Court voids 34,000 unfair Fuji Xerox contracts

Required customers to pay for software they did not receive, among other sins | Continue reading


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SmartNICs to make up 38% of network market by 2026

Dell'Oro sees traditional NICs being displaced for most hyperscale cloud infrastructure | Continue reading


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Homes in London under threat as datacenters pull in all the power

Barrier to building homes in overcrowded city? An overdrawn electricity grid | Continue reading


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Linux 6.0 to arrive soon, along with performance gains

Don't panic if you're not a fan of big changes… it's 5.20 by another name | Continue reading


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Boffins rate NPM and PyPI package security

Guess what? Open source security still has gaps | Continue reading


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DOE digs up molten salt nuclear reactor tech, Los Alamos to lead the way back

The collaborative effort pits supercomputers against the agency's corrosive reactor research | Continue reading


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Patch Tuesday: Yet another Microsoft RCE bug under active exploit

Oh, and that critical VMware auth bypass vuln? Miscreants found it, too | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Iran cheerfully admits using cryptocurrency to pay for imports

Trade minister says to expect more of this sanctions-busting stuff starting in September | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

NetBSD 9.3: A 2022 OS that can run on late-1980s hardware

Need a cold shower? This is xNix like Windows users imagine it still is | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

The many derivatives of CP/M – and which of them are now FOSS?

After a long and surprisingly varied dynasty, it's possible they're all FOSS now | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Foxconn will have to forget about investing in Tsinghua Unigroup

International relations are hot as chips, and Taiwan cannot afford to empower China | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Nvidia banks $1.32b inventory charge as PC market slows

Gaming product sell-through projection declines but datacenter division sales soar | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Clean up orbit first, then we can think about space factories, says FCC

It's hard to make things out there when dust-sized particles can destroy them | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

NASA's six-mile-wide orbital telescope is 1/6th built

Interferometry will be used to turn six toaster-sized satellites into one giant solar observatory | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash

If you're looking for free speech or privacy, move along | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

How TSMC killed 450mm wafers for fear of Intel, Samsung

You can be a big fish in a big ocean or a small fish in a tiny pond with two leviathans.. how times changed | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Electrical explosion at Google datacenter injures three

Search, Maps and YouTube later suffer brief outages - nothing as concerning as the injuries suffered by workers | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Australia crowdsources a business case for central bank digital currencies

Ring-fenced tests planned, despite previous regulatory skepticism about the need for fiat digi-dollars | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Tiers before bedtime: AWS updates Lambda pricing structure

'Time to update your spreadsheets,' expert says of 'inscrutable' changes | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Google's ChromeOS Flex turned my old MacBook into new frustrations

Google says this is ‘modern’ computing – if so it feels like a backward step | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Slack leaked hashed passwords from its servers for years

Users who created shared invitation links for their workspace had login details slip out among encrypted traffic | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

China allows robo taxis – without backup drivers – in parts of two major cities

Baidu gets the fare in Chongqing and Wuhan | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

UK wants criminal migrants to scan their faces up to five times day using watch

Plus: Meta launches prototype AI chatbot, and cities reverse facial recognition bans | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Ransomware Negotiator Is a Thing

What it's like bargaining with criminals ... and advising clients suffering their worst day yet | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Meta approves four programming languages for workers and developers

Rust never sleeps and is henceforth welcome for backend services and CLI tools | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Nomad to crypto thieves: Please give us back 90%, keep 10% as a reward. Deal?

The Feds may see things differently | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Intel's Legacy Is Eroding

Can Pat stop the rot – or is the chip giant facing a Kodak moment? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Backblaze research: Hard drive failures creep up as disks age

Some stats for those wondering when their models will be next | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Apple tells suppliers use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing

That's the way the Cook he crumbles | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Enough with the Notifications

An app will always find a way to interrupt what you’re doing | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

One to watch: Open-source code that measures your exposure to CCTV

Like a Geiger counter but for surveillance cameras | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Gitlab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

Now makes vague pledge to shove inactive repos into slow object storage | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Teams goes native with Apple, but retains a human touch

There'll be a welcome in valleys of Wales for language translation | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Post-quantum crypto cracked in an hour with one core of an ancient Xeon

NIST's nifty new algorithm looks like it's in trouble | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

ASX's project to replace trading systems with blockchain stumble again

Accenture roped in to find the weakest link | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US Education officials urged to curb student snoopware

Or just see it as preparing them for the future | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Gitlab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts [rumor]

Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Chip startup alleges Cadence sabotaged processor rollout

Tachyum points to alleged deep conflicts of interest as source of delays | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Fights, floods, and fortunes when cloud giants roll into town

Small-town troubles go hyperscale in one Virginia county over land, resources, and noise | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

When lapping the computer room in F1 chairs goes bad

There's nothing to do. Oh look, the chairs have wheels... | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

IBM board probes claims of fudged sales figures and big bonuses for execs

Law firm hired, special panel formed to look into allegations | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Nancy Pelosi ties Chinese cyber-attacks to need for Taiwan visit

And is if to confirm the link, a DDoS takes out Taiwan's presidential website ahead of senior politico's arrival | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Apple sued by French media over App Store power

Gros fromages take on big Pomme | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US regulators set the stage for small, local nuclear power stations

What could go wrong? Study finds waste is more reactive, making it more dangerous | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

WhatsApp boss says no to AI filters policing encrypted chat

'What's being proposed is that we ... read everyone's messages. I don't think people want that' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Bad news, older tech workers: Job advert language works against you

And there's a study now to prove it – science! | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Miscreants aim to cause Discord discord with malicious NPM packages

LofyLife campaign comes amid GitHub security lockdown | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Bot army risk as 3k apps found spilling Twitter API keys

Please stop leaving credentials where miscreants can find them | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago