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Beijing's first Starlink-slayers are in orbit, and buyers beyond the Great Firewall are on the agenda The first batch of satellites in China's answer to Starlink - known as the Qianfan Constellation, sometimes also called G60 - was launched into orbit on Tuesday....

This guy showed the world how - with the right level of access Black Hat Techniques to forcibly remove security patches from Windows machines so that fixed vulnerabilities are exploitable again were demonstrated this week....

Imec tests show Dutch master etcher has markedly boosted transistor density Research org Imec claims it has demonstrated the viability of ASML's next generation extreme UV technology for next generation chip manufacturing, showing off how it can create patterned structures at a smaller scale than previously possible - in a single pass....

Why run your own evil infrastructure when Big Tech offers robust tools hosted at trusted URLs? Black Hat State-sponsored cyber spies and criminals are increasingly using legitimate cloud services to attack their victims, according to Symantec's threat hunters who have spotted three such operations over recent months, plus new data theft and other malware tools in development by these goons....

Good luck, crackers: It's an isolated processor and storage enclave, and top dollar only comes from a remote attack Samsung has dangled its first $1 million bug bounty for anyone who successfully compromises Knox Vault - the isolated subsystem the Korean giant bakes into its smartphones to store info like credentials and run authentication routines....

'Serendipitous' discovery may have you second guessing your appliances Black Hat A funny thing happened to security researchers at attack surface management company runZero when they were digging into the xz backdoor earlier this year: They found a whole bunch of vulnerabilities stemming from poorly secured or implemented SSH services....

Brand-new Ryzen 9000 processors are about 10% cheaper than their Ryzen 7000 counterparts AMD's next generation of desktop CPUs launch from tomorrow, and they'll feature lower prices than the last series....

Officials may turn to Elon's SpaceX if Calamity Capsule proves too risky to return with crew NASA has shared more details on how it hopes to get Boeing's stricken Starliner craft and its two test pilots safely back to Earth from the International Space Station, if the Calamity Capsule is deemed unsuitable for a crewed return....

Chamber of Progress pens open letter pressing billionaire to behave better amid UK riots Exclusive Echoing objections to social-media fueled violence from the government of the United Kingdom and others, the Chamber of Progress, a tech business advocacy group, is urging billionaire Elon Musk to take his leadership role at X more seriously or resign if he cannot do so....

Bad news: They aren't, and Windows 10 end of support is looming There is some good news for Microsoft on the Windows 11 enterprise adoption front as a survey of more than 750,000 Windows endpoints indicates that a healthy 88 percent of those not already running the tech giant's latest operating system are ready for an upgrade....

Vulnerable services fixed by the cloud biz but open source projects still at risk Black Hat Critical flaws across at least six AWS cloud services could have allowed attackers to execute remote code, steal data, or even takeover a user's account without their knowledge, according to research presented today at Black Hat....

And you thought BlackLotus was a pain in the neck Black Hat Security researchers from SafeBreach have found what they say is a Windows downgrade attack that's invisible, persistent, irreversible and maybe even more dangerous than last year's BlackLotus UEFI bootkit....

Let's get physical, physical ... I don't wanna hear your MMU talk Black Hat Computer security researchers at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found serious security flaws in some of Alibaba subsidiary T-Head Semiconductor's RISC-V processors....

Across China and the US, more than 3.5 million cars have been recalled Tesla has issued a recall in China for four of its electric vehicle models, impacting more than 1.6 million cars....

Radiance much greater than current models, suggests paper Astronomers and other stargazers have new cause for concern about light pollution following claims that Starlink's latest satellites which support phone services may appear five times brighter in the sky than existing ones....

Probe began in June and was over by August, no need for corporate lobbying (you hearing this Microsoft?) The UK's competition watchdog - often a fly in the ointment of proposed global tech acquisitions - has approved Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion buy of rival Juniper Networks....

A simple HTML change and the warning is gone! Researchers say cybercriminals can have fun bypassing one of Microsoft's anti-phishing measures in Outlook with some simple CSS tweaks....

Next SpaceX crew trip moves deep into September while engineers agonize over the Calamity Capsule The saga of Boeing's delayed Starliner capsule continues: NASA has confirmed it pushed back the next SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station to give Starliner teams more time to work out how to bring the spacecraft back to Earth....

Timor-Leste is a known cybercrime hotspot Two days is all it took for Interpol to recover more than $40 million worth of stolen funds in a recent business email compromise (BEC) heist, the international cop shop said this week....

Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified Acronis, the Swiss disaster recovery turned cybersecurity firm and catch-all for managed service providers, has been majority acquired by Europe's largest private equity firm, EQT....

Users just want stuff that works. How hard can it be? Interview You can have your software fast or in a state where it won't blow up in your face. But getting both at the same time in an era of layoffs and restructuring is, at best, challenging and, at worst, impossible....

Nearly 83,000 people had their data stolen amid chaos that struck NHS healthcare The UK's data protection watchdog says it plans to fine a managed software provider to the NHS 6.09 million ($7.7 million) for failings that led to a 2022 ransomware attack....

18A process delivers bootable Panther Lake AI PC processor and Clearwater Forest server silicon Intel has told the world its vaunted 18A manufacturing process works - at least in early tests ... that it's announced with few details....

Doubles annual revenue, but warns repeating that will be hard while waiting until March for Nvidia Blackwell Supermicro has teased a datacenter construction methodology that CEO Charles Liang claimed can create a small bit barn in six months or shrink the time to build bigger houses from three to two years....

