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Software nasty used to cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, cops say If you've been hit by the LockerGoga ransomware, an international law enforcement effort has publicly released a tool to fix the problem.…

Or was forced into a rethink by legislation Video The iPhone 14 harbors a secret that's a pretty big deal: The internals have been redesigned to make it more repairable, says iFixit. …

So is that three or four stars? Take-Two Interactive confirmed on Monday that its Rockstar Games subsidiary has been compromised and confidential data for Grand Theft Auto 6 has been stolen.…

That is, if the driver and/or car has very quick reflexes and a clear signal Future Ford vehicles could be equipped with technology that lets drivers know if a pedestrian is dangerously close - even if they can't be seen.…

Also, EA goes kernel-deep to stop cheaters, PuTTY gets hijacked by North Korea, and more. In Brief OpenAI's popular natural language model GPT-3 has a problem: It can be tricked into behaving badly by doing little more than telling it to ignore its previous orders.…

Gas giant to come within just 365 million miles. Viewing conditions will be ideal even if you only have binoculars Next Monday, September 26, Jupiter will be the closest to Earth it has been for in 70 years.…

In Cisco's world this makes a $125 Wi-Fi AP 'easier to buy' – maybe easier than its own Meraki kit? Cisco has revealed new hardware it is willing to sell to small businesses outright – no subscription, but still with support and warranty! Such innovation!…

Rules, it turns out, are not meant to be broken. Especially by the person who wrote the rule about how to protect data Who, Me? When designing a procedure for the operation of any system, the first and most important rule should always be: follow the rules. Unfortunately, this particular rule is often forgotten.…

South Korean prosecutor believes he is on the run from charges laid over Luna stablecoin crash Do Kwon, founder of troubled cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs and a wanted man in Korea, took to Twitter over the weekend to deny that he was "on the run" and claim he is fully cooperating with authorities probing the crypto collapses in which he had a hand.…

Just three months ago senior bureaucrat said 'Tax perks are not that important to investors.' Contortions now in place to keep cash flowing The Philippines last week decided to extend incentives offered to foreign outsourcers that offer working from home to local employees.…

PLUS: Qualys CEO says APAC has infosec advantages; Singapore's Sea ebbs in Americas; Toshiba's tepid takeover update; and more Asia In Brief Indonesia's competition regulator, the Komisi Pengawas Persaingan Usaha (KPPU) has alleged that Google has violated local anti-monopoly laws by abusing its dominant position for the distribution of apps and its requirement that developers must use its payment systems.…

Competition is good for everyone. Just keep it friendly, folks Analysis Arm executives this week tried to play down the threat of RISC-V to the silicon architect's business.…

About time someone shined some light onto this Boffins at the University of Michigan in the US and Zhejiang University in China want to highlight how bespectacled video conferencing participants are inadvertently revealing sensitive on-screen information via reflections in their eyeglasses.…

As President Biden rolls out a blueprint for future regulations The US Department of Justice has tapped more than 150 federal prosecutors to form a team keenly focused on cracking down on cryptocurrency-related crimes, it announced on Friday.…

Big Tech forbidden from taking down 'viewpoint-based' posts no matter how awful but lawful The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday said social media platforms are obligated to carry lawful but awful speech, rejecting the entreaties of tech trade groups to block Texas's social media law.…

This is why we don't reuse passwords, kids Parents and teachers received a link to an "inappropriate image" this week via Seesaw after miscreants hijacked accounts in a credential stuffing attack against the popular school messaging app.…

If only the US government had, like, a Dept of Labor or something The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday fired its first warning shot at companies that exploit gig workers.…

We've heard something like this before ... Boss suggests earlier design wasn't that useful to industry Heart Aerospace, which previously planned to have hundreds of 19-seat all-electric planes in the air by 2026, has ditched its previous design in favor of a 30-seat hybrid model with similar capabilities.…

Government wants access to the 60% of offshore wind potential stuck in deep waters The Biden Administration plans to invest heavily in the expansion of offshore wind energy, with a particular focus on floating turbines that can be placed where ocean breezes have more energy-generating potential.…

Totally not confusing Logowatch Pour one out for Pentium and another for Celeron. After more than two decades, Intel has scrapped the brands in favor of a new moniker.…

After 31 years, a second programming language will be allowed in Open Source Summit Both Linus Torvalds' Open Source Summit keynote and Jonathan Corbet's "Kernel Report" discussed efforts to allow Rust modules in Linux.…

Secondary data in weather, macro-economics to help governments and orgs figure out where to focus their aid An international team of researchers have built a set of machine learning models they say can help predict global food shortages in the near future, helping governments and international agencies understand where they can best help.…

'I feel like I'm literally 15 years old and I just got out of Star Wars and jumped on their bike,' says test driver In a galaxy not so far, far away – this one, actually – a Japanese startup demonstrated its $777,000 "hoverbike" at the Detroit Auto Show.…

All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory Google claims a new streaming service will help developers get data into its BigQuery data warehouse from adjacent transactional systems.…

Fact organic matter was found in sedimentary rock, which preserves fossils here on Earth, 'important' NASA says its Perseverance rover has pulled up some exciting samples "deposited under conditions where life could potentially have thrived" after trundling around an ancient area of wetland that formed when a Martian river emptied water and sediment into a lake.…

