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When 8.8 isn't as lucky as one hopes Trade restrictions, sanctions, and other challenges are putting a dampener on China's ambition to become a chip manufacturing hot spot.…

Former Red Hat boss Jim Whitehurst's $22.5m share award got shareholders all steamed up, documents confirm IBM moved to appease shareholders that last year revolted against executive compensation proposals when they contested the massive one-time equity award granted to former Red Hat boss Jim Whitehurst.…

Sure, HermeticWiper and IssacWiper are bad, but they're not BAD in capital letters Column I'm heartsick over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But, before it began, I'd been really worried about Russian cyberattacks, which would overrun Ukraine and flood into the West's infrastructure. …

Great Resignation? Flexibility and work-life-balance key factors in how IT staff choose next employer Researchers at Gartner are finding that only 29 per cent of IT workers globally have a "high intent" to stay in their current roles.…

Just say no to websites bypassing privacy protections with sneaky redirects Browser maker Brave has developed a new way to ground "bounce tracking," a sneaky technique for bypassing privacy defenses in order to track people across different websites.…

Crowdsourced and unofficial info for when you want to run ESXi for fun ... or when official rigs aren't right Vendors' hardware compatibility lists detail the kit on which they guarantee their software will work at useful levels of performance.…

This time the intelligence is not artificial An algorithm capable of estimating the risk that a particular patient will develop prostate cancer over the next five years should be used in a national screening program in the UK, one of the software's creators has said.…

Disconnects small group of customers to protect 'integrity of the global internet' Lumen Technologies, the internet backbone provider formerly known as CenturyLink, has quit Russia.…

Step right this way, budding Azure addicts – er, sorry, entrepreneurs Microsoft has flung open the doors to its Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, a means for the Windows giant to give people free Azure credits to run stuff on its cloud.…

Just splashed $236M on Oz SI, can't quite say how it plans to tackle China NCS, a Singaporean IT serivces outfit part owned by state-controlled carrier Singtel, has advanced its plans to create an Asia Pacific regional services giant, but remained silent on how it will realize its vision of entering the Chinese market.…

Tech to 'relay our thoughts and ideas' to machines? Oh yes, sign us right up LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, and ex-DeepMind AI expert Karén Simonyan announced on Tuesday a new venture of theirs named Inflection AI.…

Japanese giant tries its own digital transformation, 50-something staff aren't wanted Fujitsu has warned investors its full-year profits will fall 23.6 per cent below previous forecasts because it's extended an offer for older workers to leave in favor of youngsters more likely to deliver the DX, or "digital experience," customers demand.…

Energy biz, financial services, governments, and IT outfits targeted The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has so far infected at least 52 critical infrastructure organizations in America across sectors including manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology, according to an FBI alert this week.…

And Adobe, SAP, Intel, AMD, Cisco, Google join in Patch Tuesday Microsoft has addressed 71 security flaws, including three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, in its monthly Patch Tuesday update. The IT giant is confident none of the bugs have been actively exploited. …

Now that's breaking moos Beijing's spies compromised government computer networks in six US states by exploiting, among other flaws, a vulnerability in a cattle-counting system, according to Mandiant.…

Latest Pro 5000 WX series good for AI, engineering, maybe metaverse? AMD introduced its Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX family today, which could be useful for building code, running specialist high-end software, and developing artificial intelligence on the desktop.…

Plus another phone, laptop, monitor On Tuesday at one of Apple's periodic product reveals, the iGiant introduced a low-end iPhone, a mid-tier iPad Air, a 27-inch Studio Display, and a conjoined chip called M1 Ultra that powers a compact desktop workstation dubbed the Mac Studio.…

Whoever tripped over the cable, plug it back in, please Spotify, Discord, Google Cloud, and possibly some other online services suffered technical breakdowns today, preventing netizens from using them as expected.…

Affected OPPO owners due an OTA update. OnePlus and Realme to follow Microsoft this week issued advice for smartphone users cast adrift from Intune following an update to Android 12.…

Complexity and scale of the internet hold back our ability to tackle disaster Analysis In a report published this week addressing "systemic" cybersecurity risks, several infosec experts noted that as the number of significant network intrusions rises, an understanding of the problem and the ability to address the larger issues remain lacking.…

Workarounds today and fixes coming soon for fTPM tech AMD has confirmed there is a performance problem with some of its Zen-family processors and Microsoft's operating systems.…

Don't Panic! Out in the uncharted end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun The Dent Project has released version 2.0 of its open source network operating system, carving out features designed to make it easier for small or mid-sized enterprises to support edge deployments.…

Nvidia, Cisco, and others throw weight behind new manufacturing platform GlobalFoundries believes data traveling at the speed of light is the future, and it's pointing to support from Nvidia, Cisco Systems, and others as evidence that its silicon photonics manufacturing tech is mainstream-ready.…

Artist formerly known as FireEye to boost security for Alphabet's cloudy arm Google is buying preeminent threat intel firm Mandiant for $5.4bn, the two companies announced this morning.…

Shares multi-cluster lessons from DBaaS in Kubernetes project DataStax has released a new open-source Kubernetes operator for Cassandra, the wide-column store distributed database about to work across multiple clusters for the first time.…

