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Tune in, hear or watch our vultures wrap up this fiasco, before it goes out of date Kettle By now you've probably all seen the drama at OpenAI unfolding: CEO Sam Altman being fired by the board, attempts to woo him back, and attempts by Microsoft to hire him and his staff, who have threatened to quit....

Case filed in Texas, where anti-SLAPP provisions don't apply in federal court Elon Musk has made good on threats to take legal action against Media Matters over its reports alleging high-profile ads are being served next to antisemitic posts, filing a suit yesterday in Texas....

Ready to launch not the same as licensed to launch SpaceX supremo Elon Musk expects the next Starship to be ready to launch in three to four weeks following the monster rocket's latest failure....

Other big names among the RHELatives catch up with Big Purple Hat ... but the future is unclear The main players among the RHEL rebuilders have caught up... but it's possibly too soon to tell if this market is going to survive Red Hat's moves....

Compromised AWS account led to fears that user info could have been exposed to cybercriminals Sumo Logic has confirmed that no customer data was compromised as a result of the potential security breach it discovered on November 3....

Final boss legal level cleared as SAMR says yes ... Broadcom's troubled acquisition of virtualization juggernaut VMware has cleared the final regulatory hurdle and will close as soon as tomorrow after China gave the transaction the green light....

Staff afraid to raise alarm when they see negligence, discrimination and more Three quarters of software engineers reporting wrongdoing in their workplace have faced some kind of retaliation, according to a study....

Uncle Sam rolls up sleeves to onshore work and protect supply chain The US has earmarked $3 billion in funding it hopes will drive US leadership in advanced packaging technologies, seen as a key part of the future semiconductor industry....

Any govt staffers who used relocation services over past 24 years could be at risk The government of Canada has confirmed its data was accessed after two of its third-party service providers were attacked....

Teething issues show up as operating system gets a taste of the future Microsoft has begun rolling out the Windows 10 incarnation of its Copilot tool to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel....

If you're doing AI but would rather not do InfiniBand, this NIC is for you Nvidia has given the world a "SuperNIC" - another device to improve network performance, just like the "SmartNIC," the "data processing unit" (DPU), and the "infrastructure processing unit" (IPU). But the GPU-maker insists its new device is more than just a superlative....

Geopolitics and operating systems are hard Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took to YouTube over the weekend to remind us of the time the Windows vendor accidentally sank Poland....

It's doomed to sink... but the how and why is interesting Analysis No sooner than Intel IA64 support is removed from the Linux kernel, complaining about it begins... but the discussions are fascinating....

Cabinet Office clearly over Capita's breach in March that saw pension data exposed to criminals Capita has scooped up a ten-year 239 million ($298 million) contract to oversee the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) on behalf of Britain's Cabinet Office, giving the under-fire tech services biz a needed boost....

Duo probed over alleged $2M embezzlement plot Ukraine has terminated its two top cybersecurity officials as the government probes embezzlement allegations against the two men....

It 'was losing a ton of money for the business,' CEO complains Computer science teachers around the globe have been left scrambling to find an alternative IDE for their students, after Replit announced it was shuttering its Teams for Education plan....

'Azure Boost' vastly speeds cloudy server IOPS and is coming to all new instance types Microsoft has announced a mysterious cloud hardware upgrade called "Azure Boost" that it claims will improve the performance of all future instance types in its big blue cloud....

What a coincidence! The South is just about to lauch one, too. And it probably won't be junk like the hermit kingdom's recent efforts North Korea has notified Japan that its third attempt to launch a satellite will take place between November 22 and December 1....

That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin The CEO of Australian telco Optus, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, has resigned after deciding it was in the best interests of her former employer....

A quick summary of the past three days of chaos. And Redmond has questions to answer Comment Microsoft is stuck in a hard place. It needs OpenAI co-founder and fired CEO Sam Altman back at the helm of the upstart, or working internally at the Azure giant....

Lab rats absorb widget after getting their dose Scientists say they've developed an implantable drug-delivery widget that harmlessly dissolves over time in the body, can be wirelessly charged, and has proven its efficacy in lab rats....

Ethics staff shifted to generative ML and infrastructure units Meta has disbanded its Responsible AI team and moved staff into other areas of Mark Zuckerberg's empire to focus on generative AI....

Real-life impact of buggy software laid bare - plus: Avast tries to profit from being caught up in attacks Quick show of hands: whose data hasn't been stolen in the mass exploitation of Progress Software's vulnerable MOVEit file transfer application? Anyone?...

All your national security are belong to us! Microsoft is pushing the AUKUS trio - Australia, the UK, and the US - to update cross-border info collaboration, and - of course - it has just the thing: the classified Azure Government Cloud....

Ad execs have reportedly urged CEO Yaccarino to step down in protest to save her reputation IBM may have led the latest advertising X-odus from Elon Musk's social media platform, but several other companies reportedly joined Big Blue over the weekend, amid calls for Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino to quit to save face....

Admits to taking phones used for 'code blue' emergencies offline and more An Atlanta tech company's former COO has pleaded guilty to a 2018 incident in which he deliberately launched online attacks on two hospitals, later citing the incidents in sales pitches....

