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VMware adds support for 80-core Ampere Altra chips to its experimental Arm hypervisor
The ‘we think this is mostly for SmartNICs’ stance is looking a little thinner VMware has released an update of the mostly experimental cut of its flagship ESXi hypervisor for the Arm architecture, adding support for 80-core server processors and hinting that more server-makers have come aboard.…
Twitter nukes AI-generated twits who backed Amazon and pushed anti-union rhetoric
Plus: Waymo CEO is standing down, Volvo is partnering with a self-driving startup to stay relevant In Brief Twitter has suspended multiple accounts purporting to be Amazon warehouse workers defending the mega-souk’s working conditions and speaking out against unionization.…
Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors
Yes, this could mean Zuck gets your passport and credit card. We’re sure he’ll take care of them properly … An Australian Parliamentary Committee has recommended that locals be compelled to hand over identification documents to sign up for and use social media.…
Subaru parks plans to make 58,000 cars due to brakes on silicon supply chain
Workers to get earlier, longer, holiday, probably paid (fingers crossed) Japanese auto-maker Subaru announced Monday that it is making “production adjustments” - aka making fewer cars - due to semiconductor supply chain issues.…
Myanmar junta suspends all wireless broadband networks until further notice
As night-time internet cut-offs stretch beyond 50 consecutive days Myanmar’s military junta has ordered the suspension of wireless broadband services.…
'Anomalous surge in DNS queries' knocked Microsoft's cloud off the web last week
Plus: Top universities hit by data-stealing extortionists in Brief It was a tsunami of DNS queries that ultimately took out a host of Microsoft services, from Xbox Live to Teams, for some netizens about an hour on April Fools' Day, Redmond has said.…
LG Electronics finally gives up cellphone business
Lack of product enthusiasm in a stale market during a semiconductor drought finally killed it LG Electronics' board has tired of its loss-making smartphone business and ordered its closure.…
Yahoo! Answers! will! be! wiped! from! the! internet! next! month!
May the 4th not be with you Yahoo! Answers is shutting down in a month's time after nearly sixteen years online.…
Facebook says leak of 533m accounts is old news. But my date of birth, name, etc haven't changed in years, Zuck
Account info swiped in 2019 via security hole, sold online, now given away for free Reams of personal data – including phone numbers, email addresses, and birthdays – obtained from 533 million Facebook accounts was offered to all for free on a cyber-crime forum over the weekend.…
Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war
America's top judges decide copied code in Android is fair use The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in a 6-2 decision that Google's limited copying of Oracle's Java APIs in its Android operating system constitutes fair use under US law.…
No, no, let's hear this out, says judge waving away Apple's attempt to kill MacBook Pro Flexgate lawsuit
Surely this back light problem would have come up in testing, court mulls A US court has rejected Apple's request to throw out a potential class-action lawsuit accusing the iGiant of knowingly selling MacBook Pro laptops with defective display cables.…
A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?
Halt and catch fire Who, Me? A blast from the past, and possibly the future, as a Register reader regales us with a tale of carnets in the pre-Maastrict Treaty era. Welcome back to Who, Me?…
QNAP caught napping as disclosure delay expires, critical NAS bugs revealed
Remote code execution hole, arbitrary file writing flaw could make a mess of stored files Updated Some QNAP network attached storage devices are vulnerable to attack because of two critical vulnerabilities, one that enables unauthenticated remote code execution and another that provides the ability to write to arbitrary files.…
Apple begins rejecting apps that use advertising SDKs for fingerprinting users
Google comes in late too Apple has begun warning iOS developers that it will reject apps containing advertising SDKs that use data from the device to create unique identifiers, or fingerprints, in preparation for the upcoming release of iOS 14.5.…
Do you prefer to learn about theory, tools – or both? Continuous Lifecycle Online puts it all on your desktop
Join us online for three days of DevOps, containers, CI/CD Event Theory is great, but you’re never going to put it into practice without having the right tools – and knowing how to use them.…
Absolutely fab: As TSMC invests $100bn to address chip shortage, where does that leave the rest of the industry?
