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Google 'Switch to Android' app surfaces in iOS App Store
After years of Apple's agitation to 'Move to iOS,' the Chocolate Factory has a reply Google has started rolling out an iOS app to help those using Apple devices move their data to Android systems.…
Under pressure, SAP shuts down Russian operations
On-prem software may remain, albeit without support or maintenance SAP announced on Tuesday it was exiting Russia after 30 years of operations in the country, leaving on-prem customers with no software support.…
Departing Space Force chief architect likens Pentagon's tech acquisition to a BSoD
US military must 'ride the wave of commercial innovation ... or risk drowning under its own weight' The outgoing first chief architect officer of the US Air and Space Force urged the Pentagon to lay off wasting time building everything itself, and use commercial kit if available and appropriate to upgrade its technological capabilities quickly.…
Big Apple Apple Store workers hope to form union
Amazon staff success spurs similar spirit in NYC for a sporting share of super-profits Apple Store staff in New York City are attempting to form a union – and want the minimum wage to be increased to $30 per hour.…
IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb
CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile Internet-of-Things biz Insteon appears to have shut down its servers down without notifying its customers, who are now wondering what they will do with various "smart" home accessories that are looking rather dumb.…
Kaspersky cracks Yanluowang ransomware, offers free decryptor
Step one, get some scrambled files back. Steps two through 37... Kaspersky has found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang ransomware encryption algorithm and, as a result, released a free decryptor tool to help victims of this software nasty recover their files.…
Intel promotes graphics chief Raja Koduri weeks after Arc discrete GPU reveal
CEO memo confirms ex-AMD veteran's bump up to executive veep Exclusive Intel has promoted its top graphics executive, ex-AMD veteran Raja Koduri, signaling the chipmaker's satisfaction so far with its fledgling – yet strategically important – discrete GPU business.…
Smartphone shipments expected to drop again for Q1 2022
Samsung, Apple gain market share while everyone else loses amid economic uncertainty For the smartphone industry, the first quarter of 2022 is looking like a repeat of Q1 2020, in which economic uncertainty triggered by world events led to a double-digit shipment slump. …
Google Cloud launches exclusive AI management platform
Prevision.io wants to 'democratize machine learning innovation' for smaller organizations Google Cloud is offering users access to an AI platform that allows them to build, deploy, and manage AI projects in the cloud without needing extensive data science knowledge.…
Ryzen Pro CPUs are better for work than Intel's, claims AMD
First business chips from AMD to include Microsoft's Pluton security processor, stock is available says chip biz AMD claims its new Ryzen Pro 6000 CPUs for laptops are better suited for a variety of work-related tasks than Intel's latest chips and provide better battery life, though it's not a grand slam.…
Immersion-cooled colo is coming to Ohio... via a crypto-mining datacenter
LiquidStack CEO says we're in a perfect storm for the growth of two-phase immersion cooling A datacenter being built in Ohio will reportedly be the first in the US to deploy two-phase immersion cooling – but only a portion of the facility will be used for HPC colocation with rest used to mine cryptocurrency.…
ESET uncovers vulnerabilities in Lenovo laptops
Firmware updates incoming in response to UEFI threats Updated Got a Lenovo laptop? You might need to do a swift bit of patching judging by the latest set of vulnerabilities uncovered by security researchers at ESET.…
AI with an improvisational streak is under development
Robots need to learn to adapt to chaotic humans, says German researcher A German doctoral student's research is moving us ever closer to an AI skill that, as of yet, has been unrealized: improvisation.…
Windows Insider builds are back for Lenovo PCs in China
Microsoft tinkers with defaults as block lifted with PC Manager update Microsoft has re-enabled Windows Insider builds for Lenovo PCs in China with the release of build 22598 to the Dev and Beta Channels.…
Intel: Our fabs can mass produce silicon qubit devices
If conventional silicon manufacturing processes can be repurposed, it could help create practical quantum systems Intel and QuTech claim to have created the first silicon qubits for quantum logic gates to be made using the same manufacturing facilities that Intel employs to mass produce its processor chips.…
Funky Pigeon pauses all orders after 'security incident'
