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Is it decadent that I use four different computers each day, at different times?
Amazon's latest Kindle Paperwhite sees Reg hack's fondleslab get a rest Review Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader has solved several problems for me and overcome a shortcoming of the iPad. If only it didn't also make me guilty about adding another device to my already computer-infested life.…
Chinese paper runs interview with Alibaba staffer who claims she was fired after exec rape claim
E-commerce giant's #metoo moment takes sinister turn Chinese state-owned media has run an interview with a woman – identified only by her last name Zhou – who alleged she was fired after claiming one of the firm's execs raped her while on a business trip, according to an interview between Zhou and Dahe Daily.…
Clearview's dodgy selfie-scraping AI facial recognition technology set to be patented
Plus: DeepMind's latest language model research and more Clearview’s controversial facial recognition technology is getting closer to being patented by the US Patent and Trademark Office.…
T-Mobile US figuring out international roaming on 5G
'We will eventually learn' PCs with 5G connectivity could face issues that include international roaming support, but T-Mobile is working through those issues, in addition to figuring out what data plans may look like.…
CentOS Stream 9: Understanding the new Red Hat OS release for non-Red-Hat-type people
El Reg maps the tributaries Red Hat has released CentOS Stream 9, the first major version since the company badly shook its community by announcing it was ending traditional CentOS a year ago.…
Nvidia CEO Huang jointly files patent for software tech in the metaverse
The boss isn't too busy to be named Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang continues inventing, as if his role in the rise of GPUs wasn't enough.…
What if we said you could turn any disk into a multi-boot OS installer for free without touching a single config file?
Introducing Ventoy Friday FOSS Fest Ventoy is a free tool that turns any USB key into a multi-boot wonder.…
Irish Health Service ransomware attack happened after one staffer opened malware-ridden email
PWC report shows long list of missed opportunities to shut out extortion crims Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) was almost paralysed by ransomware after a single user opened a malicious file attached to a phishing email, a consultancy's damning report has revealed.…
Better CEO is 'taking time off' after firing 900 staff on Zoom
CFO now ruling the roost as mortgage biz reportedly delays SPAC sale Better CEO Vishal Garg, best-known for firing 900 employees over one giant Zoom call, is taking time off work while the company hires a third-party to perform a “leadership and cultural assessment.”…
Cloud darling Hashicorp's IPO raises $1.22bn amid modest gains from a $80 start
Not great, not terrible Cloud software biz Hashicorp hit the markets this week with an initial public offering priced at $80 per share after which its stock enjoyed a modest rise as investors cracked open their wallets.…
Bloke breaking his back on 'commute' from bed to desk deemed a workplace accident
Thank goodness he didn't make a diversion for Coco Pops A German employer has been left on the hook after a worker slipped and broke his back on the "commute" from his bed to the home office.…
Another Debian dust-up with Firefox dependencies – but there is an annoying and awkward workaround
El Reg, as ever, helps you to get back in the game Debian is having problems with a current version of Firefox that leaves users with a dangerously outdated browser.…
Log4j RCE: Emergency patch issued to plug critical auth-free code execution hole in widely-used logging utility
Prepare to have a very busy weekend of mitigating and patching An unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Apache's Log4j Java-based logging tool is being actively exploited, researchers have warned after it was used to execute code on Minecraft servers.…
What a pain in the aaS: HPE signs up just 1.125% of its channel to sell hardware delivered as a service
Forget software-as-a-hostage! Customers have more choice when it comes to servers, networking, storage Hewlett Packard Enterprise's multi-year efforts to remain relevant against the onslaught of cloud giants hinges on convincing resellers to back its as-a-service (aaS) sales model, and yet progress continues to be painfully slow.…
Revealed: Remember the Sony rootkit rumpus? It was almost oh so much worse
That time Rootkitting for Dummies might as well have been in Microsoft's Plus! Pack Retired Microsoft engineer, Dave Plummer, offered a blast from the past last week with a look back at the infamous Sony Windows "rootkit" scandal.…
Ghost of Christmas past haunts Oracle despite impressive revenue growth
Payment over Mark Hurd dispute hits figures as Ellison bigs up cloud ERP Oracle sales increased nearly 6 per cent to hit $10.4bn in its Q2 results for fiscal 2022, but the company made a loss due in part to a dispute relating to a former CEO.…
Assange extradition case goes to UK Home Secretary as High Court rules he can be sent to US for trial
Brace yourself, now come years of appeals Julian Assange will be sent stateside for trial on criminal charges after the US government won an appeal against an earlier court order that released him from the threat of extradition.…
Lack shame? Fancy some festive Windows knitwear? We've got your back
Microsoft merch of Christmas Past up for grabs FREE STUFF With the season of giving upon us, the cupboards of Vulture Central are being cleared out and long-forgotten items found that might be of use to our readership. Just think of us as tech tat peddling Gumtree.…
A unified, agnostic software environment spanning HPC and AI won't be achieved
Readers have their say Register debate It is entirely human and in some senses desirable to eliminate as much of the complexity out of the IT stack as makes sense. And it is also entirely human to be accepting of the need for choice and to acknowledge the necessary frustration of complexity.…
Playing jigsaw on my roof: They can ID you from your hygiene habits
Pat McGovern knew his way around a trash can Something for the Weekend, Sir? Spies in space are watching me as I take a shower.…
What came first? The chicken, the egg, or the bodge to make everything work?
