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Half the machine, quadruple the anticipation for all-Intel super SC23 After years of delays, Argonne National Laboratory's all-Intel "Aurora" supercomputer has finally graced the Top500 ranking of the world's most powerful publicly known supercomputers - just not where many had hoped to see it....

Waiting buyers could face $50k fine for ignoring updated terms and conditions Thinking about buying a Cybertruck? Well, be sure you want it: Tesla is threatening to sue anyone who tries to sell theirs within the first year of purchase....

If you can afford it - pricing's not out yet SC23 HPE and Nvidia say they are giving customers the building blocks to produce a mini version of Bristol University's Isambard-AI supercomputer to train generative AI and deep learning projects....

Panopticon design gains new meaning for the all powerful cloud platform With advent of the pandemic-induced work from home new normal, you may have thought office envy was a thing of the past. But an Amazon staffer seems keen to get it going again, setting social media alight with her guided tour of a prime AWS location - a one-hundred-year-old prison....

Did you know there's an Asahi flavored Ubuntu? And Debian, too Ubuntu Summit A subthread of the Ubuntu Summit was Ubuntu on Arm and RISC-V kit: a fast-growing area of interest for many people....

Comes after US memory maker labeled security threat by China Micron is having more China-related problems after YMTC launched legal proceedings over allegations that the US memory maker is infringing on patents relating to 3D NAND technology....

Zyxel zero days and nation-state actors (maybe) had a hand in the sector's worst cybersecurity event on record Danish critical infrastructure faced the biggest online attack in the country's history in May, according to SektorCERT, Denmark's specialist organization for the cybersecurity of critical kit....

Plus: Amazon is reportedly training a two-trillion-parameter LLM, and more AI in brief Google's AI-powered Magic Editor will not work if you try to alter images of ID cards, receipts, human faces, or body parts....

Box shifter says it caught millions of miscreants with its own systems though Amazon Stores received the highest number of take-down demands under the European Union's Digital Services Act out of all 19 of the tech giants who've been singled out for special attention under the newly introduced laws....

Demos its Adaptive GPU Allocator as global shortage of geepies grinds on SC23 Fujitsu will demonstrate tech aimed at optimizing the use of GPUs and the switching of batch jobs in a HPC cluster at this week's SC23 high performance computing (HPC) conference in Colorado....

Former Air Force officer - also involved in first crewed rendezvous in space - dies aged 95 Obit Frank Borman, the NASA astronaut in charge of the first crewed expedition to the Moon, has died at the age of 95....

Genuinely new ideas are rare in IT - this superhero is ready to make a real difference Opinion Cybersecurity has many supremely annoying aspects. It soaks up talent, time, and money like the English men's football squad, and like that benighted institution, the results never seem to change....

Going back to a time before autocomplete Interview Tim Hockin has been working on Kubernetes since before it was announced. As the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) takes a sudden lurch into the world of artificial intelligence, Hockin spoke to The Register about trends, licensing, and his love of Vi....

Blockheaded cheats given four years to find new schemes Cryptocurrency has proven a disappointing alternative to fiat currency, a poor alternative to conventional securities, and a lousy store of value. But it has helped plenty of people to launder money and avoid taxes....

Shocking problem turned out to be a frame-up Who, Me? Welcome once again, dear reader, to the comforting embrace of Who, Me? in which Reg readers share their tales of times technology plans did not quite work out as hoped or - as in this case - the solution turned into the problem....

ALSO: most Mainers are MOVEit victims, NY radiology firm fined for not updating kit, and some critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief After spending almost a year cleaning up after various security snafus, the UK's Royal Mail has left an open redirect flaw on one of its sites, according to infosec types. We're told this vulnerability potentially exposes customers to malware infections and phishing attacks....

Musky launch outfit teases possible Friday fling for its colossal Starship Taiwan's contract manufacturer to the stars, Foxconn, has flown its first pair of satellites....

5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile Alibaba and JD.com have forged a new holiday tradition by discussing anything but the revenue generated by the nation's annual 11.11 "Singles' day" e-tail frenzy....

PLUS: Citrix quits China; Cambodia deports Japanese scammers; Chinese tech CEO disappears; and more Asia in brief Australia's National Cyber Security Coordinator has described an attack on logistics company DP World as a "nationally significant cyber incident."...

Also, the US DoJ says iMaker owes $25M for years of hiring discrimination Apple managed to escape a whopping 13 billion ($13.9 billion) tax bill in the European Union a few years ago, though now the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) is asking judges to take another look....

Marketers tell antitrust cops privacy proxy will make it harder to protect kids online, etc etc Exclusive Google's plan to prevent marketers from tracking Chrome users across different websites by anonymizing IP addresses is being challenged by, surprise surprise, a marketing advocacy group....

Tracking code and ad-block blocking breaks Euro computer law, privacy advocate claims Exclusive Facebook-owner Meta and Google's YouTube now face criminal complaints in Ireland for alleged unlawful surveillance of EU citizens via tracking scripts....

Hiring boom followed by firing bust? More tech jobs are on the chopping block this week, with Amazon, Google, Snap and Zillow all cutting staff....

Take this $34M, Lockheed Martin, and give us an uranium fission engine for electricity, heat, propulsion Lockheed Martin has been awarded $33.7 million by the US Air Force Research Laboratory to develop nuclear-powered electric propulsion systems for spacecraft....

Aerospace titan pores over data to see if dump is legit The LockBit crew is claiming to have leaked all of the data it stole from Boeing late last month, after the passenger jet giant apparently refused to pay the ransom demand....

