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Less than a year after Funky Pigeon leaked data of greetings cards biz Less than a year after its online greetings card subsidiary Funky Pigeon was attacked, WH Smith has admitted someone broke into its systems.…

Opera founder's outfit continues to push the browser functionality envelope There are plenty of Chromium-based browsers out there, but few of them fit in as many new features as Vivaldi manages to, or run on as many devices… including cars.…

977 EliteBook x360 830 G6 Notebooks makes one Enrique Lores PC and print biz HP paid its CEO more than $20 million in the corporation's fiscal 2022 calendar, a 12 month period when revenue dipped and profit plunged in the face of weakening economies around the globe.…

Recoil from DART impact changed Dimorphos's orbit more than expected Plumes of dust and rocks kicked up from the surface of asteroid Dimorphos after NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into it altered the space rock's orbit more than the kinetic impact alone, according to research published on Wednesday.…

Candidates supported by Morocco-backed group fail to win a single seat on Executive Council Candidates advocating for a major overhaul of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) have failed to win any of the four seats available on the organization's Executive Council, and current members are welcoming changes aimed at preventing future attempts to stack the board.…

Infosec also needs to widen its tlent pool or miss out Interview It's a tough economy to ask for a bigger security team or larger budget to buy technology to protect against cyberattacks. …

Iberians were using heavy metal on hard rock way before it was cool It's time to update the history books again. A group of researchers in Germany have shown that steel tools were being used in the Iberian peninsula at least as long ago as 900 BCE – far earlier than it was believed knowledge of the metal had made its way to the region.…

'Continuous innovation' means it's time to refine your WSUS skills unless you want users doing all sorts of weird stuff Microsoft has quietly announced a change to the feature release cadence for Windows 11: it will add features every month, if it wants to.…

Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs CRM giant Salesforce has decided to sweat its infrastructure for an extra year, and make employees wait the same period before giving them new PCs.…

Buys GK Software and intends to put 1,600 new people on staff – some of them oldies Japanese IT services giant Fujitsu announced on Wednesday that not only does it plan to hire 1,600 employees, it is also acquiring German software-for-retailers provider GK Software to grow its cloud and software-as-a-service business.…

But Carnegie Endowment worries a handful are real, and that the ITU is 'susceptible to manipulation' China's attempts to influence technical standards groups have mostly been uncoordinated, unsophisticated and unsuccessful – but the US needs to keep watch on Beijing's activities, especially at the International Telecommunications Union.…

Pre-existing mental health issues and the stress of working in Cuba are more likely culprits Havana Syndrome – the inexplicable illness experienced by some US intelligence and diplomatic personnel – is almost certainly not caused by energy weapons, according to the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It has, rather, attributed the malady to pre-existing mental health challenges exacerbated by environmental conditions.…

'This has to be a loss-leader to lock out competitors' After a limited trial OpenAI has unleashed its ChatGPT and Whisper models on developers, who can now integrate chatbot interaction and speech-to-text conversion into their own applications through API calls.…

Pretty awkward for Samsung, SK Hynix and their Middle Kingdom fabs A requirement barring recipients of America's $53 billion CHIPS subsidies from expanding their operations in China for a period of 10 years is proving to be a sticking point for the South Koreans.…

It works! Now let's cut staff by 8% Alphabet's Waymo subsidiary says its driverless cars have driven more than one million miles on public roads with no human at the wheel.…

If you're using ExplorerPatcher or StartAllBack, this is why your computer won't start The massive update to Windows 11 rolled out this week is proving to be a headache for users who are running some third-party UI customization applications on their devices.…

All part of the Japan's Society 5.0 project AI systems specialist SambaNova has been chosen by Japan’s RIKEN scientific research institute to provide a DataScale system for the Fugaku supercomputer to assist with research into Japan’s “Society 5.0” vision.…

The myth 'is now a reality' BlackLotus, a UEFI bootkit that's sold on hacking forums for about $5,000, can now bypass Secure Boot, making it the first known malware to run on Windows systems even with the firmware security feature enabled.…

Celebrated, unhinged search tool pushed in latest OS update Microsoft is continuing its efforts to foist upon us its controversial OpenAI-powered chat-driven Bing search bot.…

No more dog whistles or empty threats for caustic tweeps, but what does it matter if no one can post? Twitter has announced a zero-tolerance violent speech policy, but its enforcement might be difficult given today's outage – and the growing list (both in quantity and frequency) of other interruptions.…

Latest claim comes days after Dept of Energy waved finger in China's direction Days after it emerged that the US Department of Energy deemed the COVID-19 pandemic to have sprung from a lab incident, FBI director Chris Wray says that the bureau agrees.…

All part of the cloud provider's Confidential Computing push Cloud slinger Civo has hooked up with Intel to enable Kubernetes to operate in a secure enclave using Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) and intends to make this available to its public cloud customers.…

Next version of Red Hat's bleeding-edge distro won't drop all the older tech it had hoped to The shape of Fedora 38 continues to get clearer as next month's planned release approaches. The latest meeting of the Steering Committee (FESCo) has decided some stuff just isn't ready to remove yet.…

Interstellar Boundary Explorer isn't listening and Surface Water Ocean Topography mission off to unlucky start NASA is scrambling to fix glitches affecting its Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) missions.…

