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Now with an extra layer of extreme ultraviolet Samsung has announced it's fired up mass production of DDR5 DRAM built using five-layer extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV).…

Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS Google Android devices transmit telemetry data while idle, even when users have opted out, according to study conducted earlier this year by Trinity College Dublin computer scientist Douglas Leith.…

Astronomers will be searching for clues on how the Solar System formed NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set to embark on its 12-year tour, traveling almost four billion miles, to visit eight asteroids near Jupiter during its mission to reveal the Solar System’s origins.…

Two faults, around $2bn to pay LG Electronics will pay a minimum of $1.9bn to General Motors after defective batteries it supplied for the car maker's Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles caused car fires.…

With 71 new CVEs, there are patches enough for everyone Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday has arrived with fixes for 71 new CVEs, two patch revisions to address bugs from previous months that just won't die, and three CVEs tied to OpenSSL flaws. That's in addition to eight Edge-Chromium CVEs dealt with earlier this month.…

'So sorry' says Microsoft Identity VP – but its unhelpful support systems will be hard to fix Interview Konstantin Gizdov, an IT professional, was locked out of his Microsoft account by a bug in the company's Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), but says support refused to acknowledge the bug or recover his account.…

Chip crunch pulls focus AI chip startups are thinking more about bang-for-the-buck on their processors amid a historic semiconductor shortage and rising prices of silicon.…

Reg reader sighs at 'Orwellian gig economy' sums Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has responded to last week's breach of its source code by increasing bug bounty pay-outs from $3,000 to $5,000, sources have told The Register.…

Tech breakdown and proof-of-concept code is already out there If you're using an iPhone, install the iOS 15.0.2 update immediately: Apple has warned that the latest OS upgrade patches an "actively exploited" zero-day.…

Legal action aims to give players a say in how data about them is traded A group of footballers – soccer players for US readers – are set to launch legal action over what they consider to be the unauthorised use of their personal and performance data.…

And warehouse staff, data centre engineers, retail staffers? 'Thanks for your dedication' but no flexible work for you Amazon says team leaders will determine when white collar workers return to the office and how many days they’ll be expected to be in.…

Yes the same mega-org at centre of Facebook data centre trade secrets spat Mega conglomerate Emerson will buy a majority stake in asset optimisation software biz AspenTech and merge its software units with the firm in an $11bn deal.…

Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says Baroness Dido Harding's tenure as head of NHS Test and Trace – a vital plank of the UK's COVID-19 pandemic response – has been given a damning verdict by a committee of MPs.…

Google Cloud Next '21 brings Distributed Edge, emissions metrics, and a Cybersecurity Action Team Google is taking its cloud platform to the network's edge while aiming to arm customers with data about the damage their compute workloads are doing to the Earth's atmosphere.…

Have you tried reading books? Facebook-owned Instagram is to start testing a new feature which informs users they may not be able to post or view snaps of dinner, memes, selfies, or whatever it is people are interested in showing off to others because the service is broken.…

Who really benefits from 'secondary use' of your medical data? 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.…

It's what The Chef would want Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork is taking a trip back to its spiritual home with yet another warning for administrators who fail to attend to their flock of Windows PCs.…

Usernames and passwords could be read (and abused) by anyone in since fixed flaw An email marketing company claiming to hold details on a million UK teachers and school admin personnel was potentially exposing those to the public internet thanks to a misconfigured error page on its website.…

Outsourcing giant Wipro secures a spot among others Wipro is among the tech suppliers on a £500m housing association framework agreement which is expected to flex to meet the needs of legislation resulting from the tragic Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in a high rise London block.…

Turkeys on tables, petrol in cars, chips in 'puters, etc... or that's the idea, anyway The UK has appointed Sir David Lewis, formerly the CEO of Tesco, as the government's supply chain adviser.…

WSL will still be baked in if you want it – but Redmond wants you to get it from the Store Microsoft has revealed a new version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – in the form of an app you acquire from the Microsoft Store. And the software giant will steer WSL users to this new version in future.…

Policies pushing local vendors help, as does huge investment in AI Chines buyers are spending up big on storage, servers, and security, according to reports by International Data Corporation (IDC) released this week.…

PC-and-server-slinger planned to invest in R&D and bolster capital, says everything's fine without that boost The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has withdrawn approval for Lenovo's listing on the bourse.…

Big Tech's Australian lobby responds with more governance for its disinformation suppression code Big Tech's Australian lobby has "bolstered the governance" of The Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation, after the nation's Prime Minister and Deputy PM both lashed Facebook and Twitter for doing too little to prevent anonymous trolls.…

It could help us find more exoplanets far out in the universe Astronomers may have stumbled upon four exoplanets when surveying distant red dwarf stars using only low-frequency radio waves.…

MT-NLG is a beast that fed on over 4,000 GPUs Nvidia and Microsoft announced their largest monolithic transformer language model to date, an AI model with a whopping 530 billion parameters they developed together, named the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model.…

