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Plus: Tenable CEO blasts Redmond's bug disclosure habits An infamous Kremlin-backed gang has been using Microsoft Teams chats in attempts to phish marks in governments, NGOs, and IT businesses, according to the Windows giant....

Face colleagues five days a week, Jeff Bezos' space firm says Blue Origin, the off-planet enterprise owned by Jeff Bezos, has told staff to get back to the office for a five-day week - a move which sees the twilight of flexible WFH arrangements at the company....

Mysterious Team Bangladesh has carried out 846 attacks since June 2022, mostly DDoS Hacktivism may have dropped off of organization radars over the past few years, but it is now very visibly coming from what is believed to be Bangladesh, thanks to a group tracked by cybersecurity firm Group-IB....

Redmond bugs out of that side quest Microsoft yesterday released then quickly pulled an internal tool for enabling experimental Windows 11 features....

'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks The Lacros project - a contrived acronym for Linux and Chrome OS* - is an internal Google development project with a goal that may sound bizarre: to run the standalone Linux version of the Chrome web browser on top of ChromeOS. According to reports, it looks like this feature could go mainstream after ChromeOS release 116....

One more box checked in humanity's quest to return to the Moon NASA has cleared another hurdle toward sending humans back to the Moon with the successful completion of its first Artemis II recovery test mission....

There's a word for describing going it alone against huge rivals, starts with a B, just can't put our finger on it Brave Software, maker of the Brave web browser, has tuned its search engine to run on a homegrown index of images and videos in an effort to end its dependency on "Big Tech" rivals....

That's not what they meant by 'move fast, break things' ... But maybe brake things Ever wondered why Google Maps Street View images can have such poor quality sometimes? A police incident in the US state of Indiana on Monday may offer an answer....

UK and German user groups issue strong statements after Klein courts investors with cloud strategy User groups representing some of Europe's largest industrial businesses have reacted strongly to SAP's decision to double down on its cloud-only innovation strategy, arguing it breaks trust with anyone that invested in the latest on-prem software and asks them to pay double for innovation....

Actually listening to the experts? We'll believe it when we see it The UK government has confirmed the formation of an expert semiconductor panel to advise on the future of the country's chip industry, and also disclosed the first design incubator to support startups....

Smartphone CPU king talks of 'additional cost actions' as market recovery still out of reach That long feted turnaround in the smartphone market isn't happening anytime soon judging by the latest financial results reported by handset CPU giant Qualcomm - profits plunged by almost 60 percent and more job cuts are looming....

Debian 12-based version should be your first choice for a non-systemd distro The MX Linux project has rolled out a new major release, based on Debian 12, and is on its way to becoming our favorite distro....

Time for a proper secure clinical image transfer system, perhaps? Staff at NHS Lanarkshire - which serves over half a million Scottish residents - used WhatsApp to swap photos and personal info about patients, including children's names and addresses....

Unmanned aircraft trial will skip delays caused by boat-battering weather Mail delivery has long been touted as a use case for drone technology, but it's the wind-blasted archipelago of Orkney, off the coast of northern Scotland, that has beaten the rest of the UK to achieving this....

Invaders already spent four or more months frolicking inside Norwegian government servers Intruders who exploited a critical Ivanti bug to compromise 12 Norwegian government agencies spent at least four months looking around the organizations' systems and stealing data before the intrusion was discovered and stopped....

Orbiter is supposed to be ready by 2028, so JV partners had better hurry Airbus will help build a replacement for the International Space Station (ISS), planned for five years from now....

Two hours a day maximum and a guarantee of no nasties - parents everywhere might just welcome the Communist approach to this issue +COMMENT The Chinese government has floated a plan to limit the amount of time minors can spend using electronic devices and the content they can access, plus a plan to ensure the nation's entire content ecosystem produces age-appropriate material....

That's vastly more cores than Xeons Intel puts in a single CPU sold to the public Amazon Web Services has started offering a cloudy server packing a custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and boasting 96 cores or 192 vCPUs....

Drawing flying pandas is useful. But Chinese web giant isn't saying how AI on wheels is practical China's AI-forward web giant Baidu has delivered on its promise to have its ERNIE large language model (LLM) used in cars, naming carmaker Great Wall Motors and "digital cockpit" creator ECARX as collaborators....

Set to join Intel, Nvidia in observing bus speed limits After the US slapped restrictions on the sale of AI accelerators into China, Nvidia - and later Intel - launched nerfed versions of their silicon that could be shipped to the Middle Kingdom without Uncle Sam blowing his stack. Now AMD is working on an export-compliant processor of its own to sell overseas....

AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers, maybe Meta on Wednesday released AudioCraft, a set of three AI models capable of automatically creating sound from text descriptions....

Ten ways you can blow a hole in your software by misusing AI tech The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) has released a top list of the most common security issues with large language model (LLM) applications to help developers implement their code safely....

UK mulls an 'appropriate response' Meta, after fighting European GDPR-related lawsuits for years, has said it will seek explicit consent from EU users before using their data to serve up highly targeted ads....

At the same time, company pipped to be preparing for IPO Servers powered by Arm chips are on the rise, especially in China, where new figures estimate that 40 percent of Arm-based servers are now deployed....

