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Promises it can handle digi-bucks and tokenized assets without new infrastructure, maybe next year One of the many sanctions imposed on Russia after its illegal invasion of Ukraine was exclusion from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) - the messaging network that most of the world's banks use to move money across borders....

Speed-reading flash drives no longer just an Arm wrestle A demo of Yingren Technology's YRS820 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller - built entirely on the RISC-V architecture - showed it reading at 14GB/sec and writing at 12GB/sec, without any active cooling required....

Reveals 2021 incident that saw parliamentary agencies briefly probed The government of South Pacific island nation New Zealand has revealed that it, too, has been attacked by China....

Points out scofflaw crypto outfit needs a license The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered the nation's National Telecommunications Commission to block access to cryptocurrency exchange Binance, for the simple reason that platform doesn't have a licence....

Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track? Networking biz Coherent unveiled an optical circuit switch designed to support high-density AI clusters at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference on Monday....

Plus: Alleged front sanctioned, UK blames PRC for Electoral Commission theft, and does America need a Cyber Force? The United States on Monday accused seven Chinese men of breaking into computer networks, email accounts, and cloud storage belonging to numerous critical infrastructure organizations, companies, and individuals, including US businesses, politicians, and their political parties....

How's that free comment thing working out, Elon? Elon Musk's attempt to use the courts to silence a nonprofit documenting hate speech on X has been dismissed by a California judge, who said it was clear the billionaire's legal action was all about putting a lid on criticism....

Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love... The land surrounding a nuclear power plant might not sound like prime real estate, but as more bit barns seek to trim costs, it's poised to become a rather hot commodity....

Improved workqueues mean the end of tasklets is looming at long last Linus Torvalds just announced the first RC of 6.9 on the Linux Kernel mailing list, saying it "looks to be fairly normal", although it's a recordbreaker in size....

Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware After a weeks-long struggle to get its AMD RX 7900XTX-based TinyBox working on open source firmware, Tiny Corp says it will be launching an Nvidia RTX 4090 version for users who want something that "just works."...

Supply chain attack targeted GitHub community of Top.gg Discord server More than 170,000 users are said to have been affected by an attack using fake Python infrastructure with "successful exploitation of multiple victims."...

Be careful where you click Google's new AI-generated search results feature is suffering from the same problem that its regular results have had of late: Spammy, if not outright malicious links are rising to the top of the SERP stack....

LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity Comment For many, apps like ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney, or Gemini are generative AI....

Go look at Facebook and Google, says Mac man Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has criticized the US government's targeting of TikTok, saying it is hypocritical to single out one social media platform for tracking users and not apply the same rule to all....

Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware Updated ZenHammer would be the perfect name for a heavy metal band, but alas, it's an AMD-focused variant of the decade-old Rowhammer attack that compromises computers by flipping bits of memory....

Systems have been pulled offline as a precaution Exclusive The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents hundreds of thousands of employees in sectors across the UK economy including tech and telecoms, is currently working to mitigate a cyberattack....

Users may have to upgrade twice to protect their browsers Mozilla has swiftly patched a pair of critical Firefox zero-days after a researcher debuted them at a Vancouver cybersec competition....

For now, cryptographic work should be run on slower Icestorm cores The GoFetch vulnerability found on Apple M-series and Intel Raptor Lake CPUs has been further unpacked by the researchers who first disclosed it....

They were all planning on leaving anyway, company claims The door plug on Boeing's C-suite has flown off, taking the CEO, board chair, and head of its commercial airplane division with it....

European Commission says 12-month investigation could lead to fine of up to 10% of global revenue The European Commission is opening its first official probes under the Digital Markets Act with a focus on curbing the power of tech titans Apple, Meta, and Alphabet via threats of heavy fines....

It's just not economical for Chipzilla to be the factories' only customer these days Intel is keen to get its Foundry Services strategy off the ground and draw in more customers. With this in mind, it's made a move to cultivate Elon Musk and finalized an agreement with Arm intended to make it easier for chip designers to get their products built....

After declaring the end of CHIEF at least five times in as many years, HMRC hopes this June 2024 date will stick The UK's tax collector has named the date for migrating from a 30-year-old customs IT system for the fifth time in as many years after planning its replacement for more than a decade....

The CNCF is looking for a tenth anniversary logo Logowatch Are you feeling creative? To celebrate ten years of Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is seeking a design for an anniversary logo. Perhaps just the letters A and I crudely taped onto a ship's wheel would do the job?...

Move could 'weaken' Brits' personal data rights when info is transferred outside Europe Comment The UK government's proposed data protection law reform seeks to create a more business-friendly regime, though its implementation could further complicate the international flow of data between Britain and Europe, which potentially outweighs any benefits to business....

As Good Law Project considers response, ICO slams failure to comply with FoI request The UK health department has republished its contracts with US spy-tech company Palantir, blanking out fewer sections, following a warning from legal campaigners....

Mistakes years in the making tell a universal story that must not be ignored Opinion Quiz time: name one thing you know about the Library of Alexandria. Points deducted for "it's a library. In Alexandria." Looking things up is cheating and you know it....

