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If you think customers were impatient before, this report won't soothe their worries The former owner of Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) is being linked with a buyback of the business that he sold to China's Nexperia, a sale currently being reviewed on grounds of national security by the British government.…

Unbundling of products, cloud shift, support for older ERP products make customers query inflation-based rise An SAP user group has voiced complaints about the increase in support fees for the popular enterprise software, pointing out inconsistencies with changes in the way SAP packages its solutions and makes them available to customers.…

Questions remain over Palantir's influence after consultancy role for former NHS England director revealed Competition for a "Federated Data Platform" (FDP) for the NHS in England has been delayed for a second time as details emerge of how Palantir – the US spy-tech biz hotly tipped to win the £360 million ($421 million) contract – has influenced the controversial procurement.…

In dust, we trust Astronomers have found a baby planet hidden in clouds of gas and dust swirling within a young solar system, by studying the accumulation of material around Lagrange points.…

Hopes to streamline market data movements, but as 11,000 institutions use SWIFT this is a bit of a moment The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) has announced it will try to hook its 11,000 members to a blockchain – but not for its payment service.…

Terraform Labs CEO was boss of the TerraUSD and Luna crypto crash. South Korea wants him in cuffs South Korea has issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder and CEO of troubled cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs, which is blamed for a massive crash in cryptocurrency values.…

The red rocket menace is real: Beijing's already sprayed the region this year The Philippines has closed some of its airspace and warned local seafarers not to ply their trade for fear of having bits of a Chinese rocket land on them.…

This may not be in the spirit of Beijing's many bans on blockheads A Beijing court has ruled that locals are permitted to trade cryptocurrencies – but not use them as a substitute for money.…

Super Cali goes ballistic, says it's all atrocious California's Attorney General sued Amazon on Wednesday, claiming the internet titan illegally stifles competition by punishing vendors for selling their products at cheaper prices on other online stores.…

Blast, manifesto railing against Zuck and AI may be an artifical reality A plastic carrying-case apparently exploded at Northeastern University's Boston campus on Tuesday night, injuring one staff member, in what may be a protest against virtual reality – or just a hoax.…

Developers, why not simply build flawless software, thus solving all our vulnerability worries The White House has published software security rules for federal agencies as part of a larger push to shore up America's IT supply chains.…

GPU giant still thinks Softbank-owned designs are worth the RISC Arm says Nvidia’s Grace processor will be among the first chips to use its upcoming Neoverse V2 CPU cores.…

Log4j being the main driver, this data science poll claims About 40 percent of industry professionals say their organizations have reduced their usage of open source software due to concerns about security, according to a survey conducted by data science firm Anaconda.…

As Patreon ditches nearly a fifth of its workforce Twilio has announced a restructuring effort that will end in an 11 percent cut of its workforce. …

'Cloud connectivity' hits different this time Microsoft has announced some movement within its two-year-old Azure Space program, which as the name suggests aims to offer cloud services to satellite operators.…

Understanding solar switchbacks is key to understanding solar winds, and scientists think they've got it Our star harbors one less scientific mystery thanks to data from the Solar Orbiter probe showing how "solar switchbacks" that cause the Sun's magnetic field to flip are formed. By furthering astronomer's understanding of solar winds, they hope the discovery will protect astronauts and equipment.…

Text Editor replaces GEdit for starters, though it's still very early days The beta version of Red hat's Fedora 37 is available for download – but it's still far from finished.…

Could it be third time lucky? The odds are not in space agency's favor NASA has once again pushed back the launch of the Artemis I mission to send the SLS rocket and Orion capsule beyond the Moon.…

To stay under threshold of 1.5°C of warming, the world needs to work seven times harder, says the UN's WMO The world quickly undid emissions reductions that were an unintended perk of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading a multi-organizational UN group to issue a bleak warning: We need to be working seven times harder to meet climate change goals.…

Search giant’s appeal lands flat as fine imposed for anticompetitive practice in Android search The European General Court has imposed a €4.125 billion (about $4.13 billion) fine on Google, largely upholding an earlier ruling on the ad-tech giant's anticompetitive practices in mobile search.…

Trump wanted a wall, Biden wants batteries The US and Mexico are reportedly joining forces on supply chains for electric vehicle production in a mutual aid pact.…

100k staffers and their beneficiaries to be looked after by Prudential Insurance, Metropolitan Life Insurance IBM will book a one-off non-cash pre-tax pension settlement charge of $5.9 billion in its calendar Q3 after handing pension duties to two life insurance businesses.…

The internal traffic-filtering tool can be used for much more than firewalls Linux Plumbers Conference The Linux Plumbers Conference in Dublin ends today and some of the talks have revealed interesting new uses for the eBPF functionality.…

Both search giant and Facebook parent claim they play by the rules, will challenge decision South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has issued two large fines for privacy violations: a $50 million penalty for Google and $22 million for Meta.…

Competes with the A320 and 737, which Airbus and Boeing can't build quickly enough to satisfy demand Two recent flights of the China's domestically made single-aisle passenger jet, the C919, have lent credence to rumors that the nation's aviation authorities are set to issue it an airworthiness certification – and by doing so, give Boeing and Airbus some competition.…

Legal cases in Europe claim anticompetitive conduct, which Google denies Google owner Alphabet could face claims of up to €25 billion ($25.4 billion) in a case alleging anticompetitive conduct in relation to ad tech in Europe.…

