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How about the inside of the windshield instead? Are you sick of smudges on those unwieldy touchscreens making their way into modern cars these days? General Motors has filed a patent to clear them using UV light, though don't assume it'll actually ship.…

Move along, totally nothing to see here The FBI claims it has dealt with a cybersecurity "incident" that reportedly involved computer systems being used to investigate child sexual exploitation.…

Defect-detecting Swiss biz inhales a cool $14 mill A Swiss-based startup focused on cutting particle contamination in semiconductor manufacturing has raised $14 million in seed funding with Intel's venture capital arm leading the round.…

Some rules and whatnot about taking responsibility, tackling unreliability would be ace, yes A group of government, academic and military leaders from around the world spent the past few days talking about the need to address the use of artificial intelligence in warfare.…

In other words, script kiddies up to shenanigans again A series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down seven German airports' websites on Thursday, a day after a major IT glitch at Lufthansa grounded flights.…

Supercomputer deadline's been and Argonne, but for now, here's a testbed for boffins Intel has yet to deliver the much anticipated Aurora supercomputer, but the chipmaker has a consolation prize for scientists in the shape of Borealis, a scaled-down testbed for the technology that allows them to make a start on research projects.…

The init system many love to hate intros tool to create Unified Kernel Image files The first systemd release of 2023 is here, and it introduces a brand spanking new tool for building Unified Kernel Image (UKI) files.…

Still waiting for word on those sweet, sweet subsidies Infineon hopes to secure €1 billion in subsidies for its upcoming chip fab in Germany, but it's not waiting around to get started.…

World's largest PC maker aims for $150m in cost controls, says never been a worse time to sell smart devices Lenovo is entering cost cutting mode following the second straight quarterly decline in sales, and plunging profits for the first time since 2020, as the industry faces weakening demand for personal computers.…

Dislike those messages about Ubuntu Pro? Then you won't like this Ubuntu and its various remixes remain free distros, but it's getting harder to remove the messages about the paid Ubuntu Pro offering… which is by design, and it's not going away.…

ThreatLabz finds free alternative to Cobalt Strike and other tools used in the wild There's a fresh open-source command-and-control (C2) framework on the loose, dubbed Havoc, as an alternative to the popular Cobalt Strike, and other mostly legitimate tools, that have been abused to spread malware.…

Committee: Something about complaints process being dealt with in total secrecy doesn't sit right Lawmakers in the European Parliament have urged the European Commission not to issue the "adequacy decision" needed for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) to officially become the pipeline for data to freely flow from the EU to the States.…

It ain’t half hot in the datacenter when an errant aircon engineer leaves the tech team to take the heat On Call Weekends are the time for fun in the sun – but before you get to that, The Register offers another instalment of our weekly On-Call column, in which readers share stories of being put under the hot spotlight of being asked to fix flare-ups, fast.…

Those billions just may have dissuaded iPhone giant from building rival search, beefing up Safari Exclusive Google has been paying Apple a portion of search revenue generated by people using Google Chrome on iOS, according to a source familiar with the matter.…

Elon Musk takes issue with the word 'recall' given this will be an over-the-air update The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has sent Tesla a letter [PDF] in which it acknowledges Tesla will conduct a recall of the Full Self Driving Beta (FSD Beta) software in up to 362,758 cars, as the software is unsafe.…

Switchzilla hardware and software need attention, unless you fancy arbitrary remote code execution Antivirus software is supposed to be an important part of an organization's defense against the endless tide of malware.…

Meanwhile South Korea's Do Kwon is sought for fraud by US authorities Norwegian authorities announced on Thursday that they had recovered $5.9 million of cryptocurrency stolen in the Axie Infinity hack – an incident widely held to have been perpetrated by the Lazarus Group, which has links to North Korea.…

The Register finds evidence of astroturfing in governance stoush The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) – the regional internet registry for 56 nations in the region – has warned that members may be receiving fake phone calls from people purporting to be from the organization ahead of the election of members to the org's executive council.…

VMware approves even if it's not yet on the approved list Microsoft has started to officially support Windows 11 on Arm running as a virtual machine on Macs powered by Apple's own M1 and M2 CPUs.…

Ask it more than 15 questions in a single conversation and Redmond admits the responses get ropey +Comment Microsoft has confirmed its AI-powered Bing search chatbot will go off the rails during long conversations after users reported it becoming emotionally manipulative, aggressive, and even hostile. …

Send them back? God no, throw them away, says maker Anker has issued a voluntary recall of its 535 battery packs — also marketed as the PowerCore 20K — one of which is believed to have caused a house fire earlier this month.…

From organizing plans to filing a watchdog complaint in just a day - that's gotta be some sort of record Tesla has reportedly fired employees at its Buffalo, NY, gigafactory just a day after workers announced plans to unionize.…

Devs missed warnings plus tons of code relies again on lone open source maintainer Google this week reversed an overhaul of one of its security-related file formats after the transition broke Android apps.…

What happened to not getting high on your own supply? Twitter needs to make money, and the US cannabis industry is booming, making its decision to become the first major social media platform to allow cannabis advertising in the US the perfect hybrid. …

OS won't start on some systems with ESXi VMs, while Win11 updates may not make it to devices Microsoft is sorting through two issues with Windows Server 2022 that affect VMware virtual machines and updates not getting passed on to Windows 11 devices.…

