12-06-22 -

SAP still struggling to covert ECC customers to S/4HANA, says Gartner
Latest platform software has not been licensed by two-thirds of legacy users, despite strong growth New data from Gartner suggests that SAP is continuing to struggle to get users from its legacy ERP platform ECC onto the latest version: S/4HANA, l...

12-06-22 -

KmsdBot botnet is down after operator sends typo in command
Cashdollar - 'It’s not often we get this kind of story in security' Somewhere out there, a botnet operator is kicking themselves and probably hoping no one noticed the typo they transmitted in a command that crashed their whole operation. …

12-06-22 -

Not all vendors' Arm-powered kit is created equally, benchmark fan finds
Shiny silicon plus Rusty drivers will eventually equal openly saucy happiness Arm-powered laptops and desktops are appearing on the market, but external appearances are deceptive. These are very different from familiar x86-based PCs, as the accoun...

12-06-22 -

Durham Uni and Dell co-design systems to help model the universe
A particle physicist, an astronomer and a cosmologist meet in a bar. You what, COSMA8? The James Webb Space Telescope has served up impressive views of the cosmos since the first images were revealed back in July, but it is also providing data to ...

12-06-22 -

Rights groups threaten legal action over NHS data pilot based on Palantir tech
'Acute and justifiable fear' in the way patient data is set to be processed, campaigners warn An NHS pilot to upload patient data in a data analytics system based on tech from Palantir is the subject of a legal threat from campaign groups who clai...

12-06-22 -

How do you solve the problem that is Twitter?
Technically and leadership-wise what site needs is stability Opinion It's a toss-up between Elon Musk's management misadventures and Twitter's technical troubles as to which will cause the most damage. …

12-06-22 -

Woman fakes pregnancy to smuggle hundreds of CPUs, iPhones into China
Now that's what we call Intel Inside If you think you can fool customs officials into believing you are pregnant and not, in fact, smuggling hundreds of Intel processors and iPhones in a prosthetic strapped to your belly, think again.…

12-06-22 -

Boeing swipes at Starlink as it finishes two internet slinging satellites
5,000 redirectable beams in each bird Boeing has delivered a pair of O3b mPOWER satellites to telecom network provider SES – and had a dig at rival space broadband technologies along the way.…

12-06-22 -

Cisco wriggles out from $2 billion bill for willful and egregious patent infr...
Supreme Court won’t revisit case after agreeing conflict of interest trumped tech Cisco has managed to avoid a $2-plus billion payment for patent infringement on a technicality hat has nothing to do with the patents.…

12-06-22 -

FTX Japan would let customers withdraw funds if only anyone could log in
Add a busted tech platform to the list of the company's sins FTX's Japanese outpost has teased good news for investors in the collapsed and disgraced trading platform – then dashed their hopes.…

12-06-22 -

Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan
Good luck with that, Zuck – remember how it worked out in Australia? Meta, the social media conglomerate formerly known as Facebook, has threatened to remove news from its platforms if the US adopts a law that would force it to negotiate with pu...

12-05-22 -

China regulates use of motion detection to trigger smartphone ads
'Shake to jump' technique nixed a year after top apps put it to work China's Telecommunication Terminal Industry Forum Association (TAF) has issued a raft of new regulations – including one that sets rules for when motion sensors can trigger sma...

12-05-22 -

Industrial robots in China push people out of jobs, slash wages
Exposed to 'droids? Symptoms may include disinterest, unemployment, lower pay, along with a bit of depopulation Exposure to industrial robots in the workplace leads to less participation in the labor force, less employment, and less pay, according...

12-05-22 -

TSA to expand facial recognition across America
System is optional, for the moment The US Transport Security Administration has been testing facial recognition software to automatically screen passengers flying across the country in 16 airports, and is looking at rolling it out nationwide next ...

12-05-22 -

International identity thieves arrested in IRS tax refund scam
We're not talking princes here Four men have been arrested on wire fraud and identity theft charges, and now face extradition to the US for their alleged roles in a conspiracy that involved breaking into US companies' servers, stealing personally ...

12-05-22 -

Four suspects cuffed, face extradition over tax refund scam plot
We're not talking princes here Four men have been arrested on wire fraud and identity theft charges, and now face extradition to the US for their alleged roles in a conspiracy that involved breaking into US companies' servers, stealing personally ...

