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Industrial giants, cybersec vendors collect under OTCSA banner A number of the world's largest manufacturing and cybersecurity companies are getting behind a new consortium aimed at protecting industrial systems from threats.…

Lambda, Razer take on Apple with Tensorbook for ML engineers AI hardware company Lambda and PC gaming rig maker Razer are hoping to steal some thunder from Apple's M1 Max-powered MacBook Pro with a new laptop designed explicitly for machine learning engineers.…

Python's stranglehold in data science makes Neo4j rethink language strategy Graph database specialist Neo4j has launched a graph analytics workspace as a fully managed cloud service.…

Personal security, private travel, for exec making a single 'Zuck Buck' Meta only paid Mark Zuckerberg $1 last year, and the board recently voted to do the same in 2022. …

Guarding against the forever almost-here crypto-cracking tech OpenSSH 9 is here, with updates aimed at dealing with cryptographically challenging quantum computers.…

Reveals confidential filing but no pricing ahead of review by the SEC Arm-based server processor upstart Ampere Computing has signaled its intention to go public, and said it has filed the initial paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).…

Will the last Western tech biz in Russia please turn out the lights? Nokia is the second of the world's biggest telco network kit makers to turn its back on Russia in as many days due to the continuing invasion in Ukraine - yesterday Ericsson "indefinitely" pulled out of the country.…

Constant versioning of file systems is the way to go, Nasuni cofounder says Interview As CTO of The New York Times two decades ago, Andres Rodriguez became frustrated with the time-consuming and unreliable process of backing up massive amounts of data that was only tested when it failed.…

That freebie that saved your bacon once or twice? Perhaps it's time to drop a bit of cash on it A timely reminder is being issued to the effect that free web services are not the same as free software: the creator of the SSLPing service says he can't look after it anymore.…

CVSS 9.8 flaws are not what you want in a hospital robot Mobile robot maker Aethon has fixed a series of vulnerabilities in its Tug hospital robots that, if exploited, could allow a cybercriminal to remotely control thousands of medical machines.…

Designed by a six-year-old, the design just needs a rocket on which to ride The UK Space Agency has marked the International Day of Human Spaceflight by announcing the winner of the Logo Lift-off Competition.…

Last week, colocating datacenters and sewage plants: this week, renewables and H producers A project to produce green hydrogen using wind power is planned in the mid-east of Sweden, which is expected to have the ability to make up to 240 tons of the stuff on-site every day.…

Outfits that can rummage around inside customer systems need to prove they're up to the job - and accountable Cybersecurity service providers must for licenses to operate in Singapore, under new regulations launched by the country’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) on Monday.…

Adds cache-like storage currently offered for servers to speed demanding desktop workloads Amazon Web Services has made an interesting tweak to its “Workspaces” desktop-as-a-service offering: temporary local storage.…

Same biometric used for different people, no archives, lousy infosec among the issues India’s Comptroller and Auditor General has published a performance audit of the nation’s Unique Identification Authority and found big IT problems – some attributable to Indian services giant HCL and to HP, but others due to poor government decisions.…

14,000 small developers reported to have gone out of business during approval hiatus After a nine month pause, Beijing has finally granted new video game licenses to 45 titles.…

Another reason why this year and next will suck Alerts issued this month are pointing to chip supply issues being resolved only when new factories become operational in 2024.…

Fair Trade Commission concerned false paperwork took years to decipher Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong is in trouble – again – this time over false filings about the extent of his shareholdings.…

Attackers can insert hidden samples to steal secrets Machine learning models can be forced into leaking private data if miscreants sneak poisoned samples into training datasets, according to new research.…

Cloud collaboration biz says script deleted data that's so far been restored via backups The Atlassian outage that began on April 5 is likely to last a bit longer for the several hundred customers affected.…

Pegasus software maker faces mounting lawsuits, investigations in the US and EU Someone at least tried to use NSO Group's surveillance software to spy on European Commission officials last year, according to a Reuters report. …

What looked like Plan B is now Plan A for config management biz Perforce, a Minnesota-based maker of DevOps software, on Monday announced the acquisition of Puppet, an Oregon-based maker of configuration management tools, for an undisclosed sum.…

Chip giant also reveals next-gen 18A process months ahead of schedule Intel has officially opened a new $3 billion expansion of its Oregon research and development campus that is key to the chipmaker's plan to overtake rivals with leading-edge chip technologies.…

New RSK Tornado system will help Russia port HPC apps to homegrown CPUs Russia is adapting to a world where it no longer has access to many technologies abroad with the development of a new supercomputer platform that can use foreign x86 processors such as Intel's in combination with the country's homegrown Elbrus processors.…

Trend Micro says vulnerable systems in Singapore have been compromised There has been a land rush of sorts among threat groups trying to use the vulnerability discovered in the open-source Spring Framework last month, and now researchers at Trend Micro are saying it's being actively exploited to execute the Mirai botnet.…

Long-awaited major release welcomed by users who wish IBM would promote it a little more In the first major upgrade since 2016, IBM is releasing a basket of updates for the edition of its well-established Db2 relational database for the z/OS mainframe operating system. The latest tweaks are designed to use machine learning to make systems more efficient to manage and operate.…

Out of this world service for Musk's satellite broadband It appears that even users of Elon Musk's Starlink service are not immune to the odd bit of borkage as the broadband-from-orbit system suffered an outage at the weekend.…

