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Unless you like shipping buggy or vulnerable code, keep your hands on the wheel Academics have put GitHub's Copilot to the test on the security front, and said they found that roughly 40 per cent of the time, code generated by the programming assistant is, at best, buggy, and at worst, potentially vulnerable to attack.…

Now Google reckons security isn't good enough, and Android is proprietary On the 30th anniversary of the announcement of Linux by Linus Torvalds, Red Hat has said that it worked because of the way the OS was licensed.…

Microsoft would like to know your location. Bedroom furniture or homewares? Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft Windows flaunts itself upon the screens of IKEA as the not-at-all creepy setup screens pose an unanswerable question – can we use your location?…

Suggests standard for this stuff should land in 2022 and tech improves performance by 40 per cent or more Samsung has advanced its plans to relieve devices of the tedious chore that is moving data out of memory and into a processor – by putting more processing power into memory. It's already running in servers and should become a standard of sorts next year.…

Now to get the rest of ASEAN bloc interested, says Singapore government exec Four regions and provinces in China have announced they are joining an existing dedicated internet connectivity facility linking the Middle Kingdom and Singapore.…

Greg Kroah-Hartman talks to El Reg about world domination, what was, and what may be for the kernel Interview On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, sent a message to the comp.os.minix newsgroup soliciting feature suggestions for a free Unix-like operating system he was developing as a hobby.…

Apologises for slow processing, says those invited for further tests will hear by November The European Space Agency's astronaut recruitment project has far exceeded its most optimistic forecasts by generating 23,000 applications.…

Never mind that semiconductor foundries require lots of water and that Arizona is a desert state The US city of Phoenix, Arizona is getting more semiconductor factories – if all goes according to the plan lined up yesterday by Taiwan economic development officials and an Arizona economic group.…

australia-southeast2 has a big wobble less than a month after launch On July 25th, Google cloud launched a new region with all sorts of fanfare about how the new facility – australia-southeast2 in Melbourne – would accelerate the nation's digital transformation and make the world a better place in myriad ways.…

ISS installation work to be carried out some other time NASA on Tuesday postponed a spacewalk after one of the astronauts due to work outside the International Space Station had a “pinched nerve” in his neck.…

In battery containment bags we trust Passengers escaped an Alaska Airlines jet via emergency slides on Monday night after a malfunctioning smartphone filled the cabin with smoke.…

Scumbag spent years tricking victims into handing over login details A California man this month admitted he hoarded hundreds of thousands of photos and videos stolen from strangers' Apple iCloud accounts to find and share images of nude young women.…

Also: After over 10 years, last stable release of GNOME 3.x The next release of GNOME desktop, version 41, is now in beta and its features and API are frozen.…

Terminally dumb tellies now ... if they switch on the Wi-Fi Samsung is remotely bricking smart TVs it said were looted from one of its South African warehouses amid violent unrest in the nation.…

A Baltic bork in the Republic of Lithuania Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork takes a trip to the Baltic today, with a wraparound bit of digital signage demonstrating that all is not well in the Republic of Lithuania.…

Jury finds message-filtering tech misappropriation was 'wilful and malicious' Infosec firm Proofpoint has won $14m from a former vice president and his new employer after a jury found they had unlawfully used its trade secrets when he moved to the other company.…

Will this nightmare ever cease? Sugar fiends headed to the Golden Arches for a sweet treat were to be disappointed today as McDonald's admitted its restaurants in Great Britain had run out of milkshakes.…

Open-source rival shows it can compete with Microsoft's GitHub GitLab has updated its code repository and DevOps platform to version 14.2, including a private beta of a macOS "build cloud" for compiling applications for Apple's operating system.…

Apparently the revolution is now, and it is well funded Samsung announced today it would invest over $200bn (₩240 trillion) in strategic businesses like semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, communication networks, and IT research.…

VMware-packaged AI suite now on sale Nvidia has extended its on-premises AI push into the wonderful world of hyperconverged infrastructure.…

We never managed to fix our Game Boy, but maybe we could repair this? Summer is often referred to as "The Silly Season" and so it was with delight that we noted the iFixit team had turned their screwdrivers onto the gaming nostalgia-fest that is the upcoming Playdate.…

Altered priorities ahead Fifteen years ago, Amazon rolled out the public beta of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), ushering in a new era of cloud computing ... and overspending on clouds of every flavour, according to a Hashicorp report.…

Omnipresent analyst house returns to the source Comment It always comes around sooner than you think. With a large slice of fantasy, cultural mythology, and suspension of disbelief, it's time to get out the tinsel and celebrate the arrival of this year's Gartner hype cycle.…

Contract first signed in 1996 comes to an end in 2025 The UK's Department for Education is to retender the outsourcing contract for teachers' pensions in a deal worth £185m to replace a relationship with Capita that has lasted 25 years.…

Thought you were all set to return? Yeah, about that Cloud directory and identity management outfit JumpCloud has released a survey that extends a big, fat middle finger to proponents of a rush back to the office: 71 per cent of the UK's small and medium-sized enterprises will keep home-working a thing. Indefinitely.…

