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Let's do the CacheWarp again Boffins based in Germany and Austria have found a flaw in AMD's SEV trusted execution environment that makes it less than trustworthy....

Sapphire Rapids, Alder Lake, and Raptor Lake chip families treated for 'Redundant Prefix' Intel on Tuesday issued an out-of-band security update to address a privilege escalation vulnerability in recent server and personal computer chips....

One person's garbage band is another person's treasure, right Citizen's Broadband Radio Service? The US government has drafted a blueprint to change the way wireless spectrum is managed in a bid to maximize available resources. This includes identifying wireless frequencies that may be repurposed for new uses....

Robotic process hunts down local extraterrestrial materials to aid supply of on-site fuel and oxygen Scientists in China claim they have employed artificial intelligence and physical robotics to help make oxygen from water and space rocks available on the Martian surface....

Reasons less technical than you'd think as research respondents cite EU's DORA rules According to research released today, fears over vendor lock-in and the need to stay compliant with regulations are topping the reasons for multi-cloud adoption....

Royal alone scored $275M in past year as FBI, other agencies hot on merging trail The US' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released fresh guidance on the Royal ransomware operation, saying that evidence suggests it may soon undergo a long-speculated rebrand....

Quarterly stats to show when units exceed manufacturer max temp Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has released its latest drive statistics report, introducing tracking of temperature data for drives and failure rates for each datacenter....

FAA grants license to fly, though not fry local wildlife The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given SpaceX clearance to try launching the monster Starship / Super Heavy combo from the company's Boca Chica facility....

But if you really care about performance, there are better options out there, natch SC23 This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Top500 ranking of the world's publicly known fastest supercomputers....

Brit telco BT's digital boss asks people 'how did horses feel when cars were invented? They didn't complain or go on strike' BT's chief digital innovation officer wants the world to stop moaning about how cuddly AI is going to put pesky humans out of work because horses "didn't complain" when cars were invented....

Got a Confluence server? Listen up. Malware said to have wide-ranging capabilities A new backdoor was this week found implanted in the environments of organizations to exploit the recently disclosed critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence....

OK gr8. CU down the pub A lengthy lawsuit is nearing an end after a judge dismissed a claim from defunct British phone retailer Phones 4u that local telco operators conspired to put it out of business....

Head in the sand about the end of CentOS? Have a few more years of support... for a fee Interview SUSE is serious about Linux in the enterprise, so much so that the veteran penguin-botherer is willing to risk the ire of Red Hat with OpenELA and the offer of CentOS support for users that just can't let go of the soon-to-be end-of-life operating system....

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's equipment drifting away A tool bag is orbiting Earth. No, this isn't an elaborate Elon Musk joke....

Emergency comms standard had five nasty flaws but will be opened to academic research A set of encryption algorithms used to secure emergency radio communications will enter the public domain after an about-face by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)....

And the world's getting more and more dangerous The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has once again sounded its concern over the rising threat level to the nation's critical national infrastructure (CNI)....

University managment app also tracked library activity, holidays, and much more US-based research group IPVM has accused Chinese video surveillance equipment company Hikvision of engaging with a contract to develop technology that can identify Muslim students that are fasting during Ramadan, based on their dining records....

Still no word on when the deal will happen, or what's holding it up Two weeks past the expected close of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware and neither party has yet explained what's holding up the deal, or detailed when it might close. But at last week's VMware Explore event in Barcelona, VMware offered a teaser of how the two companies' wares might integrate....

Japan's short of workers and limiting overtime, so it needs stuff like this - and remote-controlled excavators Japanese tech giant NTT has shown off some tech tricks it hopes will help alleviate the shortage of workers created by the nation's ageing population, and looming regulations that restrict weekly working hours....

OpenSSL, LibreSSL, OpenSSH users, don't worry - you can sit this one out An academic study has shown how it's possible for someone to snoop on certain devices' SSH connections and, with a bit of luck, impersonate that equipment after silently figuring out the hosts' private RSA keys....

Plus: Chocolate Factory launches second lawsuit against false DMCA takedowns Google has sued three scammers for offering a fake download of its Bard AI chatbot that contained malware capable of stealing credentials for small business' social media accounts....

Phase one packs 512 Xeons, 1,024 Ponte Vecchio GPUs. Phase two: 10x that SC23 As the SC23 conference in Denver, USA, kicks off in earnest, Intel is spilling the tea on the two-phase Dawn supercomputer it's building for the UK with Dell and the University of Cambridge....

Register journos tackle cars harvesting info, Meta and YouTube being taken to task over privacy, and more Kettle Far gone are the days when a car was a dumb machine you turned on and drove from A to B. Today it's a smartphone on wheels, and your data is possibly being taken for a ride....

Biz races to fix broken systems Shopify suffered an outage today, preventing shoppers from using affected merchants....

Producers will need OK from performers, will pay them to create digi-personas SAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors and media professionals, is set to end its near-four-month strike after reaching a tentative deal with TV and film studios over pay and the use of AI....

Half the machine, quadruple the anticipation for all-Intel super SC23 After years of delays, Argonne National Laboratory's all-Intel "Aurora" supercomputer has finally graced the Top500 ranking of the world's most powerful publicly known supercomputers - just not where many had hoped to see it....

