Something to thank Putin for … unless you’re the admin trying to implement buggy and fast-changing rules while avoiding Bork Germany has ordered overnight shutdowns for non-essential digital signage, to save its reserves of natural gas for more impo…
Lees meerPLUS: Trustwave's Singapore owners selling?; Pakistan's suspiciously political internet brownout; Indonesian data leaks; and more! Asia In Brief Senior execs at India’s big IT outsourcers are debating whether it is appropriate for their staff to ta…
Lees meerWhy choose one when you can use them all? Hot Chips Over the past two years, AMD has steadily expanded its computing portfolio. This included the addition of FPGAs and smartNICs through the acquisition of Xilinx in 2020 and Pensando earlier this ye…
Lees meerOnline shops sharing data about you with others qualifies as a sale in AG's book – and that means rules apply Sephora has agreed to cough up $1.2 million to settle claims it broke California's privacy law.…
Lees meerIf it ever gets built, that is US memory vendor Micron is seeking tax incentives to build a new semiconductor fab outside Austin, Texas, according to documents filed with the state.…
Lees meerThe memorial 'Enterprise Flight' later this year will include ashes from other Star Trek alum too Late actress Nichelle Nichols, who for 25 years portrayed the USS Enterprise's communications officer Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, is set to be memorialized…
Lees meerChip giant aims to adapt existing processor architectures to close off vulnerabilities in memory access Hot Chips Arm used the Hot Chips conference to talk about its experimental Morello Program and how it implements the CHERI architecture, designe…
Lees meerCompanies claim that 'no modifications are required to the cellphone everyone has in their pocket today' T-Mobile and SpaceX have announced plans to use satellites in low Earth orbit to provide cellphone coverage in remote locations across the US an…
Lees meerEarly reports Amazon planned to announce a buy offer for the game studio make share price zigzag Electronic Arts stock has been volatile this morning on rumors that Amazon was preparing to put in an offer to buy the company that were quickly deemed …
Lees meerAlso: Smiling, eye tracking, and general 'social presence' baked into Project Cambria Facebook limited the visibility of the New York Post's story about Hunter Biden's laptop on the social media platform while it was being fact-checked after receivi…
Lees meerWouldn't it be nice to have the features you want, rather than accept whatever's bundled by suppliers Systems Approach Edge routers have been an essential part of the internet for decades, connecting access networks – enterprise LANs, mobile and br…
Lees meerThe diagnosis? Ignorance is bliss, but educating users is hell On Call If it's Friday – and we have no reason to believe it is not – then it must be time for another instalment of On-Call, The Register's weekly tale of techies who rise above the tr…
Lees meerAnd not the fake ones that just try to change their minds Google search results and Maps will clearly label healthcare clinics that provide abortion services, reducing the chances that women in crisis will be misdirected to "clinics" that don't in f…
Lees meerNavigation tool still on the road ... for now Google is shutting down its Waze carpooling service apparently due to poor demand from workers commuting into the office – although road traffic has bounced back to levels from the start of the COVID-19 …
Lees meerSays it's already used Wujian 600 to pull up its own SoC China's Alibaba has released a development platform to help engineers building high-performance Systems-on-Chip (SoC) silicon based on the RISC-V open architecture, which is claimed to also in…
Lees meerBut graphics giant foresees revenues falling even further in the next quarter as gamer GPU sales drop Graphics giant Nvidia plans to unveil the architecture for its next-generation consumer GPU, Lovelace, at its GTC conference in September, CEO Jens…
Lees meerTension between anonymity and identity in web3 is being tested as firms seek a way to control rampant fraud Web3, blockchain, and decentralized finance (DeFi) technologies, with their famously libertarian users, seem like the last places you'd expec…
Lees meerPC component manufacturers won't get priority as area faces fires and heatwaves Officials from the manufacturing hub of Chongqing notified factories on Wednesday that mandated power cuts in the municipality were extended until further notice, affect…
Lees meerMobilises the Pi nicely but also frustrates in a few ways Desktop Tourism The Raspberry Pi is rightly celebrated as a very clever feat of design. But I've always found Pi-based machines hard to work with because connecting a Pi to the peripherals n…
Lees meerIndia wants low-end Chinese smartphones out – and its efforts may be working Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi has warned in its April-June 2022 earnings report that its troubles in India – related to allegations of improperly moving funds offshore – coul…
Lees meerFrozen firm has yet to return all funds to netizens More than 30 employees at the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Voyager will receive $1.6 million in bonus pay as the company scrambles to return customers' funds frozen on its platform. …
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