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A Paint-like rescue unlikely for old configuration warhorse Microsoft has confirmed that the venerable Windows Control panel will finally be put out to pasture in favor of a shiny new Settings app....

What could the problem be? Reportedly, a cyberattack American oil giant Halliburton is investigating an "issue," reportedly a cyberattack, that has disrupted some business operations and global networks....

More of an Easter egg than a vuln, but a fun one to mess around with Typing a special four-character string will crash your iPhone thanks to a newly discovered, albeit benign, bug in iOS and iPadOS....

Can't even get good signal in my garden Nokia is to equip Axiom Space spacesuits for the Artemis III lunar mission with 4G connectivity....

Controversial concept may not even be a useful goal in computing Gartner is warning that any prospect of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is at least 10 years away and perhaps not certain to ever arrive. It might not even be a worthwhile pursuit, the analyst says....

Whether attack slowdown continues downward trend is the million dollar question that security researchers can't answer Critical industrial organizations continued to be hammered by ransomware skids in July, while experts suggest the perps are growing in confidence that law enforcement won't intervene....

Insiders get ready for Redmond's second run at AI snoopware Microsoft is testing its controversial Windows Recall technology again with a cautious release to Windows Insiders in the hope of nipping another security and privacy outcry in the bud....

Needless to say, it backfired in a big way University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) students may be relieved to hear that an emailed warning about a staff member infected with the Ebola virus was just a phishing exercise....

You awake to find yourself in a dark room... with an empty wallet Did you have a collection of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books? Microsoft offers something similar in the form of its subscription plan advisor, though it's tricky to avoid one particular priced outcome....

Nokia custodian makes efforts to help you fight fondleslab fixation HMD is the company that made the post-Microsoft Nokia Android devices. Now it's going by its own name - and offering greater repairability....

Shuffles financial metrics so Copilot Pro revenue ends up in a happier place Microsoft has changed the way it reports its financial results....

Echoes human rights groups' concerns that it could suppress free speech and more Networking giant Cisco has suggested the United Nations' first-ever convention against cyber crime is dangerously flawed and should be revised before being put to a formal vote....

That's one way to mark the end of an eight-year partnership Walmart has divested around $3.6 billion of stock in Chinese e-retailer JD.com, concluding eight years of partnership....

WPS Office took a long lunch on Wednesday, the day after its developer posted big profits China's top personal productivity suite, WPS Office, experienced a lengthy outage yesterday - during working hours....

2030 vision also calls for its appliances and televisions to turn you into a subscription cash cow LG Electronics plans to expand its datacenter cooling business, to cash in on demand for AI....

Unless you're cool with an unauthorized criminal enjoying admin privileges to comb through your code A critical bug in GitHub Enterprise Server could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a user account with administrator privileges and then wreak havoc on an organization's code repositories....

Plus: Three-year-old ProxyLogon flaw added to CISA's exploited bugs list Microsoft says it's investigating issues with a patch intended to plug a two-year-old flaw in the GRUB open source boot loader that is crashing some dual-boot computers running both Windows and Linux. In that crash users are aptly told: "Something went seriously wrong."...

Tycoon's demise follows US acquittal after years of legal battles with HP Obit UK software tycoon Mike Lynch has been found dead two days after he went missing in a sailing tragedy off the coast of Sicily....

Italian divers reportedly recovered their bodies as search for missing continues The bodies of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter Hannah have reportedly been recovered from the wreck of the yacht Bayesian....

If you needed yet another reminder of what happens when security basics go awry Updated It's a good news day for organizations that don't leave their AWS environment files publicly exposed because infosec experts say those that do may be caught up in an extensive and sophisticated extortion campaign....

That annoying requirement to switch between home and work accounts has finally gone Microsoft has released a unified Teams app, doing away with the requirement to have one app for work or education and another for personal use....

Forget about your love life too, no dating apps until the war is over Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs is warning residents of under-siege regions to switch off home surveillance systems and dating apps to stop Ukraine from using them for intel-gathering purposes....

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google dominate the west, but the Middle Kingdom plays by its own rules The global cloud ecosystem shows a clear split, with China dominated by an almost completely different set of companies compared to the rest of the world - a divide as much due to political reasons as economic factors....

Securiti's Jack Berkowitz polled 20-plus CDOs, and half have hit pause Security and corporate governance concerns are weighing heavily on large enterprises as they try to work Microsoft Copilots into their organizations amid a complex web of existing tech products and access rights....

Onward to Venus! ESA's Juice spacecraft has had close-ups with the Moon and Earth and is on its way to Venus, having snapped images with its monitoring cameras and collected scientific data as it passed....

Construction surged 70% ... with 80% already snapped up The number of bit barns currently under construction has exploded in the wake of the AI boom, surging nearly 70 percent in North America's top markets over the past year to a record high of 3.87 gigawatts, according to a newly published CBRE report....

