant, perhaps? Nvidia on Wednesday published the R515 driver release of its Linux GPU kernel modules under an open source, dual GPL/MIT license.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5Z4NY)
Your essential de-hyped guide to what the Chocolate Factory teased at developer shindig Google IO Google I/O, the ad biz's annual developer conference, returned to the Shoreline Amphitheater in California's Mountain View on Wednesday, for the first time in three years. The gathering remained largely a remote event due to the persistence of COVID-19 though there were enough Googlers, partners, and assorted software developers in attendance to fill venue seats and punctuate important points with applause.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5Z4M9)
We can think of one thing the S stands for in some unfortunate cases Miscreants are targeting managed service providers (MSPs) to break into their customers' networks and deploy ransomware, steal data, and spy on them, the Five Eyes nations' cybersecurity authorities have formally warned in a joint security alert.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5Z4HT)
Human-free seafaring isn't going swimmingly The crewless AI-powered Mayflower ship, which was on its second attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean alone, is being hauled back to shore after suffering a mechanical failure.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5Z4ER)
v3.0 has also gained a Casual Games Toolkit Google I/O Google's Flutter development framework finally achieved its cross-platform aspirations with a stable release of Linux and macOS support.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5Z4ES)
Records for revenue, gross margin in Q1 as others take a hit While some chipmakers have reported a hit to their revenue due to COVID-19 lockdowns in China and other effects, New York-based GlobalFoundries said its business stood strong in the face of various global disruptions.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5Z496)
Classic internet ideas matter less now that CDNs and private networks dominate traffic Comment The internet has become smaller, the result of a rethinking of when and where to use the 'net's intended architecture. In the process it may also have further concentrated power in the hands of giant technology companies.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5Z46S)
Plus: iXsystems' NAS OS has a new Linux-based sibling called SCALE BSD vendor iXsystems has released the latest version of its FreeBSD-derived Network Attached Storage (NAS) OS, TrueNAS 13.0.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5Z46T)
Slips some extra grunt into Snapdragon X70 5G chipset before devices launch Qualcomm has updated its Snapdragon X70 5G chipset to extend range and balance the transmit power for better performance. It also claims the Snapdragon modem will be the first to support a standalone 5G mmWave connection once it is available.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5Z441)
RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, how about that? We talk to founder about HPC, open source and more Interview CIQ, founding sponsor and services partner of Rocky Linux – a community build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) – is to receive a $26m injection of private funding led by Two Bear Capital.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5Z442)
The progress bar of lies reborn as a cheery 'Checking' message Microsoft Visual Studio appears to be having a bad Wednesday with users of the development suite forced to jump into Microsoft's feedback forum to complain about prolonged problems with the software's installer.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5Z418)
Going for a walk: Good. Doomscrolling: Bad What are your peers doing to stave off burnout? Research from Stack Overflow suggests about half of developers are still spending their breaks in front of a screen.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5Z3YA)
eVocore processor line aimed at high-performance, real-time compute applications MIPS is back, but this time the company is bringing processors to market based on the RISC-V open instruction set architecture, rather than the MIPS architecture the chip designer is synonymous with.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5Z3YB)
Link between compliance and sales appeared to boost cloud performance in case disputed by Big Red A US class-action case claiming Oracle falsely inflated its cloud revenue by threatening customers with audits is set to continue after a federal judge approved the damages model proposed by the plaintiffs.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5Z3W0)
Fire the update engines if you haven't already Microsoft has pulled the plug on support for .NET 5 and the Pro and Home versions of Windows 10 20H2.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5Z3SS)
By 2030 we'll be shipping 1.2 billion cellular-module devices each year, says analyst 4G will continue to be the dominant cellular connectivity technology used by IoT devices until 2028, according to a report from Counterpoint Research.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5Z3QY)
Zero-touch provisioning, single-node deployments, and Advanced Cluster Management support confirmed Red Hat Summit Red Hat is targeting edge deployments with fresh features across a portfolio based around containerized software deployments that build on its Enterprise Linux and OpenShift application platform.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5Z3P5)
What goes up will also come down. The question is... how? Orbex is showing off a full-scale prototype of the Prime rocket atop its test stand at Kinloss in Scotland.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5Z3P6)
