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Absolutely Fabless: A good year for those who don't make the things themselves 2021 was a fabulous year for the largest global fabless chip designers, thanks to ongoing global chip shortage that caused silicon prices to spike, according to a new report from TrendForce.…

Major spec refresh includes 600 watt connector for GPUs Intel has detailed new ATX power supply unit (PSU) specifications that it says are designed to support the demands of upcoming PCIe Gen-5 graphics cards, while also delivering greater efficiency.…

Small, self-described sample, sure. But results show shifts over time Never mind what enterprise programmers are trained to do, a self-defined set of hackers has its own programming language zeitgeist, one that apparently changes with the wind, at least according to the relatively small set surveyed.…

Reports suggest Digital Markets Act could hit a broader sweep of players than the FAANG gang The European Union is to launch a legislative process that is set to enforce greater competition among the leading digital platform providers.…

Bored of the bleeding edge? Come over and be bored in beta instead Windows Insiders weary of life on the bleeding edge can now opt for a more stable existence as the Dev and Beta channels briefly synchronize.…

That's no quadcopter... that's a... cooling system? Apple's latest and greatest – the Mac Studio – has come under the gaze of teardown merchants, iFixit. The good news? There might be hope for storage swappers. The bad news? Everything else.…

Info of those signing up to be soldiers leaked, as sources finger Capita-run system Exclusive The UK Ministry of Defence has suspended online application and support services for the British Army's Capita-run Defence Recruitment System and confirmed to us that digital intruders compromised some data held on would-be soldiers.…

Investment sentiment for S/4HANA drops off while public cloud hosting only two per cent of environments Investment sentiment in S/4HANA, SAP's in-memory ERP platform, is falling for the first time among the software giant's German-speaking users.…

Multiple systems remain down as spokesperson confirms 'security incident' was cyber attack Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University has entered a second week of woe following a vist by an infosec nasty.…

Regulators worry about financial stability if binary Baht spread Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Wednesday a ban on using cryptocurrencies and other digital assets as a means of making payments.…

Thank you, Stephen E. Wilhite for your seminal image format, and John Roach for your pioneering microcomputer Two important figures in computing industry have died.…

Evolving threat environment means preventative AI – and SmartNICs – are needed to improve protection GTC Check Point Software has put Nvidia GPUs and artificial intelligence techniques to work across its broad portfolio of security tools in order to address and adapt better to an increasingly sophisticated and rapidly changing threat environment.…

Will bring bots to workflow users, perhaps not with the same precision RPA specialists muster Workflow specialist ServiceNow has announced a heavy emphasis on robotic process automation (RPA) in the next release of its platform, to get aging applications working with each other in a more user-friendly fashion.…

Back to the drawing board for company plagued by years of scandals Toshiba's shareholders have rejected both the company's plan to split into two companies and a proposal to look for a private buyer.…

Plans more SaaS and PaaS, and to stop selling IaaS at a loss Tencent has decided to stop spending whatever it takes to increase its cloud revenue.…

25 per cent CAGR will see $87 billion a year spent by 2026, says Canalys Mainland China's cloud infrastructure services market – covering both infrastructure as-a-service and platform as-a-service – is expected to grow to $84.7 billion by 2026, according to market analyst firm Canalys.…

CEO tells The Reg of new branding ahead of Finnish vendor's corporate split F-Secure's enterprise-facing business will have a new brand – WithSecure – and a sharpened focus when the company splits into two independent operations.…

Big Blue efforts to protect sensitive docs thwarted by mass of litigants Confidential IBM documents presented in court as evidence to support claims Big Blue systematically shed older workers – documents subsequently placed under seal – have now publicly surfaced in one of the many ongoing age discrimination lawsuits against the IT giant.…

Gelsinger also confirms he's ended multi-billion share-buyback scheme Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on Wednesday urged US Congress yet again to pass $52 billion in funding swiftly to boost America's semiconductor industry – and said Wall Street's negative response to his costly manufacturing expansion plan is proof Intel is worthy of the subsidies.…

Matching TSMC is not for the faint of heart, though, Huang warns GTC Nvidia is considering expanding its supplier base by getting at least some of its chips made in Intel factories.…

Miscreants can exploit these to make a bad situation much worse VMware has patched two security flaws, an OS command injection vulnerability and a file upload hole, in its Carbon Black App Control security product running on Windows.…

Cyber-souk offered bundle deals of account access and credit card info, says Uncle Sam A Russian national was indicted in the US on Tuesday for allegedly running an online marketplace selling access to credit card, shopping, and web payment accounts belonging to tens of thousands of victims.…

As in encryption, not coins, thankfully IBM has unveiled a cloud-based key management service that should make it easier for organizations to manage encryption keys across complex multi-cloud hybrid environments, as well as on-premises.…

Have a break, don't have any more KitKat, junk food giant also tells Russia Nestlé, which is to stop selling KitKats and other brands in Russia, says corporate data leaked online this week by Anonymous was not stolen nor all that useful.…

Agreement could simplify demands for potential evidence, leaves real-time surveillance unaddressed The US and Canada said on Wednesday that representatives are negotiating an agreement to apply the CLOUD Act to law enforcement operations that reach across their respective borders.…

