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Oops. Beijing wants zero COVID, not zero foreign investment Supply chain issues and other disruptions in China caused by strict COVID-19 lockdown measures have seen 23 percent of European businesses operating in the Middle Kingdom consider moving elsewhere, according to a recent report.…

A different kind of assembly language Google has deployed a pair of AI-related services to woo factories and assembly lines onto its cloud.…

Supply-chain constraints and code for network OS played a role, analyst tells El Reg Nokia’s "significant" contributions to Microsoft's open-source SONiC project and ongoing supply-chain challenges undoubtedly played a role in the Windows giant's decision to deploy the Finns' network switches, despite their relative inexperience in the arena, Dell'Oro analyst Sameh Boujelbene told The Register.…

UK IT service provider sees contract value more than double 20 years after first work on system Updated The IT services arm of UK comms giant BT has won a contract extension worth up to £26 million ($32 million) for up to five years – without competition – to support Northern Ireland's government accounting system.…

Treat all those micro-phonies like so many spies in the wire Something for the Weekend My neighbor is talking to a rock. He is trying to persuade it to sing.…

Nvidia-powered ThinkEdge SE70 gets a view of the Panorama CCTV booster Amazon Web Services has allowed a third-party hardware offering into its universe, with a Lenovo server dedicated to video analytics scoring the gig.…

Leftover bits of wire where PC used to be? Really ties the office together On Call There was a time in IT when "brute force" meant something other than guessing at passwords while wearing a favorite hoodie. Welcome to an edition of On Call that really pulls out some memories.…

Wants Big Tech to butt out, and return control to individuals The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – a meta bank for the world's central banks and facilitator of cross-border payments – has advocated new governance systems that promote owner control of data and transparency over its use.…

* Terms and so many conditions apply Starlink customers who've been itching to take their dish on the road can finally do so – for a price. …

DingTalk goes into 'extended reality' Alibaba's DingTalk collaboration suite has entered "extended reality" with a new offering powered by smart glasses.…

Whistleblowers say takedowns were used as leverage, Facebook disagrees Facebook whistleblowers have alleged that the company deliberately took down the presences of Australian government and emergency services organizations during negotiations on the nation's landmark pay-to-link-to-news laws.…

BIG-IP iControl authentication bypass, NFV VM escape, and more F5 Networks and Cisco this week issued warnings about serious, and in some cases critical, security vulnerabilities in their products.…

In wake of dinobaby-gate, investors not happy with NDAs hushing up claims of harassment, discrimination IBM shareholders at the IT giant's annual meeting last month endorsed a proposal to have the company produce a public report on the potential risks arising from its use of concealment clauses that constrain disclosure of workplace misconduct.…

Another banner year for criminals. For everyone else, not so much Cyber-scams cost victims around the globe at least $6.9 billion last year, according to the FBI's latest Internet Crime Report.…

With funding from database billionaire, will Oracle-style licensing follow? $50k per like? $1m for 420-character limit? Elon Musk has bagged $7.14 billion in funding from Oracle billionaire co-founder Larry Ellison, cryptocurrency exchange Binance, and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, as well as top VC firm Sequioa and others, in his quest to acquire Twitter.…

If you can't beat the Golden State, try again at the federal level California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday welcomed the decision by a group of telecom and cable industry associations to abandon their legal challenge of the US state's net neutrality law SB822.…

Passphrases PIP'd, FIDO and W3C projects promoted Analysis Microsoft, Apple and Google – all longtime proponents of doing away with passwords for authentication purposes – are throwing their support behind standards developed by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that could eliminate passphrases completely.…

Bluesky thinking includes blueprints for distributed social network After several years of work, Twitter's open-source offshoot Bluesky has published some code and more information about what it's doing – but not a new social network yet.…

US requires a bit more transparency than some Chinese tech companies are giving More Chinese tech companies including Tencent, JD.com, and China Mobile face delisting by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) thanks to opaque disclosures.…

It's Q2 2022 – and remote/mixed access is still very much a thing Citrix has made deals with cloud providers to sell its Desktop as a Service (Daas) platform, providing enterprises with a choice of host for its virtual desktop products.…

Panic buying is over, but the market's still well above pre-pandemic norms Shipments from nearly all of the major tablet manufacturers are declining as consumers and educators find other things to do with their money.…

Love your Windows Update Compliance reports? Best learn to love Azure AD as well Users of Microsoft's Update Compliance service have been warned that a move to Azure Active Directory will be required if they wish to continue using the service.…

Controversial analytics company sees expansion into healthcare continuing Peter Thiel-founded analytics company Palantir has won a $90 million, five-year contract with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a "holistic" enterprise data project.…

Woos European firms who don't want their data caught in the US Cloud Act dragnet Google is joining Microsoft in its attempts to tackle EU concerns regarding data sovereignty but some privacy experts are yet to be convinced by the move.…

Middle Kingdom subsidiary claims Allen Wu refusing to 'hand over his management duties' The Arm saga is continuing with the ousted CEO of Arm's renegade Chinese division still refusing to step down, despite being fired again recently.…

Russia's Google desperately seeking new energy deal after Finnish renewables supplier agreement terminated Finnish energy supplier Ilmatar says it has terminated a supplier agreement to provide electricity to Yandex's datacenter in the southern part of the country, forcing the facility to rely on diesel generators.…

