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Hunt follows £210m government funding in small modular reactor model UK aerospace and engineering giant Rolls-Royce is on the hunt for sites for its much-touted small nuclear reactors, which received a £210m grant from the UK government last year.…

Devices of the affected seem intent on going into the light Customers of Centrica-owned Hive are reporting problems with their cameras, with many complaining the devices have packed up, some after a few years of operation and others after mere days.…

Littler circuits executing on smaller hardware and tolerating 'a lot more noise' IBM says it has found a way to solve problems using fewer qubits than before, effectively doubling the capability of a quantum system by combining both quantum and classical resources.…

Unit dragged back to work after being found under hedge a day later We're sad to report the robot vacuum cleaner that made a brave attempt to flee a Travelodge has been hauled back into service.…

As it destroys so it creates US scientists have discovered that black holes can create as well as destroy, as the observed hot gas emitted from such a void in a dwarf galaxy could have contributed to the birth of stars.…

Just like the '68 Comeback Special, Bork has returned Bork!Bork!Bork! Back by unexpectedly popular demand, Bork takes a vacation to Vegas for an Elvis Presley tribute act.…

Move from SAP to Unit4 held up by comms 'issues' between supplier and authority Problems with Surrey County Council's £30m projects to replace an ageing SAP R/3 system with a Unit4 SaaS application were known in June, but not discussed with key council committees until after September.…

Why won't you love me, sobs perennially spurned protocol Opinion In the World of Tomorrow that's always 10 years away, Linux dominates the desktop, quantum computers control the fusion reactors, and all Android phones receive regular system updates. And the internet runs on IPv6.…

Not all heroes wear capes. Some are Unix admins. Who, Me? Welcome to another entry in The Register's Who, Me? archives. Today, a reader goes full Hollywood to save the day (and fix some IP addressing).…

We'll know the pandemic is over when Apple starts insisting on its cut of fees for events again If you're looking for a sign that the COVID-19 pandemic has eased and life is approaching normal, Apple has a bad omen: the fruity company has again extended viral relief to developers.…

People would no longer be able to rely on VPNs for their preferred communication tool, Facebook Myanmar's military junta has floated a cyber security law that would ban the use of virtual private networks, under penalty of imprisonment and/or fines, leaving digital rights organisations concerned about the effects of further closing the country off digitally to the outside world.…

Seeks salespeople focused on expansion – and casinos – and adds a trio of senior managers Cloudflare has signalled significant expansion into the Asia-Pacific, Japan, and China, using Singapore as a beachhead.…

Politicians rush to blame Beijing, Tencent says the account was transferred from its original registrar and it's probing that shift Update Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's WeChat account has been taken over by entities that have rebranded it "Australian Chinese new life" and used the account to offer advice on living in Australia for the nation's Chinese community.…

As poker players ponder whether tech is ruining their favourite game In-brief IBM has offloaded healthcare data and analytics assets from its Watson Health business, with private equity firm Francisco Partners hand over around $1bn for the privilege.…

Life on the road increases reliance on cloudy tools instead of Emperor Penguin's preferred local tests The first release candidate for version 5.17 of the Linux kernel has rolled off the production line – despite fears that working from a laptop might complicate matters.…

Let's not get too excited about this right away Comment Intel puts on a show for its biggest manufacturing announcements, with episodes every few years using a rotating cast of CEOs and US presidents.…

Probably something to tackle before those chip fabs are built, eh? Soaring electricity prices have derailed manufacturing involving silicon and non-ferrous metals in Europe, politicians were warned this week.…

'This is strongly limiting the scope of maneuver by Big Tech', expert tells El Reg Analysis The European Parliament has adopted a set of amendments to the Digital Services Act (DSA) that makes the pending legislation even more protective of personal privacy and requires businesses to give greater consideration to advertising technology, respecting user choice, and web design.…

Whatever it takes, Mark Researchers at Facebook parent's Meta have trained a single AI model capable of processing speech, images, and text in the hope that these so-called multi-modal systems will power the company’s augmented reality and metaverse products.…

Disclosure of WebKit flaw appears to have prodded iBiz to undertake repairs Apple is preparing to repair a bug in its WebKit browser engine that has been leaking data from its Safari 15 browser at least since the problem was reported last November.…

As long as you're running on VMware Nvidia has rolled out the latest version of its AI Enterprise suite for GPU-accelerated workloads, adding integration for VMware's vSphere with Tanzu to enable organisations to run workloads in both containers and inside virtual machines.…

When audiobooks just take too darn long... Friday FOSS Fest In this week's edition of our column on free and open-source software, El Reg takes a look at Calibre, which converts almost any file type into almost any other file type, so you can read whatever you want, wherever you want, no matter what format it's in.…

It's not the wurst idea in the world Man's best friend, though far from the dumbest animal, isn't that smart either. And if there's one sure-fire way to get a dog moving, it's the promise of a snack.…

Freed of launch restraints, mirror segments can waggle at will NASA scientists have deployed mirrors on the James Webb Space Telescope ahead of a critical thruster firing on Monday.…

Prototypes now available for testing Arm has made available for testing prototypes of its Morello architecture, aimed at bringing features into the design of CPUs that provide greater robustness and make them resistant to certain attack vectors. If it performs as expected, it will likely become a fundamental part of future processor designs.…

