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Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest Hypervisors are supposed to provide an inviolable isolation layer between virtual machines and hardware. But hypervisor heavyweight VMware by Broadcom yesterday revealed its hypervisors are not quite so inviolable as it might like....

Singaporean researchers note rising presence of ChatGPT creds in Infostealer malware logs Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims to have found some 225,000 stealer logs containing login details for the service last year....

The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms A group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would force Chinese internet concern ByteDance to divest TikTok - its most valuable property - or see it banned in the US....

With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense China's Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has promised to launch three new rockets this year alone, and may also start to send reusable boosters into space next year....

Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027 Samsung's SDI battery-making unit has announced it will start mass production of solid state batteries in 2027, and that the parts it pushes will have energy density of 900 watt-hours per liter (Wh/L), a figure lithium-ion batteries struggle to match....

Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Google has been accused of profiting from gift card scams....

Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly A now-former Google employee has been charged with stealing the ad giant's AI trade secrets while quietly working for two Chinese companies - after easily defeating whatever security controls Big G had in place....

Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets Shipments of consumer-grade GPUs are growing strongly, according to graphics-focused analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, but probably not due to the emergence of generative AI or the so-called AI PC....

What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network Updated If you can't get into LinkedIn at the moment, you're not alone: The social network is unavailable due to an unexplained outage....

Jump in overall cybercrime reports, $60M-plus reportedly lost to extortionists alone, Feds reckon Digital crimes potentially cost victims more than $12.5 billion last year, according to the FBI's latest Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual report....

AI tech loves picturing women in underwear, Windows giant won't do anything about it, watchdog told A machine-learning engineer at Microsoft, unhappy with what he claims is a lack of response to his serious safety concerns about Copilot's text-to-image tool, has gone public with his allegations....

It's geeks gone wild Many sysadmins no doubt will have wanted to fling a server from the top of a suitably tall building during moments of professional frustration, and now they can get the chance to chuck one competitively....

Time flies for The Flies NASA has wheeled out its latest set of astronaut graduates, dubbed "The Flies," and announced that it is accepting applications for the next batch of astro-wannabes....

Two flaws fixed, one knee bent to the EU, and a budding cybersecurity star feature in iOS 17.4 Apple's latest security patches address four vulnerabilities affecting iOS and iPadOS, including two zero-days that intel suggests attackers have already exploited....

As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it Gartner says governments remain wary of AI-enabled citizen-facing services, while cybersecurity experts at NordVPN have warned against getting too chatty with chatbots....

Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison's company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend A retired CIO has offered advice in dealing with Oracle audits: the vendor will try to work from its current licensing policies, yet users should stick to their contracts with the global tech giant....

Remember how Apple told you security was of paramount concern? It really seems like Apple is doing everything it can to make its new EU compliance rules for third-party iOS app stores a pain for any user or developer that wants to take advantage of them....

Roscosmos has had a few problems landing on the lunar surface recently Roscosmos and China are considering putting a nuclear reactor on the Moon, according to the Russian space agency's boss....

Be careful what you write in that message OpenAI has responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit over an alleged breach of contract, publishing a trove of emails that appear to show Musk was not only aware of the need to become a for-profit entity, but also wanted to merge OpenAI into Tesla and become CEO....

Lithography kitmaker has 'concerns' over ability to get the right staff amid reports of visa, immigration worries Updated The Dutch government is reportedly concerned that chipmaking equipment vendor ASML may move operations out of the country due to policy decisions that would restrict its ability to hire skilled staff....

Additional cuts announced, sparking fears of further layoffs Outsourcing giant Capita today reported a net loss of 106.6 million ($135.6 million) for calendar 2023, with the costly cyberattack by criminals making a hefty dent in its annual financials....

25% increase in seven months... But it depends how you count it Statcounter says Linux's share of the desktop moved up from three percent last July to four percent in February, which on the face of it is pretty good....

To detect seismic waves, silly Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in the US are proposing the deployment of a fiber-optic network on the Moon to probe our natural satellite's interior by detecting seismic waves....

Because your face surely deserves to be rendered in glistening 4K, right? Review Logitech has marched back into the webcam world with the MX Brio, an Ultra HD device sprinkled with copious AI. But is it worth $199.99?...

If you really need obsolete OSes, here's a modern(ish) browser Supermium is a browser based on the Google Chrome 121 codebase that works fine on Windows 7 and even, for the truly desperate, for Vista and XP....

Please don't scare away foreign investors - who do you think pays for this stuff? SEMI, an industry association representing 3,000 chip vendors, would really appreciate it if the European Union would back off plans to impose export controls on China, arguing that they should only be used as a "last resort" to protect national security....

