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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5WJX5)
Stock market wipeout followed, so island nation's government has complained India's latest round of bans on Chinese apps has taken down a Singaporean company's apps – and share price – reportedly leaving government officials asking some pointed questions.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5WJW9)
Plus: AI imparts brain surgery skills more effectively than human tutors In brief Controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI plans to employ more staff in order to pursue big lucrative US government contracts worth many millions of dollars. …
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5WJWA)
And personal sorrow, as the horror of Russian invasion hits home As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, the technology industry is trying to use its services to make a difference – and to keep those services available as the war makes it harder to operate.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5WJRV)
More by known regressions not being addressed by maintainers than Vladimir Putin’s ‘mental breakdown’ Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds is "starting to be a bit worried" by lack of progress on version 5.17 of the project.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5WHJP)
Hello, Bayesian, our old friend Machine learning could one day help energy providers better pinpoint failing or compromised components in power grids, or better identify traffic congestion for local authorities, according to a study.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5WHGG)
Approach with caution The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. For this edition, we're back in MMO territory and, yes, Amazon is involved.…
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Gelsinger believes his chip won't make quite a hash of the climate Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger just a few days ago raged against Bitcoin, calling it a "climate crisis."…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5WHA1)
Also don't try to unlock your GPU cards with fake mining tool, and more In brief Nvidia is probing what may be a ransomware infection that caused outages within its internal network.…
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by Nicole Hemsoth on (#5WH6N)
The 4D chess equivalent of a supply-chain attack How's this for a security threat? A backdoor hidden in lab software that is activated when fed a specially crafted digital DNA sample.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5WH6P)
Scientist's claim that Arvind Krishna unfairly had him axed found plausible enough for trial hearing The judge overseeing an age-discrimination case against IBM has denied the IT giant's motion to dismiss the lawsuit, citing evidence supporting plaintiff Eugen Schenfeld's claim that CEO Arvind Krishna, then director of IBM research, made the decision to fire him.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5WGYF)
While Moscow tells its operators: Treat any infrastructure outage as a 'computer attack' As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, the latter's government is reportedly seeking cybersecurity volunteers to help defend itself. Meanwhile, Russia's CERT has warned critical infrastructure operators that any strange outages should be treated as "a computer attack."…
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by Liam Proven on (#5WGW5)
Comes ahead of Jammy Jellyfish, another bug-squish for current LTS version Ubuntu has put out the latest point release of its stable version, or the fourth bugfix of 20.04.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5WGW6)
Lock, stock and one smoking kernel: YMMV on performance boost, but either way, it's a bit of fun Friday FOSS Fest Looking for a little more desktop responsiveness? Liquorix provides current, easy-to-install desktop-performance-optimised kernels for Ubuntu, Mint, Debian and derivatives… and Arch and Red Hat users can get it, too.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5WGNT)
Servers, storage parts challenges too, according to Q4 earnings call Just when Dell thought it was getting on top of the knotty PC supply chain, the outlook is deteriorating again with the backlog swelling and no relief from pressure due to freight charges – the same dynamics that are at play in its server and storage division.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5WGKJ)
Modern networks need programmable hardware, open software – a dip in the Ice Lake Intel has lifted the lid on new technologies for the edge and AI ahead of the Mobile World Congress conference including new Xeon D chips with integrated acceleration features and an updated OpenVINO toolkit for AI inferencing.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5WGHE)
Not quite touch-first, but a bit more fondle-friendly Another test build of Windows 11 has emerged, this time with improvements aimed at tablet users.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5WGFJ)
Once Japanese giant's main squeezes, they're being ditched at end of decade Fujitsu has confirmed the end of the road for its mainframes and Unix server systems. It will cease to sell both by the end of this decade, with support services continuing for a further five years.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5WGDQ)
Cyberup campaign hasn't gone away, you know Infosec researcher Rob Dyke, best known to Reg readers for fending off legal threats from not-for-profit open-source foundation Apperta after finding a data breach, has visited Parliament to demand Computer Misuse Act reform.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5WGC2)
It's all the data's fault, of course… and it's my data so that means it's my fault Something for the Weekend Sorry about the noise: two of my dishwashers are going through their rinse cycle. Pass me your plate and I'll set off the third.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5WGAF)
The program is Fast, the sales team is Furious, and their data is definitely not Expendable On Call It's been a bit of a week hasn't it? Grab yourself a biscuit and settle down for another story from a brave Register reader who was only trying to help. Welcome to On Call.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5WG7W)
Jump the queue by spending more with one player or thinking outside the box Gartner has asserted that lead times for new networking equipment will remain long until early in the year 2023, and thereafter display "slow incremental improvement over the course of months."…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5WG6V)
Also has more than 100 million 2G subscribers, and a tiny PC market One billion Indian wireless services subscribers were active in December 2021 – the first time the nation has breached the nine-figure barrier. But that colossal number betrays a market that is still far from saturated by smartphones or ready for rich digital services.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5WG4Y)
