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Play Store class action has £15m budget for defeating Google in London court
Detail emerges on who's funding it ... and for how much Google has partly won a legal bid to uncover the budget behind a not-quite-class-action lawsuit pursuing it for £920m in Britain's Competition Appeal Tribunal.…
Hello Slackware, our old friend: Veteran Linux distribution releases version 15.0 at last
Nearly 6 years after previous version It's been a long time coming but version 15 of Slackware finally showed up at the weekend.…
Do you trust your provider farther than you can throw them? Cloud priorities shifting in post-COVID world – IDC
Companies focus on 'broader' ecosystem Organisations are shifting their priorities in cloud procurement as they look beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, with "trust" now apparently the biggest issue.…
UK science stuck in 'holding pattern' on EU funding by Brexit, says minister
This may be time for plan B UK minister for science and research George Freeman has admitted that vital EU funding for research is in limbo while the nation continues to negotiate Brexit sticking points, namely Northern Ireland and fishing rights.…
Nobara Project brings whole bunch of extensions so you can frag noobs on Fedora 35
Brand new and a bit wobbly, but it says good things about Linux's maturity The Nobara Project is a fresh flavour of Fedora 35 aimed at Linux gamers and streamers. It's very new and the website is mostly just a placeholder, but it's already causing controversy.…
Google Cloud takes a gap year. It may come back with very different ideas
Twelve months without refreshment can break an addiction Opinion "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us" is an old joke from the former Soviet Union. Many tech journalists feel the same way about earnings stories – the financial reports prepared for investors by big companies. We pretend they're important, you pretend to read them.…
To err is human. To really tmux things up requires an engineer
The unbearable persistence of data Who, Me? A reminder to check and check again in today's Who, Me? as a Register reader learns the true meaning of persistence.…
Australian court finds Facebook 'divorced from reality' as it tried to define doing business down under
This one was decided on the way the cookies crumbled Australia's Federal Court has described Facebook's explanation of how its tech works as "divorced from reality" in ruling against it in a landmark privacy case.…
New chip-stuff factories are like buses: you wafer ages then two come along at once
GlobalWafers uses cash stashed for stalled Siltronics deal and Toshiba also promises new wafer bakery Taiwan’s GlobalWafers has announced a cheery change of plans after its acquisition of Germany’s Siltronic fell through thanks to German authorities' failure to sign off on the deal - expansion of on existing facilities instead.…
India turns on a new supercomputer
Pram Pravega's 3.3 petaFLOPS should make it India's fourth entrant in the Top500 list The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) has installed and commissioned a supercomputer that ranks among the most powerful and largest on the subcontinent.…
US carriers want to junk three times more Chinese comms kit than planned
FCC budget to rip and replace Huawei and ZTE kit was $1.9B. It received $5.6B of applications The United States Federal Communications Commission has revealed that carriers have applied for $5.6 billion in funding to rip and replace China-made communications kit.…
VMware pulls physical to virtual conversion tool, adds VM to container conversion tool
Physical to virtual conversion tool will be back once modernised, but this is still quite a moment The "VM" in VMware stands for virtual machine, but the virtualization giant is presently in the rather odd position of having withdrawn its on-ramp to VMs and then introduced an off-ramp from VMs to containers.…
US House passes bill to boost chip manufacturing and R&D
Draft law enters final stages, proposes $52bn injection On Friday the US House of Representatives passed a bill that will to equip America to boost semiconductor production and lift its economy to better compete better with China.…
Photon fantastic: James Webb Space Telescope spies its first starlight
Three months of mirror alignment gets under way The first photons of starlight have travelled through the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and been detected by the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument.…
This is going well: Meta adds anti-grope buffer zone around metaverse VR avatars
Removing characters' hands evidently not enough to halt harassment Meta Platforms Inc, better known for its controversial turn as Facebook, says its mission is to, "Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together." But not too close, it seems.…
Apple, Broadcom allowed to press Ctrl-Z on billion-dollar Wi-Fi patent payout to Caltech
Appeals court orders do-over for damages calculation Apple and Broadcom won a new trial to recalculate damages arising from a six-year-old legal battle over Wi-Fi patents developed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).…
Western Australia Health taps SAP and Deloitte for AU$220m SaaS HR system over 10 years
