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Still to come: Civil RICO lawsuit against eBay and former top brass Two now-former eBay executives who pleaded guilty to cyberstalking charges this year have been sent down and fined tens of thousands of dollars.…

And no, the tiny fine print in search results doesn't cut it Google is still effectively directing women seeking abortions to anti-abortion centers that masquerade as legit abortion clinics.…

Top tip, don't give your secret login box the HTML form type 'password' For almost a decade, the US Central Intelligence Agency communicated with informants abroad using a network of websites with hidden communications capabilities.…

But overpriced, useless fighter jets? That's something we can get behind Discovering and reporting critical security flaws that could allow foreign spies to steal sensitive US government data or launch cyberattacks via the Department of Defense's IT systems doesn't carry a high reward.…

You even have until the end of the 2030s to get it done The US Department of Energy has announced plans to award up to $50 million in funds to private businesses to develop a working fusion pilot plant (FPP) by the 2030s. …

And bundles its best bits at bargain price in case someone wants you to work their way for a while Atlassian is plugging away at its version of the future of work with an eye on the needs of the admins who tend its software.…

When you combine it with DHCP, that spells TRACK ME Computer scientists at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have found the interplay between the internet and local networks can be analyzed to reveal private data and facilitate tracking.…

We gave the cloud gaming service two years to live. It managed three Google on Thursday said it will shut down Stadia, its cloud-based game streaming service, because few people use it.…

Where we're going, we don't need efficiency cores. But we may need 1.21 jiggawatts Analysis At this week's launch of Intel's 13th-gen Core series, it appears staff accidentally left out on display a wafer of previously undisclosed 34-core Raptor Lake processor dies.…

Curb your enthusiasm – coal-fired power went up too In a global first, wind and solar energy combined to generate more than 10 percent of the world's electricity in 2021 – though coal-fired power plant generation and emissions jumped to new highs in the same period, too.…

An internet advertiser as your service provider – what could go wrong? Google is planning to offer much faster broadband speeds in the US areas where it operates its fiber networks, all the way to 100Gbps.…

Plus RHEL has fresh release goodies out too Red Hat has released betas of RHEL 8.7 and 9.1 while its parent company IBM is offering Linux mainframe instances in the cloud, although only in some regions.…

Office Insider? You might want to check refreshed email client Microsoft has a preview out for its "Unified" Outlook for Windows app for all users on its Office Insider program, and said it will be available for those on the Windows Insider program in the near future.…

Project with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries marks shift in policy since Fukushima disaster over a decade ago Japan is about to change course on energy policy following the Fukushima disaster in 2011 with a focus on developing safer nuclear reactors.…

Mandiant tracks back operators, finds ties to China Emerging covert malware can target VMware environments to allow criminals to gain persistent administrative access to hypervisors, transfer files, and execute arbitrary commands on virtual machines, according to VMware and Mandiant, which discovered such a software nasty in the wild earlier this year.…

IP director claims he was skipped over for merit-based retention bonus because of the retention part A 67-year-old director in Apple's Intellectual Property Enforcement unit is suing the company for age discrimination, alleging Apple unfairly took away a special bonus it uses to "retain key employees" in lead positions because of his age.…

Democratizing IT? The next biggest 3 in region are also US headquartered giants Six US titans are ruling the European cloud market, with AWS, Microsoft, and Google alone accounting for almost three-quarters of customers'spending in the region.…

Government fritters away homegrown technologies and has no strategy to lessen reliance on other countries Arm and Acorn co-founder Hermann Hauser says the UK has "no chance in hell" of being technologically self-reliant, stressing the need for European countries to have their own access to critical technologies so they are not quite so dependent on the US.…

Not-a-cloud service can accommodate 'unique hosting requirements' - like cryogenic systems Quantum startup Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) claims it is set to deploy a quantum system in Cyxtera's Reading datacenter in the UK, with a view to making it available for customers to access.…

Peter Mattis on starting a multibillion-dollar company as serverless database hits GA Interview Cockroach Labs released the serverless version of its eponymous database for general availability last week. The Register took the opportunity to catch up with CTO Peter Mattis – a Google veteran who is also behind open source image editing software GIMP.…

Imagine the lawyer infomercials – Did a computer hurt you? Call (30) 555 1234... The European Commission put forward rules on Wednesday aimed at making it easier for Europeans to sue companies for damage caused by AI technologies going awry.…

Denmark takes top spot, Croatia improves fastest, Hong Kong flops Denmark has topped the International Institute for Management Development's seventh annual World Digital Competitiveness Ranking – an assessment of 63 nations' "capacity and readiness to adopt and explore digital technologies as a key driver for economic transformation in business, government and wider society."…

You wouldn't make this the butt of any jokes, right? Video Inspired by plants and fungi, scientists have devised a method to help so-called soft robots travel along tricky pathways by growing as they move.…

Video confs to add multi-sensory interaction and by 2040 maybe even brain/machine interfaces Chinese gaming and web giant Tencent has shared its vision of the techno-future, predicting "immersive convergence" is the coming thing.…

Claims kids unwittingly click up huge bills in games, only for their cash to fly offshore India's foreign exchange regulator, the Directorate of Enforcement, has investigated Singapore-based Coda Payments in connection with an ongoing operation related to the country's Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).…

