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Plus: Robo-car upstart Argo AI shuts down after automakers pull plug on funding The US Department of Justice has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into Tesla and its boasts about its self-driving car technology.…

Hey, Xi, 滚开 The prolific pro-Beijing Dragonbridge crew has apparently stepped up its activity ahead of the US 2022 midterms by trying to discourage Americans from voting as well as pinning the Nord Stream pipeline explosion on Uncle Sam.…

Separately, charges slapped on alleged operator of dark market, The Real Deal Mark Sokolovsky, 26, a Ukrainian national, is being held in the Netherlands while he awaits extradition to America on cybercrime charges, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday.…

While shedding 1 in 12 staff as demand for storage nosedives Seagate intends to cut its global headcount by roughly 3,000, or roughly eight percent. While announcing its fiscal Q1 2023 financial results on Wednesday, the biz said declining storage demand forced it to lay off staff.…

If there's been an accounting blunder, execs may have to return incentives Corporate executive officers who receive "erroneously awarded" incentive-based compensation will have to return those funds under newly confirmed securities rules.…

Make sure you're patched – and update VMware Cloud Foundation, too, by the way Cisco says miscreants are exploiting two vulnerabilities in its AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows, which is supposed to ensure safe VPN access for remote workers.…

Hope no one was relying on that to block threats, er, yeah? Microsoft appears to have woken up and realized it may have left certain Windows Server and Windows 10 systems exposed to exploitable drivers for years.…

Search giant says changes already made since prosecutors showed up with a warrant years ago After six years of wrangling, the US Department of Justice and Google have reached an agreement to resolve a dispute over the ad giant's inability to turn over records requested in a warrant. The problem? That data was lost before the case could be settled. …

Building your own initial RAMdisk? That's insecure! Lennart Poettering's latest blog post proposes moving the Linux boot process into a "Brave New Trusted Boot World" of cryptographically signed Unified Kernel Images.…

Anyone that agrees has been 'smoking dope' says one of world's largest resellers Lenovo is boasting that customer demand for subscription-based services is growing after updating its TruScale IT-as-a-service portfolio.…

Refocuses on adaption technologies while oil industry continues to receive billions in government subsidies Mouthpieces for an investment fund co-founded by Bill Gates say their teams have decided to refocus strategy on adapting to climate change.…

Well, these distros are all about continual reinvention, after all Rolling Rhino, a project that turned Ubuntu into a rolling-release distribution, is restarting development under a new name: Rhino Linux.…

Bad news for Apple maybe; bad news for China's tech sector definitely Foxconn's Zhengzhou campus, the Chinese company's largest iPhone production facility, has admitted it's facing another COVID-19 outbreak, but made assurances it has had minimal impact on operations.…

Fly, little birds: Damning internal research emerges just before Elon Musk buy With just days to go before Elon Musk closes his acquisition of Twitter, internal research has revealed an exodus of the social media platform's most valuable users.…

Headcount swelled by almost 37,000 heads in a year, now investors want CEO Pichai to show them the money Google parent Alphabet is preparing to slog it out with rivals in a slowing economy by committing to evaluate every project being undertaken.…

Volvo temporarily shuts one factory while Toyota downgrades production forecast Demand for semiconductors may be falling, but automobile manufacturers still face chip shortages and supply issues to the extent that some are halting or cutting production.…

Getty Images is collaborating with generative AI startup BRIA Stock photo sites Shutterstock and Getty Images have both announced partnerships with generative AI startups to deploy new tools allowing users to create their own custom pictures using text-to-image models.…

That is if they're anything like the radiation-resistant 'Conan the Bacterium' here on Earth Ancient microbes on Mars could survive up to 280 million years if they are resistant to radiation and left buried underneath the ground in frozen, moist conditions, according to a study published on Tuesday.…

Physical layer brings full CXL 3.0 support for you early birds out there While PCIe 5.0 continues to gain traction, Rambus has made available a PCIe 6.0 Interface Subsystem for incorporation in third-party hardware. It comprises PHY and controller blocks, with the PHY also supporting the latest CXL 3.0 specifications.…

FAGA's interest in payments and lending services has UK's Financial Conduct Authority's attention The Financial Conduct Authority, the UK's financial services regulator, has begun discussions with the aim of understanding the impact of Big Tech on industry competition.…

Project two years in the making aims to improve public services... or what's left of them It's pork barrel time again. The UK government has named a slew of tech organizations that made it onto a £2 billion framework agreement that allows them to compete for big data and analytics public sector contracts.…

Take your desktop rig out for a proper run, turning words into images, 3D models and videos – if it can Column Until recently, personal computer hardware seemed to have leapt past any demands software could possibly place upon it. Even high-end games – traditionally the leading edge of user demands on performance – barely taxed the massively overpowered, top-end silicon available. Then AI art came along.…

Reduces investments and production as buying cycles bite South Korean memory maker SK hynix has posted a grim set of financial results, but the company has pinned its hopes for an eventual turnaround on its development of beautiful new tech.…

Erstwhile national cloud hero drowns in unpaid debts UKCloud and its parent Virtual Infrastructure Group have been forced into liquidation, potentially bringing an end to the ailing business.…

