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Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results Adobe has revealed it may have to fork out "significant monetary costs or penalties" as a result of a US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation of its subscription cancellation practices....

You Musk be joking, says legal veep The US Federal Communications Commission is continuing to reject SpaceX's $885 million bid to supply wireless broadband to rural areas via its Starlink internet satellites - much to the Musk-owned biz's annoyance....

Here comes Gemini Pro, Duet for devs and BOFHs, picture-emitting Imagen 2, MedLM for healthcare Google popped a bunch of AI models onto its cloud platform on Wednesday for folks to try out and perhaps adopt....

ADAS controls 'insufficient to prevent misuse,' US watchdog finds after 2-year investigation The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) investigation into safety risks associated with Tesla's Autopilot have concluded with a recall of more than two million vehicles, with the agency determining Autopilot's safety controls are "insufficient to prevent misuse."...

NASA's long-lived MAVEN probe was there taking notes NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission has observed an abrupt and dramatic drop in the solar wind, resulting in an expansion of the Martian atmosphere and magnetosphere by thousands of kilometers....

Telcos schooled on how to combat SIM swapping and port-out fraud The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reminding telcos of their obligations to keep consumers safe from SIM swapping and port-out scams....

Web's growing, Google's gloating, and US bots are roaming Cloudflare says that global internet traffic grew 25 percent this year, while Google regained its crown as the most visited web destination. Only a third of IPv6-capable requests were actually made over IPv6, and a third of all global bot traffic came from the US....

Cloud vendor remains a distance behind leading tech suppliers though Cloud giant AWS collected a staggering 76 percent more direct public sector revenue from the UK government in the past financial year....

Trusted by major charities, DonorView publicly exposed children's names and addresses, among other data Close to a million records containing personally identifiable information belonging to donors that sent money to non-profits were found exposed in an online database....

UK GDPR penalty slashed from 1M after department agrees to improve processes Britain's data watchdog has issued the Ministry of Defence with a financial penalty of 350,000 for the BCC email blunder that exposed names and contact data of Afghan interpreters locked in the Taliban-controlled country....

As its companion helicopter plans its furthest flight yet NASA has celebrated the Perseverance Rover's 1000th Martian day of operations, and prepared the longest ever flight for the helicopter that accompanied it to the home of Marvin....

Request for time input field was added to project backlog - where it remains Back in 2016, a member of the Microsoft community asked the Windows giant to add a time input field its Forms product, and received word from an employee that the feature request had been put on the to-do list....

Bit barn touts big savings for ditching the fans AI and the chips that run it are so hot right now....

Sure, they do crimes. But the plausible deniability governments adore means they deserve a different label Cybercrime gangs like the notorious Lazarus group and spyware vendors like Israel's NSO should be considered cyber mercenaries - and become the subject of a concerted international response - according to a Monday report from Delhi-based think tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF)....

Version 14 of venerable Domino groupware suite and its client debuts Hello, dear [READERNAME], The Register today brings you the news that the heir to Lotus Notes has added the ability to mail merge emails....

'Semiconductor alliance' forms as Huawei debuts another chip it shouldn't be able to make Dutch photolithography dominator ASML has reached an agreement to build its first-ever offshore research lab, to be located in South Korea in partnership with Samsung....

Jensen would rather not play Whac-a-Mole with Huang over every new GPU The Biden administration has taken a special interest in Nvidia's sale of accelerators to China and is now working with the chipmaker to establish which chips the Middle Kingdom is permitted to acquire....

Microsoft fixed 36 flaws. Adobe addressed 212. Apple, Google, Cisco, VMware and Atlassian joined the party It's the last Patch Tuesday of 2023, which calls for celebration -just as soon as you update Windows, Adobe, Google, Cisco, FortiGuard, SAP, VMware, Atlassian and Apple products, of course....

Mining industry looking for greener credentials in the future Automaker General Motors and construction equipment manufacturer Komatsu have partnered to turn one of the world's largest trucks into an emissions-free, hydrogen-powered behemoth....

The wages of sin are almost certainly much, much higher OpenAI's non-profit arm reported revenues of just $44,485 in its latest US tax filing, despite its for-profit business likely making millions from ChatGPT....

Arena Group seeking 'the Uberization of Content' The Arena Group, publisher of Sports Illustrated, fired CEO Ross Levinsohn on Monday, characterizing the decision as a strategic business move that has nothing to do with the AI scandal that rocked the sports title recently....

Don't expect supply, or prices, to ease until 2025 at the earliest Kettle Over the last week AMD has been extolling the virtues of its latest kit, including the MI300 which Su's crew claim is the fastest AI processing package on the market....

Now he's got two years behind bars to think about his bad choices An ex-First Republic Bank cloud engineer was sentenced to two years in prison for causing more than $220,000 in damage to his former employer's computer network after allegedly using his company-issued laptop to watch pornography....

Poor cybersecurity hygiene in the military? Surely not! There was only one US Air National Guardsman behind the leak of top-secret US military documents on Discord, but his chain of command bears some responsibility for letting it happen on their watch....

Irish software projects gear up for latest iterations Devs at well-loved distros Mint and Zorin are hard at work, with Mint 21.3 expected before the holidays, although Zorin OS 17 may take a little longer. Their respective betas show both are shaping up nicely and boast attractive desktops....

