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Suggest developers spend 'at least one-third of their R&D budget' on safety A group of 24 AI luminaries have published a paper and open letter calling for stronger regulation of, and safeguards for, the technology, before it harms society and individuals....

ETH Zurich boffins say they've devised a better CPU fuzzer to find flaws Video Boffins from ETH Zurich have devised a novel fuzzer for finding bugs in RISC-V chips and have used it to find more than three dozen....

At this point, just assume your kit is compromised Citrix has urged admins to "immediately" apply a fix for CVE-2023-4966, a critical information disclosure bug that affects NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, admitting it has been exploited....

Oh, and there's a new Snapdragon 8 Gen3 chip bristling with AI potential Qualcomm is claiming its latest PC processors are ready to go toe-to-toe with Intel, AMD, and Apple on performance and efficiency....

Cracks down on the so-called four-pronged process of luring the youth Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is facing another multi-state lawsuit, this time from 33 attorneys general who say the site knowingly - and by design - harms the mental wellbeing of children and teenagers....

Indefinite ban due to 'public safety' Updated California's Department of Motor Vehicles has rescinded GM-owned Cruise's right to roam the streets, citing public safety and accusing the biz of withholding information....

Holly Million faces scorn despite proven job record Holly Million is replacing Neil McGovern as the executive director of the GNOME Foundation, although her colorful CV is leading to shocked reactions from some in the community....

When a 1960s dream ran headlong into economic reality Today marks 20 years since the final commercial flight of the iconic supersonic airliner, Concorde....

Wannabe spy undone by system logs, among other lapses in judgement A former US National Security Agency techie has plead guilty to six counts of violating the Espionage Act after being caught handing classified information to FBI agents he thought were Russian spies....

Could be easier to get into, but check out that 7-year update commitment Not satisfied with ripping apart the Meta Quest 3, the iFixit team has turned its clamps and picks to Google's latest and greatest: the Pixel 8 Pro....

Says logins are safe, as high-profile customers complain they knew about the breach before Okta 1Password is confirming it was attacked by cyber criminals after Okta was breached for the second time in as many years, but says customers' login details are safe....

NATO, United Nations, US DoD, and French government among its customer base Element, one of the companies behind decentralized comms platform Matrix, says customers are asking it to insert a protective clause from the encryption-busting element of UK government's Online Safety Bill (OSB)....

4 astronauts in one 'cozy' space about the size of two minivans NASA is confirming that the Orion crew and service module for the Artemis II mission were successfully joined together....

Politicians fear sale will place critical infrastructure in hands of foreign company Troubled French IT giant Atos is facing more difficulties following calls for the company to be nationalized on security grounds, resulting in its share price plunging to the lowest level in two decades....

They do this in their free time Of all the things parents might suspect their little darlings of doing on game creation platform Roblox, replicating Ryanair flights likely isn't one....

If true, wages of sin aren't that good A former ASML employee accused of stealing trade secrets about advanced chipmaking equipment may now be employed by Huawei....

Robbins and the C suite bumper pay day on back of router and switch kingpin's 2023 double digit sales swing Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins' compensation swelled to $31.8 million in the company's fiscal 2023, after he steered the networking kingpin to hit performance and operational targets....

Details of civilians and Garda officers were included, as well as high-res scans of identity documents A third-party contractor running a database without password protection exposed more than 500,000 records related to vehicle seizures by the Irish National Police (An Garda Siochana, "Garda")....

The last version to support x86-32 is currently expected early in November Release Candidate 2 of FreeBSD 14 is out, and includes the newly released OpenZFS 2.2. So far, the OS is not looking radically different from version 13, but bigger changes are afoot....

Fiber to the Premises just a premise for many Very few households and businesses across Euope are getting Gigabit broadband speeds regardless of official claims, and the UK is trailing in key areas - especially FTTP coverage....

'It looks like even Sundar Pichai is confused about how this control works' A recently released video deposition in long-running lawsuit over Google tracking its users has claimed that even the CEO Sundar Pichai isn't clear on what's going on below him....

Countries signed on for India's stack might watch out China-based scammers are using a combination of fake loan apps and India's real-time mobile payment system, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), to separate victims from their cash, according to a report by threat intel firm CloudSEK....

Surprisingly little, but the KAMRUI GK3 Plus doesn't inspire confidence Desktop Tourism Confession time: I am fascinated by very cheap PCs. I once bought a Windows tablet for AU$50 ($32) and a couple of years ago bought a brand-new Chromebook listed at $AU99.99 ($63) just to see if it was worth even that modest sum....

Arrives at the same conclusion about the nexus of Android and search as pretty much everyone else Updated Japan's Fair Trade Commission has become the latest competition regulator to decide Google is worthy of an investigation for monopolistic practices....

AI use up 266% in five years but it's still used by less than a quarter of workers Artificial intelligence-related technologies show promise but are clustering in AI hubs across the world, a group of economists has reported....

AMD also said to be working on an Arm-based PC chip Intel's stock dipped slightly on Monday after a report that Nvidia was developing an Arm-based CPU for the PC market....

