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Back up your data, it's later than you think On Call It's a tale from before the times of Bitlocker and TPM in On Call today as a Register reader demonstrates the importance of knowing one's true worth.…

'Opaque and difficult' Google Ad rules cost biz 20 hours profit Google has failed in its bid to dismiss a €150 million fine ordered by France's monopoly watchdog in 2019 for exploiting its position in the search advertising market, a court ruled on Thursday.…

Office 365 and Windows 365 prices to rise in September – one SKU by much more than recent commercial increase Microsoft has hiked the price of Office 365 and Windows 365 versions it offers to non-profit customers, effective September 1, 2022.…

For now, a mere 80 million more citizens can trial the Digital Yuan China's central bank digital currency, the Digital Yuan, has been integrated with Tencent's flagship messaging app WeChat, and appears as a payment option when users employ the super-app shop.…

Appoints independent committee and gives angry investors most of what they want Toshiba has decided it will consider proposals to take the company private, and devise yet another strategy to improve its performance, suggesting alternative proposals for the company's future will be revealed – and perhaps decided - in late June.…

He's the third gangster in crew to face time behind bars Another member of notorious cybercrime ring FIN7 is headed to jail after the gang breached major companies' networks across the US and stole more than $1 billion from these businesses' customers.…

Automated HR in the cross-hairs over discrimination law A newly proposed amendment to California's hiring discrimination laws would make AI-powered employment decision-making software a source of legal liability. …

Plus: More financially motivated miscreants try to monetize invasion Facebook is fighting a surge in cyber-espionage attempts and misinformation campaigns related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a new report by parent group Meta.…

Equip Amazon rivals with flexible networking chips? Sounds Epyc With cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services increasingly building their own silicon, it's no surprise that large chip companies like Intel and AMD are trying to find new ways not just to remain relevant in the cloud but to become can't-miss vendors for next-generation architectures.…

Bundled version of Node.js simplifies executing downloaded code Adobe Creative Cloud Experience, a service installed via the Creative Cloud installer for Windows, includes a Node.js executable that can be abused to infect and compromise a victim's PC.…

Want that thing, but in a different color, and don't know the name? Multisearch has your back Google's latest feature is making its Lens visual search tool mingle with text for image searches for those difficult-to-describe vague queries.…

Datacenter operator with $2.3b value said to be discussing options a year after SPAC merger Datacenter operator Cyxtera is considering putting itself up for sale, according to reports.…

Fintech provider flaw could have hit dozens of U.S. banks, says Salt Security Salt Security spotted a vulnerability in a large fintech company's digital platform that would have granted attackers admin access to banking systems in addition to allowing them to transfer funds to their own accounts.…

Pressure on Congress to submit the America COMPETES Act ASAP The Biden administration wants the $52 billion CHIPS Act passed without delay, according to a classified briefing between senior officials and a bipartisan group of Congressional representatives.…

Improved defenses give organizations more room to negotiate but won't protect from lawsuits, says law firm An increased willingness on the part of enterprises to invest in cybersecurity may finally be starting to make a difference, according to US law giant BakerHostetler.…

Motion calls for repairability ratings and expected lifetime of products European lawmakers are voting in plenary on a Right to Repair resolution today amid calls for the initiative to go even further.…

Even notoriously tech averse stock market gambler can't resist piece of pandemic-boosted PC extravaganza Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has taken up a double-digit stake in PC and print biz HP Inc's stock worth about $4.2 billion, a move that sent the company's share price up by 10 percent.…

30-year-old software that first introduced Windows Registry and killed Real Mode Time flies whether you're having fun or simply trying to work out which Registry change left your system hopelessly borked, and before you know it, Windows 3.1 is turning 30.…

Semiconductor Alliance wants US R&D billions to be dished out fairly, broadly, objectively A newly formed group is calling for the US to ensure efforts and public funding to boost the nation's domestic semiconductor industry benefits a broad family of stakeholders, not just a few companies.…

No actual users harmed yet as dept tests safety of pushing water, telecoms services in single pipeline Parts of South Yorkshire are to get fiber broadband run through mains water pipes in a two-year trial to evaluate the viability of the technology for connecting more homes.…

Cicada's months-long global espionage campaign marks an expansion of team's capabilities A China-backed crew is said to be running a global espionage campaign against governments, religious groups, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by, in some cases, possibly exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange servers.…

Optional update should apply to all users, says Vivaldi boss Microsoft's one-click default browser change under Windows 11 is being met with raised eyebrows from its browser rivals.…

Company cites data security and privacy as reasons for cleaning house Outdated apps will no longer be accessible on Androids that are either new or updated to the latest software starting November 1, thanks to a Google policy that was announced Wednesday.…

From serverless to server, yes! Cado Security says it has discovered a strain of malware specifically designed to run in AWS Lambda serverless environments and mine cryptocurrency.…

VIPER mission also bitten by tech supply chain woes Progress on NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission to search for useful chemicals at the Moon's South Pole has been delayed by two tech-related issues springing from the COVID-19 pandemic.…

It paints, it edits, it potentially misleads people with faked pictures OpenAI has provided its latest caption-to-image-generation model, dubbed DALL·E 2, to select users to test before it potentially opens up the technology for wider use. …