IT and network services to replace 56 legacy workflow systems with ServiceNow UK telecoms and IT services company BT is forecasting £25 million ($30.8 million) in savings over five years by ditching some legacy applications and switching to ServiceNow workflow and automation technologies.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5Z3MG)
30! million! users! already! moved! to! TXT! and/or! FIDO! Attacks! and! support! requests! both! down! Yahoo Japan has revealed that it plans to go passwordless, and that 30 million of its 50 million monthly active users have already stopped using passwords in favor of a combination of FIDO and TXT messages.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5Z3KD)
Analytics veteran also cosies up to consultancies to extend market reach in IPO year Analytics industry veteran SAS has announced support for Python in its proprietary analytics studio.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#5Z3KE)
The cost of kit to capture the real world is plummeting, thanks to Apple For the past six months I've been staring at the backside of my iPhone 13 Pro wondering what possessed Apple to build a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) camera into its flagship smartphone.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5Z3HP)
Six ride sharing companies forced into consumer redress scheme India has accused ride-sharing companies of over-charging loyal customers who regularly take the same route, and directed six platforms to become part of a scheme that offers third-party grievance handling services.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5Z3HQ)
The day the music died … was probably 2007, when the iPhone made standalone music players redundant Apple has ended production of the last remaining version of the iPod – the iPod Touch.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#5Z3FC)
NUC NUC. Who's there? Intel Vision Scale Computing announced a strategic partnership with Intel on Monday to offer a fully integrated, low-power platform for deploying and managing applications at the edge.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#5Z3DH)
Make supply chain woes work to your advantage If datacenter operators want to compete with the cloud providers, they've got to start thinking more like them. That's what Mike Bushong, VP of Datacenter Business at Juniper, told The Register.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5Z3CG)
Plus many more flaws. And Adobe, Android, SAP join the bug-squashing frenzy Microsoft patched 74 security flaws in its May Patch Tuesday batch of updates. That's seven critical bugs, 66 deemed important, and one ranked low severity.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5Z3BW)
And China to get first dibs when graphics chips do ship Intel Vision The rollout of Intel's Arc discrete GPUs has been slower than expected for folks hungry for a fresh option in the computer graphics hardware market. This week, the x86 giant attempted to explain what's taking so long.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5Z39E)
Campaign to coax GitHub-owned outfit to improve security starts showing results Special report Security consultant Lance Vick recently acquired the expired domain used by the maintainer of a widely used NPM package to remind the JavaScript community that the NPM Registry still hasn't implemented adequate security.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5Z37E)
And puts the usual claims of world-beating performance in its marketing Intel Vision Intel has said it has put "desktop-caliber" silicon in a mobile package to provide its fastest 12-generation Core laptop processors yet.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5Z37F)
Thank goodness someone cleared that one up The US and the European Union have officially blamed Russia for a series of destructive data-wiping malware infections in Ukrainian government and private-sector networks – and said they will "take steps" to defend against and respond to Kremlin-orchestrated attacks.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5Z33J)
First major release since IBM spent $34b buying distro giant, includes kernel 5.14, systemd 249, Python 3.9 and more Red Hat Summit Red Hat has officially lifted the lid on version 9 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), code-named Plow, the latest major version of the dominant paid-for, commercial server Linux.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5Z31F)
When it comes to web giant's multi-story facilities in this specific spot, we're haters Residents in rural Culpeper County, Virginia, aren't letting Amazon build a datacenter without a fight, so they've sued the county to stop the project. …
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by Richard Speed on (#5Z2Z0)
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."…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5Z2Z1)
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.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5Z2W8)
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.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5Z2W9)
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.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5Z2SD)
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.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5Z2SE)
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.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5Z2P6)
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.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#5Z2P7)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5Z2JQ)
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.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5Z2JR)
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.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5Z2FN)
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.…
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