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EFF urges Chrome users to get out of the Privacy Sandbox
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has urged folks to switch off several Privacy Sandbox settings in Google Chrome to mask their online habits, or to consider switching to Mozilla Firefox or Apple Safari.…
NASA delays already-late $1B Psyche probe's visit to metal-rich asteroid
NASA has pushed back the launch date of its Psyche asteroid probe to October 12 as engineers make sure the spacecraft's nitrogen gas thrusters work as needed.…
China suggests America 'carefully consider' those chip investment bans
China has formally asked the United States to reconsider rules curbing investments in companies based in the Middle Kingdom.…
Microsoft Bing Chat pushes malware via bad ads
Microsoft introduced its Bing Chat AI search assistant in February and a month later began serving ads alongside it to help cover costs.…
PhD student guilty of 3D-printing 'kamikaze' drone for Islamic State terrorists
A PhD student has been found guilty of building a potentially deadly drone for Islamic State terrorists, in part using his home 3D printer.…
55-inch Jamboard and app ecosystem tossed into the Google graveyard
Customers aren't usually left with a mostly useless 55-inch Android tablet when Google sends another of its many services to the graveyard, but here we are. The Jamboard and its accompanying apps will cease to work in a little more than a year.…
Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer
Richard Stallman has revealed he is undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of cancer of the white blood cells, but says that his prognosis is good.…
Equal Employment Commission sues Tesla for racist discrimination, retaliation at Fremont plant
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against Tesla alleging "widespread and ongoing racial harassment of Black employees," at the company's Fremont, California plant.…
UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities
Friday FOSS Fest UTM is a handy hypervisor for Macs and Apple fondleslabs, but it's more than just that. It has some very particular skills. We are quite taken with it.…
Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe
Norway has told the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) it believes a countrywide ban on Meta harvesting user data to serve up advertising on Facebook and Instagram should be made permanent and extended across Europe.…
Huawei's UK tech eviction reportedly caused Sky to fall on mobile customers
UK government orders to remove Huawei equipment from Britain's 5G networks have reportedly led to outages for customers of Sky Mobile.…
Contract for England's controversial health data platform delayed
The contract award for the £480 million ($588 million) NHS Federated Data Platform – a huge analytics project for one of the world's largest healthcare providers – has been delayed by a few weeks.…
Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong?
Kettle The growth of electricity-hungry datacenters is causing some operators to fear for their power security and consider the nuclear option. In this week's Kettle The Register discusses how practical this is.…
Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor
Mozilla seems to be asleep at the wheel, when it once drove online activity and communications. We have some suggestions where it could go.…
CNCF's chief techie talks WebAssembly, AI and licenses
Interview One victim of HashiCorp's license change was the vacation of Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.…
Beta driver turned heads in the hospital
On Call "I hope you are well" is a standard but hopeless way to open an email – who, save for a few sociopaths, wishes illness and misery upon their correspondents? Silly question – every Reg reader knows that users and managers often seem to wish only the worst for their IT colleagues. Which is why every Friday we deliver a cathartic instalment of On Call, the column in which we feature your tales of making sure all's well that ends well when it comes to tech support.…
AMD's latest FPGA promises super low latency AI for Flash Boy traders
AMD has refreshed its Alveo field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), promising a sevenfold improvement in operating latency and the ability to run more complex machine learning algorithms on the customisable silicon.…
Infosys launches aviation cloud it claims can halve lost luggage
Infosys has sent a digital transformation platform for commercial airlines down the runway and claims it could reduce lost luggage by fifty percent.…
Search for phone signal caused oil spill, say Japanese investigators
Japan’s Transport Safety Board on Thursday judged that a cargo ship that spilled 1,000 tons of fuel oil into a pristine marine environment off the coast of Mauritius in 2020 was travelling off course in search of a cell phone signal.…
Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira
Red Hat has revealed it’s binned the Bugzilla defect-tracking system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in favour of Atlassian’s Jira.…