Plus: Law changes in Germany mean robo taxis might be on their way there soon Autonomous vehicles in the US are showing a declining rate of improvement in one key safety metric, according to research outfit IDTechEx. Despite this, the industry is making progress and may be nearing early commercialisation of technology such as robotic taxis.…

Special discounts bring number down to the old price until next Tuesday Customers staring down the barrel of Microsoft's price increases for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites from the start of this month have been given a reprieve but only until 15 March.…

Prepare the IDE of March: Apache emits fragrant burst of beany Java goodness The Apache Software Foundation has released version 13 of its NetBeans open-source IDE for Java, PHP, Javascript and other languages.…

NAO also sees a lack of digital knowledge at top of civil service The UK government can be prone to signing contracts for major IT projects before it has a good understanding of the requirements, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) director.…

We're promised less science fiction, more contemporary hardware Startup PsiQuantum has a rough vision of what its one-million-qubit quantum computer could look like.…

More digitization, more R&D, and more provocation of tech-producing neighbours China is this week staging its annual "Two Sessions" meetings, which see its pair of top decision-making bodies meet to set the agenda for the coming year. As usual there is plenty of material that touches on tech.…

GalaxySpace plans 144 birds for small-footprint high-surveillance service Chinese satellite broadband outfit GalaxySpace has launched the first satellites in a planned low Earth orbit constellation that will eventually offer a wireless internet service.…

AutoWarp security hole wasn't exploited – though researchers saw a way into a bank and a telco Microsoft has acknowledged the existence of a flaw in its Azure cloud computing service that allowed users full access to other users' accounts.…

Plus: Adafruit customer data leak fallout, infosec burnout, and more In brief A Linux local privilege escalation flaw dubbed Dirty Pipe has been discovered and disclosed along with proof-of-concept exploit code.…

Rule rethink would apply only to those in countries that support sanctions Russia is considering handing out licenses to use foreign software, database, and chip design patents, and legalizing software copyright violations, in response to sanctions imposed over its invasion of Ukraine.…

Yanking connectivity would do more harm than good, they say Though Cloudflare and Akamai have voiced their opposition to President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, they have stopped short of pulling completely out of Russia despite mounting pressure to do so.…

You forgot about this social network? A small army of lawyers haven't On Monday the US Supreme Court turned down Alphabet's request to hear it argue for the dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit that claimed Google quietly covered up a security issue that could have exposed almost 500,000 Google+ accounts.…

The M is for memory bandwidth, not Meme-coins Intel said its new Agilex M-Series FPGAs offer the highest memory bandwidth in the industry, and it expects a wide range of applications to benefit, from cryptocurrency mining to network virtualization.…

But uncertainty, supply, power woes could cause trouble ahead Even without Russia's small drums, the tech investment beat goes on…

Farming groups demand some kind of actual action from US watchdog Twelve farm labor, advocacy, and repair groups filed a complaint last week with the US Federal Trade Commission claiming that agricultural equipment maker Deere & Company has unlawfully refused to provide the software and technical data necessary to repair its machinery.…

US, EU, human-rights bods say proposal would allow more nation-state abuses As Russia's invasion of Ukraine rolls through its second week, a United Nations committee has begun hearings on a proposed new cybercrime treaty Russia has been pushing. The proposal has been heavily criticized by the United States, the European Union and other Western countries.…

Investors hope to take resolution to shareholder meeting Amazon is under pressure from investors to be more transparent about how and where it pays tax around the world.…

x86 giant will keep majority ownership of autonomous car tech wing Intel has confidentially submitted for an initial public offering of its Mobileye automotive business, a move that CEO Pat Gelsinger has said will help fund the chipmaker's multibillion-dollar comeback plan.…

190GB worth of internal files include 'some source codes relating to the operation of Galaxy devices' but Chaebol says customer data is safe Updated Samsung has acknowledged its data was stolen after the Lapsus$ extortion gang deposited what appears to be 190GB of the company's stolen internal files online.…

Case relates to alleged conspiracy to illegally bring over Chinese nationals Chinese telecoms kit maker ZTE is being summoned to court in the US for a hearing over possible revocation of probation after it pleaded guilty in 2017 to violating trade sanctions by illegally shipping US tech to Iran.…

Packing app tech fans asked to huddle under the Windows umbrella Microsoft is "realigning" the MSIX tech community and cramming all the existing discussion spaces into a single place within the Windows Tech Community.…

Oracle and Microsoft remain silent on involvement in existing installations SAP is continuing to support Russian businesses and government-owned organisations as war rages in Ukraine.…

Plus: You can now turn photos of your dead relatives into talking, blinking deepfakes In brief Conversations with chatbots are still pretty clumsy today, but they're improving – especially in customer service – and could be worth big money.…

Joins Xiaomi and Huawei in making EVs, but IM L7s not available on e-commerce sites yet Chinese multinational Alibaba has begun mass production of smart electric vehicles (EVs), the latest addition to a product portfolio that includes e-commerce sites, internet services, media ventures, and more.…

Cloud giant will spread its largesse more widely – and thinly – amongst non-profits Exclusive Amazon has cut in half the amount of credit it offers to charities in order for them to access IT services operated by Amazon Web Services, sources have told The Reg.…