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by Gareth Corfield on (#5VWE2)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5VW9H)
Nearly 6 years after previous version It's been a long time coming but version 15 of Slackware finally showed up at the weekend.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5VW9J)
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.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5VW5W)
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.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5VW48)
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.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5VW2X)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5VW1S)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5VW0E)
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.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5VW0F)
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.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5VVXQ)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5VVVX)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5VVT2)
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.…
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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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5VTCZ)
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.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5VT8R)
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.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5VT5K)
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).…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5VT4E)
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.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5VT2D)
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.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5VT15)
'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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5VSZM)
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.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5VSWT)
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.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5VSTD)
£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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5VSQV)
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.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5VSMT)
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.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5VSHY)
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.…
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Put your nodes to the grindstone Analysis Amid the semiconductor crunch, there's an interesting cliff forming at 28nm.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5VSDE)
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.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5VSB6)
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.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5VS9C)
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.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5VS7P)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5VS63)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5VS3C)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5VS1Z)
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.…
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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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5VRZC)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5VRYN)
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.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5VRXS)
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.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5VRT3)
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.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5VRR5)
Are we nearly there yet? Officials from the EU and US are nearing a solution in long-running negotiations over transatlantic data sharing.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5VRR6)
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.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5VRP3)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5VRKQ)
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.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5VREY)
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.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5VRBT)
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.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5VR8H)
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.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5VR5Q)
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.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5VR36)
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?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5VR0Y)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5VQZD)
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.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5VQY0)
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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