Shanghai lockdowns to end, perhaps easing tech supply chain woes China needs this as much as the rest of the world Personal Tech30 May 2022 | 21
Global tech industry objects to India’s new infosec reporting regime Eleven industry associations, representing every tech vendor that matters, warns of economic harm Security29 May 2022 | 15
Lenovo infrastructure group and Alibaba Cloud both make first annual profits Chinese giants' enterprise businesses do well despite lockdowns. Other segments? Strap in for a bumpy ride Off-Prem27 May 2022 |
Huawei claims it’s halved the time needed to build a 1,000-rack datacenter Promises modular kit gets you up and running in six to nine months, with AI-powered ops to make it efficient Off-Prem27 May 2022 | 7
China offering ten nations help to run their cyber-defenses and networks Sure, they’re small Pacific nations, but they’re in very strategic locations Security27 May 2022 | 25
Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming Virtualization27 May 2022 | 45
Broadcom buying VMware could create an edge infrastructure and IoT empire Comment Hypervisor giant too big to be kept ticking over like CA or Symantec. Instead it can wrangle net-connected kit Edge + IoT26 May 2022 | 9
UK opens national security probe into 2021 sale of local wafer fab to Chinese company Government has power to unwind transactions such as sale of Newport facility to China-controlled Nexperia Legal26 May 2022 | 40
Mitsubishi Electric again admits to widespread quality control cheating Nifty slogan and more software suggested as the rectification Legal26 May 2022 | 12
ServiceNow takes aim at procurement pain points Purchasing teams are a bit like help desks – always being asked to answer dumb or inappropriate questions SaaS25 May 2022 |
Indian stock markets given ten day deadline to file infosec report, secure board signoff Another rush job for busy Indian IT shops Security25 May 2022 | 8
ServiceNow ordered a year's worth of hardware to avoid supply chain hassles CTO shares datacenter secrets with The Reg: NVMe, MariaDB, mid-range x86 CPUs, S3-alike, and more On-Prem25 May 2022 | 16
Who had money on Samsung and Red Hat joining forces on next-gen memory software? Cloudy server testbed coming, open source code filtering into RHEL promised Storage25 May 2022 | 3
Nvidia promises annual updates across CPU, GPU, DPU lines Computex Arm one year, x86 the next, and always faster than a certain chip shop that still can't ship even one standalone GPU Systems24 May 2022 | 1
AWS puts latest homebrew Graviton3 Arm processor in production Just one instance type for now, cheaper than third-gen Xeons and Epycs PaaS + IaaS24 May 2022 | 12
Broadcom to buy VMware 'on Thursday for $60 billion' Think we speak for everyone when we say: Seriously, what the f...? Virtualization24 May 2022 | 23
Dell's rugged Latitude 5430 laptop is quick and pretty – but also bulky and heavy Desktop Tourism Survives all manner of indiginities in Reg tests but may stuggle to cross over from boots to suits Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 54
AMD reveals 5nm Ryzen 7000 powered by Zen 4 cores AM5 socket to bring desktop CPUs to life in late 2022, mid-range laptop CPU to follow Personal Tech23 May 2022 | 15
Broadcom in talks to buy VMware: multiple reports Michael Dell could be the key to any deal Virtualization23 May 2022 | 8
Linus Torvalds debuts 'boring old plain' Linux kernel 5.18 Adds 'feature activation' for Intel silicon, but Chipzilla still isn't saying what that means OSes23 May 2022 | 36
China’s GitHub clone makes all repos private pending mysterious ‘review’ Gitee apologises but won't explain why this is happening Software20 May 2022 | 14
India slightly softens infosec incident reporting and data retention rules But also makes it plain that offshore entities must comply Security20 May 2022 |
Lenovo halves its ThinkPad workstation range Two becomes one as ThinkPad P16 stands alone and HX replaces mobile Xeon Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 16
Despite ban, China surges back to second place on bitcoin mining charts Miners behind the Great Firewall may never have downed tools, say Cambridge crypto-boffins Software19 May 2022 | 5
Voyager 1 space probe producing ‘anomalous telemetry data’ Engineers debugging at 160 bits per second, with 41 hours latency Science19 May 2022 | 117
Tencent happily parting ways with loss-making cloud customers Cutting costs across sprawling business as COVID makes life hard in China PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 |
Patch your VMware gear now – or yank it out, Uncle Sam tells federal agencies Critical authentication bypass revealed, older flaws under active attack CSO19 May 2022 | 6
Microsoft warns partners to revoke unused authorizations that drive your software June debut of zero trust GDAP tool should make it harder for crims to attack through MSPs and resellers Security18 May 2022 | 7
China’s COVID lockdowns bite e-commerce players CEO of e-tail market leader JD perhaps boldly points out wider economic impact of zero-virus stance Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 1