Now, don't do a Queensland SAP and Deloitte have together won a deal worth AU$220m ($155m) to implement a new SaaS-based HR system for Western Australia Health.…
Suspected Chinese spies break into cloud accounts of News Corp journalists
Read all about it – Beijing probably already has Online work accounts of News Corporation journalists were broken into by snoops seemingly with ties to China, it was claimed today.…
The future of work is hybrid, says Cisco, so here's Wi-Fi 6E access points and Private 5G
'The remote worker will no longer be a minority' Cisco has rolled out new technologies including Wi-Fi 6E access points and Private 5G services to help organisations adapt to hybrid work scenarios.…
Experiments and hidden features: Microsoft plans Windows Insiders shakeup
Beta gang might get new toys before Dev Channel and look – a new logo Microsoft is shaking up the Windows Insider programme once again, answering complaints that the Dev Channel doesn't get enough toys while also admitting there could well be some playthings for enthusiasts willing to go hunting.…
Polly wants a snapper? Parrot swipes GoPro for sweet views of New Zealand's Fiordland
Oi, kea! Video An endangered parrot native to New Zealand's alpine region went full David Attenborough on a family enjoying Fiordland National Park by swooping off with their GoPro camera as they tried to film it.…
Facebook fined peanuts after Giphy staff quit and firm didn't tell UK competition regulators
£1.5m fine is 0.005% of social network's profits British competition regulators have again fined Facebook, this time 0.005 per cent of its annual profits, for ignoring them – a move that's bound to have CEO Mark Zuckerberg sobbing for mercy.…
EU digital sovereignty project Gaia-X hands out ID tech contracts
Swiss, German and Indian companies ready the blockchain for Self-Sovereign Identity The Gaia-X project has awarded work to a consortium including Vereign and DAASI International that takes it one step closer to realising Self Sovereign Identity technology.…
Open-source Kubernetes tool Argo CD has a high-severity path traversal flaw: Patch now
Craft Helm chart, receive secrets A zero-day vulnerability in open-source Kubernetes development tool Argo lets malicious people steal passwords from git-crypt and other sensitive information by simply uploading a crafted Helm chart.…
Cloud spending hit $50bn in Q4 2021 as business recovers
Most lucrative quarter ever for compute sellers, say analysts Global spending on cloud infrastructure services exceeded $50bn for the first time in the Q4 of 2021, according to figures from research outfit Canalys.…
Dear chip designers, if you're struggling to get components made, try 28nm. Supply set to overtake demand
Put your nodes to the grindstone Analysis Amid the semiconductor crunch, there's an interesting cliff forming at 28nm.…
12-year-old revives Unity desktop, develops software repo client, builds gaming environment for Ubuntu...
If you don't already feel enough of an under-achiever, read on There are some interesting developments to keep an eye on in the world of Ubuntu: a new client for the community software repo, a tool to help Ubuntu gamers – and Rudra Saraswat, the 12-year-old brains behind them.…
Automakers continue to see chip-supply carnage as vendors talk of sales pain
Toyota benefits from 2011 tsunami lessons, according to reports Jaguar Land Rover, the custodian of those iconic British car brands owned by India's Tata Motors, this week announced lost £9m in the final quarter of 2021 in part down to the global semiconductor shortage which followed the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Have you tried restarting? Reinstalling? Upgrading? Moving house and changing your identity?
Or maybe we could take a quick look at our servers Something for the Weekend? Go away. I've had enough of you. We no longer connect like we used to. After all this time together, it's as you don't even know who I am.…
Taekwindow: Time to make your middle mouse button earn its keep
We've got to get our flying kicks somewhere Friday FOSS Fest The Reg FOSS desk is, as you might expect, mostly Linux-based, but your correspondent does keep Windows around for things like rooting smartphones and reflashing BIOSes. There are a few things I miss switching from Linux, and the handy functions of the middle mouse button are high on the list. This is where Taekwindow scores.…
No, I've not read the screen. Your software must be rubbish
Dialog? What dialog? On Call Friday is upon us, bringing with it the promise of the weekend and the jolly times it entails. Start the end of your week with a visit to the On Call archives and the delight of taking a support call from users of software you wrote.…
Amazon stretches working life of its servers an extra year, for AWS and its own ops
Cloud colossus accounts for lion's share of Amazonian profits Amazon will run its servers and networking kit for an extra year – for both its own operations and for Amazon Web Services – and expects to save a billion dollars next quarter as a result.…
Cisco inferno: Networking giant reveals three 10/10 rated critical router bugs
RV family of routers is in trouble, and fixed software is yet to arrive for some models Cisco has revealed five critical bugs, three of them rated 10/10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, that impact four of its router families aimed at small businesses. And it only has patches available for two of the affected ranges.…