Russia, China believe in more national control, maybe baked into standards. Resistance is fierce Every four years, the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) stages a Plenipotentiary Conference at which member states decide how the organization will steer the development of communications technologies.…

Ironic that an ML lab with so many accelerators is such a slowpoke OpenAI on Wednesday made DALL-E, its cloud service for generating images from text prompts, available to the public without any waitlist. But the crowd that had gathered outside its gate may have moved on.…

Awoooogah – this is your one-year warning to switch over, enterprises Microsoft next month will start phasing out Client Access Rules (CARs) in Exchange Online – and will do away with this means for controlling access altogether within a year.…

You take the green pill, you'll spend six hours in a 'don't roll your own crypto' debate Four security researchers have identified five cryptographic vulnerabilities in code libraries that can be exploited to undermine Matrix encrypted chat clients. This includes impersonating users and sending messages as them.…

Or so Akamai is dying to tell us Akamai reckons that, in the first half of 2022 alone, it flagged nearly 79 million newly observed domains (NODs) as malicious.…

House of Zen just needs to convince machine makers to use them AMD put Intel’s low-power Xeon-D and industrial Core-series processors in its sights on Tuesday with the launch of its Ryzen Embedded V3000 CPUs.…

Beta-grade widget respects your privacy, we're promised Cloudflare has begun a public beta test of a CAPTCHA alternative that runs quietly in the background to automatically determine if the webpage visitor is an actual human. Its goal is to allow netizens to avoid having to complete those tedious prove-you're-not-a-bot tests on websites.…

Beware what could be hiding in those LNK shortcuts A tool sold on the dark web that allows cybercriminals to build malicious shortcuts for delivering malware is being used in a campaign pushing a longtime .NET keylogger and remote access trojan (RAT) named Agent Tesla.…

Someone going by 'Thrax' claims responsibility for 'incredibly easy' breach Apple News shut down Fast Company's news channel after "an incredibly offensive alert" was sent to subscribers following a hack of the business publication on Tuesday evening.…

Analyst says challenges remain in attracting partners to roll out products Oracle's NetSuite has kicked off its Las Vegas conference with a smorgasbord of news aimed at accounts payable, warehouse management, and people management.…

Along with revealing authors, IARPA also wants bot to disguise scribes The US intelligence community has launched a program to develop artificial intelligence that can determine authorship of anonymous writing while also disguising an author's identity by subtly altering their words.…

US campaign group forms as customers complain of lock-in, unclear terms, problems using wares in cloud Campaign group the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing (CFSL) has launched in the US to tackle the "restrictive terms" and anticompetitive business practices that "lock-in" customers and "impedes" a move to the cloud.…

Thinking about shelling out $800? If you break it you're 'screwed' The Apple Watch Ultra was announced this month with a ruggedized design, new button(!), and a focus on outdoorsy types, but now that the repairability fans at iFixit have their hands on it, they're only concerned about one thing – screws.…

UbuntuDDE 22.04 is colorful, and with slightly less Chinese flavor than Ubuntu Kylin The team behind the unofficial Ubuntu remix with the Deepin desktop has rolled out an updated version based on the current Ubuntu long-term support release.…

Worldwide investment set to grow 9% to new high of $99b Investment in semiconductor fab equipment is set to grow 9 percent to a new global high of $99 billion by the end of 2022 as the industry continues to boost capacity despite the worsening global economic outlook.…

Thought shadow IT at your office was bad? Try enforcing workplace device policies on hedge fund traders Updated Ever given a colleague a quick Signal call so you can sidestep a monitored workplace app? Well, we'd hope you're not in a highly regulated industry like staff at eleven of the world's most powerful financial firms, who yesterday were fined nearly $2 billion for off-channel comms.…

Set priorities, expect confusion, keep emergency instructions simple – that's just for starters At the start of the year, when it looked likely that Russia would invade Ukraine, Kyiv-based MacPaw began making a plan for operating during wartime.…

Apps still available on Google Play, digital ministry says it's investigating Russian social media provider VK Company Ltd has confirmed its apps were removed from Apple's App Store.…

And if and when it does, role lacks Cabinet position, complain Lords The UK's position in science and innovation is under threat from a lack of government focus and financial investment according to a House of Lords committee.…

Beta trial for select, chosen customers – gee, so generous and open Intel has announced the Intel Developer Cloud, a platform intended to make it easier for commercial customers to get early access to yet-to-be-released technologies.…

Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure CTO, thinks so Column We all know that the Rust language has become much more popular. By Slashdata's count, Rust users have nearly tripled in the past 24 months.…

Need deepfake tools? GitHub's got 'em All of the materials and tools needed to make deepfake videos – from source code to publicly available images and account authentication bypass services – are readily available and up for sale on the public internet and underground forums. …

Manufacturers allegedly told to connect to NavIC by 2023, which did not make them happy at all India's Ministry of Electronics and IT has clarified that, while the world's second-most populous nation does want smartphone makers to include hardware to connect to its Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) satnav system, it is in no rush to make it happen.…

When a Klingon Bird-of-Prey just won't cut it Bright yellow buoys running AI software have been deployed in an attempt to deter cargo ships from running over nearby whales.…

For just $5,500 and the cost of a quad-core x86 box, z/OS 16 for test and dev on the desktop can be yours IBM has updated its mainframe emulators to bring them into line with its recently released Z16 machines and operating system.…