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SpaceX and Kuiper in the $278.5m mix to replace space agency's Tracking Data and Relay Satellite fleet NASA is lavishing a combined $278.5m on six US companies for near-Earth space communication services.…

We've passed peak chip shortage, though, insists Gartner analyst A large industrial conglomerate is being forced to take increasingly desperate measures to satisfy their needs for chips, according to ASML, a manufacturer of chip-making equipment.…

UK prime minister visits country to 'welcome' contract, namecheck commercial pacts, talk up trade OneWeb has agreed with the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organization, New Space India Limited, to deploy its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellites from the country's launch pad outside Chennai.…

Botnet infrastructure shut down last year, now central to a fast-spreading email scam, researchers say More than a year after essentially being shut down, the notorious Emotet malware operation is showing a strong resurgence.…

Software? Ticked. Hardware? Ticked. Kitchen sink? Oh go on then, why not The British government is looking to speak with suppliers in preparation for a multi-year procurement that could be worth up to £8 billion in technology products and services.…

Meanwhile, Elon Musk says we need to crack real-world AI to get fully autonomous cars to work The UK government has confirmed planned revisions to the Highway Code to accommodate self-driving vehicles, including allowing drivers to watch TV while an AI takes the wheel.…

It's 2036 and another hijacked AI betrays its operators Boffins from UC Berkeley, MIT, and the Institute for Advanced Study in the United States have devised techniques to implant undetectable backdoors in machine learning (ML) models.…

Someone's got to keep, say, Nvidia on its toes In the race to provide the best machine-learning accelerators, one of Nvidia's top challengers has claimed a victory in the biotech space, London firm LabGenius, which said Graphcore's intelligence processing units (IPUs) provide significantly faster performance for AI-based drug discovery than some unidentified traditional GPUs.…

Who knew what when and what did they do? Analysis GitHub says it has identified and alerted developers who have had their private repositories accessed and downloaded via stolen authentication tokens.…

Cannot confirm reports of Tim Cook on the Midnight Train to Georgia Workers in Atlanta, Georgia, have become the first US Apple Store staff to file an official request to hold an union vote with America's National Labor Relations Board.…

If this is surprising to operators, we are doomed The Five Eyes nations' cybersecurity agencies this week urged critical infrastructure to be ready for attacks by crews backed by or sympathetic to the Kremlin amid strong Western opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.…

Webpage acceleration tech deemed harmful by rivals Brave, the browser maker, and DuckDuckGo, the web search service, have both taken aim at AMP, Google's controversial web publishing framework.…

James Baugh faced trial over campaign against newsletter couple A now-former eBay security director accused of harassing a couple who wrote a critical newsletter about the internet tat bazaar is set to plead guilty to cyberstalking.…

Remote code exec is so 2014. Have this container escape and privilege escalation, instead Amazon Web Services has updated its Log4j security patches after it was discovered the original fixes made customer deployments vulnerable to container escape and privilege escalation.…

Whole new meaning for zero consequences Java versions 15 to 18 contain a flaw in its ECDSA signature validation that makes it trivial for miscreants to digitally sign files and other data as if they were legit organizations.…

Production talent isn't here, costs are high ... so how's that multi-billion-dollar Arizona plant coming, eh? TSMC founder Morris Chang, a key player in the semiconductor industry since its inception, thinks America's attempt to grow its domestic chip production will be "a wasteful, expensive exercise in futility."…

Joining RHEL 9 in the preview barn AlmaLinux has released a beta for version 9 of its eponymous Linux distribution aimed at RHEL refuseniks still reeling from the dumping of CentOS by Red Hat.…

Case study in why price-performance matters in server chips AMD claims its Epyc CPUs played a role in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team winning last year's Constructors' Championship race.…

Cyber-espionage gang using multiple variants of its custom backdoor to ensure persistence, Symantec warns A Russian-linked threat group that has almost exclusively targeted Ukraine since it first appeared on the scene in 2014 is deploying multiple variants of its malware payload on systems within the country.…

Months after spinning out infrastructure service division, IBM not bigger but feeling less blue Freed from the financial anchor that was its infrastructure services division - spun out as Kyndryl in November - IBM kicked off calendar Q1 of 2022 with something that has eluded it for years: decent growth.…

If you want to retain customers, Big Red recommends putting AI in charge The pandemic has made people more concerned about sustainability than ever, and businesses are the focuses of their collective ire, with most saying they don't take enterprise sustainability goals (ESGs) seriously. The solution, Oracle says, is to put AIs in charge.…

Yet another nail in the coffin for aged and unsecure file-sharing protocol Microsoft has taken another step toward the final eradication of the venerable SMB1 protocol with plans to disable it by default in all editions of Windows 11.…

Goal is to make natural language processing available in all the world's tongues Amazon released an open-source speech dataset supporting 51 languages on Wednesday, encouraging developers to build more third-party apps and services for its AI speaker device Alexa.…

PhaaS, SMiShing, and remote work drive increase in phishing attacks The number of phishing attacks worldwide jumped 29 percent last year as threat actors countered stronger enterprise defenses with newer methods, according to researchers with Zscaler's ThreatLabz research team.…

Growing enterprise demand for more complex cloud-native services carries a higher price tag Global spending on public cloud services will come close to $500 billion this year, according to research firm Gartner.…