Can UK Prime Minister Liz Truss do for tech what she did for cheese and pork markets? The British government is preparing a final campaign of flattery to persuade Arm parent Softbank to opt for a dual New York and London Stock Exchange (LSE) listing when the chip designer's shares are floated later this year.…

No, not the dodgy cryptocurrency kind Open Source Summit The Linux Foundation is backing a new trade body, the OpenWallet Foundation, to create an open standard for digital wallets.…

After extensive coverage of .uk missteps, Kieren McCarthy now vows to fix registry from the inside Though it's been 18 months since the CEO and chairman was ejected from Nominet, the entity that runs the .uk top-level domain still requires dramatic reform, says one of the candidates standing for election to the board of directors.…

Even Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane' Column A few years ago developers knew eBPF as a handy way to build firewalls yet now it's used everywhere for everything. Get ready for io_uring to do the same.…

In the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter On Call Welcome once more to the Friday frolic that is On Call, The Register's forum for your tales of heroic rescues achieved against the odds.…

Not aimed specifically at China … just nations that behave a lot like China President Biden has issued an executive order that prohibits certain entities from investing in US organizations if it will give the investor access to certain information technologies and/or US data.…

Expert tells El Reg: 'It was unusual, a geometrical curiosity' Video The fireball spotted charging through the night-time skies of Scotland and Northern Ireland this week, initially thought to have been some fallen SpaceX hardware, was a meteor after all, according to the UK Meteor Network.…

Cough, cough, U, cough, kraine Akamai says it has absorbed the largest-ever publicly known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack – an assault against an unfortunate Eastern European organization that went beyond 700 million packets per second.…

Requires five years of patching, 24 hour incident reporting, and proper security … for starters The European Commission has revealed a Cyber Resilience Act that will require manufacturers of connected devices to secure them properly before shipping, disclose and fix flaws promptly, and guarantee fixes will flow for five years.…

Wants swarms of small satellites that are harder to destroy – and outsourcing to improve cybersecurity The Biden-nominated chief of space operations for the USA's Space Force (USSF) rates China his greatest challenge, as the Middle Kingdom has developed technologies to destroy space assets.…

AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more Uber is tonight reeling from what looks like a substantial cybersecurity breach.…

Texts, contacts, call logs, photos, and more centrally stored for years without a warrant in sight US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) "routinely conducts warrantless searches of Americans' devices" every year, in a number of cases downloading texts, photos, call logs, and more into a central database where it's stored for 15 years and searchable by some 2,700 federal employees.…

Get ready for face scans, expanded surveillance, violated rights, and more, say critics California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed AB 2273, legislation designed to protect children's online privacy by demanding information from everyone.…

Power consumption plummets, too, so there's that The Merge, the moment Ethereum cryptocurrency abandons proof-of-work for proof-of-stake validation, has concluded. So far, all signs point to a success, though not without some footnotes Ethereum investors should note.…

That's nice, but what about Nv's H100? SambaNova says its latest chips can best Nvidia's A100 silicon by a wide margin, at least when it comes to machine learning workloads.…

Gotta keep those phone processors and GPUs coming, folks A US Senate committee has advanced a law bill that would provide billions in military support to Taiwan, the island nation that makes so many many of our chips and is being menaced by China.…

34 states and Puerto Rico sharing pot to fund chargers along interstate highways Electric vehicle charging is about to get a boost in 34 US states and Puerto Rico, as government officials have approved plans to start spending infrastructure bill money on building EV chargers.…

'Sharing of agricultural data can help develop solutions to some of the food system's most pressing challenges' Food security group CGIAR is working with the Linux Foundation to standardize data sharing about agricultural fields on a global scale.…

Bandwidth-starved researchers rejoice Starlink began testing its satellite internet access at McMurdo Station in Antarctica this week to the benefit of the area's researchers.…

Admits guilt, but claims he took files to jog his memory, afraid he'd not keep up with 'younger engineers' A former Broadcom engineer who pleaded guilty to stealing his ex-employer's trade secrets has asked the court not to give him prison time, saying he stole the files for reference, fearing he would "be unable to keep up" with "more technical and younger engineers" at a new startup.…

Planes unlikely to fall out of sky after December 31, 2029, El Reg can confirm Microsoft has released a (very) miniature rival to the Millennium Bug into the wild with a glitch in Outlook that takes the user instead back to the 20th century if they seek dates beyond December 31, 2029.…

John Chambers' Nile wants to remove humans from network management Tech veteran John Chambers says he wants to take on Cisco, the business he built into a multibillion-dollar beast, by launching a startup that intends to remove humans from the network management equation.…

That's quite the challenge to neutralize – making chips and electronics is hardly ecofriendly Global chip and consumer electronics biz Samsung has a blueprint to become carbon neutral by 2050 that includes investing 7 trillion won ($5.01 billion) to support energy efficiency and sustainability.…

Criminal charges, more sanctions, and a $10m bounty, oh my The US has issued indictments against three Iranians linked to the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their alleged roles in plotting ransomware attacks against American critical infrastructure, and also sanctioned multiple individuals and two entities.…

Good thing Redmond has a brilliant track record with patches Microsoft says it has tweaked the way 365 Apps update themselves, by seamlessly and automatically applying changes while PCs are locked or idle so as to not disturb users.…