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With only enough cash on hand to keep the lights on until 2025, loss-making automaker may soon be next casualty of the EV revolution Amid continuing losses, Rivian is laying off 10 percent of its salaried employees and a limited number of hourly folks in an attempt to reduce its expenses....

New features aimed to stamp out problems of the past Law enforcement's disruption of the LockBit ransomware crew comes as the criminal group was working on bringing a brand-new variant to market, research reveals....

It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part Updated Intuitive Machines has tweaked today's Moon landing time to 2230 UTC following the successful insertion of its Odysseus lander into lunar orbit....

Lower operator energy costs or sell power back to grid for $$$ Nokia is tempting mobile network operators with a tool that it thinks will help them monetize the backup battery storage at their cell base station sites....

Researcher makes case for default limits after arriving via Python library A user left with a surprise bill for thousands of dollars after running queries on Google's BigQuery data warehouse has sparked a debate about how vendors should place limits on the use of their tools....

No, this isn't a pitch for a Godzilla sequel A Japanese Yakuza leader is being charged with trafficking nuclear materials by US prosecutors....

Unfettered access to non-public info would have violated FTC order Longtime Twitter staffers saved Elon Musk from himself, according to a letter from the US Federal Trade Commission chair....

If they did it, it gives new meaning to quality family time. Meanwhile, key LockBit leaders remain at large Today's edition of the week-long LockBit leaks reveals a father-son duo was apprehended in Ukraine as part of the series of takedown-related arrests this week....

Our right to exploit workers trumps your right to probe Amazon, currently locked in a legal battle with the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over the mega-souk's treatment of workers, is arguing the watchdog is unconstitutional. And it's not the only corporation testing that line of reasoning....

Maker of sometimes less than accurate AI chatbot reminds everyone not to believe everything you read on the net FDC OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has driven a lot of hype around generative AI, but as he reminded attendees at Intel's Foundry Direct Connect (FDC) event Wednesday, not everything you read on the internet is true....

Most reports center on AT&T, which has admitted trouble; T-Mobile, Verizon deny issues Updated Residents of the United States woke this morning to find widespread outages in cellular service, with AT&T bearing the brunt of a seemingly nationwide issue....

Threat to data means submarine infrastructures should get status of 'highest possible national significance' The European Commission has issued recommendations to up the security and resilience of submarine data cables, but says private finance should fund projects to expand capacity, assisted by governments where necessary....

Don't want to learn how Windows works? Copilot can help you with that Windows Insiders are set to receive more Copilot in Windows features, following an update for the Canary and Dev Channels to add extra functions for users unwilling to click through icons....

London Stock Exchange listed Bytes Technology Group 'working to clarify details' after Neil Murphy resigns Neil Murphy, the boss of Bytes Technology Group - one of Microsoft's largest cloud and software licensing resellers - has quit with immediate effect, at the same time admitting to making secret stock trades in the company....

As bankrupt local authority slashes services and hikes taxes, consultants enjoy 1k-a-day while system still can't offer auditable accounts Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, is considering ditching Oracle as its main ERP and HR software after a disastrous implementation has left it unable to file auditable accounts, with the budget rising from 20 million ($25 million) to 131 million ($166 million)....

Machine-learning boffins find open source neural nets can optimize their own queries Large language models have given rise to the dark art of prompt engineering - a process for composing system instructions that elicit better chatbot responses....

Fedora, though, won't - until at least the version after next Installation remains a pain point for many Linux distros, but everyone is working hard on it. Some of those efforts are bearing fruit... but not all of them....

Absence of an on-board pilot will lower costs and raise blood pressure, starting soon in Texas Boeing-backed autonomous aircraft startup Wisk expects to be operational by the end of the decade, at which time it will provide customers with air taxi at a price point comparable to an UberX ride, according to APAC VP Catherine MacGowan....

Your own personal chatbot awaits Google has released a family of "open" large language models named Gemma, that are compact enough to run on a personal computer....

Trove reveals RATs that can pop major OSes, campaigns against offshore and local targets A cache of stolen document posted to GitHub appears to reveal how a Chinese infosec vendor named I-Soon offers rent-a-hacker services for Beijing....

His Majesty's Royal Cypher adopted the Tudor Crown, so a new icon was needed Logowatch GOV.UK websites this week started implementing a major change: a new crown icon....

Separation of church and state? More like separation of Product and Foundry FDC Pat Gelsinger wants to make Intel the world's second largest chip manufacturer by 2030, and that means serving businesses the x86 giant has traditionally seen as competitors....

Jensen Huang defends colossal GPU purchases made by hyperscalers, claims they're 'fairly allocated' Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has claimed responsibility for hyperscalers' decisions to extend the operating life of their server fleets, and suggested they've done so because they can't improve performance by persisting with general-purpose computing and must instead adopt accelerated machines....

This technology is all the rage right now, still too risky for armed forces The US Department of Defense is reportedly working with startup Scale AI to test generative AI models for military use....

Oh hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea President Biden has empowered the US Coast Guard (USCG) to get a tighter grip on cybersecurity at American ports - including authorizing yet another incident reporting rule....

