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Websites may be forced to verify ages of visitors unless changes made California lawmakers met in Sacramento today to discuss, among other things, proposed legislation to protect children online. The bill, AB2273, known as The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, would require websites to verify the ages of visitors.…

Gun-detecting AI outfits want to help while root causes need tackling Comment More than 250 mass shootings have occurred in the US so far this year, and AI advocates think they have the solution. Not gun control, but better tech, unsurprisingly.…

Chip design house reveals brains of what might be your next ultralight notebook Arm has at least one of Intel's more capable mainstream laptop processors in mind with its Cortex-X3 CPU design.…

What's your contingency plan? OPINION Broadcom has yet to close the deal on taking over VMware, but the industry is already awash with speculation and analysis as to how the event could impact the cloud giant's product availability and pricing.…

Epic copyright saga rumbles on as US giant vows to keep fighting UK data analytics firm The long-running battle between software giant SAS and British data analytics outfit World Programming (WPL) appears to be almost over – after a US court lifted an injunction on sales of the latter's products.…

Plus: IT giant expands relationship with Red Hat and SUSE, tackles hybrid data fabrics Extending a public-cloud-like experience to on-prem datacenters has long been a promise of HPE's GreenLake anything-as-a-service (XaaS) platform. At HPE Discover this week, the company made good on that promise with the launch of GreenLake for Private Cloud.…

Inertia of embedded BI and analytics a limiting factor, however Databricks, the company born out of the Apache Spark boom, has let loose a raft of updates at its San Francisco conference, including an elastic compute option for analytics.…

Just one more wafer-thin feature to pop in Microsoft's swelling dev suite Microsoft has added the ability to edit code while in Visual Studio's All-In-One Search user interface.…

Cloudy vSphere+ can manage multiple on-prem environments but not VMw-powered public clouds… for now VMware today revealed details about Project Arctic, the vSphere-as-a-service offering it teased in late 2021, though it won't discuss pricing for another month.…

British chip designer’s reveal comes months after mobile RT moves by AMD, Imagination Arm is beefing up its role in the rapidly-evolving (yet long-standing) hardware-based real-time ray tracing arena.…

Gyrotrons can super heat plasma, maybe vaporize 20km of rock, too A piece of Soviet-era physics equipment may be the key to worldwide geothermal energy.…

Relative cybercrime newbies not clear on whether they're alleging to have gigabits or gigabytes of chip biz's data If claims hold true, AMD has been targeted by the extortion group RansomHouse, which says it is sitting on a trove of data stolen from the processor designer following an alleged security breach earlier this year.…

Meanwhile, CEO wants to vacuum up engineering talent amid return to stock market Updated Arm today told The Reg its restructuring ahead of its return to the stock market is focused on cutting "non-engineering" jobs.…

It's easier than retraining PostgreSQL devs, says distributed relational database startup YugabyteDB, the self-styled double-decker distributed relational database, has introduced a read-committed isolation level, allowing for more flexibility for devs and bringing it into step with its more established RDBMS rivals.…

Appointments said to 'strengthen the alignment between shareholders and management' Toshiba has appointed two directors from activist hedge funds to its board in a move that could tip the balance in favor of a sale that would take the company into private ownership.…

25kg CubeSat the size of a bar fridge will plot course for Gateway space station, pave way for human boots on Moon Rocket Lab has sent NASA's Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft on its way to the Moon atop an Electron rocket launched from New Zealand.…

UK outfit's all-electric 630 three-wheeler is eccentric, but supply chain issues are less whimsical Electric vehicles continue to generate headlines while slurping energy from the power grids, but even smaller producers are struggling with supply chain issues.…

Moving to series production and dealing with the US, where things are done slightly differently Interview NASA has set late August as the launch window for its much-delayed Artemis I rocket. Already perched atop the booster is the first flight-ready European Service Module (ESM). Five more are in the pipeline.…

DOS isn't dead. You can still run it and its apps, even now FOSS Fest There are still ways to run DOS apps under 64-bit Windows and Linux, and a lot of free apps to choose from.…

Communists reckon Bill Gates and Warren Buffet got it right Executives at China's Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) – a state-backed initiative aimed at driving the commercial adoption of blockchain technology – labelled cryptocurrency "the biggest Ponzi scheme in human history" in state-sponsored media on Sunday.…

Fanless fun for the whole family (if the supply chain functions) Cisco has shrunk its Catalyst 9200 switches into three compact models.…

Cash had been burning a hole in company's pocket after deal to buy Siltronic fell through Taiwan's GlobalWafers announced on Monday a new use for the $5 billion it first earmarked for a purchase of Germany's Siltronics: building a 300-millimeter semiconductor wafer plant in the US state of Texas.…

Could it be Beijing was right about games being bad for China? Chinese web giant Tencent has admitted to a significant account hijack attack on its QQ.com messaging and social media platform.…

Now those are some phishing boats Carnival Cruise Lines will cough up more than $6 million to end two separate lawsuits filed by 46 states in the US after sensitive, personal information on customers and employees was accessed in a string of cyberattacks.…

Helpfully announced extension on deadline day India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the local Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) have extended the deadline for compliance with the Cyber Security Directions introduced on April 28, which were due to take effect yesterday.…

How many messaging services does this web giant need? It's gotta be over 9,000 Google is winding down its messaging app Hangouts before it officially shuts in November, the web giant announced on Monday.…

