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Google Cloud hopes to woo factories with its usual fare: Analytics and AI
A different kind of assembly language Google has deployed a pair of AI-related services to woo factories and assembly lines onto its cloud.…
Was Nokia's Microsoft switch deal win a reward for SONiC contributions?
Supply-chain constraints and code for network OS played a role, analyst tells El Reg Nokia’s "significant" contributions to Microsoft's open-source SONiC project and ongoing supply-chain challenges undoubtedly played a role in the Windows giant's decision to deploy the Finns' network switches, despite their relative inexperience in the arena, Dell'Oro analyst Sameh Boujelbene told The Register.…
BT wins £26m extension on NI Oracle finance system project
UK IT service provider sees contract value more than double 20 years after first work on system Updated The IT services arm of UK comms giant BT has won a contract extension worth up to £26 million ($32 million) for up to five years – without competition – to support Northern Ireland's government accounting system.…
Switch off the mic if it makes you feel better – it'll make no difference
Treat all those micro-phonies like so many spies in the wire Something for the Weekend My neighbor is talking to a rock. He is trying to persuade it to sing.…
AWS allows a Lenovo server to play in its on-prem AI video cloud
Nvidia-powered ThinkEdge SE70 gets a view of the Panorama CCTV booster Amazon Web Services has allowed a third-party hardware offering into its universe, with a Lenovo server dedicated to video analytics scoring the gig.…
Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout
Leftover bits of wire where PC used to be? Really ties the office together On Call There was a time in IT when "brute force" meant something other than guessing at passwords while wearing a favorite hoodie. Welcome to an edition of On Call that really pulls out some memories.…
Bank for International Settlements calls for reform of data governance
Wants Big Tech to butt out, and return control to individuals The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – a meta bank for the world's central banks and facilitator of cross-border payments – has advocated new governance systems that promote owner control of data and transparency over its use.…
Starlink's Portability mode lets you take your sat broadband dish anywhere*
* Terms and so many conditions apply Starlink customers who've been itching to take their dish on the road can finally do so – for a price. …
Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses
DingTalk goes into 'extended reality' Alibaba's DingTalk collaboration suite has entered "extended reality" with a new offering powered by smart glasses.…
Facebook deliberately took down Australian government pages during pay-for-news negotiations: report
Whistleblowers say takedowns were used as leverage, Facebook disagrees Facebook whistleblowers have alleged that the company deliberately took down the presences of Australian government and emergency services organizations during negotiations on the nation's landmark pay-to-link-to-news laws.…
F5, Cisco admins: Stop what you're doing and check if you need to install these patches
BIG-IP iControl authentication bypass, NFV VM escape, and more F5 Networks and Cisco this week issued warnings about serious, and in some cases critical, security vulnerabilities in their products.…
Shareholders turn the screws on IBM and its gag orders
In wake of dinobaby-gate, investors not happy with NDAs hushing up claims of harassment, discrimination IBM shareholders at the IT giant's annual meeting last month endorsed a proposal to have the company produce a public report on the potential risks arising from its use of concealment clauses that constrain disclosure of workplace misconduct.…
FBI: Cyber-scams cost victims $6.9b-plus worldwide in 2021
Another banner year for criminals. For everyone else, not so much Cyber-scams cost victims around the globe at least $6.9 billion last year, according to the FBI's latest Internet Crime Report.…
Twitter buyout: Larry Ellison bursts into Elon's office, slaps $1b down on the desk
With funding from database billionaire, will Oracle-style licensing follow? $50k per like? $1m for 420-character limit? Elon Musk has bagged $7.14 billion in funding from Oracle billionaire co-founder Larry Ellison, cryptocurrency exchange Binance, and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, as well as top VC firm Sequioa and others, in his quest to acquire Twitter.…
Cable giants, ISPs, telcos end legal fight against California's net neutrality law
If you can't beat the Golden State, try again at the federal level California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday welcomed the decision by a group of telecom and cable industry associations to abandon their legal challenge of the US state's net neutrality law SB822.…
Microsoft, Apple, Google accelerate push to eliminate passwords
Passphrases PIP'd, FIDO and W3C projects promoted Analysis Microsoft, Apple and Google – all longtime proponents of doing away with passwords for authentication purposes – are throwing their support behind standards developed by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that could eliminate passphrases completely.…
Did you know Twitter has an open-source arm? This is what it's been up to