Taming the multi-tentacled IT beast with spoofing, shell scripts, and a bit of C On Call It's another tale from the world of telephony where everything goes wrong in this week's On Call.…
NASA's new black hole spotter makes it into orbit
Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer's two year mission will check out polarization of black holes, neutrons and other celestial objects In the wee hours of Thursday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission into orbit from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.…
International Monetary Fund warns crypto-related risks could soon become systemic
Wants comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated regulation to avoid instability The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called for global, comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated regulation to protect the stability of the world's financial systems.…
Amazon fined €1.13bn by Italy's antitrust authorities for abusing its power
'Use our logistics service or don't. It'll cost you either way.' Amazon was slapped with a whopping €1.13bn (£963.7m or $1.3bn) fine by Italy’s antitrust regulator on Thursday for “abusing its dominant position” and handicapping sellers that aren’t using its logistics service.…
Ransomwared payroll provider leaks data on 38,000 Australian government workers
Frontier Software admitted attack three weeks ago, said data was safe … now it's on the dark web Personal information describing names, addresses, bank account details, and taxation IDs of 38,000 Australian government employees has been leaked to the dark web after a ransomware attack.…
Pentagon wants to drive digital and AI onto the battlefield
Re-orgs bureaucracy to deliver 'stronger alignment and synchronization' The USA's Department of Defense has created a post of Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAIO) that is expected to encompass three existing leadership offices and develop advanced fighting capabilities.…
WTF is a 'software-defined community cloud'?
Basically a slice of public cloud with better isolation and governance – just like our cloud, says Google Google has given us all a new variety of cloud to consider: a "software-defined community cloud".…
China: Bars app that often hosted dissenting conversations
Also China: This one guy sent feedback to the government online, it was adopted, that shows we’re a democracy China has again banned a batch of apps, but this time it's taken action against a service – Douban – that's hosting opinions Beijing finds displeasing.…
Chatter around GPUs for RISC-V is growing
Power for the people, and AI The activity around creating a legit graphics processor for RISC-V chip designs, an emerging competitor to x86 and ARM, is gaining steam.…
Google advises Android users to be careful of Microsoft Teams if they want to call 911
Woman tells El Reg she discovered the bug during a granny emergency A bizarre bug prevented a woman from calling 911 on her Pixel smartphone when she thought her grandma was having a stroke.…
China's road to homegrown chip glory looks to be going for a RISC-V future
The RISC-V Summit is over - here's what you need to know China's been scammed for billions by rogues in its chase to become a chip powerhouse, though ironically, a free, open-source CPU architecture is emerging as its best bet to create a powerful homegrown chip.…
A third of you slackers out there still aren't using HTTPS by default
And it's really bad news for EV cert vendors in Top 1 Million report Almost a third of the world wide web's top million sites are still not using HTTPS by default, according to infosec researcher Scott Helme's analysis.…
Gas giant 10 times the size of Jupiter discovered in b Centauri binary system
Orbit roughly 100 times wider than that of similar planets in our solar system Scientists have discovered a gas giant planet 10 times the size of Jupiter orbiting the binary system of b Centauri A and B.…
We've only gone and got our hands on an early preview of Fleet, the forthcoming JetBrains IDE
Rough edges, but ground-up design makes sense First look Our first look at Fleet, the new JetBrains core editor and IDE, shows the promise of a minimalist design and an architecture that has collaboration and remote development in mind – but there are plenty of rough edges in the preview.…
Academics horrified that administration of Turing student exchange scheme outsourced to Capita
Company ousts British Council in running Erasmus replacement Everyone's favourite outsourcing badass Capita is taking control of the £110m Turing student exchange programme formerly run by The British Council, a public corporation.…
OK, boomer? Gen-X-ers, elder millennials most likely to name their cars, says DVLA
