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Relax, there's more chance of Babbage coming back to life to hack your system than this flaw being exploited OpenSSL today issued a fix for a critical-turned-high-severity vulnerability that project maintainers warned about last week. …

Bets on where the Long March 5B will land now? China's third and final space station module, Mengtian, has docked with the Tiangong space station after launching on Monday from a Long March 5B rocket at Wenchang Space Launch Center.…

If we want to launch craft beyond the Moon, we're going to need a better way to know where they are NASA has enlisted a cadre of volunteers to track the Artemis I mission, due to launch later this month. If successful, their efforts could help improve spacecraft tracking for future missions beyond the Moon.…

x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips Intel said its next-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs will launch in January of next year, shortly after a report out of Taiwan stated that mass production of the server chips was delayed to 2023.…

As with all good things, it won't last forever Analysis It's been a rough month for big tech. Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) all reported slowing demand across their core businesses, made worse by a less than rosy outlook on the future.…

Copying text now works without issue, so naturally pasting is getting iffy Windows 11 and Firefox users who have experienced months of browser freezes when copying text, rejoice: there's finally a patch that eliminates the problem, which has been persistent since May.…

Snapdragon giant warns of dramatic shift in business model Analysis Qualcomm has hit back at Arm with explosive allegations that the British chip designer has threatened to phase out CPU design licenses for semiconductor companies and instead charge device makers royalties for using Arm-compliant processors.…

One of the more popular Ubuntu-based flavors for new migrants from Windows Linux Lite 6.2 is the latest version of this increasingly inaccurately named distro. In effect, it's a niftily customized remix of Xubuntu 22.04.1.…

Home Secretary 'nominally in charge' of nation's security apologizes for breach of tech protocols The UK's Home Secretary – the minister in charge of policing and internal security – has been forced to apologize for breaching IT security protocols in government.…

It's enough to make you want to sploot If you're reading from Britain – or anywhere else in the world – you might have already uttered Collins English Dictionary's Word of the Year to describe the revolving door of feckless political leaders, skyrocketing energy prices, the cost of living, and the unstable geopolitical situation.…

Performance boost down to fresh processes, new materials, and more advanced equipment Micron is shipping samples of memory chips fabricated with its 1β (1-beta) production node, claiming it delivers better performance, bit density, and power efficiency, while remaining coy about the exact dimensions involved.…

HPE to start shipping Genoa-equipped systems in December – Intel's 4th-gen Xeons, eventually In the latest blow to Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise execs tell The Register its 4th-Gen Xeon Scalable-equipped systems won't ship before AMD's Epyc 4.…

Improvements to storage engine follow DataStax update to API gateway NoSQL database vendor Couchbase has updated the storage engine for its managed service claiming a fourfold increase in speed while using a tenth of the memory.…

Nice NAND industry you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it Attempts to reorganize supply chains to cut out China and foil its attempts to build a high-tech chip industry will be costly and may simply cause the Middle Kingdom to redouble its efforts, says memory maker Kioxia.…

Larger and smaller reactors carry risks, island nation failed to keep pace with nuclear fleet closure Electricity shortages appear inevitable for the UK due to the decommissioning of the nation's aging estate of nuclear power stations, according to evidence submitted by industry to politicians.…

But will Kwon show up in court? Probably not. Terraform Labs and its fugitive CEO, Do Kwan, face a looming court date in Singapore on Wednesday November 2 as the company confronts a $57 million claim from investors.…

FAT ain't dead, and the modern version can get big. Really big In case you thought the FAT filesystem died out with Windows ME – and good riddance – we have bad news for you. Several versions of it are alive, well, and essential to modern PCs, cameras, phones, fondleslabs, and more. The good news is, you'll soon be able to fix the FS with Linux.…

AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry Analyst outfit Gartner has published its annual Magic Quadrant assessing the world's leading Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services providers, and in 2022 Oracle and Huawei were the big movers.…

One may but unlikely to hit Earth. One could whack Venus. This is good or bad news, depending on your outlook Astronomers have spotted an asteroid of sufficient size and orbit to cause Earth-wide destruction – if it were to ever strike our planet. And that's a mighty big if.…

Deutschland im Deep Web destroyed A 22-year-old student German federal police believe to be the administrator of one of the largest German-speaking, dark-web forums has been arrested. …

This means personal info will be captured but not used – unless you're a suspected crim The governor of the People's Bank of China, Yi Gang, has delivered a speech in which he outlined the concept of "controllable anonymity" for the nation's digital currency.…

Broken code signature? LGTM, says Microsoft OS A cybersecurity firm has issued another unofficial patch to squash a bug in Windows that Microsoft has yet to fix, with this hole being actively exploited to spread ransomware.…

Local media say they're China backed, Ministry only mentions organized crime India's Home Ministry has asked state governments to crack down on illegal lending apps it says have led to "multiple suicides by citizens owing to harassment, blackmail, and harsh recovery methods."…

Boss denies any wrongdoing as Feds reportedly stick a probe in, too Self-driving truck biz TuSimple fired co-founder and CEO Xiaodi Hou on Monday amid what's reported to be US federal investigations into whether he inappropriately assisted and shared blueprints with Chinese startup Hydron.…

NLRB told to crack down on tech that tramples right to organize America's labor watchdog says it intends to crack down on the growing use of technology by bosses to closely monitor and measure staff, as it is feared this software may be used to thwart efforts to organize and unionize.…

