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PLUS: South Korea to fine Apple, Google; Digital fraud booms in Hong Kong; Singtel slings TrustWave ASIA IN BRIEF Three members of the US Congress have expressed concerns that the nation's export controls regime are ineffective because they allow free sharing of open source technology with China....

Please, no crypto boom, thank you Colocation outfit Standard Power hopes to power two new datacenters in Ohio and Pennsylvania entirely by miniaturized nuclear reactors from NuScale....

Internet considered harmful Social media posts hyping products and investment opportunities that sound too good to be true ... probably are, the FTC would like you to know....

Music sets hearts beating in lockstep, researchers find Researchers in Germany have found that classical music audience members synchronize their heart rate and breathing during the performance....

21-year-old jailed for nine years after he was egged on by Replika bot A man jailed after attempting to kill the Queen of England had been encouraged by an AI chatbot, according to messages revealed in court....

Fly light-years to our planet and get the real Earth experience: Privacy invaded by doorbell cam Amazon is back with a cheeky way to normalize the privacy conundrum that are Ring doorbell cameras - a $1 million prize for anyone able snap "scientific evidence" of extraterrestrials using one of its porch cams....

About four minutes of quarterly profit, and it's settled Apple has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by salespeople who claimed the iPhone giant underpaid them for overtime work and failed to cover expenses when traveling on business....

No you don't need to see Mr Beast as much as that local utility needs to power hospitals Google has run a pilot to cut datacenter power consumption during periods of peak demand....

What do you mean they aren't optional for billionaires? The US Securities and Exchange Commission is taking Elon Musk back to court to compel his testimony in its ongoing investigation of the billionaire's purchase of Twitter stock and related SEC filings last year....

Calls for wider adoption of security-by-design principles continue to ring loudly from Uncle Sam The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are blaming unchanged default credentials as the prime security misconfiguration that leads to cyberattacks....

Monster rocket yet to trouble orbit, let alone the Red Planet Comment Elon Musk took part in an interview at the International Astronautical Congress this week and demonstrated a reality distortion field that would make even the most ardent Steve Jobs fanatic take a step back....

Last season's assistant shuffles off from the Canary build of Windows 11 Microsoft has hammered yet another stake through the heart of its doomed assistant, Cortana, with a Windows Insider release that removes the service once and for all....

Racecars and cyber insurance will balance its books in no time, though MGM Resorts has admitted that the cyberattack it suffered in September will likely cost the company at least $100 million....

Lets off more than 100 staff in US and UK, shutters offices in three countries AI chip startup Graphcore must raise new funds from investors within the next few months in order to offset mounting losses incurred over the prior financial year, and remain a "going concern."...

Ransomware spokesperson scoffs at IT reseller's offer of payment CDW, one of the largest resellers on the planet, will have its data leaked by LockBit after negotiations over the ransom fee broke down, a spokesperson for the cybercrime gang says....

Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn't making quite enough money... Internet of Stings Welcome to the Internet of Stings, an occasional series in which we report on connected devices that are abruptly bricked or rendered considerably more costly due to the actions of their vendors....

Regulation complements EU's Digital Markets Act to cover more services Google has committed to being a little less creepy with user data in response to proceedings from the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt)....

That is not dead which can eternal lie. Ia! Ia! IA16! Version 0.7.0 of ELKS OS, and 0.4.0 of its creator's next baby, Fuzix, are out - if you like your 'nix systems as tiny as can be....

The pending death of third-party cookies won't do much for other privacy intrusions Analysis Link decoration, the practice of appending data to the end of web links, has become more of a privacy problem that most people realize. The data exfiltration practice is now widely used to send info associated with web users - including email addresses - to ad tracking firms....

Big Red says it wants to give customers time to upgrade to 23c, which only exists in the cloud for now Oracle watchers are scratching their heads trying to figure out what seems like an uncharacteristic act of generosity from the enterprise tech behemoth....

Prof warns El Reg solar storms may cause cascading collisions that make some orbits unusable The European Space Agency has funded a mission to launch a fleet of satellites that will help scientists study space weather and how it can increase debris orbiting our home world....

Hello, hello, what have we here, then? A dead Dell, if I'm not mistaken. Whodunnit? On Call With Friday upon us once again, The Register finds itself glancing at weather forecasts as we prepare another instalment of On Call, the weekly tale of tech support in which we share readers' stories of being asked to fease the infeasible....

InRange will eliminate reliance on line of sight for the H3 launcher The UK Space Agency (UKSA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have teamed to build an in-orbit telemetry relay service named InRange to assist Japan's latest launch rocket, the H3....

Cloud and e-commerce giant mussels up, says allegations are waffle Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba's logistics hub at a Belgian airport poses a "possible espionage" concern, according to the European nation's state security service, the Veiligheid van de Staat (VSSE)....

