US ends case against Huawei CFO • The Register
The USA’s case against Huawei CFO and chair Wanzhuo Meng has ended. Judge Ann M. Donnelly last Friday dismissed the case after the US Department of Justice sought that action on grounds that Meng had complied with a deferred prosecution agreement.…
After lunar orbit trip NASA’s Orion capsule coming home • The Register
NASA’s Orion capsule, designed to send the next crew of astronauts to the Moon, is heading back to Earth after spending some time in a distant retrograde orbit above the satellite’s surface. The spacecraft fired its main engine on 1 December…
Two signs said ‘Do not unplug’. Guess what happened • The Register
On Call Welcome once more to On-Call, The Register‘s weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of IT pros being asked to fix things that should never have broken. This week, meet “Bob” who shared a story from his time as manager…
Nutanix buyout may be on with HPE reportedly interested • The Register
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) may have hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix on its wishlist this holiday season as the OEM reportedly weighs an acquisition bid. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg this week reported that HPE has…
NLRB slaps down Activision’s attempt to stop another union • The Register
Video game maker Activision-Blizzard’s attempts to stop a second group of quality assurance employees for unionizing has been slapped down by the National Labor Relations Board, clearing the way for an organizing vote at the company’s Albany,…
Nvidia patches 29 GPU driver bugs • The Register
Nvidia fixed more than two dozen security flaws in its GPU display driver, the most severe of which could allow an unprivileged user to modify files, and then escalate privileges, execute code, tamper with or steal data, or even take over your device. In…
‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman favours central resources • The Register
Internet pioneer Radia Perlman has argued in favor of centralized infrastructure, while speaking at the International Symposium on Blockchain Advancements in Singapore on Friday. Perlman said that conventional wisdom poses centralised systems as “bad”…
Datacenter switching surged everywhere except Europe • The Register
Bettering source chains coupled with unrelenting need from cloud services providers saved the datacenter switching sector on a constructive trajectory in Q3. Datacenter change revenues surged 20 percent year in excess of yr in the third quarter, the…
Rackspace rocked by ‘security incident’ in hosted Exchange • The Register
Updated Some of Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Trade services have been taken down by what the company has explained as a “security incident”. The company’s most the latest incident report at the time of composing, time-stamped 01:57 Japanese Time on…
PCI-SIG makes safety plea over melting RTX 4090 cable issues • The Register
Nvidia and other GPU makers have been urged to “ensure end user safety” by the consortium that created the specification for the 12VHPWR connector used in Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090, which has been the subject of multiple complaints of…