Amazon, Pepsi, Siemens and more go for digitally twinned ops GTC Nvidia is investing mightily in the concept of "digital twins" or large-scale simulations that illuminate real-world processes. This week at the company's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) they demonstrated how several high-profile companies are bringing digital twins into production via their all-encompassing Omniverse hardware and software platforms.…

No one should be using long-dead protocol so it's gotta go The Samba project just released version 4.16, and with it parts of the veteran SMB 1 file-sharing protocol are being permanently removed.…

High valuation just weeks out of stealth for browser in business control A startup pitching an "enterprise browser" hit unicorn status only weeks after emerging from stealth.…

Increases inbound for Musk's satellite Internet service and his Falcon rockets Prices are rising for customers of both Elon Musk's Starlink Internet service and his SpaceX rockets, with "excessive levels of inflation" to blame.…

Another year, another batch of record-setting cybercrime losses The FBI's latest yearly cybercrime report is bad news for those of us trying to stay safe: The criminals continue to have a leg up, leading to record financial losses.…

Claims it has cracked the scalability problem with incoming H100 GTC If you're training a large deep learning model, and you want it to train it faster, you should just throw more GPUs at it, right? Well, that works for a while, but there is actually a limit to the amount of proportional performance you can expect from adding additional GPUs in a server cluster.…

Remember when orgs were worried about processing sensitive info in public cloud? Microsoft has linked up with Nvidia to enable confidential computing in its Azure cloud to encompass the graphics giant's GPUs. This will allow GPUs to process workloads on Azure that call for the highest level of protection, such as applications in healthcare or financial services.…

GitHub algorithm seeks to improve discovery. Developers disagree. GitHub has introduced a new feed into the dashboard of users and it doesn't appear to have gone down well with the code shack's regulars.…

Of course it's still making money hand over fist, but there's an actual number to put on war's effect on big tech Adobe had a great first quarter this year, but the real news is the losses it is predicting due to the Russo-Ukraine war, which finally gives us a sense of the financial impact of Russian pullouts on big tech.…

But judge encourages government to pursue criminal or civil charges against the company Chinese telecoms kit maker ZTE is being allowed to end its five-year probation period in the US that resulted from its admission to violating trade sanctions in 2017.…

'It has completely distorted the way we speak to each other,' says Swift and Rust boffin Aria Beingessner, a member of the teams that implemented both Rust and Swift, has an interesting new take on some of those (and other) language's problems – that C isn't a programming language anymore.…

The project lives on as part of the ISS – but for how much longer? Today marks 21 years since Russia's space station, Mir, returned to Earth.…

Aim for prevention rather than outrunning this malware Ransomware moves more quickly than most organizations can respond. Though knowing they have a specific limited window should help inform where to put their defenses, according to security data shop Splunk.…

Why use 20 systems when one will do Microsoft is replacing at least some of its natural-language processing systems with a more efficient class of AI model.…

Which could be useful for people writing code to run across CPUs, GPUs, etc GTC Nvidia said the lines are blurring between the standard C++ and Nv's CUDA C++ library when it comes to parallel execution of code.…

As England's controversial scheme to grab 55 million citizen's medical data is withdrawn, emergency powers are extended Concerns are being raised over UK government proposals to extend emergency powers introduced during the pandemic, giving it access to patient data held by general practitioners (GPs).…

Short-term release includes Simple Web Server, pattern matching for switch expressions, and more Oracle's Java 18 development environment has hit the streets, with Big Red promising nine enhancements including the ability to add sample source code to API documentation.…

And it's right more often than rapid antigen tests An Australian software developer claims to have created a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by listening to a user's coughs.…

Still won't let Hong Kong buyers use terms Beijing may not appreciate Apple has stopped political censorship of terms that buyers choose to have engraved onto its products in Taiwan – but has kept the policy in both mainland China and Hong Kong, leading an academic research group to wonder whether Apple does not fully understand its own censorship policies and applications, or is bowing to Beijing's wishes.…

Russia is Putin together plans to create its own versions of banned products and local business is promising to buy Between 50,000 and 70,000 Russian IT professionals have left the country in recent weeks, and more plan to follow, according to the Russian Association of Electronic Communications – an organization that promotes online businesses.…

Plus: Microsoft reveals gang pulled off limited source code heist after single account compromised Identity management as-a-service platform Okta says the Lapsus$ extortion gang may in fact have managed to see some of its customers' data, and Microsoft has admitted the crew got its grubby paws on some source code.…

China's smartphone and IoT gadget champ says it might even see a glut by 2023 Chinese smartphones-and-more manufacturer Xiaomi believes its silicon supply chain will return to normal in the second half of 2022 – and by next year it may even have an embarrassment of riches to consider when it shops for components.…

We wonder how deep this rabbit hole will go GTC Nvidia teased several updates to its Morpheus AI security framework at GTC this week, and also announced it would make the application framework generally available in April.…

It's just a business expense at this point Apple has just been assessed a ninth fine of €5m ($5.5m) in the Netherlands for failing to allow Dutch dating apps to process transactions using a third-party payment service, as required by the European country's competition watchdog.…

Everything from molecular structure to freezer distribution involved ML, says tech chief GTC AI algorithms were involved in every step of the way to design and deliver Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine and antiviral tablets to hundreds of millions of people as coronavirus spread around the world.…