Thank you, Ed Stone – the only person to ever hold the job The Voyager mission's project scientist has retired after 50 years in the job.…

2021 was such a banner year for extortionists, 2022 is gonna look rosy in comparison The number of ransomware attacks worldwide dropped 31 percent year-over-year during the first nine of months 2022, at least as far as SonicWall has observed. But don't get too excited.…

Blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing... Microsoft is bringing Azure Active Directory Identity Protection alerts to Microsoft 365 Defender to seemingly help IT folks thwart criminals infiltrating corporate networks via compromised users.…

All four million customers at risk of having records of medical treatments exposed Australian health insurer Medibank's data breach was today revealed to be even worse than first thought, with a regulatory filing stating that info describing all four million customers has been accessed.…

This is not altruism: investors are nervous about slowing growth. Redmond’s response is short term pain for long term gain Microsoft has told investors to brace for slower growth in its cloud business, as it works to optimize current customers' Azure rigs so they remain loyal customers.…

Pandemic gold rush for hardware slingers is over? Logitech made hay during the pandemic but like many businesses dependent on the PC ecosystem, turnover is tanking and income is tumbling.…

EV sales still barely more than fringe in USA General Motors has had such a good third quarter, CEO Mary Barra told shareholders Tuesday, that the automaker is planning to nearly double the number of Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUVs it makes next year, from 44,000 to 70,000.…

At least this'll give some ammo to CISOs dying for stronger IT defenses Analysis Drizly CEO James Cory Rellas is in the firing line after his company exposed about 2.5 million customers' personal information in a computer security blunder. …

Goggles giant on how it gave its Android apps a Kotlin makeover Meta, parent of Facebook, is in the midst of migrating its Android app Java code to Kotlin, a younger programming language that also relies on the Java Virtual Machine, or JVM.…

And get over here, NFT slingers, Cupertino wants a word, too In a move antitrust watchdogs will surely have no problem with at all, Apple this week revised its App Store rules to limit NFTs, take a cut of paid-for "boosts" for social media posts, and crack down on developers in a few other ways.…

Flaming 'eck! GPUs have been a hot commodity but this is ridiculous. Nvidia's use of a 600W power socket and cable with its RTX graphics cards may have sounded like a good idea at the time but some users have reported overheating issues.…

No more reusing, recycling passwords PayPal has added passkeys for passwordless login to accounts across Apple devices.…

Latest release brings better speed and more comprehensible error messages Python 3.11.0, the latest iteration of the exceedingly popular programming language, debuted on Monday, to the delight of software developers who care about such things.…

Available in Japan now, with international rollout to follow next year Fujitsu has opened up access to its Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS) portfolio along with an Accelerator Program to help develop use cases of its CaaS platform.…

Datacenters, cloud services shut down but keep maintaining DBs for the nation's businesses SAP has delayed its withdrawal from Russia after struggling to find a buyer for its operations in the region.…

Only just installed? You may need another upgrade all the same Linux kernel 5.19.17 is here, the last of the version 5 series, as used in the current release of Ubuntu.…

Even better, upgrade to Windows 10 at the very least Google has joined the funeral procession for Windows 7 and 8.1, announcing the last Chrome update for the aging OSes will come in early February.…

Intel CEO not surprised by US export controls on tech to China Intel chief, Pat Gelsinger, reckons US export controls on chip technology to China are an inevitable part of rebalancing the country's supply chains. Where those semiconductor fabs are located will be more important in future than where the oil wells are.…

If your mobile's not 18k gold with diamonds, do you even crypto bro? Vertu, the ostentatious luxury phone brand that began as a brainchild of Nokia, has launched METAVERTU, the "world's first Web3 phone."…

Just don't forget Enclave data is held in memory and costs can ramp when processing digital reams AWS has updated its Nitro Enclaves feature for confidential computing so users can now operate it on Arm-based Graviton EC2 instances.…

Massive spike in user reports on DownDetector, no word on cause Updated An outage has hit global messaging system WhatApp early on Tuesday morning.…

Arcan sub-project reinvents command lines and GUIs at once Lash#Cat9 is a new type of typing-driven UI, which moves beyond terminal emulators. Cat9's power comes from its close interaction with its display server, Arcan. This picks up some of the ideas from X11 and Wayland then goes much further.…

Staff member bit on lure, ultimately exposed up to 113,000 colleagues' personal information Britain's data watchdog has slapped construction business Interserve Group with a potential £4.4 million ($4.98M) fine after a successful phishing attack by criminals exposed the personal data of up to 113,000 employees.…

Warns of class action lawsuits and personal injury claims in wake of health product recall The recently installed CEO at Philips has confirmed a restructuring blueprint that includes making 4,000 staff redundant to reduce overheads following sliding sales and steep losses.…

Ancient hardware deserves ancient kernels, but cannot justify consuming developers' valuable time Linux boss Linus Torvalds has contemplated ending support for the i486 processor architecture in the Linux kernel.…

Bet ya can't wait to slap that 22H2 on your machine Microsoft is finally making good on its promise to address a printing problem holding back its latest Windows 11 upgrade.…