Alexa, am I wasted? Wondering if that wee tipple was a bit too much? Someday soon your sloshed speech may spill your secrets to your resident digital assistant as easily as you stumble through a tongue-twister....

White hat bounty looks more like a beg bounty The founder of the Poloniex has offered to pay off thieves who drained an estimated $120 million of user funds from the cryptocurrency exchange in a raid on Friday....

Custom Hall-effect propulsion system makes sure satellites won't trip over space junk - like Starlink Amazon's custom thrusters are performing well on its prototype Project Kuiper satellites following a series of tests to check if the Hall-effect electric propulsion system works as expected on orbit....

Tech was proven, but nobody wanted to put it in their Snapdragon devices Updated Moves toward enabling satellite connectivity for smartphones have taken a knock with the cancellation of an agreement between chipmaker Qualcomm and satellite operator Iridium....

Ransomed.vc shuts after 20% discount fails to entice bids Short-lived ransomware outfit Ransomed.vc claims to have shut down for good after a number of suspected arrests....

Apparently the move was in error In what would be delicious irony, Microsoft is reported to have temporarily pulled internal access to OpenAI's ChatGPT over security fears....

Scientists shocked to find Dinkinesh is orbited by two touching asteroids Dinkinesh, the first asteroid encountered by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is being orbited by a smaller binary pair, and is the first object of its kind to be found by astronomers....

But with technical and insurance industry question unanswered, a few potholes may lie ahead The UK government has promised to "clarify and update" the law to allow the introduction of self-driving vehicles to the country's roads, but it is set to be a long, technical journey....

At KubeCon, the need to bridge the skills gap was clearer than ever Opinion At KubeCon North America, I did a little exercise I've done before at major technology shows. I went around the booths in the exhibition hall and asked a very simple question: "Are you hiring?" The answer from two-person startups still building up from their personal credit cards to Fortune 500 companies was always the same: Yes....

Not in my backyard, says Buckinghamshire Council Plans to build a datacenter campus on a landfill site overlooking the M25 motorway near London have been rejected on grounds it would significantly alter the character and appearance of the area, despite recognition there is significant demand for datacenter capacity in the area....

Despite what you may have heard, it's not as proprietary as the trolls think Ubuntu Summit One of the most common bits of FUD about Ubuntu's Snap packaging format is that it's proprietary - but exploring the documentation shows that is wrong....

CitrixBleed patch has been available for around a month China's largest bank, ICBC, was hit by ransomware that resulted in disruption of financial services (FS) systems on Thursday Beijing time, according to a notice on its website....

Causing pain can be so much more effective than a rational explanation On Call Friday is here, and perhaps your temper is a little frayed. Which is why The Register always opens the last day of the working week with a fresh instalment of On Call, our reader-contributed tale of the excitement of incidents on the front lines of tech support....

Duo paid themselves $600K salaries as the cupboard was emptying The co-founders and co-CEOs of failed startup Bitwise appeared in a California court Thursday accused of cheating investors out of $100 million by making up bank statements and revenue figures....

At least two destructive attacks, but - crucially - after deadly conflict erupted Iran's role in the Israel-Hamas war has been largely "reactive and opportunistic," says Microsoft, in contrast to reports that Tehran's spies plotted cyberattacks against Israel to coincide with the October 7 Hamas terrorist atrocity....

Perp said to have secretly recorded patients - and digitally undressed them using web neural networks A child psychiatrist was jailed Wednesday for the production, possession, and transportation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including the use of web-based artificial intelligence software to create pornographic images of minors....

Plus: Lab launches dataset sharing initiative for its own benefit OpenAI's ChatGPT assistant and APIs weathered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack this week, according to the super-lab....

Billions of data-leaking processors sold despite warnings and patch just made them slower, punters complain Intel has been sued by a handful of PC buyers who claim the x86 goliath failed to act when informed five years ago about faulty chip instructions that allowed the recent Downfall vulnerability, and during that period sold billions of insecure chips....

Chips limbo-dance right under Biden's performance limits It's been less than a month since the Biden administration effectively barred the export of most American-designed AI accelerators to China, yet Nvidia has already found a way to weave around those rules and get high-ish-end silicon out to the Middle Kingdom....

Someone hit the zero key one too many times? Not that anyone's complaining Alien seekers at the SETI Institute have received an organizationally life-altering $200 million (164 million) bequest from late Qualcomm cofounder Franklin Antonio, the institute confirmed Wednesday....

State of Apple co-founder's health is unclear - it could be a stroke or vertigo Reports indicate that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been hospitalized in Mexico City following a speech at the World Business Forum....

Experiments include subjecting seeds to radiation and expanding flight envelope Rather than launch from a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V or SpaceX Falcon 9 as it has done in the past, the seventh takeoff of the US Space Force's reusable X-37B spaceplane will make use of a Falcon Heavy rocket....

IT software slinger publishes fierce response to lawsuit brought last month SolarWinds has come out guns blazing to defend itself following the US Securities and Exchange Commission's announcement that it will be suing both the IT software maker and its CISO over the 2020 SUNBURST cyberattack....

Just because they store messages in a way owners can't access doesn't mean it's a privacy violation, US court rules In response to five class-action lawsuits, a Washington appeals court has decided that Honda and several other automakers did nothing wrong by storing text messages and call records from connected smartphones....

'Rare conditions' the culprit for an arc that shorted out the power supply A Rocket Lab update on what caused the failure of its "We Will Never Desert You" mission identifies an electrical arc under Paschen's Law as the most likely culprit....