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Venture capital is helping Beijing arm and Washington wants that to stop US president Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order restricting stateside investors from sinking their funds into Chinese firms developing certain technologies, as part of an effort to prevent such products being used by China's military....

Almost certainly based on a FOSS engine, but with tweaks for the nation's particular needs India's government has decided the nation needs an indigenous web browser and has launched the Indian Web Browser Development Challenge (IWBDC) to make it happen....

Seven ex-tweeps bring the receipts, as the kids say Twitter has been sued by seven former employees who allege they were discriminated against on the basis of sex, age, race, and/or for taking medical leave....

International laws needed 'to bring accountability' govt chief tells The Reg Black Hat Ukraine's cybersecurity boss Victor Zhora says he expects Russia's online attacks against his country - including cyber "war crimes" - will continue long after the physical war ends unless increased international pressure is applied....

It may actually be the anti-superconductor, quips one research team Enthusiasm over the purported room temperature superconductor LK-99 is waning further as more research teams are unable to reproduce the original findings. In fact, one at a US university has concluded it is not a superconductor at all....

It's like a nesting doll of security flaws AMD processor users, you have another data-leaking vulnerability to deal with: like Zenbleed, this latest hole can be to steal sensitive data from a running vulnerable machine....

3D printers beware, Biden's on the Build-Your-Own-Blunderbuss beat The Biden administration's crackdown on 3D-printed gun parts can be allowed to be enforced, at least temporarily, after the US Supreme Court voted to let the rule to stand....

When you can't even cat your telemetry safely, who can you trust? Black Hat Spend much time working in a command-line terminal and you're likely to have at least a passing familiarity with ANSI escape sequences. Those are the codes that can add color and other highlights to text, among performing other tasks, making your screen a little more easily readable....

Meanwhile, platform keeps paying creators a share of ad revenue, but without similar safety features The site formerly known as Twitter is trying yet again to lure advertisers back, this time with a series of brand safety concessions that allow the source of most the company's revenues to "curate the context" in which their ads appear....

If you're so smart, prove it by safeguarding our infrastructure Black Hat In a surprise announcement at the opening Black Hat keynote today, DARPA unveiled what it's calling an AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). That's a two-year competition to build protective machine-learning systems that can safeguard software and thus critical infrastructure....

It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the boffins are at it again Black Hat Googlers have lately found not one but two more security vulnerabilities in Intel and AMD processors that can be exploited to steal sensitive data from a vulnerable computer's memory....

Lopsided solids promise applications in quantum mechanics and medicine Researchers have developed a method to construct solid objects that roll down pre-determined paths, which they reckon could have applications in quantum mechanics and medicine....

Operating expenses almost as high as actual turnover in latest quarterly numbers Rapid7 is initiating a restructuring process that will involve shedding 18 percent of its workforce after net losses widened over the most recent quarter....

We hope the World Peace Day statement was not written by ChatGPT Artificial intelligence is so overhyped right now that even the Catholic Church is wagging a finger....

IBM X-Force lead says yes Black Hat While MOVEit is just the latest example of a managed file transfer (MFT) tool being exploited by criminals to maximize the amount of data - and money -- they can grab, these types of attacks aren't going to stop anytime soon. From the miscreant perspective, they represent the perfect crime....

At least it was a blunder and not a hostile attack, unlike what happened to another UK public body this week A spreadsheet containing details of serving Northern Ireland police officers was mistakenly posted online yesterday, potentially endangering the safety of officers, given the volatile politics of the region....

What's new in the world of Irish Ubuntu derivatives It seems to be kernel update season out there. The current Ubuntu LTS gets a new kernel, Zorin OS 17 gets a new point release - and Mint announces two updated editions, coming really soon now....

A quick guide to Hacker Summer Camp Black Hat Another year, another Hacker Summer Camp - the collective phrase for BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON, the infosec conference trinity that traditionally takes place around about this time of the year in Las Vegas....

Rival to CoPilot and CodeWhisperer sees the Big G join the error-ridden robo-coding market Google on Tuesday announced Project IDX, an AI-infused cloud-based integrated development environment....

Approach follows successful contracts in the health sector US spy-tech firm Palantir launched a direct lobbying campaign targeting UK government departments, including the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)....

SoftBank CFO says news of float is imminent, suggests firm will keep a solid chunk UK-based chip designer Arm will be floated in September, and its biggest licensees will be among those bidding for big shareholdings on day one....

NXP, Infineon, Bosch each nab 10% stake in joint venture What does 5 billion of German taxpayer funding buy you? Certainly not domestic production of TSMC's leading-edge process tech....

Big Blue bakes in brainbox tech to get models running - because kids these days don't want a career in big iron IBM has, as promised, announced an imminent upgrade to z/OS, the operating system for its Z-series mainframes, and promised an infusion of AI enablers....

Also-ran service done in by changing market conditions in a post-pandemic landscape' Verizon has decided to send its BlueJeans video collaboration platform riding off into the sunset, as it were....

Alleged administrator cuffed in Indonesia, associate arrested in Japan, accused of selling fake Amazons for $60 INTERPOL has revealed a successful investigation into a phishing-as-a-service operation named "16shop" with arrests of alleged operators made in Indonesia and Japan and the platform shut down....

