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Financial watchdog accuses 11 of playing role in alleged scam Forsage, an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme purporting to be a decentralized smart contract platform, bilked millions of investors worldwide out of more than $300 million, according to America's securities watchdog.…

NASA chief slams Beijing for not disclosing Long March 5B trajectory Debris leftover from China's Long March 5B rocket has reportedly crashed down into the sea off the Philippines, and scattered on land by the borders of Indonesia and Malaysia.…

'One common trait is that they have zero regard for the privacy of the individual' Nearly three billion profiles and other pieces of data belonging to "actively pregnant" women or those "shopping for maternity products" worldwide are up for sale by US data brokers.…

Law firm hired to look into lawsuit allegations, sources tell us Exclusive IBM's board of directors has started an investigation into claims that its sales numbers were manipulated, leading to executives securing big bonuses. If the board fails to take any action, it may face a lawsuit to claw back millions of dollars from top staff.…

A dazzling problem SpaceX's has big claims that its second-generation Starlink broadband internet satellites will slash light pollution on Earth, but there's one big catch: they're apparently too heavy to launch.…

Rumored measures put Samsung and SK Hynix in the blast radius Memory vendors Samsung and SK Group could be the latest casualties in America's efforts to derail China’s domestic semiconductor industry.…

The days of destroying and rebuilding to add another CPU core are numbered Never one to shy away from tootling its own trumpet, Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has talked up the instance modification features of version 1.10 of its lightweight VM manager, Multipass.…

KV Computational Storage Device will be hauled out at Flash Memory Summit next week SK hynix is developing a computational storage device with the US Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that will focus on accelerating indexing capabilities to speed analysis of massive volumes of data.…

Optimizing for beauty while trying to suppress sensationalism Interview In 2008, David Holz co-founded a hardware peripheral firm called Leap Motion. He ran it until last year when he left to create Midjourey.…

Not to worry, admins: Hardware Compatibility Program still the same as Windows 10 2004 The first Release Preview of Windows 10 22H2 was the most significant Windows build last week, along with a confirmation to admins it would be business as usual on the hardware compatibility front.…

Strike one: Amazon rival's audits apparently haven't satisfied the SEC Chinese tech giant Alibaba is the latest company to run afoul of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which has threatened delisting from US stock exchanges.…

Plus: Why ML research is difficult to produce – and Army lab extends AI contract with Palantir In brief In the early days of AI research it was hoped that once electronics had equalled the ability of human synapses many problems would be solved. We've now gone way beyond that.…

Plus: Rival countries line up similar incentives The US Commerce Department says it will strictly control use of subsidies under the recently passed CHIPS and Science Act, which promises to unlock billions of dollars in funding for domestic chip manufacturing.…

The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped Analysis Intel is ending its Optane product line of persistent memory and that is more disastrous for the industry than is visible on the surface.…

The hope? Killing diesel backup gennies in the name of carbon reduction Microsoft has successfully tested a hydrogen fuel cell system with 3MW capacity, and plans to install a similar system at a research datacenter to test the feasibility of replacing diesel backup generators with an energy source that generates as little carbon dioxide emissions as possible.…

Singer and actor was a trailblazer on and off the screen OBIT Nichelle Nichols, who long ago achieved immortality in her role as Uhura on Star Trek, has died at the age of 89.…

SME financial software vendor acknowledges customers expect systems to work for longer, but fails to appease them Global accounting giant Sage is facing accusations it mis-sold software after customers bought perpetual licenses for products the vendor now says must move to a subscription model for technical reasons.…

Barrier to building homes in overcrowded city? An overdrawn electricity grid Housing in London, western Europe's largest city, is famously in short supply, but it seems there is a new barrier to building more homes in England's capital – the electricity grid can't supply enough power and datacenters are being blamed for using up all the capacity.…

Should we be worried? Well, size isn't everything Opinion After decades trailing the rest of the world in leading-edge chip making, Chinese sand stamper Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has quietly got into the 7nm business. That's a huge and unexpected leap. Has the West's embargo of the latest fab furniture failed?…

There's nothing to do. Oh look, the chairs have wheels... Who, Me? Welcome to an episode of Who, Me? in which a race between office chairs results in an unexpected escalation rather than the lifting of a trophy.…

A 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days Akamai Technologies squelched the largest-ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Europe earlier this month against a company that was being consistently hammered over a 30-day period.…

Will also be first cable to go from South America to Australia Chilean state-run infrastructure fund Desarrollo País and Singapore-based BW Digital subsidiary H2 Cable have issued a request for proposals to build a 15,000km submarine cable to connect Latin America, Asia Pacific, Oceania – and Antarctica.…

Can't say what caused cooling failure, admits to re-routing traffic away from working resources Google has revealed the root cause of the outage that disrupted services at its europe-west2-a zone, based in London, during a recent heatwave.…

Yahoo! was blocked too, but … meh Indonesia has blocked access to PayPal, Yahoo!, plus Epic Games and Steam, sparking outrage among local netizens so fierce that the Ministry responsible has wound back its restrictions on PayPal for a few days.…

Something Hunter Biden probably wishes computers had ages ago Samsung has added a "repair mode" to its Galaxy smartphones, hiding users' data when they entrust an ailing device to a technician.…