Still, Ellison talks up cloud margins, says 100 datacenters don't cost more 'to run' than 10 Oracle has seen its market valuation dip on the back of lower than expected revenue growth for Q2 of its fiscal 2024 ended November 30....

We used to use Edlin. And we were happy Microsoft is considering adding a text editor back into the command line world, thus risking some heated discussions on the subject....

Officers potentially targeted by dissidents can't afford to relocate for their safety, while others seek support to change their names An official review of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) August data breach has revealed the full extent of the impact on staff....

And it's not just inflation... it's inflation plus an additional percentage, it turns out Brit telecoms regulator Ofcom is proposing fresh rules that take a swipe at companies who impose inflation-linked price rises in the middle of a contract, saying pricing should be more transparent for customers....

We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer re:Invent At the recent AWS re:Invent conference, the hype was all around AI, but the big launch for many users was S3 (Simple Storage Service) Express One Zone - a S3 tier offering much lower latency than standard S3 buckets. This means S3 can be used directly by a wider range of applications, altering the storage cost and performance calculations....

Dev claims to have fixed 'issue that caused messages not to be sent or received' The developer behind Beeper Mini just released an updated version of the standalone Android app that users say can sidestep the block Apple put in place over the weekend....

A mis-merged patch causing corruption on ext4 volumes is to blame The Debian maintainers have identified a problem in kernel 6.1 that can cause corruption on ext4 volumes. As a result, the planned 12.3 release won't happen....

Board and incoming CEO decide reorganizing is better than splitting BlackBerry has decided its plan to split into two separate companies is not a good idea and will instead reorganize itself into two independent divisions....

Let's choo-choo-choose safety, folks Space weather can wreak havoc on electronic systems, but while most folks focus on protecting datacenters or the power grid, a group of UK researchers are warning that relatively mild solar storms could bork train signaling systems....

Scum lure folks with promises of good jobs in crypto and then won't let them leave Hundreds of suspected people smugglers have been arrested, and 163 potential victims rescued from servitude, as part of an Interpol-coordinated operation dubbed "Turquesa V" that targeted cyber criminals who lure workers into servitude to carry out their scams....

Takes huge stake in local superapp Tokopedia, for the good of the small business community A mere two-and-a-half months after Indonesia imposed a ban on social commerce, made-in-China social media giant TikTok and local super-app company GoTo have announced a "strategic e-commerce partnership" in a form that appears to evade the ban....

Interstellar Glory Space Technology gets a boost - even though it's yet to reach orbit Chinese private space biz i-Space (not to be confused with Japanese aerospace concern iSpace) has recycled a rocket just 38 days after its previous flight....

Fortnite dev hails 'a win for all app developers and consumers around the world' Epic Games has won its antitrust battle against Google....

Expanded service provider definition could force cafes and hotels to spy for the feds Many US businesses may be required to assist in government-directed surveillance - depending upon which of two reform bills before Congress is approved....

Also kills perpetual licenses, adds a vSphere bundle for smaller users +COMMENT Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division has announced what it's described as "a dramatic simplification of our product portfolio," plus the end of perpetual licenses and a move to subscriptions - some at half their previous price....

This one weird trick works every time, most of the time Investigators at Indiana's Purdue University have devised a way to interrogate large language models (LLMs) in a way that that breaks their etiquette training - almost all the time....

Redmond reassures AFL-CIO workers they won't be pushed out by technology Microsoft is partnering with the largest US union group - representing 60 unions and more than 12 million workers - to explore how AI will impact labor, and help shape policies to support workers as the technology threatens to disrupt jobs....

More awards imminent agency says British arms dealer BAE Systems will be among the first beneficiaries of the $53 billion US Chips and Science Act....

Elon's biz claims 1st Amendment rights It may have taken more than a year, but Tesla has finally responded to the California Department of Motor Vehicles allegations that it misrepresented Autopilot's capabilities, arguing that it's free to do so under the US Constitution....

AlphV lays claims to the intrusion Norton Healthcare, which runs eight hospitals and more than 30 clinics in Kentucky and Indiana, has admitted crooks may have stolen 2.5 million people's most sensitive data during a ransomware attack in May....

Elsewhere, BAE Systems bags first CHIPS Act funding Upstate New York is set for a $10 billion semiconductor research facility to work on next-generation chip manufacturing, with IBM and Micron part of the scheme....

Latest offensive cyber group to switch to atypical programming for payloads Research into Lazarus Group's attacks using Log4Shell has revealed novel malware strains written in an atypical programming language....

Why would FTC call that antitrust, it asks in dismissal request Amazon is asking a judge to dismiss the antitrust case filed against it by the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states, arguing the case fails to allege any anticompetitive conduct or harm to consumers from its behavior....

Hey Bing, how can I invest billions in a company but not break antitrust laws? Microsoft's OpenAI headaches might not be going away following reports that now the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering an investigation into the Windows giant's investment in the company....

Lack of awareness still blamed for patching apathy despite it being among most infamous bugs of all time Two years after the Log4Shell vulnerability in the open source Java-based Log4j logging utility was disclosed, circa one in four applications are dependent on outdated libraries, leaving them open to exploitation....