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Asian internet registry still has 5M 32-bit addresses from different sources - or practically infinite IPv6s The Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) on Monday announced it is close to delegating the last IPv4 addresses in its final /8 block, bringing the regional internet registry a step closer to IPv4 exhaustion....

Doctored video featured vile false slur, but it wasn't a deepfake ... so that's OK, then? Meta's Oversight Board is probing the social media giant's policies on deepfake content after Facebook decided against taking down a faked video that falsely labelled US President Joe Biden a pedophile....

640K, sorry, 1080p ought to be enough for anybody Intel filled out its Arc graphics portfolio Tuesday with a $179 card aimed at 1080p gamers on a shoestring budget....

The digital town square, but with more pay-to-play curbs On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, you can now opt to allow only paying verified accounts to reply to your tweets. Again, it's more fee speech than free speech for this Elon Musk-owned outfit....

Redmond willing to do its accounts in red ink to get you hooked Analysis Microsoft is reportedly losing up to $80 a month per user on its GitHub Copilot services....

Happy Halloween! Security bugs under attack squashed, more flaws fixed Patch Tuesday Microsoft on Tuesday issued more than 100 security updates to fix flaws in its products, including two bugs that are already under active attack, as well as addressing an HTTP/2 weakness that has also been exploited in the wild....

'It is wrong that our system was used to punish an innovator and to enrich a pretender' A California judge has quashed one of Sonos's legal victories against Google - and the $32.5 million royalty payout that came along with it - declaring Sonos's patents at the heart of the matter were the unenforceable work of a "pretender" attempting to "punish an innovator ... by delay and sleight of hand."...

It's PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant future Microsoft has stopped developing VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release....

And Caroline Ellison says she was told by Bankman-Fried to take $10B from customer accounts At the fraud trial of former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried, prosecutors presented the jury with Python code for the FTX backend that allowed flagged client accounts to spend money they didn't have on the cryptocurrency exchange....

Botnet storm drowned last record with 398 million requests per second A zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol was exploited to launch the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on record, according to Cloudflare....

But P-12's production timeline is fuzzy A Swedish technology company thinks it has a solution to the misery of urban commutes, at least for those in cities with good access to waterways: 30-seat, all-electric hydrofoil shuttles that can reach speeds of up to 30 knots, or just shy of 35mph (55kph)....

With 13 new payloads it's the biggest update to the botnet in months The infamous Mirai botnet was spotted by researchers who say it is spinning up again, this time with an "aggressively updated arsenal of exploits."...

Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case Google pays Apple between $18 billion to $20 billion a year to remain the dominant search engine in the iPhone, according to a financial analyst that thinks this deal, and others like it, are now at risk....

Efforts to deny China access will hurt the 'open' part of open standard, says collab body CEO The CEO of RISC-V International is warning US politicos that subjecting the open processor standard to export restrictions could result in the development of incompatible solutions and stifle innovation....

One-click exploit could potentially affect most major distros Researchers discovered a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in an inherent component of GNOME-based Linux distros, potentially impacting a huge number of users....

But only if you're ready to cozy up in Azure's abode Microsoft says it plans to keep on supporting Apache Cassandra 3.11 a year past its end-of-life date... just as long as you're running it as an Azure Managed Instance....

It's bad, folks. Pair of CVEs incoming on October 11 Start your patch engines - a new version of curl is due tomorrow that addresses a pair of flaws, one of which lead developer Daniel Stenberg describes as "probably the worst curl security flaw in a long time."...

Community fork delivers first code for more distro-neutral functionality The first version of Incus, the community project working on a fork of Canonical's so-called LXD "containervisor," is here....

Faulty backup radiator is bleeding coolant into the black The International Space Station just sprung another leak. And you can give yourself a pat on the back if your first guess at the source was the Russian Nauka module....

But why would a simulation create El Reg? Mmm... pizza Going by the fact that Elon Musk said there was only one in a billion chance that the world was not simulated, we might save ourselves a lot of time and assume that on this occasion, as on so many others, the 52-year-old rocket bro has made a beeline for the wrong end of the stick....

Working with Ampere and others in modular approach Telecoms giant Vodafone is backing more than one horse in the OpenRAN arena, confirming a collaboration with Arm on energy efficient silicon for 5G base stations and continuing to work with Intel on OpenRAN silicon....

When German vendor promised service until 2027, not everyone qualified Half of SAP clients relying on ECC - used by the majority of ERP customers - will fail to qualify for extended support beyond 2025, according to the German vendor's own figures....

Perpetual license case perpetually rumbles on Documents from Microsoft's 270 million ($331 million) legal spat with Brit reseller ValueLicensing have revealed squabbling behind the scenes over what can be disclosed and who should be in the circle of trust....

Articulating use cases? Erm, yes but customers are captivated Business interest in AI PCs is fizzing, at least according to IDC, even though the analyst admits use cases have yet to be fully articulated."...

Dwell times drop to hours rather than days for the first time The time taken by cyber attackers between gaining an initial foothold in a victim's environment and deploying ransomware has fallen to 24 hours, according to a study....

Ex-Red Hat CEO James M Whitehurst takes the big chair in the interim Unity has announced the immediate retirement of president, CEO, chair, and board member John Riccitiello....