Alleges he had an off-the-books agreement with reseller MLM firm Herbalife, which sells diet-linked products but styles itself as a "nutrition company", has accused one of its former execs of cutting a "fraudulent" $20m deal with a Dell reseller.…

Freshly overhauled, several careful owners Fancy buying an almost-original and flyable Second World War Supermarine Spitfire? If you've got £4.5m gathering dust in the bank, today might be your lucky day.…

Processes relying on 1980s ICL mainframe contributed to £1bn pension black hole Brit MPs have told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) it should factor in the cost of not upgrading a 34-year-old legacy system when reviewing tech investments after it contributed to a £1bn pension shortfall.…

Fusion energy projects nearing 40th anniversary A milestone was reached this week by the Joint European Torus (JET): the 100,000th pulse of the fusion energy experiment.…

Announcement scheduled for today as Gelsinger meets with Biden at the White House Intel is scheduled to announce on Friday that it is committing $20bn to build semiconductor plants outside Columbus, Ohio, thereby strengthening domestic supply chains, according to reports from the White House.…

Wolves no longer at the door of struggling Brit cloud slinger Updated Private investors led by current chairman Jeff Thomas have bought loss-making public sector service provider UKCloud for an unspecified sum, ending the months-long pursuit for potentially life-or-death funding.…

Influencing billions in spending, the Cabinet Office will keep tabs on Whitehall with… a spreadsheet?!? Exclusive The UK's Cabinet Office has launched a new approach designed to assess the IT resource needs of central government departments and measure their performance: emailing a spreadsheet and asking for multiple replies.…

'Inside' knowledge on the image database conundrum – at 25 frames per second Something for the Weekend, Sir? Stop that uterus! It stole my wallet!…

But if I give him my bank details, I'll be rich! On Call Friday is here. We'd suggest an adult beverage or two to celebrate, but only if you BYOB. While you fill your suitcase, may we present an episode of On Call in which a reader saves his boss from a dunking.…

Enhanced 'Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership' will transport crime to harsh penal regime on the other side of the world The United Kingdom and Australia have signed a Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership that will, among other things, transport criminals to a harsh penal regime on the other side of the world.…

Coinhive-slinger wins on appeal A man found guilty of using the Coinhive cryptojacking script to mine Monero on users' PCs while they browsed the web has been cleared by Japan's Supreme Court on the grounds that crypto mining software is not malware.…

'Most of our supplies come from outside Europe. This is a dependency and uncertainty we cannot afford' The European Commission will introduce legislation next month designed to turn the continent into a center of chip expertise and manufacturing.…

Central bank worries that block-bucks reduce government control and are used by crims Russia has floated the prospect of Putin a ban on cryptocurrencies.…

730 million 5G services active in Middle Kingdom, while another 100 million 4G services came online too 730 million 5G subscriptions have been ordered in China, according to operational statistics published this week by the nation's big three carriers: China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile.…

What a retirement for the ISS: Gaining a totally feasible 'state-of-the-art media production capability' Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE), a UK-based media company, has commissioned Axiom Space in Texas to build an inflatable space station module for orbital media production.…

To be fair, this is after 17 years of service in space NASA has put its orbiting Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory into safe mode due to a suspected faulty reaction wheel, the first time this type of failure has occurred in its 17 years of operation.…

Won't reveal net loss, says it stopped some withdrawals and has reimbursed those who had funds taken Crypto.com on Thursday said in a roundabout way that an unidentified person stole or attempted to steal as much as $34m in cryptocurrency from customer accounts.…

Folks can enable or disable it, install Linux as normal. Just sayin' PCs coming out this year with Microsoft's integrated Pluton security chip won't be locked down to Windows 11, and users will have the option to turn off the feature completely as well as install, say, Linux as normal, we understand.…

And to pay for the privilege. Consultation's open, though Small and medium-sized managed service providers (MSPs) could find themselves subject to the Network and Information Systems Regulations under government plans to tighten cybersecurity laws – and have got three months to object to the tax hikes that will follow.…

GigaIO CTO talks up 'solution that has a lot of what CXL offers' GigaIO and MemVerge are developing a joint solution to enable memory to be composable across a cluster of servers, addressing one of the thorny issues in high performance computing (HPC) where some nodes may not have enough memory for the tasks in hand, while others may have spare capacity.…

If you love your job, going the extra mile might not be stressful or cause depression Working too hard? Is that overtime making you feel like you're caught in the vice-like jaws of burnout? Well, keep on carrying on because far from negatively impacting your well-being, it might actually be good for you if you love your job.…

So far we've got a pisspoor video and... er, that's it Opinion The British government's PR campaign to destroy popular support for end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms has kicked off, under the handle "No Place To Hide", and it's as broad as any previous attack on the safety-guaranteeing technology.…

Red Hat agrees The CVE-2022-0185 vulnerability in Ubuntu is severe enough that Red Hat is also advising immediate patching.…

Quantum, HPC, and AI to take us to rainbow sunshine happy land Fujitsu wants to make the world a better place and thinks technology is the way to do it. Fujitsu technology, naturally.…

Is nothing safe from the dead hand of the Windows 11 design aesthetic? Windows' murderous Task Manager looks set to get a makeover in Windows 11 after a work-in-progress turned up in the latest Insider Dev Channel build.…