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Critics claim now-fixed vulnerabilities weren't disclosed, flag up grouping of multiple flaws under one CVE Critics are accusing major tech companies of not sticking to the rules when it comes to registering vulnerabilities with the appropriate authorities....

'Substantial increase in AWS calls' triggers takedown notice A plugin and library to permit the control of Haier, Candy, and Hoover appliances recently received takedown requests from Haier Europe's Security and Governance department....

Fast food chain could face a footlong recovery process if allegations are true The LockBit ransomware gang is claiming an attack on submarine sandwich slinger Subway, alleging it has made off with a platter of data....

Committee wants to know which were awarded without competition and more British MPs have written to the country's Treasury to demand details of all public sector contracts with Fujitsu as the Japanese tech supplier struggles in the wake of the Horizon Post Office Scandal....

Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers It was a tricky weekend for techies - not only did Microsoft's Azure Resource Manager fall over across the globe on January 21, 2024, local UK retailing giant Tesco also suffered an outage, cancelling multiple customer deliveries and orders due to "technical difficulties."...

Most advanced semiconductor facility in Europe is being subsidized by Chips Act funding Water treatment company Gradiant has won a contract to build a plant providing ultrapure water for a chip fabrication facility being constructed in Germany by an unnamed "large semiconductor manufacturer."...

It's all very well offering 'Free Debt Help,' but recipients were unwilling, says watchdog... A financial services company that illegally dispatched tens of thousands of spam messages promising to help the recipients magically wipe away their debts is itself now a debtor to the UK's data regulator....

Waltham Cross bit barn part of Alphabet's plans for 'future capacity needs' Google has commenced construction of a $1 billion datacenter complex on the outskirts of London it says is needed to provide a reliable service to Google Cloud customers and users of Google in the UK....

Never let a good crisis go to waste Opinion Nine hundred people have had their lives blighted, even destroyed. One of the world's oldest independent judicial systems has been perverted as a publicly owned company - the Post Office - used prosecutorial powers against postmasters. At the heart of it all is a brutal corporate cover-up of a broken IT system....

Product to protect Oracle virtualization is already on the backup vendor's roadmap Exclusive Backup software vendor Veeam is doing early research on VMware alternative Proxmox, potentially with a view to creating a product to protect data created using the tool....

Didn't you fix that? Me? I thought you fixed that! Who, Me? Greetings and salutations, mighty reader, and welcome once again to Who, Me? in which Register readers like you share tales of the times your effort to deliver tech support went awry....

Touts custom kernel that creams Linux, coming soon for devs and later for punters Huawei last week detailed a major release of its HarmonyOS that will see the Chinese giant break with the Linux ecosystem....

ALSO: Google's geometry reasoning breakthrough; Amazon debuts experimental shopping AI AI In brief OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that a breakthrough in energy production is required to advance increasingly capable and power-hungry AI models....

ESA makes its own discovery: the most water ever found on Mars NASA regained contact with its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, on Saturday two days after after it lost communication as the vehicle descended from its most recent flight....

ALSO: Another UEFI flaw found; Kaspersky discovers iOS log files actually work; and a few critical vulnerabilities in brief Conor Brian Fitzpatrick - aka "Pompourin," a former administrator of notorious leak site BreachForums - has been sentenced to 20 years of supervised release....

PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets Asia In Brief The alliance struck by Tencent and Meta to bring the latter's Quest VR hardware to China is reportedly faltering....

Land of the rising profit? Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest 2.3 trillion yen ($15.5 billion) to extend its cloud empire in Japan....

Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you University of Chicago boffins this week released Nightshade 1.0, a tool built to punish unscrupulous makers of machine learning models who train their systems on data without getting permission first....

Maybe the AGI can finish that Metaverse, haha - oh wait, they're serious Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg is redirecting Meta-wide efforts to build artificial general intelligence and wants to secure a whopping 350,000 or more Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of the year to make that happen....

All those neural network weights aren't much without ample decent silicon OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly seeking billions of dollars in capital to build out a network of AI chip fabs....

Plus: Uncle Sam says Ivanti exploits 'consistent with PRC' snoops A VMware security vulnerability has been exploited by Chinese cyberspies since late 2021, according to Mandiant, in what has been a busy week for nation-state espionage news....

The real SLIM's shady Japan soft-landed a probe on the Moon today - a first for the nation - though its spacecraft is struggling to generate power from its solar arrays....

Account manager and pals blew it on hotels, cruise, fancy meals and more allegedly Five people have been accused of pulling off a "brazen" scam that involved submitting more than $7 million in fake work expense claims to an IT consultancy to bankroll hotel stays, a cruise, visits to strip clubs, and more....

Instead of 100% renewables, most will reach around a tenth of that Two-hundred and fifty US cities have committed to transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 in the face of slow global progress. However, researchers have now concluded most will fail and are likely to meet just 10 percent of their targets in the next 30 years....

Now its functions are shattered between innumerable vendors Retro Tech Week It may seem that progress in technology proceeds in a linear fashion, with new developments replacing older ones. From this viewpoint, newer technology will always be better, since it is presumed to have built upon what came before it and improved on it....

