Cisco close to launch of cloudy Nexus management service • The Register

Cisco is a few weeks, give or take a few days, from launching a cloudy management service for its Nexus switches – a move that will change the role of…

China bans deepfakes created without permission or for evil • The Register

China’s Cyberspace Administration has issued guidelines on how to do deepfakes the right way. Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to create realistic depictions – usually videos – of humans saying and/or…

Linus Torvalds reveals Linux kernel 6.1 • The Register

Linux kernel overseer Linus Torvalds has released version 6.1 of the project, and warned that “the merge window from Hell” has now opened. Each release of the Linux kernel is…

Button? What button? Oh … that button • The Register

who, me? Ah, dear reader, once again it is time to greet the day with a tale from Who, Me? – the Reg’s welcome to the working week in which…

TOR project releases latest version of its eponymous browser • The Register

The latest Tor Browser is a specially packaged version of Firefox 102 ESR which does all the hard work of setting up a TOR connection. Version 12 of the Tor…

How US supercomputers will next model elementary particles • The Register

The US Department of Energy this week laid out how it intends to put its supercomputing might to work simulating the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The electrons, protons…

Legit Android apps poisoned by sticky ‘Zombinder’ malware • The Register

Threat researchers have discovered an obfuscation platform that attaches malware to legitimate Android applications to lure users to install the malicious payload and make it difficult for security tools to…

LSE to sell 4% stake to Microsoft in 10-year migration deal • The Register

Microsoft said this morning it expects to pull in $5 billion in revenue from a deal with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to haul the British exchange operator’s data…

UK arrests five for selling dodgy point of sale software • The Register

Tax authorities from Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA have conducted a joint probe into “electronic sales suppression software” – applications that falsify point of sale data to…

C++ overtakes Java in programming popularity index • The Register

Java is no longer among the top three most popular programming languages in the TIOBE Index, one of several not particularly definitive yardsticks by which such things are measured. According…