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iPhone giant's $2B fine shows the bloc is serious about regulation Experts say Apple has made itself a target for regulators as the EU introduces stringent new rules under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) which just went into effect....

Safety watchdog bemoans lack of cooperation with probe Boeing has come in for criticism from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) over documentation detailing who was responsible for failures in the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 door plug attachment....

'We refuse to operate as customer service representatives' A group of 41 US state attorneys general, tired of serving as a customer complaint clearinghouse for Facebook and Instagram users, have sent a letter to Meta asking it to figure out how to reduce a "dramatic and persistent spike" in account takeovers....

They can't have x86 goliath building military chips out in the open now can they? Intel is on track to receive $3.5 billion in US CHIPS Act funding to produce advanced semiconductors for American military and intelligence programs....

It looks like you're trying to update an operating system. Shall I be spectacularly unhelpful with that? Microsoft's legendary approach to Windows quality control is on show again with yet another update that is struggling to complete installation, this time on Windows 10 machines....

Under New Management is an early-warning system for potential poisoning of add-ons with malware Millions of Chrome users now have a way to guard against the threat of extension subversion, that is, if they don't mind installing yet another browser extension....

Alleged crim bought SmartScreen Killer, Cobalt Strike on dark-web markets A criminal claiming to be an ALPHV/BlackCat affiliate - the gang responsible for the widely disruptive Change Healthcare ransomware infection last month - may have ties to Chinese government-backed cybercrime syndicates....

If any mods are considering an anti-IPO blackout, you could be replaced by a bot Reddit is upping its AI game again, this time with the implementation of an LLM-powered harassment filter for the benefit of its army of volunteer moderators....

More than 1,000 servers remain unpatched and vulnerable Security researchers are increasingly seeing active exploit attempts using the latest vulnerabilities in JetBrains' TeamCity that in some cases are leading to ransomware deployment....

Losses could surpass 1B as 1,000 vehicles a day go unfinished Tesla's Berlin gigafactory, the company's only production plant in Europe, is still offline following a suspected arson attack days ago, and may remain so for another week....

Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions ASML is again at the center of chip wars controversy with reports that Washington wants the Dutch government to stop the company servicing and repairing chipmaking equipment it has sold to customers in China....

No end in sight for 'horror show' even with EU's DMA Epic Games has followed the tried and tested approach of sharing executive email exchanges following the termination of its developer account by Apple....

Company reassures public it has enough beer, expects quick recovery before weekend Belgian beer brewer Duvel says a ransomware attack has brought its facility to a standstill while its IT team works to remediate the damage....

The pros and cons of some other Arm Linux distros for the pocket powerhouse The Raspberry Pi 5 is a capable little desktop computer, and some alternative distros give you more choices than the default Pi OS....

Now, who was it 'challenged' the NHS to go paperless by 2018? The UK's finance minister has promised the country's National Health Service (NHS) 3.4 billion ($4.33 billion) in IT investment, claiming it would unlock 35 billion ($44 billion) in efficiency savings by the end of the decade....

13M Instant Ink customers signed up and now a new plan is after millions more HP has 13 million customers signed up to the Instant Ink subscription program, and a recently introduced rental service that includes hardware is similarly forecast to extract "more value" from customers....

Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog A report on UK government debt reveals that a public sector bank relied on "people and paper" to process transactions during the pandemic as it struggled to replace outgoing service provider Atos....

Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality On Thursday, Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force, requiring large gatekeepers companies to play nice with smaller rivals....

Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest Hypervisors are supposed to provide an inviolable isolation layer between virtual machines and hardware. But hypervisor heavyweight VMware by Broadcom yesterday revealed its hypervisors are not quite so inviolable as it might like....

Singaporean researchers note rising presence of ChatGPT creds in Infostealer malware logs Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims to have found some 225,000 stealer logs containing login details for the service last year....

The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms A group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would force Chinese internet concern ByteDance to divest TikTok - its most valuable property - or see it banned in the US....

With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense China's Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has promised to launch three new rockets this year alone, and may also start to send reusable boosters into space next year....

Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027 Samsung's SDI battery-making unit has announced it will start mass production of solid state batteries in 2027, and that the parts it pushes will have energy density of 900 watt-hours per liter (Wh/L), a figure lithium-ion batteries struggle to match....

Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Google has been accused of profiting from gift card scams....

Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly A now-former Google employee has been charged with stealing the ad giant's AI trade secrets while quietly working for two Chinese companies - after easily defeating whatever security controls Big G had in place....

Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets Shipments of consumer-grade GPUs are growing strongly, according to graphics-focused analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, but probably not due to the emergence of generative AI or the so-called AI PC....

What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network Updated If you can't get into LinkedIn at the moment, you're not alone: The social network is unavailable due to an unexplained outage....

Jump in overall cybercrime reports, $60M-plus reportedly lost to extortionists alone, Feds reckon Digital crimes potentially cost victims more than $12.5 billion last year, according to the FBI's latest Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual report....

AI tech loves picturing women in underwear, Windows giant won't do anything about it, watchdog told A machine-learning engineer at Microsoft, unhappy with what he claims is a lack of response to his serious safety concerns about Copilot's text-to-image tool, has gone public with his allegations....

It's geeks gone wild Many sysadmins no doubt will have wanted to fling a server from the top of a suitably tall building during moments of professional frustration, and now they can get the chance to chuck one competitively....

Time flies for The Flies NASA has wheeled out its latest set of astronaut graduates, dubbed "The Flies," and announced that it is accepting applications for the next batch of astro-wannabes....

Two flaws fixed, one knee bent to the EU, and a budding cybersecurity star feature in iOS 17.4 Apple's latest security patches address four vulnerabilities affecting iOS and iPadOS, including two zero-days that intel suggests attackers have already exploited....

As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it Gartner says governments remain wary of AI-enabled citizen-facing services, while cybersecurity experts at NordVPN have warned against getting too chatty with chatbots....

Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison's company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend A retired CIO has offered advice in dealing with Oracle audits: the vendor will try to work from its current licensing policies, yet users should stick to their contracts with the global tech giant....

Remember how Apple told you security was of paramount concern? It really seems like Apple is doing everything it can to make its new EU compliance rules for third-party iOS app stores a pain for any user or developer that wants to take advantage of them....

Roscosmos has had a few problems landing on the lunar surface recently Roscosmos and China are considering putting a nuclear reactor on the Moon, according to the Russian space agency's boss....

Be careful what you write in that message OpenAI has responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit over an alleged breach of contract, publishing a trove of emails that appear to show Musk was not only aware of the need to become a for-profit entity, but also wanted to merge OpenAI into Tesla and become CEO....

Lithography kitmaker has 'concerns' over ability to get the right staff amid reports of visa, immigration worries Updated The Dutch government is reportedly concerned that chipmaking equipment vendor ASML may move operations out of the country due to policy decisions that would restrict its ability to hire skilled staff....

Additional cuts announced, sparking fears of further layoffs Outsourcing giant Capita today reported a net loss of 106.6 million ($135.6 million) for calendar 2023, with the costly cyberattack by criminals making a hefty dent in its annual financials....

25% increase in seven months... But it depends how you count it Statcounter says Linux's share of the desktop moved up from three percent last July to four percent in February, which on the face of it is pretty good....

To detect seismic waves, silly Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in the US are proposing the deployment of a fiber-optic network on the Moon to probe our natural satellite's interior by detecting seismic waves....

Because your face surely deserves to be rendered in glistening 4K, right? Review Logitech has marched back into the webcam world with the MX Brio, an Ultra HD device sprinkled with copious AI. But is it worth $199.99?...

If you really need obsolete OSes, here's a modern(ish) browser Supermium is a browser based on the Google Chrome 121 codebase that works fine on Windows 7 and even, for the truly desperate, for Vista and XP....

Please don't scare away foreign investors - who do you think pays for this stuff? SEMI, an industry association representing 3,000 chip vendors, would really appreciate it if the European Union would back off plans to impose export controls on China, arguing that they should only be used as a "last resort" to protect national security....

Apple also unpeels its offerings before Europe makes its pips squeak On Tuesday, Google elaborated on its efforts to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) - a set of competition obligations that take effect on Thursday....

Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi A plan to integrate AI into industry was among the top goals China's government revealed in the annual Report On the Work of the Government delivered at its 14th National Party Congress on Tuesday....

We know this because those features just landed in iOS 17.4, along with lots of other goodies Apple has debuted version 17.4 of its iOS & iPadOS, and by doing so made them compliant with European law....

Follows the Broadcom playbook by ending standalone sales of some products Citrix has created a "Platform License" that it will offer by invitation only, and stopped selling some products outside bundles....

Government mighty displeased about a shared Active Directory that led to a big data leak Japan's government has ordered local tech giants LINE and NAVER to disentangle their tech stacks, after a data breach saw over 510,000 users' data exposed....

Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on Monday that the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) - its joint mission with NASA - has transitioned into nominal operations....