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Chang'e 8 missions will check whether regolith harbors appropriate materials China's space program has decided to no longer worry about hauling construction materials to the Moon and just 3D print buildings onsite instead, said state-sponsored media on Monday.…

YMMV. Hold onto your hats, we're diving into network technicals today Systems Approach As we’re working towards finishing our Private 5G book, we’ve been completing the Hands-On Experience Appendix. That necessitated a bit more, er, hands-on work than we normally would do, which provided the impetus for this column.…

Plus they are cliquey as all hell RSA Conference While some spend sleepless nights worrying about the big four nation-state cyber threats, you shouldn't underestimate the ones possibly living under your roof: teenagers.…

Understand the technology before you are taken by surprise, argues CTO Euro cloud biz OVH recently announced the purchase of its first quantum-powered system as part of long-term plans to build a quantum environment for developers and other users.…

Free trade agreement founders, and fears of government censorship rise India's forthcoming tech-related laws are not going down well with some of its key partners.…

Figure not a typo, tho it will be paired with £900M 'BritGPT' supercomputer, which is a bit more like it The UK government on Monday said it's putting up £100 million ($125 million) to launch a Foundation Model Taskforce, which is hoped will help spur the development of AI systems that can boost the nation's GDP.…

Helium is way cheaper than rocket fuel, and the pictures are just as good if you get high enough The world's first wide-field, balloon-borne telescope has begun returning images to Earth, with scientists keen to begin months of imagery to help investigate the existence of dark matter.…

Send in the LLMs RSA Conference Google Cloud used the RSA 2023 conference to talk about how it's injected artificial intelligence into various corners of its security-related services.…

As it preps to launch WhatsApp scam-shredder The government of Singapore issued its populace a recommendation for ad blockers this month, calling them “underrated scam protectors” that sieve out fraudulent online ads.…

Not for a long while at least, anyway Analysis Arm has designed its own example of a high-end processor, and is getting samples of the chip made for select customers.…

Game maker's success getting anti-steering rules nixed also survived An appeals court ruling today potentially clears the way for Epic Games and others to direct customers in their iOS apps to payment systems other than Apple's system.…

No surprise for a panel that appears to enjoy taking away rights rather than granting them The US Supreme Court has refused to hear a case arguing that AI algorithms should be recognized and protected by law as inventors on patent filings.…

'Let me tell you, I recuperated at home, and I followed the doctor's advice to recuperate at home' To China now, where a tech worker learned the hard way that a) you don't book a holiday before you have time off confirmed, and b) you definitely don't then take sick leave and go on holiday anyway.…

Customers shouldn't even notice, sniffs Linux distro CEO On Monday, Matt Hicks, CEO of IBM-owned Red Hat, said the Linux distro maker plans to lay off just under four percent of its roughly 20,000 person workforce, which amounts to less than 800 people.…

Despite Ellison's health world ambitions, Uncle Sam resets massive project over harm to patient health A $10 billion Oracle Cerner project has ground to an indefinite halt following repeated problems with the rollout of electronic health records, some of which have caused physical harm to patients.…

Look, anyone can build these things RSA Conference SentinelOne is the latest to add machine-learning features to its IT security software.…

Anyone else who wants to take on Musk, please take note Tesla has convinced a California jury to side with it in a court battle brought by a driver who sued the electric car maker over a 2019 accident she alleged was Autopilot's fault.…

Next on Netlist's hit list? Micron and Google Samsung Electronics has been stung for more than $303 million in a patent infringement case brought by US memory company Netlist.…

Security bods converge on the cool gray city of love RSA Conference You better watch out, you better not spam, you better not phish, I'm telling you why: RSA is coming to town.…

Silver Lake set to grab control of firm with legacy from Moon landing era Private equity investor Silver Lake has tabled a bid to take over Software AG, a longstanding stalwart of the European software industry, for an implied value of around €2.2 billion.…

Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook Updated Another week, another Microsoft 365 headache. Redmond this morning said in a tweet it is investigating yet one more issue that is making it impossible for some users to use the search functionality for a number of cloud-based services.…

Bumper payday for exec as relentless cost-cutting campaign continues Timing is everything, and confirmation via a regulatory filing that Alphabet and Google boss Sundar Pichai’s total compensation package swelled to $226 million in 2022, comes - awkwardly - during a period of company belt-tightening.…

AuKill abuses a deprecated tool to disable security processes ahead of the attack Ransomware gangs are abusing an out-of-date Microsoft software driver to disable security defenses before dropping malware into the targeted systems.…

NSFW? You'll need to check outputs for accuracy. Plus: OpenAI CEO says massive model era's over, Microsoft said to be building custom AI chip In brief Bard, Google's AI-powered internet search chatbot, can now generate and help debug code in over 20 different programming languages.…

Inevitably, there's AI involved. Could it work? A security company is claiming to have developed a flash drive with built-in ransomware prevention support that can protect any data stored on it against being stolen or encrypted by malware.…

Rust never sleeps. Sometimes it dozes at the wheel It's a classic story. An outfit, in this case the Rust Foundation, decides to change some rules, in this case the acceptable use of trademarks. The outfit's best friends, in this case the Rust community, takes umbrage and the outfit backs down. …

