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Who are shortages good for? The channel! World's biggest distributor forecasts tech price hikes from January
Things not likely to improve until 2023 Canalys Forum 2021 Technology price rises are about as welcome Windows 11's needy hardware specs but one part of the industry is quietly happy about the inflationary conditions caused by industry-wide component shortages – the channel.…
Reg readers: Don't assume anything when sharing health data
Debate exhibits chronic distrust of policy makers, Big Pharma, and insurance companies Register debate This week's Register Debate tussled over the motion Assumed consent is the right approach for sharing healthcare patients' data, beyond their direct care. The results are in, and as you can see, we have a clear winner.…
All I want for Christmas is a delivery address that a delivery courier can find
Send me an SMS and I’ll tell you everything Something for the Weekend, Sir? Below the note is scrawled an ominous threat: "We know where you live."…
Scoot on over for a wheely tricky mystery with an electrifying solution
The computer is a chauvinist, you say? On Call Round off your week with an electrifying tale from the land of chunky-knit sweaters and addictive television mystery drama serials. Welcome to a Scandinavian On Call.…
When it comes to ransomware, your fightback should start long before you’re attacked
Learn how at our Ransomware Remediation Masterclass WEBCAST You wouldn’t want to learn to box just as Tyson Fury steps out of the opposing corner. Likewise, the time to learn how to recover from ransomware is long before your systems come under attack.…
Forget everything you learned playing Lunar Lander: Chinese boffins reveal secrets of Chang'e 5 probe's touchdown
Landing with liquid fuel aboard made slosh-avoidance essential. Plus: China names first woman to visit Tiangong space station Chinese space boffins have revealed details of how the guidance navigation and control (GNC) system in the Chang'e 5 got the probe onto the surface of the Moon despite its propellant sloshing about inside.…
US Army slows ~$20bn project to put Microsoft's HoloLens VR headsets into the field
Deployment of 120,000 headsets hoped to 'increase lethality' pushed into 2022 The US Army has delayed a massive rollout of Microsoft's HoloLens virtual reality headsets.…
White House ransomware summit calls for virtual asset crackdown, without mentioning cryptocurrency
Inconsistent regulation means crooks can sneak cryptos through cracks – pretty much everyone wants them filled The 30-nation gabfest convened under the auspices of the US National Security Council’s Counter-Ransomware Initiative has ended with agreement that increased regulation of virtual assets is required to curb the digital coins' allure to criminals.…
Citrix has built a browser, and lost a CEO
Chrome, Edge, and Opera can rest easy – this one's designed just to run virtual apps Citrix already manages Citrix has created a web browser and lost its CEO.…
Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated systemd
Three bootloaders offered – natch – plus lots of desktop love, and a warning of some exim oddities The team of self-described "veteran Unix admins" who opposed Debian's adoption of systemd instead of sysvinit init, have released a fourth version of their alternative Linux distro, "Devuan".…
Client-side content scanning as an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy
Hopefully we're still listening to experts Fourteen of the world's leading computer security and cryptography experts have released a paper arguing against the use of client-side scanning because it creates security and privacy risks.…
Enthusiasts dash for RISC-V computer with GPU
Want one? Too late It seems computers without an ARM or x86 chip are in serious demand in the RISC-V community.…
TSMC's post-pandemic future in a world short of chips? New factories, more revenue
It's not all bad news for some Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has a clear vision of its post-pandemic reality: more demand for chips, and even more profits from it.…
LinkedIn shutting down in China after mounting government pressure to censor social media content
Try InJobs instead! All the fun of a résumé and no comments allowed LinkedIn is shuttering its social networking service in China as it faces mounting pressure to comply with the country’s strict censorship rules, it announced on Thursday.…
WhatsApp's got your back(ups) with encryption for stored messages
Global messaging giant extends security and privacy to Google Drive and Apple iCloud Facebook's WhatsApp on Thursday began a global rollout of end-to-end (E2E) encryption for message backups, which offers Android and iOS users with the ability to protect WhatsApp messages stored in Google Drive and Apple iCloud.…
Google's VirusTotal reports that 95% of ransomware spotted targets Windows
Criminals follow the money, code flaws Google's VirusTotal service showing that 95 per cent of ransomware malware identified by its systems targets Windows.…
Ubuntu 21.10 brings GNOME 40 debut and a focus on devs
Also: Why Canonical thinks Ubuntu GUI on Windows 11 matters Ubuntu 21.10 comes out today, an interim release with nine months of support, and the first to use GNOME 40 for the desktop.…
3D printing site Thingiverse suffers breach of 228,000 email addresses amid sluggish disclosure
So says Have I Been Pwned's maintainer - but site claims breach only impacted 'handful of users' Update Thingiverse, a site that hosts free-to-use 3D printer designs, has suffered a data breach – and at least 228,000 unlucky users' email addresses have been circulating on black-hat crime forums.…