Though severity up for debate, and limited chips affected, broken tests hold back previous patch from distribution The latest version of OpenSSL v3, a widely used open-source library for secure networking using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, contains a memory corruption vulnerability that imperils x64 systems with Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512).…

Don't worry, the tweetings will continue until morale improves Employees at Tesla suffered spotty Wi-Fi and struggled to find desks and parking spots when they were returned to work at the office following orders from CEO Elon Musk.…

Uncle Sam tells of crooks exploiting Pride Month The FTC is warning members of the LGBTQ+ community about online extortion via dating apps such as Grindr and Feeld.…

Well, they did say from July, now they really mean from July 2023 America's aviation watchdog has said the rollout of 5G C-band coverage near US airports won't fully start until next year, delaying some travelers' access to better cellular broadband at crowded terminals.…

Just days after being ordered to provide messages, Big Blue opts out of public trial Less than a week after IBM was ordered in an age discrimination lawsuit to produce internal emails in which its former CEO and former SVP of human resources discuss reducing the number of older workers, the IT giant chose to settle the case for an undisclosed sum rather than proceed to trial next month.…

Ad tracking poses a privacy and security risk in post-Roe America, lawmakers warn Democrat lawmakers want the FTC to investigate Apple and Google's online ad trackers, which they say amount to unfair and deceptive business practices and pose a privacy and security risk to people using the tech giants' mobile devices.…

Confuses rather than destroys unmanned aerials to better bring back intel, says Ukrainian designer What's said to be a Ukrainian-made long-range anti-drone rifle is one of the latest weapons to emerge from Russia's ongoing invasion of its neighbor.…

Fab frenemies: x86 giant set to give Taiwanese chipmaker more money as it revitalizes foundry business In yet another sign of how fortunes have changed in the semiconductor industry, Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC is expected to surpass Intel in quarterly revenue for the first time.…

It's good to highlight some alternatives, but security issues are overblown Analysis A blog post calling for a boycott of the well-known 7-Zip compression app is attracting some discussion on Reddit.…

Toyota says 'all of the hub bolts' can loosen even 'after low-mileage use' Toyota and Subaru are recalling several thousand electric vehicles that might spontaneously shed tires due to self-loosening hub bolts. …

Company claims standard will improve performance in dense environments Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is the latest networking outfit to add Wi-Fi 6E capability to its hardware, opening up access to the less congested 6GHz spectrum for business users.…

Then again, why develop your own software à la HPE GreenLake when you can use someone else's? Analysis Lenovo fancies its TruScale anything-as-a-service (XaaS) platform as a more flexible competitor to HPE GreenLake or Dell Apex. Unlike its rivals, Lenovo doesn't believe it needs to mimic all aspects of the cloud to be successful.…

What will it take to loosen the x86 giant's edge stranglehold? Analysis Supermicro launched a wave of edge appliances using Intel's newly refreshed Xeon-D processors last week. The launch itself was nothing to write home about, but a thought occurred: with all the hype surrounding the outer reaches of computing that we call the edge, you'd think there would be more competition from chipmakers in this arena.…

Launch window slides into 2023 or 2024 for asteroid-probing project Sadly for NASA's mission to take samples from the asteroid Psyche, software problems mean the spacecraft is going to miss its 2022 launch window.…

National provider considering cost increase of 8%, which could be passed on to tech customers Taiwan's state-owned energy company is looking to raise prices for industrial users, a move likely to impact chipmakers such as TSMC, which may well have a knock-on effect on the semiconductor supply chain.…

Some providing out-of-state medical expenses, others spout general pro-choice statements Several US tech companies have taken a stance or issued statements promising healthcare-related support for employees following the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v Wade last Friday.…

Gives cloudy email a kicking, too – but VDI should be safe in its bastions Cloudflare has added the ability to access private networks to its browser isolation service, and suggests the combo represents an alternative to virtual desktop infrastructure.…

Evosys bags £2m in bid to replace SAP at Borough of Waltham Forest Oracle and systems integrator Evosys have won contracts to implement a new Oracle Fusion ERP system for the London Borough of Waltham Forest as part of a project which expects £12 million capex over three years.…

Also, Chrome add-ons are great for fingerprinting, and hacked hot tubs splurge details In brief A Japanese contractor working in the city of Amagasaki, near Osaka, reportedly mislaid a USB drive containing personal data on the metropolis's 460,000 residents.…

Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back Opinion Edge is terribly trendy. Move cloudy workloads as close to the user as possible, the thinking goes, and latency goes down, as do core network and data center pressures. It's true – until the routing sleight-of-hand breaks that diverts user requests from the site they think they're getting to the copies in the edge server. …

But I was only following the procedures! Who, Me? Monday is here, and with it a warning that steadfast determination to ignore instructions might not be such a silly thing after all. Welcome to Who, Me?…

Live and work in Bali, pay tax at home The government of Indonesia has once again raised the idea of creating a "digital nomad visa" that would allow foreign workers to live and work in the tropical paradise of Bali, tax free, for five years.…

VMware-powered sovereign cloud not going to challenge hyperscalers, but probably won't be the last such venture Hitachi has taken a modest step towards becoming a public cloud provider, with the launch of a VMware-powered cloud in Japan that The Register understands may not be its only such venture.…

It's easy to see why – the question is, why now? China's internet regulator has launched an investigation into the security regime protecting academic journal database China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), citing national security concerns.…