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Taming that unforgiving dust world may be significantly less expensive than anticipated When humans head off to colonize the Red Planet, it's not entirely clear how many colonists will be needed to keep everyone alive....

Reports police called to control ATM frenzy after 1,000 added to accounts, by leprechauns maybe Queues have formed at automatic teller machines in Ireland after a local bank allowed withdrawals of sums greater than their account balances, and possibly even mistakenly gave away free cash....

Design this bad should sicken developers - but it's the rest of us who end up feeling queasy Column "I have a problem," my medical specialist said - before he saw the fear on my face and quickly corrected himself. "No, not with you - you're fine! With this." Both hands swept past the shiny new convertible laptop-slash-tablet that sat on his desk....

After regulators are done with them, providers will look a lot like boring old banks The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) endorsed the use of stablecoins on Tuesday, when it released a regulatory framework for the digital assets that allows their use provided their operators implement protections for owners....

Starts monitoring developer deals after first slapping the G-force with substantial fine South Korea's Fair Trade Commission today commenced monitoring of Google's app store operations - an action that follows its April decision to fine the advertising and mobile OS giant for its competition-crimping activities....

In footsteps of GiveUpGitHub, campaign follows AI ToS fiasco The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is calling on free and open source software (FOSS) contributors to stop using Zoom video conferencing in light of the software maker's terms-of-service scandal....

Plus: Medical records for 4M people within reach of Clop gang after IBM MOVEit deployment hit The Clorox Company has some cleaning up to do as some of its IT systems remain offline and operations "temporarily impaired" following a security breach....

Promise of action excites some, others wish America had Cali-style Delete Act for personal info Analysis An American watchdog today said it will propose fresh rules governing the type of personal information data brokers can collect and sell - as the White House hosted a roundtable on how to better protect individuals from unwanted surveillance....

You can still drive 'em, but park outside for ... OTA updates, says EV maker Electric semi truck maker Nikola's fortunes just keep getting worse - after a couple dismal quarters, it's now recalling nearly all of its battery electric vehicles due to a fire risk....

Turns out bigger isn't always better Since its introduction, AVX-512 has gotten a bit of bad rap for being hot, power hungry, and inconsistent in its implementation and feature set....

$112M for 12 projects announced on heels of LLNL's second successful fusion ignition Fusion is hot right now - so hot that the US Department of Energy is dumping another $112 million into a dozen supercomputing projects to advance progress on further clean energy breakthroughs....

Or so says a worrying survey We're all dumbasses walking around in adult clothes, but you'd hope that the managers in charge of ensuring the company does well and functions properly are relying on something a bit stronger than gut instinct, when we all know how variable that can be....

And cool it on the export bans, pleads CEO - we want to sell fish, not fishing rods, to China Intel should benefit more from the US government's $52 billion CHIPS Act largesse than some other companies building local chip plants because it conducts its R&D Stateside as well, according to CEO Pat Gelsinger....

Estimated payments of $65 can now be distributed to those who filed a claim in 2018 lawsuit Apple's "Batterygate" legal saga is finally swinging shut - in the US, at least - with a final appeal being voluntarily dismissed, clearing the way for payouts to class members....

Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand on mega-manufacturer's list of not-China expansion targets Foxconn CEO Young Liu said on Monday that the massive conglomerate also known as Hon Hai Technology Group plans to invest billions expanding into India - a move that reflects a desire to diversify its bases of operation....

New AI Services policies also prohibit any reverse engineering and data collection of its products Microsoft prohibits users from reverse engineering or harvesting data from its AI software to train or improve other models, and will store inputs passed into its products as well as any output generated....

You need resources in lots of places, which is the hybrid cloud taming trick the company exists to perform Interest in AI workloads has reached the point at which major enterprise vendors are packaging it for easy consumption, with Nutanix the latest to prep its platform for binary brainboxes....

We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart - better known as the ubiquitous CAPTCHA we see standing athwart the doors to many websites - may now be a misnomer as researchers have found that computers are much better at completing them....

Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies admit to accidentally including raw crime data in FoI responses Norfolk and Suffolk police have stepped forward to admit that a technical issue" resulted in raw data pertaining to crime reports accidentally being included in Freedom of Information responses....

Abreezio? Maybe not, but it was a plea deal The former chief executive of a company that was sold to Qualcomm for more than $150 million has pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering relating to a $1.5 million transaction involving proceeds from the deal....

Time for some fresh GRUB Although it's not long after job cuts at Red Hat, the company's team in Mexico is looking for a developer to work on the Linux bootloader stack....

In unrelated news, agency wants to teach folks how to spot a pyramid scheme A Florida man is in hot water for allegedly raising $108 million from more than 800,000 investors for what he claimed was an artificial intelligence development company - but which America's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges was a fraudulent, unregistered securities offering....

Storms on Saturn last for hundreds of years, leaving long-lasting impacts and raising lots of scientific questions Scientists are reassessing theories of how gas giants form after observing that fallout from Saturn's cyclical mega storms can last for centuries....

Voting machines and their data allegedly accessed without authorization by keen golfer's gofers Authorities in the US state of Georgia have indicted a famous Floridian and his loyal associates on counts including theft of data, software, and personal information....

Digital safety org worries OpenAI and pals aren't doing enough Popular generative AI models produce problematic content when prompted with terms associated with eating disorders, according to research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) - a London-based non-profit focused on protecting people online....