Most bizarre names chosen by UK drivers included ZZ Top and The Beast Britain’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has said one in six UK motorists name their car, with those aged 35 to 53 most likely to do so. The results have been disappointing, to say the least.…
Resistance is ... cheap? Cloudflare, Mandiant, and pals form incident response 'n' cyber insurance borg
Trust us with everything, croons septuple-strong partnership Cyber insurance premiums are increasing and so is infosec's determination to get a slice of that pie: Cloudflare is partnering with Mandiant, Secureworks, and Crowdstrike in a "rapid referral" partnership for under-attack companies.…
Road to nowhere: UK plans for an 'AI assurance industry' but destination is unclear
Govt hopes for 'mature, world-class' sector, but doubts linger over regulation The UK government's Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) has published a "roadmap" designed to create an AI assurance industry to support the introduction of automated analysis, decision making, and processes.…
The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed
Our wrap-up: Instant Glacier storage, Kubernetes at AWS, Adobe pops up despite Microsoft partnership, and more Re:invent AWS annual customer jamboree, Re:invent, is over, and while the firm impressed some attendees with tech advances, custom hardware like Graviton 3, and an array of new features, many were incremental rather than revolutionary.…
Actual metal being welded in support of the UK's first orbital 'launch platform'
Orbex is still testing, but aiming for the real thing in 2022 UK rocketeers Orbex have thrown their hat in the ring of Blighty's very own space race by kicking off construction of a Scottish launch platform for its Prime rocket.…
A single HPC-AI software environment is less desirable than you might think
Every possible thing that can be tuned must be tuned – and tuned well Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss 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. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…
Don't panic about cyber insurers pulling up the drawbridge, says Lloyd's
New clauses are menu to pick from, not commandments of stone Infosec industry panic about new cyber insurance model clauses excluding cover for state-back intrusions is wide of the mark, the Lloyd's Market Association has told The Register.…
More than half of UK workers would consider jumping ship if a hybrid work option were withdrawn by their company
How to dodge The Great Resignation Research has shown that over half of UK workers would consider quitting their job if, in the future, a hybrid work option were pulled by their employer.…
UK and USA seek new world order for cross-border data sharing and privacy
They'll even run a competition to help this along Officials from the USA and UK have signaled an intention to together shape a new world order for data sharing across borders.…
Big Tech's private networks and protocols threaten the 'net, say internet registries
APNIC and LACNIC worry about who will set the rules of future internetworking The internet remains resilient, and its underlying protocols and technologies dominate global networking – but its relevance may be challenged by the increasing amount of traffic carried on private networks run by Big Tech, or rules imposed by governments.…
PC market pulls past peak pandemic demand, and IDC says it will keep growing
Lappies are leaping – albeit a little lower – and gamers are growing, but tablets are turgid While the PC market is cooling following two straight years of double-digit growth spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has predicted shipments will continue to grow over the next five years.…
Alibaba the biggest, but more clouds on China's horizon
Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu all growing fast, and Americlouds are about to expand Alibaba continues to dominate China's cloud market, according to analyst firm Canalys.…
Oz Feds reveal distribution model behind backdoored 'An0m' chat app spread by crims
Resellers were given exclusive territories to target, and offered tech support Australia's Federal Police force has revealed more about how it distributed a backdoored chat app to criminals.…
Apple wins Epic court ruling: Devs will pay up for now as legal case churns on
Previous injunction that ordered company to allow non-Apple payments systems is suspended Apple will not be required to implement third-party in-app payments systems for its App Store by 9 December, after a federal appeals court temporarily suspended the initial ruling on Wednesday.…
Meg Whitman – former HP and eBay CEO – nominated as US ambassador to Kenya
Donated $110K to Democrats in recent years United States president Joe Biden has announced his intention to nominate former HPE and eBay CEO Meg Whitman as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Kenya.…
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