Parent WH Smith says no customer payment data exposed, according to current investigations British retailer WH Smith has confirmed that Funky Pigeon, its online greetings card and gift subsidiary, has halted all further orders after a "security incident."…
Logitech Lift: Vertical mouse for those with small hands
It's the MX Vertical... only smaller Hands on Logitech has launched a pleasing yet barkingly mad mouse called Lift, the latest in the company's line of ergonomic input devices.…
Infosys noncompete clause sparks complaint from labor rights org
Policy in place since 2007, but increased employee attrition might have made it more visible A labor rights non-profit has filed a complaint with India's Ministry of Labor alleging IT services giant Infosys has subjected its employees to an illegal noncompete clause.…
Space Launch System dress rehearsal canceled for repairs
If at first you don't succeed... you're probably NASA NASA's third attempt at an Artemis I wet dress rehearsal has ended with a plan to roll the agency's Moon rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for repairs.…
Twitter faces existential threat from world's richest techbro
Cash of the Titan: Musk's Twitter take-over plan may be many things – let's hope it’s not the one he claims Opinion Elon Musk is many things. The richest man in the world with over $200 billion in his back pocket. An instigator of PayPal. CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX, the biz that restored the US's manned space capabilities. Owner of the most valuable car company on the planet. And as of April 14, he says he wants to be the owner of Twitter.…
Windows 11 usage stats within touching distance of... XP
Hardware requirements + cautious enterprises = slow adoption Windows 11 is continuing to struggle both in the enterprise and at home, according to figures published by IT asset management platform Lansweeper. Disappointingly for Microsoft, it has yet to even surpass Windows XP.…
IBM ordered to pay $105 million to insurer over tech project's collapse
Appeals court takes previous payout ruling and multiplies by six IBM must pay five times more in compensation to a customer whose £175 million ($230 million) Agile software platform contract was ripped up in 2017 following a series of failures on the project, the Court of Appeal in England has ruled.…
Google's plan to win the cloud war hinges on its security aspirations
VP Sunil Potti talks strategy talks with The Register Interview Google's quest to steal cloud customers from rivals Amazon and Microsoft will be won – or lost – based on its strength as a cybersecurity provider.…
Shanghai lockdown: Chinese tech execs warn of supply-chain chaos
'Severe consequences' for industry ... and anyone setting foot outside As at least some parts of Shanghai enter their fourth week of lockdown, Chinese tech executives have highlighted how measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will affect supply chains and industry.…
Scraping public data from the web still OK: US court
Latest LinkedIn blow / Profile harvesting legal / HiQ case rolls on Scraping data from a public website doesn't violate America's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday.…
Beanstalk loses $182m in huge flash-loan crypto heist
A lesson learned the very hard way Beanstalk Farms, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, said it lost all of its $180 million collateral over the weekend.…
Uncle Sam probes Activision for any insider trading
Troubled games maker reveals investigation amid Microsoft takeover Activision Blizzard is under investigation for possible insider trading including claims CEO Bobby Kotick tipped off some investors to buy more shares before the $68.7bn Microsoft acquisition deal was announced.…
UK Prime Minister, Catalan groups 'targeted by NSO Pegasus spyware'
UAE reportedly using 'legal' malware on erstwhile allies Citizen Lab has reported finding suspected surveillance software on devices associated with both the UK Prime Minister's Office and what was formerly called the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.…
TSMC’s 2025 timeline for 2nm chips suggests Intel gaining steam
Semiconductor world veteran says x86 titan could catch up with Asia-Pacific rivals in three years TSMC said it won't start production at its 2nm node until the second half of 2025 or possibly the end of that year, which could signal a shift in the competitive landscape.…
Microsoft ups bug bounties 30% for cloud lines, pays more for 'scenario-based' exploits
Plus: HP fixes critical Teradici flaws, Karakurt may be a Conti side hustle, and info-stealing malware set free In Brief Microsoft will pay more — up to $26,000 more — for "high-impact" bugs in its Office 365 products via its bug bounty program.…
Fake it until you make it: Can synthetic data help train your AI model?
