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'Deepest apologies to the sub-postmasters and their families' Fujitsu's CFO is the latest in the the Japanese vendor's exec ranks to apologize for the megacorp's role in the Post Office Horizon scandal, widely viewed as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history....

Holding up the EV supply chain is not a great start to 2024 Huawei is experiencing production issues with a computing unit that powers advanced driver assistance systems in electric vehicles, known as the MDC 810, according to a recent report from Reuters....

When 'what's the value to the economy?' wasn't front of mind SPACE WEEK It will soon be half a century since NASA's Voyager probes were launched on a tour of the solar system. The reason for their unprecedented longevity is unprecedented, but modern realities mean that we might not see their like again....

Staff at Northern Ireland facility voted in ballot that forces drivemaker's hand, union says Seagate workers building external hard drives in Northern Ireland have voted for trade union recognition, meaning they now have collective bargaining rights and potentially a layer of employment protection....

Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid Smart clothing is a go-to item on the hype-cycle bandwagon, which never seems to arrive. Yet for anyone wanting to play Doom on their knitwear, a glimmer of hope was reported by scientists this week....

At least it's no longer an afterthought Systems Approach In 1996, Larry Peterson and I published the first edition of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach in the hope that it would become a widely adopted textbook in networking classes. Our draft manuscripts had been reviewed by a number of professors so we had a decent amount of feedback regarding the content and overall structure of the book....

Good start, but we want further reassurance, says Competition and Markets Authority Google so far has lived up to its commitments to make room in its Privacy Sandbox for rivals, though the UK's Competition and Markets Authority says a number of concerns still have to be addressed before the web giant's ambitious advertising technology gets its blessing....

Homebrew Elite X SoC due midyear to move from PCs to IoT and cars Qualcomm's attempt to grab a slab of the PC CPU market will commence in earnest in the middle of 2024, the mobile chip shop's president and CEO Cristiano Amon told investors on Wednesday....

Renames its bit barn business as Nxera' as it plans three new facilities, some built just for AI Telcoms giant Singtel announced Thursday a collaboration with Nvidia to deliver purpose-built AI infrastructure across Southeast Asia....

Reject recent rule-making with plan to adopt transparency and reporting rules used in financial markets to stop binary brainboxes burying humanity India's Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EACPM) has penned a document warning that current global AI regulations are likely to be ineffective, and recommended regulating the technology with alternative tactics - like those used in financial markets....

American public is way ahead of them Chinese attackers are preparing to "wreak havoc" on American infrastructure and "cause societal chaos" in the US, infosec, and law enforcement bosses told a US House committee on Wednesday....

It's an interesting way to get the attention of VMware users feeling bruised by Broadcom Disgruntled VMware users contemplating the open source cut of XenCenter as an alternative need to think again. In December the Cloud Software Group quietly canned the offering with an update to the project's README file....

You could say this was tailored for Swift US Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that would allow victims portrayed in non-consensual AI-generated pornographic deepfakes to sue the creators for damages....

Meta boss told in social media safety probe: 'Your product is killing people' Executives from the top social media companies faced contentious, sometimes contemptuous, questioning from the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in a hearing titled: Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis....

Chemists dispute research claiming millions of recipes for inorganic crystalline compounds Google DeepMind and UC Berkeley's research into a robot cooking up new materials predicted by AI algorithms is being called into question by a group of chemists....

Remotely disinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to block Chinese critters China's Volt Typhoon attackers used "hundreds" of outdated Cisco and NetGear routers infected with malware in an attempt to break into US critical infrastructure facilities, according to the Justice Department....

It's almost like years of false assurances have made people realize payments are pointless Trusting a ransomware crew to honor a deal isn't the greatest idea, and the world seems to be waking up to that. The number of victims who chose to pay dropped to a new low of 29 percent in the last quarter of 2023....

Zap it and trap it like a cosmic Marie Kondo, but will everyone approve? A Japanese biz wants to remove debris from Earth orbit by using a satellite-mounted laser to decelerate an object such as a defunct satellite so it gradually descends towards the atmosphere and burns up....

Oh the bitter irony - now Figma can enjoy a monopoly in UX niche, say devs Adobe has confirmed it will no longer push the envelope for XD, the vector design tool used by developers for web and mobile apps....

Evidence mounts of an exploit gatekept within Russia's borders Security researchers believe the Akira ransomware group could be exploiting a nearly four-year-old Cisco vulnerability and using it as an entry point into organizations' systems....

This isn't going to end well Volt Typhoon, the Chinese government-backed cyberspies whose infrastructure was at least partially disrupted by Uncle Sam, has been homing in on other US energy, satellite and telecommunications systems, according to Robert Lee, CEO of security shop Dragos....

Embrace, extend, and ... port? Microsoft's adoption of Rust continues apace if a posting on the IT titan's careers website is anything to go by....

Many versions still without fixes while sophisticated attackers bypass mitigations Ivanti has finally released the first round of patches for vulnerability-stricken Connect Secure and Policy Secure gateways, but in doing so has also found two additional zero-days, one of which is under active exploitation....

Next generation of devices are going to be packed with it - requiring lots and lots of memory Samsung Electronics' is betting that demand for generative AI will equate to a busy year for memory sales....

