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Anyone who tells you Linux is hard to use wasn't paying attention – and here's why Column I've used pretty much every desktop out there, and the Linux desktop is still the best of the best.…

Software was supposed to eat the world, but it's scarcely snacking on today's monstrous silicon Column When I first saw an image of the 'wafer-scale engine' from AI hardware startup Cerebras, my mind rejected it. The company's current product is about the size of an iPad and uses 2.6 trillion transistors that contribute to over 850,000 cores.…

Plus: Watchdog approves Fitbit's algorithm for detecting a dodgy ticker While Apple engineers continue adding health-related features to its smartwatch range, its blood-pressure monitoring system won't be ready until 2024 at the earliest, it is reported.…

Plans to take a bigger bite of the SME security market by swimming towards SASE Investment firm KKR has acquired Barracuda Networks from private equity firm Thoma Bravo.…

Chinese giant still hiring in Moscow – for some very interesting gigs Updated Chinese telecom giant Huawei has issued a mandatory month-long furlough to some of its Russia-based staff and suspended new orders, according to Russian media.…

Sixty percent of current facilities are near Tokyo – a risky concentration Japan's government has secured expressions of interest from over 100 regional centers willing to host new datacenters, as part of an effort to make the nation's computing infrastructure more resilient.…

April bundle addresses 100-plus vulnerabilities including 10 critical RCEs Microsoft's massive April Patch Tuesday includes one bug that has already been exploited in the wild and a second that has been publicly disclosed.…

Argonne boffinry nerve-center is building a qubit computer with x86 giant Inside Intel sees quantum computing as the next step beyond today's CPUs and GPUs, and this week took a step ahead in delivering such a system.…

Suspected admin who went by 'Omnipotent' awaits UK decision on extradition to US After at least six years of peddling pilfered personal information, the infamous stolen-data market RaidForums has been shut down following the arrest of suspected founder and admin Diogo Santos Coelho in the UK earlier this year.…

Tool disables non-essential tokens A team of researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google say they have found a way to use artificial intelligence to neutralize manipulative cookie consent pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web.…

Startup sells software and hardware as a subscription to make private 5G easy Intel has acquired private 5G network provider Ananki, several months after the startup spun out of the non-profit Open Networking Foundation to commercialize open-source network technologies.…

Murali Venkata found guilty of conspiracy to resell case management app A former acting branch chief of IT for the US Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) oversight office was convicted on Monday of conspiring to steal US government software in order to develop a commercial copy that could be resold to other government agencies.…

Lightspin threat researchers discovered the bug, which AWS fixed A local file read vulnerability in Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) could have been exploited by an attacker to gain access to internal AWS credentials, the cloud behemoth has confirmed.…

Only 36% use it now, but an additional 47% plan to adopt HAS in the next year An Intel study finds that businesses are eager for cybersecurity and are keen to see how security can be baked into devices.…

Says its other global operations won't be affected by the process Cloud and datacenter service provider Sungard Availability Services has filed for bankruptcy both in the US and for its Canadian subsidiary, just weeks after its UK division was forced into administration.…

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.…