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Japanese super-tycoon to discuss 'stategic alliance' with electronics chaebol SoftBank mogul Masayoshi Son reportedly plans to meet executives at Samsung Electronics in Seoul to discuss a partnership between the Japanese mega-conglomerate's Arm subsidiary and the South Korean foundry giant.…

You boffins need to figure out who owns what before someone gets sued Getty Images has banned people from uploading AI-generated pictures to its massive stock image collection, citing concerns over copyright.…

Well, assuming the US ISP doesn't win its appeal A Dallas judge has reduced the amount Charter Communications must pay the family of a subscriber murdered by one of its Spectrum cable technicians.…

No need to blow into a tube, this passive tech will automatically hit the brakes if you're drunk A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) crash investigation has concluded with potentially wide-reaching implications for the auto industry, as the panel is recommending all new vehicles be equipped with technology that stops the engine if a drunk driver is at the wheel.…

It's better to burn out than to fade away A Tesla Megapack battery at a California substation caught fire early yesterday morning, prompting a shelter-in-place order and multiple road closures around the Moss Landing area of Monterey Bay. …

Sounds like fair comment Updated Google and its Youtube domains are being flagged as malicious by Malwarebytes as of Wednesday morning, blocking users from accessing a whole range of websites.…

But the question remains whether it is polluting more or less Amazon says it is adding 2.7 gigawatts of clean energy capacity to its operations that are spread across 71 new renewable energy projects worldwide, as it works towards becoming a carbon neutral biz by 2040.…

64-page roadmap details how we will all become the Jetsons Boeing's vision of future mainstream travel includes automated uncrewed passenger-carrying electric aircraft operating as taxis, and on Tuesday it released a detailed roadmap on how to get there by 2030.…

Users of cookie-warning-buster add-on already forking off due to privacy concerns The lone developer of anti-cookie-warning browser add-on "I Don't Care About Cookies" has sold it to Avast, resulting in both concern – and new forks.…

Integration tooling might work for those with multiple installs, but check the budget first – analyst Global CRM giant Salesforce has launched data lake and streaming software to help clients bring together customer data in real time.…

Battery, cable, and diesel combo as there are plenty of non-electrified lines Japanese manufacturer Hitachi Rail and Italy's Trenitalia have unveiled a triple hybrid locomotive that they claim halves carbon emission compared with the trains they replace.…

And operators not getting any better at saving power – or watching the water their bit barns drink Datacenter operators worldwide are largely unprepared for sustainability requirements, despite the industry anticipating new regulations in many regions. Meanwhile, outages are becoming increasingly costly, and progress on energy efficiency is stuck.…

If you love having thousands of tabs open, this might be one for you The Mozilla Foundation has let Firefox 105 out of the gate, and if you use a Chrome-based browser, it's a good time to take another look.…

Doesn't make cents, makes bigger bucks instead ... probably ChromeLoader – the malware that exploded onto the scene this year by hijacking browsers to redirect users to pages of ads – is apparently evolving into a more significant threat by deploying malicious payloads that go beyond malvertising.…

'3 together, 2 wherever' policy incoming. 'We've lost that deep connection' says boss Exclusive BT is ordering thousands of staff across the globe to return to the office three days a week or risk disciplinary procedures.…

(But wot about us vultures, sniff) The German government hopes AI-powered cameras will its protect endangered eagles from crashing into wind turbines.…

First-person shooter PUBG also barred for corrupting the young Afghanistan’s Taliban government has banned made-in-China social network TikTok and first-person shooter PUBG.…

'Indiscriminate' preemptive harvesting of personal info a big no-no. What a novel concept On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued rulings that limit indiscriminate data retention in France and Germany.…

Pacific Network Corp and China Unicom join the likes of Huawei, Hytera, Hikvision on list of dangerous suppliers The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has added two Chinese companies to its list of communications equipment suppliers rated a threat to national security: Pacific Network Corp, its wholly owned subsidiary ComNet (USA) LLC, and China Unicom (Americas).…

In this economy, who has $800 to spend on a watch? Sales of wearable computers fell 6.9 percent year over year in the second quarter of 2022, according to analyst outfit IDC.…

Oh. Joy. Microsoft has released the Windows 11 2022 Update – and promised that it will both continue issuing annual big bang releases and start to add new features on a monthly cadence.…

The Wrath of Khan America's Federal Trade Commission is investigating Amazon's proposed acquisition of iRobot, the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner maker, and has asked for more information about the deal from the technology pair.…

chmod a+rw at hyperscale A "critical" Oracle Cloud Infrastructure vulnerability could have been exploited by any customer to read and write data belonging to any other OCI customer without any permission checks, according to Wiz security researchers.…

And don't forget AMD's RDNA 3 GPUs are right around the corner Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled his GPU giant's flagship RTX 40-series graphics cards at GTC today.…

Encryption? Data destruction? Bueller? Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has agreed to pay a paltry $35 million penalty after customers' sensitive records were left unencrypted on unwiped hard drives that were auctioned off after decommissioning.…

