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VMware waves goodbye to AWS middleman as Broadcom takes the reins
Customers brace for bumpy ride Updated Broadcom has ended the right of Amazon Web Services to resell VMware Cloud on AWS, meaning customers will now have a direct relationship only with VMware by Broadcom, casting doubt over the long-term future of the product....
Valve vexation: Boeing's Starliner grounded again
Problems with Centaur rocket keeps first crewed flight on terra firma Boeing's long-delayed Starliner crewed launch, which was scheduled for today, has been postponed yet again, this time due to a valve problem on the Centaur upper stage. Managers pushed back the next attempt to no earlier than May 10....
Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world'
Oh, and Alex Karp's forecasts disappoint the market after strong revenue growth Analytics platform biz Palantir saw its share price dip yesterday despite posting on-the-nose revenue growth of 21 percent year-over-year to reach $634 million in the first calendar quarter....
TSMC fully booked on advanced packaging until 2025
TrendForce warns of 'potential crowding out effects on HBM' TSMC's advanced packaging capacity is fully booked for the next two years, thanks to Nvidia and AMD needs, according to reports that echo an earlier earnings call....
Spanish startups say 'no más' to Microsoft cloud dominance
Group alleges anticompetitive behavior Updated Microsoft is facing a complaint over alleged anticompetitive practices in the Spanish cloud market....
The truth about KEV: CISA’s vuln deadlines good influence on private-sector patching
More work to do as most deadlines are missed and worst bugs still take months to fix The deadlines associated with CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog only apply to federal agencies, but fresh research shows they're having a positive impact on private organizations too....
Physical security biz exposes 1.2M files via unprotected database
Thousands of guards' ID cards and CCTV snaps of suspects found online Exclusive A UK-based physical security business let its guard down, exposing nearly 1.3 million documents via a public-facing database, according to an infosec researcher....
A tale of two Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still get to say no
Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as bad Opinion Which China do you want? The innovative good global citizen, adding to the storehouse of knowledge while making better products and services? Or the autocracy, determined to advance the interests of the leadership through any and all means, untrammeled by legal safeguards within its borders and, wherever possible, outside them?...
First 9front release of the year is called DO NOT INSTALL
Possibly its most helpful codename yet 9front, the most active project continuing development of the sequel to Unix, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, emitted a new version. We did not follow its advice....
Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names
What next, trouble at tmill? A row in the UK has locals and council members at odds over apostrophes, and yes - this does actually have a tech angle....
Ransomware evolves from mere extortion to 'psychological attacks'
Crims SIM swap execs' kids to freak out their parents, Mandiant CTO says RSAC Ransomware infections have morphed into "a psychological attack against the victim organization," as criminals use increasingly personal and aggressive tactics to force victims to pay up, according to Google-owned Mandiant....
Google, Meta, Spotify break Apple's device fingerprinting rules – new claim
And the iOS titan doesn't seem that bothered with data leaking out Last week, Apple began requiring iOS developers justify the use of a specific set of APIs that could be used for device fingerprinting. Yet the iGiant doesn't appear to be making much effort to ensure that Google, Meta, and Spotify comply with the rules, it's claimed....
Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs
Microsoft-backed super-lab gets direct access to answers - and code forum gets its own AI Stack Overflow, a community-driven Q&A site, and OpenAI, maker of AI models, have agreed to work to improve each other's products, the latest deal in a series of tie-ups to feed machine learning models' thirst for data....
Fed-run LockBit site back from the dead and vows to really spill the beans on gang
After very boring first reveal, this could be the real deal Cops around the world have relaunched LockBit's website after they shut it down in February - and it's now counting down the hours to reveal documents that could unmask the ransomware group....
Semiconductor digital twins to sip $285M from America's CHIPS Act funding pool
Fake it until you make it, literally The US government on Monday earmarked $285 million in CHIPS Act funding for the development of semiconductor digital twins....
Mastodon delays firm fix for link previews DDoSing sites
Decentralization is great until everyone wants to grab data from your web server Updated Mastodon has pushed back an update that's expected to fully address the issue of link previews sparking accidental distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks....
Warren Buffett voices AI fears, likens tech to atom bomb
'Used in a pro-social way, it's got terrific benefits to society. But, I don't know how you make sure that happens' Video You can add Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett to the list of folks worried about the implications of artificial intelligence on society....
Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480K
And you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciation The Cheyenne Supercomputer, a 5.34 peak PFLOPS behemoth that was once one of the fastest systems in the world, has just been sold at auction for $480,085....
Consultant charged over $1.5M extortion scheme against IT giant
Accused of stealing data after losing his job A cybersecurity expert could face a 20-year prison sentence after being accused of trying to extort a multinational IT infrastructure services biz to the tune of $1.5 million....
Three years on from Biden infosec EO, and we're still trying to check all the boxes
It's taking time, but isn't a dead issue, US Government Accountability Office security director Marisol Cruz Cain says interview It's been several years since President Biden signed an executive order to improve America's cybersecurity. The US Government Accountability Office said recently there's still a number of critical goals stemming from that order to accomplish....
CISA says 'no more' to decades-old directory traversal bugs
Recent attacks on healthcare thrust infosec agency into alert mode CISA is calling on the software industry to stamp out directory traversal vulnerabilities following recent high-profile exploits of the 20-year-old class of bugs....
Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10?
Users continue to give Microsoft's latest and greatest a wide berth According to market share figures from Statcounter, the gap between Windows 11 and Windows 10 usage is slightly growing, and not in a way we imagine Microsoft wants....
Undersea bit-barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server system
Testing platform for those 'unfamiliar with the subsea environment' Subsea Cloud is offering potential customers the chance to try out its underwater datacenter facilities for up to 90 days before making any further commitments, in a bid to attract new customers to the project....
Techie's enthusiasm for decluttering fails to spark joy
Thankfully, luck - and a handy greybeard - came to the rescue Who, me? Welcome once again, dear readerfolk, to the sanctuary of Who, Me? in which Register readers can recount the times when their technical skills abandoned them, even if momentarily, without fear of judgment....
Germany points finger at Fancy Bear for widespread 2023 hacks, DDoS attacks
ALSO: Microsoft promises to git gud on cybersecurity; unqualified attackers are targeting your water systems, and more infosec in brief It was just around a year ago that a spate of allegedly Russian-orchestrated cyberattacks hit government agencies in Germany, and now German officials claim to know for a fact who did it: APT28, or Fancy Bear, a Russian threat actor linked to the GRU intelligence service....
Google to relocate some US jobs to India and Mexico
PLUS: Taiwan's subsea cables, Paytm says goodbye to its CEO, China uses WhatsApp despite roadblocks, and more. ASIA IN BRIEF Google announced the layoff of 200 of its core team professionals last week while moving some roles to India and Mexico, according to reports....
Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off
When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless Retrospective Ten years ago Microsoft absorbed the handset division of Nokia. The world's biggest operating systems vendor was going mobile in a big way, and buying the erstwhile world leader in mobile phones to ensure its success....
End-to-end encryption may be the bane of cops, but they can't close that Pandora's Box
Internet Society's Robin Wilton tells us the war on privacy won't be won by the plod interview Police can complain all they like about strong end-to-end encryption making their jobs harder, but it doesn't matter because the technology is here and won't go away....
Dating apps kiss'n'tell all sorts of sensitive personal info
Privacy Not Included label slapped on 22 of 25 top lonely-hearts corners Interview Dating apps ask people to disclose all kinds of personal information in the hope of them finding love, or at least a hook-up....
Microsoft doesn't want cops using Azure AI for facial recognition
Facial recognition based on body cam footage? Absolutely not ... in our cloud, says Microsoft An update to Microsoft's Azure Open AI Service code of conduct makes it clear who Redmond doesn't want using its hottest new tech: Cops....
What do we make of Apple's plan B for a down quarter – that $110B buyback of shares?
Plus: What our vultures thought of the US v Google trial that's wrapping up Kettle Apple had a moderately glum first three months of the year, though the iGiant found a way to keep the most important people happy. Yes, we mean Wall St....
Oracle's database family gets trendy AI makeover
Say goodbye to 23c and hello to 23ai Oracle has celebrated the general availability of its latest database upgrade by renaming it....
Relax, Google's drop in search market share in April was just an illusion
Decline shown in data from StatCounter attributed to 'anomaly' Google's share of web searches appeared to suffer an unusually large drop in April, according to StatCounter. But the metrics biz now says that's incorrect....
RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan
Meanwhile, Alma Linux gets into supercomputers Good news for users of RHEL versions old and new - and for the freebie CentOS Linux 7, which is approaching its end of life next month....
Kaspersky hits back at claims its AI helped Russia develop military drone systems
Ready, set, sanctions? AI built by Russian infosec firm Kaspersky was used in Russian drones for its war on Ukraine, volunteer intelligence gatherers claim....
AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism
Devotees were speaking to an entity who didn't exist - imagine that An attempt by a Catholic advocacy group to spread the word of God using an AI model has backfired, and chat bot - Father Justin - has been pulled down and reworked....
BASICally still alive: Classic language celebrates 60 years with new code and old quirks
Visual Small BASIC, Chloe System, and QB64 Phoenix all updated May Day 2024 was the 60th anniversary of the BASICprogramming language, and multiple FOSS BASIC-related projects released new versions in celebration....
AWS promotes itself as alternative to its own VMware service
Why? Maybe because it looks likely VMw Cloud on Amazon is changing Amazon Web Services is doing something rather odd - promoting itself as a migration target for users of its own VMware Cloud on AWS service....
It may take decade to shore up software supply chain security, says infosec CEO
Sure, we're waking to the risk, but we gotta get outta bed, warns Endor Labs founder Varun Badhwar interview The more cybersecurity news you read, the more often you seem to see a familiar phrase: Software supply chain (SSC) vulnerabilities. Varun Badhwar, founder and CEO at security firm Endor Labs, doesn't believe that's by coincidence....
Apple confirms iPadOS will fall under its Alternative Business Terms in the EU
Cupertino drops the Core Technology Fee for hobbyist developers with no revenue Apple is reluctantly bowing to the European Commission's demands that it align iPadOS with the changes planned for iOS. It has also grudgingly added two conditions in which the Core Technology Fee will not apply....
China 'the most competitive market in the world' for the iPhone says Tim Cook
Put another way, iPhone sales were down 8% Apple CEO Tim Cook called China "the most competitive market in the world" on the back of a somewhat poor quarter for the iPhone....
Windows users left to fend for themselves after BitLocker patch bungle
Need a bigger partition for the update? You'll be manually resizing it then Microsoft has decided that there will be no automatic resolution for a problem with some Windows 10 devices as they attempted to install a BitLocker security vulnerability patch....
Irish government hands Intel millions to offset energy price hikes
Euro facility reportedly qualified under Ukraine Enterprise Crisis Scheme Intel was awarded 30 million ($32.2 million) by Ireland last year as part of a state aid package for companies affected by energy price increases....
Clock is ticking for NASA to fix bucket of issues before next Artemis mission
Heat shield that looks like the surface of the Moon plus fiberglass doors on the launch platform on the list A report from the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) provides new insight into the heat shield and power problems that bedeviled its Orion capsule in the uncrewed Artemis I mission and delayed the agency's first crewed mission to the Moon in more than half a century....
Cloud Big Three take lion's share as market expands 21%
Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022 The global cloud market showed strong growth for the first quarter of this year, with the big three providers continuing to consolidate their stranglehold over this vital area of IT services....
Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papers
If you read about 'meticulous commendable intricacy' there's a chance a boffin had help Linguistic and statistical analyses of scientific articles suggest that generative AI may have been used to write an increasingly large amount of scientific literature....
Atlassian outsources office drudgery to GenAI agents
Rovo will write to-do lists, create graphics, become virtual colleagues to whom you offload scutwork Atlassian is the latest vendor to have a crack at addressing the perennial problem of enterprises scattering data across multiple applications and then finding it's impossible to understand what's happening and why....
UK inertia on LLMs and copyright is 'de facto endorsement'
Lords committee slams government response to complaints from creators A committee of UK legislators has slammed the government for its response to alleged copyright theft as a "de facto endorsement" of the way tech companies build large language models....
I can fix this PC, boss, but I’ll need to play games for hours to do it
Loyal Wingman has fond memories of memory register exceptions On Call The working week is no game, which is why The Register eases readers into the weekend with a fresh instalment of On Call - our weekly reader-contribute tales recalling the lighter side of tech support....
Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon
Relax! It's for low-gravity exercise Astronauts living on the Moon will need to maintain a strict exercise regimen to avoid physical deterioration due to the low gravity, and one proposed solution will have them bouncing off the walls to do so....
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