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Everything went fine, except the experimental re-ignition The European Space Agency's new launcher, the Ariane 6, completed its maiden flight on Tuesday....

Almost 800 million use the protocol, with more to come as Wi-Fi mandate arrives China's adoption of IPv6 - a goal the government in Beijing has prioritized - appears to have slowed....

450 Excelmax Technologies employees to get new badges Global professional services company Accenture on Monday announced the acquisition of India-based semiconductor design services provider Excelmax Technologies....

If someone can do a little MITM'ing and hash cracking, they can log in with no valid password needed Cybersecurity experts at universities and Big Tech have disclosed a vulnerability in a common client-server networking protocol that allows snoops to potentially bypass user authentication via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks....

Citrix, SAP also deserve your attention - because miscreants are already thinking about Exploit Wednesday Patch Tuesday Clear your Microsoft system administrator's diary: The bundle of fixes in Redmond's July Patch Tuesday is a doozy, with at least two bugs under active exploitation....

RT News snarks back after it's accused of building social nyet-work for Kremlin The FBI and cybersecurity agencies in Canada and the Netherlands say they have taken down an almost 1,000-strong Twitter bot farm set up by Russian state-run RT News that used generative AI to spread disinformation to Americans and others....

No doubt thanks to Vladi5555, KremLinda1776, RealAmericanPat22, etc etc Growth of X's userbase has reportedly flatlined since Elon Musk took over the thing formerly known as Twitter....

Minuteman replacement to hit $141B as officials promise good ol' 'restructure' The price tag for the Pentagon's next-generation nuclear-tipped Sentinel ICBMs has ballooned by 81 percent in less than four years, triggering a Congressionally-mandated justify-or-die review....

Access, deletion requests go ignored, and consumer profiles contradict themselves, complaint alleges Updated Microsoft's advertising subsidiary is the target of a complaint from EU privacy advocates accusing it of "highly intrusive data processing" as well as breaking several General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules....

How does sub-0.6 mW sound? Boffins in South Korea claim to have developed an energy-efficient system for low-power Internet of Things (IoT) applications that uses "backscattering" to harvest energy from a wireless signal for its communications....

Not unreasonably, nearly half worried it would give them the 'wrong answers' Customers would prefer companies to ignore AI when it comes to providing aftersales service, according to a report published today....

Printers were locked into HP+ cloud service, which is also getting the chop HP is discontinuing its e-series LaserJet printers due to customer complaints, along with the HP+ and the "Instant Ink" toner subscription services tied to the hardware....

Understanding the power needs of the UK begins with knowing when renewals are due Certificate Watch Demonstrating that Microsoft is not alone in its inability to keep track of certificates is UK power market biz Elexon....

Making cyberattack among the largest ever recorded in finance industry Evolve Bank & Trust says the data of more than 7.6 million customers was stolen during the LockBit break-in in late May, per a fresh filing with Maine's attorney general....

Because trusting your kid with 300 horsepower should come with a curfew If you owned a Tesla, would you let your kid drive it? The electric vehicle marque seems to think you might with the addition of "Parental Controls" in a July update....

After 28 years' service, Mark Simpson departs 'by mutual agreement' The UK's third-largest supermarket chain, Asda, has parted company with its digital transformation chief amid delays in separating IT systems from former owner Walmart, the US retail giant....

Expletives fly as admins deal with recommendation to move to Power Automate workflows Microsoft has thrown some enterprises into a spin after confirming that, with only a few months' notice, Office 365 connectors within Teams will be cut....

Fairly 'low budget', unsophisticated malware, say researchers, but it can collect the same data as Pegasus Interview When it comes to surveillance malware, sophisticated spyware with complex capabilities tends to hog the limelight - for example NSO Group's Pegasus, which is sold to established governments. But it's actually less polished kit that you've never heard of, like GuardZoo - developed and used by Houthi rebels in Yemen - that dominates the space....

Why go outside in the sunshine when you could play with tiny computers in a darkened room? Perhaps hoping to mark independence from x86 PCs, there's a new July 4th release of the official Raspberry Pi OS, although it remains coy of giving a version number....

Deputy leader to act after promise of more business-friendly planning process The UK's deputy prime minister is set to recall two planning decisions which have held up datacenter investment in the UK....

US orgs bear the brunt of attacks by probably-Russian crew A ransomware-as-a-service operation dubbed Eldorado" that encrypts files on both Linux and Windows machines has infected at least 16 organizations - primarily in the US - as of June....

Google's absence creates software distribution issues not even mighty Microsoft can handle Microsoft China will provide staff with Apple devices so they can log on to the software giant's systems....

Scum keep databases of the people they've already skimmed Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission has warned that scammers are targeting scam victims with fake offers to help them recover from scams....

'A generation will have to do penance' says Bhavish Aggarwal Indian tech entrepreneur Bhavish Aggarwal - founder of Ola Cabs, Ole Electric and AI unicorn Ola Krutrim - doubled down on support for 70-hour work weeks during an interview posted last Sunday....

Lax patching and vulnerable small biz kit make life easy for Beijing's secret-stealers Law enforcement agencies from eight nations, led by Australia, have issued an advisory that details the tradecraft used by China-aligned threat actor APT40 - aka Kryptonite Panda, GINGHAM TYPHOON, Leviathan and Bronze Mohawk - and found it prioritizes developing exploits for newly found vulnerabilities and can target them within hours....

