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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W3Y0)
Silicon giant still not saying what it will mean in the real world Intel has revealed it plans to have its mysterious plans for software-defined silicon delivered in the next version of the Linux kernel.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5W2G4)
Ban of Chrome extension by Brave reveals risk of potential API abuse at Meta Updated Brave this week said it is blocking the installation of a popular Chrome extension called L.O.C. because it exposes users' Facebook data to potential theft.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5W2CZ)
Flaw imperils Safari – and every iOS browser because of Cupertino's T&Cs Apple on Thursday patched a zero-day security vulnerability in its WebKit browser engine, issuing updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W29E)
Showers of work for admins Microsoft has dropped a gentle reminder that the clock is ticking for older versions of Visual Studio.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5W27V)
Best plug HiveNightmare if you haven't already, unless you like new admins The US government has added 15 vulns under active attack to a little-known but very useful public database: its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W25Y)
Don't fancy paying for a Google sub after cutoff date? Pay Microsoft instead Microsoft has responded to Google's plan to shift users of G Suite's "legacy free edition" to paid subscriptions with the offer of a 60 per cent discount on a year of Microsoft 365.…
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Silicon giant thinks there's real money to be made in the web metaverse 3.0 chain hype Later this year Intel will start selling a chip designed to mine Bitcoin as it rushes into the digital transactions market.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W20D)
Not very 'world-beating' Optical-fibre internet now makes up 32 per cent of fixed broadband subscriptions across the OECD countries, and is the fastest growing broadband technology. However, there is a mixed picture with cable still dominant in the Americas and the UK still predominantly DSL.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5W1XB)
ICO and CMA say they will oversee cookie-free adtech product British competition regulators have accepted promises by Google that its cookie-killing Privacy Sandbox project won't shut other adtech companies out of the market.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5W1XC)
Pedestrian warning systems in 578,607 cars affected, including model S, X and Y An external speaker function in 578,607 Teslas will be disabled by the electric vehicle manufacturer this month after the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it interfered with safety standards.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5W1TR)
Don't get too excited, filesystem fans – there are limits ZFS has been around for 16 years and has a solid reputation, but it does have limitations compared to its rivals. One of these is in the process of being lifted: soon it will be possible to add space to an existing ZFS array. As long as you're using FreeBSD, anyway.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5W1R9)
NAO says £263m in IR35 tax mistakes is just the start... UK IT contractors have been given no guidance on how to claw back tax erroneously taken by employers under IR35 rules, which already cost central government bodies £263m when they failed to correctly adhere to the guidelines.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5W1NW)
Suggests accounting'n'umbrella firm didn't pay ransom What appears to be stolen data belonging to customers of accounting conglomerate Optionis Group has surfaced on the dark web weeks after the firm confirmed intruders had broken into its systems.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5W1M0)
Ex-IBMer leaves behind no clear plan for sprawling legacy estate Former IBM and Home Office tech supremo Joanna Davinson is set to stand down as the UK government's chief digital officer, leaving the Cabinet Office with no one to wrangle its unmanaged legacy estate.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5W1M1)
It’s amazing [thud] I don’t even [thud] have to watch the road [thud] Something for the Weekend? Er… a lamppost, some clouds and… whoah, another car! Screeeeeee.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W1FV)
For those times when being On Call means more than just cycling the power On Call Sometimes some systems just have to work, and there is always a Register reader to save the day. Welcome to On Call.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5W1D1)
Neither party is willing to talk about the operating model Singapore is getting its first sovereign cloud, thanks to a partnership between the Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) and Microsoft that was signed into existence on Thursday.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W1C1)
We're shocked, shocked to find unjustified collection and access is going on in here Two US senators have gone public with evidence of what they assert is a previously secret bulk data collection effort by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), conducted outside the law and without oversight.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5W1AJ)
Amid much droning on about self-sufficiency, components will still be able to cross the border India wants to promote locally-made drones, so has banned almost all imports of the aircraft, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced on Wednesday.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W17Q)
Lithography titan ASML names DongFang JingYuan Electron as a worry The world's top manufacturer of lithography equipment, Dutch company Advanced Semiconductor Materials International (ASML), has warned that it believes a Chinese company may be selling chipmaking equipment that infringes its intellectual property rights.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5W15Y)
Coming out party for Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and independent cable builder and operator Inligo Networks have signed a memorandum of understanding to construct an 18,000km submarine cable linking Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, Japan, and the US.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5W14X)
The slogan 'Privacy is built in' was more an aspiration until now Apple on Thursday said it is modifying its AirTag tracking devices to prevent them from being used for the wrong sort of tracking.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5W0ZJ)
A whole different kettle of phish For the past decade, unidentified miscreants have been planting incriminating evidence on the devices of human-rights advocates, lawyers, and academics in India seemingly to get them arrested.…
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While Nvidia loses an Arm, this acquisition has legs AMD on Tuesday said it has passed all the regulatory hurdles to complete its $35bn acquisition of Xilinx, which will close on Monday.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5W0TG)
How to get nothing for something SaaS CRM provider Salesforce has proposed to launch a platform for trading non-fungible tokens (NFTs).…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5W0KR)
But should free tier users in universities not invest in their own IT infrastructure? Educational users of Google Workspace will soon be facing a new storage policy that limits the free tier to 100TB shared between all users at a site, and some are expressing their dissatisfaction with the change.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5W0KS)