Azure Emissions Dashboard shows how you and Microsoft are slowly killing the planet with your cloud workloads
Here's an even cheerier thought – it requires a Power BI Pro subscription Microsoft has made its Emissions Impact Dashboard - formerly known as Sustainability Calculator and designed to measure the carbon impact of cloud workloads - generally available.…
FTC carpet bombs industry with letters warning that fake reviews will be punished
The Register is an amazing website, simply one of the very best out there. Extremely cool people. 10/10 US companies ranging from Amazon to Applebee's, Google to Gap, IBM to IHOP, and Microsoft to McDonald's have received warnings from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about fake reviews and misleading endorsements.…
Bad news, AMD fans: This week's Windows 11 update didn't fix your performance woes (they may be worse)
A new patch next week might Windows 11 received its first bundle of fixes this week, but AMD users hoping for respite from performance issues that have dogged their PCs were to be disappointed. In fact, for some, performance might have actually got a bit worse.…
Want a piece of GitLab? It's going to cost you: IPO price per share settles at $77
One-stop shop all the way to the bank The one-stop shop approach by DevOps darling GitLab appears to have attracted an Initial Public Offering price of $77, giving the loss-making biz a potential valuation of $11bn…
Nine floors underground, Oracle's Israel data centre can 'withstand a rocket, a missile or even a car bomb'
New cloud region able to hold out against attacks due to regional instability Oracle has opened a data centre in Israel which it claims is able to withstand rocket attacks to ensure continued resilience in the troubled state.…
'Father of the Xbox' Seamus Blackley issues Twitter apology to AMD over last-minute switch to Intel CPUs
AMD had the last laugh – their kit is in both PlayStation and Xbox these days One of the developers of the original Xbox has apologised for jilting AMD at the altar ahead of the games console's launch 20 years ago.…
Sharing medical records with researchers: Assumed consent works in theory – just not yet in practice
The UK shows us how not to run an opt-out approach Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers and experts go head to head on 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.…
As UK-based Civo's Kubernetes service goes live, boss claims the big cloud rivals are overpriced
'There's a misconception in the industry that hyperscalers are cheap' Interview Civo, a cloud provider based in Hertfordshire, has made its flavour of K3s Kubernetes generally available, with the claim that a usable cluster can be fired up in 90 seconds.…
Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E
Thanks Windows! Now this is the kind of hospital data-sharing we like to see... Bork!Bork!Bork! There may be no better place for Windows to seek comfort in desperate times than the UK's National Health Service (NHS) – and sure enough a good old fashioned blue screen of death has popped up an A&E waiting room.…
LAN cables can be sniffed to reveal network traffic with a $30 setup, says researcher
What's a long length of electrical wire? A transmitter, of course An Israeli researcher has demonstrated that LAN cables' radio frequency emissions can be read by using a $30 off-the-shelf setup, potentially opening the door to fully developed cable-sniffing attacks.…
Google adds VM support to Anthos, admits not everyone is ready for containerised everything
VMware will love this – it works by connecting to vSphere or by managing VMs with Anthos Google has added support for workloads running in virtual machines to its Anthos hybrid Kubernetes platform.…
Acer expands its antimicrobial PC offerings – with caveat they may not offer any protection
Because digital viruses aren't the only ones we're worried about right now With both Windows 11 and a new generation of Intel silicon upon us, big PC-makers are unveiling this year's models.…
US invites friends to multilateral cybersecurity meetings – Russia and China strangely absent
Perps not welcome at anti-ransomware gabfest that Biden admin would rather portray as bold infosec alliance The United States has kicked off meetings attended by representatives of nations that all hope to address the scourge of ransomware – without Russia or China in the room.…
Ad-blocking browser extension actually adds ads, say Imperva researchers
Oi, Google: how did this get past your review process? And Imperva: why does your web page offer to install software? Security vendor Imperva’s research labs have found a browser extension that claims to block ads, but actually injects them into Chrome or Opera.…
Indian government promises One Portal To Rule Them all in support of colossal infrastructure build
What could possibly go wrong on a project with vast scope, many stakeholders with different agendas, and an assumption of prompt data sharing? India's government yesterday announced a massive new wave of infrastructure investment, and a portal it says will ensure co-ordination among multiple government departments so that new builds avoid overlap with other plans and contribute to a national modernisation drive.…
Apple warns sideloading iOS apps will ruin everything
Opening the iOS ecosystem to competition would harm security and privacy, company says Analysis Apple, besieged by regulators and rivals challenging its exclusive control over its iOS App Store, has published a 31-page defense of its ostensibly benevolent monopoly that warns of disastrous consequences if Cupertino is forced to allow competition.…
