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Private offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds Customer service as-a-service vendor Zendesk has announced it will allow itself to be acquired for $10.2 billion by a group of investors led by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, investment company Permira, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.…

But welcomes fast cross-border payments in central bank digital currencies In the same week that it welcomed the launch of a local center of excellence focused on crypto-inspired central bank digital currencies, Singapore's Monetary Authority (MAS) has warned crypto cowboys they face a rough ride in the island nation.…

Startup EdgeQ believes pay-for-what-you-use model will make 5G transition more cost-effective Interview While the IT industry waits to see if and when Intel will introduce software-defined silicon in Xeon CPUs, one startup us is moving ahead with plans to bring a pay-for-what-you-use pricing model to the telecom market with its "base station-on-a-chip" later this year.…

Why screw around with cryptography and keys when just stealing the info is good enough Feature US and European cops, prosecutors, and NGOs recently convened a two-day workshop in the Hague to discuss how to respond to the growing scourge of ransomware.…

We're going hybrid or off-prem to retain and lure staff, say polled managers For bosses suffering the effects of the Great Resignation, IT decision makers taking part in this survey have a suggestion: go remote and you won't have any trouble hiring people.…

NASA probe reveals strange hole created by suspected Chinese junk Pic When space junk crashed into the Moon earlier this year, it made not one but two craters on the lunar surface, judging from images revealed by NASA on Friday.…

Those town hall meetings that go off the rails? That's the internet all day, every day The two US senators behind a proposed law to bring order to cryptocurrency finance have published their legislation to Microsoft's GitHub to obtain input from the unruly public.…

We asked what they will do to prevent cases being built against women. So far: Nothing Period- and fertility-tracking apps have become weapons in Friday's post-Roe America.…

'A humbling and unfortunate reminder' that monsters lurk under bridges Blockchain venture Harmony offers bridge services for transferring crypto coins across different blockchains, but something has gone badly wrong.…

First steps by humans to recapture planet's natural satellite NASA is finally ready to launch its unmanned Orion spacecraft and put it in the orbit of the Moon. Lift-off from Earth is now expected in late August using a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.…

Because data flows into the United States, not because of that user interface Another kicking has been leveled at American tech giants by EU regulators as Italy's data protection authority ruled against transfers of data to the US using Google Analytics.…

Hopes of securing London listing for UK chip designer may be in vain Arm is most likely to list on the US stock exchange Nasdaq, according to Masayoshi Son, chief executive of SoftBank Group, which bought the chip designer in 2016 for $32 billion.…

In grayscale, though. Optimistic plans for daylight-readable display and long-life laptop E-paper display startup Modos wants to make laptops, but is starting out with a standalone high-refresh-rate monitor first.…

Meanwhile, 'search highlights' will tell you 'what's special about each day' Microsoft has dropped a preview of its next batch of Windows fixes, slipping a resolution for broken Wi-Fi hotspots in among the goodies.…

Arm ecosystem elbowing its way into third largest server vendor in the world China-based server maker Inspur has joined the Arm server ecosystem, unveiling a rackmount system using Arm-based chips.…

As industry and governments push to get workers crammed into commuter trains, glass box edifices, tech boss says: 'Why?' Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has doubled down on his company's stance on working from home and flexible working, that great pandemic debate.…

Record revenues buoyed by surge in demand over the last couple of years, but nothing lasts forever The semiconductor market is flattening out after a period of record revenues, according to research outfit Omdia.…

More support engineers needed to keep the email flowing, it seems Microsoft has added a certification to augment the tired eyes and haunted expressions of Exchange support engineers.…

A virtual world at your fingertips with the idea that you feel something gripping your hand Virtual reality is all well and good, but decent haptics and a bit of force feedback are essential for it to be truly immersive. The Register donned the Teslasuit Glove at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this week.…

Watching people's every move and collecting their info – not on our watch, says web ads giant Spyware developed by Italian firm RCS Labs was used to target cellphones in Italy and Kazakhstan — in some cases with an assist from the victims' cellular network providers, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG).…

I have decided to become a double-spaced, three-word sentenced, humble-bragtastic genius Something for the Weekend "I have just read your profile. Have you ever thought about becoming a real estate agent?"…

And we would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling geeks! On Call A tale of theft, fraud and understanding the meaning of "Delete" to end your working week. Welcome to a legally questionable episode of On Call.…

Congrats, AWS, you’ve boldly gone where the Raspberry Pi has already been Amazon Web Services has proudly revealed that the first completely private expedition to the International Space Station carried one of its Snowcone storge appliances, and that the device worked as advertised.…

Still no closer to releasing timeline for its '128 exaflops' AI super, though – and no one's tested the chips yet Tachyum, the outfit aiming to develop a "universal processor" for HPC and artificial intelligence workloads, has joined the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC), a think-tank promoting European HPC research and innovation.…

They're not lying when they say 'We stole your data' – the lie is about which data they lifted A state-sponsored Chinese threat actor has used ransomware as a distraction to help it conduct electronic espionage, according to security software vendor Secureworks.…

And it's like, what ... 12, 13,000 total targets a year max, exec says NSO Group told European lawmakers this week that "under 50" customers use its notorious Pegasus spyware, though these customers include "more than five" European Union member states.…

