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Over at HP, CEO says a client price war is now looming The supply chain for personal computers is back to normal after 30 months of plague-induced disruption – there is nothing more to worry heads of procurement teams at big corporate buyers.…

Picture of longer sales cycles, more deliberation, enterprise upgrade challenges emerging across industry Enterprise software deals will take longer to close for the rest of the year as inflation and geopolitical uncertainty hit IT departments, according to ServiceNow CFO Gina Mastantuono.…

Gets some pushback from those wanting permission to keep it hanging around for decades The US Federal Communications Commission wants to shrink a current requirement for space operators to pull their equipment from low Earth orbit from within 25 years to just five years, according to new rules published yesterday.…

Analyst believes industry is in for 'deepest downcycle and inventory correction in over a decade' Chip delivery times shrank in August but while some are painting this as a sign that semiconductor shortages are easing, it is most likely an indicator that demand is slowing as economic conditions worsen.…

System look well suited to fill gaps in traditional OLAP market DuckDB – the in-process analytical database management system used by Google, Facebook, and Airbnb – has released its 0.5.0 iteration.…

In the military facility, vermin sniffed out a destructive secret On Call Welcome yet again to On Call, The Register's Friday folly in which readers share reminiscences of their most redolent rescue jobs.…

Clouds are buying plenty, but there's lots of product left for the rest of us – outside Russia Major networking vendors continue to report supply chain challenges, but the market for their switches and routers is growing at quite a clip according to analyst outfit IDC.…

Top tip: Skip the memos with cancer advice Comment At CodeCon 2022 on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook, former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive, and billionaire business executive Laurene Powell Jobs launched the Steve Jobs Archive, an online repository to honor the legacy of Apple's co-founder and CEO for many years.…

Local regulators think such apps should be banned because of incidents including suicides Google has expanded its test of apps that allow users to gamble – and lose – real money, but won't allow that money to be handled using the billing systems it has fought to impose on developers of other apps.…

Beijing thinks standards should include central network controls. Washington does not The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has relaxed restrictions that barred export of some encryption technologies to Huawei, in the name of ensuring the United States is in a better position to negotiate global standards.…

Will it be third time lucky? NASA will attempt, for the third time now, to blast off its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the Moon in late September.…

These super-corps are otherwise enjoying 'a consequence-free zone' Mozilla's Chief Security Officer Marshall Erwin urged federal regulators to crack down on internet giants and web browser makers that don't protect their users' privacy — and to make them pay penalties for bad behavior.…

For those who reckon we'll make it out of 2022 alive and into 2024 Intel and Broadcom have demonstrated cross-vendor interoperability of Wi-Fi 7 kit, claiming over-the-air speeds of more than 5Gbps between an Intel-based laptop and a Broadcom Wi-Fi 7 access point.…

Nothing like an authentication bypass for your private IPSec network Cisco patched three security vulnerabilities in its products this week, and said it will leave unpatched a VPN-hijacking flaw that affects four small business routers.…

It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the hackers are at it again Mandiant is "highly confident" that foreign cyberspies will target US election infrastructure, organizations, and individuals in the run-up to the November midterm elections.…

We'll even get our checkbook out, web giant says Google's open source security team says OSS-Fuzz, its community fuzzing service, has helped fix more than 8,000 security vulnerabilities and 26,000 other bugs in open source projects since its 2016 debut.…

Redmond loves open source so much, it keeps most of its stuff closed Just weeks after rolling out SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate 0 for Windows, Microsoft is following with a release candidate for Linux systems.…

HME2 signs off Obit Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor has died, ending the reign of Britain's longest-serving monarch. She was 96.…

Plasma at over 100 million kelvin for 20 seconds adds to list of noteworthy fusion breakthroughs in 2022 Scientists in Korea have succeeded in sustaining a plasma gas at 100 million kelvin for up to 20 seconds without significant instabilities, a feat thought to be a significant step forward in the quest for a sustainable nuclear fusion reaction.…

Anyone fancy renting some office space? Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the parent firm of the world's largest cloud service provider will likely slow the rate at which it's hiring staff, while noting he has no plans to force current workers to return to the office.…

Welcome to Datacenter Alley, where you'll find the backbones of Microsoft, Facebook, Google, ByteDance... The state of Virginia has over a third of America's hyperscale datacenter capacity, and this amounts to more than the entire capacity of China or the whole of Europe, highlighting just how much infrastructure is concentrated along the so-called Datacenter Alley.…

After the events of the weekend, there's no need to rush Ever the optimist, NASA has handed Axiom Space a $228.5 million deal to develop a moonwalking system in the first award under a competitive spacesuits contract.…

Will somebody think of the poor shareholders? They have kids too Google is joining the legions of other tech companies that are tightening up on company expenses in preparation for a potentially bumpier ride ahead in the global economy.…

Handsets with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform should be able to take full advantage Japanese telco NTT Docomo claims to have the world's first commercial 5G Standalone (SA) network that enables smartphones to simultaneously use both mid-band (sub-6 GHz) and mmWave frequencies, known as 5G NR Dual Connectivity.…

'Enterprise immune system' sees share price slump US private equity investor Thoma Bravo has pulled out of its planned takeover of Darktrace, causing shares in the UK cybersecurity company to plummet.…