Bluesky thinking includes blueprints for distributed social network After several years of work, Twitter's open-source offshoot Bluesky has published some code and more information about what it's doing – but not a new social network yet.…
SEC adds Tencent, JD.com, China Mobile to group facing potential delisting
US requires a bit more transparency than some Chinese tech companies are giving More Chinese tech companies including Tencent, JD.com, and China Mobile face delisting by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) thanks to opaque disclosures.…
Citrix spreads its Desktop as a Service across Google and Azure clouds
It's Q2 2022 – and remote/mixed access is still very much a thing Citrix has made deals with cloud providers to sell its Desktop as a Service (Daas) platform, providing enterprises with a choice of host for its virtual desktop products.…
Tablet PC sales decline as consumers consider inflation
Panic buying is over, but the market's still well above pre-pandemic norms Shipments from nearly all of the major tablet manufacturers are declining as consumers and educators find other things to do with their money.…
Microsoft to nudge more users toward Azure Active Directory
Love your Windows Update Compliance reports? Best learn to love Azure AD as well Users of Microsoft's Update Compliance service have been warned that a move to Azure Active Directory will be required if they wish to continue using the service.…
Palantir expands from Covid role, wins $90m deal with US Department of Health
Controversial analytics company sees expansion into healthcare continuing Peter Thiel-founded analytics company Palantir has won a $90 million, five-year contract with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a "holistic" enterprise data project.…
Google chases sovereignty market with EU Workspace Data product
Woos European firms who don't want their data caught in the US Cloud Act dragnet Google is joining Microsoft in its attempts to tackle EU concerns regarding data sovereignty but some privacy experts are yet to be convinced by the move.…
Arm China CEO refuses to go, despite SoftBank taking control
Middle Kingdom subsidiary claims Allen Wu refusing to 'hand over his management duties' The Arm saga is continuing with the ousted CEO of Arm's renegade Chinese division still refusing to step down, despite being fired again recently.…
Yandex's only datacenter outside of Russia still running on diesel
Russia's Google desperately seeking new energy deal after Finnish renewables supplier agreement terminated Finnish energy supplier Ilmatar says it has terminated a supplier agreement to provide electricity to Yandex's datacenter in the southern part of the country, forcing the facility to rely on diesel generators.…
Google cancels bi-annual performance reviews, shifts to GRAD system
New review system supposedly less of a headache for managers, staff Google is shifting to one performance review per annum for employees even though more than half of its workforce consider the current twice yearly appraisal system to be beneficial.…
Watchdog rubber-stamps cavity-detecting neural network for dentists
Ain't that the tooth? VideaHealth, a dental AI startup spun out of MIT and Harvard, has received FDA approval in the US to commercialize its cavity-detection algorithm for clinical use. …
Eggheads demo how to fool share-trading bots with carefully crafted retweets
Good thing no one's buying or selling stock from Twitter posts, right? Um, right? For years, Twitter posts and other online messages have been gathered and analyzed by financial algorithms in an effort to anticipate stock market movements. But, it turns out, these smart systems are rather dumb.…
BT signs deal with AWS with aim of speeding up digital transformation
Must ... cloudify ... internal .... apps, says giant as it continues to push modernization project BT, Britain's largest telecom biz, has signed a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help it cloudify internal applications and speed-up digital transformation under the broader modernization program.…
World needs multilateral chip tech export bans to hurt China: think tank
Current arrangements may promote offshore workarounds and don't make life hard enough Sanctions on transfer of chipmaking tech to China might be driving more offshore chipmaking, and therefore failing to achieve strategic goals.…
Phishing operation hits NHS email accounts to harvest Microsoft credentials
You've won $2m! Now just send me a small fee A phishing operation compromised over one hundred UK National Health Service (NHS) employees' Microsoft Exchange email accounts for credential harvesting purposes, according to email security shop Inky.…
Biden orders new quantum push to ensure encryption isn't cracked by rivals
Domestic action and international collaboration to make sure you-know-who – OK, China – doesn't get ahead of the game US president Joe Biden issued two directives on Wednesday aimed at ensuring the nation – and like-minded friends – remain ahead of other countries in the field of quantum computing. Especially as applied to cryptography.…
Google's FLoC flopped, boffins claim, because it failed to provide promised privacy
MIT folk tested the interest-based ad scheme to understand why it was discontinued Computer scientists from MIT Media Lab have exhumed the corpse of Google's FLoC ad targeting scheme and found that it lacked its key advertised ingredient: privacy.…
Beijing-backed gang looted IP around the world for years, claims Cybereason