That's what Thoma Bravo is paying for SailPoint in a mid-pandemic market A $6.9 billion acquisition is putting a hard number on the value of Identity and Access Management (IAM). …

Goal to prevent brain drain of talented computer scientists from region A new Eastern Europe-based research institute aimed at advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and computing is trying to stem the flood of talented computer scientists exiting the region for the West.…

However, 'structural undersupply' might ease in the next six months or so The ongoing supply chain woes in the semiconductor market are set to last through this year and next, according to Volkswagen, which believes underlying structural problems are unlikely to be resolved before 2024.…

Plus: Can algorithms tell us how we're feeling from the sound of our voices and more In brief The EU Commission wants to build a giant facial recognition database that will be shared with law enforcement across different countries.…

Plus: AMD tells El Reg it stopped 'all technical, product support and marketing' in pariah state Swedish network system maker Ericsson has confirmed it has "indefinitely" halted all shipments to clients in Russia, joining the ever growing list of tech organizations protesting the atrocities in Ukraine.…

Sabre deal with Google creates parallel data architecture to support ML-based ecommerce partnerships with airlines and hotel chains Feature The computing and travel industries have traveled hand in hand for decades. For perspective, American Airlines signed a deal with IBM in 1957 which developed the first computer reservation system in 1960, based on two IBM 7090 mainframes.…

Majority of affected users still wondering where their data went The great Atlassian outage is stumbling into a new week, with the company reporting it has "rebuilt functionality for over 35 percent of the users who are impacted by the service outage," meaning the majority of those afflicted remain unable to access their sites.…

Beijing struggles to contain both misinformation and inconvenient dissent amid mass lockdowns The 25 million plus residents of the Chinese city of Shanghai are being warned not to spread rumors online or to complain about conditions during ongoing and strict COVID-19 lockdowns imposed since March 28.…

Plus: Fox News learns to use database passwords, Autodesk patches high-severity bugs, and CISA says retire old D-Link routers In brief Google pulled a slew of Android apps with more than 46 million downloads from its Google Play Store after security researchers notified the cloud giant that the code contained some sneaky data-harvesting code.…

Next stop, French Guiana. Then Jupiter Feature The European Space Agency's (ESA) JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) spacecraft has kicked off electromagnetic testing in the Airbus Defence and Space cleanrooms in Toulouse.…

Hopes to taps into pool of tech workers who aren't keen to be tied down for 40 hours per week Dell employees in the Netherlands will be able to work four days a week from this month, a director of Dell Technologies Netherlands has confirmed to The Register.…

We answer today's burning question: should YOU buy an IBM z16? Opinion IBM's most exciting mainframe yet, the z16, is finally here. Just three years after the z15, at this rate IBM has until 2212 to buy the z80 trademark from Zilog.…

Where the phrase 'don't put all your eggs in one basket' originates Who, Me? Who has got your back up? Forget comments in code, what do you do when all your source has been packed into the trunk of a family sedan? Welcome to Who, Me?…

Management promises it will keep listening, and Elon shows no sign of going quiet SpaceX and Tesla tycoon Elon Musk won't be joining Twitter's board, despite last week revealing he had acquired a 9.2 per cent stake in the microblogging service.…

Analyst says it's not a 'downward spiral' as sales are still defying predictions Shipments of PCs have finally slowed down after two years of double-digit growth, declining worldwide by 5.1 per cent year-on-year in Q1 2022, market research firm International Data Corp (IDC) said on Monday.…

Shouldn't a company from the same stable as Tata Consulting Services do better with a day one traffic flood? Giant Indian industrial conglomerate Tata has launched its attempt to rival Amazon.com and Walmart's e-commerce efforts, but suffered a bad case of the first day scalability jitters.…

Please dismiss any thoughts you had that increasing regulation might have hurt the economy China's Cyberspace Administration has published statistics to assert that the nation's big technology companies are growing and not laying off thousands of workers.…

Washington looks to private sector help for Open RAN ambitions The US Department of Defense is encouraging companies to build open and interoperable 5G, and it's willing to shell out a portion of $3 million to anyone who provides a solution.…

A model can improve overnight, it just takes pared-down scale and a little human intervention It turns out the machines still need us after all, at least for now. And while the largest systems get the most attention, the secret to truly useful, fair AI are best served small and with plenty of human input.…

The smallest artificial spin ice ever created could be part of novel low-power HPC Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zurich have managed to accomplish a technological breakthrough that could lead to new forms of low-energy supercomputing.…

ML master pitches trimmed-down deep learning for the masses In 2015, modern AI trailblazer Andrew Ng's recipe for success was to go big on neural networks, data, and monolithic systems. Now that recipe has created a problem: the technology is dominated by only a few rich companies with the money and headcount to build such immense systems.…

Do we have enough toner for barracks in Fort Bliss base in Texas? The US Department of Defense is to construct and try out the largest 3D-printed buildings in the Americas: three barracks in a Lone Star army base.…

FromSoftware's magnum opus, made with input from George R R Martin, invites new and veteran players alike The RPG Greetings, traveler, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. You'll forgive the lateness of this edition because there was really only one game that mattered in March – perhaps the entirety of 2022 – and that game's name is Elden Ring.…