12-05-22 -

Adobe to sell AI-generated images on its stock photo platform
Contributors will have to disclose whether their work was made using AI, and are not allowed rip off artists Adobe will sell AI-generated images on its stock image platform, despite concerns the technology raises potential copyright issues, the co...

12-05-22 -

Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina
You don't have to be a coder to drop the grid when blunt tools are around Officials in Moore County, North Carolina, declared a state of emergency on Sunday after gunfire \damaged an electrical substation and left 45,000 homes and businesses witho...

12-05-22 -

Google warns stolen Android keys used to sign info-stealing malware
OEMs including Samsung, LG and Mediatek named and shamed Compromised Android platform certificate keys from device makers including Samsung, LG and Mediatek are being used to sign malware and deploy spyware, among other software nasties.…

12-05-22 -

Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues
High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans OpenAI's question-answering bot, ChatGPT, isn't smart enough for the team at Stack Overflow, who today announced a temporary ban on answers generated by the AI bot because of ho...

12-05-22 -

GlobalFoundries plans up to 800 layoffs despite reporting record profits
Record income? Tick. CHIPS Act subsidies coming? Tick. Yet chipmaker tries to make Wall Stret happier still US contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries plans to lay off as many as 800 employees, proving that job security is not a foregone conclusion for...

12-05-22 -

US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy
Socio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers The health benefits of replacing fossil fuel-burning power plants with wind energy are quantifiable, says the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...

12-05-22 -

Fancy some fresh Linux Mint? 21.1 enters beta, should be here by Christmas
If you like the flavor of Cinnamon, good news: you'll get a new version The first beta version of Mint 21.1 is now available for download, and the flagship Cinnamon desktop edition contains the biggest change, with a new version of the desktop.…

12-05-22 -

Yandex signs up Putin ally to help with restructuring
Alexei Kudrin, former head of Russia's Audit Chamber, to advise on corporate development Ten days after Yandex confirmed a review of its operations that include moving IP out of Russia and selling much of the remainder locals, it has hired an ally...

12-05-22 -

You're getting warmer: Nasa's thermal mole reveals active mantle plume on Mars
Discovery shows 'astrobiological potential of subsurface habitable environments,' researchers say Researchers have discovered a driver for volcanic activity on Mars, a red planet once thought to have no active seismic geology.…

12-05-22 -

Working Apple-1 'Byte Shop' computer expected to fetch $375k+
What do you mean, you don't think historic handwriting is worth it? A "clean and unused" prototype Apple-1 that actually works has been put up for auction by purveyor of Curpertino relics RR Auctions.…

12-05-22 -

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest
Microsoft releases out of box experience update to simplify and speed up migrations Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to nudge laggards toward Windows 11 amid a migration pace that company executives would undoubtedly prefer is rather f...

12-05-22 -

Startup raises $30 million for wireless power delivery system
Not the first company in the game to chase cable-free charging dragon A wireless power startup has secured $30 million in funding to help develop its technology, with which it aims to "do for power what Wi-Fi has done for data."…

12-05-22 -

Quantum computing is a different kind of computing, says AWS
The intersection of computer science and physics RE:INVENT "It's very early days in quantum computing," Simone Severini, director of Quantum Computing at AWS tells The Reg.…

12-05-22 -

Tech contractor who uses an umbrella company? UK tax is coming after them
Britain's wallet-checkers suspect VAT avoidance from some of them – to the tune of 10,000-case tribunal backlog Britain's tax collection agency is clamping down on umbrella companies used by contractors to pay their dues, with 10,000 outstanding...

12-05-22 -

A brand new Linux DRM display driver for a 1992 computer
680x0: the CPU architecture that just will not die Feature A patch to add a new display driver for Linux is being reviewed. What's unusual is that it's for a machine released 30 years ago.…

12-05-22 -

Killing trees with lasers isnt cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better?
Imagine there's no printer drivers. It's easy if you can... Long-term dot matrix printer maker Epson has just announced it is ending its 35 year long experiment in selling laser-powered printer hardware. From 2026, the company says it'll be inkjet...

12-05-22 -

Square Kilometre Array Observatory construction commences
World's biggest radio telescope to have first parts up and running by 2024 After thirty years of development, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) announced Monday it has commenced construction of its radio telescopes in both South Africa...

