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What's in Fedora 34? GNOME 40, accelerated Wayland, PipeWire Audio, improved Flatpak support, and more

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

It's all about developers Ahead of its release next month, the Fedora community has posted details of what is coming in Fedora 34, Red Hat's bleeding-edge Linux distro.…

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Capita: We're creating a 'Portfolio' division to house all the stuff we don't want

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Welcome to the Great Fire sale of old London town Corporate pantomime baddie Capita is again carving up its operations, creating specific divisions for private and public sector customers and a third that will house non-core businesses it wants to s…

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UK carriers open their wallets as regulator Ofcom doles out more slabs of 5G spectrum

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Netting £1.35bn for the Treasury Ofcom today wrapped up bidding on its 5G spectrum auction, which made 200MHz of mid and low-band spectrum available to carriers, raising the total amount of mobile spectrum by 18 per cent.…

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Informatica hopes to unclog your data pipelines with help from Nvidia in accelerating Spark-based ML operations

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Any significant improvement in processing times will be a boon to productivity, say analysts Informatica has announced a serverless, Spark-based data integration engine intended to accelerate data engineering for machine learning in the cloud using …

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Faster than a speeding... tab opening? Vivaldi 3.7 is here

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Chromium-based browser boasts swifter tab opening and is an Apple M1 native Browser maker Vivaldi today rolled out an update for its eponymous surfing tool, laying claim to some impressive performance gains as well as adding native support for Apple…

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Brit college forced to shift all teaching online for a week while it picks up the pieces from ransomware attack

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: Stop bigging up these despicable criminals An English college has temporarily closed all eight of its campuses and moved all teaching online after a "major" ransomware attack "disabled" its IT systems.…

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Micron: We're pulling the plug on 3D XPoint. Anyone in the market for a Utah data centre?

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Intel's Gelsinger has a decision to make Micron is stopping development of 3D XPoint technology and shifting resources into memory products that use the Compute Express Link (CXL).…

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Can Teradata avoid being grounded by on-prem legacy? Actually it helps in avoiding nasty cloud costs, says CEO

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

40-year-old data warehousing outfit has its work cut out challenging the new cloud-native kids Interview  As Teradata CEO for a little less than nine months, Steve McMillan has outlasted his predecessor, Oliver Ratzesberger, who took over in January…

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IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Financial goals missed but Big Blue's execs were all winners anyway IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and ex-exec chairman Ginny Rometty were collectively awarded more than $38m in compensation for their services in fiscal 2020, a year in which Big Blue's reve…

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'Business folk often don't understand what developers do': Twilio boss on the chasm that holds companies back

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Microsoft Mesh? 'I don't think most people want to have a thing strapped to their face all the time' Interview  Twilio founder and CEO Jeff Lawson has told The Register that many biz execs still fail to grasp the importance of software developers an…

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Nokia inks Radio Access Network collaboration deals with Microsoft, AWS, Google

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

The 5G prog rock supergroup nobody asked for Nokia has been busily making deals with the cloud giants to connect their computing platforms to its Radio Access Network (RAN) via the magic of 5G.…

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PSA: If you're still giving users admin rights, maybe try not doing that. Would've helped you dodge 100s of Microsoft vulns last year – report

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Limiting access is great though 'patching is the only permanent fix' Access management outfit BeyondTrust has urged organizations to remove admin rights from users, arguing that doing so would have at least mitigated hundreds of vulnerabilities in M…

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OVH says burned data centre’s UPS, batteries, fuses in the hands of insurers and police

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Promises free backup of everything, forever, because some customers assumed that's what clouds do Video  OVH founder Octave Klaba says the police and insurers have UPSes, batteries and fuses extracted from the remains of its data centre that burned …

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Someone defeated the anti-crypto-coin-mining protection for Nvidia's 'gamers only' RTX 3060 ... It was Nvidia

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Dun, dun, duh Cryptocurrency miners found a way to sidestep Nvidia's anti-mining protections for its RTX 3060 graphics card, and craft coins to their hearts' content.…

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Where there's a will, there's UK: Uber recognizes drivers in Britain as workers, offers min wage, holiday pay, pension

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Nice but still not good enough, says union After years of aggressively fighting any efforts to force it to recognize its drivers as employees, on Tuesday Uber performed a massive U-turn on the streets of Britain and agreed to reclassify all of its d…

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Chinese government yanks Alibaba’s browser from Chinese app stores

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Another rough day for Jack Ma as Beijing continues big tech crackdown Beijing has pulled Alibaba’s UC Browser from Chinese app stores amid accusations of unfair play and a government crackdown on tech.…

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Sharp’s smartphone camera lens biz Kantatsu blurred its finances, invented deals worth $84m

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Foxconn-owned outfit claimed non-existent sales as revenue. Apologies and promises to do better all ‘round Foxconn-owned Sharp has re-issued recent financial results after it found that its subsidiary Kantatsu cooked the books.…

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US Office of National Intelligence says Russia and Iran tried to mess with 2020 elections, China sat it out

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Security precautions held up, but Putin himself signed off on efforts to scare the public with claims of voting system compromise The USA’s Office of National Intelligence has released its previously classified assessment of “Foreign Threats to the …

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California bans website 'dark patterns', confusing language when opting out of having your personal info sold

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

State privacy rules add pressure on lawmakers to craft national standards California has expanded its consumer privacy law to include a prohibition on the use of deceptive messaging and presentation, or "dark patterns," in the limited context of opt…

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Google fails to neutralize lawsuit that complains Chrome's incognito mode isn't very private at all

woensdag 17 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Judge Lucy Koh allows legal challenge to move forward Netizens who say Google continued to track them around the web even when using Chrome's incognito mode can proceed with their privacy lawsuit against the internet giant, a judge has ruled.…

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ICYMI: A mom is accused of harassing daughter's cheerleader rivals with humiliating deepfake vids

dinsdag 16 maart 2021 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Awesome, oh wow, like totally freak me out ... with this unexpected use of AI A 50-year-old mother allegedly used machine-learning software to generate fake footage of her young daughter's cheerleader rivals naked, drinking booze, and vaping in a bi…

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