'Year of efficiency' includes accounting for more threats toward CEO caused by 'year of efficiency' Facebook parent company Meta is slashing costs practically everywhere, but it's not cutting founder Mark Zuckerberg's considerable personal security budget – that's actually getting a $4m boost.…

UK-based Coin Publishers were conned out of $206,000 after meeting in a Barcelona hotel Exclusive When Ahad Shams detailed on Twitter how his company was scammed out of $4 million in cryptocurrency after a face-to-face meeting, Chris Hunter immediately recognized what was going on.…

Bog-standard 5G already old hat by 2024 apparently Qualcomm is talking up Snapdragon X75 as the first wireless chipset ready with support for 5G Advanced, the next step for 5G networks.…

New versions of the two dominant desktops for Linux and other FOSS Unix-a-likes Version 5.27, the latest LTS release of the KDE Plasma desktop, is out, and a beta of the latest GNOME, version 44, is here too.…

Intel sees dollar signs, rubs its hands with glee The EU is making slow but steady progress in boosting its domestic semiconductor industry with two draft bills ready for debate in European Parliament, news that chip giant Intel in particular is pleased with.…

Alternative headline: The best use for nu-Bing Microsoft CTO could conjure was translating his daughter's slang Comment Still on the waiting list for Microsoft's AI-powered Bing search features? No? Well, me neither, but CTO Kevin Scott recently let slip an amazing new use case that couldn't possibly be done with a boring, old-fashioned search engine like Google.…

Well... that's one way to retain data sovereignty Top brass at French IT supplier Atos are mulling an offer from Airbus to buy a minority stake in Evidian – the digital, security and big data unit that is scheduled to uncouple from the troubled tech biz later this year.…

Free software offered to fend off paintbrush-armed robots Researchers have developed a technique aimed at protecting artists from AI models replicating their styles after having been trained to generate images from their artwork.…

Trade org claims restrictions will 'cause serious harm' globally China's main semiconductor trade organization has released a statement opposing the alliance between Japan, the Netherlands, and the US to restrict chip exports to the country.…

Cerberus data analytics system to give us a new reason to sweat at the landing gate UK aerospace and defence company BAE Systems has won a £38 million ($45.7 million) contract for "an advanced, highly capable analytics and targeting system" for intelligence officers at the nation's borders.…

What the big players and an outlier are doing, and why Part 2 This is the second half of a feature about work undertaken to harden and improve Linux, beginning with part 1 here.…

Software behemoth makes Windows updates smaller, faster … how about less buggy and more tested? Developers and other users of Microsoft's .NET Framework will soon be noticing changes to the company's Unified Update Platform (UUP).…

Charlie Munger also thinks semiconductors are a terrible business, Taiwan's safe from China, Elon Musk is 'peculiar' When a 99-year-old man says that "cryptocrapo" is for "idiots" and banning it is not a bad idea, many might think it's an "Old man yells at cloud" moment.…

As rival Arista admits Meta and Microsoft now account for at least ten percent of its business Cisco has again increased revenue guidance thanks to an improving supply chain that's given the networking giant confidence it will sell more stuff in the second half of 2023.…

Zhengzhou is lovely this time of year, Bac Giang could be nicer still Electronics assembler for the stars Foxconn has signed a $62.5 million lease on 45 hectares of land in an industrial park in Vietnam's Bac Giang province, as tech manufacturing operations continue to shift out of China.…

Nobody uses it, Linus Torvalds was happy to lose it, but it looks like sticking around Linux kernel developers have debated removing support for Intel and HP's now officially defunct Itanium/IA64 platform from the project, with the outcome appearing to be a proposal to keep it alive.…

First public word on 'new' direction reveals focus on core technologies and 'a ton of hiring' to modernize them a bit Citrix has broken its silence on future plans with a presentation by vice president for product management Calvin Hsu to its user group. He revealed the business unit of the Cloud Software Group plans to spend 2023 modernizing its core applications for hybrid clouds and hybrid work, licenses that span multiple environments, and "a ton of hiring" to make that happen.…

So Tesla's gonna open up its proprietary tech? The Biden-Harris Administration announced rules on Wednesday requiring the American automotive industry to build interoperable electric vehicle chargers that must be manufactured within the country – using US-sourced materials – by 2024. …

Want a clue to what you’re dealing with? Check the ransom note That didn't take long.…

Doh, a Deere, I fear no Deere The US Department of Justice on Tuesday asked an Illinois federal court not to dismiss antitrust litigation against agricultural equipment maker Deere & Company for allegedly trying to monopolize the repair of its products.…

Ignoring poll results is the new craze for some. At least that's daily entertainment guaranteed now Video Sorry, Tesla investors who want him back on the job: Elon Musk said he thinks it's going to take until the end of 2023 to stabilize Twitter to the point where he can appoint someone else as CEO.…

The layoffs will continue until morale improves Exclusive DigitalOcean on Wednesday told staff it was laying off about 11 percent of them, or approximately 200 employees.…

Anything could happen in a half hour Updated Despite what Oracle supremo Larry Ellison might have you believe, Big Red's clouds do in fact go down.…

Plus bugs squashed in Server Platform Services and more Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) are under the spotlight again after the chipmaker disclosed several newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting the tech, and recommended users update their firmware.…

If you could come this way and answer a few questions, say 16 countries Adobe's proposed $20 billion buy of web-first collaboration design startup Figma has hit a potential stumbling block, after the European Commission confirmed members states raised worries about competition.…