Easy to defend against stuff that may never actually work - oh there we go again, being all cynical like Apple says it's going to upgrade the cryptographic protocol used by iMessage to hopefully prevent the decryption of conversations by quantum computers, should those machines ever exist in a meaningful way....

Now that definitely would be an encounter at far point Riverside, Iowa, self-proclaimed hometown of Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk, has a erected a statue of their fictional hero, and Captain Kathryn Janeway has one in her future birthplace Bloomington, Indiana, as well....

Machine learning to smooth bumps in the update road Windows 11 users still clinging to the past are to be dragged into a bright, 23H2-shaped future by Microsoft, whether they want to or not....

Sent 5,000+ fake handsets to Apple for repair in hope of getting real ones back Two Chinese nationals are facing a maximum of 20 years in prison after being convicted of mailing thousands of fake iPhones to Apple for repair in the hope they'd be replaced with new handsets....

Urgent patching advised to protect attacks against setup wizards Infosec researchers say urgent patching of the latest remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in ConnectWise's ScreenConnect is required given its maximum severity score....

IF (orbit == wrong) THEN oops; A software error on the part of Firefly Aerospace doomed Lockheed Martin's Electronic Steerable Antenna (ESA) demonstrator to a shorter-than-expected orbital life following a botched Alpha launch....

More and more obvious what a key market ML is for the chip designer Chip designer Arm has unveiled two additional Neoverse Compute Subsystem blueprints in its portfolio, and is working with Samsung on its next high-performance Cortex-X core on the Korean chipmaker's 2nm production process....

Judge allows fraud case to continue after customer resubmits complaint A judge has allowed a fraud case against Oracle to continue after a customer resubmitted allegations that it was misled about the tasks Big Red's NetSuite software could perform....

Maria Martinez, chief operating officer, is out after role was 'eliminated' It isn't just the little people that switch and router Goliath Cisco is erasing from its ranks in the latest cost-cutting exercise - at least one person in the C-suite is getting the boot too....

Skips the 'intelligence' part of generative AI Sometimes generative AI systems can spout gibberish, as OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot users discovered last night....

Operation Cronos's 'partners' continue to trickle the criminal empire's secrets The latest revelation from law enforcement authorities in relation to this week's LockBit leaks is that the ransomware group had registered nearly 200 "affiliates" over the past two years....

And fails to clear up end-of-life debacle Microsoft has now admitted that its recent announcement about retiring a key plank of its Azure IoT platform was a mistake....

Old wives revise their official advice With smartphones these days moonlighting as in-flight entertainment when atop the porcelain throne, watery mishaps are bound to happen....

Hello room service? Can you call your provider? The Wi-Fi is down. Hello? BT has agreed to sell off its iconic BT Tower for 275 million ($346 million) to a company that intends to convert the central London landmark into a hotel....

UK demonstrates prowess at nuking the ocean A UK Ministry of Defence spokesperson said that a failed Trident missile test does not affect Britain's nuclear deterrent....

The future desktop of Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40 is nearly ready GNOME 46 has entered beta testing, and is expected to be released in just over a month....

A crash course on making Windows crash on demand Developers seeking a way of crashing Windows on demand for testing purposes have received a reminder from Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen: NotMyFault is your friend....

A better UNIX than UNIX isn't a UNIX at all FOSDEM 2024 To move forwards, you have to let go of the past. In the 1990s that meant incompatibility, but it no longer has to....

Hacking your way in is so 2022 - logging in is much easier Identity-related threats pose an increasing risk to those protecting networks because attackers - ranging from financially motivated crime gangs and nation-state backed crews - increasingly prefer to log in using stolen credentials instead of exploiting vulnerabilities or social engineering....

GDPR also slashed processing costs by over a quarter Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has led European firms to store and process less data, recent economic research suggests, because the privacy rules are making data more costly to manage....

Rivals aren't far behind and 5G numbers are huge, but growth is slowing Chinese mega-carrier China Unicom has claimed it's signed up the billionth subscriber for its "Big Connectivity" service, making it the second Middle Kingdom carrier to operate at that scale....

Exec in charge laments that in defence HPC down under, you can pay a veteran expert a mere web dev's salary Australia's Defence Science Technology Group will bring a supercomputer online in the second half of 2024, but when The Register asked for information on its specs the only response we received was "Next question."...

Complex overlapping bureaucracy sometimes lacks the funds and skills to do it right China's censorship regime remains pervasive and far reaching, but the bureaucratic apparatus implementing it is unevenly developed and is not always well funded, according to a report released on Tuesday....

Also urges customers to remove some of its software due to a critical vulnerability Scarcely a day passes without The Register's virtualization desk being approached by VMware's rivals seeking a chance to explain the merits of their products and cash in on assumed dissatisfaction with the licensing regime Broadcom has imposed. But last month, VMware quietly took a swipe at those rivals with an updated virtual machine conversion tool....

No time like the present, says central bank The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) advised on Monday that financial institutions need to stay agile enough to adopt post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD) technology, without significantly impacting systems as part of cyber security measures....