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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....

Has America been taking it too easy on local companies so far? Analysis Intel's investment arm might be forced to divest interests in China due to incoming US regulations governing American funds going to Chinese tech companies. The chipmaker is one of the biggest such investors, despite receiving billions from Washington to boost semiconductor production efforts at home....

Several models roasted for perceived flaws at this point, so maybe double-checking form's not a bad idea Tesla's Robotaxi reveal event is being postponed after company boss Elon Musk decided the front of the vehicle needs a tweak....

Move follows Instagram and Facebook owner's decision to reverse direction in EU after protests A UK data rights campaign group has launched a complaint with the data law regulator against Meta's change of privacy policy which allows it to scrape user data to develop AI models....

Oracle's priorities may lie elsewhere but it is unfair to say all innovation can go in community edition, reckons analyst The latest release of MySQL has underwhelmed some commentators who fear Oracle - the custodian of the open source database - may have other priorities....

Jon Kern is looking for Agile exemplars, not the 'Agile Industrial Complex' Interview The Agile Manifesto was published almost a quarter of a century ago. Yet as the years have rolled by, its lofty ideals have run headlong into the brick wall of management desire for process and reporting....

18 months late, overbudget... report finds council's SAP ERP rip 'n' replace with Unit4 had hidden complexity A UK public authority responsible for about 1.1 billion ($1.43 billion) in annual spending damaged its ERP project - which saw SAP ditched in favor of Unit4 - by underestimating its complexity and kicking off with an "unrealistic timeline of 15 months," according to a public report....

There's a lot of territory to cover here Qualcomm has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in India against Chinese smartphone-maker Transsion....

Stop us if you think you've heard this one before: Legal supergroup demands billions from Verizon Big Music has launched a fresh lawsuit aimed at forcing ISPs to take action against users who trade in stolen copyrighted content....

Two-year legal saga ends with Netherlands-based entity ready to bring diverse AI interests to the world Yandex has untangled its Dutch entity from its Russian operations in a $5.4 billion deal, the Saas and search provider announced on Monday - meaning it should be free to pursue customers outside of Vladimir Putin's domain....

Euro trade body tires of being a pawn in the war of the tech giants From the department of "the lady doth protest too much, methinks" comes news that Microsoft wasn't the only tech giant willing to offer cash to a European cloud trade body. It seems Google was also keen to get a piece of the action....

Hasn't said how it did it, but has form cracking devices The FBI on Monday revealed it has gained access to a phone it says was used by Thomas Matthew Crooks - the man who shot at and wounded former US president Donald Trump on July 13 in an apparent failed assassination attempt....

Privacy preserved, with potential to lose the camera in your pocket or beyond Chinese consumer electronics outfit Honor has thought outside the clamshell by creating a laptop with a stowable magnetic camera....

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss The DarkGate malware family has become more prevalent in recent months, after one of its main competitors was taken down by the FBI....

After all we've done for you, America, sniffs antivirus lab Kaspersky has confirmed it will shutter its American operations and cut US-based jobs following President Biden's ban on the Russian business last month....

Cloud biz claims it's full speed ahead - and damn the torpedoes The FTC is taking a close look at IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp, according to a filing made to America's financial watchdog....

'Likelihood of success is even clearer,' thanks to those Supremes The Federal Communications Commission's attempt to reassert net neutrality rules has been put on hold by the US Sixth Circuit of Appeals pending further review....

Chinese corp gives iPhone a run for its yuan Global smartphone sales are continuing to rebound, partly thanks to a "buzz" around high-end devices supporting Gen AI, but mostly due to budget conscious consumers seeking out low-end devices....

Plus: Broader Rust abilities, better sandboxing, and more The latest Linux kernel is here, with relatively few new features but better support for several hardware platforms, including non-Intel kit....