Documents from NHS England meeting reveal scope of politicos spending intent Exclusive The total planned budget for the English health service's controversial Palantir-based analytics system was set to reach 485 million over four years, according to figures seen by The Register....

Whack yakety-yak app chaps rapped for security crack Slack AI, an add-on assistive service available to users of Salesforce's team messaging service, is vulnerable to prompt injection, according to security firm PromptArmor....

Egress fees? Ticked. Spend discounts? Not yet. Software licensing? Might need to shape up, Microsoft Britain's competition watchdog is scheduled to announce a provisional decision in the coming weeks on its examination into whether the major cloud players engage in practices that may limit customer choice. Its ruling could have far-reaching implications for the cloud sector....

Hoped to dodge child support payments, now faces 81 months inside - and a bigger bill than ever A US man has been sentenced to 81 months in jail for faking his own death by hacking government systems and officially marking himself as deceased....

Chinese fast fashion slingers get their Spider-Man meme moment Shein, a well-known purveyor of desperately cheap goods, has raised lurid claims against its rival Temu in a lawsuit....

Giant solar farm in Australia will make 'leccy that flows under the ocean to Singapore Atlassian CEO Mike Atlassian Cannon-Brookes's plan to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore has been approved by the land down under's government....

Think tank warns US and friends they can't assume Beijing won't catch up China's chip design and fabrication capabilities lag significantly behind the US and its allies, according to a report from US think tank the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)....

Defense contractor gets hacked - what's the worst that could happen US semiconductor manufacturing firm Microchip Technology has revealed an "unauthorized party disrupted the Company's use of certain servers and some business operation."...

Still no love for 1000- or 2000-series In an apparent reversal, AMD has decided that its Ryzen 3000-series processors released in 2019 are actually worth patching against the recently disclosed SinkClose vulnerability....

Another day, another lawsuit over how AI lands training sets Anthropic was sued on Monday by three authors who claim the machine-learning lab unlawfully used their copyrighted work to train its Claude AI model....

AWS first, others to follow VictoriaMetrics has become the latest open source company to offer a hosted product, claiming around five times the savings for customers....

Let's hope the spacesuits hold up for extravehicular activity The Polaris Dawn mission to send humans to a 1,400 km orbit - higher than 1966's Gemini 11 - is set for launch in less than a week....

Microsoft-backed extension aims to address open source database's perceived weaknesses A Microsoft-backed open source project aims to help address PostgreSQL's weaknesses as an analytics database....

Notification omits a number of key details Popular flight-tracking app FlightAware has admitted that it was exposing a bunch of users' data for more than three years....

Taiwanese IT infrastructure provider claims platform ghosted it X is facing yet another legal case in the shape of a breach of contract claim from IT infrastructure provider Wiwynn over non-payment for $120 million in components it procured for the Elon Musk-owned biz....

Digital athletes enjoy positive effects in Japan study, but too much screentime sees diminishing returns A study of nearly 100,000 people in Japan has found that gaming may be good for the player's mental health, contrary to the prevailing narrative around the popular pastime....

Enterprise-level long-term stability, but a little friendlier Oreon Lime R2 blends AlmaLinux with a bunch of extra tools and repositories, plus some helpful tweaks for the GNOME desktop. It's sort of akin to an LTS version of Fedora 34....

First stage destroyed during hot fire in Scotland A hot-fire test of Rocket Factory Augsburg's RFA One ended in explosion at Scotland's SaxaVord spaceport....

Your country needs you... to quit it with all those sick days UK government believes its proposed "right to switch off" will bring crucial economic and productivity benefits to the country, while also improving the well-being of workers....

Removing security services not always the best way to tackle problematic content Interview Cloudflare wants harmonization of all the regulation and compliance frameworks springing up around the world, according to the networking service provider's deputy chief legal officer and global head of public policy, Alissa Starzak....

Europe's largest local authority canceled expected savings baked into financial plans The total cost of Birmingham City Council's Oracle implementation disaster is set to reach 216.5 million ($280.4 million) by April 2026, according to a new audit report....

Her legacy hinges on her successor - will they double down? Europe's top competition cop, Margrethe Vestager, will reportedly be stepping down later this year, a development certain to please the US tech firms she called to the carpet....

Political stirrer Roger Stone may have been a weak link after personal emails cracked US authorities have named Iran as the likely source of a recent attack on the campaign of the US Republican Party's presidential nominee, Donald Trump....

Minister issues denial - it's just an upgrade to the 'web-management system' Industry group Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT (P@SHA) last week accused the Pakistan government late last week of implementing a China-style internet firewall - a claim the nation's IT minister denied over the weekend....