New review system supposedly less of a headache for managers, staff Google is shifting to one performance review per annum for employees even though more than half of its workforce consider the current twice yearly appraisal system to be beneficial.…

Ain't that the tooth? VideaHealth, a dental AI startup spun out of MIT and Harvard, has received FDA approval in the US to commercialize its cavity-detection algorithm for clinical use. …

Good thing no one's buying or selling stock from Twitter posts, right? Um, right? For years, Twitter posts and other online messages have been gathered and analyzed by financial algorithms in an effort to anticipate stock market movements. But, it turns out, these smart systems are rather dumb.…

Must ... cloudify ... internal .... apps, says giant as it continues to push modernization project BT, Britain's largest telecom biz, has signed a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help it cloudify internal applications and speed-up digital transformation under the broader modernization program.…

Current arrangements may promote offshore workarounds and don't make life hard enough Sanctions on transfer of chipmaking tech to China might be driving more offshore chipmaking, and therefore failing to achieve strategic goals.…

You've won $2m! Now just send me a small fee A phishing operation compromised over one hundred UK National Health Service (NHS) employees' Microsoft Exchange email accounts for credential harvesting purposes, according to email security shop Inky.…

Domestic action and international collaboration to make sure you-know-who – OK, China – doesn't get ahead of the game US president Joe Biden issued two directives on Wednesday aimed at ensuring the nation – and like-minded friends – remain ahead of other countries in the field of quantum computing. Especially as applied to cryptography.…

MIT folk tested the interest-based ad scheme to understand why it was discontinued Computer scientists from MIT Media Lab have exhumed the corpse of Google's FLoC ad targeting scheme and found that it lacked its key advertised ingredient: privacy.…

Infosec outfit says group avoided detection by hiding payloads in undocumented Windows logs Infosec outfit Cybereason says it's discovered a multi-year – and very successful – Chinese effort to steal intellectual property.…

Code locker has figured out it's a giant honeypot for miscreants planning supply chain attacks GitHub has announced that it will require two factor authentication for users who contribute code on its service.…

Unless you happen to be in healthcare or finance or using AI on personal info or... Firewalls play a significant role in securing today's datacenters, but the technology must evolve if it's to remain relevant, Fortinet VP of product Nirav Shah told The Register.…

'Hunt forward' operations push US capabilities across borders US Cyber Command chief General Paul Nakasone has revealed the agency he leads conducted nine "hunt forward" operations last year, sending teams to different counties to help them improve their defensive security posture and hunt for cyberthreats. …

Might be a $30 check for you if you were screwed over by 'free, free, free' ads Intuit will cough up $141 million in settlement costs and has promised to not make any misleading claims about its supposedly free tax-filing software, prosecutors in the US announced on Wednesday.…

Mystery zero-byte file deluge makes site unusable, hundreds of netizens complain Attention, Mac users who access Outlook with Safari: something's broken, and it's causing an empty TokenFactoryIFrame file to be downloaded every few seconds for as long as you remain there.…

Now all we need is a model to predict where and when and how this will be used Wish your network could predict its own problems and fix them automatically? Cisco believes it has the technology you need.…

OEMs able to develop new products with aim of 10Gbps-plus throughput Qualcomm is sampling its Wi-Fi 7 Networking Pro Series chips aimed at throughput of more than 10Gbps for enterprise access points, gateways, and premium home routers.…

True believers really can bring about resurrections, it seems Two minority Linux desktop environments were updated this week. Coincidentally named Unity and Trinity, both are forks that continue projects long ago abandoned by their creators.…

Users claim lack of transparency following compromise of Github tokens Efforts by Salesforce-owned cloud platform Heroku to manage a recent security incident are turning into a bit of a disaster, according to some users.…

So those hardware requirements for Microsoft's OS really are arbitrary Arch tinkerer Gustave Monce has demonstrated Windows 11 running on a first-generation Surface Duo.…

Affected jet equipment will need retrofitting and eventual replacement, agency warns The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) met with airline and telecom officials yesterday to present its latest solution to the instrument interference problem presented by C-band 5G: replace the affected equipment.…

Peripherals-maker CEO lowers forecast, citing ongoing war in Ukraine as cause of uncertainty Peripheral maker Logitech is ending its fiscal 2022 on something of a low point, with the pandemic-induced sales growth extravaganza coming to an abrupt end, and forecasts for business this year lowered due to the conflict in Ukraine.…

US regulator looking into alleged 'misstatements' and 'omissions' related to June 2021 USA float Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global is under a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation regarding its $4.4 billion June 2021 initial public offering (IPO) in the United States.…

Area no longer a priority as cloud migration takes center stage, deal of around $1b in the offing, reports say SAP is to sell a chunk of its business known as Litmos in a deal reputed to be worth $1 billion.…

Bit barns consumed 14% of all energy for 2021 – a significant rise over just a few years Datacenter energy use has eclipsed power consumption among all rural homes in Ireland, according to figures from the country's Central Statistics Office (CSO). The trend is set to continue if 2020-2021 data holds with datacenter power draw growing by nearly one-third between 2020 and 2021.…