Inspur says server shoppers can't wait to chill out Analysis Regulations aimed at improving energy efficiency of Chinese datacenters are driving rapid adoption of liquid cooling tech, in the Middle Kingdom at least, according to manufacturing giant Inspur.…

Chegg it out: Four blunders in four years Sloppy data security at education tech giant Chegg exposed students and workers' personal information not once but four times in various ways over four years, according to the FTC. …

Quantum Motion demo based on 300mm wafers, targeting feasible 'fault tolerant' quantum computers Startup Quantum Motion is joining the silicon spin qubit gang with its own technology that can fit thousands of quantum dots onto a single silicon chip fabricated in a commercial semiconductor foundry. The move marks another small step along the road to building full-scale fault-tolerant quantum systems.…

Finally testing out the honesty of that one engineer who always says: 'It's not the heat, it's the humidity' Facebook parent Meta is aiming to cut the volume of water used in its datacenters by operating servers at higher temperatures but lower humidity, as part of a commitment to become “water positive” by 2030.…

As cyber threats ramp up, businesses and organizations will be hoping for more than platitudes The White House has begun its second annual International Counter Ransomware Summit in which Biden administration officials will convene with representatives of three dozen nations, the EU, and private business to discuss the growing threat posed by data-destroying cyber attacks.…

Cranefly group unleashes nasty little technique using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) logs A threat group that targets corporate emails is delivering dropper malware through a novel technique that uses Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) logs to send commands disguised as web access requests.…

Countries propose grouping in cartel as demand for EVs continues to rise Indonesia is looking to use its position as the nickel capital of the world to set up a cartel with other like-minded mining empires, similar to the way OPEC joins forces to control the global crude oil market.…

3D models and maps show similarities in how the planet and Earth share sediment strategies If new 3D models of Mars's surface are accurate, we finally possess the most convincing evidence to date that much of the northern hemisphere of Mars was once an ocean.…

And just for balance kills off version 2 of its own format, WebP, as well A note on Google's bug tracker for the Chromium browser specifies that version 110 won't get JPEG XL support after all.…

Don't listen to the claims of slowing growth – Gartner has the lowdown Despite global economic concerns that are taking a bite out of confidence across much of the tech industry, mystics at Gartner say "cloud migration is not stopping."…

Taming high heat in compact form factors is old hat in the gaming community Analysis It's no secret that CPUs and GPUs are getting hotter. The thermal design power (TPD) for these components is already approaching 300W for mainstream CPUs, and next-gen datacenter GPUs will suck down anywhere from 600W-700W when they arrive later this year.…

The Capital of VA? Virtual assets have to live somewhere and HK thinks it has the regulation for it Hong Kong is trying to push its vision of a local virtual asset (VA) industry in the hopes of developing a new revenue stream for the country.…

Plus: Why some manga and anime fans hate AI-generated art, and ex-Google boss funds AI students In brief Bumble has open sourced an AI image classifier model designed to automatically blur nude pictures sent on its dating app.…

Latest James Webb Space Telescope photos looks positively haunting The James Webb Space Telescope team has released its latest snap of the Pillars of Creation that strikes a perfect eerie, dusty tone for Halloween. …

Businesses that achieve full-scale deployment don't always get the outcomes they hoped for, says Deloitte Many organizations are struggling with artificial intelligence deployments despite believing that AI will be critical to business success over the next five years, according to a report by Deloitte.…

Detachment from users' lived reality is how corporates shoot themselves in the foot Opinion Last week, one fundamental problem for IT cropped up in three very different stories. One story was Google's parent Alphabet doing an internal audit of all its products on the back of falling profits. One was a highly critical look at Meta's efforts to put business into VR. And one was Linus Torvalds getting cranky that the i486 architecture was still in Linux's first-class lounge when it should be packed off to the Old Codes' Home.…

Plus: Misconfigured server leaks Reuters data; VMware patches critical flaw in retired software; MalwareBytes apologies for a hoodie In brief Apple has patched an iOS and iPad OS vulnerability that's already been exploited.…

Phones weren't made to fly Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? The Register's weekly walk-through of readers being just a little bit bad … but mostly getting away with it!…

Oh great. Now you get to be that person logging on to vid confs a couple of minutes late Video conferencing outfit Zoom has revealed it will require users to update their client apps at least every ninety days and introduce a "minimum client version" requirement.…

Amendment to bill doesn’t name Chinese companies ... but is eerily similar to regs that target Huawei and ZTE The Irish government has amended its Communications Regulations Bill 2022 with clauses that will allow it to blacklist networking equipment vendors on national security grounds.…

Shares misinformation, re-litigates takeover trial, complains about on-boarding process, and more Chief Twit Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and shown he is well and truly up to the job title he gave himself after paying $44 billion for the micro-blogging platform.…

Three million datasets to be thoroughly integrated in the name of efficiency, e-government, and surveillance China's State Council has outlined a plan to create a National Integrated Government Affairs Big Data System that, by the year 2025, is expected to make millions of government data sets available from one place.…

Oh, we don't think we needed science to pinpoint biggest windbags Instruments installed on the International Space Station to examine Earth's atmospheric dust have been found to have another useful purpose: detecting airborne methane plumes contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.…

PLUS: China’s digital currency surges; Infosys tax portals wobble again; Singapore crypto protections; and more Asia In Brief India's government has given itself the power to compel social networks to take down content.…

So crazy, it just might work A sample depot will be set up on Mars for NASA's Perseverance rover to stash Martian rock and gas specimens ahead of a lander arriving to return the material to Earth sometime in the 2030s ... hopefully.…