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What a coincidence! The South is just about to lauch one, too. And it probably won't be junk like the hermit kingdom's recent efforts North Korea has notified Japan that its third attempt to launch a satellite will take place between November 22 and December 1....

That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin The CEO of Australian telco Optus, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, has resigned after deciding it was in the best interests of her former employer....

A quick summary of the past three days of chaos. And Redmond has questions to answer Comment Microsoft is stuck in a hard place. It needs OpenAI co-founder and fired CEO Sam Altman back at the helm of the upstart, or working internally at the Azure giant....

Lab rats absorb widget after getting their dose Scientists say they've developed an implantable drug-delivery widget that harmlessly dissolves over time in the body, can be wirelessly charged, and has proven its efficacy in lab rats....

Ethics staff shifted to generative ML and infrastructure units Meta has disbanded its Responsible AI team and moved staff into other areas of Mark Zuckerberg's empire to focus on generative AI....

Real-life impact of buggy software laid bare - plus: Avast tries to profit from being caught up in attacks Quick show of hands: whose data hasn't been stolen in the mass exploitation of Progress Software's vulnerable MOVEit file transfer application? Anyone?...

All your national security are belong to us! Microsoft is pushing the AUKUS trio - Australia, the UK, and the US - to update cross-border info collaboration, and - of course - it has just the thing: the classified Azure Government Cloud....

Ad execs have reportedly urged CEO Yaccarino to step down in protest to save her reputation IBM may have led the latest advertising X-odus from Elon Musk's social media platform, but several other companies reportedly joined Big Blue over the weekend, amid calls for Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino to quit to save face....

Admits to taking phones used for 'code blue' emergencies offline and more An Atlanta tech company's former COO has pleaded guilty to a 2018 incident in which he deliberately launched online attacks on two hospitals, later citing the incidents in sales pitches....

OpenAI is nothing without its people, say staffers who signed letter The fast-moving OpenAI saga has taken a new turn with the news that more than 500 of the lab's employees have threatened to quit unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as its CEO....

Yet another attempt to create better balance for devs and users Sentry has brought yet another software license into the world - the Functional Source License - in an effort to balance user freedom and developer sustainability....

Plus: Amazon lays off hundreds of employees working on Alexa, and more AI In Brief Microsoft is updating the Bing AI chatbot service to prevent users generating fake film posters containing Disney's logo over fears of copyright infringement....

Just because it's super efficient at Linpack doesn't mean it'll be in everything SC23 Is it time for the Green500 to expand its scope to account for more diverse workloads? This was one of the questions attendees grappled with at SC23....

Pilotless plane said to be next generation of naval air power A large drone aircraft has been operated from one of Britain's aircraft carriers for the first time, indicating how the Royal Navy intends to expand its air power beyond the meager number of F-35 fighters it currently has at its disposal....

Software duo must respond with remedies - plus: closing deal in '23 likely a Figma of their imagination Updated The European Commission says Adobe's proposed $20 billion purchase of web-first design collaboration startup Figma will harm competition in the region unless the pair devise remedies to resolve this....

Crims post passport scans and internal forms up for 'auction' to prove it The Rhysida ransomware group says it's behind the highly disruptive October cyberattack on the British Library, leaking a snippet of stolen data in the process....

Worst season of Succession ever The story of Sam Altman and OpenAI took a twist this morning that even the most hallucinatory of chatbots would struggle to conjure: he and other OpenAI chums - including co-founder Greg Brockman - are off to Microsoft....

Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path Exclusive While Elementary OS commits to Wayland, the development team of the Budgie desktop is changing course and will work with the Xfce developers toward Budgie's Wayland future....

The other big Chinese distro, after Kylin, seems to be thriving Leading Chinese Linux vendor UnionTech says it's reached an impressive milestone: it says it has three million users of its desktop edition, Tongxin UOS. Yep, million....

Size matters, and what you do with it. But keep it safe Opinion Quick question number 1. Do you trust Google? The Movement for an Open Web (MOW) doesn't. It's taking Big G to the UK's Big C - the Competition and Markets Authority - over the forthcoming Chrome IP Protection feature....

'Support monkey' turned network isolation job into a banana skin Who, Me? To quote the ancient philosophers: "Monday Monday, dah dah dah, can't trust that day." And so it is, dear reader, that we find ourselves yet again betrayed by the beginning of the working week and its requiremnet to spend the next five days exchanging your labour for currency. Fear not, though, for we can rely on The Reg to soften the blow with a dose of Who, Me? in which readers share their own tales of the treachery of tech....

Test, progress, or mishap - take your pick SpaceX judged the second launch of its Starship a success after the craft's two launch stages separated and one made it into space, but neither finished their mission....

After string of self-driving crashes, Kyle Vogt plans to 'spend time with my family and explore some new ideas' The CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise has parked his career and strolled off into the sunset....

Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs The Xen Project has quietly debuted version 4.18 of its eponymous hypervisor - the year's only release of the virtualization tool....

ALSO: FCC cracks down on SIM-swap scams, old ZeroLogon targeted by new ransomware, and critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief It's that time of year again - NordPass has released its annual list of the most common passwords. And while it seems some of you took last year's chiding to heart, most of you arguably swapped bad for worse....