Local manufacturer to build modest kit for modestly sized supers India's ambition to become self-sufficient in hardware has taken a small step forward after the nation's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) contracted a local manufacturer to build the designed-in-India servers for a future supercomputer project.…

PLUS: India open to space tourism; China/Indonesia infosec pact; Paytm denies breach; Infosys dodges government again; and more Asia In Brief Australia's federal police (AFP) on Friday charged a man with creating and profiting from spyware that allowed total remote control of victims' computers.…

Hails the combo as finally making Arm 'usable as a development platform' Linus Torvalds has released version 5.19 of the project, and hailed Apple's homebrew silicon – and the Asahi Linux distribution that runs on it – for making Arm-powered computers useful for developers.…

Also, malicious VBA macros are out and container files are in, Robin Banks helps criminals rob banks, and more In brief Canadian fast food chain Tim Hortons is settling multiple data privacy class-action lawsuits against it by offering something it knows it's good for: a donut and coffee.…

MSP should just stand for My Server's Pwned! A Russian-language miscreant claims to have hacked their way into a managed service provider, and has asked for help monetizing what's said to be access to the networks and computers of that MSP's 50-plus US customers.…

Mom, what's an eye pad? On the one hand, Apple Mac and iPad revenues are shrinking and the tech goliath is doing less business in China and Japan.…

Popcorn stocks soar Updated The legal showdown between Twitter and Elon Musk is finally set to go to trial on October 17 and will last five days, according to a court schedule published this week.…

Just in time for the midterms The Feds have put up a $10 million reward for information about foreign interference in US elections in general, and more specifically a Russian oligarch and close friend of President Vladimir Putin accused of funding an organization that meddled in the 2016 presidential elections.…

P2P file system makes it more difficult to detect and take down malicious content Threat groups are increasingly turning to InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) peer-to-peer data sites to host their phishing attacks because the decentralized nature of the sharing system means malicious content is more effective and easier to hide.…

With $52 billion on the table, everyone wants their fair share Micron wants a piece of the $52 billion in chips subsidies approved by US Congress this week. The company Friday promised to ramp up domestic memory production over the next few years.…

Power transmission bottlenecks could delay Northern Virginia DC projects into 2026 Updated The largest datacenter market in the US is running into trouble: There isn't enough power transmission capacity in the region to handle all the bit barn projects.…

Quest to reduce environmental impact finds pulp solution Scientists in Switzerland have developed a battery made out of paper which will release its charge when splattered with water.…

Chateau Lafite? Unexpected day off? Unplugging users phones? System Administrator Appreciation Day is here – so what lovely gifts did your employer lavish you with today? Did you arrive at work to a guard of honor? A case of Château Lafite Rothschild? A free holiday?…

No stopping the cloud computing division but losses mount on retail side as consumers catch a cold The unstoppable cloud sales juggernaut that is Amazon Web Services brought in a third more business for its parent firm during its calendar Q2, helping to partially offset losses incurred in the retail side of the Amazon group.…

Amazing how you find the money when military needs a reliable supply Google has linked up with chip fabrication company, SkyWater Technology, on an open source chip technology program with funding from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to build a reliable source of components for defense applications.…

Supports liquid desiccant tech to store energy to smooth bumps in demand, lower greenhouse gas impact A fund founded by Bill Gates is leading a $20 million investment round into an aircon startup which promises to slash the carbon impact of keeping people cool on a heating planet.…

Bags of splashy fun for astronauts in SMEAT's simulation Feature Remember Skylab? How about SMEAT? Fifty years ago, a trio of US astronauts took part in 56-day simulation of a Skylab mission that would prove critical to the success of the US's first crewed space station.…

A new generation learns the hard way that everything is ephemeral Something for the Weekend I have misplaced Britain. A wicked entity has made off with an entire group of islands and all its inhabitants.…

A little hint from a Helldesk friend is all you need Episode 14 "So what's causing it?" the Boss asks, looking down at his screen.…

We would have got away with it too, if hadn't been for your perfectly reasonable user request On Call Do you know where that computer came from? Or that chair? Or that desk? Today's On Call concerns another brush with the long arm of the law that all started with a simple call for help.…

Prepaid one-, three-, or five-year terms preferred for very big bundle VMware will not publicly disclose the price of its vSphere+ and VSAN+ subscription bundles secret from the public, but the virtualization giant’s partners have been given a price to discuss.…

Forget mobile apps – headsets and smart glasses will be able to harvest so much data More thought – or at least some thought – needs to be given to privacy protection in the promised metaverse of connected 3D virtual-reality worlds, experts have concluded.…

Plenty of recent users appear to be from China, and hoping for more leaks of local data The popularity of stolen data bazaar BreachForums surged after it was used to sell a giant database of stolen information describing Chinese citizens, threat intelligence firm Cybersixgill said on Thursday.…

Cover an average of $4.4 million per raid ourselves? No chance, mate The costs incurred by organizations suffering data losses continue to go up, and 60 percent of companies surveyed by IBM said they were passing them onto customers.…

Behold the mutant offspring of the Microsoft Store, Endpoint Manager, and Package Manager Microsoft has promised a new form of private app store that can be used to distribute private apps to your device fleet.…