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Big challenge with hardware subscriptions? Getting what we need, not what someone else wants us to have
Reject the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the cloud giants Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…
ESA's Solar Orbiter sails safely past Earth despite orbiting debris concerns
See if you can guess when the spacecraft thrusters took over ESA's Solar Orbiter has completed its flyby of Earth, collecting science data as it did so, and appears to be headed back into deep space without any close encounters with orbiting debris.…
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy
2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch It's that time of year again, when all good little developers count down to the festive season with the Advent of Code.…
Last chance: Get hands-on ML experience in Prof Mark Whitehorn’s introductory web workshop
December 3 is the final day to buy tickets – book now or miss out Event On December 9, at 0900 GMT, Register regular Mark Whitehorn and the people behind our machine-learning conference MCubed will bring an online workshop about the foundations of AI straight to your desk.…
Samsung wheels out new silicon that turns cars into 5G-fuelled entertainment hubs
Nice wheels! Thanks, it's got eight Cortex-A76 cores, a 5G modem and 32GB of RAM Samsung has wheeled out three new slabs of silicon for automotive applications.…
UK watchdog's punishment for Blackbaud, Easyjet, other big privacy lawbreakers was slap on the wrist in private
Is this what they call light-touch regulation? Blackbaud was given a private slap on the wrist by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after paying off criminals who stole users' financial data from the cloud CRM biz's servers.…
Beijing wants to level up China's software industry, with an emphasis on FOSS
Plans to build 'two or three open source communities with international influence' in the next five years China's software industry is underperforming internationally and needs to lean into open source technology to improve, the nation's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Tuesday.…
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mega-comets lurking in solar systems, spewing carbon monoxide
Comet BB is not only largest of its type that we know of, it was likely active billions of miles from the Sun Not only is comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein the largest of its kind known, it’s also one of the most active, distant comets, likely spewing plumes of gas further out from the Sun than expected.…
Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Beioff to share the job
Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning SaaS sultan Salesforce has announced a new CEO: Bret Taylor, previously the company's president and chief operating officer.…
Qualcomm takes a swipe at Apple's build-not-buy culture (because it wants to sell stuff to Apple)
Suggests collaboration with OS suppliers is the best way to innovate, ignoring that Google just designed its own silicon for Pixel 6 Qualcomm has distanced itself from Apple, and took a veiled shot at its rival as it tried to clear the air on its relationship with Google.…
UK intel chief says MI6 must outsource innovation – and James Bond's in-house 'Q' is nonsense
China is on the march, Russia loves to destabilise, no intelligence agency can stop 'em without help The head of the UK's secretive Military Intelligence Section 6 agency – popularly known as MI6 – has delivered a rare speech in which he has warned that China, Iran, and Russia use information technology to destabilise rivals, and that the agency he leads can no longer rely on in-house innovation to develop the technologies the UK needs to defend itself.…
Cisco tells UCS owners they may have a screw loose – in the server chassis
Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in Cisco has warned owners of its UCS servers that they may have a screw loose. In the UCS X9508 chassis that houses their servers, that is.…
AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions
CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers Re:Invent Adam Selipsky gave his first Re:Invent keynote as AWS CEO on Tuesday, introducing a range of services, and hinting that the cloud giant may move toward more packaged solutions rather than primarily offering infrastructure-as-a-service.…
Qualcomm crams more smarts into flagship mobile chip: It's the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Do you want a smartphone to know you that well? Qualcomm today will unveil its latest flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, a greatest-hits compilation of the US giant's fastest CPU, GPU, camera, and modem technology.…
If at first Amazon doesn't let you succeed, try, try again: Warehouse workers given second chance at union vote
US watchdog tosses previous result in the trash after election fairness slammed America's labor watchdog has given workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, another crack at voting for unionization after their first attempt failed earlier this year.…
It's the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected
And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified FluBot, a family of Android malware, is circulating again via SMS messaging, according to authorities in Finland.…
AsmREPL: Wing your way through x86-64 assembly language
Assemblers unite Ruby developer and internet japester Aaron Patterson has published a REPL for 64-bit x86 assembly language, enabling interactive coding in the lowest-level language of all.…
Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it
There's always Use Another Browser As the festive season approaches, Microsoft has decided to add "Buy Now, Pay Later" financing options to its Edge browser in the US.…
Visiting a booby-trapped webpage could give attackers code execution privileges on HP network printers
Patches available for 150 affected products Tricking users into visiting a malicious webpage could allow malicious people to compromise 150 models of HP multi-function printers, according to F-Secure researchers.…
Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection
Parachute snagged on ship's bows Video Video footage has emerged of a British F-35B fighter jet falling off the front of aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth after a botched takeoff.…
Lloyd's of London suggests insurers should not cover 'retaliatory cyber operations' between nation states
And they might attribute cyber attacks if governments won't Lloyd’s of London may no longer extend insurance cover to companies affected by acts of war, and new clauses drafted for providers of so-called "cyber" insurance are raising the spectre of organisations caught in tit-for-tat nation state-backed attacks being left high and dry.…
UK competition regulator to Meta's Facebook: Sell Giphy, we will not approve the purchase
CMA finds that deal would be bad for consumers and tighten Zuck's grip on almost half of £7bn digital ad spend The UK competition watchdog has ordered Meta, the owner of Facebook, to sell Giphy after deciding purchase of the animated GIF creator platform will damage rivals, consumers and advertisers.…
You, me and debris: NASA cans ISS spacewalk because it's getting too risky outside
Broken antenna will have to wait as warning comes in less than 24 hours before airlock opening NASA has delayed a spacewalk scheduled today from the International Space Station amid concerns about debris.…
Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not
The snag: This programming language is safe and efficient, but hard to learn, impacting productivity Re:Invent Here at a depleted AWS Re:invent in Las Vegas, Rust Foundation chairwoman Shane Miller and Tokio project lead Carl Lerche made the case for using Rust to minimize environmental impact, though said its steep learning curve made the task challenging.…
The climate is turning against owning our own compute hardware. Cloud is good for you and your customers
From the data centre to the desktop, here is the green solution Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…
You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting
All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too) Python, one of the world's most popular programming languages, may soon become even more ubiquitous as it finds a home within web browsers.…
Think that spreadsheet in your company's accounts dept is old? 70 years ago, LEO ran the first business app
Mods to the design of EDSAC were 'considerable' says boffin Seventy years ago this week, LEO, the world's first computer for business, ran one of the first enterprise applications after several experimental test runs.…
UK privacy watchdog may fine selfie-hoarding Clearview AI £17m... eventually, perhaps
Regulator's 'assertions are factually and legally incorrect' biz tells El Reg Clearview AI, the controversial startup known for scraping billions of selfies from people's public social network profiles to train a facial-recognition system, may be fined just over £17m ($22.6m) by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).…
Quantum computing to grow by 50 per cent per year until 2027, when revenue will still be chump change
IDC reckons industry will be worth $8.6B a year – or about a quarter of one Dell quarter Don't rush to convert your analog computing skills into the quantum realm – analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) reckons that in 2027 the annual market for quantum computing globally will still only be worth $8.6 billion. Which sounds like a lot, but really isn't.…
Hubble space 'scope brings its Cosmic Origins Spectrograph back online
Work continues on code to make the observatory operate happily when control unit message sync glitches out NASA has successfully restored another instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope.…
Euro-telcos call on big tech to help pay for their network builds
Aka 'rebalancing global technology giants and the European digital ecosystem' The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) has published a letter signed by ten telco CEOs that calls for, among other things, Big Tech to pay for their network builds.…
AI-enhanced frog stem cells start to replicate in entirely new ways
Xenobots scoop up loose cells to make more of themselves. We welcome our new overlords In January of 2020, scientists from the University of Vermont announced they had built the first living robots; this week they have published reports that those robots, made from frog cells and called Xenobots, can reproduce and have found a new way to do so.…
Panasonic admits intruders were inside its servers for months
Spotted the crack after it ended – still not sure what was lost Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has admitted it's been popped, and badly.…
HPE sees ‘no indication’ its tech was sold to Chinese military, seeks answers from Uncle Sam on sanctions
In the dark about how New H3C chip org ended up on USA’s naughty list HPE has said it sees “no indication” its technology has been sold to China’s military…
