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Scott Small tells us gang's 'intent and capability' should get the attention of CSOs Interview It might not be as big a name as BlackCat or LockBit, but the Akira ransomware is every bit as dangerous, says one cybersecurity researcher - and it's poised to make a big impact....

Lessons learned from the infosec chief convicted and punished for covering up theft of data from taxi app maker Interview Joe Sullivan - the now-former Uber chief security officer who was found guilty of covering-up a theft of data from Uber in 2016 - remembers sitting down and thinking through the worst-case scenarios he faced following that guilty verdict in 2022....

We all grab a mic and discuss Nvidia, Intel, AMD, strange squid, and a certain CEO's ego Kettle Well, that was Computex 2024. A week of Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others talking up the hardware and software they intend to roll out to the world over the next year or so....

ANDES, in the Andes, is predicted to find the first Population III mega-star The European Southern Observatory (ESO) this week signed a deal with a group of scientific institutions to build a spectrograph that can scan space for the chemical signatures of alien life....

Breaking breaking-news news A 4chan user claims to have leaked 270GB of internal New York Times data, including source code and other web assets, via the notorious image board....

How's your RPKI-based security plan coming along? Feds want to know US broadband providers will soon have to provide proof to Uncle Sam that they are taking steps to prevent Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking and locking down internet routing in general....

Researchers get 4 years, a small pot of cash, and long row to hoe before making tech practical by next decade The Biden administration is still chasing its fusion energy dreams, announcing new strategies and some funding - albeit a relatively paltry amount - to iron out kinks in a future fusion pilot plant....

Criminals expected to counter Tesla truck with water guns and driving offroad A California company has retrofitted a third-party tactical version of Tesla's Cybertruck for the police, though it's not clear if this is really the vehicle officers will want to use....

Windows maker acknowledges 'clear signal' from everyone, then mostly ignores it Microsoft is not giving up on its controversial Windows Recall, though says it will give customers an option to opt in instead of having it on by default, and will beef up the security of any data the software stores....

This one only produces errors 65 percent of the time. Woo-hoo! The issue of quantum supremacy - the point at which quantum computers are able to demonstrate a tangible advantage over classical systems - is dicey to say the least....

Company says just names and SSNs affected, watering down RansomHub's claims Frontier Communications has confirmed more than 750,000 individuals were affected in an April cyberattack on its systems, according to a regulatory filing....

And you thought the Raspberry Pi 5 was getting expensive... The Raspberry Pi IPO could see the company given a market capitalization of 540 million ($686 million) amid speculation that shares may be priced around 2.80 ($3.56)....

Short bread's plenty appetizing as dough hungry traders and analysts voice scepticism on endless growth Nvidia is currently riding high on the back of the generative AI wave, yet some believe the GPU champ will have a limited time in the sunlit uplands and are betting that its share price will soon fall....

Researchers were able to glean data from 10,000 meetings held by top Dutch gov officials Cisco squashed some bugs this week that allowed anyone to view WebEx meeting information and join them, potentially opening up security and privacy concerns for highly sensitive meets....

How do you say something's crash-prone without saying it's crash-prone ... Microsoft is adding the ability for Voice Access to automatically pick itself up should the service fall over....

Customers remain cautious about adoption, while analysts warn of unforeseen costs SAP marked its annual shindig in Orlando this week by pulling the sheets off of AI features for its popular enterprise application platform, but failed to impress analysts attending....

He needs that compensation because he's easily dist- oo a piece of candy! With a week to go until Tesla's Annual Stockholders' Meeting, board chair Robyn Denholm has written to investors to make sure they ratify CEO Elon Musk's monster pay package - apparently out of fear he could walk....

Pricing, licensing, ease of switching and more under the microscope The UK's competition watchdog says that Microsoft has a significant degree of market power" in key software products, and that its licensing practices may therefore influence customer choice of cloud providers....

It was the best of times for space fans SpaceX and Boeing both had reasons to celebrate last night: Starship had a successful fourth flight test and Starliner docked with the International Space Station (ISS)....

But do they get to wear 'I DDoSed' stickers? A Russian hacktivist crew has threatened to attack European internet infrastructure as four days of EU elections begin on Thursday....

And it's time to upgrade any Mantic Minotaurs you have lying around Canonical has followed up the latest LTS release of Ubuntu with real-time and IoT editions, while ushering the last interim release into retirement....

And customers are sweating their hardware assets for longer Fewer and fewer pages are being printed at home and in the office, posing something of a challenge for HP and its rivals....

Lies, damned lies, and lies told by end-users who do their own tech support On Call With another working week almost done, The Register once again offers a fresh instalment of On Call, our reader-contributed tale of tech support trials and tribulations....

Spammers will probably bid to buy it, so community is trying to find a better home for decades-old service Exclusive The Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS) - a longstanding source of info on known sources of spam widely used to create blocklists - has been shuttered by its owner, cyber security software vendor Proofpoint....

