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Nebulon adds Ansible support for infrastructure deployment
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.…
UK's National Savings & Investments bank looks for new IT partner in £172m deal
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.…
Singapore introduces potent anti-scam measures
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.…
India's Reserve Bank deputy governor calls for crypto ban
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.…
Cambodia doesn't have the gear for controversial National Internet Gateway
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.…
Akamai buys Linode for $900m
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.…
Chip CFOs get a crash course in silicon geopolitics
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.…
Journalist won't be prosecuted for pressing 'view source'
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.…
Massive cyberattack takes Ukraine military, big bank websites offline
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.…
Users report trouble with Azure DevOps services
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.…
UK regulator 'broke international law', says Facebook
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.…
EU Data Protection Board probes public sector use of cloud
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.…
Dido Harding's appointment to English public health body ruled unlawful
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.…
Nutanix reshuffles product portfolio into bigger bundles
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.…
Microsoft prepares for its staff to return to Washington sites
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.…
Intel buys Tower Semiconductor to expand fab business
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.…
F5 integrates products into 'Distributed Cloud Services'
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.…
Comparing the descendants of Mandrake and Mandriva Linux
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.…
In an arms race with criminals to protect our privacy, it's too early to admit defeat
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.…
Expect sales reps' calls if IT wants to ditch Oracle
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.…
20 years of .NET: Reflecting on Microsoft's not-Java
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.…
This data center will be Europe’s first with hydrogen backup power
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.…
UK charity Hong Kong Watch says its website suddenly can't be seen in Hong Kong
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.…
Cambodia cans critics of its snoopy Internet Gateway, says every nation has one
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."…
IBM Cloud to offer Z-series mainframes for first time – albeit for test and dev
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.…
FTC celebrates after Nvidia-Arm deal collapses
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.…
AlphaICs gets long-awaited AI Gluon chips fabbed by TSMC
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.…
Microsoft Teams update so helpfully drops the ability to send and receive calls
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.…
IBM HR chief insists 'no systemic age discrimination'
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."…
Foxconn takes Delhi's cash, commits to India chip plant
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.…
San Francisco 49ers catch ransomware, sample files leaked online
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.…
AMD, Xilinx complete world's biggest semiconductor merger thanks to stock boom
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.…
Intel's plan to license x86 cores for chips with Arm, RISC-V and more inside
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.…
Canalys: Foldable shipments could 'exceed 30 million by 2024'
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.…
Qualcomm jumps on Wi-Fi 7 bandwagon amid chip shortage
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.…
US DoJ gets more time to consider Oracle-Cerner merger
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.…
IT technician jailed for wiping school's and pupils' devices
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.…
Microsoft veteran demystifies Abort, Retry, Fail? DOS error
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?…
Insurance claims up 31% thanks to the metaverse
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.…
Linux tops Google's Project Zero charts for fastest bug fixes
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.…
Russian teen gets 5 years over Minecraft bomb plot
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.…
Semiconductor market correction could come in 2024
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.…
Reality check: We should not expect our communications to remain private
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.…
The end of free Google storage for education
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.…
RIP Ninjacat: No longer fits in Windows 11 world
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.…
Beware the big bang in the network room
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.…
China's top chipmaker pivots to domestic sales, struggles to satisfy demand
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.…
IBM looked to reinvigorate its 'dated maternal workforce'
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."…
Full-time internet surveillance comes to Cambodia this week
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.…
Spot the irony: India's Reserve Bank says outsourcing and offshoring are risky
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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