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AWS claims customers are packing bags and heading back on-premises
See? We do have competition, cloud giant tells regulator Cloud behemoth AWS says it is facing stiff competition from on-premises infrastructure, which is a turnaround from its once-proud boast that all workloads would eventually move to the cloud....
Oracle brews Java 23 for just-in-time delivery
Predictably paced programming language plods onward Oracle on Tuesday released Java 23 (Oracle JDK 23), in keeping with its now well-established six-month cadence....
Predator spyware kingpins added to US sanctions list
Designations come as new infrastructure spins up in Africa Five individuals and one company with ties to spyware developer Intellexa are the latest to earn sanctions as the US expands efforts to stamp out spyware....
SAP CTO under investigation amid allegations of sexual harassment
Jurgen Muller agreed to step down from his role at the end of September German prosecutors have confirmed to The Register that SAP's outgoing CTO is under investigation following allegations of sexual harassment....
S&P 500's AI FOMO fizzles: Less than half mentioned it in Q2 earnings
Is the hype over already? Despite all the hype and billions poured into AI, fewer than half of S&P 500 firms actually mentioned it in their Q2 2024 earnings reports....
The end is in sight for Windows 10, but Microsoft keeps pushing out fixes
Persistent SSO prompts after DMA update addressed in release preview Microsoft continues to apply the electrodes to Windows 10 with an Insider build to deal with single sign-on problems arising from changes made for the European Digital Markets Act and Edge freezing when using Internet Explorer mode....
On Call’s Greatest Hits, as voted for by you, the readers
The 20 most-commented-on tech support columns from On Call's first 500 instalments On Call To celebrate the recent 500th appearance of On-Call, the column that features your tales of tech support torture, The Register has trawled through the archives to find the 20 columns that generated the most comments....
Using AI in your tech stack? Accuracy and reliability a worry for most
Churns out apps, but testing needed to iron out performance woes Researchers are finding that most companies integrating AI into their tech stack have run headlong into performance and reliability issues with the resulting applications....
Objections to datacenter builds may be overruled now they are 'Critical National Infrastructure'
Well you wouldn't get far protesting a water system or a power grid, right? The UK government's decision to designate datacenters as critical national infrastructure (CNI) may do more than just offer protection against critical incidents; it may also allow developers to override any local objections to such facilities being built....
Sainsbury's bags a ticket to RISE with SAP, hoping not to trip like Asda
UK's second largest retailer set to move ERP to the cloud with AWS, Accenture, and the German software gaint Sainsbury's has become the third top-ten UK retailer to join the SAP program to lift legacy applications to the cloud and migrate them to its latest S/4HANA ERP system....
Oracle urged again to give up JavaScript trademark
If there's one thing we know about Big Red, it's being entirely reasonable JavaScript luminaries and at least 2,500 other interested parties have again asked Oracle to set the programming language free by walking away from the trademark for its name....
Alibaba Cloud waiting for hardware to dry out before trying to restore customer data
Digital Realty's Singapore disaster still complicating cloud after a week A week after a fire broke out at a Singapore datacenter, Alibaba Cloud is waiting for some hardware to dry out before it restores services and customer data....
Desktop hypervisors are like buses: none for ages, then four at once
VirtualBox, Parallels, and VMware have all upgraded September has been a big month for desktop hypervisors, with the field's big players all delivering significant updates....
China claims Starlink signals can reveal stealth aircraft – and what that really means
If this really was that useful, they wouldn't be telling us According to a Chinese state-sanctioned study, signals from SpaceX Starlink broadband internet satellites could be used to track US stealth fighters, such as the F-22....
Chinese national accused by Feds of spear-phishing for NASA, military source code
May have reeled in blueprints related to weapons development A Chinese national has been accused of conducting a years-long spear-phishing campaign that aimed to steal source code from the US Army and NASA, plus other highly sensitive software used in aerospace engineering and military applications....
Microsoft confirms IE bug squashed in Patch Tuesday was exploited zero-day
The C in these CVEs stands for Confusing Analysis Microsoft, in a low-key update to its September Patch Tuesday disclosures, has confirmed a just-fixed Internet Explorer vulnerability was exploited as a zero-day before it could be patched....
Intel frees its Foundry biz – and that's just one of many major shake-ups today
Pauses European fabs, scores secret US gig, teams up with Amazon, re-orgs its innards, and more! Intel will spin out its Foundry division as an independent subsidiary with its own board, in the hopes of bringing in new sources of capital for the ailing business unit....
