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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....

Kim Jong-un looks at industry's progress with green eyes, says South Korea's spy agency South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) has warned North Korea is attacking its shipbuilding sector....

Hopes to float IoT biz and keep infosec ops, then make a second pressing Blackberry has decided to split into two companies....

Software giant tells partners not to sell it but also happy to take your cash now Microsoft has quietly delayed the delivery of a security service it hoped to add to the E5 license of its flagship Microsoft 365 suite....

Nokia looks a more diplomatic choice at Digicel Digicel Pacific is possibly the world's only telco considered a strategic asset by nine countries. Which makes its decision this week to replace its Huawei networks with kit from Nokia a matter of considerable significance....

AI-made images invisibly watermarked - as academics warn that kind of measure is pointless Microsoft has integrated OpenAI's latest text-to-image model DALL-E 3 into its Bing Image Creator and Chat services, and will add an invisible watermark indicating the date and time an image was originally created and noting it as AI-generated....

Project Nessie named in the antitrust suit, alleging Bezos's bunch pulled in an extra billion-plus A redacted portion of the US Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon last week has come to light, and with it more details of a secret pricing algorithm known as "Project Nessie" - which the FTC argued has "no valid and cognizable justification" other than an attempt to stifle competition....

'Handful' of customers hit so far, public-facing instances at risk Atlassian today said miscreants have exploited a critical bug in on-premises instances of Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center to create and abuse admin accounts within the enterprise colab software....

What's up, Doc? Try elevated permissions Grab security updates for your Linux distributions: there's a security hole that can be fairly easily exploited by rogue users, intruders, and malicious software to gain root access and take over the box....

'No impact on missions,' military powerhouse insists NATO is "actively addressing" multiple IT security incidents after a hacktivist group claimed it once again breached some of the military alliance's websites, this time stealing what's claimed to be more than 3,000 files and 9GB of data....

Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro out, Chrome goliath ups support to seven years Google on Wednesday revealed its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro model Android phones, and promised to support them in sickness and in health for seven years....

Rules apply to cyber vigilantes and their home nations, but experts cast doubt over potential benefits New guidelines have been codified to govern the rules of engagement concerning hacktivists involved in ongoing cyber warfare....

The 5th Circuit's re-ruling adds CISA to a list of alleged first-amendment violators. Next stop: Supreme Court The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has modified a ruling from last month to add the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to a list of US government entities prohibited from working with social media outfits to curtail the spread of misinformation....

Big deal, Americans are used to drills :( Updated A short time from now America's Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, will kick off a nation-wide test of its emergency alert system (EAS), so don't be surprised if your cellphone or TV starts buzzing at 1420 ET (1120 PT)....

$526M Jupiter set to rule EU's tech orbit by 2024 The EU's supercomputing initiative, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), has awarded a procurement contract for Europe's first exascale system, with installation due to start in early 2024....

NASA will run out of RS-25s to drop into the ocean unless the production line restarts A test run of the engines powering NASA's Moon rocket is due to kick off this week, an essential milestone since the Space Shuttle cast-offs will need to be replaced - beginning with Artemis V....

We hope cloud storage service is ready for this web wingman Microsoft is to overhaul OneDrive in a move that will bring Copilot to the cloud storage service and herd users towards the tool's web interface....

Simulation milestone coincides with NASA's 65th birthday - will it manage the real thing before its centenary? NASA has celebrated its 65th birthday by marking 100 days of its first attempt to simulate a yearlong mission Mars mission....

Sovereignty = you'll run on Azure and you'll be told when our engineers access your resources Microsoft has taken another step to address regulatory worries regarding its cloud ecosystem with a public preview of the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty....

Flags up enterprise customer adoption 'hesitancy,' though, as data governance worries persist Dell is hoping to make hay while the Generative AI sun shines by cramming its portfolio with options for customizing enterprise AI models....

Profits and revenue increase for Motorola subsidiary challenging regulator price cap ruling British emergency services comms supplier Airwave has posted increased earnings and profits after it challenged authorities seeking to cap its prices....

One version's edgier than the other Whether you prefer your Cinnamon in Ubuntu or Debian flavor, the Mint developers have something new for you to try....

Bringing the language of multi-gigabyte web browsers to a $4 computer Although JavaScript is responsible for some bloated Electron apps, apparently you can still usefully run it in 264kB of RAM....

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has weighed in on the thorny issue of workplace monitoring with guidance to ensure employers stay on the right side of the law....

Poor security and segregation of duties also worry auditors Massive local authority Birmingham City Council went live with new Oracle Fusion ERP software in April last year, knowing the system was likely to fail....

Plus: Have you updated to the latest version of Bloated Fetal Sacs? Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has taken viewers deep into the source code for Windows Task Manager while debunking a distressing Icelandic sobriquet for Microsoft's flagship operating system....

