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The deal is a long way from done and players can already foresee rival bids Singapore-based Effissimo Capital Management, the largest shareholder in troubled Japanese tech giant Toshiba, has signed a deal to sell its stake to American private investment firm Bain Capital – if Bain decides to launch a takeover bid.…

Managed to send material from his private email address, it is claimed The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has accused an NSA employee of sharing top-secret national security information with an unnamed person who worked in the private sector.…

Fittings open on Saturday, to make it easier to take motorized pals with you wherever you go Japanese startup Groove X will on Saturday stage fittings for a wearable sling - somewhat akin to baby carriers - designed to let owners of "Love Robots" more easily carry the machines wherever they go.…

Public agencies told to stop using overseas apps from 2025 as parallel imports approved, too Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned the purchase of foreign software – be it standalone applications or code shipping in equipment – for significant critical infrastructure projects, with limited exceptions.…

Vid-streamer iQIYI also earns a place Chinese search giant and AI cloud company Baidu has landed on the US Securities and Exchange Commission's provisional list of companies it might de-list because of opaque disclosures.…

Alphabet AI lab under fire after bosses 'dragged out' probe into abuse A former DeepMind employee has blasted the AI lab for being, in her view, "grossly inadequate" in dealing with internal sexual harassment. She also urged the organization to end its policy of NDAs that prevent victims from speaking out.…

Nothing like a little kernel-level memory snooping, code execution Apple has released updates for its mobile and desktop operating systems to patch security holes that may well have been exploited in the wild.…

Uni trio probe efforts by miners to max out rewards at expense of others UC Berkeley boffins have found that strategies for squeezing extra profit out of Ethereum transactions come at the cost of other cryptocurrency investors and threaten the security and stability of the entire Ethereum ecosystem.…

Troubled container company may escape confines of its doldrums Docker hasn't just got back in the fight thanks to its latest round of funding: it's earned double-unicorn status, too. …

Lead dev of modest ground-up Unix-like OS quit job to work on it SerenityOS, which started out as a one-man project in 2018, has now got to the point where its creator proudly announced that its web browser passes the Acid3 browser test.…

Backers include SK Lubricants as dielectric fluid research partner An enterprise immersion cooling company has received a $28 million investment it plans to use to sink itself into additional customer datacenters.…

Will provide tips on spotting bad info, frontload highly cited sources Further embracing its unspoken role as arbiter of truth, Google has unrolled some new search result features to help users "sort out what information is credible and what isn't."…

You didn't have any plans for the weekend anyway, did you? Another Java Remote Code Execution vulnerability has reared its head, this time in the popular Spring Framework and, goodness, it's a nasty one.…

Tech will be touted as a SaaS add-on in Xeon sales pitches, live on as standalone product Updated Intel hopes to gain an extra edge in the cloud and datacenter markets with the acquisition of Granulate, a developer of software that optimizes complex and older workloads for modern CPUs.…

RPA vendor's recurring revenue for 2023 will be down by $15m after pausing Russia operations UiPath's CEO has said the war in Ukraine is "having a profound impact" on business confidence in Europe and the UK.…

Reverse engineering yields sticky microarchitectural vulnerabilities Nvidia's ultra-dense GPU-driven AI training and inference systems are prone to covert and side channel attacks, according to research just published from a team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). This might be less concerning for those with on-prem DGX systems, but for cloud vendors selling time on the AI training boxes, the vulnerabilities are worth noting.…

Confused? Don’t be – Intel flagged this when it married Evo and vPro a while back Dell has refreshed its business laptops, predictably enough adding 12th-gen Intel silicon while also trying to make its offerings in a very well established product category stand out.…

Uses 64-node cluster of classical HPC boxen to prove it Fujitsu says it has developed the world's fastest quantum simulator capable of handling 36 qubit quantum circuits. The firm will use this to speed development of quantum applications, and said it is already planning a further simulator capable of handling more qubits.…

Windows 10 still rules the roost among Microsoft fans, according to AdDuplex The growth of Microsoft's flagship operating system, Windows 11, appears to be slowing if figures from AdDuplex are to be believed.…

GNOME 42 and some other small changes for both... though we still miss Unity Late April should see the release of the 36th versions of two of the biggest Linux distros: Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04.…

'We have this small moment in time where we can make improvements in our defensive posture' The US and its NATO allies should expect a "long tail of retaliation," in the form of cyberattacks, for the sanctions imposed on Russia, says cloud security shop ExtraHop's CEO Patrick Dennis.…

Questions linger over Technology Sourcing Programme as 2nd supplier in a week gets significant extension for historic contract UK tax authority HMRC has awarded Fujitsu a £250m contract for managed desktop services (MDS), extending a deal that dates back to 2017.…

Hosting platforms required to report content creators' names and income to stymie tax dodges China's massive live-streaming industry is the next target of China's tech regulation blitz, with three governmental agencies announcing a requirement for operators to register in an attempt to eliminate tax evasion.…

Architecture may make it possible to train one machine-learning model that performs all sorts of tasks Google says it is developing an AI architecture that can be used to train one giant system capable of performing multiple different tasks more efficiently than today's models.…

