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by Richard Speed on (#5TPW8)
Patching over the cracks in partner relations and pressurised modules for a few extra years While scientists celebrated the successful launch and ongoing deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA had another thing to bring cheer in the new year – the extension of the International Space Station (ISS) from 2025 through 2030.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5TPSR)
No more chip factories would surely change Beijing's mind about unification A top US Army War College paper suggests Taiwan should credibly threaten to eradicate its semiconductor industry if threatened by China so that Beijing would no longer be interested in unification.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TPKP)
How far's the Moon now? ... Here's 'How Soon Is Now?' from your Spotify playlist As if NASA's troubled Artemis program didn't have enough to worry about, tech utilising Amazon's Alexa and Cisco's Webex is set to be on board for the first mission around the Moon and back to Earth.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5TPKQ)
They really want that display ad and user tracking service Facebook has filed its legal challenge to the UK's ban on its Giphy merger, saying officials ignored "plainly relevant information" in their November decision.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5TPGR)
Disable anti-tamper features first and you'll be all right Norton antivirus's inbuilt cryptominer has re-entered the public consciousness after a random Twitter bod expressed annoyance at how difficult it is to uninstall.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5TPDD)
Originally launched as 'minimum viable product', GVMS has the necessary upgrades, UK taxman says Glitches in IT systems designed to manage the movement of goods from the EU to the UK are holding up shipments.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5TPB6)
They're guiding kids through museums, moving food in mega-kitchens – and cleaning where you can't see them Feature Robots largely remain the stuff of trepidation and speculation – but in Singapore they've suddenly become very easy to find.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5TP8S)
Elon Musk's satellite internet company 'remains excited to serve' the country The Indian government has reportedly told Elon Musk's internet satellite company, Starlink, to refund pre-orders it could not yet fulfil because it didn't have the licences.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TP6X)
Yes, you're going to have to get a new CPU (again) It's been a while coming, but it looks like PCs with Microsoft's Pluton security processor are just around the corner. So long as your silicon of choice comes from AMD, for the time being at least.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5TP4Z)
TSS UK redundancy selection was 'biased, superficial and wholly inadequate' An IBM salesman was wrongly sacked after being blamed for the failure of a joint venture with Tech Data, being subject to a "biased, superficial and wholly inadequate" redundancy scoring exercise by vindictive sales managers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TP3G)
Bork bless us, everyone 12BoC We reach the end of our 12 Borks of Christmas today and, really, there is only one place to end: where it all began, with an unhappy touchscreen at McDonald's.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5TP22)
343 Industries brings open world to the long-running military sci-fi epic The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. Although the outside world keeps going to shit, at least the closing months of 2021 saw the biggest shooter properties duke it out in time for the festive period. Battlefield 2042 was void of Battlefield feeling while Call of Duty: Vanguard was similarly said to be "meh" – though I wouldn't really know, I stopped playing the franchise over a decade ago. However, in terms of quality at the point of release, Halo Infinite has stepped out as the clear winner.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5TNZH)
And game over, Stackoverflow Boffins affiliated with dev tools biz JetBrains and HSE University in Moscow have devised an open-source plugin for the company's Java development editor that guards against copy-and-paste coding.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5TNVT)
Rock detonated with same force as 30 tons of TNT (or 0.002 Little Boys) The loud boom heard over the skies of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on New Year’s Day was due to an exploding meteor with the blast energy equivalent to 30 tons of TNT, NASA has confirmed.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5TNTX)
Plus: RIP classic QWERTY BlackBerry phones – they'll no longer work properly Google has fixed a bug that blocked some people from getting through to 911 when they dialed for help on Pixel smartphones.…
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Plus teases 'monster' RTX 3090 Ti graphics chip Nvidia thinks the metaverse, omniverse, or whatever you want to call it will be a vast interconnected galaxy of 3D worlds, and wants you to use its tools to build that animated universe – tied to its RTX GPUs, natch.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5TNKZ)
Telcos miffed, pilots are fine with it AT&T and Verizon have agreed to further delay the US rollout of their previously delayed 5G C-band wireless service only one day before the planned launch date.…
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Lisa Su tells CES her biz has cracked the daily power cord issue AMD's next-generation Ryzen 6000 microprocessors, announced at CES this week, should provide another option for the Intel faithful to rethink options when buying laptops.…
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Mark Himelstein talks about the open ISA's future and challenges Interview Chip technologies from Arm and x86 are getting the most attention amid semiconductor shortages and trade wars. But in the background, the open-source RISC-V chip architecture is stealthily emerging as a viable third architecture that is cheaper, flexible, and free of political intrigue.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5TNCK)
Has the sustainability trend infiltrated the space industry? Kyoto University and Japanese logging company Sumitomo Forestry are designing a wooden satellite, with hopes of achieving the goal by 2023.…
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CPUs will compete with AMD's Ryzen and Apple's Arm-based M1 Intel went mega with its latest round of Alder Lake chip releases, announcing 60 processors that will be used in 500 new laptops and desktops.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5TN6F)
French regulator's investigation finds multiple breaches of GDPR SlimPay, a Paris-based subscription payment services company, has been fined €180,000 by the French CNIL regulatory body after it was found to have held sensitive customer data on a publicly accessible server for five years.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#5TN32)
'Too early to make any statement on the damage' Dutch lithography giant ASML has reported a fire at its factory in Berlin, Germany, acquired from optics company Berliner Glas in 2020.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TN33)
Engineers on Earth have five and a half months more of this The James Webb Space Telescope has continued to notch up the milestones on its journey to its L2 destination with the tensioning of its sunshield.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5TMZV)
