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Big Blue says it helped developed the algos, so knows what it's doing IBM has started offering quantum-resistant crypto – using the quantum-resistant crypto recommended by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).…

Session cookies and 2FA subversion allow takeover of biz and ad accounts, lead to unauthorized ad buys Security vendor WithSecure, which was spun out in March 2022 as F-Secure’s enterprise security arm, claims it’s found malware that targets Facebook Business accounts.…

Server spend surges across Alphabet’s empire Google’s cloud continues to lose money, but the ad giant and its parent company Alphabet aren’t troubled by the $858 million in cloudy red ink produced in its second quarter for financial year 2022.…

Finishes the year with close to $200 billion annual revenue and $185 million a day in profits Microsoft reported poorer than expected fourth quarter results, but still managed to end its FY 2022 rather well.…

Broadband giant says it will appeal jury verdict in negligence case Charter Communications must pay out $7 billion in damages after one of its Spectrum cable technicians robbed and killed an elderly woman, a jury decided Tuesday.…

Plus: Coinbase said to face SEC wrath, blockchain scam CEO admits using victims' millions to fund Hawaiian condo The US government is reportedly investigating Kraken, a massive cryptocurrency exchange suspected of violating sanctions against Iran, and is expected to slap the crypto behemoth with a fine in the near future.…

Don't worry, the crooks totally deleted the data and promised not to use it for evil A ransomware gang has not only taken down WordFly, a mailing list provider for top arts organizations among others, but also siphoned data belonging to the US-based Smithsonian, Canada's Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.…

His latest project, Druglike, most definitely isn't in the pharmaceutical business, from which he's been banned Martin Shkreli, released from prison in May after serving much of his seven-year prison sentence for securities fraud, on Monday announced Druglike, described as "a Web3 drug discovery software platform."…

The Ocean Cleanup pulled all that trash in less than a year, and its newest system could collect 10x more A Dutch startup working to remove plastic garbage from the Pacific Ocean said it's marking a major milestone: extracting 100,000 kg (220,462 lbs) of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP).…

Tesla is not the only biz that can take billions from American taxpayers The US Department of Energy is set to hand General Motors' subsidiary $2.5 billion in loans to help finance the construction of three new EV battery cell plants across the midwest. …

Cool, another Rust project ... Oh A new info-stealer malware is spreading rapidly in the wild as the developer behind it continues to add capabilities and recently released the source code on GitHub.…

Digital security via processor design, hardware-enforced protection … and a friendly desktop Wayland and the KDE Plasma desktop now run on CheriBSD, the special version of FreeBSD for Arm's experimental Morello hardware.…

NASA: First we’ve heard of it Hopes that the departure of Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin from Roscosmos will improve global space relations have been crushed. New boss Yuri Borisov today confirmed a post-2024 withdrawal from the International Space Station project.…

Stop us if you'd heard this one before... Microsoft's torrid time with patches is continuing after the company admitted that printing might once again be broken in Windows 10 for some users following the application of an update.…

Comet debris is right in JWST's path, and could further damage its sensitive mirror The James Webb Space Telescope is predicted to pass through Halley's Comet's debris trail next year, meaning that particles could further endanger its sensitive primary mirror.…

Be ready for a rebound, and protect yourself with patching and segmentation SonicWall has published its latest threat report, showing a drop in ransomware but an increase in malware attacks in the first half of 2022.…

From Beetles to bugs: 'Development of software expertise biggest switch automotive industry has to make' Failure to turn around Volkswagen's software unit seems to have cost CEO Herbert Diess his job in the latest struggle to see the German carmaker modernize its organization.…

Unit was supposed to transform oncology yet never turned a profit, ended up in hands of private equity IBM has confirmed it made a few hundred million on the $1 billion sale of the healthcare data and analytics assets housed by its Watson Health unit.…

LEO and GEO orbit covered in satellite broadband handshake OneWeb and Eutelsat have signed a memorandum of understanding intended to create a mega multi-orbit satellite broadband provider.…

Last update of telecom law occurred before the internet even existed India’s Department of Telecommunications has put out a consultation paper calling for input into generational reform of its telecommunication laws.…

Modern life is expensive, but Britain's mobile data costs seem to be falling The UK has climbed the rankings for cost per 1GB of mobile data, according to a report from Cable.co.uk, and has reached the dizzying heights of 59th place.…

Direction of future distros may be firming up, along with formidable system requirements The Reg has collated information that points at the direction of the Adaptable Linux Platform – SUSE's future replacement for its conventional distros.…

Government project watchdog signals red rating for case management system and warns about 'ageing' HMRC datacenter A UK Home Office plan to modernize its immigration technology to achieve "operational efficiencies" and "optimize use of data" received a red rating from the government's projects watchdog as it struggles to process Ukrainian refugees.…

Miscreants boast of 78GB haul, officials say everything's fine The LockBit ransomware crew is claiming to have stolen 78GB of data from Italy's tax agency and is threatening to leak it if a ransom isn't paid by July 31.…

Officials came right out and said this is all about scoring a global win China has decided it needs a fast charging standard for devices sold inside the Middle Kingdom, and hopes its efforts will see its preferred tech rule the world.…