Foxconn forms JV to build chip fab in Malaysia Can't say when, where, nor price tag. Has promised 40k wafers a month at between 28nm and 40nm Systems18 May 2022 | 2
Telcos fear Big Tech will bleed them until they can’t afford network builds The GSMA would say that, yet Big Tech is making it harder for carriers to turn a quid Off-Prem17 May 2022 | 13
Venezuelan cardiologist charged with 'designing and selling ransomware' If his surgery was as bad as his opsec, this chap has caused a lot of trouble, allegedly Cyber-crime17 May 2022 | 10
China reveals its top five sources of online fraud 'Brushing' tops the list, as quantity of forbidden content continue to rise Cyber-crime17 May 2022 | 15
Arm CPU ran on electricity generated by algae for over six months AA-battery-sized biological photovoltaic cell touted as ideal for IoT applications Edge + IoT16 May 2022 | 91
China's Kylin Linux targets second RISC-V platform Is state-approved Ubuntu distro how the Middle Kingdom will replace PCs with home-grown kit? OSes16 May 2022 | 5
Toshiba says it's talking to 10 suitors about possible sale Hires external advisors to bolster decision making capacity and hints it could consider multiple buyout plans Legal16 May 2022 | 7
Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker Markets outside China are doing better, but at home vendors have huge component stockpiles Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 19
Software patching must work like car safety recalls, says US cyber boss Black Hat Asia Adds infosec regulation coming to more industries but with a light touch, more collaboration CSO13 May 2022 | 30
Researchers find 134 flaws in the way Word, PDFs, handle scripts Black Hat Asia ‘Cooperative mutation’ spots problems that checking code alone will miss Security13 May 2022 | 27
Demand for GPUs used to mine crypto 'disappearing', says ASUSTeK Less demand will see prices fall, and gaming laptop sales rise – which is nice as the rest of the PC market has cooled Systems13 May 2022 | 17
APT gang 'Sidewinder' goes on two-year attack spree across Asia Black Hat Asia Launches almost 1,000 raids, plenty with upgraded malware Security12 May 2022 |
Ukraine war a sorting hat for cyber-governance loyalties: Black Hat founder Jeff Moss Black Hat Asia Private orgs that flex with Russian bans may do more harm – to themselves – than good Security12 May 2022 | 19
Big Tech shrank the internet while growing its own power Comment Classic internet ideas matter less now that CDNs and private networks dominate traffic Networks11 May 2022 | 8
Yahoo Japan strives for universal passwordless authentication 30! million! users! already! moved! to! TXT! and/or! FIDO! Attacks! and! support! requests! both! down! Security11 May 2022 | 13
The end of the iPod – last model available 'while supplies last' The day the music died … was probably 2007, when the iPhone made standalone music players redundant Personal Tech11 May 2022 | 57
Samsung unveils 512GB DRAM CXL module in E3.S form factor PCIe 5.0 device hints at servers with lots of memory, maybe shared Systems10 May 2022 | 6
Industry pushes back against India's data security breach reporting requirements Filling in a form at 4am improves infosec or privacy how, exactly? CSO10 May 2022 | 13
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
Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses DingTalk goes into 'extended reality' Personal Tech06 May 2022 | 5
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
World needs multilateral chip tech export bans to hurt China – think tank Current arrangements may promote offshore workarounds and don't make life hard enough Legal05 May 2022 | 20
Beijing-backed gang looted IP around the world for years, claims Cybereason Infosec outfit says group avoided detection by hiding payloads in undocumented Windows logs Security05 May 2022 | 13
GitHub to require two-factor authentication for code contributors by late 2023 Code locker has figured out it's a giant honeypot for miscreants planning supply chain attacks Security05 May 2022 | 17
Samsung unveils hardened SD card that can last 16 years if you treat it right And apply an asterisk or two Storage04 May 2022 | 49
Putin threatens supply chains with counter-sanction order ‘Certain organizations’ to be named in ten days and denied access to Russian resources Security04 May 2022 | 77
IBM outlines first major update to i OS for Power servers in three years Not to be confused with Apple iOS or Cisco IOS OSes04 May 2022 | 7
India seizes $725 million of Xiaomi's cash Chinese giant really got something in return for those cross-border payments, say money laundering cops Legal03 May 2022 | 17
Rocket Lab successfully catches falling rocket booster with a helicopter Mission not quite accomplished after some weird wobbles Offbeat03 May 2022 | 38
Arm China website posts letter from staff opposing change of management SoftBank may control the company, but it seems not to have all the important passwords Legal03 May 2022 | 8