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Some of us have used them for decades, some are seeing them for the first time on marketing slides Systems Approach Explaining what an API is can be surprisingly difficult.…

Developers, developers... and top secret coffee machines. Security at MS is definitely tighter 25 years later Former Microsoft staffer Dave Plummer has revealed how he managed to sneak his wife into a corporate event so that she might experience a Steve Ballmer presentation first hand. The old romantic.…

But think tank says its past attempts at working together haven't gone well Leaders of the Quad alliance – Australia, India, Japan, and the USA – met on Tuesday and revealed initiatives to strengthen collaboration on emerging technologies and cybersecurity, with an unspoken subtext of neutralizing China.…

In detail: Ocean's Eleven-grade ruse in which victims' profiles are rigged from the start Two security researchers have identified five related techniques for hijacking internet accounts by preparing them to be commandeered in advance.…

Another rush job for busy Indian IT shops Indian IT shops have been handed another extraordinarily short deadline within which to perform significant infosec work.…

Treatment could stop coronavirus from replicating inside body An oral medication designed by scientists with the help of AI algorithms could one day treat patients with COVID-19 and other types of diseases caused by coronaviruses.…

CTO shares datacenter secrets with The Reg: NVMe, MariaDB, mid-range x86 CPUs, S3-alike, and more The tech world's pandemic supply chain meltdown drove ServiceNow to place orders for a year worth of datacenter kit in January 2022, believing that doing so was necessary to get the hardware it needed to cope with growing customer workloads.…

Cloudy server testbed coming, open source code filtering into RHEL promised Samsung and Red Hat have pledged to work together on developing software to get the best from emerging memory technologies.…

Software-tuning suite could be used to show where and how Xeon trumps rivals, if customers can believe it Analysis Intel is facing tough competition in the server CPU space, and one way it's trying to stand out — besides trying to make better chips — is its newly acquired Granulate cloud optimization software business that aims to improve application performance and reduce infrastructure costs.…

I get knocked down but I get up again, Italy, Canada, UK, ACLU, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter... are never gonna keep me down Clearview AI is reportedly expanding its facial-recognition services beyond law enforcement to include private industries, such as banking and education, amid mounting pressure from regulators, Big Tech, and privacy campaigners.…

Or so says Google after tracking 30+ vendors peddling surveillance malware Spyware vendor Cytrox sold zero-day exploits to government-backed snoops who used them to deploy the firm's Predator spyware in at least three campaigns in 2021, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG).…

Domain associated with maintainer email expired, taken over in supply-chain attack The Python Package Index (PyPI), a repository for Python software libraries, has advised Python developers that the ctx package has been compromised.…

Might be something for those who find AWS, Azure, GCP overly complex DigitalOcean dipped its toes in the serverless seas Tuesday with the launch of a Functions service it's positioning as a developer-friendly alternative to Amazon Web Services Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.…

Google Project Zero blows lid off bug involving that old chestnut: XML parsing Zoom has fixed a security flaw in its video-conferencing software that a miscreant could exploit with chat messages to potentially execute malicious code on a victim's device.…

It has this weird habit of drawing stereotyped White people, team admit DALL·E 2 may have to cede its throne as the most impressive image-generating AI to Google, which has revealed its own text-to-image model called Imagen.…

Facebook builds FORT to protect against onslaught of regulation, investigation Meta's ad transparency tools will soon reveal another treasure trove of data: advertiser targeting choices for political, election-related, and social issue spots.…

Just as Samsung pledges to invest $360b to shore up next-gen industries Toyota is to slash global production of motor vehicles due to the semiconductor shortage. The news comes as Samsung pledges to invest about $360 billion over the next five years to bolster chip production, along with other strategic sectors.…

Amazon Appstore preview goes wider, plus Windows on Arm platform with Neural Processing Units – Project Volterra Microsoft Build Windows still rules the enterprise, and among all the Azure and Power Platform action during Microsoft's annual Build event for developers, the company had news for users of its flagship operating system.…

The Register speaks to Jim Walker about maturity and super regions Cockroach Labs has finally added a new command line tool with the release of version 22.1 of its eponymous database, out today.…

'Experimental' systemd-sysupdate feature likely to get the most attention Version 251 of the controversial systemd Linux init system is here, and you can expect it to feature in the next version of your preferred distro.…

The software giant's 'orderly exit' appears to be ongoing A Ukrainian minister has accused software giant SAP of continuing to operate in Russia despite the German vendor previously vowing to withdraw from the aggressor nation.…

Graz University findings will become more significant as more AI work is done Neuromorphic chips have been endorsed in research showing that they are much more energy efficient at operating large deep learning networks than non-neuromorphic hardware.…

German optics giant jumps ship to make smartphone cameras for Xiaomi instead Huawei's long established trading relationship with Leica to integrate the German camera maker's technology into its phones is over, the companies have confirmed.…

Crafty file names, encrypted malicious code, Office flaws – ah, it's like the Before Times HP's cybersecurity folks have uncovered an email campaign that ticks all the boxes: messages with a PDF attached that embeds a Word document that upon opening infects the victim's Windows PC with malware by exploiting a four-year-old code-execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office.…

What does that mean? Better latency and a replacement for PulseAudio The next release of Ubuntu, version 22.10 and codenamed Kinetic Kudu, will switch audio servers to the relatively new PipeWire.…

