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Brit chip house now looking to cloud and automotive to grow revenues Arm has shown better than expected revenue in its first earnings report since the company's public offering, but its shares fell on a weaker outlook for the quarter ahead....

Software and services set to save continent's tech growth into 2024, says Gartner IT spending in Europe is set to hit $1 trillion by the end of 2023, and will see growth of 9.3 percent into next year, well up on this year's figure of 5.5 percent, according to stats from Gartner....

Second novel zero-day exploited by Lace Tempest this year offers notable demonstration of skill, especially for a ransomware affiliate The cybercriminals behind the rampant MOVEit exploits from earlier this year are making use a zero-day vulnerability in on-prem instances of IT service and help desk software-slinger SysAid....

20th anniversary version of Linux distro brings lots of new goodies Fedora Linux is released when it's ready, so two decades plus one day after its debut, the latest version is here, with lots of new goodies....

Vendor promises ChatGPT and DALLE-esque products in the near future Upcoming versions of Samsung devices will come equipped with Generative AI features starting next year after the chaebol launched its own tool - Gauss - on Wednesday....

VP of the Open Ecosystem at chip biz talks trust in the era of AI Interview Intel veep Arun Gupta is taking a pragmatic approach to open source and how contributing companies can keep the lights on....

Good news for skilled workers with new owner aiming to 'safeguard positions' A US-based semiconductor biz is to buy the Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) facility in South Wales, following last year's decision by the UK government that it had to be sold under national security legislation....

Names of consultants on encryption bypass plan leaked anyway Europe's government watchdog has found that the European Commission's refusal to disclose which experts it consulted on the proposal to scan encrypted communication for child sexual abuse material amounted to maladministration....

Online attack coincided with major military action, Mandiant says Blackouts in Ukraine last year were not just caused by missile strikes on the nation but also by a seemingly coordinated cyberattack on one of its power plants. That's according to Mandiant's threat intel team, which said Russia's Sandworm crew was behind the two-pronged power-outage and data-wiping attack....

Don't worry, this half-baked Python script is for educational purposes onl-hahaha Infosec bods have detailed an underground cybersecurity tool dubbed Predator AI that not only can be used to compromise poorly secured cloud services and web apps, but has an optional chat-bot assistant that only kinda works....

Today it's Bollywood actors, tomorrow it could be lawmakers themselves India's Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) this week issued an advisory saying social media companies need to remove deepfakes from their platforms within 36 hours after they're reported....

Sir, this is a Wendy's AI hypesters may think their training datasets and models' output are, or ought to be protected, from copyright claims, but their neural networks could still fall foul of consumer protection laws, the FTC has has warned....

Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician's death at Korean food plant ROTM A man in his 40s was crushed to death by a robot at a produce-sorting facility in South Korea Tuesday after the machine apparently mistook him for a box of vegetables....

8,388,608KB ought to be enough for anybody, huh? Eight gigabytes has been the standard RAM load out on new MacBook Pros for the better part of a decade, and in 2023, Apple execs still believe it's enough for customers....

The world needs a timeout moment Violent AI-generated photos fictionalizing the ongoing deadly Israel-Hamas conflict are not only being sold via Adobe's stock image library, some news publishers are buying and using the pics in online articles as if they were real....

Also: Antitrust trial exhibits signals Incognito mode isn't truly private and 100M users may be underage In 2018, concerned about the public's perception of its privacy practices, Google leaders proposed a subscription-based private Search service, one that doesn't log queries and other data....

Self-driving car outfit also creates chief safety officer role. No wonder Cruise has pushed a handy update to its self-driving taxi fleet so that they will no longer drag pedestrians along the road after running them over....

Strategies differ, though both have gaps that could hurt efficacy Microsoft and Meta have very different initiatives to combat misinformation in 2024, slated to be a busy election year all over the globe, but whether they'll be effective is another issue....

Without strong governance, incoming tools will wreak havoc for CIOs Gartner has raised the specter of departments outside of tech running their own IT functions under the guise of low-code and digital democratization....

Building material supplier left without functional ERP can amend claim Oracle has won a temporary reprieve in its defense of a lawsuit alleging the company conducted a "widespread fraudulent scheme and unfair business practice" in sales of NetSuite software, with all claims dismissed against Big Red except for one....

Nice tech, but poke underneath and you'll find Kubernetes KubeCon Kubernetes is having its Linux moment, Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Priyanka Sharma told KubeCon in Chicago yesterday. Her proclamation was rapidly followed by every IT presenter's nightmare - a demo problem live on stage....

Meltdown apparently resolved, capacity issues still popping up, as Claude hits a resource wall Updated ChatGPT's hundreds of millions of users were left without their digital discussion companion this morning, as owner OpenAI reported a major outage across the platform and its APIs....

Dutch exports skyrocket thanks to Washington restrictions China is hurrying to buy as much chipmaking equipment as it can before further export restrictions shut off supply, boosting the country's imports from the Netherlands, home to photolithography maker ASML....

Ability to attract sponsorship a bonus as vehicle set to emerge from ashes, attempt to blast past 763mph Drivers keen on taking the world's fastest car for a spin - or rather, for a straight-line dash - are being sought amid emerging plans to revive the UK's Bloodhound Land Speed Record car....