Cybersecurity Advisors Network gets backing from Bugcrowd, infosec luminaries, even the OECD Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN), the Paris-based body that represents infosec pros, has created a new working group to advocate for legislation that stops vendors from suing when security researchers show them zero-day bugs in their kit.…

Chocolate Factory says its fingerprinting spec is unfinished Google's Privacy Budget, a plan to reduce the amount of information available in Chrome as a defense against browser fingerprinting, runs the risk of performing poorly, of breaking websites, and of creating a new tracking mechanism.…

Figma dominating Adobe XD in UIs A survey of Jamstack developers shows rising use and popularity for cloud functions and the TypeScript programming language - along with a warning for entrenched content management system WordPress.…

Chatham House speech targets non-state baddies as well as grey zone and nation states A new national cyber strategy will be launched by year-end, the National Cyber Security Centre's chief exec has promised – while calling out spyware vendor NSO Group as a "red flag" for the UK infosec community.…

Or should that be the community's issues with Microsoft? Analysis .NET Foundation executive director Claire Novotny resigned last week, but board member Shawn Wildermuth said that this did not solve "issues with the community" on which the foundation will now focus.…

Ok, time to call death to PC again? No, definitely not. Did we mention prices due to go up again? Global PC shipments are still expanding but the pace was more moderate in calendar Q3 following a US slowdown in spending caused by the gridlock in the supply chain.…

'Oxidizer and moisture interactions' blamed for iffy spaceship valves NASA and Boeing have put a brave face on things following the choice to send a pair of 'nauts to the ISS with SpaceX's Crew Dragon instead of Starliner, and are insisting Boeing's capsule will launch in the first half of next year.…

Proposed law could 'erode trust and confidence' in healthcare England's National Data Guardian has warned that government plans to allow data sharing between NHS bodies and the police could "erode trust and confidence" in doctors and other healthcare providers.…

Plus two failings this week at Apache and Twitch and nostalgia for Flash fans In brief Hipster beer maker Brewdog has been caught out by a basic, but potentially very expensive, security problem, and the team that discovered it says the Scottish tipple-merchant's response was hardly encouraging.…

If assumed consent is informed consent, it’s individuals who benefit 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.…

Zucks to lose your #HugOps Opinion At the time of writing, it has been exactly 100 hours since Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp crept back out of the void onto the internet*. They'd been gone for six hours – or seven billion dollars, if you measure out your life by Zuck's net worth, which we don't recommend.…

Pen-testers, rogue developers, dodgy hosters, etc. etc. Feature This summer, Abnormal Security discovered that some of its customers' staff were receiving emails inviting them to install ransomware on a company computer in return for a $1m share of the "profits".…

Yet another things that was really not better in the old days Who, Me? Facebook went down and Twitch flashed its privates last week thanks to alleged config cockups. However, who among us has not suffered the stomach-dropping fear that follows the ill-advised submission of a seemingly innocuous command?…

Working to have vSphere provide a memory service that tiers pages, claims hardware TCO boost of 30 to 50 per cent VMware is working on a software-defined memory effort and thinks it could lead to the creation of "memory servers" – boxes full of memory that can be shared across a cluster.…

DRAM drama or pricing karma? Whatever your view, kinked supply chains aren't helping The world's fourth-largest memory maker, Taiwan's Nanya Technology Corporation, has predicted a price "correction" in late 2021.…

Judge ordered Cupertino to stop steering users to its payments platform and Apple wants that paused, then erased Apple has appealed one of its disputes against Epic Games, despite having mostly won the case.…

Docs were smuggled past security and sold for $110K of Monero after ProtonMail exchanges between 'Alice and 'Bob' The United States Department of Justice has announced a leak of information pertaining to the design of the nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarine, and the arrest of the alleged leakers.…

Plus: DeepMind makes its first profit... by selling to its stablemates In brief Clearview AI says it has scraped more than 10 billion photographs from people’s public social media accounts for its controversial facial-recognition tool.…

'We don’t host the content of the websites at issue' Cloudflare is not liable for any copyright infringement for content hosted on websites its content-delivery network supports, a US federal judge ruled this week.…

Let's see how the world's largest companies wriggle out of this one The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has finalized a plan on global tax laws that could lead to Big Tech paying more in taxes no matter where they operate.…

Brave of Zuckerberg to switch to a three-day working week The Facebook empire on Friday experienced some aftershocks after its massive Monday outage, leaving some netizens unable to use its apps and websites as expected.…

Definitely not another sub, oh no sir A US nuclear submarine has "struck an object" while submerged in the South China Sea – and the US Navy is insisting that it wasn't a Chinese submarine.…

Now they just have to make it work... Venture capital firms are pouring billions into quantum computing companies, hedging bets that the technology will pay off big time some day.…

Weird all Jorvik Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork – our column of reader-submitted unhappy displays – is celebrating 30 years of Microsoft Money this month with an example of why Windows, .NET and ATMs do not make good bedfellows.…