OpenAI is nothing without its people, say staffers who signed letter The fast-moving OpenAI saga has taken a new turn with the news that more than 500 of the lab's employees have threatened to quit unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as its CEO....

Yet another attempt to create better balance for devs and users Sentry has brought yet another software license into the world - the Functional Source License - in an effort to balance user freedom and developer sustainability....

Plus: Amazon lays off hundreds of employees working on Alexa, and more AI In Brief Microsoft is updating the Bing AI chatbot service to prevent users generating fake film posters containing Disney's logo over fears of copyright infringement....

Just because it's super efficient at Linpack doesn't mean it'll be in everything SC23 Is it time for the Green500 to expand its scope to account for more diverse workloads? This was one of the questions attendees grappled with at SC23....

Pilotless plane said to be next generation of naval air power A large drone aircraft has been operated from one of Britain's aircraft carriers for the first time, indicating how the Royal Navy intends to expand its air power beyond the meager number of F-35 fighters it currently has at its disposal....

Software duo must respond with remedies - plus: closing deal in '23 likely a Figma of their imagination Updated The European Commission says Adobe's proposed $20 billion purchase of web-first design collaboration startup Figma will harm competition in the region unless the pair devise remedies to resolve this....

Crims post passport scans and internal forms up for 'auction' to prove it The Rhysida ransomware group says it's behind the highly disruptive October cyberattack on the British Library, leaking a snippet of stolen data in the process....

Worst season of Succession ever The story of Sam Altman and OpenAI took a twist this morning that even the most hallucinatory of chatbots would struggle to conjure: he and other OpenAI chums - including co-founder Greg Brockman - are off to Microsoft....

Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path Exclusive While Elementary OS commits to Wayland, the development team of the Budgie desktop is changing course and will work with the Xfce developers toward Budgie's Wayland future....

The other big Chinese distro, after Kylin, seems to be thriving Leading Chinese Linux vendor UnionTech says it's reached an impressive milestone: it says it has three million users of its desktop edition, Tongxin UOS. Yep, million....

Size matters, and what you do with it. But keep it safe Opinion Quick question number 1. Do you trust Google? The Movement for an Open Web (MOW) doesn't. It's taking Big G to the UK's Big C - the Competition and Markets Authority - over the forthcoming Chrome IP Protection feature....

'Support monkey' turned network isolation job into a banana skin Who, Me? To quote the ancient philosophers: "Monday Monday, dah dah dah, can't trust that day." And so it is, dear reader, that we find ourselves yet again betrayed by the beginning of the working week and its requiremnet to spend the next five days exchanging your labour for currency. Fear not, though, for we can rely on The Reg to soften the blow with a dose of Who, Me? in which readers share their own tales of the treachery of tech....

Test, progress, or mishap - take your pick SpaceX judged the second launch of its Starship a success after the craft's two launch stages separated and one made it into space, but neither finished their mission....

After string of self-driving crashes, Kyle Vogt plans to 'spend time with my family and explore some new ideas' The CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise has parked his career and strolled off into the sunset....

Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs The Xen Project has quietly debuted version 4.18 of its eponymous hypervisor - the year's only release of the virtualization tool....

ALSO: FCC cracks down on SIM-swap scams, old ZeroLogon targeted by new ransomware, and critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief It's that time of year again - NordPass has released its annual list of the most common passwords. And while it seems some of you took last year's chiding to heart, most of you arguably swapped bad for worse....

PLUS: Tata orders staff to move cities; Singapore okays stablecoins; Australia trials CoPilot; and more ASIA IN BRIEF India has revealed Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo as having signed up for its manufacturing incentive scheme designed to attract manufacturers of laptops, tablets, all-in-one PCs, servers and ultra-small form factor devices....

Interim CEO appointed as rumours swirl about comebacks, doing a startup, or even hardware with Jony Ive Updated The shocking and sudden removal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for not being "consistently candid in his communications" has spawned a set of theories as weird and colorful as ChatGPT at its worst....

Complaint alleges age discrimination harms certain retirees A former IBM enterprise salesperson has sued the mainframe titan claiming its recent healthcare benefit changes represents age discrimination....

Manifest V3 transition deemed 'far from terrible' and yet not great for content filters Special report Web advert blockers and other Chrome extensions will stop working by June 2024 unless they've been revamped to keep up with Google's changes to its ubiquitous browser....

Middle Kingdom can get its hands on hardware now - and still make better stuff later Kettle It's a transpacific Kettle episode....

We come in peace, or rather, pieces Last year, not one but two craters unexpectedly appeared on the Moon, leaving us all to wonder: what could have caused that?...

Chief gets upgraded to customer - LLMs may be coming for your job but the board came for his Updated OpenAI's board of directors just fired CEO Sam Altman for not being "consistently candid in his communications."...

Gatekeeper status under DMA? Don't you know who I am? The Court of Justice of the European Union on Friday confirmed it has now received four legal complaints - two from Apple plus one each from Meta and TikTok - against Europe's decision to treat the tech players and their apps as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act....