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India-based stockbroker Zerodha pledges $1M a year for open source projects Zerodha, an India-based stock brokerage, has launched a fund to support open source software, to which the company attributes its existence and success....

Microsoft tells us it is investigating the issue... Phew, that's ok then Microsoft says it is looking into reports that certain Western Digital SSDs are causing trouble for users of Windows 11 24H2 on some devices....

Early stage opsec failures lead to landmark arrest of suspected serial data thief Brazilian police are being cagey with the details about the arrest of a person suspected to be responsible for various high-profile data thefts....

Update for Skyline phone brings selective distraction blocking A couple of months after launch, an OS update has delivered one of the Nokia HMD Skyline's headline features....

Biggest semi contract manufacturer -and Nvidia supplier - building out capacity in US and Europe Taiwan's semiconductor giant TSMC has reported a good third quarter with revenue up 36 percent over a year ago, due to strong demand from chip companies for smartphone and AI-related silicon....

As 'heat' built from campaigners, tech boss kept telling MPs everything was fine The former CTO of the Post Office had "nagging doubts" about the Horizon system at the center of one of the most far-reaching miscarriages of justice in UK history, yet he continued to sign off statements to MPs attesting to its security and reliability....

When you look behind the headlines, you'll find unfulfilled commitments Opinion I live in Asheville, North Carolina. You may have seen my hometown in the news over the last few weeks after Hurricane Helene wrecked the place....

CLEAR group calls for VAT to be dropped on spare parts, repairs, labor A newly formed group of UK electronics companies is advocating for the removal of VAT on electronic spare parts, repairs, and labor in the government's upcoming autumn budget, claiming this would encourage consumers to get kit repaired instead of replacing it....

No attacks possible, but enough issues to cause concern Messaging giant WeChat uses a network protocol that the app's developers modified -and by doing so introduced security weaknesses, researchers claim....

Gang said to have developed its evilware on GitHub - then DDoSed GitHub Hacktivist gang Anonymous Sudan appears to have lost its anonymity after the US Attorney's Office on Wednesday unsealed an indictment identifying two of its alleged operators....

DMA gatekeeper status denied, meaning X can carry on without extra compliance chores The EU has said it won't classify Elon Musk's X as gatekeeper" - the bloc's designation for the most significant digital platforms- because it doesn't think the social network is that big a deal....

Bots that learn to peel potatoes is a lot less scary than Black Mirror Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced on Wednesday they're partnering to combine the former's multi-jointed athletic humanoid, Atlas, with TRI's large behavior models (LBM)....

Long-term research program includes building Moon bases, finding habitable exoplanets, and probing 'space-time ripples' China yesterday revealed its space exploration plans between now and the year 2050, and one of the nation's goals is finding habitable planets beyond our solar system....

India's services giants think their consultants can serve you from wherever Indian IT outsourcer Wipro bucked recent trends this week, when it announced it would allow its employees remote work....

The Uptime Institute rates availability. The 'Uptime Council' ... apparently doesn't exist Updated It's one thing to stretch the truth in your marketing material, but allegedly lying about your datacenter's qualities to lure the US Securities and Exchange Commission as a customer is a whole other matter....

Resolves allegations it improperly stored screenshots containing PII that were later snaffled A US government contractor will settle claims it violated cyber security rules prior to a breach that compromised Medicare beneficiaries' personal data....

Layoffs follow more than 7,500 voluntary departures, early retirements Intel this week handed out pink slips to more than 2,000 workers across the United States....

It's called leaving the door wide open - especially in Proxmox A critical bug in Kubernetes Image Builder could allow unauthorized SSH access to virtual machines (VMs) thanks to default credentials being enabled during the image build process....

The German car giant appears to be unconcerned The 8Base ransomware crew claims to have stolen a huge data dump of Volkswagen files and is threatening to publish them, but the German car giant appears to be unconcerned....

Welcome to the oidashi beya, aka expulsion rooms The next time you feel dehumanized by rumors of surprise HR meetings popping up on calendars amidst layoff rumors, be glad you don't work at game studio Bandai Namco in Japan....

Another blow for IT software house and its customers A critical, hardcoded login credential in SolarWinds' Web Help Desk line has been exploited in the wild by criminals, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which has added the security blunder to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog....

It 'will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money' The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a final "click-to-cancel" rule that aims to simplify the process of ending unwanted subscriptions to products and services....

Uncle Sam having a secret way into US tech? Say it ain't so A Chinese industry group has accused Intel of backdooring its CPUs, in addition to other questionable security practices while calling for an investigation into the chipmaker, claiming its products pose "serious risks to national security."...

The duo eyes a target of 5 GW online in US by 2039, assuming tech comes to fruition With energy scarcity threatening to derail datacenter ambitions, cloud providers are looking for salvation in the atom....

Claims their child will 'suffer irreparable harm' if the record stays The parents of a Massachusetts child are taking his school to court after the student was punished for using AI in a class project....

