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Full extent of attacks unknown but telecoms thought to be especially exposed Vulnerabilities in F5's BIG-IP suite are already being exploited after proof of concept (PoC) code began circulating online....

No launch license until environmental investigation is complete SpaceX has inched a little closer to being granted a license for the next Starship launch after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it had completed the safety review of the company's Starship-Super Heavy license evaluation....

Neither Excel nor PowerPoint safe as baddies continue to find ways around protections Cybercriminals are once again abusing macro-enabled Excel add-in (XLL) files in malware attacks at a vastly increased rate, according to new research....

Tech leaders and politicos descend on Britland to thrash out regulation and governance UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today opened the global AI Safety Summit hosted in Britain, with guests including tech CEOs and heads of other nations set to discuss ways to keep the world safe amid AI development....

Chat chopped and Copilot preview still rolling out The next major Windows 11 update has lurched into the light, containing a few new enhancements as well as other features that have trickled out of Redmond over the last month or so....

Fresh strategies unveiled to balance military and commercial interests in space A lack of situational awareness capabilities is holding back Europe's ambitions in space, according to the chair of the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking Partnership (EU SST) - a group that is laboring to up the accuracy and quality of space tracking, particularly of orbiting debris....

RansomedVC owner takes to Telegram to flog criminal enterprise The short-lived RansomedVC ransomware operation is being shopped around by its owner, who is claiming to offer a 20 percent discount just a day after first listing it for sale....

Handle with care, but a native package is still a good sign Mozilla has published a native Debian package of Firefox - the pre-beta-test Nightly build, rather than the current released version....

All in the name of science, or just a political stunt? This week marks 25 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and became the oldest person to orbit the Earth....

Kaj Arno mulls cash crisis, de-listing threat, job cuts, and strategy rewrite at MySQL fork vendor Exclusive "We saw the dark clouds for a long, long while," MariaDB Foundation CEO Kaj Arno told The Register....

Pints, pork scratchings, and password-free Wi-Fi: The nearly perfect brew It may be a place of refuge for world-weary Brits, but the humble boozer is where they most fear Wi-Fi attacks....

In the lab, anyway As AI finds its way into some chip design workflows - resulting in neural networks helping design better processors for neural networks - Nvidia has shown off what can be done in that area with chatbots....

Watchdog reportedly well and truly out of love with App Store concessions and fee cuts Apple's amended App Store rules for dating apps in the Netherlands reportedly remain anticompetitive in the eyes of the Netherlands' Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM), raising the possibility that further changes will be required....

Chaebol reckons market is recovering and prices will rise. Analysts agree Samsung has posted another loss, but its semiconductor and memory business has shown signs of life, as inventories normalized and applications like AI drove demand for advanced products....

Nobody knows which state, but government never quite shrugged off claims it uses spyware Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors....

SAP and Oracle services provider Equine Global becomes part of Big Blue IBM has acquired Indonesian ERP consultancy Equine Global and signaled that the purchase represents a sign of its plans "to grow its footprint in the region."...

Proper function keys are the norm once more and the dream of a touchscreen Mac appears to be dead Comment Apple appears to have decided its controversial Touch Bar is no longer needed, as on Monday the last machine that included it - the 13-inch MacBook Pro - vanished from iGiant's site....

Screw it... no wait, unscrew it, cry boffins NASA's first-ever asteroid sample-collecting spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has had its mission extended - and will next visit Apophis, a near-Earth object expected to fly as close as 20,000 miles to our home planet in 2029....

'We're still in the final throes of getting every last member to sign' Top White House officials are working to secure an agreement between almost 50 countries to not pay ransom demands to cybercriminals as the international Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) summit gets underway in Washington DC Tuesday....

Cali jury decides 9-3 Muskmobile maker wasn't at fault when Model 3 veered into tree and exploded Tesla has prevailed in a crucial Autopilot death lawsuit in the US, with a jury today deciding the automaker's software wasn't at fault in a 2019 accident that killed a Model 3 owner and seriously injured two of passengers....

At least two extortion gangs abusing CVE-2023-4966, we're told Citrix Bleed, the critical information-disclosure bug that affects NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, is now under "mass exploitation," as thousands of Citrix NetScaler instances remain vulnerable, according to security teams....

Artists' lawyers vow to fight on A judge has dismissed copyright infringement claims against DeviantArt and Midjourney in the US - and has allowed a case against Stability AI to continue....

Big Apple unlikely to get a bite out of them at this rate, though For a period of two years between September 2019 and September 2021, two Americans and two Russians allegedly compromising the taxi dispatch system at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to sell cabbies a place at the front of the dispatch line....