Attackers secure admin rights after vendor said they could only steal data Atlassian reassessed the severity rating of the recent improper authorization vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server, raising the CVSS score from 9.1 to a maximum of 10....

Forrester predicts exodus from Virtzilla following Broadcom takeover Forrester reckons that up to 20 percent of VMware enterprise customers plan to escape its extensive virtualization stack in the coming year....

Secret tech will have to be shipped to the US for launch thanks to delays The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking to SpaceX for its next set of Galileo satellites....

It's the latest in a string of unusual wallet-draining attacks that began in April The Monero Project is admitting that one of its wallets was drained by an unknown source in September, losing the equivalent of around $437,000 at today's exchange rate....

This new entrant in the immutable space is not a replacement for ordinary Ubuntu Ubuntu Summit 2023 Next April a new LTS Ubuntu arrives, and alongside it will be a whole new immutable desktop edition....

Measures could help future probe mission, plus understanding of why boiling hot atmos so different to Earth's Venus is the most similar planet to the Earth in size and position, but its atmosphere is very different. To help shed light on why, a group of scientists have - for the first time - made direct observations of atomic oxygen on both the day and night sides of the second planet from the Sun....

French pharma firm Servier gets Neo4j to help find relationships in 'messy' data French pharma firm Servier says its hit rate for finding target small molecules is up by an order of magnitude after it shifted the supporting data science to a graph database from Neo4j....

EFF warns incoming rules may return web 'to the dark ages of 2011' Lawmakers in Europe are expected to adopt digital identity rules that civil society groups say will make the internet less secure and open up citizens to online surveillance....

Still, at least it isn't forcing everyone to wear smart casuals... Indian outsourcing titan Wipro is mandating a return to the office for three days a week and there will be repercussions for staff that fail to comply....

Communication minister advises businesses to keep receipts" Australia's second-largest telco, Singapore-owned Optus, experienced an outage beginning Wednesday around 4am Sydney and Melbourne time that left millions nationwide without phone or internet access - either mobile or terrestrial....

After a rocky start, here's looking at Euclid Pics The European Space Agency has released the first images snapped by Euclid, its latest telescope which has been designed to help build the largest 3D map of galaxies yet....

How about you pay us every time our likeness is used by algorithms to make studio execs richer? The union representing actors in the US film, TV, and radio industries has turned down the latest contract offer from studios in its battle to regulate the entertainment sector's use of AI....

Proposed Section 702 overhaul bill rolls in as expiration date looms The White House is already trying to sink a bipartisan law bill introduced on Tuesday that would rein in the Feds' powers to snoop on US persons without a warrant under the infamous FISA Section 702....

Not actually our problem, says Chocolate Factory, but watchdog decides otherwise - again Google contractors upset that some of their teammates were allegedly unlawfully terminated in retaliation for trying to unionize at the web giant have now joined the Alphabet Workers Union - after a 26-2 vote overseen by the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)....

Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster Demand for Microsoft's AI services is apparently so great - or Redmond's resources so tight - that the software giant plans to offload some of the machine-learning models used by Bing Search to Oracle's GPU supercluster as part of a multi-year agreement announced Tuesday....

House reps hope to jumpstart qubit race with R&D The US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is concerned the United States could fall behind Russia and China if something isn't done to accelerate development of quantum computing systems....

Bugatti ain't got nothing on this V2 RISC-V server chip designer Ventana Micro Systems has pushed out its second generation Veyron processor, squeezing in more cores and the ability for customers to add custom accelerator bits to a bespoke system-on-chip (SoC) blueprint....

Coworking gambit divided office space - and got conquered WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, filed for bankruptcy on Monday, even as its recently appointed CEO David Tolley reassured tenants the business is "here to stay."...

Wants 'tens of metric tons of O2 production per year' on the cheap NASA has opened the brainstorming-bay doors to anyone with ideas on how to extract oxygen from Moon rocks - a key element of the space agency's work to "develop infrastructure technologies to enable a sustained presence on the lunar surface."...

Plus: Parent GM taps brakes on AI van production Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt confirms reports that his AI robo-car maker's now-paused driverless taxis need regular human intervention to help them make sense of the road, yet he is downplaying the severity....

HPE and Lidl co-owners among consortium funding 'sovereign' Generative AI company There's money to be made in AI, and HPE's venture capital arm, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, has joined a consortium investing more than half a billion US dollars in German Generative AI company, Aleph Alpha....

'Secure enclave' reports point to separate production line with blocked off access Intel looks set to be a key beneficiary of CHIPS Act funding earmarked for specifically supplying the US military....

Admins have 90 days to opt out before MFA is deployed automatically Microsoft is introducing three Conditional Access policies for sysadmins as it continues to promote the implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA) in organizations....

Trundlebot has trundled 32km across 'punishingly cold environment bathed in dust and radiation' NASA's Curiosity Rover has notched up 4,000 days on Mars as the trundlebot continues its fourth extended mission despite showing signs of wear and tear....

Campaigners say proposals to reform laws are 'dangerous' and an attack on safety The UK government has set in train plans to introduce legislation requiring tech companies to let it know when they plan to introduce new security technologies and could potentially force them to disable when required....

Recent industry support a game-changer, especially in the software sector Synopsys is joining the RISC-V gang, revealing a trio of processor designs it will add to its ARC portfolio, targeting a range of embedded applications....