Platforms owe billions after they stopped paying and sent thousands of SMEs into cashflow crunches South Korea's government will shrink the period in which e-commerce marketplace platforms must settle up - from 60 days to 40 - to ensure that small sellers aren't caught in a cash crunch....

Fake Angry IP Scanner will make you furious - or maybe remind you of how the Hive gang went about its banal business The latest malware from upstart criminal gang Hunters International appears to be targeting network admins, using malicious code disguised as the popular networking tool Angry IP Scanner....

Focus on physical ports helped spot issues across 100,000 switches and a million servers Sigcomm 2024 Huawei Cloud has developed a network monitoring tool that, when used in production on three of its own regions, was able to observe more of its infrastructure than existing tools, and revealed issues that previously evaded human efforts....

Trying to cancel a citizen's registration would be caught by humans no matter what the page said, officials say The US state of Georgia has a website for cancelling voter registration, and it's had a bumpy start....

Graviton processors get the job of helping RIKEN achieve HPC world domination Japan's RIKEN Center for Computational Science has unveiled a virtual version of its Fugaku supercomputer that can be deployed in AWS....

SatNad himself offered CrowdStrike recovery help, Redmond says, before suggesting airline's IT is in a mess Microsoft has labelled Delta Air Lines' accusations it's partly to blame for the outages caused by CrowdStrike's buggy software "false" and "misleading" - and insulted the state of the carrier's IT infrastructure....

And reveals the small mistake that bricked 8.5M Windows boxes CrowdStrike has hired two outside security firms to review the Falcon functionality that sparked a global IT outage last month - but it may not have an awful lot to find, because CrowdStrike has identified the simple mistake that caused the meltdown....

CEO claims 'illegal boycott' was attack on Musk's version of free speech Twitter today sued the World Federation of Advertisers, whose members are said to control about 90 percent of global marketing spend, for cutting back their ads on the social network - or in most cases pulling them entirely....

And you're replacing Chromecast with TV Streamer? Great! That's a logical step for the evolving landscape of ... Google's Gemini AI is making its way to Nest cameras and Google Assistant, with the web goliath claiming the upgrade will make its smart devices smarter....

Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart's delight AMD today released the latest version of ROCm, claiming the improved software will bring about strong performance boosts for its Instinct GPU family....

Registry happy to chat about caps, just don't consider it a commitment to actually do anything The US government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has said it will renew its Cooperative Agreement with Verisign to oversee the .com domain registry and other responsibilities - while expressing some concern about price hikes....

And Qualcomm addresses 'permanent denial of service' flaw in its stuff Google released 46 fixes for Android in its August security patch batch, including one for a Linux kernel flaw in the mobile OS that can lead to remote code execution (RCE)....

Wiz infoseccers able to promote themselves from humble customer to full-blown admin Black Hat Flaws in SAP's Core AI service created a gateway to its customers' private data, including code and training materials, until they were patched earlier this year....

Misery loves company - all of its competitors were also negatively impacted One of the US's largest car dealerships says the IT outage caused by CDK Global's June ransomware attack cost it approximately $30 million....

Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime Backblaze has issued the latest report detailing failure rates for the multitude of drives that power its storage and backup services, and is looking at recent trends in the figures as well as considering whether AI might lower those failure rates....

Windows SmartScreen and Smart App Control both have weaknesses of which to be wary Elastic Security Labs has lifted the lid on a slew of methods available to attackers who want to run malicious apps without triggering Windows' security warnings, including one in use for six years....

That's what Google calls its massively parallel data copy service operating on dozens of clusters Sigcomm 2024 Google has revealed technical details of its in-house data transfer tool, called Effingo, and bragged that it uses the project to move an average of 1.2 exabytes every day....

That one weird thing in Outlook that gives phishers and scammers an in to an inbox Users are urging Microsoft to rethink how it shows sender email addresses in Outlook because phishing criminals are taking advantage, using helpful, friendly names to serve up emails loaded with malicious intent....

$4,500 per GPU per year adds up pretty quick - even faster when you pay by the hour Comment In the wake of the AI boom, Nvidia has seen its revenues skyrocket to the point at which it briefly became the most valuable corporation in the world....

Hybrids snap at heels of battery-only vehicles in UK, but petrol is still king... for now The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has published UK data showing that while sales of new electric vehicles are on the rise, private buyers are staying away....

The preferred tool of Arthur C Clarke, Anne Rice and George R R Martin Before WordPerfect, the most popular work processor was WordStar. Now, the last ever DOS version has been bundled and set free by one of its biggest fans....

HR apparently overwhelmed by attempt to sack 12.5k people in one day Dell has made another round of layoffs, which The Register understands have cut deep and seen even company veterans let go....

Will you see the Lite? Back in June, Google's Chrome Web Store began alerting users of uBlock Origin who had developer-oriented versions of Chrome that the popular ad-filtering extension could soon stop working....

Chap named 'Roman Boss' accused of being just that at a cryptocash laundering outfit Users of Cryptonator - an online digital wallet and cryptocurrency exchange - received an unpleasant surprise last weekend after the service was shuttered in a combined operation run by the FBI, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and German police....

The smartphone strikes again! And so might the Reg Standards Bureau, with your help Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism has changed the way it measures crowding on trains, abandoning decades-old newspaper- and magazine-based metrics....

Singapore Ministry of Education orders software removed after string of snafus UK-based mobile device management vendor Mobile Guardian has admitted that on August 4 it suffered a security incident that involved unauthorized access to iOS and ChromeOS devices managed by its tools, which are currently unavailable. In Singapore, the incident resulted in 13,000 devices being remotely wiped and saw the nation's Education Ministry cut ties with the vendor....