The other Tessier-Ashpool AIs are surely disappointed Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute says $160 million in digital assets have been stolen from it in a cyber-heist, though it assures customers that everything's fine.…

The House of Zen is back to its tricks: Chips with three-year-old cores AMD has apparently dug deep into its spare parts bin with today's launch of its 7020-series mobile processors, which it says will bring all-day battery life to more entry-level notebooks.…

Tech giants 'throwing their users to the wolves' Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, and others today faced renewed pressure to protect the privacy of messaging app users seeking healthcare treatment.…

NUC NUC. Who's there? It's me again. You folks still want computers, right? Intel has unveiled the latest addition to its NUC line-up, the NUC 12 Enthusiast, the first to include one of the company's Arc GPUs and targeting content creators and gamers.…

Mark Russinovich goes hardcore against old languages Updated Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich has had it with C and C++, time-tested programming languages commonly used for native applications that require high performance.…

No reason given, but inflation and app tracking changes may both factor Customers of Apple's App Store in several countries and the entire Eurozone should expect price increases beginning as early as October 5.…

It's called Hopper because most of the chips announced today skipped it GTC Nvidia's long-awaited Hopper H100 accelerators will begin shipping later next month in OEM-built HGX systems, the silicon giant said at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) event today.…

Sorry, sorry, Omniverse – and think subscription-based digital twins GTC Nvidia is counting on metaverse FOMO to drive enterprises to its Omniverse-as-a-service platform.…

Scratch Patch ... it's Rip Tuesday: Users complain that Microsoft’s KB5017308 breaks desktop shortcuts A recent cumulative update to Windows 10 is causing headaches for IT administrators who are experiencing problems with their Group Policy Object (GPO) capabilities.…

Upstart CPU integration, incremental improvements – just the way cautious corporate customers like it Oracle on Tuesday marked the release of Java 19 (JDK 19), the latest iteration of the popular general purpose programming language.…

Violence flares amid internet blackouts after woman dies in police custody Elon Musk has said his satellite internet business Starlink will ask for an exemption to US sanctions on Iran.…

Advocacy group claims Verizon and co should be stopped as the practice hurts competition, consumers A public interest group has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to look at whether the wireless industry's voluntary phone unlocking commitments are even effective, claiming the practice harms competition.…

Obsolete media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige Floppy disks may have gone the way of the dodo and joined other extinct media such as punched cards and paper tape, but some people are apparently still using them, and one company even continues to sell them.…

Building features into Teams, Outlook without JSON coding possible with new Cards play Microsoft has pledged to make building new features into Teams, Outlook, and other common apps easier with the introduction of low code development for Cards.…

Ren Kai, vice president of Sino IC Capital, is also on the board of SMIC A non-executive director for Shanghai-based chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and "Big Fund" vice president is under investigation in China for alleged corruption.…

Much better use of time than 'hot singles in your area' The SETI Institute has teamed up with telescope-maker Unistellar on a citizen science campaign asking for space fans' help discovering massive hot Jupiter exoplanet candidates identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).…

Microsoft reanimates the wrong corpse Opinion There is a perennial fad for finding deep truths in religion. Really only one concept stands up: without reincarnation, how can one explain the constant reappearance of old ideas as new in IT?…

Plans to drive more open source – and more transparency – into public sector Open Source Summit The body behind the biggest open source project in the world has opened a European division.…

Needs to be autonomous, interoperable, and capable of scaling to 100,000 nodes The Internet Society’s Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG) has called for the development of “a common, interoperable, autonomous and scalable routing framework within the Solar System Internet.”…

Plus: Cruise expanding self-driving robotaxi operations, and more In brief Everyone agrees that text-to-image models are here to stay, though opinions are divided over AI-generated art.…

Asserts Beijing can achieve parity with US capabilities within a decade, thanks to burgeoning private sector China’s space tourism operators will lift off for first time in 2025 at between $280k-$400k per sub-orbital seat, according to the founder of Beijing-backed commercial launch service provider CAS Space, Yang Yiqiang.…

Only in the Mac App Store, as part of FOSS-for-biz strategy software org admits may not quickly deliver results The Document Foundation, the organization that tends the open source productivity suite LibreOffice, has decided to start charging for one version of the software.…

Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said … Your correspondent once met the manager of a contact center dedicated to processing parking and speeding fines. This chap's "customers" were understandably nearly always unhappy, and the folks who answered the phones therefore copped more than their fair share of surliness and abuse.…

For those on tenterhooks over this Moon mission NASA will televise a test on Wednesday to confirm whether a repair made to its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has fixed the hydrogen leak that forced officials to scrub a previous launch attempt.…

From annoying MFA alerts to 'several internal systems' infiltrated Uber, four days after suffering a substantial cybersecurity breach, has admitted its attacker accessed "several internal systems" including the corporation's G Suite account, and downloaded internal Slack messages and a tool used by its finance department to manage "some" invoices.…