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Signs that interest in the market is ramping up Quantum computing startup Classiq has raised $33m in a Series B funding round from investors including HPE and Samsung, a sign that interest in the emerging market may be stirring.…

RIP. You brought hardware-accelerated 3D to many Linux programs The GNOME Project has announced that it's retiring the Clutter library, the tool that bought OpenGL-based hardware rendering to Linux in 2006.…

Sanctions already in place, blockade set to be rolled into telecoms law Updated The British government has started a consultation to find ways to legally remove the equipment of telecoms giant Huawei from its 5G networks by the end of 2027.…

Reg writers and readers wrangle over rights and realities Register Debate Can you have a debate on privacy without mentioning Orwell and 1984 or Bentham's Panopticon?…

Pair aim to deliver the industry's first fully optimised vDU HPE continues edge into telecoms, and is now working with Qualcomm to on hardware for 5G networks, specifically a next generation of 5G distributed units based on HPE servers and Qualcomm's 5G RAN (radio access network) accelerator cards to support high capacity and low-latency workloads.…

It shouldn't affect costs, but it will, says software asset management intel org Analysis Both the UK and the US have recorded the highest inflation figures for decades. With inflation in the Eurozone hitting similar levels, the news is set to mark the end of more than a decade of ultra-low interest rates in the West.…

No more local accounts on bleeding-edge build, and you need a Microsoft account too Microsoft has slapped an internet connectivity requirement on the Dev Channel version of Windows 11 Pro setup and warned that a Microsoft account will be required for future builds in the Insider programme.…

Pandemic-induced supply chain imbalance did it PC OEMs are holding 10 weeks or more of DRAM inventory thanks to hesitancy of procurement departments to stock memory chips, says market intelligence firm TrendForce.…

All right stop, collaborate and listen, 'soft is back with some theft protection Microsoft has some advice on how to defend against "ice phishing" and other novel attacks that aim to empty cryptocurrency wallets, for those not already abstaining.…

Quality time with human beings? Nah. Gimme some free Monster Munch Something for the Weekend How is your Great Resignation coming along? Still toying with that CV/résumé? Me too!…

Institution also relies on German vendor for data warehouse software City, University of London is sizing up the market for a new SaaS ERP system set to replace its SAP ECC software in a contract worth up to £17m.…

He followed the instructions... blindly On Call Welcome to another edition of On Call in which minnows get munched and a Register reader recalls the headaches caused by the file extension shenanigans of a certain tech giant.…

See? Not everything old from IBM is being ignored The free open source web browser Otter – which uses the Chromium browser engine at the heart of Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge – is being ported to OS/2.…

Trade watchdog admits China is #1 ... at cranking out counterfeit products, sometimes with forced labor An updated US Trade Representative's Office register of online and physical markets that reportedly sell or facilitate fake goods has added AliExpress and WeChat to its already China-heavy list.…

Financial allegations could make nice change from accusations of being Beijing's eavesdropping machine The Indian Government's Income Tax Department has raided the local offices of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei as part of an investigation into whether or not the controversial company has met its local taxation obligations.…

By bringing back the optimism of Gordon Moore, and the paranoia of Andy Grove, is chip giant's mojo back? Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger is an admirer of the company's iconic leaders – Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce and Andy Grove – and has a five-year plan to bring back their values and the spirit they created.…

Revised laws will regulate workers' travel to mainland in bid to protect economy Taiwan's Parliament, the Executive Yuan, yesterday revealed draft amendments to national security laws aimed at deterring and punishing Chinese economic espionage efforts directed at stealing tech industry secrets.…

How an investor meeting turned into a night on the tiles Intel laid out its future graphics accelerator roadmap to investors on Thursday, which includes plans to blur the lines between integrated and discrete graphics.…

This is why we can't have nice things, potentially Microsoft last month received a US patent covering modifications to a data-encoding technique called rANS, one of several variants in the Asymmetric Numeral System (ANS) family that support data compression schemes used by leading technology companies and open source projects.…

Time to fix code like it's 2020 In an advisory this week, VMware alerted users to guest-to-host vulnerabilities in the XHCI and UHCI USB controllers in its ESXi hypervisor, plus an important flaw fixed in NSX Data Center for vSphere.…

Pair promise to provide the tools to achieve peak Zen AMD has partnered with DoiT International on a program aimed at helping Google Cloud customers optimize their off-prem workloads to obtain the best performance, cost and security, at least for workloads running on AMD silicon.…

Law enforcement to work in a more networked, borderless fashion – just like the crooks The digitalisation of the global workforce in the face of a pandemic has led criminals to upgrade their working model, and now law enforcement must too.…

Build numbers causing problems: Truly, what is new is old again This February Google put out Chrome 98, closely followed by Mozilla releasing Firefox 97. Soon both will hit version 100.…

Expanding the reach of quantum communications, QKD. Literally These days it seems every major company is outlining a quantum strategy, even if those plans are nebulous at best. However, in areas like financial services, especially at global banks like JPMorgan Chase, getting a handle on both quantum computing and quantum security are top priorities.…