Driver assistance feature was engaged in level-2 autonomous car at time of incident Police are investigating an electrical vehicle company in China following claims that car data was tampered with following a fatal collision.…

Advice and more from our friends at OutSystems and AWS Promo It’s easy to say you want to deliver frictionless experiences for your customers across multiple channels. But what does that even mean?…

Boffins ponder where Usain Bolt of space rocks came from Astronomers have discovered the fastest asteroid orbiting the Sun yet, a one-kilometre-wide space rock that completes a lap of our star every 113 Earth days.…

Chipzilla gets to make 'em and crow that it has a really prestigious foundry customer The United States' National Security Technology Accelerator (NXTA) has picked Qualcomm and Intel to help it develop and construct chips for use by the nation’s military.…

Rolling out test fleet of 1000 in low-traffic locations across China Alibaba has revealed one reason it's decided to deploy 1000 rolling delivery robots across China: they don't stop work to smoke.…

Services giant given three weeks to fix it after emergency maintenance led to outage India's government has summoned the CEO of Infosys to explain why a tax portal built by the services giant remains a glitchy mess ten weeks after launch.…

The plod needs a lesson in keeping air traffic controllers in the loop, it seems A police drone hit and significantly damaged a Cessna coming in for landing in Canada earlier this month.…

'I'm quitting the show' says mystery thief Poly Network says virtually all of the crypto-currency funds, valued at $610m, stolen from it by a thief have been returned.…

Plus: Cloudflare tackles huge DDoS attack, Apple and CSAM, and more In brief Razer is working on an updated installer after it was discovered you can gain admin privileges on Windows by plugging in one of the gaming gear maker's mice or keyboards.…

Low-code platform comes with high expectations that folks understand security Forty-seven government entities and privacy companies, including Microsoft, exposed 38 million sensitive data records online by misconfiguring the Windows giant's Power Apps, a low-code service that promises an easy way to build professional applications.…

An interplanetary ESCAPADE via Photon spacecraft and a NASA commercial rocket Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab has been tapped to provide a pair of Photon spacecraft for a mission to Mars in 2024.…

Find out more at Nasuni CloudBound21 Promo If you’re still not convinced of the need to reexamine your whole approach to file management, perhaps a ransomware attack will change your mind.…

Mirroring UK, US efforts to crack down on cheap 'n' cheerful internet gadgets Infosec pros and other technically minded folk have just under a week left to comment on EU plans to introduce new regulations obligating consumer IoT device makers to address online security issues, data protection, privacy and fraud prevention.…

HMRC's 'fundamentally flawed' Check Employment Status Tool strikes again Updated Her Majesty's Courts & Tribunal Service has been forced to pay the UK taxman £12.5m due to incorrect assessments regarding the employment status of contractors under controversial IR35 rules.…

Should 'run like a dream' when everything's done, says dev A member of the Asahi Linux team has shown the GNOME desktop running on the Apple M1 chip, reporting that it is "not great, but usable."…

ASCII selfies and hands-on action in the heart of Cambridge Double-u, double-u, double-u. "The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for," as the great Douglas Adams once said.…

'The absolute best sales pitch for Redis that I have ever seen' AWS has introduced MemoryDB, a Redis-compatible database manager that combines in-memory performance with persistence.…

What do we want? Rockets! When do we want them? In the next few years Scotland has taken another step towards commercial vertical launch capability with the dismissal of objections instigated by Danish billionaire Anders Povlsen.…

Kamala Harris brings message of recommitment to Indo-Pacific amid Afghanistan crisis The United States and Singapore will cooperate to improve cybersecurity and supply chains in an era defined by the pandemic and climate crisis, said US Vice President Kamala Harris in a joint press conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong today.…

From single points of failure to training and policies, Percy Liang covers a wide range of topics in this Q&A Interview Even if you haven't heard of "foundation models" in AI, you've probably encountered one or more of them in some way. They could be rather pivotal for the future of not only machine learning and computer science but also society as a whole.…

Only one company can make VR so bad it makes MS Teams look good – Facebook Opinion You can say a lot about Facebook's insane parasitism of human society. Like the fungus that infects an ant and takes over its nervous system, making it climb to the top of a plant and erupt in an explosion of spores, Facebook has mindlessly evolved to exploit us with maximal efficiency.…

The neverending battle betweeen youthful optimism and aged cyncism Who, Me? Start your Monday with a cautionary tale from the files of Who, Me? and a warning (if one were needed) that hiring a teenager to write your operating system might not go so well.…

But first, a holiday while Mars is on the other side of the Sun China's National Space Administration has announced that the Zhurong Mars rover has ticked off everything on its to-do list, and is still ticking over, so has been assigned an extended mission.…

Regs coming into effect from November 1 even give your family rights to your data after you log off this mortal coil China has passed a law that authorities say "further perfects" existing arrangements for protection of personal data.…

Linus Torvalds also has fun medical advice about not whacking yourself with sharp objects Version 5.14 of the Linux kernel seems set to debut next week, after a very calm development process.…