Brit biz updates world on why tech might not be forever 30 years away Brit nuclear fusion biz Tokamak Energy has detailed early progress in a US Department of Energy (DOE) project that aims to deliver commercial fusion energy in the next decade....

'Our networks have the capacity to meet consumer demand without these restrictions,' says chair The US government's probe into the necessity of ISP data caps has escalated with the launch of a formal inquiry and the publication of hundreds of testimonials from those affected to drum up support for potential regulatory action....

Fewer than 30% of clients happy dealing with a generative AI virtual agent An IBM study has found most insurance industry leaders believe generative AI is essential to keep pace with competitors. However, only a quarter of customers want anything to do with the technology....

Who said Archimedes' death ray was a busted myth? The future of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission may be uncertain, but don't tell that to boffins at Sandia National Laboratories that tested heat shield prototypes by blasting them with rays of focused sunlight so strong Archimedes would blush....

Less than a year to go - is your enterprise ready for the change? Office and Exchange Server have joined Windows 10 in a march to obsolescence, with less than a year until support is cut for 2016 and 2019 versions....

AI hardly a hot topic with some customers calling for more innovation on-prem Nearly a quarter of SAP users in its European heartlands say they cannot keep up with technological, social or economic advances....

Embedded versions live longer - including Windows 10 LTSC Windows Embedded POSReady 7, the last supported version of Windows 7, has hit the end of the road nearly five years after the desktop edition....

As badly as the later development of WinAmp itself, really The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite possibly, not all of it theirs....

To Wales now, where crypto bro sues to be allowed to excavate landfill site Last time we met 39-year-old James Howells from Newport, Wales, he was petitioning his local council to let him excavate a garbage dump in pursuit of a lost hard drive he believes holds the key to 7,500 Bitcoin. Now he is suing the authority to force its hand....

Governance and public consultation need work before rule change goes ahead A group overseeing UK health data sharing has advised the government not to expand legal rules allowing access to patient information introduced during the Covid pandemic until there has been further public consultation....

A reminder to get fiber (eventually) or get left behind BT infrastructure arm Openreach has disclosed the latest exchange locations where it plans to stop selling phone and broadband services that use copper cabling as part of its ambition to get everyone on fiber....

DDoS detectives deduce Mirai used to do the deed, using home entertainment boxes in Korea, China, and Brazil The Internet Archive has come back online, in slightly degraded mode, after repelling an October 9 DDoS attack and then succumbing to a raid on users' data....

Large C and C++ codebases will be around for the 'foreseeable future' Google has revealed that its approach to making programming code more memory safe involves both the adoption of memory safe languages and making unsafe languages more secure - to the extent that's possible....

Also: Crypto-hub Binance helps Delhi police shut down solar power scam IBM announced on Tuesday it has acquired Prescinto - a Bangalore-based provider of asset performance management software for renewable energy....

Messaging service creates persistent user IDs that have different qualities on each device An analysis of Meta's WhatsApp messaging software reveals that it may expose which operating system a user is running, and their device setup information - including the number of linked devices....

Fresh filing sees Broadcom admit it discounts deeply - music to the ears of all Virtzilla users coming off contract AT&T and Broadcom appear to be close to settling their legal dispute over the provision of support services for VMware software....

New Zealand isn't bothering. Singapore fears harms are inevitable At a conference in Singapore on Tuesday, ministers from around the world mused that they may have missed the chance to regulate AI effectively....

Meanwhile, ASML shares plunge as China export curbs hit forecast Amid fears that Middle Eastern nations are being used to funnel AI accelerators and other sensitive technologies to China, the Biden administration is reportedly considering capping shipments of the products to certain countries in the region....

Not that there's anything important there - just F-22s and stuff The former commander of the the Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, has revealed an unidentified drone swarm buzzed the facility for 17 days last December....

IntelBroker claims the breach impacts Microsoft, SAP, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US, and more Cisco has confirmed it is investigating claims of stealing -and now selling - data belonging to the networking giant....

Resupply like Call of Duty? Not yet - only one planned for now The US military is betting the Black Hawk helicopter of the future won't need pilots, and it's giving the bird's maker Sikorsky $6 million to prove it....

Vendor told El Reg the biz's law firm claims merchant debts aren't valid obligations Digital River has not paid numerous merchants since midsummer for software and digital products they sold through its MyCommerce platform....

Maximum validity down from 398 days to 45 by 2027 Apple wants to shorten SSL/TLS security certificates' lifespans, down from 398 days now to just 45 days by 2027, and sysadmins have some very strong feelings about this "nightmarish" plan....

Rearranging the deckchairs as support iceberg approaches Microsoft has released a Windows Insider build of Windows 10 despite the impending end of support for many flavors of the operating system....

Traded its shares between 2018 and 2020? You could cash in Old accusations of securities fraud continue to dog VMware, with the virtualization juggernaut agreeing to pay $102.5 million to settle a shareholder suit over its alleged creation of an artificial sales backlog to hide slowing sales....