However boffins in academia need to match the progress made in Big Tech, and always challenge poor data quality The last decade has seen great strides in the application of artificial intelligence to scientific discovery, but practitioners need to know when and how to improve their use of AI and must challenge poor data quality....

First some steering wheels were falling off, now others allegedly won't steer The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened another investigation into steering issues in Tesla vehicles - the second such probe the agency has launched this year....

Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers Microsoft is making a minor concession that allows customers with specific licenses to run Office wares in an AWS cloud - a week after Europe's competition regulators decided to officially probe its biz policies and practices....

Interesting move against backdrop of US sanctions Intel has opened an innovation hub in China to help local technology startups, despite the Biden administration's crackdown intended to prevent China from developing advanced technologies....

Where does Agent P work again? Version 254 of systemd marks the 115th release of this ever-growing init system for Linux. Expect to see it in the autumn releases of Ubuntu and Fedora, and in Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed sooner....

Hefty box said to be 'slightly larger than a carry-on' - but likely not for budget flyers Virgin Media O2's business arm has released a plug-and-play private 5G network product, meaning customers should be able to get a 5G service operating anywhere with power and an internet connection....

Here's looking at Euclid Astronomers are breathing a sigh of relief that the 600-megapixel Euclid wide-angle space telescope's instruments appear to be working well, despite discovering a gap in the orbiter's hull that allowed sunlight to leak through and contaminate some images....

CMA admits Sony deal might change the battlefield The UK's markets watchdog has reopened a consultation on the $69 billion tie-up between Activision Blizzard and Microsoft months after it blocked the proposed sale on the back of competition concerns....

Big Blue scores 54.7M project, taking business from Fujitsu as Home Office consolidates work The UK's Home Office has handed IBM a 54.7 million ($70 million) contract to work on the biometric matcher platform to support its police and immigration services in identifying suspects against a database of fingerprint and photo data....

Not all heroes wear capes - some are 50-year-old antennas A signal from Voyager 2 has been detected by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) over a week after communications with the distant probe were lost, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Tuesday....

Chips based on the tech could boost efficiency of electric vehicles Scientists at Japan's Chiba University claim they've developed a method that uses lasers to create diamond wafers that could one day power next-gen semiconductors....

WeChat accused of 'contempt for Parliament' as transparency rules floated for platforms An Australian Senate Committee has recommended banning Chinese social media apps in the land down under, on grounds the Communist Party of China uses them to spread propaganda and misinformation....

Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it had hired Puneet Chandok as its new leader for India and Southeast Asia. Chandok's previous gig was president of AWS for India and South Asia....

Citrix's virtualization spin out goes a bit Musky by revealing its own X-centric logo XenServer, the Citrix spin-out that will offer a hypervisor and associated management tools for x86 systems, has teased a plan to lure VMware customers as well as a little more detail about its plans to operate as an independent entity....

Imagine your home's foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim to have found a novel new way to store energy using nothing but cement, a bit of water, and powdered carbon black - a crystalline form of the element....

CEO, fresh with funds, lays out the dependency dilemma Interview Open source security biz Socket is extending its source code dependency checker, which previously addressed only JavaScript and Python, by adding support for checking Go code....

Don't worry, AI will fix everything, predicts CEO Lisa Su AMD crawled back to profitability in the second quarter of 2023, reporting net income of $27 million - a drop of 94 percent from this time last year, but a sight better than the $139 million loss the chipmaker sustained in Q1....

Does that include Zuck or? The chatbot craze isn't slowing any time soon. Google is understood to be injecting generative AI features into its digital assistant. Meanwhile Meta is said to be planning to launch virtual agents with various personas....

Are we out of touch? No, it's the charity that's wrong Twitter, lately known as X Corp, is suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for allegedly harming its advertising business by documenting vitriol on the social network....

Westinghouse's 2017 bankruptcy almost ended the Vogtle 3 reactor It's more than half a decade late coming online and has cost billions more than estimated, but Georgia Power's Vogtle Unit 3, the first US nuclear reactor built from scratch this century, has finally come online....

ESA is testing that pink stuff from your dirty bathtub as an antimicrobial Moon suit lining European space researchers are turning to an interesting place to find new antimicrobial coatings to keep the insides of future space suits from becoming stinky, bacteria-laden biohazards: the bacteria themselves....

Collide+Power vulnerability leaks secrets bit by bit - but could take months or years to learn a useful secret Boffins in Austria and Germany have devised a power-monitoring side-channel attack on modern computer chips that exposes sensitive data, but very slowly....

Crypto bad boy's appeal denied, despite recent Ripple Labs ruling A Manhattan judge ruled on Monday that a lawsuit from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon will continue as planned....

Sleeping giant says no sign yet personal info was stolen Tempur Sealy, among the world's largest providers of bedding, has notified the Securities and Exchange Commission of a digital burglary by cyber crims that forced it to isolate parts of the tech infrastructure....

Scientists explain how the new HelioLinc3D software works to The Register Astronomers have spotted a potentially hazardous asteroid thanks to a new algorithm that will be deployed in the upcoming Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile, which is currently under construction....

French IT supplier to complete split by selling non-Eviden bits to investment outfit Ailing French IT supplier Atos is looking to complete its 'transformation' by selling off the remaining half of itself to EP Equity Investment for an estimated 2 billion ($2.20 billion)....