PLUS: Tata orders staff to move cities; Singapore okays stablecoins; Australia trials CoPilot; and more ASIA IN BRIEF India has revealed Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo as having signed up for its manufacturing incentive scheme designed to attract manufacturers of laptops, tablets, all-in-one PCs, servers and ultra-small form factor devices....

Interim CEO appointed as rumours swirl about comebacks, doing a startup, or even hardware with Jony Ive Updated The shocking and sudden removal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for not being "consistently candid in his communications" has spawned a set of theories as weird and colorful as ChatGPT at its worst....

Complaint alleges age discrimination harms certain retirees A former IBM enterprise salesperson has sued the mainframe titan claiming its recent healthcare benefit changes represents age discrimination....

Manifest V3 transition deemed 'far from terrible' and yet not great for content filters Special report Web advert blockers and other Chrome extensions will stop working by June 2024 unless they've been revamped to keep up with Google's changes to its ubiquitous browser....

Middle Kingdom can get its hands on hardware now - and still make better stuff later Kettle It's a transpacific Kettle episode....

We come in peace, or rather, pieces Last year, not one but two craters unexpectedly appeared on the Moon, leaving us all to wonder: what could have caused that?...

Chief gets upgraded to customer - LLMs may be coming for your job but the board came for his Updated OpenAI's board of directors just fired CEO Sam Altman for not being "consistently candid in his communications."...

Gatekeeper status under DMA? Don't you know who I am? The Court of Justice of the European Union on Friday confirmed it has now received four legal complaints - two from Apple plus one each from Meta and TikTok - against Europe's decision to treat the tech players and their apps as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act....

iPhones could still be running Snapdragons into 2026 Apple continues to struggle to develop a modem chip for the iPhone to replace those it buys from Qualcomm, and it may not be ready by the time the current agreement between the two expires....

We'll see when they reveal the prices Ampere Computing and French cloud operator Scaleway are pushing Arm-based servers as a more cost-efficient way of operating AI-based services, especially when it comes to inferencing....

Transmitting data from deep space, with a frickin' laser beam NASA has fired up its Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) aboard the agency's Psyche spacecraft and received test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away....

Cybercrime group worried over dwindling payments ... didn't they tell them to Always Be Closing? In response to growing frustrations inside the LockBit organization, its leaders have overhauled the way they negotiate with ransomware victims going forward....

Late-stage capitalism ... in spaaace Amazon is boasting a 100 percent success rate for its Protoflight mission, having demonstrated that a pair of prototype Project Kuiper satellites are capable of streaming video, conducting two-way video calls, and buying stuff on Amazon....

Twitter, meanwhile, tells us its brand safety controls are just as strong - or stronger - than other platforms IBM has paused advertising on X after reports emerged that its ads had been served alongside antisemitic content on the platform....

CEO Bob VanKirk makes near-20-year partnership official, teases big things coming to EMEA Channel-focused cybersecurity company SonicWall is buying Virginia-based MSSP Solutions Granted - its first acquisition in well over a decade....

Microsoft has listened, but only to people who like its AI assistant Despite Windows 10 users clamoring for Microsoft to change course on its avowed termination date for the operating system's support, the IT giant has instead chosen to spread AI far and wide with Copilot - whether you wanted it or not....

Britain's ICO claims tribunal misinterpreted law, wants case revisited Updated The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is looking to appeal against last month's decision by a tribunal that decided it wasn't legally authorized to fine Clearview AI over alleged privacy violations....

More Online Safety Act shenanigans as it urges nation to think of the children ... and free speech groups The UK government has unveiled a proposal aimed at creating a "super-complaint" to allow concerns over free speech and online safety to be raised directly with Ofcom....

Former Whitehall axe wielder wants Cabinet Office to undo his great work In a week when former prime minister David Cameron unexpectedly returned to UK government, another figure from those sunny coalition years has returned to British politics....

On the other hand, Europeans have to wait for Copilot If you've ever dreamed of a Windows free from Bing, Edge, and other built-in apps, Microsoft has decided to grant your wish - provided you're a resident of the European Union....

And why the UK cloud industry can't ape the energy sector and make it easier to swap suppliers Interview As Britain's competition regulator probes the behavior of the cloud giants, local supplier Civo wants to see an overhaul along the lines of the energy market where consumers or businesses can swap suppliers easily....

When users decline to answer 'have you tried turning it on?' surely no judge would fail to convict? On Call As the week powers down, The Register brings you another instalment of On-Call, our weekly column in which readers share memories of tech support messes....

One does not wish to slow innovation, Viscount Jonathan Camrose opines The UK government will not rush to pass new laws that regulate AI, to avoid hampering innovation and potential financial growth, the minister for AI and intellectual property Jonathan Camrose said this week....

Higher end SoCs for midrange mobes as Honor and Vivo sink it into their next devices Qualcomm has lifted the lid on its Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 series of mobile processors, which is intended to bring premium performance" to smartphones at a lower price point than top-end components....

Chaebol already the subject of suits for a pair of past indiscretions Updated The UK division of Samsung Electronics has allegedly alerted customers of a year-long data breach - the third such incident the South Korean giant has experienced around the world in the past two years....