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But unhappy European buyers have called for regulators to step in Exclusive VMware by Broadcom will deliver a significant update to its flagship Cloud Foundation bundle in the middle of this year and follow it up with a major update early in 2025....

Big in China - and a presence elsewhere, but not at a scale to worry global hyperscalers On Friday, China's Huawei Technologies released its annual report in which it revealed its cloud computing business was its fastest growing established segment....

Brief awakening brought mixed news and familiar scenery Japan's Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) late last week revealed that its Moon lander had - somewhat unexpectedly - mostly survived a second lunar night and was briefly well enough to send home some snaps....

PLUS: Google Cloud ANZ boss departs; Japan revives airliner ambitions; China-linked attackers target Asian entities ASIA IN BRIEF Singapore's Monetary Authority on Monday launched an application, intuitively named "COllaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/TF Information & Cases" (COSMIC for short, obviously) to target money laundering and terrorism financing....

Declares victory in settlement of class action lawsuit, but individual claims remain possible In hopes of settling a lawsuit challenging its data collection practices, Google has agreed to destroy web browsing data it collected from users browsing in Chrome's private modes - which weren't as private as you might have thought....

At least not until Redmond's government edition is ready to roll Staff working at the US House Of Representatives have been barred from using Microsoft's Copilot chatbot and AI productivity tools, pending the launch of a version tailored to the needs of government users....

This time, we got lucky. It mostly affected bleeding-edge distros. But that's not a defense strategy Analysis The discovery last week of a backdoor in a widely used open source compression library called xz could have been a security disaster had it not been caught by luck and atypical curiosity about latency from a Microsoft engineer....

Play it again, Sam OpenAI is believed to be in talks with Microsoft to construct a massive supercomputer code-named Stargate containing millions of AI accelerators at a cost of up to $100 billion....

We're never going to give you up... An ASIC designed to display the infamous Rickroll meme is here, alongside 164 other assorted functions....

Super lab loves to big up things it says it couldn't possibly let loose on the world for now OpenAI's latest trick needs just 15 seconds of audio of someone speaking to clone that person's voice - but don't worry, no need to look behind the curtain, the biz wants everyone to know it's not going to release this Voice Engine until it can be sure the potential for mischief has been managed....

Timing predictions aside, multi-chip designs with 3D stacking will be the path forward 3D chiplets will be the key to building the world's first one-trillion transistor GPU, says TSMC chairman Mark Liu and chief scientist H.-S. Philip Wong....

Also, TheMoon botnet back for EoL SOHO routers, Sellafield to be prosecuted for 'infosec failures', plus critical vulns Infosec in brief Nearly a year on from the discovery of a massive data theft at healthcare biz Harvard Pilgrim, and the number of victims has now risen to nearly 2.9 million people in all US states....

Theresa Payton on why US needs a national privacy law Interview Congress is mulling legislation that will require TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to cut ties with the video-sharing mega-app, or the social network will be banned in the USA....

Still claims the personal info wasn't stolen from its systems AT&T confirmed over the weekend that more than 73 million records of its current and former customers dumped on the dark web in mid-March do indeed describe its subscribers, though it still denies the data came direct from its systems....

Guess what? Some users should look out for expensive surprises Microsoft has consolidated its licensing terms for Power BI with its Fabric data platform, leaving some users facing steep price hikes according to one analyst....

Enthusiastic young tech decided to simplify the mainframe, with unexpected results Who, Me? Well hello again, dear reader, and welcome once more to Who, Me? - in which Register readers unburden themselves with confessions of tech mistakes long past. It's very cathartic, you know....

Code shines up nicely in production, says Chocolate Factory's Bergstrom Echoing the past two years of Rust evangelism and C/C++ ennui, Google reports that Rust shines in production, to the point that its developers are twice as productive using the language compared to C++....

Redmond's strategy for blending cloud and client is finally taking shape Comment Microsoft's definition of what does and doesn't constitute an AI PC is taking shape. With the latest version of Windows, a dedicated Copilot key, and an NPU capable of at least 40 trillion operations per second, you'll soon be able to run Microsoft Copilot locally, ish, on your machine....

Karen Jacobsen had no idea what she was getting into when she applied for a very odd job in 2002 Interview In 2002 Australian singer-songwriter Karen Jacobsen was living in New York City when she was offered the chance to audition for a job that required a voiceover artist with a native Australian accent, resident in the north-east of the USA, to record a voice model that would be used for ... nobody quite knew what....

The 'most painful' part? Coding the Windows drivers If you've ever wondered whether a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ FPGA can be configured as a homegrown gaming 3D GPU capable of accelerating Quake and other faves from the 1990s, we have an answer - and it's yes....

Gaming industry clings to 'Survive 2024' Sega this week announced it was laying off 240 of its European workforce....

STOP USAGE OF FEDORA RAWHIDE, says Red Hat while Debian Unstable and others also affected Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression software library xz may be present in instances of Fedora Linux 40 and in the Fedora Rawhide developer distribution....

CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables on system admins A Linux privilege-escalation proof-of-concept exploit has been published that, according to the bug hunter who developed it, typically works effortlessly on kernel versions between at least 5.14 and 6.6.14....

Cut-down chips get a big boost US sanctions on China that banned Nvidia's fastest gaming GPU might be irrelevant thanks to overclocking its slightly slower replacement back to original levels of performance....

Standard Term Support means only 18 months before retirement Support for Microsoft's .NET 7 software framework ends in May, a mere 18 months after its 2022 release - a reminder that the days of enterprise-pleasing long-term updates are receding into the past....

E-commerce titan to appeal sanction amounting to three hours of annual profit Poland's competition and consumer protection watchdog has fined Amazon's European subsidiary around $8 million (31.9 million Zlotys) for "dark patterns" that messed around internet shoppers....

PLUS: Dodging rats the size of cats while repairing chewed-through cabling On Call: Dirt File It's a holiday Friday in much of the Reg-reading world so On Call is departing from its usual format of a single story to instead bring you more tales from our Dirt File: your stories of mud, crud, dust, fust, and other foul substances that make fixing hardware so very fun....

Defenses against prompt injection, hallucination arrive as Feds eye ML risks Microsoft has introduced a set of tools allegedly to help make AI models safer to use in Azure....

2016 meddling was 'primitive' compared to what's ahead When it comes to AI possibly influencing elections, 2024 will be "ground zero," according to Hillary Clinton....

We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree, CEO tells us Updated Cloud server provider Vultr has rapidly revised its terms-of-service after some netizens were alarmed by clauses that broadly demanded the "perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free" rights to customer "content."...

But don't worry, the models are here to help summarize technical docs and answer your questions ... for now +Comment Two years ago, before ChatGPT turned the tech industry on its head, Juniper CEO Rami Rahim boasted that by 2027 artificial intelligence would completely automate the network....

Xi Jinping warns 'no force' can stop country's science and tech progress The US government has publicly confirmed it is applying pressure on chipmaking tool suppliers based in allied nations - think ASML and the like - to halt maintenance of kit already sold to China....

Vendor takes hardline approach to patch disclosure to new levels JetBrains TeamCity users are urged to apply the latest version upgrade this week after the vendor disclosed 26 new security issues in the CI/CD web application....

$340M finance upgrade still working out the kinks Hundreds of research grants are stuck in processing limbo as the University of Washington continues to grapple with its $340 million implementation of Workday software....

Could have been worse: Prosecutors wanted decades more Fallen crypto-king Sam Bankman-Fried has been jailed for 25 years after New York federal judge Lewis Kaplan expressed disbelief at almost every argument from his legal team....

Flaws enable privilege escalation and remote code execution Nvidia's AI-powered ChatRTX app launched just six week ago but already has received patches for two security vulnerabilities that enabled attack vectors, including privilege escalation and remote code execution....

Sustainability Summit pushes industry partners to reduce their environmental impact, including harmful chemicals Intel is seeking alternatives to harmful chemicals that the electronics industry has used for decades, amid growing concerns about the potentially negative impacts on the environment and human health....

After all, it's only about keeping the essentials on - no rush America's long-awaited cyber attack reporting rules for critical infrastructure operators are inching closer to implementation, after the Feds posted a notice of proposed rulemaking for the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA)....

It reached the desktop and then ... A former Microsoft engineer has waxed lyrical about how he and a colleague made a sporting bet over how far a new build of Windows would get before crashing....

In happier news, Ubuntu Pro extended support now goes up to 12 years After multiple waves of cryptocurrency credential-stealing apps were uploaded to the Snap store, Canonical is changing its policies....

MySQL sibling saga continues as 40-year-old infrastructure software firm enters the fray Progress Software has made a bid for MariaDB, offering a price that is less than a tenth of the beleaguered company's value at its IPO launch....

Sensitive documents dumped on leak site amid claims of 3 TB of data stolen in total NHS Scotland says it managed to contain a ransomware group's malware to a regional branch, preventing the spread of infection across the entire institution....

Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a database Database pioneer Michael Stonebraker is promising his new concept of putting the operating system on top of a database could help end ransomware....

In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels Analytics platform Databricks has launched an open source foundational large language model, hoping enterprises will opt to use its tools to jump on the LLM bandwagon....

One might say this is a wurst case scenario The German Federal Office for Information Security (BIS) has issued an urgent alert about the poor state of Microsoft Exchange Server patching in the country....

Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that In-depth Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI....

Government issues stern warning over despot money-making scheme Two executives were issued arrest warrants in Japan on Wednesday, reportedly for charges related to establishing a business that outsourced work to North Korean IT engineers....

Report claims Beijing is most displaced by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlements The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressing its displeasure about cyberscam centers operating from the country....

Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster - this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Singapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the island nation, to help local law enforcement more efficiently stub out offenders....

Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues A recent paper published in Nature demonstrates that hyperfluorescent OLEDs could significantly reduce the energy required to display the color blue - potentially mitigating, but not solving, screen burn-in....