Meanwhile changes the name of its major customer-facing event – probably a coincidence VMware has revealed more critical bugs that impact five of its products, including the Cloud Foundation bundle it advances as the ideal way to build a hybrid multi-cloud.…

Foreign nationals who earn STEM PhDs stateside mostly stick around Most foreign nationals who earn STEM PhDs in the United States remain in the country many years after graduating, with the highest numbers among Chinese and Indian graduates, according to a report released this week from American policy think tank, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).…

3D Investment Partners wants to sell, labels company a 'governance embarrassment for Japan' One of Toshiba’s largest shareholders has called upon the company's board to solicit bids to acquire all or part of the ailing Japanese giant.…

Inventors, assemble! India's attempts to turn itself into a global electronics manufacturing powerhouse appear to have stalled a little, with government data showing negligible growth in value of production and a reduction in exports. But the nation has also revealed a plan to improve matters: a supergroup of expats who will help grow its semiconductor industry.…

We talk to CEO about projectile-based implosion design British outfit First Light Fusion claims it has achieved nuclear fusion with an approach that could provide cheap, clean power.…

Lawsuit accuses Big Blue of cheating investors by shifting systems revenue to trendy cloud, mobile tech Special report IBM has been sued by investors who claim the company under former CEO Ginni Rometty propped up its stock price and deceived shareholders by misclassifying revenues from its non-strategic mainframe business – and moving said sales to its strategic business segments – in violation of securities regulations.…

Who, what, when, how still to be worked out, ironically The Canadian government this week introduced a law bill that would force the likes of Google and Facebook to pay Canadian news publishers for using their articles online.…

One hopes they can stay online long enough for customers to evaluate Atlassian opened its Las Vegas Team '22 event this week with products aimed at giving management an insight into projects – and developers an insight into what is actually going on.…

Sensitive info swiped from Windows and Android devices, according to report A prolific Middle East team with links to Hamas is said to be using malware and infrastructure to target high-ranking Israeli officials and steal sensitive data from Windows and Android devices.…

'Routine maintenance script' blamed for derailed service for unlucky customers Atlassian's Jira and Confluence issue tracking and collaboration services have been down for some customers for two days now and the outage remains ongoing.…

Control systems scrubbed, hijacked network devices need to be patched and cleaned The US Justice Department today revealed details of a court-authorized take-down of command-and-control systems the Sandworm cyber-crime ring used to direct network devices infected by its Cyclops Blink malware.…

A new arms race emerges DARPA announced a second successful test of its hypersonic cruise missile, adding that the weapon, capable of speeds in excess of Mach 5, is ready for real-world use. …

Pieter Abbeel may not be a name you know, but you've probably heard of his work This year's ACM Prize in Computing is going toward a machine learning specialist whose work, even if you haven't heard of him, is likely to be familiar.…

Hoarding a bunch of data that 'may prove useful' someday? Data-wrangling product is aimed at you Google has announced a preview on Google Cloud of BigLake, a data lake storage service that it claims can remove data limits by combining data lakes and data warehouses.…

DevOps platform tells devs it is ‘continuing to work on a longer-term fix’ Updated DevOps outfit CircleCI is suffering from performance issues that have been ongoing for most of the day, with developers left waiting for the platform to come back online.…

Leak highlights worker offboarding policies as SaaS use grows A former employee with Block used the digital financial services firm's Cash App products to access and download personal information about US customers in December 2021, the firm has claimed.…

Points to on-prem pain with legacy systems, rising maintenance costs Boeing has decided that when it comes to the cloud there's no reason to limit itself to just one of the big public cloud players, so instead it chose all three.…

Service 'likely to have a significant impact on market for provision of broadband internet access' France's Conseil d'Etat court is revoking the license [PDF] authorizing Elon Musk's Starlink outfit to use two frequency bands to provide satellite internet in France.…

The same architecture as the top-ranked "Fugaku" supercomputer with services bundled Fujitsu has confirmed it will be opening access to the same system architecture underpinning the global top supercomputer, "Fugaku" via an emerging cloud service.…

Pop quiz: you've got your own edge computer in space. What do you do with it? Microsoft is making a deal with satellite infrastructure outfit Loft Orbital to integrate some of the Windows-maker's cloud technology.…

Some 1,200 of chipmaker's employees based in Russia, a country accounting for 0.1% of global chip sales in 2021 Intel is temporarily halting all business operations in Russia following the decision a little more than a month ago to pause sales to both Russia and its puppet state Belarus.…

Cramming a full Windows desktop into a teeny tiny space Windows 10 – as we pointed out last week – still rules Microsoft's user base, as now evidenced by the latest arrival of Windows 10 IoT Enterprise on NXP hardware.…

Is that... a good or bad thing? Deep-learning algorithms have shown themselves equal to humans in detecting patients at high-risk of developing Type-2 diabetes by analyzing CT scans of their pancreases, according to a research paper published on Tuesday.…

Plus: Big Tech company pays a little bit more tax shock Spare a thought for Microsoft's British tentacle. It reported surging local revenues for fiscal 2021 yet profits shrunk, according to financial accounts.…