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Texas bucks app off government devices as Indiana takes social media biz to court Two more US states have launched aggressive action against made-in-China social media app TikTok.…

And remember CSAM scanning plan? Forget that was ever a thing Apple says it will provide end-to-end encryption for most iCloud services, having abandoned its previously announced – and then quietly shelved – plan to check the legality of on-device photos prior to cloud synchronization.…

Begun, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability has. Ended, the Sequel to JEDI has The US Department of Defense has announced contracts for cloud computing services valued at up to $9 billion to AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.…

SQL sequel needed for ODBC apps Applications using the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface may fail to connect after installing the November Patch Tuesday Windows updates, according to Microsoft.…

But we already gave them back $62m, web bazaar shrugs Amazon again stands accused of stealing delivery drivers' tips, and using the money to cut into workers' pay, this time in a lawsuit filed by Washington DC's Attorney General Karl Racine on Wednesday. …

German financial giant aids GPU maker's vision of vertical integration German financial giant Deutsche Bank is backing Nvidia's ambitions to someday make hundreds of billions from software that enables a variety of services and applications running on its GPUs.…

They thought they'd grokked short and long types.... then an awkward third kind came along Once the data looked straightforward, at least in terms of bursts of gamma rays from outer space. The high-energy electromagnetic radiation was classified into two types: short bursts of less than a second, thought to come from two merging neutron stars in a binary system; and long bursts of a few seconds or more from the collapse of a massive star.…

I'll be back, or perhaps not San Francisco legislators this week changed course on their killer robot policy, banning the police from using remote-control bots fitted with explosives. For now.…

Trojan horse could bring more users to Teams, grow advertising, because Windows users just looooove MS ads Microsoft officials have reportedly batted about the idea of a smartphone "super app" that would combine a range of mobile consumer services to fuel advertising and drive users to products including Bing and Teams.…

Good news, everyone! Er, someone. Anyone? Bueller? Linux kernel 6.2 should contain fixes for some problems handling floppy disks, a move which shows that someone somewhere is still using them.…

Green tech will be largest power source by 2025, says IEA, but even accelerated rollouts might not stave off disaster The International Energy Agency is revising its predictions for renewable energy growth upward by 30 percent, and reckons renewables like wind and solar will overtake coal to become the largest energy source on the planet by 2025.…

And all that energy feeding those humming servers isn't free either Organizations are overspending on containerized workloads in the cloud by overprovisioning the resources needed, and could potentially cut costs by as much as 60 percent.…

You can check out any time you like, and you can eventually leave. Right? Right? When Elon Musk told his Twitter engineers to go hardcore or go home, those who remained were clearly up for some marathon sessions, although perhaps they weren't signing up for a situation that looks like a reenactment of the Eagles' classic "Hotel California."…

7.5 megawatt digs on the murky waters of Marseille and Los Angeles A company that builds floating, sustainable datacenters has signed leases for two new 7.5 megawatt facilities, one in Marseille in France and another in Los Angeles, California.…

Move follows award swallowed up by legal fees The British government has announced a fresh scheme to compensate victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, which saw sub-postmasters wrongfully prosecuted for theft, false accounting and fraud because of errors in a Fujitsu-built finance system.…

Latest offshoot of Illumos project continues development of FOSS version of Solaris The OpenIndiana project has opened the gates on "Hipster", its latest release and the first this year, and it includes MATE 1.26, LibreOffice, and more.…

US FCC Commissioner praises Taiwan’s security decision as US state governments follow suit Public sector bans of Chinese platform TikTok on the grounds of national security have arisen in both Taiwan and additional US states following last week’s ban in South Dakota.…

Tens of thousands of engineers and call center staff can vote on negotiated pay settlement on 15 December CWU, the communications union, says the pay award negotiated with BT Group is the best employees can expect and "strongly recommends" it is approved at a ballot scheduled for mid-December.…

There's an iCatch or two: Spare parts expensive, available for few devices People in Europe and the UK can buy spare parts on Apple's Self Service Repair Store to fix their own iPhones and laptops, the tech goliath announced on Tuesday.…

Where's the Night's Watch when you need them? Microsoft has warned Europe to be on alert for cyber attacks from Russia this winter, just as a series of attacks hit Russian organizations – including the country's second-largest bank.…

'Magnetic' design framework, already deployed in Meraki kit, will make it to other products in coming years Cisco has created a design framework that will in coming years be applied to the user interfaces for all its security products.…

Tim still wants his third, natch Apple on Tuesday announced the "biggest upgrade to App Store pricing," where "upgrade" means concession agreed to as part of a legal settlement.…

Australian app let you book actual taxis – at inflated prices Australia's Federal Court has fined Uber AU$21 million ($14 million) for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct.…

Threat actors allegedly looking for contacts and monitoring org's future plans The Canadian branch of Amnesty International was the target of an attack it has pinned on a Chinese state-sponsored actor.…

New Zealand government reels, Vanuatu’s spent weeks entirely offline New Zealand's Privacy Commission has signalled it may open an investigation into local managed services provider Mercury IT, which serves many government agencies and businesses and has been hit by ransomware.…