Or an eight-core AMD Ryzen. Not made for personal use, but what's stopping you? There's something satisfying about fitting a decent processor in a small form factor, and the latest example is a credit card-sized single-board computer that uses an 11-gen Intel Core part.…

Are you not enough of a time thief already, Zuckerberg? Meta's engineering team has proposed doing away with leap seconds.…

As NASA launches 11th annual ISS Research and Development Conference NASA will have to continue relying on international cooperation to keep the International Space Station (ISS) ticking over to 2030 and beyond, despite plans to replace the laboratory with private commercial space stations. …

Expect it to be bundled into managed desktop services from HP Inc. HP Inc.'s late 2021 acquisition of Teradici has borne fruit with the creation of a product called HP Anyware that will replace HP's own zCentral Remote Boost.…

About 250 automotive applications in two decades – a fraction of what it files in a single year, mind Is Apple really getting into the automotive business? A joint investigation between Japanese financial publication Nikkei and Tokyo analytics company Intellectual Property Landscape found that Apple has filed patents – at least 248 of them – for everything from seats and windows to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology that allows smart cars to talk to each other. …

And ponders more listings in China – the day after Beijing announces super-regulator for tech Chinese web giant Alibaba has announced it wants to upgrade its listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) to primary status – putting it on par with its New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) presence.…

GPU giant promises to make ML accessible to even the most modest biz Nvidia aims to take the pain out of machine-learning development this week with the latest release of its AI Enterprise suite, which includes a low-code toolkit for machine-learning workloads.…

Lack of patent rights waiver in CC0 cited as problematic Fedora, the popular Linux distribution, will no longer incorporate software licensed under CC0, the Creative Commons "No Rights Reserved" license.…

Boffins find common code constructs that may be exploitable to achieve remote code execution Back in March, security researchers reported a critical command injection vulnerability in Parse Server, an open-source backend for Node.js environments.…

Oops, did the Un-carrier under-count by 29m punters? T-Mobile US has agreed to pay about $550 million to end legal action against it and improve its security after crooks infiltrated the self-described Un-carrier last summer and harvested personal data belonging to almost 77 million customers.…

And yes, Musk is back in the headlines, denying another affair Twitter is investigating claims that a near-seven-month-old vulnerability in its software has been exploited to obtain the phone numbers and email addresses of a reported 5.4 million users. …

Routers flooded with internet traffic in filter blunder, watchdog told Canadian telecom giant Rogers will spend C$10 billion ($7.7 billion) to ensure that day-long outage earlier this month doesn't happen again, its CEO has said.…

'Closed loop' ordered to keep fabs and manufacturing plants running amid COVID-19 outbreaks Employees at Shenzhen facilities owned by Chinese chipmaking giant SMIC and other manufacturers will have to sleep at work this week due to the local government reportedly ordering the companies to enter a "closed-loop" operating mode.…

If only we'd had this kind of compute before we launched Hubble Fujitsu says its supercomputing cloud is ready for action, after pitting the Arm-based system against a series of complex electromagnetic interference (EMI) simulations.…

Emerging threat group offers a broad range of attack services An emerging and fast-growing threat group is using a unique business model to offer cybercriminals a broad range of services that span from leaked databases and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to hacking scripts and, in the future, potentially ransomware.…

A 9% levy on content slingers will stand in The Windy City – are others next? A lawsuit settled last week between Apple and Chicago will be meaningful for streaming services around the US.…

The race for first space launch from UK soil (or airspace) continues The UK's Civilian Aviation Authority has launched a public consultation on the environmental effects of the plans of Virgin Orbit at a base on the southwest coast of England.…

If you use Putty, there's a good chance you've visited Chiark There are some complexities involved in upgrading what the Reg FOSS desk suspects may be the world's oldest running Linux installation: an OS install dating back to 1993.…

Plus: Ukrainian fake news and Uber admits covering up data breach In Brief Google's legally fraught journey to buy cybersecurity business Mandiant is in its final stretch, with the US Department of Justice closing its investigation and giving the go-ahead for the sale to proceed.…

Known Issue Rollback for affected Windows 11 users Microsoft has admitted its last Patch Tuesday (and update previews) broke the Start Menu for some Windows 11 users and issued a Known Issue Rollback to solve the problem.…

Clouds form over PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer) Microsoft has blamed "operator error" for the multi-hour outage of its cloud SQL Server in Europe last week.…

US looks forward to 8% increase while consumer prices spike around the globe Oracle support prices are set to rise by 8 percent in the US, and the company will also impose increases commensurate with inflation in other regions.…

Cost of optical cable more than doubles in 16 months as demand goes through roof The price of fiber optic cables is shooting up, more than doubling in just 16 months due to massive demand from datacenter and network providers with supply shortfall exacerbated by disruption in production.…

If you build it they will come Unless you happen to be running a cloud or hyperscale datacenter, Intel’s infrastructure processing units (IPU) probably aren’t for you, at least not yet.…

Many of last week's security stories tell the same tale Opinion The calls are coming from inside the house! Lately, Outlook users have been getting their own version of this classic urban horror myth. The email system is alerting them to suspicious activity on their accounts, and helpfully providing the IP addresses responsible.…