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by Dan Robinson on (#5W6N7)
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.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5W6KP)
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.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5W6H7)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W6FZ)
Labels digital currencies wreckers of sovereignty, worse than a Ponzi scheme The deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, T Rabi Sankar, has delivered an extremely unflattering assessment of cryptocurrencies – worse than Ponzi schemes, wreckers of economies, and richly deserving of a ban within India.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W6E0)
Government blames COVID-19 for delay The government of Cambodia has delayed implementation of its National Internet Gateway, because it is yet to acquire the equipment needed to operate the service.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W6BA)
Combined internet titan plans offerings that do the 'cloud to edge' thing at super-size scale Internet content delivery concern Akamai has announced it will acquire junior cloud Linode for about $900m.…
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We're searching for a financial officer who can look beyond the numbers, semiconductor biz CEO tells us Analysis Chief financial officers at chip companies are getting a crash course in global dynamics as component shortages and a highly charged semiconductor leadership battle between countries determine business decisions.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5W668)
Despite all logic, state governor still insists hitting F12 in a web browser is 'hacking' A reporter who faced potential hacking charges for viewing website source code in his browser can rest easier now that Missouri officials have decided not to prosecute him.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5W627)
What geopolitical standoff could this possibly be linked to? The websites of the Ukrainian military and at least two of the nation's biggest banks were knocked offline in a cyberattack today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W5SR)
Thanks Microsoft! Engineers in Europe get to finish early today Updated Azure DevOps services in Europe have slowed and in some cases are unavailable, resulting in a number of the platform's offerings being broken for local users.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5W5QG)
From the people who 'sat on their hands' when asked for info about Giphy deal Facebook claimed in court today that Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) broke international law when it blocked the ad company's $400m buyout of Giphy.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W5QH)
Privacy: We've heard of it. Do you know where your data is? Updated The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has kicked off its first coordinated enforcement action, taking a long, hard look at the use of cloud-based services by the public sector.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5W5NF)
Hiring of ex-Sainsbury's CEO at NHS Test and Trace also against equality law – court The appointment of Dido Harding as interim chair of the National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) has been ruled unlawful by the High Court of England and Wales.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W5JZ)
Plan calls for this to end in tiers Nutanix has rearranged its portfolio by placing different tools into newly named bundles and buckets, and creating different tiers for the new products.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W5GV)
Remember to keep the Windows open. We're here all week Microsoft is preparing to reopen its Washington state worksites at the end of this month.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5W5GW)
Has manufacturing facilities in Israel, US, Japan and Italy Intel has confirmed its plans to spend $5.4bn to acquire Israeli chip firm Tower Semiconductor as part of its scheme to expand and diversify its chip manufacturing business.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W5ET)
Now with cross-cloud deployment capabilities and shiny new UI Security vendors always seem to be acquiring rivals and promising to integrate their wares into a suite of products that make it less likely you'll get whacked by online villains.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5W5BY)
Distro inferno: Scions include OpenMandriva, Mageia, ROSA Linux and PCLinuxOS Analysis The OpenMandriva project last week released a new version: OpenMandriva LX 4.3 for x86-64 and ARM64 hardware. OpenMandriva is a continuation of the Mandriva Linux distro, but not the only one. The Register rounds up the siblings.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#5W5BZ)
Government agents that really want your messages, though? Well, that can be another story 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.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5W5AK)
Licensing and compliance issues advisor spills the beans Oracle executives brief clients against plans to move away from Big Red's technology platforms, it is alleged.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5W593)
In which it is revealed that Silverlight lives on ... as .NET Core Interviews Visual Studio .NET was released on February 13th 2002, marking the moment when Microsoft's Java alternative was declared ready for business.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5W57V)
And could this be a new Reg standard unit: Number of kilometers a Dutch person drives per day? Dutch Data centre biz NorthC is replacing its backup power generators at the company's facility in Groningen to run on green hydrogen, saying it's a European first for data center design.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5W57W)
Who could possibly want readers in Hong Kong not to access independent opinions about the rule of law? The website of UK-registered charity Hong Kong Watch – an organisation dedicated to researching and monitoring threats to the territory's promised freedom and autonomy – has suddenly become impossible to reach from Hong Kong.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W56S)
Government says it’s just collecting tax, United Nations points to data harvesting and chilling effects on free speech Cambodia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has issued a clarification about the role of the "National Internet Gateway" that will commence operations tomorrow, stating that descriptions of it as an instrument of pervasive surveillance are "unfounded."…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W55R)
z/OS VMs coming sometime in the second half of 2022 As IBM tries to address allegations it discriminated against older staff, the IT giant has for the first time brought its oldest computing platform – the mainframe – into the age of infrastructure-as-a-service.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5W54J)
GPU titan retains significant influence over CPU core house given it is a major customer America's Federal Trade Commission has taken a victory lap of sorts, welcoming Nvidia's termination of its proposed $66bn acquisition of chip design house Arm.…