Biden tackles trade loophole used by cheap Chinese e-tailers
Removing de minimis exemption could stymie Beijing's plans to grow its cyber-bazaar abroad The Biden administration announced on Friday it was cracking down on a tax loophole that has enabled Chinese web souks like Shein and Temu to thrive....
Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time
And vows to cut ratio of managers-to-employees to 'flatten' the ranks The COVID-19 work-from-home era is over, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told staff in a Monday memo, signaling his desire for staff to return to working in an office five days a week....
The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint
You pipsqueaks want memory safety? We'll show you memory safety! We'll borrow that borrow checker After two years of being beaten with the memory-safety stick, the C++ community has published a proposal to help developers write less vulnerable code....
Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line
Cops to citizens will be 'on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting' AI is on the verge of ushering in a new era of mass surveillance, says Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, adding that his juggernaut is ready to serve as the technological backbone for such applications....
Snowflake slams 'more MFA' button again – months after Ticketmaster, Santander breaches
Now it's the default for all new accounts Snowflake continues to push forward in strengthening its users' cybersecurity posture by making multi-factor authentication the default for all new accounts....
Elon Musk's assassination 'joke' bombs, internet calls for his deportation
'No one is trying' to kill Biden or Harris, mogul says after alleged second attempt on Trump's life Calls to deport Elon Musk from the US are trending on the billionaire's very own social media platform after he wondered aloud, following an apparent second attempt on the life of former President Trump, why no one has tried to assassinate President Biden or Veep Kamala Harris....
Microsoft's Copilot 'Wave 2' is a tsunami of unanswered questions
What the next few months hold for the productivity chatbot updated Microsoft's Copilot Wave 2 has arrived, bringing agents and unanswered questions....
Germany’s CDU still struggling to restore data months after June cyberattack
Putting a spanner in work for plans of opposition party to launch a comeback during next year's elections One of Germany's major political parties is still struggling to restore member data more than three months after a June cyberattack targeting its systems....
Snowflake's Unistore still on ice years after announcement
Cloud unicorn struggles to make database that can do everything 'margin positive' Two years after announcing a database that can do analytics and transactions in the same system, Snowflake has yet to commercially launch Unistore, its CFO admitted....
HPE CEO: 'Best interest of shareholders' to pursue $4B damages from Lynch estate
'These are difficult decisions,' says Antonio Neri Antonio Neri, the former engineer turned chief executive at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, says the company has to pursue its $4 billion claim against former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch's estate because it is "in the best interest of shareholders."...
Prison just got rougher as band of heinously violent cybercrims sentenced to lengthy stints
Orchestrators of abductions, torture, crypto thefts, and more get their comeuppance One cybercriminal of the most violent kind will spend his best years behind bars, as will 11 of his thug pals for a string of cryptocurrency robberies in the US....
ESA and Neuraspace ink 2-year deal for Space Traffic wrangling
Multi-million euro package to control satellite swerving and debris dodging Neuraspace and the European Space Agency have signed a multi-million Euro contract spanning two years for the Portuguese company's skills in space traffic management (STM)....
The future of software? Imagine a bot, stamping on a human face – forever
Automation is driving the next wave of commoditization, threatening to replace skilled workers Part 1 As we have said before, the software industry has a decades-long history of cost-cutting, commoditization, and a successful sales model of "pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap." This has worrying consequences if your skill set is the next one to be commoditized. But there may be ways out of this narrowing commercial bottleneck....
Telcos scolded for unwanted erection of utility poles in race to wire up Britain
Telecoms minister pleads with operators to work together The UK issue of multiplying telegraph poles is arising again, with telecoms minister Chris Bryant meeting operators over sharing their infrastructure and consulting residents before installation....
RISE with SAP sinking year on year
Gartner: ERP giant's flagship cloud-and-upgrade package falls as a ratio of total sales with support deadline looming The latest figures from Gartner indicate SAP is struggling to convince users of the value of its RISE with SAP package, launched to accelerate users' ERP upgrades and switch to the cloud....
China’s quantum* crypto tech may be unhackable, but it's hardly a secret
* Quite Unlikely A New Technology's Useful, Man Opinion We have a new call to arms in the 21st century battlefront between the West and China. The Middle Kingdom is building an uncrackable national infrastructure based on quantum key distribution (QKD). The laws of physics are being used against us, and we're not keeping up, claims a think tank....
I don't know what pressing Delete will do, but it seems safe enough!
You've got mail ... actually no, you've got nothing Who, Me? Welcome once again to yet another Monday and another instalment of Who, Me? in which Register readers own up to the ... let's say "learning experiences" ... they've enjoyed up in their careers....
