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I wanna know What you're feeling Tell me what's on your mind Meta is going to resume scraping the personal public feeds of British Facebook and Instagram users for training AI after reaching an agreement with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)....

You gotta admit, that speaks volumes for Cupertino America's drug watchdog this week gave Apple permission to market its AirPods Pro 2 as over-the-counter hearing aids, disrupting an industry where traditional devices have often cost thousands of dollars....

That's zloty money but is it too little, too late? Intel is scrambling to stanch the bleeding of its floundering foundry business, but in Poland at least the chipmaker's luck is looking up....

Oh look, another voluntary, non-binding agreement to do better Some of the largest AI firms in America have given the White House a solemn pledge to prevent their AI products from being used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography and child sexual abuse material....

No love for months-long wait to fix this, either Security researchers have revealed a litany of failures in the Feeld dating app that could be abused to access all manner of private user data, including the most sensitive images not intended to be kept or shared....

Solar arrays are massive... but it's the transistors onlookers are really worried about NASA's Europa Clipper is now less than a month from its October 10 launch, and the US space agency has shown off the spacecraft's giant solar arrays. However, concerns persist over how well the probe's electronics will fare in the harsh Jovian environment....

Oh and about those AI computers... analysts reckon there are still no killer apps or convincing use cases Admins had better dust off their Windows migration skills if Dell and HP are right that a refresh wave of "aging" commercial PC estates is picking up pace - even though the process is slower to happen than either company seems to have expected....

NoSQL database slinger attempts to reassure investors, kinda Analysis It is 1996 in terms of the business adoption of AI if it were put on the dotcom era timeline, according to MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria....

Existing low-level access for security solutions will undergo a rework Microsoft says it's working on Windows to allow endpoint security solutions to operate effectively outside of the operating system's kernel, all with a view to preventing any future CrowdStrike-esque mega-outages....

Doubtful processes, risky spacecraft, what else could possibly go wrong? Oh...30,000 staff off work Industrial difficulties can be added to the list of woes at aerospace giant Boeing after members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751 voted in favor of strike action....

Some users will see the appeal of Big Red stacking its hardware in Amazon's datacenters Analysis At Big Red's recent CloudWorld shindig in Las Vegas, Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, looked comfortable and relaxed being hosted by arch rival Oracle....

Analysts claim it would be better for competition though Britain's competition watchdog is worried the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three UK could lead to bigger bills for customers, a view rejected by the companies who see it as a chance to transform the local mobile market with fresh investment....

'Commercially sensitive' incognito buyer has a lot more support than last group that tried to build a bit barn near M25 Exclusive One of Europe's largest datacenter campuses is scheduled to be built in the UK close to the M25 motorway in Hertfordshire, permission pending, with a yet to be identified hyperscale customer set to take ownership....

Mr Snuffleupagus turned out to be all too real and bad at database resilience On Call By Friday the weight of the world presses down upon even the most enthusiastic IT pro, which is why The Register uses the last day of the working week to lighten the load with a new instalment of On Call - the reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of struggling out from under tech support burdens....

'Chain of thought' techniques mean latest LLM is better at stepping through complex challenges OpenAI on Thursday introduced o1, its latest large language model family, which it claims is capable of emulating complex reasoning....

No, you read that right Tokyo-headquartered company ispace announced on Thursday it is sending a tiny toy red Swedish house to the Moon....

Do not go on holiday to the O Smach Resort The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control issued sanctions on Thursday against Cambodian entrepreneur and senator Ly Yong Phat, for his "role in serious human rights abuse related to the treatment of trafficked workers subjected to forced labor in online scam centers."...

With social media age limits, anti-scam laws, privacy tweaks, and misinformation rules Elon Musk labelled 'fascist' Australia's government has spent the week reining in Big Tech....

Illegal goods allegedly shipped to the US labeled as toys or jewels The US Attorney's Office in the District of Massachusetts has seized more than 350 internet domains allegedly used by Chinese outfits to sell US residents kits that convert semiautomatic pistols into fully automatic guns - and silence them as they fire....

That would explain this 440GB leak, then Fortinet has admitted that bad actors accessed cloud-hosted data about its customers, but insisted it was a "limited number" of files. The question is: how limited is "limited"?...

Nastyware seeks creds, mines crypto, and plants ransomware that isnt deployed - for now? An unknown attacker is exploiting weak passwords to break into Oracle WebLogic servers and deploy an emerging Linux malware called Hadooken, according to researchers from cloud security outfit Aqua....

SpaceX broadband network now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all active satellites in orbit When Elon Musk's Starlink hit its 7,000th broadband satellite milestone, it's unlikely he expected the FCC chair to suggest his space dominance might be stifling competition-but here we are....

Insert coin to continue Unity has decided to scrap its hated runtime fees and return to the old ways of billing, along with making some considerable price hikes....

Allegedly pilfered database has source code, private keys, staff info, T-Mobile VM logs, more A miscreant claims to have broken into Capgemini and leaked a large amount of sensitive data stolen from the technology services giant - including source code, credentials, and T-Mobile's virtual machine logs....

Even the chatbot allegedly admits to infringement claim Gemini Data, which offers an enterprise AI platform, has sued Google for calling its own AI service by the same name....

Oh, turns out there are some things money can buy Mastercard has added another security asset to its growing portfolio, laying down $2.65 billion for threat intelligence giant Recorded Future....