LightningCan evades infosec tools in new and interesting ways The Lazarus Group, the cybercrime gang linked to the North Korean government, has been named as the perpetrator of an attack against a Spanish aerospace firm, using a dangerous new piece of malware....

Where are the bolts of light? Why are the low-frequency radio waves lightning makes going backwards? Contrary to a decades-old hypothesis, there may be very little lightning in the atmosphere of Venus - or even none at all - according to researchers analysis of data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe....

At least in the tropics, say Equinix and the National University of Singapore Proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are more efficient than other alternative generator technologies as a way to provide backup power to datacenters in certain climates, according to a recent study....

That's $1.3 billion - pocket change compared to CHIPS Acts elsewhere Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, has confirmed it will fund Micron Technology's planned memory plant in Hiroshima to the tune of 192 billion ($1.3 billion), labelling the sum an investment in the nation's semiconductor industry....

For now, chaebol will manufacture AI startup's 4nm Quasar AI chip startup Tenstorrent announced on Monday that it will use Samsung's foundry to manufacture its next generation of products, with both partners alluding to potential future RISC-V collaborations....

Putin Zuck out of business is one goal of this repeat effort to close off internet tunnels Russia intends to prohibit VPNs being offered in the nation's app stores starting in 2024....

Meta, the project's maintainer, shrugs A trio of now-patched security issues in TorchServe, an open-source tool for scaling PyTorch machine-learning models in production, could lead to server takeover and remote code execution (RCE), according to security researchers....

Victim in critical condition A woman in San Francisco is in critical condition after being first struck by a hit-and-run driver, and then falling in front of a driverless Cruise car, which ran her over and trapped her under its wheels....

After people's funds go up in smoke, ex-CEO seeks cash to foot legal bills The first of two US government prosecutions of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried commenced in New York on Monday, only a day after the cryptocurrency tycoon sued his own insurance company for failing to cover his legal costs....

x86 giant eyes outside cash injections, IPO for Programmable Systems Group within three years Sandra Rivera is off as executive veep of Intel's Datacenter and AI group, and will instead be CEO of the x86 giant's now-soon-to-be-spun-off FPGA business....

End of the road for those hoping to cut 3-year permit back down to 12 months The US Supreme Court has handed foreign students, the tech industry, and academic institutions, a final victory in their fight to keep a work authorization program for international STEM students alive by declining to hear an appeal over the case....

As Qualcomm warns of similar fixes coming for its chips Commercial spyware has exploited a security hole in Arm's Mali GPU drivers to compromise some people's devices, according to Google today....

Exploited open source maintainers get broader payment pleading options GitHub today said it has linked its open source software donation program Sponsors to the funding platform Patreon in an attempt to get unappreciated developers patronized for the work they do....

Compiles learning and code to pass - but not necessarily with flying colors ChatGPT was put to the test via a series of humdrum freshman C/C++ programming tasks and it passed - though not with honors....

You can't bling out the inevitable If you're still wearing an original Apple Watch, we have bad news: the Series 0 is being moved to Apple's "obsolete" category, meaning owners will no longer be able to get service of any kind for their eight-year-old wrist computers....

It looks like you spent hours tuning your settings - shall I reset them for you? Another day with a "y" in it, another Windows update issue. This time, it's AMD gamers complaining about Microsoft's legendary quality control....

Red dragon's semiconductor market share continues to grow The US is set to update its export restrictions on semiconductor tech to China, tightening loopholes on chipmaking tools as well as chips used in AI, according to reports. However, analysts still expect China to grow its share of the semiconductor market over the next several years....

Plan is to mix a dose of sustainability into bit barn foundations Microsoft is exploring ways of cutting carbon dioxide emissions from its datacenters, including using building materials that lower the overall embodied carbon in concrete....

FCC wants $150K after EchoStar-7 missed its orbital graveyard US television provider DISH is facing a $150,000 penalty from the US Federal Communications Commission after one of its satellites was dumped into the wrong orbit at the end of operational life....

Alleges it achieved dominance through nefarious means - but who would do such a thing? The sound of the world's smallest violin could be heard playing as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to the stand yesterday to testify in the US government's antitrust trial against Google....

spidermanpointingmeme.jpg The wisdom of Twitter's pivot to X under Elon Musk has been repeatedly questioned and now those chickens are coming home to roost with a lawsuit brought by Florida ad agency X Social Media....

Having seen how conventional computers changed the world, can you really afford to bet against it? Analysis The early 1940s saw the first vacuum tube computers put to work solving problems beyond the scope of their human counterparts. These massive machines were complex, specific, and generally unreliable....

With more constellations on the horizon, scientists call for better approval of launches A recently launched 5G satellite periodically becomes the brightest object in the night sky, alarming astronomers who reckon it sometimes becomes hundreds of times brighter than the current recommendations....