Malware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP's bottom line HP CEO Enrique Lores admitted this week that the company's long-term objective is "to make printing a subscription" when he was questioned about the company's approach to third-party replacement ink suppliers....

More details emerge as Horizon IT scandal inquiry continues The Post Office proposed suing Fujitsu over missing data from its audit trail that could be used in the prosecution of victims of the Horizon scandal, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history....

Shipments alleged to have gone to a sanctioned company A businessman has been arrested in the US and charged with unlawfully exporting sensitive technology including semiconductors to a sanctioned business with ties to Russia's military and intelligence agencies....

But what kind of info was actually compromised? None of your business VF Corporation, parent company of clothes and footwear brands including Vans and North Face, says 35.5 million customers were impacted in some way when criminals broke into their systems in December....

Sacrificing its academic backups for the sake of the environment Microsoft's decision to cut the storage in its Microsoft 365 Education line is having some real-world consequences, with a Canadian university imposing draconian measures partly in response to the restrictions....

El Reg talks to the project's founder Interview The last units of the second batch of the ZX Spectrum Next are heading off to their owners. If you missed out, we have good news....

A peek back at the wobbly Windows of yesteryear Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has taken us back to the era of 16-bit Windows and the definition of a "hard error" compared to something a bit softer and easier....

Pause comes after controversial supplier wins another 9-figure deal paid for by taxpayers Fujitsu has written to UK Government to confirm it will no longer tender for business in the public sector amid the ongoing inquiry into the Post Office scandal - weeks after winning a 485 million ($614 million) contract....

Disrespect for physics saw the datacenter, and a career, come tumbling down On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly column that tries to balance your diet of industry news with your peers' experiences of the messes they confront at the coalface of IT....

Advocate general kicks holes in some of the European Commission's arguments about ancient rebate program An advisor to Europe's General Court has torn into the legal logic behind the EU's 1.06 billion ($1.2 billion) antitrust fine levelled against chip giant Intel....

Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime A security researcher in Germany has been fined 3,000 ($3,300, 2,600) for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that was exposing almost 700,000 customer records....

Fending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductors Updated Taiwan's contract manufacturer to the stars, Foxconn aka Hon Hai Technology Group , has teamed with India's HCL Group to create a semiconductor assembly and testing facility in India....

Including for cross-border remittances, which could shake things up nicely Google has decided to bring India's Unified Payments Interface to the world....

VMs are slow. And who can arrange remote hands wherever your traffic needs to flow? Equinix has unveiled a cloudy router it hopes will displace competitors in large, multi-cloud networks....

It's a bird, it's a plane... it's a flying menace out to endanger national security Two US government agencies, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), warned on Wednesday that drones made in China could be used to gather information on critical infrastructure....

Testing for this can can involve taking a chunk out of your flesh, making this a case of AI tech being kinder to humans The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a handheld AI-powered medical device that helps doctors diagnose skin cancer....

'Fairly Trained', founded by a former AI exec who quit over the issue, hopes consumer activism spurs adoption A former VP of audio at Stability AI who quit the biz over content scraping has launched a non-profit organization named Fairly Trained" that certifies generative AI models whose developers obtained consent to train their models on copyrighted data....

Everybody loves Google still, judging by these numbers Microsoft's share of the global web search market has hardly changed since the arrival of Bing AI, aka Bing Chat aka Copilot, according to industry figures. We're told Bing's share has increased just 0.56 percentage points since it plugged OpenAI's GPT-4 into its web search nearly a year ago....

Executives told comply or say goodbye IBM Consulting this week told its US-based executives and people managers that, effective immediately, they must work from a corporate office at least three days per week, or face the consequences....

Just as Secretary of State's 737 goes on the Blink(en) at Davos Boeing could use any win it can get lately, and it's found an admittedly small one in a $102.7 million deal to modernize some of the US Navy's submarine-hunting P-8A Poseidon aircraft....

A lot of IT depts can't wait to get past their ESX addiction As the fallout from Broadcom's takeover of VMware continues to rain down on the industry, rivals of the one-time virtualization giant have the opportunity to swoop on customers thanks to the massive changes happening to its channel....

Assets boss also reckons she has more engineers than Amazon The largest bank in the United States repels 45 billion - yes, with a B - cyberattack attempts per day, one of its leaders claimed at the World Economic Forum in Davos....

Politics-busting, uber-transparent incident reviews require independence, less internal conflict As the US mulls legislation that would see the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) become a permanent fixture in the government's cyber defense armory, experts are calling for substantial changes in the way it's organized....

Japanese lunar lander to attempt a soft touchdown As the Astrobotic Peregrine spacecraft prepares for its final descent into the Earth's atmosphere, another lunar mission, the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), is gearing up for a soft landing on the Moon's surface....

They paved paradise, put up grocery stores, bars, restaurants, hotels, hospitals ... Californians wondering why a shady shell company spent time buying up vast acreages of scrubland in Solano County can wonder no more - because a gaggle of tech billionaires are going on a charm offensive to get a city built from scratch....