Chip shortage: Buyers sign multiyear, no-take-back deals to secure supplies, says NXP
Contracts fit automakers and other manufacturers with 'very sticky products, very long life cycles' – CEO Chip shortages are so bad that customers are willing to sign multiyear non-cancellable, non-returnable (NCNR) contracts to secure supplies, according to semiconductor supplier NXP.…
Indian PM says digital rupee will facilitate creation of global digital payment scheme
This is news to the rest of the world Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has offered some more details about the nation’s newly revealed plan to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the next year.…
Flutter flits onto Windows, declared fit for production
Google's take on cross-platform development arrives on Microsoft's desktop Google's cross-platform app framework Flutter has hit version 2.1 and added production support for apps on Windows.…
That's a signature move: How $320m in Ether was stolen from crypto biz Wormhole
Failure to validate input in DeFi code let attacker mint money Wormhole, a protocol for connecting different blockchains, lost about $320m worth of Ether (ETH), thanks to poorly crafted code.…
US Senate to vote on stopping Big Tech extracting 'monopolist rent' from app developers
Billions in profits at stake for Apple and Google's money-making machines The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to pass the Open App Markets Act, despite intense lobbying from Apple and Google.…
Privacy Shield: EU citizens might get right to challenge US access to their data
Are we nearly there yet? Officials from the EU and US are nearing a solution in long-running negotiations over transatlantic data sharing.…
Phishing kits' use of man-in-the-middle reverse proxies is growing, warns Proofpoint
Spoof site looks real because it is... but you're not talking to who you think In the beginning we had passwords. Their hackability made a lot of people very angry and passwords were widely regarded as a bad move. Then we had two-factor authentication – and now Proofpoint reckons criminals online are able to start bypassing them with transparent reverse proxies.…
Out of beta and ready for data: 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS is here
Now you just need a compatible device... The Raspberry Pi Foundation has officially released the 64-bit version of the Linux-based OS Formerly Known As Raspbian.…
JumpCloud joins the patch management crowd, starting with Windows and Mac updates
Linux and mobile coming soon Cloud directory specialist JumpCloud is moving into the crowded patch management market with an extension to its platform to automate patch updates.…
KP Snacks hit by ransomware: Crisps and nuts firm KO'd by modern scourge
Firm doesn't know when it'll restart salty goodness deliveries Some of Britain's favourite pub munch could end up in short supply after KP Snacks, makers of nuts and crisps, suffered a ransomware attack.…
Former tech CIO jailed for setting up £475k backhander scam with IT outsourcing firm
One-time head of Hampshire Police IT gets six years A pro-outsourcing CIO whose first act at a new employer was to set up a £475,000 backhander scheme has been jailed for six years.…
OpenStack-to-the-edge darling StarlingX hits 6.0, makes useful config tweaks
Open-source, full-stack edge and industrial IoT software moves to Linux kernel 5.10 StarlingX, an open-source platform for edge computing based on OpenStack, has hit release 6.0 with a Linux Kernel upgrade plus security and deployment enhancements to make it easier to manage systems.…
Exasol pledges to help customers avoid cloud bill shock with new DBaaS
Distributed in-memory system more efficient than other cloud data warehouses, vendor claims Distributed in-memory analytics specialist Exasol has launched a database-as-a-service claiming its approach to parallel processing could help reduce nasty shocks in cloud fees.…
Jeff Bezos adds some more overheads to his $485m yacht by taking down historic bridge
Rotterdam can't get over it When buying a 40m-tall, three-mast luxury yacht is like you or I popping to the corner shop for a Freddo, what does it matter if a 144-year-old bridge has to be dismantled to get the thing out of the shipyard?…
Execs keep flinging money at us instead of understanding security, moan infosec pros
Oh what a problem to have Fresh from years of complaining about underfunding and not having enough staff to deal with problems, infosec bods are now complaining that corporate execs merely firehose cash at them without getting their own hands dirty or engaging with the problem.…
Update 'designed to improve user experience' takes down the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal
Redmond's quality control shines once more Updated Microsoft's legendary approach to quality was demonstrated this morning as the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal fell over.…
Welsh home improvement biz fined £200,000 over campaign of 675,478 nuisance calls
ICO says Home2Sense showed 'complete disregard for people's privacy' Home2Sense Ltd, a home improvement biz, is nursing a £200,000 financial penalty from the UK's data watchdog for making well over half a million marketing calls to people that registered to opt out of such botheration.…
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