'I don't want China to get to the south pole first with humans and then say this is ours, stay out' NASA boss Bill Nelson says America is "in a space race with China" and wants its astronauts back on the Moon before anyone else - to make sure foreign states don't take control of water and other resources on Earth's natural satellite....

641GB of total memory ought to be enough for anybody (and their LLM) Less than three months after Nvidia's Grace Hopper superchips went into full production, CEO and leather jacket aficionado Jensen Huang this week took to the stage at SIGGRAPH 2023 to unveil an even more capable version of the silicon....

Downfall processor leaks, Teams holes, VPN clients at risk, and more Patch Tuesday Microsoft's August patch party seems almost boring compared to the other security fires it's been putting out lately....

Senator won't be PaLMed off as web giant eyes up healthcare industry Google is under pressure from a US lawmaker to explain how it trains and deploys its medical chatbot Med-PaLM 2 in hospitals....

Aww, c'mon, let us scrape your pages, we've got billions at stake OpenAI, the maker of machine learning models trained on public web data, has published the specifications for its web crawler so that publishers and site owners can opt out of having their content scraped....

Hey, breacher, leave those kids alone Data going back as far as nearly 20 years may have been stolen from the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) after ransomware extortionists breached the government body's IT systems....

The calamity capsule won't be ready to fly until March 2024, and even then a launch date hasn't been ironed out Boeing has thrown in the towel on trying to launch Starliner to the International Space Station this year, and is now targeting the first half of 2024 for the calamity capsule's first crewed flight....

Education buyers ignore campaign group's intense criticism of device's lifespan, 'expect expiration dates for milk, not tech' Chromebook shipments are back in the black - just - and makers of the hardware have the US education sector to thank where buyers ignored a campaign group's recent intensive criticism of the tech's lifespan....

CRM giant fails to get Backpage.com case thrown out on appeal Salesforce is set to face allegations in court that it knew its software was being used by a sex trafficking organization, following an appeal ruling....

'It doesn't help if the organization responsible for the integrity of elections' gets pwned The IT infrastructure of the UK's Electoral Commission was broken into by miscreants, who will have had access to names and addresses of voters, as well as the election oversight body's email and unspecified other systems....

What else do you do when a single GPU node needs 10kW? Digital Realty has announced support for high-density deployments of up to 70 kilowatts per rack in a bid to capitalize on growing demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads....

Plus: India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully enters orbit around Moon, and beams photos back NASA has terminated the LunaH-Map mission after a stuck valve on the ice-hunting cubesat prevented it from reaching the Moon's south pole....

Book to hit face, but Zuckerberg & co tell El Reg it will challenge the ban Norway's data protection authorities are to proceed with fines against Meta over privacy violations against its citizens, to the tune of 1 million Norwegian kroner (about $98,500) per day from August 14....

RAM disguised as an SSD? What will they come up with next? Micron has become the latest chipmaker to announce a compute express link (CXL) 2.0-compliant memory expansion module capable of strapping up to 256GB of DRAM to a spare PCIe x8 interface....

Regulator says with a straight face that it should not be allowed to analyze ethnicity China has released draft regulations to govern the country's facial recognition technology that include prohibitions on its use to analyze race or ethnicity....

Midway through upgrade projects, users are struggling to understand the change of heart In 2020, global ERP giant SAP offered to provide "clarity and choice" on the future of its core platform, vital to the operations of a huge number of large organizations when it extended support for flagship product S/4HANA until 2040....

They kept that quiet Amazon is the most successful manufacturer of Arm server chips, accounting for just over half of Arm-based server CPUs currently deployed, while some chipmakers are also now betting on Arm-based Windows PCs....

US, UK watchdogs also question proposed $20B deal The European Commission has launched an "in-depth" investigation into Adobe's $20 billion deal to acquire Figma, citing concerns that the proposed takeover could harm competition in the design software industry....

Kim Jong Un's cyber-goons aren't above attacking the regime's few friends Two North Korean hacker groups had access to the internal systems of Russian missile and satellite developer NPO Mashinostoyeniya for five to six months, cyber security firm SentinelOne asserted on Monday. The attack illustrates potential North Korean efforts to advance development of missile and other military tech via cyber espionage....

Welcome - but weird - after months-old policy change that seemingly allowed it went viral Vidchat and collaboration outfit Zoom has insisted it never intended to give the impression vidchats it hosts would be fed into an artificial intelligence model, after a delayed viral outrage to a March change to its legalese....

Mission not accomplished Loongson Technology, the company leading China's charge to develop CPUs locally, has revealed its most recent desktop effort performs at a level comparable with Intel's tenth-generation Core architecture....

Not-so smart tech, or officers, it seems Early one February morning this year, six Detroit police officers brought an arrest warrant to the home of Porcha Woodruff. A 32-year-old mother of two, she was eight-months pregnant with a third....

Race to replicate LK-99, and the process used to create it, hits plenty of hurdles Scientists are struggling to verify South Korean eggheads' claim to have synthesized a material that exhibits superconductivity at room temperature and normal pressure....

But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible ChatGPT, OpenAI's fabulating chatbot, produces wrong answers to software programming questions more than half the time, according to a study from Purdue University. That said, the bot was convincing enough to fool a third of participants....

If you can't trust a spyware developer with your info, who can you trust? Stalkerware slinger LetMeSpy will shut down for good this month after a miscreant breached its servers and stole a heap of data in June....