Easier observability for when you have eggs in many baskets Application monitoring outfit Dynatrace has extended its platform's support for serverless architectures to cover all the major cloud platforms, providing observability for developers working with multi-cloud application deployments.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5W0GM)
€1.9bn goodwill writedown, another profit warning, going to focus on cloud, digital and security from now on The bad news keeps rolling for Atos after its third financial warning in eight months, this time accompanied by confirmation the French integrator will start to lessen its focus on "classic infrastructure services" and unified comms in favour of the cloud.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5W0E2)
Unnamed website manager given 1 month to strip GA from his site French data protection authority CNIL has declared that Google Analytics breaches Euro privacy law the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) because it transfers European netizens' data to America.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5W0BD)
Big Zoomer is listening to us, complain users Apple Mac users running the Zoom meetings app are reporting that it's keeping their computer's microphone on when they aren't using it.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W0BE)
Pick a language, any language (from a list of 38) Fancy some Windows 365 Cloud PC in your life, but less than keen on throwing yourself into the world of Azure infrastructure? Microsoft has added AD Join as a Cloud PC join type option.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#5W08X)
Operations at Yokkaichi and Kitakami affected Production at Kioxia and Western Digital's 3D NAND fabrication facilities in Japan is being disrupted by chemical contamination, with at least 6.5 exabytes of capacity lost.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5W06W)
Historical drama as Cabinet Office crowns Crown Hosting Data Centres The UK government's Cabinet Office is seeking to negotiate a new agreement for hosting services for public-sector customers, but appears set to award the contract to its own joint venture with Ark Data Centres.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5W04R)
Party like it's 2007 Wafer builders have just enjoyed their best year since 2007, according to industry body SEMI.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5W04S)
Plucky probe exceeded expectations. What's your excuse for that keyboard? Recent photos from NASA's Mars InSight lander demonstrate that even the Register readers' filthiest PCs cannot compare to the effects of Martian dust.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5W036)
Questions remain over whether Surrey's £3.2m budget increase will avoid further delay A Surrey councillor has slammed his county council's £1bn-budget effort to replace its ERP system, describing it as "inept project management."…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5W00B)
Opinion so controversial the Party may have had it pulled A report from a major Chinese research university has asserted that China currently trails the US's technological prowess, and that progress towards matching its rival will be slowed by the current "decoupling" of the two nations. That opinion appears to have proven so controversial that the research paper expressing it has been taken down by the the institution that published the document, possibly after pressure from on high.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5VZYY)
Internal letter reveals detailed strategy for combining with TIBCO can wait until deal is done Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital, the two private equiteers behind the plan to take Citrix private and merge it with TIBCO have given assurances to Citrix staff their benefits aren't in immediate peril – but warned workers on H-1B visas they'll likely face a review…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5VZWC)
Warns that foreign interference needs more attention than terrorism Nations running online foreign influence campaigns have turned to dating apps to recruit people privy to sensitive information, according to the director general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the nation's security agency directed against external threats and a key partner in the Five Eyes security alliance.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5VZVK)
Vietnam, India, Philippines set to outpace Middle Kingdom China's tech market growth will slow from 9.7 per cent in 2021 to 8.2 per cent in 2022, in large part thanks to the Middle Kingdom's zero-COVID strategy, analyst firm Forrester predicted in a report released this week.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5VZSM)
Won't say why world's fastest-growing region doesn't deserve its own management nor detail impact on customers Data management and protection software vendor CommVault has merged its Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region into its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5VZRM)
Video killed the radio star, pictures came and broke your car In January, drivers of older model Mazdas in the area around Seattle, Washington, started seeing their HD Radio receivers crash upon tuning to the local public radio station.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5VZMZ)
Windows giant will say anything at this point to protect $69bn deal – and stick boot into Google, Apple Microsoft, a monopolist of yore that recently disallowed third-party browsers from handling a protocol associated with its Edge browser, has pledged to uphold a set of Open App Store Principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows and future game marketplaces.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5VZJH)
UEFI support adds attractions for the security-minded, GUI goes fully virtual The Qubes compartmentalised operating system developers have put out version 4.1.0. The new version has experimental support for running the GUI and audio server in their own VMs, and an optional remote-support facility.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#5VZCE)
I want to be your SledgeMAMR Toshiba plans to use its proprietary recording technologies, FC-MAMR, MAS-MAMR, and disk stacking tech to lift nearline HDD capacities to 30TB from the end of its 2023 fiscal year. …
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by Liam Proven on (#5VZ6W)
New version of the desktop brings in major new features to rival GNOME The new release of KDE's Plasma desktop brings a GNOME Shell-like instant overview and other improvements.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5VZ6X)
Don't pay extortionists? Firms shelled out $5bn in Bitcoin in 6 months Ransomware attacks are proliferating as criminals turn to gangs providing turnkey post-compromise services, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5VZ4A)
Shiny new kit a bit more environmentally conscious Samsung sought to show off its eco credentials as it released the latest set of smartphones and tablets ahead of the Mobile World Congress.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5VZ0R)
£500m tech consultancy procurement in the offing The UK health secretary has invoked "the latest technology" to clear a 6-million-strong waiting list in England as the National Health Service struggles with a patient backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5VYYB)
UK.gov flings cash at software solution to local planning problem New 5G cell sites will be sprouting from streetlights, traffic signals, and CCTV poles across the country as part of Britain's plans to spread low-latency mobile connectivity to the masses.…
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