Semiconductor sovereignty, meet supply chain security Analysis Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., also known as TSMC, plans to spend $100bn over the next three years in response to chip demand and has advised its customers to expect to pay more.…
Easily distracted by too many apps, too many meetings, and too much asparagus
Nothing like a steaming bowl of freshly picked spaghetti Something for the Weekend, Sir? No, not wabbit. Not even chocolate eggs. I'm hunting wild asparagus.…
Yep, you're totally unique: That one very special user and their very special problem
Register reader finds that some Apple fans are... not very bright? On Call The weekend is upon us, and we can think of no better time to celebrate the efforts of those courageous individuals tasked with sorting the problems of users. Be they Mac or PC-based. Welcome to On Call.…
Scientists stumped by strange X-rays from Uranus
UCL astronomer tells us: 'We were surprised by our discovery' Mysterious X-rays have been spotted emanating from Uranus for the first time, according to the latest observations made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.…
Indian business tech spending dips in 2020’s final quarter, lockdown workers helped boost router sales
Good times for NVMe-based flash arrays and Cisco India’s overall network and storage market both showed declines in the final quarter of 2020 due to lingering work and school from home measures and banking organizations spending less on storage.…
If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage
It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS Updated Unlucky netizens are right now unable to log into Microsoft's online services, including Azure, Teams, Dynamics, and Xbox Live, due to an ongoing global outage.…
In a devastating blow to all eight of you, Microsoft pulls the plug on Cortana's Android, iOS apps
Chatty digital assistant can still be found on Outlook, Teams, Windows It's the end of the line for the Android and iOS incarnations of Microsoft's AI assistant Cortana.…
Turns out humans are leading AI systems astray because we can't agree on labeling
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Asking for a friend's machine-learning code Top datasets used to train AI models and benchmark how the technology has progressed over time are riddled with labeling errors, a study shows.…
FCC acting commissioner proposes dedicated spectrum for private space launches
'The regulatory frameworks we rely on to support these efforts are dated' FCC acting commissh Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed giving the US commercial space industry a dedicated block of spectrum in order to support future rocket launches.…
Micron chief warns 'severe shortage' of DRAM expected to continue this year
And drought in Taiwan threatens supply. Good news for firm's wallet, not so much for chip buyers Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra has warned about a "severe shortage" of supply in the DRAM memory market, with the situation expected to worsen as the year progresses.…
It's been a long time coming but AWS has at last enabled an interactive serial console for de-borking VMs
Handy in an emergency, but only for Nitro instances and requires work in advance AWS has introduced the "interactive EC2 Serial Console", enabling troubleshooting of virtual machines when normal SSH access is not working, with one user gushing: "I have been waiting 10 years for this moment."…
Does your enterprise data fit with your cloud native future?
Join us with Red Hat and IBM – and find out how to deploy your workloads on Kubernetes and much more Webcast The world of cloud native might look very different to traditional enterprise computing, with the promise of enhanced scalability, increased automation, and blurred lines between public and private infrastructure.…
Dutch watchdog fines Booking.com €475k after it kept customer data thefts quiet for more than 3 weeks
Thousands of people's personal information purloined after UAE hotels compromised The Netherlands Data Protection Authority has fined Booking.com €475,000 for notifying it too late that criminals had accessed the data of 4,109 people who booked a hotel room via the website.…
Microsoft welcomes 'raddest' and most 'feature-dense' Kubernetes release to AKS, shows 1.17 the door
Mere months to go before 1.21 arrives Kubernetes 1.20 has finally put in an appearance on Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), just squeaking into March and a good few months since the upstream release.…
While truly self-driving cars are surely just around the corner, for now here's an AI early-warning system for your semi-autonomous ride
Hey, we heard you like machine learning. So we put a machine-learning system in your machine-learning system Self-driving cars could be equipped with a trained early-warning system that alerts the person behind the wheel whenever it realizes it's entering a situation where a human driver has had to take over before.…
Canonical releases Ubuntu on Windows Preview with early builds, new tools for the brave
But no official Linux GUI support yet Canonical has released a Community Preview of Ubuntu on Windows as "a sandbox for experimenting with new features and functionality" on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.…
Sierra Nevada Corporation resurrects plans for crewed Dream Chaser spaceplane
Updates on its blow-up space station while Bigelow threatens to burst NASA's bubble Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has unveiled plans for an enormous inflatable space station tended by cargo and crew carrying versions of its Dream Chaser spaceplane.…
It's official: Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code to run on Raspberry Pi OS