Is... is that why Broadcom wants to buy it? The future of high-performance computing will be virtualized, VMware's Uday Kurkure has told The Register.…

Arm one year, x86 the next, and always faster than a certain chip shop that still can't ship even one standalone GPU Computex Nvidia's push deeper into enterprise computing will see its practice of introducing a new GPU architecture every two years brought to its CPUs and data processing units (DPUs, aka SmartNICs).…

Big Bezos is watching you Amazon is reportedly installing AI-powered cameras in delivery vans to keep tabs on its drivers in the UK.…

Just one instance type for now, but cheaper than third-gen Xeons or EPYCs Amazon Web Services has made its latest homebrew CPU, the Graviton3, available to rent in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure-as-a-service offering.…

Announcement comes as Chinese ride-hailing DiDi Chuxing delists from NYSE under pressure The Chinese government has announced that it will again allow "platform companies" – Beijing's term for tech giants – to list on overseas stock markets, marking a loosening of restrictions on the sector.…

x86 still 'very important' we're told as lid lifted on Arm-based kit Computex Nvidia's Grace CPU and Hopper Superchips will make their first appearance early next year in systems that'll be based on reference servers unveiled at Computex 2022 this week.…

For those who want to give their racks an air cut Nvidia's GPUs are becoming increasingly more power hungry, so the US giant is hoping to make datacenters using them "greener" with liquid-cooled PCIe cards that contain its highest-performing chips.…

Think we speak for everyone when we say: Seriously, what the f...? Broadcom is to acquire VMware for $60 billion in a deal that will be announced on Thursday.…

School-friendly tool still not fully protected, privacy guru warns Screencastify, a popular Chrome extension for capturing and sharing videos from websites, was recently found to be vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw that allowed arbitrary websites to dupe people into unknowingly activating their webcams.…

As Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v Wade, safeguards on location info now more vital than ever Democrat senators have urged America's Federal Trade Commission to do something to protect the privacy of women after it emerged details of visits to abortion clinics were being sold by data brokers.…

I can prove CEO was 'personally involved in Facebook’s failure to protect privacy', DC AG insists Cambridge Analytica is back to haunt Mark Zuckerberg: Washington DC's Attorney General filed a lawsuit today directly accusing the Meta CEO of personal involvement in the abuses that led to the data-slurping scandal. …

So cool you're into free speech because that includes taking down misinformation While the US Supreme Court considers an emergency petition to reinstate a preliminary injunction against Texas' social media law HB 20, the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday partially upheld a similar injunction against Florida's social media law, SB 7072.…

All fun and games until the chip factories are in the crosshairs US President Joe Biden has heralded an Indo-Pacific trade deal signed by several nations that do not include Taiwan. At the same time, Biden warned China that America would help defend Taiwan from attack; it is home to a critical slice of the global chip industry, after all. …

Firewall isn't a made-up word from the Hackers movie, people A large number of servers running the Kubernetes API have been left exposed to the internet, which is not great: they're potentially vulnerable to abuse.…

High-performance platform choices are going beyond the ubiquitous x86 standard Arm-based servers continue to gain momentum with Gigabyte Technology introducing a system based on Ampere's Altra processors paired with Nvidia A100 GPUs, aimed at demanding workloads such as AI training and high-performance compute (HPC) applications.…

GitOps fans can take a spin on the free tier for pull-based deployment One-stop DevOps shop GitLab has announced version 15 of its platform, hot on the heels of pull-based GitOps turning up on the platform's free tier.…

Not everyone needs it, but those who do need to consider 3 things, says Asim Razzaq The push is on to get every enterprise thinking they're missing out on the next big thing if they don't adopt a multicloud strategy.…

As staff churn at 27% a year, senior execs offered lots of shares to keep growth coming Infosys has extended Salil Parekh's term as CEO and managing director for an additional five years, according to a stock exchange filing made on Sunday.…

Dev Channel Insiders get Windows Subsystem for Android updates Microsoft is continuing to lavish love on Android for Windows with an update to Android 12.1 that disables telemetry by default, although, as Microsoft notes, "this update may cause some apps to fail to launch."…

A sign that the company is taking data sovereignty concerns more seriously Google has established a European Advisory Board for Google Cloud made up of executives drawn from across industry in the region.…

Notorious selfie-scraper must pay $9.43 million – less than half of predicted fine – says data regulator Updated The UK's data protection body today made good on its threat to fine controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI, ordering it to stop scraping the personal data of residents from the internet, delete what it already has, and pay a £7.5 million ($9.43 million) fine.…

<movietrailer voice>The world was not ready for this gift. It is still not ready for this gift. Coming soon to a Gopherspace near you An announcement about a new handheld games console a few days ago caused confusion, because it was online but not on the web. It was published on Gopher.…

With web apps, Apple insists on taking the pith helmet Opinion It has been 14 years since Apple opened its App Store with its shiny shopfront of tempting toys and gloomy back office of rules and rentier revenues, but only now has the proposed EU Digital Markets Act threatened to end Apple's web browser engine monopoly. …

Not so much process privilege rings, more circles of hell Who, Me? Be careful what humorous messages you leave in your app, for you never know who might see them. Welcome to Who, Me?…

Security engineer outlines self-help strategy for keeping software supply chain safe Following the recent disclosure of a technique for hijacking certain NPM packages, security engineer Danish Tariq has proposed a defensive strategy for those looking to assess whether their web apps include dependencies tied to subvertable email domains.…