There are beautiful, undisturbed places in the world. You do not have to catch 'em all Column Social media has made it easy to create large communities and to communicate with them instantly. The downside is that when those communities cross over into the real world, crowds of people can cause real harm regardless of their intent.…

It works for the FOSS community, but Red Hat's version adds an 'office vibe' and desk-free ‘neighborhoods’ IBM's FOSS unit, Red Hat, has revealed its staff don't need to come back to the office – ever. But if they do, they'll find collaborative "neighborhoods" await them.…

'Lonsdaleite' is even harder than normal diamonds and its genesis shows how we might make more A rare type of diamond that's even stronger than the usual form of the crystal was created when a large asteroid smashed into an ancient dwarf planet 4.5 billion years ago, researchers assert.…

USA told to sort itself out in 5G, AI, and microelectronics by 2025 – or things could get mighty grim US think tank the Special Competitive Studies Project, a private spinout from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, has warned that the period between 2025 and 2030 will be the time when global technological leadership will be decided – and the USA and like minded nations may not be able to maintain their lead over China.…

vCenter Converter will make a comeback VMware has quietly announced a beta of vCenter Converter – a tool it withdrew earlier this year over security concerns.…

At 130nm, we'll take it NIST has decided, with participating colleges, to design open source chips to help lower the barrier for those hoping to get into the world of semiconductors.…

Criminals continue to target some of the most vulnerable Two recent ransomware attacks against healthcare systems indicate cybercriminals continue to put medical clinics and hospitals firmly in their crosshairs.…

Mudge tells senators his former bosses are 'terrified' of the French, US regulators are toothless Twitter's former head of security Peiter "Mudge" Zatko on Tuesday told the US Senate Judiciary Committee that the social media company's lax data handling and inability to present problems to its board of directors threaten the privacy, security, and democracy for Americans.…

Plus: Nasty no-auth RCE in TCP/IP stack, Adobe flaws, and many more updates Patch Tuesday September's Patch Tuesday is here and it brings, among other things, fixes from Microsoft for one security bug that miscreants have used to fully take over Windows systems along with details of a second vulnerability that, while not yet under attack, has already been publicly disclosed.…

Speech can be impacted by cancer, Parkinson's, depression, and more The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has earmarked as much as $14 million in funding to support the training of AI software that can analyze patients' voices to diagnose and study illness.…

Bitbarn suffered 'total shutdown' after 113F heatwave Earlier this month extreme heat downed a Twitter datacenter in California over the Labor Day weekend, leaving the website and app working on bare-bones infrastructure.…

Criminals do love that unpatched VoIP and IoT kit The Lorenz ransomware gang is exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel VoIP appliances to break corporate networks.…

Everythings bigger in Texas, including the tax breaks Taiwanese chip biz GlobalWafers is rounding up a posse of press in time for the Thanksgiving groundbreaking ceremony at the site of its forthcoming $5 billion Texas wafer fab.…

Not just for the web anymore: Microsoft Office Scripts coming for the macro-managers among us Users running Excel on either Windows or Mac PCs will soon be able to automate many of the now-manual tasks in their spreadsheet software, something that currently is only available to those using the web application.…

Euroconsumers hail success, payments capped and only folks in 4 countries eligible so far HP has settled a dispute brought of behalf of European consumers upset that a covert firmware update introducing the Dynamic Security Feature prevented them from using supplies made by third parties with a range of HP printers.…

Withdrawal of SpaceX's $885.5m award a 'drastic action' – but Musk wouldn't want subsidy anyway, right? A member of the Federal Communications Commission's leadership team has come out swinging on behalf of SpaceX after the company's bid for rural broadband subsidies via its Starlink satellite business was rejected.…

The ones used as boot drives in its datacenters seem to be, but perhaps not over time Cloudy backup and storage provider Backblaze has found that flash SSDs are more reliable than hard drives, at least as far as the boot drives deployed in its datacenters go, but cautions this could change in future as the SSDs age.…

Avoiding data movement saves $$$ but rivals have own approaches to doing analytics, transactions on same data Oracle has made its Heatwave combined analytics and transactional data system available on cloud platform AWS for the first time, and a product on Microsoft's Azure is expected to follow shortly.…

Virtualization giant pays $8m to settle claims it pushed revenue into later quarter... without admitting liability VMware misled investors about its order backlog management processes that allowed it to roll revenue into future quarters by postponing product delivery dates to customers to conceal slowing sales relative to forecasts.…

One in six ditching job offer from employers low-balling on pay Despite a flatlining UK economy, and recessionary clouds gathering, in the tech sector the competition for skilled staff remains intense, even as software job openings reportedly dip on a global scale.…

Forget self-driving cars, the Middle Kingdom has floating cars now Chinese researchers levitated a 2.8-ton car 35 millimeters off the ground on a highway in east China’s Jiangsu province, state-sponsored media said over the weekend.…

What could go wrong with leaving firmware open after world's biggest hacker convention talk? Multiple high-severity firmware bugs in HP enterprise computers remain unpatched, some more than a year after Binarly security researchers disclosed the vulnerabilities to HP and then discussed them at the Black Hat security conference last month.…

Everything's fine! The Yanluowang ransomware group behind the May attack on Cisco Systems has publicly leaked the stolen files on the dark web over the weekend, but the networking giant says there's nothing to worry about.…