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Russia-invaded software biz 'grateful for the support we have received' A judge has mostly thrown out a lawsuit brought by America's financial watchdog that accused SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer of misleading investors about its computer security practices and the backdooring of its Orion product....

Leaking skylights, collapsed roof, garbage-clogged pipes - did ChatGPT make this? Serial entrepreneur and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has made a bunch of lucrative moves in his time - but his $27 million mega-mansion certainly hasn't been one of them. His lawyers even called it a "lemon" in a recently filed lawsuit accusing the builder of negligence, fraud, and other failures....

Ariane 6 might have had some APU problems, but the well-Armed hardware on YPSat worked well A Raspberry Pi camera is orbiting the Earth, attached to ESA's YPSat, a week after both were supposed to have burned up upon re-entering the atmosphere with the upper stage of the Ariane 6....

Stick an independent probe in our software, you won't find any Putin.DLL backdoor Kaspersky has hit back after the US government banned its products - by proposing an independent verification that its software is above board and not backdoored by the Kremlin....

Tesla doesn't just have an US problem: It has one with EU, too Tesla isn't just floundering in the US - new registrations of Elon Musk's electric vehicles have dipped in the EU and UK this year, too....

Big Green's software remains tricky, but Fedora and AMD are finding ways to cope Nvidia says its forthcoming release 560 driver will be as open as releases 515 and 555 were - and will support more devices....

Major vendors' products scuppered by novel techniques Prolific Russian cybercrime syndicate FIN7 is using various pseudonyms to sell its custom security solution-disabling malware to different ransomware gangs....

Overseas expansion to continue, insists C.C. Wei The CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is predicting that supply won't balance out demand for advanced chips until 2025 or 2026....

Thank goodness for pen and paper. Re-implemented system might not arrive until March 2026, four years after initial roll-out Europe's largest local authority faces a $15.58 million (12 million) bill for manually auditing accounts which should have been supported by an Oracle ERP systems installed in April 2022....

Creeping costs, launch delays mean almost completed rover 1) will never see Moon, 2) will be stripped for parts The budget axe has swung, and NASA's VIPER rover will not be trundling around the lunar surface any time soon....

You're going to want to patch this one Cisco just dropped a patch for a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows attackers to change the password of any user, including admins....

Datacenter pollution is rising... but LLM workload not as big as you think Google's chief scientist claims that AI is being unfairly blamed for the rise in his company's carbon dioxide emissions, and says the tech giant's efforts to switch to entirely clean energy by 2030 remains on track....

Give it a try, if only in case you lose your webmail account Following the new ESR version of Firefox, upon which it is based, the latest Thunderbird is out too - with a fresh new look. ...

Complicated, costly, time-consuming - pick three Cyber security workers only review major updates to software applications only 54 percent of the time, according to a poll of tech managers....

More sanctions and weaker support for Taiwan are bad news ... except for Intel? The share price of several major semiconductor producers has taken a sharp dive, seemingly in response to a pair of political developments in the United States....

Oxford Semantic could help your fridge and smartphone pick up on your proclivities Samsung announced the acquisition of UK knowledge graph startup Oxford Semantic Technologies on Thursday, to boost its AI smarts and offer more personalized experiences and content on its devices....

A fresh mess for the Australian outfit that previously managed to pay winnings more than once Australia's Star Entertainment Group, operator of three casinos down under, has seen its slot machines and other electronic games go offline for at least three days after an upgrade went awry....

Nothing else can detect attackers with implants designed to foil physical security Sniffer dogs may soon become a useful means of improving physical security in datacenters, as increasing numbers of people are adopting implants like NFC chips that have the potential to enable novel attacks on access control tools....

Unconfirmed reports suggest 30 percent reduction in headcount Exabeam and LogRhythm - a pair of cyber security firms - finalized their merger on Wednesday, an occasion The Register understands was marked by swift job cuts and shareholder action to investigate the transaction....

Over here, look at me, Donald, I'm over here, don't you want to tweet again? Woke! Trans! Antifa! Immigration! Comment Elon Musk is threatening yet again to take his ball and go home, this time claiming he's going to move X and SpaceX from California to Texas because he's upset over a new state law designed to prevent teachers from being required to out LGBTQ students....

Recipients of six-digit investments aren't required to use Claude Anthropic is setting up a $100 million fund for AI startups with the help of venture capital firm Menlo Ventures....

So long, farewell, do svidaniya, goodbye Updated Embattled Russian infosec shop Kaspersky is giving US customers six months of security updates for free as a parting gift as Uncle Sam kicks the antivirus maker out of the American market....

Company keen to get back on the horse before the investigation is complete SpaceX wants to get back to launching Falcon 9 after one of the rockets experienced an upper stage malfunction last week, which forced it to ditch its satellites in a lower than planned orbit. It has requested a public safety determination from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to allow it to return to flight....

Don't worry, they look like they wouldn't hurt a fly Researchers have developed very lightweight solar-powered flying robots in a bid to overcome the limitations of small-scale drone flyers....

CHIPS ACT grant will help cover the Taiwanese semiconductor firm's $4B budget US government is granting GlobalWafers up to $400 million in CHIPS Act cash to help fund its 300mm wafer manufacturing facilities in Texas and Missouri....

