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Ancient Arm server outfit Kaleao resprouts as Bamboo with CPU offload plan and electricity-saving power play
PANDA architecture said to be ideal microservices-muncher Arm server vendor Kaleao, which The Register covered way back in 2016, has re-emerged with a new name – Bamboo – and what it reckons is a fresh approach to building servers.…
Ex-barrister reckons he has a privacy-preserving solution to Britain's smut ban plans
Content tagging – and I'll give the tech away for free, says Safecast Global chief Interview A British firm says it has developed a tech proposal for preventing children from watching unsuitable internet videos – and doing so without needing age verification or other privacy-busting features.…
Windows fails to reach the Finnish line as Helsinki signage pleads for help
Please update me, let me load... Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows is everywhere and can be found pleading for attention all over the world, including signage lurking in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.…
VMware bungled bundling blurt blaring Bitfusion bringing new GPU-and-AI powers to vSphere
Bitfusion integration will require an add-on licence after all, rather than being tossed into vSphere Enterprise Plus VMware has taken the unusual step of retracting and replacing a press release because it got its own licencing details wrong.…
Samsung combines 5G, AI, drones and cloud in conspiracy ... to ease network maintenance costs
To save telco workers from climbing the greasy pole as networks get denser The current febrile information climate might not be the best time to combine AI, 5G, cloud and drones, but Samsung has done it because the company is conspiring to ease network management chores.…
What did it take for stubborn IBM to fix flaws in its Data Risk Manager security software? Someone dropping zero-days
The other kind of DRM strikes: Bod baffled after attempt to raise alarm over vulnerabilities is ignored IBM is under fire for refusing to patch critical vulnerabilities in its Data Risk Manager product until exploit code was publicly disclosed.…
Grappling with mixed infra, containers, service meshes? Join Continuous Lifecycle Online for practical help
Stay up to date on DevOps, CI/CD and containerization while working from home Event Things start slowly going back to normal, but yeah, it might take a while until bringing people together again becomes a good idea. However, if you are responsible for keeping tech infrastructure in shape or if container tech is your cup of tea, we might have just the thing to (safely) switch things up a bit.…
Korean boffins build COVID-bot to shove a swab right up your hooter
Yes, this will help health pros. But after seeing it thrust a swab into your schnoz, you may want to avoid testing by humans or robots VIDEO The South Korean Institute of Machinery and Materials has developed a robotic rig capable of shoving a COVID-19-sputum-sampling-swab right up your hooter, so that medicos don’t have to come into contact with possibly-contagious patients.…
ASEAN trade bloc scoops Googlebucks to digitise businesses out of COVID-19 crunch
Hopes to educate 200,000 people in villages and smaller cities The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has won a $3.3m grant from Google’s philanthropic Google.org limb and will use it to educate locals in all things digital as part of the region’s COVID-19 escape plan.…
China praises Pakistan SatNav collaboration
Latest sat launch was postponed but China's GPS alternative network is nearly finished China has signalled it anticipates further collaboration with Pakistan around Beidou, the middle kingdom’s satellite navigation constellation.…
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... but not your H-1B geeks, L-1 staffers nor J-1 students
US freezes visa applications until the end of the year, cites COVID-19-sparked unemployment President Donald Trump has signed an executive order suspending the processing of various immigration visas, including H-1Bs for skilled workers and J-1s for academics, for the remainder of the year.…
Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length: macOS shifts from x86 to homegrown common CPU arch, will run iOS apps
We take a look at Cupertino's one-Arm bandit gambit Analysis Apple on Monday said it plans to shift its macOS line from Intel chips to its own homegrown Arm-compatible processors, an initiative called Apple Silicon that will put all Cupertino's products on a common hardware architecture.…
Step on it, I've got the police on my hack: Anon swipes, leaks online 269GB of crime intel docs from cops, Feds
'BlueLeaks' data lifted after web host biz pwned, we're told Some 269GB of data stolen from police and the Feds in America has been shared online by miscreants.…
Fujitsu, Japan strong-Arm their way to the top with world's fastest-known super: 415-PFLOPS Fugaku
That big Arm news you were all expecting today, right? Japan's Arm-based 415-PFLOPS, 28MW Fugaku monster was today crowned the world’s most-powerful publicly known supercomputer.…
Big Tech on the hook for billions in back taxes after US Supreme Court rejects Altera stock options case hearing
Stop! In the name of tax! Before you break my bank! Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and a host of other tech giants will have to pay billions of dollars in extra tax after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on a stock-option case.…
Features vs compatibility: Google Chrome team promises more 'rigour', but what does that mean?