Greybeards thought it was clever, making this an educational experience in more ways than one Who, Me? Welcome once again, dear reader, to Who, Me? - the cathartic corner of The Register wherein, once a week, we hand over to our readers, such as yourself, so that they may unburden themselves about times when things did not quite go according to plan....

Banks on allowing BYO external storage to make migrations less painful Artisanal server vendor SoftIron smells blood in the water since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware led to considerable price hikes for many users, so has developed an alternative server virtualization platform whose key selling point is the ability to run with existing external storage hardware....

United Nations finds IT contract and crypto scams are just two of DPRK's illicit menu items If you dine out at an Asian restaurant on your next holiday, the United Nations thinks your meal could help North Korea to launder money....

2024 may be the year of Linux On The Arm-or-RISC-desktop as China moves away from Western tech AMD and Intel are not present on a list of processors approved by China's Information Security Evaluation Center....

ALSO: Viasat hack wiper malware is back, users are the number one cause of data loss, and critical vulns Infosec in brief If your Windows domain controllers have been crashing since a security update was installed earlier this month, there's no longer any need to speculate why: Microsoft has admitted it introduced a memory leak in its March patches and fixed the issue....

PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI Asia In Brief Samsung has reportedly secured a massive sale of an AI accelerator it plans to launch in 2025....

Easy to exploit, not yet exploited, not widely patched - pick three As many as 300,000 servers or devices on the public internet are thought to be vulnerable right now to the recently disclosed Loop Denial-of-Service technique that works against some UDP-based application-level services....

Just 35.5M names, addresses, emails, phone numbers ... no biggie Clothing and footwear giant VF Corporation is letting 35.5 million of its customers know they may find themselves victims of identity theft following last year's security breach....

CEO Scott Johnston on company pivots and trying not to surprise the community Interview As the IT industry faces an inflection point thanks to AI, lessons can be learned from Docker in how a company can - or must - pivot in the face of a changing reality....

FOSS CLI package management framework for repeatable, declarative deployments across multiple platforms FOSDEM Flox aims to make Nix easier for newcomers, simplifying the job of installing identical development environments across Linux and macOS....

Forget the Riesling, bring on the WINELOADER The Kremlin's cyberspies targeted German political parties in a phishing campaign that used emails disguised as dinner party invitations, according to Mandiant....

Of course it's called ERNIE seeing as Google has BERT Future iPhones in China could include AI features powered by Baidu's ERNIE chat bot....

This is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has challenged SpaceX's severance agreements, alleging the paperwork unlawfully limits what staff can say and do once they leave the rocket maker....

Crew may well be working under contract for Beijing Chinese spies exploited a couple of critical-severity bugs in F5 and ConnectWise equipment earlier this year to sell access to compromised US defense organizations, UK government agencies, and hundreds of other entities, according to Mandiant....

'Problematic' carriers can look forward to scrutiny, fines, and new rules Ever suspected an airline was using your data to upsell, overcharge, target you with ads, or was selling it to third parties? Worried about how secure their systems are when you input that passport number? The US Department of Transportation is looking into it with a review of the country's ten biggest airlines....

As months go by without fixes, hotels take the scenic route to securing rooms Around 3 million doors protected by popular keycard locks are thought to be vulnerable to security flaws that allow miscreants to quickly slip into locked rooms....

'Safe, secure and trustworthy' AI a must, says document, but nothing in it ensures anyone plays along The United Nations has unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at establishing international AI development standards....

Short of redesigning CPUs, the fix will seriously degrade performance A side-channel vulnerability has been found in the architecture of Apple Silicon processors that gives malicious apps the ability to extract cryptographic keys from memory that should be off limits....

In wake of Post Office Horizon scandal, global execs set new profit target, and Irish ops fell short Exclusive Fujitsu is effectively shuttering business operations in the Republic of Ireland and opening consultations with employee representatives before the majority of the workforce is made redundant....

Security world reacts as NIST does a lot less of oft criticized, 'almost always thankless' work Opinion The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has almost completely stopped adding analysis to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) listed in the National Vulnerability Database. That means big headaches for anyone using CVEs to maintain their security....

Google claims rival has made an 'art and science' out of licensing Exclusive Google says the European Union's antitrust authorities have asked if Microsoft unfairly ties authentication to Azure, in a further sign that officials are considering multiple aspects of Redmond's policies....

Price hikes and reduced competition in virtual network space raised as major concerns Vodafone and Three UK have mere days to convince Britain's competition authorities that a merger won't harm consumers. Failure to do so will result in a deeper probe of the proposed corporate marriage....

Kubecon? More like Queuecon as Paris-based show's registration system fails The European leg of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF) Kubecon shindig kicked off this week with an AI-infused keynote and a broken registration system that left many attendees locked out....

Regulatory body insists it's on 'a journey of improvement' Updated Exclusive The UK Information Commissioner's Office has received a complaint detailing the mismanagement of personal data at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the regulator that oversees worker registration....