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Will cyber crimes shrug off Atlas Initiative? Objectively, yes RSA Conference An ambitious project spearheaded by the World Economic Forum (WEF) is working to develop a map of the cybercrime ecosystem using open source information.…

French investigative report draws no conclusion but hints at inverter malfunction Late last month, France's BEA-RI, or Bureau of Investigation and Analysis on industrial risks, issued its technical report on the March 10th, 2021 fire at the OVH datacenter in Strasbourg.…

The chip’s GPU and neural engine could overshadow Apple’s concession on CPU performance Analysis For all the pomp and circumstance surrounding Apple's move to homegrown silicon for Macs, the tech giant has admitted that the new M2 chip isn't quite the slam dunk that its predecessor was when compared to the latest from Apple's former CPU supplier, Intel.…

Visitors to insider.windows.com met with safety warning - how reassuring Microsoft has forgotten to renew the certificate for the web page of its Windows Insider software testing program.…

Well, we'll see in a week or so RSA Conference For the first time in over two years the streets of San Francisco have been filled by attendees at the RSA Conference and it seems that the days of physical cons are back on.…

Massive language models aren't for everyone, but neither is heavy-duty hardware, says AI systems maker Graphcore As compelling as the leading large-scale language models may be, the fact remains that only the largest companies have the resources to actually deploy and train them at meaningful scale.…

The Reg FOSS desk takes the latest stable distro for a spin Review The Reg FOSS desk took the latest update to openSUSE's stable distro for a spin around the block and returned pleasantly impressed.…

Based in the Big Red cloud, the system will suck up records from hospitals and physicians, says CTO Larry Ellison Oracle is planning to build a national database of individuals' health records for the whole United States following its $28.3 billion acquisition of electronic health records specialist Cerner.…

Automakers concerned as to whether there is enough infrastructure and battery capacity to go around Analysis The European Parliament this week voted to support what is effectively a ban on the sale of cars with combustion engines by 2035, and automakers are not happy.…

'Performing live forensics on an infected machine may not turn anything up' warn researchers Intezer security researcher Joakim Kennedy and the BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence Team have analyzed an unusual piece of Linux malware they say is unlike most seen before - it isn't a standalone executable file.…

New Insider build adds a few toys, but leaves Pro X users reaching for the power button Microsoft has treated some of the courageous Dev Channel crew of Windows Insiders to the long-awaited tabbed File Explorer.…

The truth is out there, and the space agency intends to find it – scientifically Over recent years, Uncle Sam has loosened its tight-lipped if not dismissive stance on UFOs, or "unidentified aerial phenomena", lest anyone think we're talking about aliens. Now, NASA is the latest body to get in on the act.…

Strategy says 50 of the most frequently used digital services will be upgraded at the same time The UK government has committed to ending its reliance on legacy applications, or at least those it deems the highest priority, by 2025.…

Fresh out of jail on corruption charges, the company's leader goes shopping Samsung vice chairman Lee Jae-yong is said to be courting Dutch chipmaker NXP on a visit to Europe to bolster the company's position in the automotive semiconductor market.…

MIT CSAIL boffins devise PACMAN attack to let existing exploits avoid pointer authentication Apple's M1 chip has been found to contain a hardware vulnerability that can be abused to disable one of its defense mechanisms against memory corruption exploits, giving such attacks a greater chance of success.…

Don’t cross the streams! Why? It would be bad. What do you mean 'bad'? Something for the Weekend Which do you prefer: sweat or green slime? Both are being touted as clean sources of energy to drive electronic devices.…

Pre-configured units can be delivered to customers in 12 weeks Schneider Electric has revamped its modular datacenters, and announced an update for the EcoStruxure IT management software to cover the hybrid infrastructure scenarios that now characterise the modern world of IT.…

Oh my word, do you remember MacWrite? It just works, right? On Call Sometimes it just works. Sometimes it just doesn't. And sometimes users do the most curious of things. Welcome to an Apple-tastic episode of On Call.…

Crimeware groups are re-inventing themselves The criminals behind the Emotet botnet – which rose to fame as a banking trojan before evolving into spamming and malware delivery – are now using it to target credit card information stored in the Chrome web browser.…

Wave of replacements needed as Samsung and Microsoft team to stream Xbox games to smart displays and tellies Microsoft and Samsung have teamed to stream Xbox games on the Korean giant's smart televisions and monitors.…

Researcher spots it targeting Asian government and telco targets, probably with Beijing's approval Threat researcher Joey Chen of Sentinel Labs says he's spotted a decade worth of cyber attacks he's happy to attribute to a single Chinese gang.…

While this poses a privacy and security threat, an attacker's ability to exploit it may come down to luck Researchers at the University of California San Diego have shown for the first time that Bluetooth signals each have an individual, trackable, fingerprint.…

Countries that accept US infosec help told they could pay a price too Russia and China have each warned the United States that the offensive cyber-ops it ran to support Ukraine were acts of aggression that invite reprisal.…

Epyc future ahead, along with Instinct, Ryzen, Radeon and custom chip push After taking serious CPU market share from Intel over the last few years, AMD has revealed larger ambitions in AI, datacenters and other areas with an expanded roadmap of CPUs, GPUs and other kinds of chips for the near future.…

The next wave of security maturity is measuring effectiveness, she told The Register RSA Conference When Sandra Joyce, EVP of Mandiant Intelligence, describes the current threat landscape, it sounds like the perfect storm. …