Not even AI offers a lot of upside right now Juniper Networks will let go of 440 staff, as part of a restructuring plan....

Another route to the year of Linux on the desktop. Or the edge Lenovo has entered the Android PC business....

More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info Singapore-based infosec outfit Group-IB on Thursday released details of a new Android trojan that exploits the operating system's accessibility features to steal info that enables theft of personal information....

64-qubit system paired with 40-qubit simulator to get some sort of accuracy Development of Japan's first superconducting quantum computer is complete, Fujitsu and the country's scientific research institute RIKEN announced this week....

Actors would get sued for violating their IP, why is the opposite not true? TV and film studios should obtain explicit consent from, give credit to, and compensate actors fairly for using their likeness to train generative AI systems, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union argued this week to the US federal government....

Dating app kept sensitive info even after peeps deleted accounts, complaint claims Grindr isn't doing a very good job protecting its users' private information, including their NSFW photos, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which wants the FTC to investigate potentially unlawful practices by the LGBTQ+ dating app....

Bezos rocket biz not involved this time - now that's a blue origin It's been a long time coming, but Amazon is finally launching its first two Project Kuiper internet-relay satellites into orbit tomorrow, October 6, but don't expect Bezos' Starlink competitor to be ready for customers anytime soon....

Test chip promises crunching on par with 20-year-old chips while sipping power RISC-V's open source instruction set has attracted a lot of attention over the past few years and not just here on Earth - a team at ETH Zurich in Switzerland say they've developed a low power, fault-tolerant microcontroller for cubesats based on the architecture....

Hard-coded credentials strike again Cisco has issued a security advisory about a vulnerability in its Emergency Responder software that would allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to log in to an affected device using the root account....

And in other news, lenders complain Musk needs to go Elon Musk has made good on threats to strip links in Xitter posts of anything but a domain name and image....

Zero day? More like every day, amirite? Apple has demonstrated that it can more than hold its own among the tech giants, at least in terms of finding itself on the wrong end of zero-day vulnerabilities....

Can Booz Allen Hamilton get systems engineered with $630M and 7 years? The US Space Force is doing something about its underdeveloped ability to detect threats with the award of a $630 million contract to Booz Allen Hamilton to help get its tech in order....

Plus: EU is looking its own strategic export controls - and not just to China Taiwan is said to be investigating whether local companies have been helping Huawei to set up chip factories in China, despite US restrictions. Meanwhile, the EU is looking at further export controls on technology to authoritarian regimes, which is likely to include China....

HP and Lenovo developing machines with LLMs - maybe it'll be in the price? Canalys EMEA Forum 2023 Execs at the biggest PC makers seem to be salivating at the prospect of AI computers inflating their margins - even if they are unable or unwilling to define the emerging category....

It's a great advert for Ubuntu anyway Windows 10 may be just over a year away from the ax, but its successor, Windows 11, appears to be as unpopular as ever....

US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty Exclusive A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard....

And the repair parts will be repairable too. Batteries, SSDs and more will no longer be sealed into casing Canalys EMEA Forum 2023 Lenovo is forecasting that the vast majority of its devices will be repairable by 2025 - as will the repair parts themselves - but it is not intending to specify where customers should have their kit fixed....

Rising number of RaaS baddies drive global attack numbers up 200% Microsoft research says that 80-90 percent of ransomware attacks over the past year originated from unmanaged devices....

Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs Watch out, Amazon and Microsoft -the UK's competition watchdog this morning confirmed it will investigate the big cloud infrastructure services players....

Study reveals a billion spent to store paper records for 5 years as deadlines come and go It is five years since the UK's National Health Service (NHS) - one of the largest health providers in the world - missed its planned deadline to go paperless....

iPadOS-like distro reaches 7.1 and talks to you on installation The latest release of Elementary OS, version 7.1, is out, based on Ubuntu 22.04.3. We took it for a quick spin....

Data leakers become data leakees The Lorenz ransomware group leaked the details of every person who contacted it via its online contact form over the course of the last two years....

Exiting fab biz was 'turning point' for House of Zen, claims Darren Grasby Canalys EMEA Forum Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger might be giving himself a "passing grade" in his turnaround efforts since moving into the top office at the chipmaker, but an exec at arch-rival AMD isn't being nearly so generous....

Company behind popular in-process OLAP system feels weight of success DuckDB Labs is updating the support policy and flexible commercial support options for its in-process analytical database....

Dirty deed, done in deep space NASA is running late in its efforts to share 4.5-billion-year-old dust samples with researchers, blaming the delay on its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returning more material than expected....

Maybe this being-ethical-with-creators-and-not-just-ripping-off-their-stuff thing is gathering steam Australian SaaSy graphic design outfit Canva has promised to pay $200 million to creators who agree to have their work shoved into the maw of its newly minted AI....