Meanwhile, in China, electric auto outfit emphasizes local bit barn for storage Elon Musk's electric auto outfit Tesla appears to be building new datacenters....

Again labels America a hacker empire over alleged backdoors found in earthquake monitoring kit China's Global Times, a state-controlled media outlet, has teased an imminent expose of alleged US attacks on seismic data measurement stations....

Plus: Tome bans decided by ChatGPT, watch out who's listening to your keyboard hammering, and more AI in brief Amazon has removed multiple sham books that may have been AI-generated and were published with Jane Friedman as the author - after the real writer complained that someone was misappropriating her name....

Trio alleged to have blackmailed over 100 targets after threats of intimate image release Two Nigerian men have been extradited to the US and were scheduled to appear in deferral court on Monday, charged with sextortion and causing the death of one of their victims: a teen who was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound....

Music copyright bomb hits just as other court conflict leads to lending limits The Internet Archive was sued for copyright infringement by a coalition of music giants on Friday, just as it lost a similar copyright claim to a group of book goliaths....

Try out a hot new thing before official launch? Something smells phishy The FBI has warned of a scam in which criminals lure people into installing what they think are pre-release beta-grade phone apps to try out - only for the software to be laced with malware....

From one untrusted source to another ... and another Amazon is now using generative AI to produce written summaries of customer reviews for products on the shelves of its sprawling e-commerce empire....

Don't panic, says automaker, but if you do, just turn off wireless for now Ford has suggested owners of vehicles equipped with its SYNC 3 infotainment system disable the Wi-Fi lest someone nearby exploits a buffer-overflow vulnerability and hijacks the equipment....

How can a billionaire in his 50s be this much of a dweeb? Mark Zuckerberg isn't shying away from his supposed cage match with Elon Musk, though he wants the world to know it probably isn't going to happen - and it's not his fault....

Just a day after getting green light to expand autonomous ops A day after General Motors was given the green light to accelerate the roll out of its self-driving Cruise taxis in a US state, a congregation of the robo-rides broke down - holding up traffic on a busy night - after reportedly losing wireless connectivity....

Is that a firesale we smell? Intel has begun purging its Next Unit of Computing (NUC) lineup, issuing a slew of product discontinuation notices just weeks after abandoning its mini-PC division and handing the reins to Asus....

Blunder made bundled monitors more expensive than standalone purchases Australia's Federal Court has fined Dell AU$10 million ($6.5 million) for what the tech giant has called an error in its pricing processes....

Power-sipper still in the research stage, but findings are interesting IBM Research has developed a mixed-signal analog chip for AI inferencing that it claims may be able to match the performance of digital counterparts such as GPUs, while consuming considerably less power....

Oscars 2014 Ellen DeGeneres Selfie in oil, anyone? In case you were heretofore unconvinced that Twitter is dead and is never coming back, the latest sell-off of branded tat might sway you....

Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun? DEF CON A bomb threat against Caesars Forum, the main venue for this week's DEF CON hacking convention, led to the halls being cleared on Saturday evening and the building searched by fire crews and police officers....

Names, job titles and salaries included in unwitting leak Cumbria Constabulary inadvertently published the names and salaries of all its officers and staff online earlier this year, making it the second UK force in a fortnight to admit disclosing personal information about its employees....

'No subscriptions. No passwords. No barriers. Freeloaders welcome' A non-profit called the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) has been formed by Oracle, SUSE, CIQ, and other organizations that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS rebuilds....

I am become Tux, destroyer of warez Opinion Indian mythology is rich beyond measure in tales of gods, demons, and humans doing battle. Deception, alliances, betrayal, supernatural weaponry, and devastating consequences tangle with morality and greed. If you think that sounds like today's global technology maelstrom, that's forgivable....

It can be so hard to tell one column from another in a spreadsheet. They all look the same Who, Me? Welcome once again, dear reader, to the sanctuary we call Who, Me? in which Register readers can safely share their burdens and tell the tales of technical not-quite-expertise....

India's close to landing one, too, and Japan is counting down to a launch If you're thinking of taking a trip to the Moon in the next few weeks, check the traffic report before you fly: three nations are currently preparing their attempts to land on Luna's surface....

Claiming affiliation with Anonymous, hackers want more public debate over radioactive water release plans Entities using the name and iconography of Anonymous (EUTNAIOA) claim to have conducted cyber protests against the Japanese government for actions related to the release of wastewater from the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant....

Browser has added multi-process support Mozilla has teased an upcoming plan to allow plugins developed for its desktop browser to run on its Android app....

PLUS: Phishing campaign targets the C-suite; Cybercrime arrests in EU and Africa; and more Infosec in brief The July breach of Microsoft Exchange Online by suspected Chinese hackers is the next topic up for review by the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB)....

Tencent keyboard app allowed eavesdropping; Australia, Japan, sour on TwitX; China seeks to ID app devs Asia In Brief Indian tech services giant Infosys has revealed the nation's Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) rejected its claims of being unable to file regulatory paperwork on time due to COVID-19 lockdowns....

Trellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities DEF CON It would be relatively easy for miscreants to break into critical datacenter power management gear, shut off electricity supplies to multiple connected devices, and disrupt all kinds of services - from critical infrastructure to business applications - all at the press of a button....