Also: Accessibility improvements and cosmetic tweaks included A new version of Visual Studio Code has arrived just in time for Chocolate Egg Day featuring "official support for Raspberry Pi OS", which might come as a surprise to those who have spent the last month or so complaining about it.…
New systemd 248 feature 'extension images' updates immutable file systems without really updating them
Plus other improvements to the Linux service manager Version 248 of systemd, a widely used system and service manager for Linux, adds a feature called system extension images, designed to allow system files to be added, or appear to be added, even on read-only file systems.…
I've got the power! Or have I? Uninterruptible Phone-disposal Stuffup
Remembering airports of the past and borked kiosks of today Bork!Bork!Bork! In some parts of the world a festival involving chocolate eggs and bunnies is about to begin. For this poor kiosk, it appears festivities are temporarily at a halt.…
Openreach out and hike prices on legacy fixed-line products: Broadband plumber pulls trigger after Ofcom gives the nod
BT Group arm says it'll 'encourage' switch to modern kit; ISP says consumers on legacy CAN'T switch Openreach has said it will raise the cost of installing and delivering certain “legacy” wholesale products, including FTTC and copper, in order to spread the cost of the ongoing full-fibre rollout.…
X.Org says it's saving a packet with Packet after migrating freedesktop.org off Google Kubernetes Engine
The hidden cost of multi-cloud, and how full open source reduces lock-in The X.Org Foundation has successfully completed a migration from Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to Packet, which it reckoned "should save us around $30 per day."…
Pakistan’s IT minister objects to tax changes he thinks may harm local IT industry
Crackdown on offshore payments to freelancers hits a nerve Pakistan’s minister for IT and Telecom, Syed Aminul Haque, has protested the government’s new tax treatment for IT companies.…
Android, iOS beam telemetry to Google, Apple even when you tell them not to – study
Search giant insists it's necessary, iTitan didn't have anything to say Android and iOS phones transmit telemetry back to Google and Apple, even when users have chosen not to send analytics data.…
Hitachi slurps GlobalLogic for $9.6bn to bolster IoT prospects
Capitalizing on preparing digitally novice businesses for post COVID era Hitachi announced it will purchase US software deevloper GlobalLogic for US$9.6B.…
Nominet ignores advice, rejects serious change despite losing CEO, chair, half its board in membership vote
Extraordinary response by .uk registry operator effectively dares members to fire the rest of them Nominet has rejected calls for serious change at the .uk registry operator despite losing its CEO, chairman, and three board members to a membership vote earlier this month.…
Wi-Fi slinger Ubiquiti hints at source code leak after claim of ‘catastrophic’ cloud intrusion emerges
Says customer data wasn't touched, doesn't say much about being rooted Wi-Fi kit-slinger Ubiquiti has suggested the attacker that accessed some of its cloud-hosted systems in January 2021 may have made off with source code and employee logins, not the customer data it initially warned could be in peril.…
And the Turing Award for best compilation goes to... Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho
Programming pioneers bag $1m prize This year’s Turing Award has gone to two men who helped create the foundation on which modern software is built.…
Printers used to be a pricey luxury in Asian homes, then along came ... you know what
Best not to go long on printer shares, IDC predicts copy shops will rise again Analyst firm IDC has spotted up an uptick in the Asia Pacific region's printer market, thanks to a certain virus you may read about in the news of late.…
Pentagon pal Microsoft to supply US Army with 120,000+ HoloLens units in contract worth up to $22bn
Gives Blue Screen of Death a whole new meaning Microsoft has agreed to supply at least 120,000 production units of its HoloLens augmented-reality headsets to the US Army.…
IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos
Big Blue and its claret-capped subsidiary accused of nicking UnixWare blueprints, lying, and conspiring Updated Xinuos, formed around SCO Group assets a decade ago under the name UnXis and at the time disavowing any interest in continuing SCO's long-running Linux litigation, today sued IBM and Red Hat for alleged copyright and antitrust law violations.…
Biden's $2tn infrastructure plan includes massive broadband rollout, equates internet access with water and power as essential utilities
Plus $50bn pledge to boost chip R&D and fabbing in Land of the Free A new national infrastructure plan outlined by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday equates fast internet access – broadband – with other utilities including water and power.…
Oracle dangles new cloud lift-and-shift service in the wake of SAP RISE
It's all about driving down costs on OCI... so it can compete with AWS, claims analyst Oracle has launched a free service it hopes will convince more customers to shift their applications to the cloud – Oracle’s cloud, that is.…
Huawei's 2020 financials tied to fortunes of Chinese clients as non-domestic biz shrinks
Global pandemic and sanctions? Yes, they played a bit part too Huawei was forced to rely solely on the buying power of its domestic customers in calendar 2020 as foreign trade melted away in the face of US-led sanctions and a global pandemic.…
'Imagine' if Virgin Galactic actually did sub-orbital tourism: Firm unveils new chrome job on SpaceShip III
That schedule, however, is looking a lot less shiny The ambitiously named Virgin Galactic has unveiled the latest vehicle in its fleet – the Spaceship III named VSS Imagine.…
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