Infosec outfit says group avoided detection by hiding payloads in undocumented Windows logs Infosec outfit Cybereason says it's discovered a multi-year – and very successful – Chinese effort to steal intellectual property.…
GitHub to require two factor authentication for code contributors by late 2023
Code locker has figured out it's a giant honeypot for miscreants planning supply chain attacks GitHub has announced that it will require two factor authentication for users who contribute code on its service.…
Fortinet's latest firewall is like your kids' music – you're probably not ready for it, yet
Unless you happen to be in healthcare or finance or using AI on personal info or... Firewalls play a significant role in securing today's datacenters, but the technology must evolve if it's to remain relevant, Fortinet VP of product Nirav Shah told The Register.…
US Cyber Command shored up nine nations' defenses last year
'Hunt forward' operations push US capabilities across borders US Cyber Command chief General Paul Nakasone has revealed the agency he leads conducted nine "hunt forward" operations last year, sending teams to different counties to help them improve their defensive security posture and hunt for cyberthreats. …
TurboTax to pay $141m to settle claims it scammed millions of people
Might be a $30 check for you if you were screwed over by 'free, free, free' ads Intuit will cough up $141 million in settlement costs and has promised to not make any misleading claims about its supposedly free tax-filing software, prosecutors in the US announced on Wednesday.…
Outlook bombards Safari users with endless downloads
Mystery zero-byte file deluge makes site unusable, hundreds of netizens complain Attention, Mac users who access Outlook with Safari: something's broken, and it's causing an empty TokenFactoryIFrame file to be downloaded every few seconds for as long as you remain there.…
Cisco says its AI crystal ball can predict network errors
Now all we need is a model to predict where and when and how this will be used Wish your network could predict its own problems and fix them automatically? Cisco believes it has the technology you need.…
Qualcomm sampling Wi-Fi 7 silicon for next-gen access points
OEMs able to develop new products with aim of 10Gbps-plus throughput Qualcomm is sampling its Wi-Fi 7 Networking Pro Series chips aimed at throughput of more than 10Gbps for enterprise access points, gateways, and premium home routers.…
Unity and Trinity: New releases for forks of abandoned Linux desktops
True believers really can bring about resurrections, it seems Two minority Linux desktop environments were updated this week. Coincidentally named Unity and Trinity, both are forks that continue projects long ago abandoned by their creators.…
Communication around Heroku security incident dubbed 'train wreck'
Users claim lack of transparency following compromise of Github tokens Efforts by Salesforce-owned cloud platform Heroku to manage a recent security incident are turning into a bit of a disaster, according to some users.…
Engineer gets Windows 11 working on a Surface Duo
So those hardware requirements for Microsoft's OS really are arbitrary Arch tinkerer Gustave Monce has demonstrated Windows 11 running on a first-generation Surface Duo.…
FAA to airlines: 5G-sensitive radio altimeters have to go
Affected jet equipment will need retrofitting and eventual replacement, agency warns The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) met with airline and telecom officials yesterday to present its latest solution to the instrument interference problem presented by C-band 5G: replace the affected equipment.…
Logitech's sales plunge 20% as demand for PCs slows
Peripherals-maker CEO lowers forecast, citing ongoing war in Ukraine as cause of uncertainty Peripheral maker Logitech is ending its fiscal 2022 on something of a low point, with the pandemic-induced sales growth extravaganza coming to an abrupt end, and forecasts for business this year lowered due to the conflict in Ukraine.…
Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global reveals SEC probing its IPO
US regulator looking into alleged 'misstatements' and 'omissions' related to June 2021 USA float Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global is under a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation regarding its $4.4 billion June 2021 initial public offering (IPO) in the United States.…
SAP to divest CRM education software in bid to streamline
Area no longer a priority as cloud migration takes center stage, deal of around $1b in the offing, reports say SAP is to sell a chunk of its business known as Litmos in a deal reputed to be worth $1 billion.…
Datacenters in Ireland draw more power than all rural homes put together
Bit barns consumed 14% of all energy for 2021 – a significant rise over just a few years Datacenter energy use has eclipsed power consumption among all rural homes in Ireland, according to figures from the country's Central Statistics Office (CSO). The trend is set to continue if 2020-2021 data holds with datacenter power draw growing by nearly one-third between 2020 and 2021.…
Elon Musk wants to take Twitter public again 'within 3 years'
Tesla chief courts private equity with promises of future IPO according to report In another twist to the Twitter saga, Elon Musk could be returning the microblogging mainstay to public ownership in the not-too-distant future, after agreeing to take it private as part of his $44 billion takeover.…
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