Software house says it's had UK trademark since 2012 as Zuck & Co know full well Meta's Threads app is facing a trademark challenge from a software biz that says it owns the rights to the name in the UK, and has given Zuck's crew 30 days to change its branding in Blighty or face an injunction....

Everything's down, except Elon's engagement, and that's what really matters, right? The financial state of X, formerly Twitter, has remained cloudy since Elon Musk purchased it a little over a year ago, but internal documents are shedding some light on how much the company believes its worth....

US outfit scrambles to repair operations, restore processing of online orders Ace Hardware appears to have been the latest organization to succumb to a cyberattack, judging by its website and a message from CEO John Venhuizen....

10th arena that chip giant has quit in 2.5 years for $1.8B in annual savings Intel is shedding its silicon photonics transceiver module business as part of restructuring and cost-cutting measures, offloading it to manufacturing company Jabil....

Follows similar efforts from the SEC and DHS in recent months The US has approved mandatory data breach reporting requirements that impose a 30-day deadline for non-banking financial organizations to report incidents....

Funds intended to support carriers for more than 15 years The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized more than $18 billion to be paid to carriers to expand rural broadband....

Spitting in the cloud's eye Dell has teamed up with Facebook parent Meta to try to make it easier for customers to deploy the Llama 2 large language model (LLM) on premises rather than access it via the cloud....

Internet, phone lines, websites, and more went down on Saturday morning The British Library has confirmed to The Register that a "cyber incident" is the cause of a "major" multi-day IT outage....

The sky isn't the limit when it comes to greener fuel alternatives NASA is studying contrails to determine if more environmentally friendly aircraft fuels might reduce their formation....

'No question' it will solve more crimes, Tory MP claims A UK minister for policing has called for forces to double their use of algorithmic-assisted facial recognition in a bid to snare more criminals....

Clients have a little over a year to get their affairs in order Exclusive Unit4, the enterprise software provider popular with government and medium-sized businesses, has announced it will end support of its on-prem systems on December 31, 2024....

Lots to like under the covers, but what was on top made it truly unforgettable Microsoft is rarely shy when it comes to anniversaries. However, one milestone passed last week that the company is still perhaps trying to forget: 11 years since the launch of Windows 8....

Oh, you're not joking The UK government may be onto something with its strategy to support the domestic semiconductor industry. In a strange twist of fate, some experts are starting to say that its approach makes sense....

If you're in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing purposes so long as you live in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland....

Radio bouncing off multiple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache Researchers say they have developed a method to remotely track the movement of objects in a room using mirrors and radio waves, in the hope it could one day help monitor nuclear weapons stockpiles....

Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables Google has significantly advanced its efforts to have Android run on CPUs that use the RISC-V instruction set architecture....

Kaspersky also on the way out due to unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security' The government of Canada has decided that Tencent's WeChat app, and Kaspersky's security suite, are too risky to run on government-issued mobile devices....

All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit Australia's SBS will allow users of its video streaming services to opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting....

Risk of significant data loss' for on-prem customers Atlassian has told customers they must take immediate action" to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool....

50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested Vietnam will train 50,000 engineers to work in its semiconductor industry between now and 2030 ,as it seeks to embed itself further into the global chip supply chain....

MacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199 Apple has announced its M3 silicon, claimed they are the first CPUs for desktop computers built on a three-nanometre process, and packed them into its MacBook Pro and iMac products....

Developer labels action 'unfounded' after company and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer have been charged with fraud by America's financial watchdog, which alleges the software maker knew its security was in a poor state ahead of the SUNBURST supply chain attack....

Fix on the way but for those trapped in boot loop hell, data recovery isn't certain Google has confirmed that some people's Pixel devices have lost access to local storage or become trapped in reboot loops after applying the Android 14 software update....

Not old enough to legally buy a beer, old enough for a 30-month term A 20-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars for his role in a SIM-swapping ring that stole nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency from dozens of victims....

As Uncle Sam releases internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified on Monday at the US government's Google antitrust trial - and acknowledged that, yes, default settings are valuable....

ML players must alert Uncle Sam if they're training a foundation model, and more US President Joe Biden issued an executive order today putting in place some safeguards that may mitigate societal risks stemming from increasingly powerful AI technology....

At $1.89 an hour per GPU, you too can have ML compute for the low, low price of just $68M a year AI infrastructure provider Voltage Park revealed Sunday it has acquired 24,000 Nvidia H100 accelerators, which it plans to begin leasing to enterprises, startups and research institutions early next year....