Former Intel AI boss Naveen Rao is now counting the cost of machine learning, literally
MosaicMLdelving into the details A former head of artificial intelligence products at Intel has started a company to help companies cut overhead costs on AI systems.…
Report: Apple short of 10 million iPhone 13s this year due to ongoing chip shortage
Broadcomm,Texas Instruments, and more buckling under supply crisis Apple may be short of hitting its annual iPhone 13 handset production target by ten million units due to current global chip shortages.…
Amazon India accused of copying merchant products and juicing search results to sell its own knockoffs
Report claims documents show employees abusing access When asked in July, 2020, by US Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) whether Amazon ever mined data from its third-party vendors to launch competing products, founder and then CEO Jeff Bezos said he couldn't answer "yes" or "no," but insisted Amazon had rules disallowing the practice.…
AlmaLinux Foundation chair says he stepped down to highlight value of community status
Close ties with CloudLinux remain, including former chair as 'guest attendee' at board meetings Igor Seletskiy, the founder of the AlmaLinux distro created in December 2020 as an alternative to CentOS, has explained that he stepped down as chair of the AlmaLinux Foundation in an effort to strengthen its community status - though his company still dominates the board.…
Shatner breaks the age barrier, goes where no nonagenarian has gone before with Blue Origin rocket trip
Gives classic monologue upon landing Four travelers successfully flew to the edge of space and back on Blue Origin’s second commercial spaceflight including William Shatner, making the 90-year-old Star Trek actor the oldest person to leave Earth yet.…
Judge in UK rules Amazon Ring doorbell audio recordings breach data protection laws
Relax, this isn't a binding precedent - but it puts down a marker A judge in England has ruled that an Amazon Ring doorbell's functions broke the Data Protection Act after a neighbour dispute, over claims of a gang of armed robbers trying to steal an Audi, ended up in court.…
Electric car makers ready to jump into battery recycling amid stuttering supply chains
It's better to get lithium from used batteries than from the ground, says Elon Musk Car makers are electrifying fleets at such a pace that battery makers can't keep up. So Tesla, GM, Ford and others are investing in battery recycling to cut costs and mitigate risks posed by an erratic international supply chain.…
James Webb Space Telescope completes its voyage to French Guiana
Only a million or so miles to go The multinational James Webb Space Telescope – named after a former NASA administrator – has arrived in French Guiana, home to Europe's Spaceport, with launch finally in sight.…
Is that a meteor crashing to Earth? No, it's Chromebook makers coming back to reality
US market – where 70% Chromies are sold – nears saturation The march of the Chromebook looks to be over for now, at least in the United States, as consumers and students had their fill during the pandemic and are now buying far fewer machines.…
For Dell, being edgy now means single-node HCI without virtual storage, and rugged laptops
Is it really hyperconverged if it has vSphere but not VSAN? Big Mike says 'yes' Dell has made a play for the edge, with pretty much the same stuff it offers in most other places.…
Soaring cloud division turns things around for SAP after annus horribilis that was 2020
Remember those car-crash results in Q3 a year ago? No repeat collision this time round A year after outlining horrific calendar Q3 financials that caused the share price to crash by €28bn, SAP had no nasty surprises up its sleeves this time.…
Microsoft .NET updates include C and C++ code in Blazor WebAssembly, release date for Visual Studio 2022
Just don't mention WPF Microsoft has come up with its usual monthly splurge of .NET news, including the ability to compile native dependencies into Blazor WebAssembly, and a release date of 8 November for Visual Studio 2022.…
Ex-camera biz Olympus investigating 'suspicious' network activity again a month after ransomware hit
Plus: Extortionist gang threatens victims who talk to the press Olympus, the Japanese company once known for making cameras, is investigating "suspicious" activity on its networks again – a month after those same networks were ravaged by ransomware.…
Microsoft slices Windows 11 update size by 40% (no, not by cutting hardware support)
Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to reverse this delta Microsoft is boasting of how it reckons to have reduced the size of Windows 11 updates. Surprisingly "cutting hardware support" didn't feature.…
Want to deploy a new Windows VM on Microsoft Azure? Today might not be your lucky day
Users running non-Windows VMs or existing deployment not affected It is shaping up to be a Black Wednesday for providers of online services after Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines users suffered lingering near-global glitches that prevented them from spinning up new Windows-based systems.…
Macintosh Classic II and triceratops skull on auction: One's a dinosaur, the other has three horns on its face
Christie's 'Science and Natural History' collection isn't joking when it says it's 'a journey in time' Is the NFT craze dead yet? Right, good, then we can return to a cool auction world where the well-heeled can get their mitts on rather more tangible relics from tech history.…
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