We won't get there by simply funding Intel and TSMC into building fabs here, says NXP CEO EU funding to boost the region's semiconductor industry under the European Chips Act is nowhere near enough investment to meet the targets set for 2030, accord…
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Lees meerSearch engine was banned so no surprise no one was using it Google has discontinued its China-based Google Translate app and site, translate.google.cn, allegedly because no one was using it.…
Lees meerIt is the exponential changes in the course of human history that worry Serg Bell Acronis founder Serg Bell is afraid of his own vacuum cleaner, he told The Register in Singapore last week.…
Lees meerHere's what 1,100 incident responders say about their jobs, just in time for NSCAM Remember the good old days of cyber-incident response, when the job involved digital forensics and lots of stolen credit cards, as opposed to power-grid-breaking malw…
Lees meerData more essential than ever, says analytics chief as Liz Truss U-turns on tax, and world+dog remembers Bank's there to manage risk The Bank of England had a busy end to September. On Wednesday last week, it said it would buy £65 billion (c $72 bil…
Lees meerIt’ll take an army of billions to hold them back. Let’s make one Opinion China and Russia have been colluding to try to get a Chinese Internet protocol, New IP, adopted as a global standard. It's needed, they say, to improve quality of service guar…
Lees meerSure, I’ll sit here all day taking notes because you’re too cheap to print them out Who, Me? Welcome once again to Who, Me?, in which The Register celebrates the working week stretching out ahead of us all with readers' tales of messes they made, a…
Lees meer$22 trillion of global rated debt has 'high' or 'very high' cyber-risk exposure About $22 trillion of global debt rated by Moody's Investors Service has "high," or "very high" cyber-risk exposure, with electric, gas and water utilities, as well as h…
Lees meerBarely adequate as a desktop alternative, but delightful as a dual purpose monitor Desktop Tourism Samsung's vision for a smart monitor tantalizes: the company suggests you park your PC and instead use Bluetooth input devices to work with a monitor…
Lees meerLinux boss' launch message is more ‘6.0 is overrated’ than ‘The joy of 6.0’ Linus Torvalds has released a stable cut of version 6.0 of the Linux kernel.…
Lees meerNow that's sticker shock Internet snoops has been caught concealing spyware in an old Windows logo in an attack on governments in the Middle East.…
Lees meerAlso, Amazon's Ring footage TV shows draws criticism, US v Societ spying docs found, and more In Brief The BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, has allegedly broken into IT firm NJVC, a provider of services to civilian US government agenc…
Lees meerPlus: Bruce Willis sells his image rights to AI biz creating deepfakes, and more In brief AI progresses rapidly. Just months after the release of the most advanced text-to-image models, developers are showing off text-to-video systems. …
Lees meer300 red teamers walk into a bar… Once they've broken into an IT environment, most intruders need less than five hours to collect and steal sensitive data, according to a SANS Institute survey of more than 300 ethical hackers. …
Lees meerWait, wait, hear us out Prosthetic teeth turn out to be effective carriers of vibrations, making them suitable as potential hearing aids.…
Lees meerBusineses get a little longer with Manifest v2, everyone else... it depends Google has delayed its browser extension platform transition for enterprise customers, giving those using managed versions of Chrome with the deprecated Manifest v2 (MV2) ex…
Lees meerYou will or won't do it voluntarily? Doesn't matter, we'll mandate it The Federal Communications Commission today issued rules codifying a voluntary 2016 agreement between cellular networks that they cover for their competitors knocked offline durin…
Lees meerUnless your app really needs AVX 512, AMD and Ampere's cores may be a cheaper, better bet Google Cloud really, really wants enterprises to keep using its Intel-powered virtual machines. This week it unveiled a “white-glove” service to convince custo…
Lees meerIARPA unleashes TEI-REX to better track nuclear sources The research arm of US intelligence has begun investigating methods for spotting low doses of ionizing radiation to better protect American service personnel and provide evidence of nuclear tec…
Lees meerWorld's largest VRFB was built with inadvertent help from the Department of Energy The world's largest vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) has been connected to the grid in Dalian, China, where it was built using technology patented in the United Sta…
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