Millions more spent without any improvement in recovery times Costs associated with ransomware attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations skyrocketed in the past year....

Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello Funding for free and open source software (FOSS) initiatives under the EU's Horizon program has mostly vanished from next year's proposal, claim advocates who are worried for the future of many ongoing projects....

Analysts: 'At the end of the day, the settlement is nothing' Analysis Microsoft's deal to settle an antitrust complaint taken to the European Commission by a group of cloud providers is good for Microsoft, but no so meaningful for enterprise customers, says a well respected analyst....

Market immediately responds as shares in Dutch maker of crucial photolithography tech dip Europe's tech darling ASML is forecasting increased sales following a mixed calendar Q2, but its share price is down amid talk of tighter restrictions on China exports being considered by the US government....

Birmingham, Europe's largest local authority, plans to reimplement software years after it replaced SAP Europe's largest local authority will not have a fully functioning cash system until April next year, three years after it went live on an Oracle ERP system intended to perform the task....

You escaped a big fat fine! Take the win and run, won't you? London's inner city district of Hackney says the UK's data protection watchdog has misunderstood and "exaggerated" details surrounding a ransomware attack on its systems in 2020....

Running with coordinate transformations and the pitfalls of asynchronous code Remember when the Windows Start Menu was a pure thing, unsullied by ads and decades of tinkering? Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has shared his role in bringing an iconic piece of Windows 95 into the world of Windows NT....

The nonprofit behind the desktop environment of the world's most profitable Linux company will be looking for money again The executive director of the GNOME Foundation has quit after less than a year in the role....

Got a G3 iMac? Want to run NT? Now you can! Ever wanted to run Windows NT on your vintage PowerPC Macintosh? No, me neither, but now it's possible thanks to some amazing FOSS work....

Ozzie definitely not Satoshi Nakamoto, faces 6M legal bill and possible perjury trial Australian Craig Wright has finally admitted he is not the inventor of Bitcoin after losing several cases in the High Court of England and Wales, whose judge has suggested he be investigated for perjury....

Asteroid Apophis will come within 32,000km of Earth in 2029, which makes it very much worth a visit The European Space Agency has begun work on a planetary defence mission that will intercept an asteroid predicted to come within 32,000km of Earth in 2029....

Will become exclusive route to market for joint projects Fujitsu has made a "significant investment" in Toronto-based Cohere Inc., a developer of large language models and associated tech, and will bring the five-year-old startup's wares to the world....

Rescued its partner in Indonesia as it dodged regulations Chinese short video platform TikTok is fast becoming an Asian e-commerce giant, according to analysis released by Singapore-based consultancy Momentum Works on Tuesday....

What next, nutrition labels on cartons? Probably Comment FYI: It's not just Reddit posts, books, articles, webpages, code, music, images, and so forth being used by multi-billion-dollar businesses for training neural networks. AI labs have been teaching models using subtitles scraped from at least tens of thousands of YouTube videos, much to the surprise of the footage creators....

India, Turkey, also being targeted by campaign that relies on corporate email compromise MuddyWater, an Iranian government-backed cyber espionage crew, has upgraded its malware with a custom backdoor, which it's used to target Israeli organizations....

Bernie Sanders puts e-souk titan on blast for workplace harm Risk of workplace injury is extremely high for Amazon warehouse workers during Prime Day and the holiday season, according to a US Senate committee report....

Domain name giant yanked into court after Entri Connect disconnect GoDaddy is facing an antitrust lawsuit over claims it unfairly and underhandedly blackballed a smaller outfit's DNS automation tool in favor of its own apparently inferior product....

Excel-lent, Smithers, have we fired accounting yet? Researchers at Microsoft have developed a framework designed to make it easier for large language models (LLMs) to analyze the content of spreadsheets and perform data management and analysis tasks, because why not?...

Extortionists left hanging after rivals crawled into the woodwork The Scattered Spider cybercrime group is now using RansomHub and Qilin ransomware variants in its attacks, illustrating a possible power shift among hacking groups....

Next year the 'worm' turns 50 - there's room for both at the US space agency Logowatch NASA is celebrating 65 years of its iconic "meatball" logo, despite spending the best part of 17 years trying to kill the poor thing....

Billed as a city in its own right, center built to advance megacorp's 5G, cloud, and AI tech Huawei's massive R&D complex in Shanghai is finally built - intended to give the US-sanction-hit Chinese tech giant a boost when it comes to competing with international rivals....

Meanwhile, software vendors are left paying the GenAI 'tax' as users yet to see value Gartner has nudged down its expected growth in worldwide IT spending for 2024 from 8 percent to 7.5 percent, with the total figure now expected to reach $5.26 trillion....

AI supremacy is a helluva drug, and Redmond's old habits die hard Updated UK antitrust regulators today announced the beginning of a merger inquiry into Microsoft's cash deal with startup Inflection AI, which included poaching employees....

The mission? To spend less time in patch purgatory Microsoft is making yet another attempt to combat update bloat with checkpoint cumulative updates coming to both Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025....

RansomHub allegedly strikes again as its star continues to rise in the cybercrime scene US drugstore chain Rite Aid has admitted that last month's "data security incident" compromised the data of 2.2 million individuals....