Dude, not cool In the hopes of cutting its power bills, Equinix says it's turning the thermostat up in its datacenters.…

Rushed 'hack job' surgeries cause monkeys, pigs to needless die, staffers claim Neuralink is reportedly being investigated by the US government for possibly mistreating animals in lab experiments as the company rushes to build an implantable brain chip.…

Pair say they were harassed and followed using trackers described in the media as 'stalker-proof' Apple is being sued on behalf of two women who allege that the company's AirTag tracking devices violated their privacy by allowing them to be stalked.…

Hope the name Hackspace doesn't stick Updated Rackspace has admitted a ransomware infection was to blame for the days-long email outage that disrupted services for customers. …

Hey Siri, is it illegal to pressure employees until they abandon organizing votes? US labor law enforcers say they've found merit to allegations that Apple's response to unionization attempts in Atlanta violated the National Labor Relations Act.…

Big expansion of 400Gbps networking as it plays catch-up on speeds and feeds Lumen Technologies Tuesday said it would double the size of its US intercity network to 12 million fiber miles by the end of 2026. When complete, the telco says the network will connect 50 major cities across the United States at data rates of up to 400Gbps.…

Bofffins claim lunar manipulator is tougher than a Terminator NASA is testing a new robotic arm that could revolutionize exoplanetary science for a reason most of us have probably never even considered: It doesn't need to be kept warm in order to work. …

Biden thinks it's a big deal, but TSMC's Taiwan output will still dwarf US fabs Analysis TSMC has confirmed it will build not one, but two advanced chip manufacturing plants in Arizona, more than tripling the Asian foundry giant's original investment to $40 billion, even though the company has complained about the US project becoming a major headache for multiple reasons.…

If Starshield smells like Space-BACN, that's because it probably is SpaceX is developing a new satellite fleet designed for government use.…

Meanwhile, Samsung appoints its first female president Korean electronics-maker Samsung is teaming up with domestic internet search giant Naver to develop AI chips for hyperscale computing, the duo said today.…

The race to the bottom is on and the IoS is about to get S'ier Comment To see where this dumptruck is heading, let's first follow the trail of debris.…

Security analysts have tools to spot hard-to-find threat, Unit 42 says Enterprise security pros can detect malware samples in environments that incorporate the highly evasive Cobalt Strike attack code by analyzing artifacts in process memory, according to researchers with Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat intelligence unit.…

Latest platform software has not been licensed by two-thirds of legacy users, despite strong growth New data from Gartner suggests that SAP is continuing to struggle to get users from its legacy ERP platform ECC onto the latest version: S/4HANA, launched in 2015.…

Cashdollar: 'It’s not often we get this kind of story in security' Somewhere out there, a botnet operator is kicking themselves and probably hoping no one noticed the typo they transmitted in a command that crashed their whole operation. …

Shiny silicon plus Rusty drivers will eventually equal openly saucy happiness Arm-powered laptops and desktops are appearing on the market, but external appearances are deceptive. These are very different from familiar x86-based PCs, as the accounts of those experimenting with them reveal.…

A particle physicist, an astronomer and a cosmologist meet in a bar. You what, COSMA8? The James Webb Space Telescope has served up impressive views of the cosmos since the first images were revealed back in July, but it is also providing data to other scientific endeavors, including cosmology projects such as those at Durham University in the northeast of England.…

'Acute and justifiable fear' in the way patient data is set to be processed, campaigners warn An NHS pilot to upload patient data in a data analytics system based on tech from Palantir is the subject of a legal threat from campaign groups who claim it appears to circumvent data protection and procurement laws.…

Technically and leadership-wise what site needs is stability Opinion It's a toss-up between Elon Musk's management misadventures and Twitter's technical troubles as to which will cause the most damage. …

Now that's what we call Intel Inside If you think you can fool customs officials into believing you are pregnant and not, in fact, smuggling hundreds of Intel processors and iPhones in a prosthetic strapped to your belly, think again.…

5,000 redirectable beams in each bird Boeing has delivered a pair of O3b mPOWER satellites to telecom network provider SES – and had a dig at rival space broadband technologies along the way.…

Supreme Court won’t revisit case after agreeing conflict of interest trumped tech Cisco has managed to avoid a $2-plus billion payment for patent infringement on a technicality that has nothing to do with the patents.…

Add a busted tech platform to the list of the company's sins FTX's Japanese outpost has teased good news for investors in the collapsed and disgraced trading platform – then dashed their hopes.…

Good luck with that, Zuck – remember how it worked out in Australia? Meta, the social media conglomerate formerly known as Facebook, has threatened to remove news from its platforms if the US adopts a law that would force it to negotiate with publishers to pay them for allowing links to their content.…

'Shake to jump' technique nixed a year after top apps put it to work China's Telecommunication Terminal Industry Forum Association (TAF) has issued a raft of new regulations – including one that sets rules for when motion sensors can trigger smartphones to display ads or open websites.…

Exposed to 'droids? Symptoms may include indifference, unemployment, lower pay, along with a bit of depopulation Exposure to industrial robots in the workplace leads to less participation in the labor force, less employment, and less pay, according to economics researchers.…