12-05-22 -

Programming error created billion-dollar mistake that made the coder ... a hero?
No crypto needed, just a project with a tough deadline that nobody minded missing who, me? Ah, dear readers, welcome once again to Who, Me? in which Reg readers confess the times their reach exceeded their grasp, technology-wise-speaking.…

12-05-22 -

Remuneration coming for TrustCor customers impacted by CA revocation
Also, a Capone henchman lands behind bars, while nearly 9/10 DoD contract firms fail security standards In brief Certificate Authority TrustCor responded to its ejection from Mozilla and Microsoft's browsers by offering refunds for some customers,...

12-04-22 -

Rackspace customers rage as email outage continues and migrations create migr...
Hosting company has nothing to say on data loss, restore times, or root cause Rackspace has not offered any explanation of the "security incident" that has taken out its hosted Exchange environment and led the company to predict multiple...

12-04-22 -

Linux 6.1 gets an eighth release candidate and Linus Torvalds is OK with that
Kernel devs offer emperor penguin early gifts of code for version 6.2 Linus Torvalds has announced an eighth release candidate for version 6.1 of the Linux kernel.…

12-04-22 -

US ends case against Huawei CFO who holed up in Canada for three years
Wanzhou Meng hasn't re-offended, so last possible charges have been dismissed The USA's case against Huawei CFO and chair Wanzhuo Meng has ended.…

12-04-22 -

Microsoft hikes prices in India by up to eleven percent
PLUS: Eight million more outsourced jobs for India; Australia warns on IoT shoe risks; Equinix enters Malaysia Asia In Brief Microsoft has quietly announced big price rises for its software and services in India.…

12-03-22 -

OpenAI opens doors to ChatGPT, another AI to fill the world with kinda-true s...
Plus: DeepMind beats humans at Stratego In brief OpenAI has released a new language model named ChatGPT this week, which is designed to mimic human conversations.…

12-03-22 -

Rackspace rocked by security incident that has taken out hosted Exchange serv...
Warns recovery could take several days Some of Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange services have been taken down by what the company has described as a “security incident”.…

12-03-22 -

After lunar orbit trip NASA's Orion capsule is on its way back home
Heat shield will be put to the test for the first time, what could go wrong? NASA's Orion capsule, designed to send the next crew of astronauts to the Moon, is heading back to Earth after spending some time in a distant retrograde orbit above the ...

12-02-22 -

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies
'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence' In Palmdale, California on Friday, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden revealed a US Air Force warplane that had only been shown in artist renderings and is supposed to be seldom seen, the B-21 ...

12-02-22 -

Datacenter switching surged everywhere except Europe last quarter
Economic headwinds, surging energy prices batter EMEA switch sales Improving supply chains coupled with unrelenting demand from cloud service providers kept the datacenter switching market on a positive trajectory in Q3.…

12-02-22 -

Medibank prognosis gets worse after more stolen data leaked
Plus Australia launches an investigation into insurer's data privacy practices Australian health insurer Medibank's prognosis following an October data breach keeps getting worse as criminals dumped another batch of stolen customer data on the dar...

12-02-22 -

Google says Android runs better when covered in Rust
Banishing memory safety bugs cuts critical vulnerabilities Google has been integrating code written in the Rust programming language into its Android operating system since 2019 and its efforts have paid off in the form of fewer vulnerabilities.…

12-02-22 -

FBI warns about Cuba, no, not that one the ransomware gang
Critical infrastructure attacks ramping up The US government has issued an alert about Cuba; not the state but a ransomware gang that's taking millions in purloined profits.…

12-02-22 -

US chip group: $52b is not enough, we need an extra $30b in federal funding
We need more free money from the government say silicon salesfolks America's top booster for federal semiconductor aid is arguing that the country needs to spend tens of billions more in silicon incentives to ensure it doesn't lose leadership in c...

12-02-22 -

Twitter tries to lure brands back with spend-matching scheme
Spend $500k and we'll double your money, but please ignore the trolls Twitter is reportedly trying to plug its drop in advertising revenues by concocting a series of inducements to convince some brands that have paused spending on the platform to ...

12-02-22 -

FCC gives SpaceX OK to launch 7.5k Gen2 Starlink satellites
Subject to conditions: offer only valid if you can get Starship off the ground The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Gen2 Starlink satellites, assuming it can adhere to a bevy of conditions, including ensuring Musk's expanded satelli...