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When they started out, these engineers had just two things in their possession: A dream ... and $10m AlphaICs says it has put its first AI chip from design to production on a shoestring budget of $10m in venture-capital funding.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5W52K)
If you need to skip meetings, here's an excuse: You installed version 1.5.00.2164 Updated Microsoft Teams was updated last week to version 1.5.00.2164 and its most notable feature, for at least some users, is not being able to send or receive calls.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5W51V)
Memo responds to lawsuit brought by wife of exec who killed himself after layoff Analysis IBM's Chief Human Resources Officer Nickle LaMoreaux on Sunday rejected what she described as "false claims of age discrimination at the company."…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W4ZX)
Taiwanese giant teams up with Vedanta for fab project Taiwanese tech manufacturer to the stars Hon Hai Technology Group, aka Foxconn, has announced it has formed a joint venture to build semiconductors in India under the nation's electronics manufacturing subsidy scheme.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5W4Z3)
US football team bitten by BlackByte gang the FBI just warned us about American football team the San Francisco 49ers have been hit by ransomware, with the criminals responsible claiming to have stolen corporate data and threatened to publish it.…
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The effect of Ryzen share prices AMD has officially taken over FPGA maker Xilinx in what is, thanks to rising share prices, the biggest acquisition in the history of the chip industry.…
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If you've wanted to create your own specialized Xeon, now's your chance Analysis Intel is making it easier for customers to create silicon in which x86, Arm and RISC-V cores will work together in a single processor.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W4TR)
Saviour of the premium Android smartphone? Canalys has peered into the channel crystal ball once again and forecast that foldable smartphone shipments will surpass 30 million by 2024.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5W4PE)
Key tech advances dovetail with availability of new spectrum Momentum is gathering behind Wi-Fi 7 with Qualcomm adding its support to the new wireless standard.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5W4KX)
Big Red must wait to gets its teeth into health records giant The US Department of Justice is set to get more time to examine the planned $28.5bn merger between Oracle and health records specialist Cerner after the global software giant agreed to delay the closure of the deal.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5W4H4)
Court told he'd acted from 'spite and revenge' due to grudge over sacking A former school IT technician who wiped his ex-employer's network but also the devices of children connected to it at the time has been sentenced – after telling a judge he was seeking a new career in cybersecurity.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W4H5)
One option might nuke code from orbit, another puts fate in hands of programmers Do you Abort, Retry or, Ignore or Fail? We've all been there, hesitating above the keyboard and wondering just what demons will be unleashed by hitting "I". But what is actually happening behind the scenes?…
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by Richard Currie on (#5W4CE)
I'm gaming like a wrecking ball Despite Facebook – sorry, "Meta" – throwing its weight behind the "metaverse", figures from Brit insurance giant Aviva suggest a virtual-reality headset is far from a necessary purchase if you like having nice things.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5W4CF)
Plus new breach disclosure rules for US investment firms In brief The bug hunters at Google's Project Zero team have released their latest time-to-fix data and Linux is smashing the opposition.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5W49S)
Authorities claimed it was 'terrorist training' for the 14-year-old and his friends A Russian court has sentenced three teens for terrorism, with one jailed for five years in a Siberian penal colony, after they allegedly plotted to blow up a building… in a video game.…
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Enjoy the boom, prepare for the bust The semiconductor world's continuing roaring sales growth could hit a wall in 2024, an industry research firm has predicted.…
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Use the best tools at your disposal – and expect the worst 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 favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5W46S)
Bye, bye, free American bytes. I took the GDrive to be levied as .EDU sighs Opinion In 2014, Google made a remarkable offer: anyone with a Google Apps for Education account in the US got unlimited storage for free. The logic was sound at the time.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W45H)
Thoughts and purrs for our furry-faced friend The Microsoft Windows Insider programme is preparing to bid farewell to the Ninjacat imagery, replacing the headband-wearing feline with something more akin to a corporate healthcare plan.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W44E)
Trust me, we're going to need a bigger maintenance window Who, Me? Cables can be unkind, especially when one has the confidence of youth but not the dark cynicism of experience. Welcome to an edition of Who, Me? to tug at, if not the heart strings, then certainly the RJ45s.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5W42Y)
SMIC not enjoying its place on the USA's Entity List Despite record breaking growth and a shift towards supplying chips domestically, execs at China's top chipmaker – Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) – believe its production capacity can meet less than ten per cent of domestic semiconductor demand in the Middle Kingdom.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W42Z)
Court docs reveal older IBMers were labeled 'dinobabies', plus plan to make them 'extinct' Newly released documents in a lawsuit alleging IBM discriminated against older workers reveal that Big Blue wanted to "correct" its "seniority mix" by weeding out older workers it labelled "dinobabies."…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W405)
Locals fear sharing their views on new National Internet Gateway Cambodia’s National Internet Gateway comes online this Wednesday, exposing all traffic within the country to pervasive government surveillance.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W3ZF)
So risky that new guidelines are needed to ensure engagements don't go pear-shaped The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has warned the nation's finance sector that outsourcing information technology jobs could "expose them to significant financial, operational and reputational risks."…
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