Your cloudy server will not self-destruct – even if the hardware it runs on does Amazon Web Services has added a small but important resilience feature: instances in its Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) now include automatic recovery by default.…

Oh look, someone else who thinks on-prem is old hat Cryptocurrency mining groups that typically have targeted on-premises servers are now competing fiercely for servers in the cloud.…

Foundry giant's staff could be sleeping at work during new COVID lockdown Chipmaking giant TSMC says China's COVID lockdowns slowed PC and smartphone demand, but given the Taiwanese outfit already struggles to meet demand, company chair Mark Liu was unfussed by the dip.…

Speech also alleges Russian troops in Ukraine have mutinied, shot down own plane The director of UK intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Sir Jeremy Fleming, has warned that China is trying to introduce "undemocratic values as the default for vast swathes of future tech and the standards that govern it."…

Think tank fears future studies of this sort may be harder as social networks withdraw data Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the top three proliferators of state-linked Twitter misinformation campaigns, according to a report released Wednesday by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).…

Better late than never – all its global and Chinese hyperscale rivals are already there Alibaba Cloud has opened its first datacenter in South Korea.…

Ill-gotten gains bankrolled swish life of flash cars and real estate A now-former finance director stole tablet computers and other equipment worth $40 million from the Yale University School of Medicine, and resold them for a profit.…

Slap-a-teacher and smash-the-school crazes were carefully engineered smears, it is claimed Facebook parent Meta, which has been struggling to compete against TikTok, has reportedly been paying a Republican-oriented consulting firm to encourage negative media reports about the Chinese-owned rival.…

Better late than never The widely used Zlib data-compression library finally has a patch to close a vulnerability that could be exploited to crash applications and services — four years after the vulnerability was first discovered but effectively left unfixed.…

In memo seen by The Register, chip giant seems to be striving for championship yoga-levels of flexibility Intel is going to tell more of its staff to return to their campus desks after many have been working from home or working in the office occasionally, judging by an internal memo sent to employees on Tuesday.…

Now for lawmakers to wrangle over the fine print The US Senate this week passed the America COMPETES Act by a bipartisan 68-28 vote, moving more than $50 billion in semiconductor industry funding closer to President Biden's desk. …

Network equipment maker insists it acted responsibly following intrusion Network equipment maker Ubiquiti on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against infosec journalist Brian Krebs, alleging he defamed the company by falsely accusing the firm of covering up a cyber-attack.…

Lower-end of the family to roll out first – and desktops will have to wait Intel hopes to compete against Nvidia and AMD in the discrete GPU market with now-launched standalone graphics chips for laptops. These components are said to feature a slew of technologies designed to provide smoother gaming experiences and faster content-creation performance.…

Open Infrastructure Foundation boasts of growth, but observers note this is mostly existing users scaling up OpenStack's 25th release brings the usual crop of new features to the open-source cloud platform, including support for DPUs, better integration with Prometheus and Kubernetes, and a handy un-delete feature for file system shares.…

A misconfigured VPN appliance is to blame It turns out the only thing Russian forces needed to knock thousands of Ukrainian satellite broadband customers offline was a misconfigured VPN.…

Mission launched during a pandemic, returned during... oh God, what now? NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth today aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule and accompanied by two Russian cosmonauts.…

Miscreants deployed cryptominers, backdoors since late December, Sophos says VMware's Horizon virtualization platform has become an ongoing target of attackers exploiting the high-profile Log4j flaw to install backdoors and cryptomining malware.…

Still can't say goodbye to the legacy browser? Some cookie and COM functionality has been restored Still got that one weird corporate app that simply must use Internet Explorer? Microsoft has tweaked IE mode in its Edge browser to lure the last holdouts.…

Claim NashStore will help Russians access common apps from May 9 A group of Russian developers are planning a Google Play alternative for Android users that will give those based in the country access to paid apps and services lost due to sanctions. …

Plus: It's looking for more Metaverse engineers in Canada Meta's plans to build a 166-hectare 200MW datacenter in the Netherlands' central Flevoland province have been put on hold.…

Konica Minolta maintenance system to be installed across 10 national support companies Swedish ERP and business application provider IFS has signed global contracts with Japanese businesses Konica Minolta and Japan Airlines.…

Post Nvidia deal collapse, Intel expressed similar interest back in February SK Hynix is reportedly considering forming a consortium to acquire UK chip designer Arm, however, the idea is said to be at a very early stage of planning, and Hynix may not actually proceed with the move.…

Cloud and data centre provider's liquidity hit by pandemic, energy costs, intransigent landlords The British division of global cloud and data centre services provider Sungard Availability Services was forced into administration amid a hike in energy bills and after failing to renegotiate landlord rental rates.…

No EVs were damaged in the making of this report Researchers from the University of Oxford published details of a vulnerability in the Combined Charging System that has the potential to abort charging.…

Non-destructively expand or shrink disk partitions while they still contain data GNOME Partition Editor version 1.4 was released this week by lead maintainer Curtis Gedak.…

Gender pay gap narrows, but the US remains top of pay-packet pops Puppet has emitted its seventh annual DevOps salary report, and there is good news: the gender wage gap appears to be narrowing.…