Members stop work - on a day many take off, anyway - in pursuit of better conditions Around 28,000 Samsung workers upset over wages may have walked out in protest today, but probably used their holiday allowance to do so. Rampant industrial militancy, this is not....

The long and largely unsuccessful effort to turn IBM's x86 server business into consistent profit continues Lenovo has announced the departure of Kirk Skaugen, the head of its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) - the enterprise tech arm of the Chinese hardware giant....

You upgraded when this was fixed in April, right? Right?? If you haven't yet upgraded to version 1.3.0 of Apache HugeGraph, now's a good time because at least two proof-of-concept exploits for a CVSS 9.8-rated remote command execution bug in the open-source graph database have been made public....

Knowing your supplier is always good - and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Helion to get access to the startup's not-yet-possible nuclear fusion-driven electricity generators....

City known for blues, BBQ, and now possibly the 'world's largest supercomputer' xAI plans to build the "world's largest supercomputer" in Memphis, Tennessee according to the city's local government....

There's also an off switch The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo search engine that \ has introduced AI Chat, an optional, free chatbot service - within limits - that provides a choice of models and "can be easily switched off."...

Oracle, Nvidia accused of working with ByteDance, others to provide access to advanced parts within America Chinese companies blocked from getting their hands on cutting-edge AI chips have reportedly been buying access to sanctioned hardware on US soil to avoid raising alarms....

Jury in San Francisco finds founder plus finance VP not guilty Mike Lynch, founder and CEO of Autonomy, has been acquitted of criminal fraud and conspiracy charges arising from the 2011 sale of the British software company to Hewlett-Packard....

The bad news? Gang wasn't deleting victim data after payments LockBit victims who are still trying to clean up their encrypted files are in luck: the FBI has a big set of decryption keys it would love to let you try....

New red-tape will cost us big, American ISPs and their lobbyists claim Telecom industry organizations have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to halt its order to restore net neutrality....

Update that triggered user rage didn't really change much - software company has always been able to scan your stuff A practically ancient terms-of-use update has landed Adobe in freshly boiled water over how the Photoshop giant gives itself the right to review user content stored in its cloud....

Network scan reveals 26 percent of Linux boxes are CentOS 7, EOL later this month. What happens next? Lansweeper's scans of its customers' networks found an awful lot of Linux boxes facing imminent end of life, with no direct upgrade path. This, for clarity, is a very bad thing....

This study is bad, so so bad. The worst study ever. Did you know Hillary Clinton created ISIS? After convicted criminal and twice impeached former president Donald Trump and 70,000 other accounts were booted from Twitter following the January 6 riots, the spread of misleading information on the platform fell....

Opt out or prepare for your posts to be ingested Meta's plans to use customer data in AI training have resulted in complaints to data protection authorities in 11 European countries....

Hmm... world's most valuable companies furthest ahead with world's most coveted tech. WCGW? Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia are set to be investigated for potential antitrust violations with regard to their dominant positions in the burgeoning AI industry, according to reports....

Just a wet dress rehearsal left before debut launch The much-delayed Ariane 6 rocket is scheduled to launch on July 9 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana....

Trend Micro says cloudy email scans trigger GDPR warnings that deter users. Local models that use NPUs don't Computex Trend Micro has outlined how it will tailor its desktop security software for AI PCs, and thinks it might improve security in ways that normal, bog-standard PCs can't match....

Funds are currently seized after being sent to offshore accounts The US Justice Department is seeking permission to recover more than $5 million worth of funds stolen from a trade union by business email compromise (BEC) scammers....

You're not a 1985 truther, are you? We hate to be the ones to break it to all you El Reg readers, but we're informed the classic video game Tetris is turning 40....

Restructure saga kicked into next week, investors unamused Crisis-ridden tech giant Atos has further delayed a decision on its restructuring, putting back until next week the choice of a rescue package to reduce the company's debt and get its finances back in shape....

Time to get moving if you still rely on this deprecated feature Microsoft has finally decided to add the venerable NTLM authentication protocol to the Deprecated Features list....

Coming SiB boom will be a Chinese one while the West is years behind, industry watcher tells us Interview The burgeoning sodium ion battery industry is poised for a big year, says one analyst, though the US and its friends may miss out as China whizzes by....

Experts say Big Red will probably re-release patch in an upcoming cycle A seven-year-old Oracle vulnerability is the latest to be added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog, meaning the security agency considers it a significant threat to federal government....

Someone noticed Britain's about to elect a new govt, amirite? The latest CEO of UK telecoms giant BT says that Scandinavian nations are far more developed than Britain when it comes to telco infrastructure, and the government needs to overhaul regulations to fix this....

What's that Lassie? Our nefarious AI overlords are about to take over the world? You must be barking People who want to understand their dogs might be about to be given a helping paw by AI, according to the latest study....

As tool emerges to probe OS feature's SQLite-based store of user activities Asked to explore the data privacy issues arising from Microsoft Recall, the Windows maker's poorly received self-surveillance tool, Jaime Teevan, chief scientist and technical fellow at Microsoft Research, brushed aside concerns....