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Source remains unclear, plenty suspect Iran Air raid sirens sounded for over an hour in parts of Jerusalem and southern Israel on Sunday evening – but bombs never fell, leading some to blame Iran for compromising the alarms. …

Just us who see 'liquid engineering' and think three pints at lunch on a Thursday? OK, got it, just us Castrol, better known for its engine oil, has partnered with cooling specialist Submer to drive the adoption of immersion cooling for datacenter and edge applications.…

Nausea, eye strain, inability to take notes, migraines are just a few of Metaverse work 'perks' Sometimes it takes research to prove what was already suspected, like how utterly uncomfortable it would be to work in the metaverse.…

Although PCIe 5.0 is just coming to market, here's what we can expect in the years ahead Early details of the specifications for PCIe 7.0 are out, and it's expected to deliver data rates of up to 512 GBps bi-directionally for data-intensive applications such as 800G Ethernet.…

Stackoverflow survey: JavaScript still in lead. Plus, you may hate COBOL, but users saw a salary jump The annual Stackoverflow survey is here and while JavaScript continues to rule the roost, TypeScript has edged past Java to make it into the top five most commonly used programming languages.…

Space boffins: Nevermind ekeing out the battery, let it go out in a blaze of glory! Pondering what services to switch off to keep your laptop going just that bit longer? NASA engineers can relate, having decided the Mars InSight lander will go out on a high: they plan to burn through the remaining power to keep the science flowing until the bitter end.…

Internal research says the hiring pool has already dried up in a number of locations stateside Jeff Bezos once believed that Amazon's low-skill worker churn was a good thing as a long-term workforce would mean a "march to mediocrity." He may have to eat his words if an internal memo is accurate.…

Blockchain not as decentralised as many assume, finds Pentagon sponsored research US government sponsored research is casting new light on the security of blockchain technology, including the assertion that a subset of a distributed ledger's participants can gain control over the entire system.…

Reportedly dropping hints it may use legislation to push a London listing The UK government is upping the ante in attempts to have Arm listed on the London stock exchange, with reports suggesting it is considering the threat of national security laws to force the issue with owner SoftBank.…

Snowflake last week promised analytics and transactions in the same system. For some it was déjà vu all over again Analysis Under Nevada's baking summer sunshine, Snowflake last week promised it would bring together two ways of working with data that mix about as well as oil and water.…

So are Microsoft, Adobe, W3C, Huawei, and… IKEA? Not Apple, though A smattering of big and not so big tech companies have linked arms to shape the emerging industry known as the metaverse.…

Down but not yet on its Way(land) just yet The X window system turned 38 years old this week, and although it has more rivals than ever, it is still the go-to for a graphical desktop on Unix.…

Or some approximation of that Multi-cloud networking startup Alkira has decided it wants to be a network-as-a-service (NaaS) provider with the launch of its cloud area networking platform this week.…

British parcel delivery firm 'working around the clock' to get systems back and running Delivery company Yodel has found itself the latest victim of a cyber "incident" that has disrupted services.…

A simpler, easier remix sounds like a good thing, but glitches like these shouldn't be in a point release Version 21.3 of Manjaro - codenamed "Ruah" - is here, with kernel 5.15, but don't let its beginner-friendly billing fool you: you will need a clue with this one.…

Once former supplier Sitel coughed up its logs, it became apparent the attacker was hemmed in Okta has completed its analysis of the March 2022 incident that saw The Lapsus$ extortion crew get a glimpse at some customer information, and concluded that its implementation of zero trust techniques foiled the attack.…

Privacy group NOYB sues to get telcos to respect GDPR data access rights Some authorities in Europe insist that location data is not personal data as defined by the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.…

And over millions of miles, too. Piece of cake!? The software on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is to be upgraded after nearly two decades, giving the orbiter capabilities to hunt for water beneath the planet and study its larger moon, Phobos.…

Satellite-deploying rocket finally launches – after a few setbacks South Korea's Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) yesterday succeeded in its endeavor to send the home-grown Nuri launcher into space, then place a working satellite in orbit.…

In unrelated news, China's rollout of a central bank digital currency continues China's ban on cryptocurrency mining – and general dislike of any form of blockchain-based assets – has seen web giant Tencent clamp down on discussion of the subjects on its massive WeChat and Weixin messaging platforms.…

As if users needed any more reminders they’re stuck on a dying platform HCL has given users of versions 9.x and 10.x of its Domino groupware platform two years warning that they'll have to upgrade or live without support.…

Fundamental problems of qubit physics aside, the cloud giant thinks it can help Nothing in the quantum hardware world is fully cooked yet, but quantum computing is quite a bit further along than quantum networking – an esoteric but potentially significant technology area, particularly for ultra-secure transactions. Amazon Web Services is among those working to bring quantum connectivity from the lab to the real world. …

Coining the term hardware-based 'AI hypervisor' has to be worth several million, dontcha think? The venture capital arm of Samsung has cut a check to help Israeli inference chip designer NeuReality bring its silicon dreams a step closer to reality.…

Deep-fake voices, face recognition, emotion, age and gender prediction ... A toolbox of theoretical tech tyranny Microsoft has pledged to clamp down on access to AI tools designed to predict emotions, gender, and age from images, and will restrict the usage of its facial recognition and generative audio models in Azure.…