Fallen Silicon Valley darling defrauded investors, says jury Elizabeth Holmes, founder of US health-tech firm Theranos, has been found guilty of defrauding investors after a California jury found she had lied about her company's technology.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5TMWT)
Information Commissioner faces a year of upheaval in data law The Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed that former New Zealand privacy commissioner John Edwards has started his new role as the UK's Information Commissioner.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TMSW)
When marketing meets coding Microsoft has ushered in 2022 with an amusing (and now deleted) tweet from its Windows Developer account that answers oh so many questions about the quality of code emitted from Redmond nowadays.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TMQA)
Processing goes a bit TITSUP* at UK finance outfit The UK's Nationwide Building Society has started the new year with a bork as customers found payments to and from accounts stalled as 2022 arrived.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5TMNC)
Even if you've got no other EU legal presence Companies anywhere in the world that offer Patreon subscriptions in pound sterling are subject to EU data protection laws, according to a startling Court of Appeal ruling in England and Wales.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TMKF)
The last time Ubuntu went to space ISS astronauts got menaced by CIMON* 12BoC We take a trip across the Channel in today's penultimate instalment of the 12 Borks of Christmas, with a reminder that bork will find you, wherever you are.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5TMJD)
Stock up on schadenfreude, it may be 2022's most popular commodity Opinion We've had nearly two years of the type of uncertainty that could make even the most avant-garde quantitative analyst fiddling with a risk management model weep. And now we're all on board for another trip around the Sun.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5TMFS)
Z690 Hero motherboards recalled because batch is borked, design itself is fine A few weeks ago a curious thing started happening to gamers whose PCs are powered by the ASUS Z690 Hero motherboard – their systems started to catch fire.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TMCZ)
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered an antitrust investigation into Apple’s business practices.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TMB7)
Not as bonkers as it sounds seeing as Sammy suggests they’re already works of art Samsung has given its 2022 smart television range the ability to trade in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the blockchain-dependent certificates of authenticity for digital assets.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5TM76)
Happy New Year. Welcome back! Now apply this patch – which Microsoft warns isn't easy – if you want email to work Microsoft has kicked off 2022 by issuing a patch for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, which both possessed a “latent date issue” that saw emails queued up instead of being dispatched to inboxes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TKFR)
Sometimes a screwdriver is not the only tool you need Who, Me? The right tool for the job is a motto to live by. But in this week's Who, Me? a Register reader recalls what happens when the wrong tool is used by a right tool.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TKEG)
Keeping things consistent in the Pi department 12BoC There is something wrong with IKEA's Raspberry Pis, as another branch suffers a suspiciously familiar failure in our 12 Borks of Christmas.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TJJW)
Woo... woo... don't forget to back up your files... woo... 12BoC Bork goes big in the latest edition of The Register's 12 Borks of Christmas, with Windows reporting problems in the southeast London district of Bermondsey.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5THWD)
A mystery error message bedevils Mass Transit Passengers 12BoC Some errors are descriptive. Some errors are misleading. And some errors… well, your guess is as good as ours. Welcome to another entry in our 12 Borks of Christmas.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TH20)
Scrub-a-dub-dub, we work in a fug On Call We all know users can be disgusting. However, not all of us have to get up and close and personal with their filth. Welcome to the grimier side of On Call.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TH0Q)
Go on. Click Continue. We dare you 12BoC Microsoft goes large today in our 12 Borks of Christmas as the .NET Framework muscles in on a reader's attempt to pay for his parking.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5TGZ7)
We confidently predict that the predictions in this article will turn out wrong Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have been looking intently at my ball again and I'm about to reveal everything.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#5TG0S)
DPUs in the data centre, object and file get cosy, 3D layer Jenga plus cloud, capacity, and ransomware advances Analysis While much of the world was in lockdown in 2021, storage boomed. It was a year of ransomware, tech advances, hybrid multi-cloud, a switch to subscriptions and services, hypergrowth in analytics startup funding, and building a DPU data centre makeover.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TFX0)
Who is going to install this Daim patch? 12BoC IKEA, furniture retailer and place where relationships go to die, features large in our final run of borks. It also appears unable to configure Windows, as demonstrated in this edition of The Register's 12 Borks of Christmas.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5TF0M)
Swedish city refuses to make tradition of setting fire to a tradition a tradition Some traditions ought to be set on fire, but sadly for Sweden's Gävlebocken – a giant Yule goat made of straw – setting fire to traditions has become a tradition in itself.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TEXT)
Lucky that new Crossrail thing is late – who knows how Windows will cope? 12BoC London transport is notable for the occasional twee messages on its whiteboards. However, it is also rather good at the odd whoopsie, as today's entry in the 12 Borks of Christmas shows.…
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by Bruce Davie on (#5TE7H)
Amar and Bruce explain how cloud native principles can be applied to wireless connectivity Systems Approach This month's column was co-written by Amar Padmanabhan, a lead developer of Magma, the open-source project for creating carrier-grade networks; and Bruce Davie, a member of the project's technical advisory committee.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TDYT)
No, not that sort of Rust 12BoC The Register's Bork column is coming to an end, and to mark the occasion we present the 12 Bork's of Christmas. Today: an unwanted appearance by the Windows command line.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5TDD4)
Historians a thousand years hence will talk about us. Let's not muff it Opinion It's the end of the year, when the tradition is to look back at what just happened. Let's not do that. Let's take a step back and look at the wider picture, because while we've been worrying about data breaches and OS updates, we've rather missed the point.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5TD4W)
Modern drinks are rubbish Who, Me? Before one can organise a piss-up in a brewery, one must first get the brewery started. Something a Register reader found difficult in today's Who, Me?…
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