Chinese slinger's kit still no match for Nvidia's sanction-evading cards Chinese GPU vendor Moore Threads says its datacenter-focused AI systems can now support clusters of up to 10,000 accelerators - a tenfold increase from tech it offered last year....

A few devs versus the powerful forces of Redmond - who did you think was going to win? Claims by developers that GitHub Copilot was unlawfully copying their code have largely been dismissed, leaving the engineers for now with just two allegations remaining in their lawsuit against the code warehouse....

Purists needn't worry - you can turn it off As text editors go, Microsoft's Notepad has never been big on creature comforts. But after more than 41 years, Redmond has finally seen fit to bestow its humblest of utilities with spell check and auto-correct....

Chat widget allegedly fed data to third party, which used it to train AI without telling customers Peloton is pedaling toward a court date after a California judge denied its bid to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the pandemic darling violated the US state's privacy laws - by allowing a third party to intercept and record chat records between Peloton reps and customers without their consent....

Arguments over buttons set to continue while European Commission looks on Apple performed an abrupt U-turn over the weekend to approve the Epic Games Store in the European Union....

CUDA, woulda, shoulda be first port of call for AI slingers, but does it respect its own dominance? The European Union's Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager reckons there is a "huge bottleneck" in the supply of Nvidia's GPUs - but her department has yet to make any decision on whether it needs to take regulatory action over this....

Power failure rather than lawyers to blame for Wayback Machine wandering off The Internet Archive took a tumble overnight after "environmental factors" downed the Wayback Machine, leaving archive.org wobbling in a way that might bring a smile to the faces of certain publishers wishing for its demise....

Injecting Copilot branding will not make TLS certificates auto-renew Another Microsoft certificate has expired, leaving SwiftKey users that are seeking support faced with an alarming certificate error....

And it'll be decades before things settle down again Former ASML boss Peter Wennink says the US-China "chip wars" are mainly ideological in nature, and is warning it will likely take decades for the dispute to play out....

Good riddance to another pesky tribe of miscreants Updated Researchers at Avast have provided decryptors to DoNex ransomware victims on the down-low since March after discovering a flaw in the crims' cryptography, the company confirmed today....

Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose Troubled Birmingham City Council, which was declared effectively bankrupt last year owing in part to a disastrous Oracle implementation, has awarded the tech giant 10 million ($12.8 million) for additional professional services....

Attorney for families of victims files objection Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud charges related to deadly 737 Max crashes, according to a Sunday night court filing from the US Department of Justice (DoJ)....

Apache Iceberg support makes it a good option for a transactional layer over data lakes, he tells The Register SingleStore, the database that promises analytics and transactions on a single system, took three attempts to get its technology working in the cloud, CEO Raj Verma admitted to The Register....

They're cranking 'em out like there's no tomorrow The European Commission is said to be sounding out chipmakers in the region about China's expanding production of commodity silicon, which has sparked concerns that it could flood the global market....

Microsoft: All your data are belong to us? World: That's so last century Opinion Microsoft's journey through intellectual property has been a multi-year saga that makes Game of Thrones look like a haiku....

That's not an outage ... that's an outage Who, Me? G'day readers, and welcome once again to The Register's reader-submitted column of cold comfort that we call Who, Me? where you find out that everyone - even clever clogs like you - makes mistakes....

Samsung warned users, but the PC industry's big players hardly mention the possibility of problems Buyers worried a Copilot+ PC based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X SoCs might not run software that matters to them are being directed to two community-run sites that crowdsource lists of incompatible code....

Vietnam now requires it for some purchases. It may be a fraud risk in Singapore. Or ML could be making it safe The use of selfies to verify identity online is an emerging trend in some parts of the world since the pandemic forced more business to go digital. Some banks - and even governments - have begun requiring live images over Zoom or similar in order to participate in the modern economy. The question must be asked, though: is it cyber smart?...

From 230 Exaflops to 300, with Tesla a part of the plan for energy storage, - and cars China has offered a glimpse at the processing power of its national compute capacity, and pointed to plans to grow it by 30 percent this year alone....

Also: F1 authority breached; Prudential victim count skyrockets; a new ransomware actor appears; and more security in brief It's been a week of bad cyber security revelations for OpenAI, after news emerged that the startup failed to report a 2023 breach of its systems to anybody outside the organization, and that its ChatGPT app for macOS was coded without any regard for user privacy....

Plus: Samsung strike; India likely upping chip subsidies; Asian nations link payment schemes Asia In Brief Mt Gox, the Japanese crypto exchange that dominated trading for a brief time in the early 2010s before collapsing amid the disappearance of nearly half a billion dollars worth of the digicash, likely as a result of its own shoddy software, has said it will start to repay some investors - in Bitcoin....

Save the headaches, ship your dependencies Hands on One of the biggest headaches associated with AI workloads is wrangling all of the drivers, runtimes, libraries, and other dependencies they need to run....

What's in the box! No seriously, what's in there that sets our wages Interview Algorithmic wage discrimination, as described in an academic paper last year by UC Irvine law professor Veena Dubal, involves "the use of granular data to produce unpredictable, variable, and personalized hourly pay."...

After button brouhaha, CEO rages Cupertino 'must be stopped' Apple has twice unfairly blocked Epic Games from opening its iOS app portal in the EU, the Fortnite maker claims, and thus is in violation of the continent's Digital Markets Act (DMA)....

Mozilla shows guts with its extensions - but that's the way the Cook, he crumbles Updated At least two VPNs are no longer available for Russian iPhone users, seemingly after the Kremlin's internet regulatory agency Roskomnadzor demanded Apple take them down....