Networking titan to shutter Russia and Belarus presence, after previously stopping operations Cisco has decided it's time to leave Russia and Belarus, almost four months after stopping operations in response to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.…

Beijing also outlines its GovTech vision and gets very excited about data China's government has outlined its vision for digital services, expected behavior standards at China's big tech companies, and how China will put data to work everywhere – with president Xi Jinping putting his imprimatur to some of the policies.…

Space boffins task engineers with creating 40kW lunar fission plant that can operate for ten years NASA has chosen the three companies it will fund to develop a nuclear fission reactor ready to test on the Moon by the end of the decade.…

The catch: It hooks up to desktop-as-a-service and runs Android – so while it looks like a laptop ... Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced what it claims is the first "cloud laptop" – an Android-powered device that the consumes just five watts and links to its cloud desktop-as-a-service.…

$20b factory construction start date unchanged – but the x86 giant is not happy Intel has found a new way to voice its displeasure over Congress' inability to pass $52 billion in subsidies to expand US semiconductor manufacturing: withholding a planned groundbreaking ceremony for its $20 billion fab mega-site in Ohio that stands to benefit from the federal funding.…

Did they get GitHub Copilot to write it? Amazon at its re:Mars conference in Las Vegas on Thursday announced a preview of an automated programming assistance tool called CodeWhisperer.…

It would be easier to take this complaint seriously if Elon wasn't so Elon If the proposed addition of the 12GHz spectrum to 5G goes forward, Starlink broadband terminals across America could be crippled, or so SpaceX has complained. …

Maintainer lack of familiarity won't be an issue, chief insists, citing his own bafflement when faced with Perl At The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, Linus Torvalds said he expects support for Rust code in the Linux kernel to be merged soon, possibly with the next release, 5.20.…

Software toolkit offered to save developers time, effort, battery power Qualcomm knows that if it wants developers to build and optimize AI applications across its portfolio of silicon, the Snapdragon giant needs to make the experience simpler and, ideally, better than what its rivals have been cooking up in the software stack department.…

Linux fondleslab effort continues to update 16.04-based phone/tablet distro The UBPorts community is in the final stages of preparing its next release and it's calling for testers.…

ThinkStation P360 Ultra packs latest Intel Core processor, Nvidia RTX A5000 GPU, support for eight monitors Lenovo has unveiled a small desktop workstation in a new physical format that's smaller than previous compact designs, but which it claims still has the type of performance professional users require.…

A pit and 4,500 gallons of water were needed to put it out A totaled Tesla Model S burst into flames in a Sacramento junkyard earlier this month, causing a fire that took "a significant amount of time, water, and thinking outside the box to extinguish," firefighters said. …

Now we can squeeze required boxes into a smaller datacenter footprint, says Big Red Oracle has slimmed down its on-prem fully managed cloud offer to a smaller datacenter footprint for a sixth of the budget.…

Company was an early adopter of Google Cloud, which led to a search for a new security architecture Matt Ramberg is the vice president of information security at Sanmina, a sprawling electronics manufacturer with close to 60 facilities in 20 countries on six continents and some 35,000 employees spread across the world.…

Anonymous speech protections apply online too, and copyright can't diminish that It's been a good week for free speech advocates as a judge ruled that copyright law cannot be used to circumvent First Amendment anonymity protections.…

Paul Fellows describes how it beat the overambitious ARX to Acorn's Archimedes computer One of the longest-lived GUI operating systems in the world has its origins as an emergency project – specifically the means by which Acorn planned to rescue the original Archimedes operating system.…

Megacorp shows Alexa speaking like kid's deceased grandma In the latest episode of Black Mirror, a vast megacorp sells AI software that learns to mimic the voice of a deceased woman whose husband sits weeping over a smart speaker, listening to her dulcet tones.…

Japanese tech conglomerate has reportedly received 10 offers, each with a different idea about how to do things Toshiba has received 10 potential offers for the company, eight of which would take the company private, while two would allow it to remain publicly listed, according to reports.…

They're putting a crew together, and Beijing's tossed in $750m to get things started A Chinese state-backed startup has hired legendary Japanese chip exec Yukio Sakamoto as part of a strategy to launch a local DRAM industry.…

50% of public sector tech budgets in the cloud by 2015? Well that didn't happen! British readers who have only recently packed away the bunting commemorating the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II have been offered reason to get it out again by Crown Commercial Services, which is offering up the 10-year anniversary of G-Cloud as a cause for celebration.…

The Start Menu has been tweaked, but Smart App Control will appeal to the security conscious The second coming of Windows 11 is almost upon us. Is it worth chancing an upgrade? We took a look at the latest release preview of 2022's take on Microsoft's flagship operating system.…

Hyperscalers hog the good stuff Power and thermal management equipment essential to building datacenters is in short supply, with delays of months on shipments – a situation that's likely to persist well into 2023, Dell'Oro Group reports.…

I like driving in my car, hope my data's not gone far UK automobile service and parts seller Halfords has shared the details of its customers a little too freely, according to the findings of a security researcher.…

Use it sensibly instead – which means turning on the useful bits Microsoft doesn't enable by default Windows PowerShell is enormously useful, extremely prevalent, and often targeted by crooks because it offers an express route into the heart of Windows servers and networks.…