G7 to meet after getting ideas from UN's Internet Governance Forum Leaders of the G7 are expected to establish international AI regulations by the end of the year, Japanese prime minister Fumia Kishida said on Monday....

Bitmain's 'Antminers' dominate the market - but customers aren't buying The world's largest source of hardware designed for the task of mining cryptocurrency, Beijing-based Bitmain, has reportedly furloughed staff after disappointing sales....

Awkward, seeing as the US and Vietnam just announced a refreshed relationship Amnesty International has accused the government of Vietnam of acquiring the notorious Predator spyware and using it for nefarious ends - including attempts to infect US and European lawmakers....

Investments protected, diplomatic rift averted ... even Beijing likes it The office of South Korea's president yesterday revealed that the US has allowed Samsung and SK hynix to continue their chipmaking operations in China indefinitely....

Sub-critical plutonium implosion to be snapped on nanosecond scale What to do when you want to perform physical tests of the plutonium in your nuclear weapons and you've pretty much told the world you won't set off any more nukes in these kinds of experiments?...

You're excited about Meta offering iOS apps via Facebook ads? Really? Opinion By March 6, 2024 Apple is expected to allow third-party app stores to distribute iOS apps, in Europe at least, because the company has been designated a "gatekeeper" under the European Digital Markets Act....

Also on board, cubesat that dodges space debris with plasma braking technology Arianespace delivered 12 satellites into low earth orbit via a Vega rocket launch from Spaceport in French Guiana on Sunday night....

Republican senators claim move will never survive judges' scrutiny The Biden administration's proposals to restore net neutrality rules for US internet services are facing opposition from Republican senators who claim it is a politicized move that would not survive judicial review....

Hey - gotta start somewhere The first two satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper constellation have finally left Earth, riding a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V to orbit....

FBI agent claims sergeant with top clearance offered access to DoD tech systems A former US Army Sergeant with Top Secret US military clearance created a Word document entitled "Important Information to Share with Chinese Government," according to an FBI agent's sworn declaration....

Staff get Zoom meeting to hear how they might be hit after phase of rapid hiring ends Qualtrics, which creates web software that allows users to create surveys and generate reports based on employees or customer sentiments, has axed 780 roles across the business....

Suit alleges female staff were forced to start as technical writers despite doing largely same work SpaceX is facing another employment lawsuit, this time by a female former worker who claims the company pays women and minority employees less than their white male counterparts, in violation of California's Equal Pay Act....

Groups range from known collectives to new outfits eager to raise their profile Hacktivism efforts have proliferated rapidly in the Middle East following the official announcement of a war between Palestine and Israel....

Should still work for the foreseeable future, but rely on it at your own risk Still using Python 3.7? Even Microsoft thinks it is time to move on after the Windows behemoth finally deprecated support for the language in the October 2023 release of its extension for Visual Studio Code....

All sites operational, no 'material' financial impact expected but stock markets still worried Volex, the British integrated maker of critical power and data transmission cables, confirmed this morning that intruders accessed data after breaking into its tech infrastructure....

Plus: 4channers are making troll memes with Bing AI, and more AI in brief Snap is in hot water with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over privacy risks in My AI, its chatbot aimed at teenagers....

Google and Amazon are both in antitrust trouble as the US gets tough Kettle Amazon and Google are under the fierce glare of the US Federal Trade Commission, which under the leadership of chair Lina Khan has pursued them over allegations of monopolistic practices....

Hackintoshing reaches a wider audience - owners of older Macs FOSS Fest As Apple distances itself from older kit, the OpenCore Legacy Patcher tool should win new fans....

All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please Opinion It had to happen. Amazon and Microsoft are under investigation for distorting the UK's public infrastructure cloud market following complaints to internet regulator Ofcom that have now been passed on to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)....

Tech remembers why those safeguards were there there to start with Who, Me? Come inside from the swimming pool, dear reader, and put away that sunscreen, for yet again it is Monday and time to return to the grind of the office and/or remote workspace. Thankfully The Register is here to cushion the blow, with another instalment of Who, Me? - the weekly column in which readers recall the times they would have been better off staying poolside....

'Investo-bot, make me rich' is his vision - powered by Arm chips, natch Anyone still hungry for outrageous rhetoric and outsized praise for AI should tune in to last week's keynote from SoftBank World, where the Japanese tech conglomerate's CEO Masayoshi Son declared the world is on the precipice of the singularity and compared those who eschew the power of AI to unempowered goldfish....

Beijing wants latency down, more sharing of compute capacity China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued a revised "Action Plan for the High-Quality Development of Computing Infrastructure" that emphasizes increased deployment of edge computing and the low-latency networks that make it possible....

X, YouTube, and Telegram told to make it happen, or feel the wrath of 'zero tolerance' regime India's Ministry for Electronics and IT has issued notices to X, YouTube and Telegram, warning them to remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from their platforms on the Indian internet....

PLUS: Sony admits to MoveITbreach; Blackbaud fined again, Qakbot's sorta back from the dead; and more Infosec in brief Bot defense software vendor Human Security last week detailed an attack that "sold off-brand mobile and Connected TV (CTV) devices on popular online retailers and resale sites ... preloaded with a known malware called Triada."...