Fixing scrolling issues and CSS flexbox but fears of browser monoculture remain A software engineer in the Google Chrome team has spoken about inconsistency in feature support across different web browsers, promising a "more compatible 2021".…
We were already secure enough for mass remote working before COVID-19, boast IT pros
Three-quarters claim pandemic didn't trigger big changes to corporate security settings Nearly three-quarters of IT professionals haven't increased their company's security posture during the COVID-19 pandemic – while 90 per cent highlighted remote working as a security risk, according to a survey.…
Email innovator Hey extends an olive branch in standoff with Apple, tweaks code to make the iGiant appier
We did what we think you want, now let it through A truce is being threatened in the standoff between Apple's App Store and email imagineer Hey.…
Release the pressure: Win16 support arrives for version 3.2 of Free Pascal
Five years since the last update, the team celebrates 50 years of the language with more architectures Great news, Pascal fans. After a lengthy hiatus, the cross-platform Free Pascal has emerged with an array of new features and new targets.…
Belief in 5G conspiracy theories goes hand-in-hand with small explosions of rage, paranoia and violence, researchers claim
Ironic, because new tech is supposed to solve the micro-burst issue Psychologists from Northumbria University have published a research paper examining the connection between beliefs in 5G COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and the willingness to act violently upon them. Surprise surprise, if you believe 5G is part of a Soros-backed depopulation plan, you might be tempted to take up a Super Soaker in arms.…
No longer a planet and left out in the cold, Pluto, it turns out, may have had hot beginnings
That subsurface ocean scientists think the dwarf has? It may have formed 'early', claims paper Pluto, the icy dwarf planet hanging out in the Kuiper Belt, may well have been hot when it formed and could have supported a subsurface liquid ocean early in its development.…
C is for 'Careful now', D is for 'Download surprise': Microsoft to resurrect optional Windows 10 updates as 'Previews'
Also: Money for Excel hits US, Teams readies new toys for next academic year, and more Roundup As Microsoft continues to fling fixes at the world and its dog, the firm has also expanded Teams grid to allow teachers to gaze upon 49 little faces and despair as well as tweaking Edge to provide, er, heaps better memory munching.…
Virgin Galactic inks deal with NASA to train astro-tourists looking to buy a seat to the International Space Station
Somebody else will have to provide the rocket, though Virgin Galactic, the company that has yet to send a paying passenger on a sub-orbital lob, let alone trouble anything more challenging, has opened the door to "Private Orbital Spaceflight".…
What's the Arm? First Apple laptop to ditch Intel will be 13.3" MacBook Pro, proclaims reliable soothsayer
We'll find out as WWDC rolls on WWDC Apple will confirm its transition to Arm this week at the virtual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), says Ming-Chi Kuo – the analyst widely regarded to be the most accurate when it comes to Cupertino's movements.…
VMware and Office for Mac need patching, Microsoft can scan your firmware, and Anonymous takes credit for Atlanta police hacks
Plus: Nigeria-based entrepreneur accused of fraud, and more Roundup It was another week of furious firefighting in the security space, including the curious tale of a Forbes "most promising" entrepreneur indicted over alleged phishing attacks, new privacy laws in the US, software flaws and more.…
Paging technology providers: £3m is on the table to replace archaic NHS comms network
10% of the world's pagers are in use by Britain's health service The digital arm of England's health service, NHSX, is tendering for a replacement to ageing pager technologies in an effort to modernise hospital communications systems.…
Machine learning devs can now run GPU-accelerated code on Windows devices on AMD's chips, OpenAI applies GPT-2 to computer vision
Plus: AI for the benefit of humankind group loses a member and more Roundup Windows fans can finally train and run their own machine learning models off Radeon and Ryzen GPUs in their boxes, computer vision gets better at filling in the blanks and more in this week's look at movements in AI and machine learning.…
Spaghetti Junction! Brum hospitals on hunt for new ERP and finance supplier to untangle current systems
And there's £6m British pounds for the biz that can do it University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in the UK is desperately seeking to replace a mishmash of finance and warehouse management software with an integrated ERP system in a tender worth up to £6m.…
Folk sure like to stick electric toothbrush heads in their ears: True wireless stereo sales buck coronavirus trends
Shipments soared 86% in Q1, 200 million expected to be shifted this year Despite the economic effects of the pandemic, true wireless stereo (TWS) devices like earbuds, headphones and speakers have proved robust, with Q1 global shipments up 86 per cent year-on-year to 43.8 million.…
Dell stiffens up hyperconverged boxen for the mile-high club, or getting down and dirty
VxRail gets rugged version, dalliances with AMD, Optane and NVIDIA Qaudro GPUs Dell’s updated its VxRail hyperconverged boxen.…
The clouds part, cash rains on Microsoft's UK money-making machine
Not even Brexit is going to slap our as-a-Service biz Microsoft's board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.51 per share this week as its UK tentacle reported another bonzer year of revenue growth.…
With intelligent life in scant supply on Earth, boffins search for technosignatures of civilizations in the galaxy
Pollution, sprawling cities of megastructures, any sign aliens are screwing up just like us... Astronomers are on the hunt for signs of alien civilizations in space by searching for things like extraterrestrial solar panels or planetary atmospheres spewing pollutants.…