A bit of a near-hit for the software engineering world A GitHub bug could have been exploited earlier this year by connected third-party apps to hijack victims' source-code repositories.…

Time to rethink that cybersecurity strategy? A US bank has said at least the names and social security numbers of more than 1.5 million of its customers were stolen from its computers in December.…

Chaebol hit by lower demand for smartphones and TVs plus 4nm yield issues The demand for consumer electronics has slowed down in the face of inflation – but that didn't stop nine of the world's 10 largest contract chip manufacturers from growing in the first three months of the year.…

You wanna bug fix and chill? Microsoft's GitHub on Tuesday released its Copilot AI programming assistance tool into the wild after a year-long free technical trial.…

Automaker wants to develop recycling, remanufacturing processes Toyota has ambitious plans for the future of its electric vehicles, and it's turning to a Tesla founder to make them happen.…

1980s refugee, open source, and runs on modern kit RISC OS, the operating system of the original Arm computer, the Acorn Archimedes, is still very much alive – and doing relatively well for its age.…

Collab to 'generate significant returns' for Europe in science, tech, economy Lenovo has inked an agreement with Spain's Barcelona Supercomputing Center for research and development work in various areas of supercomputer technology.…

It's the second time a Musk-owned company has been accused of WARN Act violations Tesla is facing another lawsuit, and it's treading over old territory with this one. Fired Gigafactory workers are alleging that the electric car maker improperly terminated more than 500 people.…

The target? Thin clients and industrial devices – with new SoC family running up to 4 independent displays Embedded World AMD is bringing to market a new generation of Ryzen chips for embedded apps promising more CPU cores, enhanced built-in graphics and expanded I/O connectivity to drive kit such as IoT devices and thin clients.…

Plus it aborts ISS reboost. Not the greatest start to the week, was it? NASA engineers had to work fast to avoid another leak affecting the latest Artemis dry run, just hours after an attempt to reboost the International Space Station (ISS) via the Cygnus freighter was aborted following a few short seconds.…

'Network engineers walked over each other's changes' A large chunk of the web (including your own Vulture Central) fell off the internet this morning as content delivery network Cloudflare suffered a self-inflicted outage.…

OK, which of those engineers tweaked the settings? When infrastructure shifts away from state defined by original code HashiConf HashiCorp has kicked off its Amsterdam conference with a raft of product announcements, including a worthwhile look into infrastructure drift and a private beta for HCP Waypoint.…

Some crypto-bros keep the faith in the face of market onslaught ProShares, the issuer of exchange-traded funds with around $65 billion under management, has launched the first short Bitcoin exchange-traded product in the US, offering a way for investors to make money from the ongoing crypto-currency meltdown.…

Big Tech sanctions continue to roll in, Putin retaliates with counter sanctions Microsoft has blocked the installation of Windows 10 and 11 in Russia from the company's official website, Russian state media reported on Sunday.…

Find the clown who chose 'password' as a password and make things right 1Password, the Toronto-based maker of the identically named password manager, is adding a security analysis and advice tool called Insights from 1Password to its business-oriented product.…

Ideal for corporate fleet dash cameras, smart home security, police bodycams, VSaaS and more, says chip giant Embedded World Chipmaker Micron is offering a microSD Card for embedded applications with an impressive 1.5TB capacity, enough to hold four months of continuously recorded security camera footage, according to the company.…

A bot says what? Apple relies on IETF standards to remove annoyance, citing privacy and accessibility Apple has introduced a game-changer into its upcoming iOS 16 for those who hate CAPTCHAs, in the form of a feature called Automatic Verification.…

Step one: Make them easier to program The Linux Foundation wants to make data processing units (DPUs) easier to deploy, with the launch of the Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) project this week.…

'Significantly under-licenced' but didn't factor in Customer Success Manager when dealing with reseller The Post Office, a UK government-owned company, has awarded SAP a contract worth up to £2 million for software services following a misunderstanding of its SAP licences and service bundles.…

Ban akin to 'ordering a telephone company to prevent a person from having conversations' over its lines Google, EFF, and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) have filed court documents supporting Cloudflare after it was sued for refusing to block a streaming site.…

Fixed in 2013, reinstated in 2016, exploited in the wild this year A security flaw in Apple's Safari web browser that was patched nine years ago was exploited in the wild again some months ago – a perfect example of a "zombie" vulnerability.…

And perhaps too heavy, which is a weighty issue for a machine that turns into a tablet Desktop Tourism My 20-year-old son is an aspiring athlete who spends a lot of time in the gym and thinks nothing of lifting 100 kilograms in various directions. So I was a little surprised when I handed him Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio and he declared it uncomfortably heavy.…

Nearly 60 holes found affecting 'more than 30,000' machines worldwide Fifty-six vulnerabilities – some deemed critical – have been found in industrial operational technology (OT) systems from ten global manufacturers including Honeywell, Ericsson, Motorola, and Siemens, putting more than 30,000 devices worldwide at risk, according to the US government's CISA and private security researchers. …

As always, check that O365 login page is actually O365 Someone is trying to steal people's Microsoft 365 and Outlook credentials by sending them phishing emails disguised as voicemail notifications.…

As the House of Zen kills off consumer-friendly non-Pro TR chips A drought of AMD's latest Threadripper workstation processors is finally coming to an end for PC makers who faced shortages earlier this year all while Hong Kong giant Lenovo enjoyed an exclusive supply of the chips.…