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State-by-state is the best approach for right to repair, says advocacy leader

27.04.2024 17:22

Gay Gordon-Byrne of the Repair Association says US at least is nearing a tipping point Interview There's a lot of momentum behind the right-to-repair movement, and if anyone should know, it'd be Gay G...

Raspberry Pi adds more memory to the Compute Module 4S

27.04.2024 14:30

Compute Module 5 still on track for later this year New memory variants were this week launched for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module family. Customers can now specify a 4S with 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB, as we...

The hyper-clouds are open source's friends

27.04.2024 13:30

No, really. Look at the evidence Opinion One of the knee-jerk arguments made by companies abandoning their open source roots is that they can't make money because the bad hyper-cloud companies "steal"...

Workday abandons new-build Dublin office project

27.04.2024 11:30

Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead SaaS biz application vendor Workday has pulled out of a new-build development in Dublin as it rethinks plans to expand EMEA HQ.â¦ ...

NASA's Psyche hits 25 Mbps from 140 million miles away â enough for Ultra HD Netflix

27.04.2024 10:30

Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates NASA's optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (2...

Big Cloud is still making bank â Is this AI adoption, price rises, or what?

27.04.2024 01:58

Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all? Kettle This week a chunk of Big Tech reported its latest quarterly financial figures, and our beady eyes were on whether the ongoi...

Ex-Space Shuttle boss corrects the record on Hubble upgrade mission

27.04.2024 01:00

Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth Former Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale has posted a correction to NASA's history of STS-109, which he claims "is a lie" - althoug...

Jensen Huang and Sam Altman among tech chiefs invited to federal AI Safety Board

27.04.2024 00:00

Stacking the deck â we've heard of it Leaders of the world's most prominent AI companies are being recruited for the Homeland Security Department's new advisory group.â¦

ASML caves to US pressure to cease servicing some kit used by Chinese customers

26.04.2024 23:00

Not even maintenance is OK in the eyes of the Uncle Sam Under US pressure, Dutch photolithography giant ASML will no longer service certain chipmaking equipment purchased by Chinese customers.â¦ ...

Microsoft dusts off ancient MS-DOS 4.0 code for release on GitHub

26.04.2024 22:00

Nobody's favorite operating system is now available for inspection In partnership with IBM, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0, more than 35 years since the operating system made a ...

Two indicted for 'illegally exporting' chip gear from US to China

26.04.2024 21:00

One Chinese national arrested in Chicago while another suspect thought to be abroad Two Chinese nationals were this week accused by the US of attempting to illegally export chipmaking kit to a company...

Kaiser Permanente handed over 13.4M people's data to Microsoft, Google, others

26.04.2024 20:14

Ouch! Millions of Kaiser Permanente patients' data was likely handed over to Google, Microsoft Bing, X/Twitter, and other third-parties, according to the American healthcare giant.â¦...

Amazon to ditch WorkDocs sharing service, support countdown begins

26.04.2024 20:00

Cloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order Updated Amazon is killing its WorkDocs document sharing and content collaboration service, notifying...

Huawei and pals reportedly plan to produce high bandwidth memory by 2026

26.04.2024 19:00

Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another... A group of Chinese semiconductor firms including Huawei are reportedly looking to get domestic production of high bandwidth memory (HBM) up an...

Second time lucky for Thoma Bravo, which scoops up Darktrace for $5.3B

26.04.2024 18:00

Analysts brand deal a 'nail in the coffin' for UK tech investment Private equity investor Thoma Bravo has successfully completed a second acquisition attempt of UK-based cybersecurity company Darktrac...

The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!

26.04.2024 17:00

Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential Feature The Z80 has a long series of successor models â some compatible and some not. There are multiple options for hobbyist comput...

Encrypted email service files DMA complaint claiming it vanished from Google Search

26.04.2024 16:00

Tuta cries foul, Chocolate Factory denies service unreachable Tutao, known for the encrypted email service Tuta Mail, has filed a Digital Markets Act (DMA) complaint to the EU over an alleged de-ranki...

TikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Reg

26.04.2024 15:00

Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario' interview It didn't seem America's divest-or-ban bill for TikTok was going to make it into law when we last spoke with former White House...

UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition

26.04.2024 14:00

Only minor changes from original proposals that kicked up privacy storm The UK's contentious Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill (IPB) 2024 has officially received the King's nod of approval and wil...

45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup

26.04.2024 13:00

Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works Exclusive Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the li...

IBM and LzLabs to clash in UK court over Software Defined Mainframe

26.04.2024 12:15

Already facing off against each other in Texas over separate reverse engineering claims IBM and LzLabs are to lock horns in a London court next week over Big Blue's claim of breach of contract relatin...

UK agriculture department slammed for paper pushing despite tech splurges

26.04.2024 11:30

Defra is counting contractors like sheep The UK agriculture department is "working towards" getting consultant and contractor numbers down to less than a quarter of its tech and digital transformation...

Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right

26.04.2024 09:32

Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways On Call As another week drains down the plughole of history, it's time for The Register to once again deliver a fresh instalmen...

VMwareâs end-user compute community told to brace for âOmnissaâ shift

26.04.2024 08:33

Cloudy hosts given short license change deadlines, customers warned of support portal brownouts VMware by Broadcomâs breakup with its end-user compute products will enter a new phase next week, w...

Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping, researchers claim

26.04.2024 07:33

Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers...

Atlassian loses half its CEOs, but customers stay solid after Server products exit support

26.04.2024 04:58

Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down in August, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes alone at the top of the Aus...

Intel excited by PC sales pop and GPU prospects, but investors arenât because the outlook is poor

26.04.2024 03:57

Chipzilla's Foundry business weighs down the Gelsinger gang - for now Intel has reported double-digit growth in client computing revenue, growing demand for AI PCs, and promised of strong gains in the...

What's up with Alphabet and Microsoft lately? Profits, sales â and AI costs

26.04.2024 02:02

If ML proves an expensive habit in future, these money printers won't have much to worry about ... probably Alphabet and Microsoft's stock prices jumped in after-hours trading today after the AI-infat...

Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns

26.04.2024 00:34

Talk about going round the (South) Bend Amazon Web Services (AWS) is adding $11 billion of datacenter capacity in St Joseph County outside South Bend, Indiana, the cloud giant announced Thursday.â�...

Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip

25.04.2024 23:43

Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impers...

Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls'

25.04.2024 23:03

Cash to go out as refunds to punters The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.â¦ ...

ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off

25.04.2024 22:08

As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts Between shutting down or selling TikTok, owner ByteDance would prefer doing the former.â¦

FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead

25.04.2024 21:14

Law responds again to pings The FCC voted Thursday to restore America's net neutrality rules, nearly seven years after they were taken offline.â¦

Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset

25.04.2024 20:45

Pulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company Interview Infrastructure as code biz Pulumi has updated its eponymous Deployments product with drift detection and automated ...

Two cuffed in Samourai Wallet crypto dirty money sting

25.04.2024 19:15

Suspects in Portugal and the US said to have laundered over $100M Two men alleged to be co-founders of cryptocurrency biz Samourai Wallet face serious charges and potentially decades in US prison over...

TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026

25.04.2024 18:30

Watch out Intel ... Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming Semiconductor giant TSMC has disclosed details of a process technology called A16 that could be delivering the first...

Spotify claims Apple wants 'tax' for in-app pricing tweak

25.04.2024 17:54

App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules Spotify claims Apple rejected an update to the popular music streaming app that would have informed users about purchase methods outside of the Apple ec...

DARPA's latest toy is a 20-foot, 12-ton tank that drives itself

25.04.2024 17:00

Crew entirely optional DARPA has been working on off-road autonomous vehicles for decades, and now it has a combat-scale unmanned tank to show.â¦

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

25.04.2024 16:30

Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place Birmingham City Council, Europe's biggest local authority, has no way of knowing if financial fraud has been committed after ...

SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom

25.04.2024 16:00

Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech The global AI infrastructure buying frenzy is still in full swing â so much so that it has pushed the world's second largest...

Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers

25.04.2024 15:34

Google security crew reveal âthe four Dsâ to be on the watch for It may come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that experts say, in revealing the most prevalent and likely tactics to meddle...

Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money

25.04.2024 15:00

Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst? Meta's shares tumbled after company boss Mark Zuckerberg said the quiet bit out loud: it will take a while before AI bets start paying b...

Atos hopes for lifeline as refinancing saga set to drag on into May

25.04.2024 14:35

Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 results Crisis-hit tech giant Atos is pushing back the deadline for its refinancing proposals after posting a slim operating profit of â¬48 mill...

Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night

25.04.2024 13:45

What do we say to the God of Death? Not today Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has woken up again, having survived three lunar nights.â¦

Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison

25.04.2024 13:00

The software redemption Teaching prisoners how to design and program websites turns out to improve their sense of self-worth and provides them with digital literacy skills that help them stay out of p...

Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell

25.04.2024 12:19

The Thermonator can be yours for just $9,420 Picture Boston Dynamics' nightmare fuel robot dog Spot. Now imagine it 1,000 percent more terrifying.â¦

Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble

25.04.2024 11:34

Tech giants confident everything's in order UK regulators want to hear from "interested third parties" on whether Microsoft and Amazon's investments in AI startups is impeding competition.â¦...

BMW calls for vendor openness in quest to mine its own processes

25.04.2024 10:30

'Software companies try to extend their reach and their usage, but this can't be by locking in users,' says process mining lead BMW's process mining leader has called for greater openness among enterp...

Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful

25.04.2024 09:26

Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters Systems Approach Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?)...

Indian bankâs IT is so shabby itâs been banned from opening new accounts

25.04.2024 08:29

After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank Indiaâs central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or...