CERN puts two new atom-smashers on its shopping list. One to make Higgs Bosons, then a next-gen model six times more energetic than the LHC
Needs about €21bn it doesn’t have and a whole lot of new science to make it feasible The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has signed off on an update to its particle physics strategy that calls for the construction of two new very, very, large pieces of atom-smashing hardware.…
Faxing hell: The cops say they would very much like us to stop calling them all the time
Brrrrr... dunngadunng... braaaaarp: that's the sound of da police Who, Me? Bid farewell to the weekend with a story from the Who, Me? mailbag that struck a little close to home for one Register hack.…
Going to the cloud doesn’t mean you have to leave your legacy IT behind
Tune in online next month to hear all about the advantages of legacy server emulation Webcast It’s a familiar story to many: you’re a business that’s run quite happily on an incredibly robust backend IT infrastructure for literally decades.…
China’s cloud spend soared by 67 percent in Q1, but COVID-19 didn't exactly help matters
Country total of $3.9bn is about 40 percent of AWS revenue, but Amazon sells to the world China’s spend on cloud infrastructure services in Q1 2020 jumped 67 percent year-year, says analyst firm Canalys.…
Internet blackout of Myanmar States that are home to ethnic minorities enters second year
As India’s slowdown to 2G in Kashmir is extended to July The internet blackout in towns in two states of Myanmar (Burma) has entered a second year.…
Russia lifts restrictions on Telegram messenger app after it expresses ‘readiness’ to stop some nasties
A win for Vlad the Decryptor Russia has lifted restrictions on secure messaging app Telegram after its developers agreed to block some content.…
Sure is wild that Apple, Google app store monopolies are way worse than what Windows got up to, sniffs Microsoft prez
'Far more formidable gates to access to other applications than anything that existed in the industry 20 years ago' Analysis Microsoft president Brad Smith on Thursday called on antitrust regulators in the US and Europe to scrutinize whether smartphone app store business practices are consistent with antitrust law.…
Hey NYPD, when you're done tear-gassing and running over protesters, can you tell us about your spy gear?
City council demands snoop gear kit reports, mayor OK with that New York City Council has overwhelmingly voted to require cops to report their use of surveillance technology.…
Good luck using generative adversarial networks in real life – they're difficult to train and finicky to fix
An AI engineer recounts his previous woes to The Register Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a brilliant idea: get two neural networks and pit them against each other to get a machine to generate completely new, realistic looking images. But in practice they are notoriously difficult to train and deploy, as one engineer told El Reg.…
Australia's Lion brewery hit by second cyber attack as nation staggers under suspected Chinese digital assault
Wait and see before pointing the finger, warns threat intel boffin As Australia reels under sustained cyber attacks following increased Chinese diplomatic hostility, the country's Lion brewery and dairy conglomerate has been hit for the second time.…
Microsoft emits a colourful Windows Terminal preview
Yeah, about that whole JSON thing... The Windows Terminal gang has got back into its preview groove with an update for the open-source command-line front-end.…
Huawei going to predict the future? Nope, say company leaders when asked about Joe Biden winning US election
'We don't know what he stands for' Huawei is uncertain whether a change in leadership in Washington DC will resolve its ongoing woes with the US government, company representatives have told The Register.…
Can't get your Pi fix online? The Cambridge shop's back open for business, Brits
Doors remain closed at that other hub of nerdery, the Centre for Computing History Raspberry Pi fans rejoice! The foundation's Cambridge outlet has tentatively opened its doors once more, although is sadly shorn of its trademark interactive displays.…
Ex-director cops community service after 5,000-file deletion spree on company Dropbox
'Revenge' attack cost biz £100k, say police A woman who deleted 5,000 files from her former company's Dropbox has been punished with community service – even though the business allegedly collapsed after her file-shredding spree.…
Xiaomi's Poco F2 Pro flagship lands in the UK with considerably gentler price tag
£499 nabs early birds 5G, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage Xiaomi's latest flagship, the Poco F2 Pro, hits UK shelves today with an early-bird price of £499.…
IR35 tax reforms for UK freelancers glide through committee stage: D-Day set for 6 April 2021
*Cough* But are they freelancers? *cough* – HMRC IR35 tax reforms remain set to come into force on 6 April 2021 as the 2019-20 Finance Bill passed through its committee stage.…
Police and NHS urge British public not to call 101 and 111 non-emergency numbers after behind-the-scenes kit failure
Vodafone responsible for maintaining system infrastructure The UK's 101 and 111 non-emergency telephone numbers are currently inaccessible by the public following a behind-the-scenes failure.…
Google isn't even trying to not be creepy: 'Continuous Match Mode' in Assistant will listen to everything until it's disabled
I always feel like / somebody's dropping eaves / and I have no privacy Google has introduced "continuous match mode" for apps on its voice-powered Assistant platform, where it will listen to everything without pausing. At the same time it has debuted related developer tools, new features, and the ability to display web content on its Smart Display hardware using the AMP component framework.…
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