Who annoys auditors? It's like picking on alligators – it won't end well Who, Me? How delightful it is, dear reader, to meet with you once again on the confessional couch we call Who, Me? upon which Reg readers unburden themselves by sharing tales of things they probably ought not to have done.…

If the news is bad for Broadcom, a remedy will need to be found very quickly indeed The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has detailed its concerns about Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, plus a roadmap that would leave around two months to sort out any regulatory objections to the deal if Broadcom is to meet its self-imposed October 2023 deadline for the deal.…

Secretary worries about critical infrastructure being held to ransom In an address at the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday, secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced the department has created a task force to look for AI tools that can detect and defend against threats to national security – including those posed by China.…

Sapphire Rapids joins the fun, and there's even something for s390x users Developers of the open source machine emulator QEMU have hatched the project's 8.0 release.…

Also, Finland sentences CEO of breach company to prison (kind of), and this week's laundry list of critical vulns In Brief We thought it was probably the case when the news came out, but now it's been confirmed: The X_Trader supply chain attack behind the 3CX compromise last month wasn't confined to the telco developer.…

Preps for Intel's Meteor Lake, improves support for Chinese RISC-V silicon, and gets to the starting line with a racing wheel Linux 6.3 has arrived after a push that project boss Linus Torvalds characterized as "a nice, controlled release cycle" that required the seven release candidates he prefers and was supported by helpful developer behavior.…

Redmond wants you using Cloud PCs instead because they offer a better sustainability story At first flush it's an utterly bizarre argument for Microsoft to endorse, but the PC operating system giant has floated the idea that businesses buy fewer PCs.…

ALSO: Australia says offensive hacking is working; DJI hit with $279m patent suit; Philippines Police leak data; and more Asia In Brief Chinese scientists have estimated the mass of the Milky Way.…

Goodbye RHESSI, thanks for all the data NASA's defunct RHESSI solar flare satellite plummeted into Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated over the Sahara desert this week, the Department of Defense confirmed. …

Another cyber nuisance in support of Putin's war, nothing too serious Europe's air-traffic agency appears to be the latest target in pro-Russian miscreants' attempts to disrupt air travel.…

A welcome development, but let's not overdo it Chip maker TSMC in collaboration with ARK Power on Friday said it intended to source 20,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity from solar power.…

Laugh while you can, UK residents – you've got a nationwide emergency alert system test this weekend Florida residents – and a lot of them, in all likelihood – were awoken at 0445 local time on Thursday morning by an emergency alert. To make matters worse, it wasn't even a real emergency, just an incorrectly sent test.…

Redmond tops industry average, still got a way to go Microsoft has partnered with organizations around the globe to bring more women into infosec roles, though the devil is in the details.…

We're trying to run a chip business here Taiwan is keen for the US to scale back on its anti-China stance amid concerns that scare stories about the dangers of relying on chips made on the island nation are harming the country's business interests.…

Letting the calendar cycle for 45 years gives each planet a chance to complete a synodic cycle A pair of researchers claim to have deciphered one of the most mysterious of the Mayan calendars, which they believe represents a 45-year cycle of our neighboring planets. …

Next stop, Euro human rights court? UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch is running out of options in his efforts to avoid extradition to the US to face wire and securities fraud, conspiracy, and similar charges in connection with the $11 billion sale in 2011 of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard.…

That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable SAP is telling investors that customers' migration to the cloud is only a matter of when – not if – despite evidence to the contrary from users, analysts, and other third parties.…

Agrees to pay $8 monthly sub for LeBron James, Shatner and Stephen King but others? Nope In the same day that Elon Musk’s Twitter snubbed the Pope by removing his legacy blue tick despite personally paying for some celebrities to keep theirs, the billionaire’s personal fortune shrank by the biggest amount this year.…

We node you want to test it out. (We're here all week.) Researchers waiting to get their hands on the much delayed Aurora supercomputer at the US Argonne National Laboratory now have a new toy at their disposal, a mini-Aurora codenamed Sunspot.…

Capgemini gets the job of saying goodbye to the Chocolate Factory The UK's Cabinet Office is to migrate away from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 — in line with the rest of central government — in a move set to cost up to £15 million in third-party project support alone.…

Some things should remain dead Comment This week witnessed the destructive potential of AI in action as someone thought it'd be a good idea to bring brainless Britpop bores Oasis back from the dead.…

Governments also have no theory on how nefarious groups might behave using the tech The proliferation of AI in weapon systems among non-state actors such as terrorist groups or mercenaries would be virtually impossible to stop, according to a hearing before UK Parliament.…

Why? Well, think of the children, of course An international group of law enforcement agencies are urging Meta not to standardize end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger and Instagram, which they say will harm their ability to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online.…

Palo Alto Networks spots suspicious activity spikes such as naughty domains, phishing, and worse ChatGPT fans need to adopt a "defensive mindset" because scammers have started using multiple methods to trick the bot's users into downloading malware or sharing sensitive information.…