Initial fall in infected devices indicates evolution, not extinction, of attack code After a six-day wait, Cisco started rolling out a patch for a critical bug that miscreants had exploited to install implants in thousands of devices. Alas, it seems, the security results have been mixed since the attackers got wise....

Plan for Chrome echoes Apple iCloud Private Relay Google says it plans to prototype a technique to mask IP addresses via network proxies in future versions of its Chrome browser, a privacy protection similar to Apple's iCloud Private Relay service for its Safari browser....

Nothing more fattening than CHIPs: Up to ten locations get initial funding, more to come The Biden administration Monday announced 31 regional tech hubs across the US poised to spur development and manufacturing of key technologies....

Home of the Republic seemingly hit by Sony/NTT Docomo ransomware crew The US Capitol's election agency says a ransomware crew might have stolen its entire voter roll, which includes the personal information of all registered voters in the District of Columbia....

Has someone been shooting their mouth off a little too much? In financial filings, Tesla has admitted that it is under a serious investigation by the US Department of Justice over the efficacy of its self-driving code, among many other things....

A $100M match made in analytics heaven, parties claim Analytics biz Databricks is set to purchase Arcion Labs, developer of a cloud-native data replication platform, in a deal estimated to be worth upwards of $100 million....

Additive manufacturing might not be for everyone, but rocket makers seem to like it NASA has tested a 3D-printed rocket engine nozzle made of a weldable type of aluminum with the aim of adding more payload to deep space missions....

Data scientists to rejoice as spreadsheet's 'helpfulness' can be curbed The days of Microsoft Excel's "helpful" habit of automatically converting values might be at an end as the Windows giant has finally admitted that, yes - not everything is a date....

SF corporate nerve center will be 87% smaller than pre-pandemic as others mandate in-person work Dropbox is shuttering one-quarter of its office space at corporate HQ in San Francisco. To be more precise, it is paying $79 million to the landlord to amend the contract and forgo more than 165,000 square feet....

The industry owes him a debt of gratitude Obituary Martin Goetz, regarded by many as the "father of third-party software," has died at the age of 93....

Copilotization of all things continues... as helper offers incident reports to share with the boss and more Microsoft is opening up the early access program for its flagship cybersecurity AI product, which marks the inevitable folding in of Copilot into its infosec suite....

Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes Microsoft techies are trying to recover storage nodes for a "small" number of customers following a "power issue" on October 20 that triggered Azure service disruptions and ruined breakfast for those wanting to use hosted virtual machines or SQL DB....

Bigs up commercial space as ESA prepares for Axiom 3 British astronaut Tim Peake has teased a return to space during an interview in which he doffed his cap to Axiom Space and others in the commercial space sector....

Public Accounts Committee demands timetable for replacements, because things have run so smoothly so far... A gaggle of MPs are calling for government to put together a timetable for the replacement of millions upon millions of smart meters that will be defunct when 2G and 3G mobile networks are switched off....

Plus Meta gets physical, moves bots in the house... AI In Brief The head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission Gary Gensler has warned that the increasing use of AI systems will almost certainly crash financial markets at some point in the coming decade....

Paper describes work in massively parallel, interconnected system - with limits to data in on-chip memory IBM is back with an updated neuromorphic processor chip that it hopes will enable it to more efficiently scale up to powerful AI hardware systems, at least as far as inferencing goes....

In a world of incremental updates, Windows 12 won't be Windows 12 Opinion Ever wondered why no network exec has picked up on writers' pitches for Desperate Tech Bros? The reason is simple: the market is already saturated....

Whipping up a RAID repair nearly produced data doom Who, Me? Welcome once again to the wafer-thin buffer between the weekend and the workday that we call Who, Me? in which Reg readers share tales of tech tricks that didn't quite work out as hoped....

The upgrade might not go well, so prioritized the probe doing better science NASA patched its Voyager 2 spacecraft last week, to address a bug that last year saw its sibling generate corrupted telemetry data, but won't know if its fix worked - or overwrote critical code - until some time after October 28....

Virtzilla's final releases as an indepdent company might be biggish upgrades to its desktop hypervisors South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has conditionally approved Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, leaving China as the holdout ahead of the forecast October 30 closing day for the mammoth deal....

Boeing and SpaceX lose out. Ministry is betting 70 million people without internet access won't Indonesia has decided not to launch a hot backup satellite (HBS) to support its single broadband-beaming bird, and plans to spend the money on Earth-based digital inclusion efforts instead....

And gives itself five years to build silicon photonics cores India's government has endorsed two massive investments in semiconductors as it seeks to propel the nation into the top ranks of manufacturing and research....

ALSO: US may block clouds in China; Toyota reveals moon roover; Google expands Indian loan business; Xiaomi's new unifying OS; and more Asia In Brief On Sunday, Chinese state media reported that Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn's operations in the Chinese cities of Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces were facing tax audits....

ALSO: SolarWinds using plaintext passwords; North Korea attacks TeamCity; Critical vulns, and more Security in brief On Friday, Cisco released more details about the critical zero-day bug it disclosed on Monday, and said it hopes to have a fix available to customers beginning Sunday....