Apple also unpeels its offerings before Europe makes its pips squeak On Tuesday, Google elaborated on its efforts to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) - a set of competition obligations that take effect on Thursday....

Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi A plan to integrate AI into industry was among the top goals China's government revealed in the annual Report On the Work of the Government delivered at its 14th National Party Congress on Tuesday....

We know this because those features just landed in iOS 17.4, along with lots of other goodies Apple has debuted version 17.4 of its iOS & iPadOS, and by doing so made them compliant with European law....

Follows the Broadcom playbook by ending standalone sales of some products Citrix has created a "Platform License" that it will offer by invitation only, and stopped selling some products outside bundles....

Government mighty displeased about a shared Active Directory that led to a big data leak Japan's government has ordered local tech giants LINE and NAVER to disentangle their tech stacks, after a data breach saw over 510,000 users' data exposed....

Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on Monday that the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) - its joint mission with NASA - has transitioned into nominal operations....

As the crooks behind the attack - probably ALPHV/BlackCat - fake their own demise The US government has stepped in to help hospitals and other healthcare providers affected by the Change Healthcare ransomware infection, offering more relaxed Medicare rules and urging advanced funding to providers....

Proposed regulation would bar building owners from forcing internet services on tenants One of the oddities of American apartment living is "bulk billing" - a practice that sees landlords determine which ISP serves the entire complex and requires residents to use that provider even if they would prefer a rival....

Perps argue that if you vote based on one fake pic you get what you deserve Admirers of Donald Trump are creating fake AI-generated images depicting the former US president interacting with Black people, in the hope the pictures are interpreted by voters as a sign of increasing support from a key voter group that would bolster his attempt to regain the White House....

Amazon Appstore tieup fizzles out, too Next year Microsoft will kill off the Windows Subsystem for Android, its framework for running Android applications from the Amazon Appstore on Windows 11 devices....

Insurance giant blames Infosys, LockBit claims credit Criminals have probably stolen nearly 30,000 Fidelity Investments Life Insurance customers' personal and financial information - including bank account and routing numbers, credit card numbers and security or access codes - after breaking into Infosys' IT systems in the fall....

Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage Amazon Web Services has joined Google in waiving egress fees for customers looking to ditch its platform for a rival cloud provider or on-prem datacenter....

US broadband customers prepare for the great disconnection The end is nigh for the US Affordable Connectivity Program, with April being the final full month of the program....

You get a 'sovereign' AI, and you get a 'sovereign' AI, everybody gets a 'sovereign' AI AMD is betting that it can get governments and other public bodies to sign off on investment in AI infrastructure by enlisting the former head of America's prestigious Oak Ridge National Laboratory research center....

Where better to expose confidential data than on a dating app? Yet another US military man is facing a potentially significant stretch in prison after allegedly sending secret national defense information (NDI) overseas....

If you're still on X you'd better disable this insecure-by-default calling feature Video and audio calling features for X Premium users added last year to Elon Musk's version of Twitter have been expanded to everyone on the platform, and we're warning Reg readers yet again to disable the feature - this time because it appears to expose user IP addresses....

Millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced Updated Those trying to log into Meta's Facebook, Instagram, and Threads for their social media fixes are facing panic this morning after being locked out of their accounts....

It's in the Beta Channel build for now... but oh my, you're not going to love this Copilot in Windows is set to get even more assertive after Microsoft added a function that makes the AI assistant's window pop up after a user's cursor hovers over the icon in the task bar....

Caught on camera: 'Our jobs are ended today, effective immediately' The moment 43 unionized YouTube Music subcontractors lost their jobs was dramatically caught on camera during an Austin City Hall meeting in Texas last week....

Investors unhappy after 2022 revenue guidance cut Snowflake is the subject of a would-be class action lawsuit alleging it made misleading statements and failed to disclose important data about sales practices and its commercial model between September 16, 2020, and March 2, 2022....

Left-wing extremist group claims responsibility, says goal is to 'bring Tesla to its knees' An alleged arson attack at a power substation outside Berlin has knocked Tesla's nearby gigafactory offline, and a left-wing activist group is claiming that disrupting Tesla was their entire intent....

Lawyers argue content used to train LLMs does not 'supplant the market' for news Microsoft is coming out swinging over claims by the New York Times that the Windows giant and OpenAI infringed copyright by using its articles to build ChatGPT and other models....

Exploits began within hours of the original disclosure, so patch now Updated Security shop Rapid7 is criticizing JetBrains for flouting its policy against silent patching regarding fixes for two fresh vulnerabilities in the TeamCity CI/CD server....

Don't hold your breath Brit tech industry association Techworks wants to see more support for the UK semiconductor sector in this week's budget to help the nation's chip companies better compete on the global stage....