Buyer beware, say analysts, technical debt will catch up with you eventually AWS is trying to help organizations migrate their mainframe-based workloads to the cloud and potentially transform them into modern cloud-native services.…

Meanwhile, NFT Cloud pilot will allow companies to mint, manage, and sell the controversial web tokens Salesforce has previewed a bunch of updates to its Customer 360 platform promising close integration with external data sources including Google ads, ecommerce marketplaces and social media.…

Flying horses, gonna pwn me away... RSA Conference Living off the land is so 2021. These days, cybercriminals are living off the cloud, according to Katie Nickels, director of intelligence for Red Canary and a SANS Certified Instructor.…

Up for debate is whether Autopilot, or humans behaving badly, is the reason for Tesla's iffy safety record An investigation into the safety of Tesla's autopilot system has been upgraded from a preliminary peek to a formal engineering analysis, a step that could put the Musk-owned motor company on the path to a recall of nearly one million vehicles. …

Judge finds security is not a central feature of iDevices A California District Court judge has dismissed a proposed class action complaint against Apple for allegedly selling iPhones and iPads containing Arm-based chips with known flaws.…

Penguin fans will be able to use Rosetta 2 to run x86 binaries in forthcoming update Apple is extending support for its Rosetta 2 x86-64-to-Arm binary translator to Linux VMs running under the forthcoming macOS 13, codenamed Ventura.…

Parents claim Chinese retailer is liable for their son's tragic death Alibaba is being sued in the US by the parents of a man, who bought a 3D printer from the Chinese e-commerce giant, and died in an accident after the device allegedly malfunctioned and caught fire.…

Inflation, Apple M2, PC market shrink: Could the timing have been worse? Intel's PC chip division is the latest team caught in the current tide of economic uncertainty, as the company freezes hiring in the group. …

Hundreds of millions of stolen credentials and a cool $59 million An ongoing phishing campaign targeting Facebook users may have already netted hundreds of millions of credentials and a claimed $59 million, and it's only getting bigger.…

Best hedge against a slowing PC market? Take some design tips from Apple Dell has pulled the lid off the latest pair of laptops in its XPS 13 line, in the hopes the new designs, refreshed internals, and an unmistakably Apple-like aesthetic of its 2-in-1 approach can give them a boost in a sputtering PC market. …

Chip price hikes keeping sector healthy but new fabs could lead to 'overcapacity' The global economy may be in a tenuous situation right now, but the semiconductor industry is likely to walk away from 2022 with a "healthy" boost in revenues, according to analysts at IDC. But beware oversupply, the analyst firm warns.…

Impact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried The James Webb Space Telescope has barely had a chance to get to work, and it's already taken a micrometeoroid to its sensitive primary mirror.…

320 million units forecast, still well above pre-pandemic, but boom is over for now Orders for PCs are forecast to shrink in 2022 as consumers confront rising inflation, the war in Ukraine, and lockdowns in parts of the world critical to the supply chain, all of which continue.…

Twitter sprays mogul's team with 'firehose' of data as unending saga continues Twitter has reportedly thrown its $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk to a shareholder vote, which could take place around late July or early August.…

Zero day? Yeah, we'll get to it. Running Windows 11 on old CPUs? OMG WE MUST FIX THIS NOW! Microsoft has accidentally turned off its controversial hardware compatibility check, thus offering Windows 11 to computers not on the list.…

CRM slinger set to be challenged on lack of progress at investor meeting A shareholder activist group has found that tech sector workers from minority ethnic backgrounds are more than twice as likely to have experienced explicit racism than employees in other sectors.…

'Having to go buy paper is very painful' for customers, says CEO. Let's just say the profit margins aren't HP Inc is piloting a paper delivery service for Instant Ink subscribers as it looks to increase the amount of profit it can wring from customers.…

Meanwhile Microsoft still hasn't patched the fatal flaw While enterprises are still waiting for Microsoft to issue a fix for the critical "Follina" vulnerability in Windows, yet more malware operators are moving in to exploit it.…

MOOC dropouts, boot camp avoiders, and college-averse students sought Developers in the US with $11,000 to spend, three spare nights a week, and a desire to level up to become an engineering manager or architect have a new education provider to consider: Indian company Scaler, which has made America its first overseas destination.…

Multiple accounts, local storage, calendars, and feeds make it worth the wait Browser maker Vivaldi's email client has finally hit version 1.0, seven years after it was first announced.…

Team lead Clement Lefebvre takes over maintaining backup tool from UMix creator The Linux Mint XApps suite of cross-desktop accessories has a new member – the Timeshift backup tool.…

More evidence of where that half-a-billion-a-year cost of Emergency Services Network delay is going The UK's police service is set to spend up to £50 million ($62.7 million) buying hardware and software for a legacy communication network that was planned to become obsolete in 2019.…

Claims world record run took 157 days, 23 hours … and just one Debian server Google has put its cloud to work calculating the value of Pi all the way out to 100 trillion digits, and claimed that's a world record for Pi-crunching.…

Bins non-competes and promises salary transparency Microsoft has announced changes to labour relations policy for its US workforce that touch on noncompete clauses, confidentiality agreements and pay transparency.…

It may sound like a trivial feature, but this sort of thing matters, and not only to gamers In a sign of how display handling is evolving, the GNOME desktop's 3D-compositing Mutter window manager is gaining support for variable refresh rate (VRR, also known as Adaptive Sync) displays.…