James Webb Space Telescope may actually truly launch this century, says NASA
Will it fly by Christmas? Betteridge's law probably applies The very-much-delayed James Webb Space Telescope is being pumped with fuel and prepared for liftoff after an anomaly knocked back its launch date to no earlier than December 22.…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey rebrands himself a 'single point of failure' and quits
That's so Meta Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigned on Monday, anointing CTO Parag Agrawal as the social network company's new chief executive and announcing the elevation of board member Bret Taylor, former CTO of Facebook, to Independent Chair of the Board.…
How a performance boost in Linux kernel for one family of Intel chips slowed its latest Alder Lake processors
Performance-critical tasks scheduled on efficiency cores, fix emerges The mixture of performance and efficiency CPUs in Intel's 12th-gen Core processors, code-named Alder Lake, hasn't just been causing problems for some Windows gamers – it almost introduced complications for Linux.…
UK Home Secretary delays Autonomy founder extradition decision to mid-December
Could be a Christmas surprise in store from Priti Patel Autonomy Trial Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's pending extradition to the US has been kicked into the long grass again by the UK Home Office.…
Want to buy your own piece of the Pi? No 'urgency' says Upton of the listing rumours
A British success story... what happens next? Industry talk is continuing to circulate regarding a possible public listing of the UK makers of the diminutive Raspberry Pi computer.…
All change at JetBrains: Remote development now, new IDE previewed
Security, collaboration, flexible working: Fleet does it all apparently JetBrains has introduced remote development for its range of IDEs as well as previewing a new IDE called Fleet, which will form the basis for fresh tools covering all major programming languages.…
Nextcloud and cloud chums fire off competition complaint to the EU over Microsoft bundling OneDrive with Windows
No, it isn't the limited levels of storage that have irked European businesses EU software and cloud businesses have joined Nextcloud in filing a complaint with the European Commission regarding Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behaviour over the bundling of its OS with online services.…
Wind turbine maker Vestas confirms recent security incident was ransomware
10 days after attack 'almost all systems' up and running, refuses to say if ransom was paid Wind turbine maker Vestas says "almost all" of its IT systems are finally up and running 10 days after a security attack by criminals, confirming that it had indeed fallen victim to ransomware.…
UK and Ireland S/4HANA migrations accelerated during 2021 COVID-19 lockdowns, figures reveal
User group survey shows concerns linger about support skills for upgrade UK SAP users stuck with their migrations to S/4HANA during COVID-19 lockdowns this year, according to fresh figures released today. But skills among partners and SAP technical resources are still a worry.…
UK Space Agency wants primary school kids to design a logo for first Brit launches
Submissions must create a 'sense of pride.' What could possibly go wrong? Good news for those in the UK with primary school-aged kids and wondering what to do when the next bout of home-schooling hits: design a logo for the first UK satellite launches.…
Threeshiba: Key Toshiba investor opposes firm's split
3D Investments said plan will result in 'three underperforming companies' A fund that holds around 7 per cent of Toshiba stock – making it the company's second-largest shareholder – has opposed the Japanese industrial giant's proposed split into three companies, and called for a review of alternative strategies.…
Renting your IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for your customers
We're back with another debate you can vote on as we argue back and forth – this time over cloud computing Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…
Project Union: Microsoft releases Windows App SDK 1.0, developers try to puzzle it out
Multiple Windows in WinUI 3? Next version. Open source? Maybe one day Microsoft released the Windows App SDK 1.0 earlier this month, the first full release of "Project Reunion", but there is some confusion about what it is and whether developers need it.…
Smart things are so dumb because they take after their makers. Let's fix that
IoT still needs its lightbulb moment Opinion Tech is a great leveller. You can drop £50k on a shiny Tesla and £1k+ on the latest iPhone 13 Max Grunt to unlock it. But if some netops drone located half the globe away misconfigured a server, you're walking home just like a peon with a scratched-up Android and a battered Peugeot who dropped their keys down a drain.…
When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere
'Keep it running a few weeks.' Fast-forward 5 years. 'Why'd it break, man!?' Who, Me? We've all heard the phrase that "best is the enemy of good", but we've all also shoved in that "temporary" solution that ended up being a bit more permanent than we'd hoped. Welcome to the home of duct tape and prayers: Who, Me?…
Looking to get complex machine learning models into production? Serverless might be the answer
Oh-em-gee, it's only another free web lecture from our MCubed team Special series An old truism of machine learning states that the more complex and larger a model is, the more accurate the outcome of its predictions – up to a point.…
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