Job cutting plan expected to ease pressures later this year Now remains a good time to buy a relatively cheap personal computer – not that pricing promotions are helping out the executive leaders at HP who are doing all they can to rapidly slash operating expenses.…

Gartner finds pandemic-related trend is becoming the norm By the end of 2023, only 9 percent of knowledge workers worldwide will be fully remote, but 39 percent will combine remote and office-based work, according to analysis by Gartner.…

Entrance of SpaceX and others into airline Wi-Fi eases worries. Next stop: US and EU regulators The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally approved Viasat's planned multibillion-dollar purchase of fellow satellite builder Inmarsat, yet the proposal has other regulatory hurdles to clear.…

Framework offers refurb kit and parts – for instance, to upgrade a decades-old subnotebook If you are lucky enough to own an IBM ThinkPad 701C, with its famous "butterfly" keyboard, options are appearing to help you bring it back to life – and some are quite dramatic.…

This could have practical applications for human technology, say boffins Scientists have discovered that the tiny insects commonly known as sharpshooters use superpropulsion to ensure they can efficiently eject the huge volumes of urine they produce each day.…

We're not just your grandmother's data warehouse, CEO tells El Reg CEO Interview Cloud ambitions came with a plan to pull out of on-prem consultancy and services at Teradata, the data warehousing specialist whose userbase includes some of the world's largest banks and retailers.…

Cupertino not entirely off the hook – yet The European Commission on Tuesday reduced the scope of its investigation into Apple's allegedly anticompetitive App Store rules for music streaming providers.…

DLL side-loading does the trick, again Cybercriminals are disguising the PlugX remote access trojan as a legitimate open-source Windows debugging tool to evade detection and compromise systems.…

For one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems There are a lot of technical challenges humanity will have to tackle as we prepare a long-term presence on and around the Moon, and the European Space Agency just reminded us of one more: we don't have an agreed, coordinated method of telling time on our natural satellite. …

Local officials say fire suppression equipment wasn't operational Apple supplier Foxlink has admitted a fire damaged its plant in Tirupati, India, and that disruptions to production are to be expected as a result.…

Regulator warns it's far from finished and the deletions will continue until morale improves The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has put numbers to its drive to reshape the local internet, claiming it cleaned up 54.3 million pieces of information it deemed illegal and bad in 2022 alone.…

32 virtual qubits are yours to manipulate with classical C or Python code Intel has released a Quantum software development kit (SDK) that simulates a complete quantum computer using conventional hardware.…

Mainframes dating back to 2017 can run forthcoming OS, which has something for everyone – even COBOL coders IBM has teased a Q3 2023 release for a major upgrade to its z/OS mainframe operating environment.…

Personal Gmail users still out of luck Google continued its client-side encryption rollout, the feature generally available to some Gmail and Calendar users who can now send and receive encrypted messages and meeting invites.…

Last chance to film yourself doing a ByteDance, in the US and abroad The White House has ordered all federal government employees to delete TikTok from work devices, over fears the video-sharing app could be used to spy on Americans. …

Where's my money? You got money for wafers, where's my money? Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and other semiconductor foundries stand to receive billions in American taxpayer funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to expand fab capacity on US soil, according to documents released by the government's Commerce Department.…

Who apart from Microsoft is happy with the ship now, oh just fix it later approach? What's more dangerous than Chinese spy balloons? Unsafe software and other technology products, according to America's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly.…

Exaggerated claims? About unproven technology? Ask your chat bot if it knows what fraud means Analysis The US Federal Trade Commission has re-upped its admonition to businesses that they should not exaggerate the role or capabilities of artificial intelligence in their products.…

Outage-hit telco still won't confirm ransomware infection, or if it's paying up Dish has confirmed what everyone was suspecting, given the ongoing downtime experienced by some of its systems, that the US telco was hit by criminal hackers.…

Otherwise Uncle Sam risks the whole purpose of the CHIPS Act The semiconductor industry is seeking to bypass US environmental protection rules to speed up fab construction, warning US government that delays derail the purpose of the CHIPS Act; to outpace China in technology.…

This is starting to become a common theme Tesla and Elon Musk are establishing a pattern. Less than a month after defeating one shareholder-led class action securities fraud lawsuit, another has begun.…

Code update will remove the need for translation layer in Linux distros With WINE 8 out, the team is merging in the code changes to add support for the Wayland display server protocol.…

Battery usage optimization comes to Apple MacBooks Google's code gremlins have been tweaking the company's Chrome browser under the hood to help Apple's MacBooks consume less power.…

Talos team warns on third-party threats, but will it work? Betteridge's Law may apply SCSW Supply chain attacks are a serious problem – yet they're long-term operations, and that gives canny admins a chance to nip them in the bud. Always remember to check the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), and never drop your guard.…

Fiscal 2023 'not without its challenges' as bottom line tumbles 76% Zoom, poster child of pandemic web comms, is experiencing the same readjustment as other online tech providers whose businesses ballooned in recent years, but is still managing to pick up more paying customers.…

Syndicate wants to see health service 'stay in control' in face of fierce competition from Palantir The contentious procurement of the UK health service's £480 million ($580 million) Federated Data Platform (FDP) – which US spy-tech firm Palantir is tipped to win – has seen a new competitor enter the fray in the form of a UK consortium of vendors.…