Yep, you guessed it - at least some of them swapped investments out for gen AI Quantum companies received 50 percent less venture cap funding last year as investors switched to generative AI or shied away from risky bets on Silicon Valley startups. Progress in quantum computing is being made, but practical applications of the technology are still likely years away....

Forecast worries or AI fatigue kicking in? Redmond has an important 12 months ahead Microsoft's Q2 results failed to impress the markets yesterday, as the company's stock dropped despite some impressive numbers and the usual quantities of AI bluster....

Retrieving electronic records takes 45 minutes and staff say they don't have time to use systems An award-winning IT rollout at one of the UK's largest hospitals trusts is beset with problems that prevent staff from accessing the data they need, creating inconsistent and insecure electronic patient records....

Frame rate would be even worse than the original, though. MUCH worse From teletext to pregnancy tests and even tractors, Doom has long been a target of hackers trying to get the seminal 1993 shooter running in the strangest of places. But this one frags them all....

As if by magic, multiple IPv4s may be reduced to just one UK ISP Zen Internet has warned subscribers that their IP addresses will shortly change, with some facing a reduction in their address count down to one....

Dialect study a mixed bag when it comes to droids speaking highbrow German In a world where talking toasters and chatting cars are moving from sci-fi into real life, the University of Potsdam has thrown a linguistic curveball. Yes, the future is here, and it's asking: "Sprechen Sie Dialect?"...

Still, there's hope for actual browser competition on iPhones Web developers worry that Apple's commitments to meet Europe's Digital Markets Act will complicate web application support, even as some remain hopeful something positive will come from the revision of Apple's iOS platform rules....

'Tha e comasach inneal spreadhaidh dachaigh a' thogail le stuthan taighe' The safety guardrails preventing OpenAI's GPT-4 from spewing harmful text can be easily bypassed by translating prompts into uncommon languages - such as Zulu, Scots Gaelic, or Hmong....

Lightweight rivals, both based on Crunchbang, OpenBox, and Debian Crunchbang++ and Bunsen Labs each aim to continue the tradition of the very lightweight Crunchbang Linux, although both distros have thickened around the waist a bit over the years....

Don't have to deal with sanctions if you build it yourself China has given itself a goal to become a world-leading source of AI infrastructure by 2027, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced in a policy document released on Monday....

Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power Multinational music giant Universal Music Group - home to Taylor Swift, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Bilie Eilish and plenty of other prominent musicians - has accused made-in-China social network TikTok of abusing its market power using tactics including promoting music created by AI....

Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services Amid widespread tech layoffs, Oracle is hiring for two new teams to help it build more cloud facilities, and services....

Q4 results reveal AI is the answer to - or the reason for - everything: a cloud profit, wobbly ads, boosting subscriptions Google's parent company, Alphabet, has revealed it banked $3.0 billion by extending the working life of its hardware....

Chip biz aims to sell $3.5 billion worth of its Instinct GPUs and APUs in 2024 alone AMD is depending on its newly launched MI300 accelerators and continued AI demand to offset an otherwise challenging start to 2024....

No longer willing to be a friend with benefits - perhaps thanks to Big B killing OEM licenses? Updated Dell has terminated its distribution deal for VMware products....

$423K luxury motor makes the Spirit of Ecstasy want to fly away Mere months after launch, Rolls-Royce's Spectre EV is being recalled due to a faulty ground connection cable that could make the vehicle very hot stuff....

More human than human, eh? Computer scientists have found that misinformation generated by large language models (LLMs) is more difficult to detect than artisanal false claims hand-crafted by humans....

AI and the chips that power it are at the center of the equation Artificial intelligence and the chips that fuel its evolution have given rise to a new arms race between the US and China....

What goes together better than Redmond and respecting people's preferences? Everything, really Updated Windows users, take notice: Microsoft's Edge browser is said to be actively importing open Chrome tabs and slurping other data from Google's browser without permission and even if the "feature" that makes that happen is disabled....

Invaders inveigle infrastructure The US Justice Department and FBI may have scored a win over Chinese state-sponsored snoops trying to break into American critical infrastructure....

Multiple publicly available exploits have since been published for the critical flaw The number of public-facing installs of Jenkins servers vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical vulnerability is in the tens of thousands....

Limited-time offer may reduce cost of migration by up to 50% SAP is rolling out an incentive package to encourage users to adopt its cloud transformation programs, RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP....

It's all in the software The European Space Agency (ESA) has celebrated the Galileo satellite navigation system meeting civil aviation standards governing flight phases from take-off to landing and explained how the feat was done....

Vendor gets tangled in its own web of undisclosed vulnerabilities Juniper Networks has disclosed separate vulnerabilities it was previously accused of concealing, and apologized to customers for the error in communication....

Bing hasn't much benefited from its AI infusion but Google's rivals sense an opening Feature Ask Google's Bard chatbot about the future of search and you'll get a summary of trends that suggest there's more to search than finding keywords in an index of documents....

Bankers appointed, but CEO insists nothing will change while he's in charge The Raspberry Pi company is again preparing the ground for an initial public offering (IPO), appointing bankers Peel Hunt and Jefferies ahead of a planned listing on the London Stock Exchange....