Waiting buyers could face $50k fine for ignoring updated terms and conditions Thinking about buying a Cybertruck? Well, be sure you want it: Tesla is threatening to sue anyone who tries to sell theirs within the first year of purchase....

If you can afford it - pricing's not out yet SC23 HPE and Nvidia say they are giving customers the building blocks to produce a mini version of Bristol University's Isambard-AI supercomputer to train generative AI and deep learning projects....

Panopticon design gains new meaning for the all powerful cloud platform With advent of the pandemic-induced work from home new normal, you may have thought office envy was a thing of the past. But an Amazon staffer seems keen to get it going again, setting social media alight with her guided tour of a prime AWS location - a one-hundred-year-old prison....

Did you know there's an Asahi flavored Ubuntu? And Debian, too Ubuntu Summit A subthread of the Ubuntu Summit was Ubuntu on Arm and RISC-V kit: a fast-growing area of interest for many people....

Comes after US memory maker labeled security threat by China Micron is having more China-related problems after YMTC launched legal proceedings over allegations that the US memory maker is infringing on patents relating to 3D NAND technology....

Zyxel zero days and nation-state actors (maybe) had a hand in the sector's worst cybersecurity event on record Danish critical infrastructure faced the biggest online attack in the country's history in May, according to SektorCERT, Denmark's specialist organization for the cybersecurity of critical kit....

Plus: Amazon is reportedly training a two-trillion-parameter LLM, and more AI in brief Google's AI-powered Magic Editor will not work if you try to alter images of ID cards, receipts, human faces, or body parts....

Box shifter says it caught millions of miscreants with its own systems though Amazon Stores received the highest number of take-down demands under the European Union's Digital Services Act out of all 19 of the tech giants who've been singled out for special attention under the newly introduced laws....

Demos its Adaptive GPU Allocator as global shortage of geepies grinds on SC23 Fujitsu will demonstrate tech aimed at optimizing the use of GPUs and the switching of batch jobs in a HPC cluster at this week's SC23 high performance computing (HPC) conference in Colorado....

Former Air Force officer - also involved in first crewed rendezvous in space - dies aged 95 Obit Frank Borman, the NASA astronaut in charge of the first crewed expedition to the Moon, has died at the age of 95....

Genuinely new ideas are rare in IT - this superhero is ready to make a real difference Opinion Cybersecurity has many supremely annoying aspects. It soaks up talent, time, and money like the English men's football squad, and like that benighted institution, the results never seem to change....

Going back to a time before autocomplete Interview Tim Hockin has been working on Kubernetes since before it was announced. As the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) takes a sudden lurch into the world of artificial intelligence, Hockin spoke to The Register about trends, licensing, and his love of Vi....

Blockheaded cheats given four years to find new schemes Cryptocurrency has proven a disappointing alternative to fiat currency, a poor alternative to conventional securities, and a lousy store of value. But it has helped plenty of people to launder money and avoid taxes....

Shocking problem turned out to be a frame-up Who, Me? Welcome once again, dear reader, to the comforting embrace of Who, Me? in which Reg readers share their tales of times technology plans did not quite work out as hoped or - as in this case - the solution turned into the problem....

ALSO: most Mainers are MOVEit victims, NY radiology firm fined for not updating kit, and some critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief After spending almost a year cleaning up after various security snafus, the UK's Royal Mail has left an open redirect flaw on one of its sites, according to infosec types. We're told this vulnerability potentially exposes customers to malware infections and phishing attacks....

Musky launch outfit teases possible Friday fling for its colossal Starship Taiwan's contract manufacturer to the stars, Foxconn, has flown its first pair of satellites....

5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile Alibaba and JD.com have forged a new holiday tradition by discussing anything but the revenue generated by the nation's annual 11.11 "Singles' day" e-tail frenzy....

PLUS: Citrix quits China; Cambodia deports Japanese scammers; Chinese tech CEO disappears; and more Asia in brief Australia's National Cyber Security Coordinator has described an attack on logistics company DP World as a "nationally significant cyber incident."...

Also, the US DoJ says iMaker owes $25M for years of hiring discrimination Apple managed to escape a whopping 13 billion ($13.9 billion) tax bill in the European Union a few years ago, though now the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) is asking judges to take another look....

Marketers tell antitrust cops privacy proxy will make it harder to protect kids online, etc etc Exclusive Google's plan to prevent marketers from tracking Chrome users across different websites by anonymizing IP addresses is being challenged by, surprise surprise, a marketing advocacy group....

Tracking code and ad-block blocking breaks Euro computer law, privacy advocate claims Exclusive Facebook-owner Meta and Google's YouTube now face criminal complaints in Ireland for alleged unlawful surveillance of EU citizens via tracking scripts....

Hiring boom followed by firing bust? More tech jobs are on the chopping block this week, with Amazon, Google, Snap and Zillow all cutting staff....

Take this $34M, Lockheed Martin, and give us an uranium fission engine for electricity, heat, propulsion Lockheed Martin has been awarded $33.7 million by the US Air Force Research Laboratory to develop nuclear-powered electric propulsion systems for spacecraft....

Aerospace titan pores over data to see if dump is legit The LockBit crew is claiming to have leaked all of the data it stole from Boeing late last month, after the passenger jet giant apparently refused to pay the ransom demand....