SaaS seller sets severity to 'critical' Adobe's patch for a remote code execution (RCE) bug in Acrobat this week doesn't mention that the vulnerability is considered a zero-day nor that a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit exists, a researcher warns....

After Starliner stumbles, the aerospace giant eyes a new frontier - entanglement swapping in space Undeterred by the problems of its Starliner crewed space capsule, Boeing has a plan to do a bit of uncrewed science - launching a satellite upon which it will run a demo of quantum entanglement swapping that could help enable secure comms....

Browser becomes more proactive about trimming unneeded permissions and deceptive notifications Google has enhanced Chrome's Safety Check so that it can make some security decisions on the user's behalf....

NCA confirms arrest of 17-year-old 'on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences' - now bailed Transport for London's ongoing cyber incident has taken a dark turn as the organization confirmed that some data, including bank details, might have been accessed, and 30,000 employees' passwords will need to be reset via in-person appointments....

CEO Lisa Su sets sights on being best in GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, everything... as Intel struggles Comment Once the relative minnow of the chip industry, AMD senses blood in the water following a series of missteps by arch-rival Intel, and head honcho Lisa Su is wasting no time in talking up its game plan to investors....

AT&T confirms 'brief disruption,' no indication of foul play updated If you're having issues logging into Azure this morning, no - it's not just you: Microsoft has confirmed an issue....

More cautious than 1960s efforts, spacewalk goes off without a hitch SpaceX's inaugural commercial spacewalk - and the first extravehicular activity (EVA) using its spacesuits - has taken place, almost eclipsing yesterday's altitude record....

CEO argues more restrictive licensing was key to DB refresh, and says team 'expected' the fork Interview Redis is the most popular database on AWS, which is, of course, the most popular cloud. The fact the relatively little known database, which launched in 2009, punches above its weight against well-established rivals might owe a lot to its reputation as a handy off-the-shelf cache developers know and love. Yet for the last couple of years, it has been champing at the bit to be much more....

Privacy regulator taking a closer look at data privacy and PaLM 2 The European Union's key regulator for data privacy, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), has launched a cross-border inquiry into Google's AI model to ascertain if it complies with the bloc's rules....

What kind of OS can be hijacked by clicking a link at just the right time? Microsoft's In this week's Patch Tuesday Microsoft alerted users to, among other vulnerabilities, a flaw in Windows Installer that can be exploited by malware or a rogue user to gain SYSTEM-level privileges to hijack a PC....

Dedicated support to be assembled to prevent cyberattacks, IT outages, and bad weather from affecting availability From today, the UK is designating datacenters as critical national infrastructure (CNI). As a result, the sector is expected to get special government support designed to prevent negative economic impacts of IT outages like CrowdStrike's, cyberattacks, and extreme weather events....

'Brilliant' team performs electrical balancing act to keep probe pointed at Earth The tenuous power situation onboard the veteran Voyager 1 spacecraft has required engineers to perform a delicate balancing act while switching between thrusters as fuel lines gradually become clogged....

It could lead to a costly BEC situation Palo Alto's Unit 42 threat intel team wants to draw the security industry's attention to an increasingly common tactic used by phishers to harvest victims' credentials....

It's quite a long way from ready - but it's clearly visible in the distance The latest version of System76's Ubuntu remix is available, but it's not finished by any means. The new Rust-based desktop is somewhat usable, though....

Academically interesting technique for poking holes in paywalled tech specs An anti-piracy system to protect online video streams from unauthorized copying is flawed - and can be broken to allow streamed media from Amazon, Netflix, and others to be saved, replayed, and spread at will, we're told....

Augmented reality meets warped reality A defense ministry official from Belarus has claimed augmented reality game Pokemon GO was a tool of Western intelligence agencies....

The Shinkansen have operated without fatalities for sixty years - how hard can it be? One of Japan's major passenger railway operators announced plans on Tuesday to bring fully automated bullet trains into service by the mid-2030s....

Union alleges work conditions are like solitary confinement and violence is common at Tamil Nadu plant Workers at a Samsung Electronics plant in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu have been on strike since Monday, disrupting production as they fight for wage hikes, better hours, and an end to a no-union policy....

Would paying a ransom - or better security - have been cheaper and safer? A US healthcare giant will pay out $65 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by its own patients after ransomware crooks stole their data - including their nude photographs - and published at least some of them online....

AI ROI? Jensen Huang claims infra providers make $5 for every dollar spent on GPUs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has attempted to quell concerns over the reported late arrival of the Blackwell GPU architecture, and the lack of ROI from AI investments....

No class: Black Suit ransomware gang boasts of 200GB haul from one raid Cybercriminals closed some schools in America and Britain this week, preventing kindergarteners in Washington state from attending their first-ever school day and shutting down all internet-based systems for Biggin Hill-area students in England for the next three weeks....

Mountain View backs startup Holocene, hoping to slash emissions costs Google intends to purchase carbon removal credits from a direct air capture provider to help offset its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, although the initiative isn't expected to kick off until the next decade....

You hate to see it The Meow ransomware group has grabbed the second most active gang spot in an unexpected surge in activity following a major brand overhaul....

Allegedly swiped more than 5.2M files and threatens to publish the lot Ransomware gang Hunters International reportedly claims to have stolen more than 5.2 million files belonging to the London branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), a Chinese state-owned bank and financial service corporation, and set a deadline of September 13 to release all the data unless demands are met....