Streaming giant plans to grow by adding new subscription tier and building up games unit Following a serious slump in subscriber numbers, Netflix execs are trying to boost financial growth by converting account sharers into paying users and building up its game division.…

Malware-laced recruitment emails are more Kim job ill than Kim Jong-un The North Korean-based criminal group Lazarus is expanding its attacks into the blockchain and crypto space, three agencies of the US government have warned.…

Friends are always tellin' me, you're a user ... Just be good to free() Google's bug hunters say they spotted 58 zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild last year, which is the most-ever recorded since its Project Zero team started analyzing these in mid-2014.…

UK High Court beckons for Windows vendor and reseller amid claims of on-prem software license skullduggery The ValueLicensing case against Microsoft is set to proceed in the UK after a judge dismissed the Windows vendor's jurisdictional challenge and strike-out application.…

After years of Apple's agitation to 'Move to iOS,' the Chocolate Factory has a reply Google has started rolling out an iOS app to help those using Apple devices move their data to Android systems.…

On-prem software may remain, albeit without support or maintenance SAP announced on Tuesday it was exiting Russia after 30 years of operations in the country, leaving on-prem customers with no software support.…

US military must 'ride the wave of commercial innovation ... or risk drowning under its own weight' The outgoing first chief architect officer of the US Air and Space Force urged the Pentagon to lay off wasting time building everything itself, and use commercial kit if available and appropriate to upgrade its technological capabilities quickly.…

Amazon staff success spurs similar spirit in NYC for a sporting share of super-profits Apple Store staff in New York City are attempting to form a union – and want the minimum wage to be increased to $30 per hour.…

CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile Internet-of-Things biz Insteon appears to have shut down its servers down without notifying its customers, who are now wondering what they will do with various "smart" home accessories that are looking rather dumb.…

Step one, get some scrambled files back. Steps two through 37... Kaspersky has found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang ransomware encryption algorithm and, as a result, released a free decryptor tool to help victims of this software nasty recover their files.…

CEO memo confirms ex-AMD veteran's bump up to executive veep Exclusive Intel has promoted its top graphics executive, ex-AMD veteran Raja Koduri, signaling the chipmaker's satisfaction so far with its fledgling – yet strategically important – discrete GPU business.…

Samsung, Apple gain market share while everyone else loses amid economic uncertainty For the smartphone industry, the first quarter of 2022 is looking like a repeat of Q1 2020, in which economic uncertainty triggered by world events led to a double-digit shipment slump. …

Prevision.io wants to 'democratize machine learning innovation' for smaller organizations Google Cloud is offering users access to an AI platform that allows them to build, deploy, and manage AI projects in the cloud without needing extensive data science knowledge.…

First business chips from AMD to include Microsoft's Pluton security processor, stock is available says chip biz AMD claims its new Ryzen Pro 6000 CPUs for laptops are better suited for a variety of work-related tasks than Intel's latest chips and provide better battery life, though it's not a grand slam.…

LiquidStack CEO says we're in a perfect storm for the growth of two-phase immersion cooling A datacenter being built in Ohio will reportedly be the first in the US to deploy two-phase immersion cooling – but only a portion of the facility will be used for HPC colocation with rest used to mine cryptocurrency.…

Firmware updates incoming in response to UEFI threats Updated Got a Lenovo laptop? You might need to do a swift bit of patching judging by the latest set of vulnerabilities uncovered by security researchers at ESET.…

Robots need to learn to adapt to chaotic humans, says German researcher A German doctoral student's research is moving us ever closer to an AI skill that, as of yet, has been unrealized: improvisation.…

Microsoft tinkers with defaults as block lifted with PC Manager update Microsoft has re-enabled Windows Insider builds for Lenovo PCs in China with the release of build 22598 to the Dev and Beta Channels.…

If conventional silicon manufacturing processes can be repurposed, it could help create practical quantum systems Intel and QuTech claim to have created the first silicon qubits for quantum logic gates to be made using the same manufacturing facilities that Intel employs to mass produce its processor chips.…

Parent WH Smith says no customer payment data exposed, according to current investigations British retailer WH Smith has confirmed that Funky Pigeon, its online greetings card and gift subsidiary, has halted all further orders after a "security incident."…

It's the MX Vertical... only smaller Hands on Logitech has launched a pleasing yet barkingly mad mouse called Lift, the latest in the company's line of ergonomic input devices.…

Policy in place since 2007, but increased employee attrition might have made it more visible A labor rights non-profit has filed a complaint with India's Ministry of Labor alleging IT services giant Infosys has subjected its employees to an illegal noncompete clause.…

If at first you don't succeed... you're probably NASA NASA's third attempt at an Artemis I wet dress rehearsal has ended with a plan to roll the agency's Moon rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for repairs.…

Cash of the Titan: Musk's Twitter take-over plan may be many things – let's hope it’s not the one he claims Opinion Elon Musk is many things. The richest man in the world with over $200 billion in his back pocket. An instigator of PayPal. CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX, the biz that restored the US's manned space capabilities. Owner of the most valuable car company on the planet. And as of April 14, he says he wants to be the owner of Twitter.…

Hardware requirements + cautious enterprises = slow adoption Windows 11 is continuing to struggle both in the enterprise and at home, according to figures published by IT asset management platform Lansweeper. Disappointingly for Microsoft, it has yet to even surpass Windows XP.…