Noble gas price hike would be just what the world needs ... not Analysts have warned that Russia's invasion of Ukraine may cause trouble down the line for chipmakers, which are still now caught up in a component supply crunch that's affecting product shipments.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5WG4C)
Bye bye, coffee break Microsoft's GitHub on Wednesday said customers using its Codespaces hosted development environments can now try out prebuilt systems in a public beta test.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5WG2R)
In the Middle Kingdom DeFi is seen as defiance, not delightful disruption China has again cracked down on cryptocurrencies – this time with a Supreme People's Court ruling that paves the way for criminal prosecution of those who conduct cryptocurrency transactions.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5WG1P)
Is AWS down? It depends who you ask Analysis Internet services in the US on Thursday were far more stable than those in Ukraine and Russia, but even so reports of problems surfaced.…
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And Player Three 'Iran' has entered the game? Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be followed by an escalation in cyberwarfare with the West, experts have warned.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5WFVZ)
Software may find solution to terminal idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis The first phase of clinical trials testing an AI-designed drug to treat a chronic lung disease is now underway, according to biotech startup Insilico Medicine.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5WFMX)
With developer in prison, it only seems just Linux kernel developer Matthew Wilcox has proposed removing ReiserFS from the Linux kernel – a relatively rare step.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5WFF8)
$1.8bn deal not tainted by ex-NASA consultant, watchdog finds The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has rejected a complaint alleging US system integrator Leidos nabbed a juicy NASA IT contract after engaging a former NASA official to help prepare its proposal.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5WFDX)
Bolstering email defences to keep cybercrooks at bay Krazy Glue of the internet Cloudflare has buffed up its email security with the purchase of anti-phishing firm Area 1.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5WFBZ)
Now three for three with the major cloud players after deals with Google and Microsoft Kyndryl, the infrastructure services business spun out from IBM last year, has signed a money-making deal with Amazon Web Services to help customers navigate cloud transformation.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5WFAQ)
Prepare your removable mass storage It appears that the diminutive Linux distribution Slax is not dead. It's been a while, but version 11.2 has finally popped out.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5WF9Y)
Some software developers began moving staff to safer areas in December last year The Ukrainian tech industry is invoking business continuity plans after 150,000 Russian troops began a military invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing military targets near big cities.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5WF9Z)
Users set to get right to access products' data stream, public sector might dip in too In proposals aimed at IoT and machine data, the European Commission has put forward the Data Act, which promises to force manufacturers to share streams of after-sale data with third-party tech firms.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5WF7X)
Among top 10 government tech trends, claims Gartner Gartner's latest set of public sector technology trends predicts, among other things, that a third of national governments (and half of US states) will have mobile-based identity wallets on offer by 2024.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5WF7Y)
Approved by the Department of Good Luck, You'll Need It A new project dubbed Neptune OS intends to put a Windows-NT-compatible personality on top of the seL4 microkernel.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5WF5D)
Mobile data is cheap so Chrome doesn't need to bother saving it any more Google has announced that it's going to deprecate "Chrome Data Saver" – a feature added to the mobile version of its Chrome browser in 2014 to … wait for it … save data.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5WF3S)
Still plans to make life hard for Beijing, but wants to reduce the chances of domestic division The United States' National Security Division will wind up its "China Initiative" – an effort to combat what then-attorney general Jeff Sessions described in 2018 as "systematic and calculated threats" posed by Beijing-backed economic espionage.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5WF2R)
Launches Alder Lake P, U-series processors – with muted claims about battery life Intel has applied the Evo specification it uses to define thin and light consumer-grade laptops to PCs that employ the vPro standard it uses for business kit.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5WF28)
'Radio altimeters cannot be relied upon to function' – gulp The US Federal Aviation Administration warned on Wednesday that 5G C-band transmissions may interfere with landing operations at a limited set of airports for most Boeing 737 aircraft.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5WF0V)
He probably knows a thing or two about nobody understanding him Meta has had a bad start to the year.…
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by Chris Williams on (#5WF0W)
Of course you realize, this means war Hundreds of computers in Ukraine have been infected with data-wiping Windows malware, say researchers at ESET.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5WESN)
Bvp47 of yore said to have used BPF to conceal comms in network traffic Pangu Lab has identified what it claims is a sophisticated backdoor that was used by the NSA to subvert highly targeted Linux systems around the world for more than a decade.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5WEQT)
Digital skirmishes continue as tension mounts in Eastern Europe The EU has sent a cyber response team to Ukraine as rumours of a planned Russian invasion reach fever pitch. Meanwhile, IBM's infosec division says the UK was one of the most targeted countries in Europe for cyberattacks last year.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5WEK6)
And let me clue you in: I am the one who CloudKnox Microsoft Defender's tentacles have spread to include the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – and beefed up visibility with a public preview of CloudKnox Permissions.…
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