F5, Cisco admins: Stop what you're doing and check if you need to install these patches Updated BIG-IP iControl authentication bypass, NFV VM escape, and more Patches06 May 2022 | 6
Facebook deliberately took down Australian government pages during pay-for-news negotiations: report Whistleblowers say takedowns were used as leverage, Facebook disagrees Legal06 May 2022 | 19
Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses DingTalk goes into 'extended reality' Personal Tech06 May 2022 | 5
Starlink's Portability mode lets you take your sat broadband dish anywhere* * Terms and so many conditions apply Networks06 May 2022 | 71
Bank for International Settlements calls for reform of data governance Wants Big Tech to butt out, and return control to individuals Security06 May 2022 | 10
Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout On Call Leftover bits of wire where PC used to be? Really ties the office together Networks06 May 2022 | 252
AWS allows a Lenovo server to play in its on-prem AI video cloud Nvidia-powered ThinkEdge SE70 gets a view of the Panorama CCTV booster Edge + IoT06 May 2022 | 2
Switch off the mic if it makes you feel better – it'll make no difference Something for the Weekend Treat all those micro-phonies like so many spies in the wire Bootnotes06 May 2022 | 81
BT wins £26m extension on NI Oracle finance system project Updated UK IT service provider sees contract value more than double 20 years after first work on system Networks06 May 2022 | 4
Was Nokia's Microsoft switch deal win a reward for SONiC contributions? Supply-chain constraints and code for network OS played a role, analyst tells El Reg Networks06 May 2022 | 5
Google Cloud hopes to woo factories with its usual fare: Analytics and AI A different kind of assembly language AI + ML06 May 2022 | 3
European tech businesses cool on China due to coronavirus lockdowns Oops. Beijing wants zero COVID, not zero foreign investment Channel06 May 2022 | 13
RAD Basic – the Visual Basic 7 that never was – releases third alpha Spend your weekend wallowing in the good old days Software06 May 2022 | 69
Germany makes new move to attract chip manufacturers $14.7b in state aid on offer for companies to set up shop in the country Systems06 May 2022 | 11
Legacy IT to blame for UK's inflexible benefits system Government department struggles with 30-year-old applications On-Prem06 May 2022 | 82
Fedora backs down on removing BIOS support… for now The PC world is not yet ready for all UEFI all the time OSes06 May 2022 | 18
Teradata to take $60m hit for withdrawal from Russia Calls time on interactions and services with customers, including state-owned bank Sberbank Storage06 May 2022 |
Nvidia pays $5.5m to settle SEC charges of shoddy cryptomining disclosures GPU giant accused of obscuring its impact on gaming segment in 2017 Legal06 May 2022 | 1
Alibaba opens up code for federated learning platform Claims FederatedScope is easy to use and keeps training data private AI + ML06 May 2022 |
Clustered Pi Picos made to run original Transputer code Parallel retrocomputing project of the week, er, month, no, year Systems06 May 2022 | 53
Cryptocurrency laundromat Blender shredded by US Treasury in sanctions first Helping North Korea? Uncle Sam would like a word Cyber-crime06 May 2022 | 31
Google Docs crashed when fed 'And. And. And. And. And.' Cloud grammar police more Keystone Kops SaaS06 May 2022 | 62
Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon You have died of dystopia PaaS + IaaS06 May 2022 | 16
Revealed: Intel's plan to sell software simplifying computer vision training Exclusive Sonoma Creek to target non-AI experts, according to docs seen by El Reg AI + ML06 May 2022 | 1