Cisco finds custom malware in North Korea's latest cyberespionage effort The North Korean state-sponsored crime ring Lazarus Group is behind a new cyberespionage campaign with the goal to steal data and trade secrets from energy providers across the US, Canada and Japan, according to Cisco Talos.…

As deadline for mandatory code rewrite approaches, Manifest v3 still looks like a step backward Analysis Next year, Chrome browser extensions – such as ad blockers and other privacy tools – will stop working if they are reliant on an API called Manifest v2 (MV2).…

Bike and car accessory slinger fined £30,000 for hitting send on more than 499k unsolicited emails Bike and car accessory retailer Halfords has found itself in the wrong lane with Britain’s data watchdog for sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited marketing emails to members of the public.…

Lightbend's Akka shifts from Apache 2.0 license to BSL 1.1 – but critics not pleased about pricing Lightbend is fed up with commercial entities using its open source wares in production environments and giving nothing back to the FOSS community, so is making an alteration to the licensing of a popular product.…

Protein prediction it can do, the next steps not so much – not that it was trained for this Analysis DeepMind's AlphaFold model has predicted nearly all known protein structures discovered yet, though its ability to help scientists discover new drugs remains unproven.…

So are ITSM tools that can’t spread, data tools, and private 5G. But outsourcing is cool again Analyst firm Forrester Research has published its 2023 planning guide for Technology Architecture and Delivery and warned that IT departments will face increased spending scrutiny as economic conditions tighten.…

Or if you're looking for something lower power, it can be had with a pentacore Celeron If you’ve ever thought to yourself these single board computers (SBC) could use a few more cores, Asus’ Aaeon latest system might be right up your alley.…

Yes, that’s a lot to digest: Marshall Islands legislators allegedly bribed to make it possible About halfway between The Philippines and Hawaii is a place called Rongelap Atoll that’s infamous for having been unintentionally irradiated by nuclear weapons tests conducted by America at nearby Bikini Atoll in 1954.…

Odd couple will tie the knot in late September – but there's still no sign what's in store Citrix has announced that its planned de-listing and merger with Tibco has cleared regulatory hurdles and the two companies will therefore become one during the last week of September 2022.…

We guess new chips are only for Pros At this week’s big iPhone launch, Apple's custom Arm-compatible chips – known as Apple Silicon – received little fanfare compared to what the processors have enjoyed at previous events.…

Tech billionaire can tap into Mudge whistleblower complaint, though A judge has turned down Elon Musk's request to delay his trial with Twitter.…

With Crash Detection (no, not that kind) and satellite-powered SOS when cell service is absent Apple on Wednesday enticed favored members of the media and its ever-enthusiastic employees from Cupertino to hear word of the company's iPhone 14, Apple Watch 8, and second generation AirPods Pro earbuds.…

Some of the hardest things in programming: Handling times and dates The decision last month by Chilean leaders to delay a switch to Daylight Savings Time (DST) by a week could cause headaches for some Windows users if they don't implement the workaround outlined by Microsoft.…

Whether this works as advertised is key Ring's battery-powered video-doorbells-slash-surveillance cameras can finally turn on end-to-end encryption (E2EE).…

Finding Zen just got a little easier AMD is changing the way it names mobile processors to make it more obvious whether you’re getting their freshest Zen cores or last year’s leftovers.…

FBI warns that Vice Society threat group is ramping up attacks on the education sector The Vice Society threat group is ramping up ransomware attacks on US school districts just as students around the country return to the classroom, the FBI and other federal agencies are warning.…

Company claims tech can detect quantum information at room temperature A semiconductor company called Archer Materials says it is working with chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries to help it develop high-volume production quantum processor technology.…

Could replace fossil fuels in several energy-hungry industries in hot climates without water use Scientists have produced hydrogen from thin air, a development they say could help industry harvest the promising eco-fuel in the most arid environments.…

Ideas include restructuring key goals and expunging needless meetings Google execs are embarking on a company-wide efficiency drive to make the digital advertising and cloud computing business 20 percent more productive.…

'It's hard to imagine a more dangerous scenario,' Mandiant Intel VP told The Reg Mandiant has named a new threat group, APT42, that it says functions as the cyberspy arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has plotted to murder US citizens including former National Security Advisor John Bolton.…

Rules apply for next decade, warns Commerce Department, which can claw back cash US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has warned that the US Commerce Department "has the ability to claw back money" if recipients of CHIPS Act semiconductor manufacturing grants "compromise national security" by developing leading-edge tech in China in the next decade.…

Kaspersky research finds Minecraft and Roblox have the most malicious files associated with them With 3 billion players globally, the $200 billion gaming market is an increasingly ripe target for cybercriminals – with the perennially popular Minecraft one of the most targeted lures.…

Both platforms based on Kyro semi-custom Arm CPUs Qualcomm has unveiled fresh smartphone platforms in its widely used Snapdragon mobile line that target the mid-range and mass-volume segments respectively.…

Anyone planning to migrate to IPv6 then? Bueller? French cloud provider OVHcloud has opened up a Bring Your Own IP service, which it said allows customers to reuse existing public IPv4 blocks as failover addresses in the event of an outage.…

Emerging field now has baseline definitions for vendors to work with The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has at last published version 1.0 of its Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model, the specs meant to help develop the new performance-boosting tech by providing interoperability between different vendors.…