Public and private sector both under attack as malware evolution accelerates SonicWall's annual cyber-threat report shows ransomware-spreading miscreants are making hay and getting quicker at doing so.…

Why do they keep going to the US for cloud services? Aganist the backdrop of the new European Chips Act, digital sovereignty is on the menu once more with a conference on the topic taking place last week in the European Union.…

Payment card processing fees will fall away in some regions Amazon and Visa appear to have resolved their differences and reached an agreement that will see Amazon continue to accept online payments from customers with Visa credit cards around the world, after previously threatening to stop.…

'There is only one Elasticsearch, and it comes from Elastic' The dispute between AWS and Elastic looks to be over, with Elastic saying the trademark infringement lawsuit is "resolved."…

Open-source spec appears nation-neutral, but for how long? On the one hand, it's all positive on the RISC-V front, with its open-source ethos driving folks around the world, from the US and Europe to China and Russia, to collaborate on improving and boosting the specification.…

And it shouldn't be a privilege handed out by governments Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favor or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…

Meta says it's on top of access token abuse but also needs Google's help Analysis Multiple Chrome browser extensions make use of a session token for Meta's Facebook that grants access to signed-in users' social network data in a way that violates the company's policies and leaves users open to potential privacy violations.…

Sector also sees record level of investment, according to government-backed research The UK government is claiming a record year for revenue in the cybersecurity sector saying the industry generated £10.1bn.…

Omicron dents Switchzilla's previous optimism that late 2022 could see backlog clear Cisco has reported a record backlog of orders it can't fulfil – $14 billion worth – and can't say when supply chain issues will ease enough to let it deliver networking kit for which some customers have waited many months.…

Edgy, low-latency 'Local Zones' spreading from Amsterdam to Warsaw Amazon Web Services has completed the first 16 of its Local Zones – small versions of its cloud located in cities that don't host full regions – and announced 32 more across 26 nations.…

And calls it 'ASEANZK' (gesundheit) to reflect inclusion of Australia, New Zealand, Korea and all of ASEAN IBM quietly reorganized its Asian affairs at the start of 2022, creating a region called ASEANZK that means big markets such as Australia and South Korea now report to a regional entity.…

Web giant shocked, shocked, to find misuse of data going on in here Google plans to extend its rework of web ad technology – the optimistically named Privacy Sandbox – to Android devices in an effort to limit the misuse of data in its mobile ecosystem.…

Clearly no need for leet zero-day hax when you can spearphish and exploit months-old vulnerabilities A two-year campaign by state-sponsored Russian entities to siphon information from US defense contractors worked, it is claimed.…

GPU giant will just have to get by with a mere $10bn profit If Nvidia is a little glum about its failed Arm merger, it has nearly 10 billion reasons to be cheerful: the GPU giant's profit from the past 12 months reached $9.75bn, up 125 per cent on the year-before period.…

'I think my code is 90% still there' retired Microsoft engineer tells us as build released to Windows Insiders Microsoft allowed the original author of Task Manager to unveil the software giant's latest take on everyone's favorite last resort, replete with optional dark mode and the navigation cues of Windows 11.…

Friends are always telling me ... just be good to free() Adobe has released an out-of-band security update for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source to address active exploitation of a known vulnerability, and Google has an emergency issue, too.…

Share price down after word of 'unusual expense claims' emerges "Unusual expense claims in Iraq, dating back to 2018" triggered a review that led Ericsson to suspect it paid the self-styled terrorist group Islamic State while doing business in the country, the Swedish giant said last night.…

So that's what happened to NeverWare Google has announced early access to a new version of Chrome OS called Flex, which runs on ordinary x86 hardware, offering the chance to revive older PCs or even out-of-support Macs.…

Microservice orchestration platform aims for scalable apps A startup that provides application state management systems for Netflix, Snap, and Hashicorp, among others, has raised $103m in Series B funding to help the company expand.…

It's all about perspective Research published today confirms that what scientists thought were two types of active galactic nuclei are, in fact, one: the features were simply tilted at different angles.…

Big Blue continues to bulk out its hybrid multicloud services IBM has acquired Neudesic, a US cloud consultancy services firm specialising in Microsoft's Azure platform, as part of a continued drive to expand the company's growth in hybrid multicloud services.…

Also, Taskbar tweaked and Groove music muted Microsoft has attempted to smooth out some of the rough edges in Windows 11 while also releasing a mainstream preview of Android app support.…

How many websites are dancing with your data like no one is watching? Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favor or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…

Dips into Red Hat's Playbook for automation Nebulon has integrated its smartInfrastructure platform with Red Hat's Ansible software – including a set of modules that allow users to automate Nebulon infrastructure deployment and management by using Ansible Playbooks.…

Outfit behind Premium Bonds wants fresh start after 25 years with Atos UK state-owned bank National Savings & Investments (NS&I) is on the hunt for an IT partner – with a deal worth up to £172m in the offing – as its longstanding arrangement with Atos IT Service draws to a close.…

Plans to block more scam sites, share liability between banks and customers Singapore will step up up efforts to stamp out phishing and spoofing, ministers told the island nation's parliament on Tuesday.…