250 million-plus unused IPv4 addresses should be left alone, argues network boffin
Tests show it's just too hard to put the unused 240/4 block to work The 240/4 block of IPv4 addresses - the six percent of the available IPv4 space that is currently not available for public use - should be left alone rather than being added to the pool of available internet resources, according to Geoff Huston, chief scientist of the Asia Pacific Network Internet Center....
Indian central bank fines HP's financial services arm
Alleges its governance was MIA and its KYC SNAFU The Reserve Bank of India has fined HP Financial Services the equivalent of $12,400 for not complying with regulations - some related to Know Your Customer (KYC) measures - and failing to have necessary IT committees....
China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online
Visible and audible warnings, plus metadata, with absence of info considered suspicious China's internet regulator on Saturday proposed a strict regime that will, if adopted, require digital platforms to label content created by artificial intelligence....
23andMe settles class-action breach lawsuit for $30 million
Also: Apple to end NSO Group lawsuit; Malicious Python dev job offers; Dark web kingpins busted; and more Infosec In Brief Genetic testing outfit 23andMe has settled a proposed class action case related to a 2023 data breach for $30 million....
Plunging printer sales see Japan's Ricoh plan 2,000 redundancies
Plus: Superapps in trouble across Asia; Indonesia connectivity doubles; Alibaba turns 25; and more! ASIA IN BRIEF Japanese imaging device manufacturer Ricoh last week announced plans to cut 2,000....
Thank you, Reg Readers: On Call has turned 500!
Started on a whim, almost a decade later it's a fixture - and a marvelous demonstration of your wit and wisdom A short while back, The Register published the 500th installment of On-Call, the reader-contributed column in which you share your tech support stories....
Homing pigeon missiles, dead trout swimming, butt breathing honored with Ig Nobel Prize
Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online With less than a month to go before the Nobel Prizes are handed out for the most worthy scientific discoveries of the preceding year, it would be remiss of The Register not to observe the honors conferred by the gong's bratty little brother, the Ig Nobel Prize....
Begun, the open source AI wars have
This is going to be ugly. Really ugly Opinion The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and its allies are getting closer to a definition of open source AI. If all goes well, Stefano Maffulli, the OSI's executive director, expects to announce the OSI open source AI definition at All Things Open in late October. But some open source leaders already want nothing to do with it....
Meta back at it, harvesting Britons' public Facebook, Insta feeds for AI training
I wanna know What you're feeling Tell me what's on your mind Meta is going to resume scraping the personal public feeds of British Facebook and Instagram users for training AI after reaching an agreement with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)....
Apple AirPods Pro 2 can be sold as hearing aids, says FDA
You gotta admit, that speaks volumes for Cupertino America's drug watchdog this week gave Apple permission to market its AirPods Pro 2 as over-the-counter hearing aids, disrupting an industry where traditional devices have often cost thousands of dollars....
EU OKs $1.9B aid for Intel Polish plant, assuming x86 giant doesn't end up cutting it
That's zloty money but is it too little, too late? Intel is scrambling to stanch the bleeding of its floundering foundry business, but in Poland at least the chipmaker's luck is looking up....
AI giants pinky swear (again) not to help make deepfake smut
Oh look, another voluntary, non-binding agreement to do better Some of the largest AI firms in America have given the White House a solemn pledge to prevent their AI products from being used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography and child sexual abuse material....
Feeld dating app's security too open-minded as private data swings into public view
No love for months-long wait to fix this, either Security researchers have revealed a litany of failures in the Feeld dating app that could be abused to access all manner of private user data, including the most sensitive images not intended to be kept or shared....
The Europa Clipper stretches its wings as launch nears
Solar arrays are massive... but it's the transistors onlookers are really worried about NASA's Europa Clipper is now less than a month from its October 10 launch, and the US space agency has shown off the spacecraft's giant solar arrays. However, concerns persist over how well the probe's electronics will fare in the harsh Jovian environment....
Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why
Oh and about those AI computers... analysts reckon there are still no killer apps or convincing use cases Admins had better dust off their Windows migration skills if Dell and HP are right that a refresh wave of "aging" commercial PC estates is picking up pace - even though the process is slower to happen than either company seems to have expected....
MongoDB CEO says if AI hype were the dotcom boom, it is 1996
NoSQL database slinger attempts to reassure investors, kinda Analysis It is 1996 in terms of the business adoption of AI if it were put on the dotcom era timeline, according to MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria....
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