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EU to formally probe Nvidia's $54bn takeover over British chip designer Arm – report

Hot on heels of 'significant concerns' from the UK

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Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies The Register takes you through the event’s keynotes

Webcast Slide Deck \| Zero trust data management Fighting back and recovering from ransomware

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Real world not giving you enough anxiety? Try being hunted down by the perfect organism in Alien: Isolation

2014 stealth-em-up hasn't aged a day

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Et tu, Samsung? Electronics giant accused of quietly switching SSD components

Squirrely semiconductor swaps make performance difficult to predict

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Dell, HP talk of backlogs and shortages as big PC-makers turn in their numbers

Dell's results were upbeat, HP's flat, but investors still worried over supply chain

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Lenovo expands Indian factory to meet booming local demand for PCs and smartmobes

Buys in to 'AtmaNirbhar Bharat' self-sufficiency drive and ups capacity for servers while it's at it

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Japan's bullet trains replace smoking rooms with Zooming rooms

Also offers free mice, power bricks, lap pillows and fast WiFi in cars rated to allow 300km/h video chat

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After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

Stealthy flash, firmware transplant in WD Blue SN550 attracts attention

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Engineering metrics that matter Why is it so hard for engineering teams to measure their value?

Webcast Slide Deck \| It’s not if you embrace AI, it’s when (and when is probably now)

Security

Microsoft warns of widespread open redirection phishing attack – which Defender can block, coincidentally

Some tactics never change much

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Slap on wrist for NCC Group over CREST exam-cheating scandal as infosec org agrees to rewrite NDAs and more

Two 'historic' incidents nearly a decade ago, says statement

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Remote and branch office and edge IT

Adapt to your new reality outside the data centre

Software

When you finish celebrating Linux turning 30, try new Linux 5.14, says Linus Torvalds

'We have another 30 years to look forward to,' says Emperor Penguin – and less to worry about as Spectre-proofing code arrives

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Leaked: List of police, govt, uni orgs in Clearview AI's facial-recognition trials

Plus: Mortgage algorithm bias, and an AI-guided play comes to London

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Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs

Hardware requirements loophole left in

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'Apps for GNOME' site aims to improve discovery of the project's best applications

A sprinkling of Rust and presto! A new multi-language web site appears

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Ready, set ... ML! Just one week to go to our first Mcubed web lecture on practical AI

Tune in on Sept 2 to find out more about Benford’s distribution

Rockset hopes to lessen streaming analytics time-suck by having SQL transform live data

Could help boost deployment times, says analyst

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Apple settles antitrust case with developers, but it's far from an Epic resolution to App Store monopoly concerns

Allows direct contact between devs and users, promises transparency and better search – but only in the USA

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Offbeat

Perseverance to take a second stab at Martian rocks ... but first it has to scratch'n'sniff

Hopefully this'll be the sample that eventually gets sent back to Earth

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This way up: James Webb Space Telescope gets ready for shipment after final tests

Next stop, Kourou

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British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves

Announcing the return of El Reg's Boatnotes series with the RN

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When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers

Fixing laptops and solving UX conundra – all in a night’s work

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The Register recreates Apollo 15 through the medium of plastic bricks, 50 years on

Building the missing spacecraft in Lego's NASA collection

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Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick

When you have eliminated the impossible...

120 Comments

Good news: Japanese boffins 3D print what looks like marbled Wagyu beef. Bad news: It's tiny and inedible

Still, that'll be 100 quid, please

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Online disinformation is an industry that needs regulation, says boffin

Malaysian fake news laws didn't work well, so Big Tech should have to do better at spotting and stopping bad actors

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Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick [Mon Aug 30 2021]

{* Daily Headlines *}

Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick

Off-Prem

EU to formally probe Nvidia's $54bn takeover over British chip designer Arm – report

Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies

Webcast Slide Deck | Zero trust data management

On-Prem

Real world not giving you enough anxiety? Try being hunted down by the perfect organism in Alien: Isolation

Et tu, Samsung? Electronics giant accused of quietly switching SSD components

Dell, HP talk of backlogs and shortages as big PC-makers turn in their numbers

Lenovo expands Indian factory to meet booming local demand for PCs and smartmobes

Japan's bullet trains replace smoking rooms with Zooming rooms

After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

Engineering metrics that matter

Webcast Slide Deck | It’s not if you embrace AI, it’s when

Security

Microsoft warns of widespread open redirection phishing attack – which Defender can block, coincidentally

Slap on wrist for NCC Group over CREST exam-cheating scandal as infosec org agrees to rewrite NDAs and more

Remote and branch office and edge IT

Software

When you finish celebrating Linux turning 30, try new Linux 5.14, says Linus Torvalds

Leaked: List of police, govt, uni orgs in Clearview AI's facial-recognition trials

Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs

'Apps for GNOME' site aims to improve discovery of the project's best applications

Ready, set ... ML! Just one week to go to our first Mcubed web lecture on practical AI

Rockset hopes to lessen streaming analytics time-suck by having SQL transform live data

Apple settles antitrust case with developers, but it's far from an Epic resolution to App Store monopoly concerns

Offbeat

Perseverance to take a second stab at Martian rocks ... but first it has to scratch'n'sniff

This way up: James Webb Space Telescope gets ready for shipment after final tests

British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves

When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers

The Register recreates Apollo 15 through the medium of plastic bricks, 50 years on

Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick

Good news: Japanese boffins 3D print what looks like marbled Wagyu beef. Bad news: It's tiny and inedible

Online disinformation is an industry that needs regulation, says boffin

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