Yes and no. It's complicated. The saying "data is the new oil," was reportedly coined by British mathematician and marketing whiz Clive Humby in 2006. Humby's remark rings true more now than ever with the rise of deep learning.…
AI models to detect how you're feeling in sales calls
Plus: Driverless Cruise car gets pulled over by police, and more In brief AI software is being offered to sales teams to analyze whether potential customers appear interested during virtual meetings.…
An early crack at network management with an unfortunate logfile
It's a backronym, right? Who, Me? Come with us on a journey back to the glory days of Visual Basic 6, misplaced enthusiasm and an unfortunate naming incident. Welcome to Who, Me?…
How to democratize ML? More public data, says MLCommons
Foundation makes 30k hours of speech and 340k keywords in 50 languages available online Unless you're an English speaker, and one with as neutral an American accent as possible, you've probably butted heads with a digital assistant that couldn't understand you. With any luck, a couple of open-source datasets from MLCommons could help future systems grok your voice.…
TACC Frontera's 2022: Academic supercomputer to run intriguing experiments
Plus: Director reveals 10 million node hours, 50-70 million core hours went into COVID-19 research The largest academic supercomputer in the world has a busy year ahead of it, with researchers from 45 institutions across 22 states being awarded time for its coming operational run.…
When the expert speaker at an NFT tech panel goes rogue
Stick to the script, man! It’s confusing enough already Something for the Weekend How can you save the world's oceans? By investing in NFTs of course!…
Apple dev logs suggest 'nine new M2-powered Macs'
'Widespread internal testing' of four processor types Apple is seemingly testing four next-generation M2 processors on software developed by third-party app makers in at least nine Mac models that are likely to be upcoming laptops and desktops.…
Twitter preps poison pill to preclude Elon Musk's purchase plan
Populist provocateur ponders partners to pay for platform prize Comment Twitter on Friday said its board of directors had unanimously approved a plan to prevent a hostile takeover, something that became a distinct possibility after billionaire Elon Musk offered $43 billion to buy the social media network.…
Feds offer $5m reward for info on North Korean cyber crooks
Meanwhile: Caltech grad earns five years in prison for heping Kim's coders The US government offered a reward up to $5 million for information that helps disrupt North Korea's cryptocurrency theft, cyber-espionage, and other illicit state-backed activities.…
GitHub's Dependabot learns to report bad news you can use
Instead of just raising the alarm, automated code-scold will flag where the fire is GitHub's Dependabot is becoming more dependable thanks to its newfound ability to tell developers whether its security alerts are relevant or not.…
Star loses $500,000 NFT after crooks exploit Rarible market
This isn't the moving-fast-and-breaking-things future we wanted Miscreants exploited a now-fixed design flaw in the Rarible NFT marketplace to steal a non-fungible token from Taiwanese singer and actor Jay Chou and sell it for about $500,000.…
Intel’s neurochips could one day end up in PCs or a cloud service
The brain-like chip technology could aid with low-power AI tasks like speech recognition You may have heard before about Intel's Loihi neuromorphic chips that mimic the way brains work, but what hasn't been clear yet is how the chipmaker will make money from the experimental silicon.…
Cybercriminals do their homework for latest banking scam
What could be safer than sending money to yourself through your own bank? A new social engineering scam is making the rounds, and this one is particularly insidious: It tricks users into sending money to what they think is their own account to reverse a fraudulent charge. …
Google issues third emergency fix for Chrome this year
The latest patch is aimed at a type confusion vulnerability that is actively being exploited Google is issuing fixes for two vulnerabilities in its Chrome web browser, including one flaw that is already being exploited in the wild.…
COVID-19 contact tracing apps were suggested as saviors. They sometimes delivered
Privacy fears didn't materialise, but bungling did COVID Logfile IV As the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 disease it creates spread rapidly across the world in early 2020, governments that grasped the gravity of the situation wondered if technology could help them control the pandemic.…
Review: Huawei's Matebook X Pro laptop is forgetful and forgettable
Blows hot and cold, and gets right up your nose Desktop Tourism Rightly or wrongly, Huawei has acquired a reputation for being a risky proposition, security-wise. It almost beggars belief, then, that the Chinese goliath's flagship Matebook X Pro laptop contains a literal hidden webcam secreted under a fake function key on the top row of its keyboard.…
You can buy a company. You can buy a product. Common sense? Trickier
Taking the Metal Mickey as customer complains that none of the equipment works On Call An important lesson in conductivity lies in wait for the unwary or downright incompetent. Welcome to another tale from the On Call archives.…
North Korea's Lazarus cyber-gang caught 'spying' on chemical sector companies
Crypto-coin theft isn't enough to keep these miscreants busy North Korea's Lazarus cybercrime gang is now breaking into chemical sector companies' networks to spy on them, according to Symantec's threat intel team.…
Chip design software giant Synopsys probed for potential forbidden deals with Huawei
This is why the US Department of Commerce subpoenaed biz last year Updated Synopsys is being investigated by the US government over concerns the biz may have flouted restrictions placed on the flow of American chip-making technologies to certain Chinese companies.…
Broken password check algorithm lets anyone log into Cisco's Wi-Fi admin software
Specially crafted credentials grant remote high-privilege access? That's a 10 out of 10 in severity Cisco on Tuesday issued a critical security advisory for its Wireless LAN Controller (WLC), used in various Cisco products to manage wireless networks.…
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