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Industry facing burnout scare as workplace issues snowball The proportion of cybersecurity professionals reporting low "happiness ratings" has risen sharply over the last 12 months, raising concerns about increasing burnout rates in the industry....

Over a week later and barely any patches for the 10/10 vulnerability have been applied Security researchers have confirmed that ransomware criminals are capitalizing on a maximum-severity vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ....

Usage barely measurable so ax will swing on compression dinosaur The Theora video compression codec is finally being put out to pasture as Google pulls it from Chrome and Mozilla mulls the same for Firefox....

As more features come to Data Cloud, customers might want to keep an eye on consumption Cloud data warehouse biz Snowflake has launched a fully managed service designed to rid developers building LLMs into their applications of the onerous task of creating the supporting infrastructure....

The hits keep on coming for troubled ID management biz Updated Okta has sent out breach notifications to almost 5,000 current and former employees, warning them that miscreants breached one of its third-party vendors and stole a file containing staff names, social security numbers, and health or medical insurance plan numbers....

Right on time for results day Cloudflare is having a bad day amid reports of problems with its dashboard and API service following datacenter power issues....

Meanwhile, RISC-V has Uncle Sam rattled China's YMTC is being forced by US sanctions to raise fresh capital, as lawmakers continue to press for tougher action against Beijing, including restrictions on the RISC-V instruction set architecture....

Smartphone sales not nearly so bad and just think of the AI potential for margins Fiscal 2023 could be described as an annus horribilis for mobile chipmaker Qualcomm, but the company, like the smartphone market it sells into, sees better times just around the corner....

We will scan them on the beaches Britain has conducted a maritime trial to collect data for developing AI technology for the Ministry of Defence....

Otherwise known as 0x13 - and not coming to a desktop near you To celebrate Halloween this week, Windows veteran Raymond Chen has dug into the lengthy list of Windows bug check codes and come up with something obscure and vaguely threatening - the Thread Reaper....

Return to flight followed by a trip to Venus Rocket Lab's launch window for its long-awaited mission to Venus opens at the end of 2024 and stretches into 2025....

It's already available on this lightweight Debian spin A new version of the Trinity desktop is out, with a new window-snapping feature. And that's not the only way it's snappy....

Larry promised Brussels 'less risk and cost' and they believed it Oracle has signed a deal with the European Commission to provide Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and its platform services across EU administrations....

24 million more angry iPhone users get their turn to give iGiant a kicking The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal has allowed a case to proceed in which Apple will be accused of misleading iPhone users about the state of their smartphone batteries, potentially exposing Apple to a billion-dollar payout....

We'd make some kind of Sun sets joke here but it's too early in the morning Intel, Dell, and the University of Cambridge are today talking up Dawn, a UK supercomputer that's being deployed as you read this....

Scientists offer explanation for origin of two anomalous structures nestled within our world The remains of a giant ancient space rock that scientists believe collided with Earth billions of years may be hiding deep below Earth's surface, according to a research paper published in Nature on Wednesday....

Updated T&Cs reveal intent to restrict access under undefined circumstances Microsoft has changed the terms and conditions for its online services to include warning that excessive" users of its generative AI services will have their access restricted....

The day after Halloween, at a slightly less scary price than LG, HPE, and ASUS charge for their folding laptops Lenovo has finally delivered the ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 folding laptop, more than a year after teasing the device....

Won't say if it's LockBit, but LockBit appears to have claimed credit. Maybe payment, too Boeing has acknowledged a cyber incident just days after ransomware gang LockBit reportedly exfiltrated sensitive data from the aerospace defence contractor....

Alibaba service fined as Beijing calls for online platforms to name major creators and deploy kid-mode services China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has punished Alibaba-owned search engine Quark and livestreaming platform NetEase for content it deemed vulgar....

Of course, he would say that, wouldn't he? As the expiration date for the Feds' Section 702 surveillance powers draws closer, FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned a US Senate committee that his agents may not be able to stop the next major cyberattack if lawmakers allow the contentious spying authorization to lapse....

Changes gone down about as well as a hard reboot on a production DB IBM is set to shake up its retirement benefits in 2024 much to the alarm of at least some staff....

5,448 GraceHopper superchips and 200PFLOPS gets you somewhere in the global public top ten The UK government says it will cough up 225 million ($273 million) for a supercomputer capable of more than 200 petaFLOPS of double-precision performance, with the University of Bristol to house the machine and Nvidia providing the core computing components....

Advarra probes intrusion claims, says 'the matter is contained' Ransomware crooks claim they've stolen data from a firm that helps other organizations run medical trials after one of its executives had their cellphone number and accounts hijacked....

EU folks have no chill, not that we're complaining European officials have told Ireland's privacy watchdog to impose a ban on Meta's processing of personal data for behavioral advertising throughout the European single market within the next two weeks....

Middle Kingdom or self-immolation - there are a couple of theories The Mozi botnet has all but disappeared according to security folks who first noticed the prolific network's slowdown and then uncovered a kill switch for the IoT system. But they still have one unanswered question: "Who killed Mozi?"...

Have another great quarter? Time to get rid of some staff, then Enterprise analytics software specialist Splunk, which Cisco plans to purchase for $28 billion, has decided it needs to lay off 7 percent of the workforce....

Parts sent to Moscow allegedly found on Ukrainian battlefields Three Russian nationals were arrested in New York yesterday on charges of moving electronics components worth millions to sanctioned entities in Russia, pieces of which were later recovered on battlefields in Ukraine....

Better make sure you really need it on the day. Paid upfront and no modifications to orders allowed AWS has come up with a new money-making scheme - letting customers desperate for GPU resources pay to reserve them for scheduled dates and times, paid upfront, and with no order modification allowed....

Refresh rate glitch could leave MacBook Pro 14" and 16" models unbootable Asahi Linux, a project to port Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, has reported a combination of bugs in Apple's macOS that could leave users with hardware in a difficult-to-recover state....

Full extent of attacks unknown but telecoms thought to be especially exposed Vulnerabilities in F5's BIG-IP suite are already being exploited after proof of concept (PoC) code began circulating online....

No launch license until environmental investigation is complete SpaceX has inched a little closer to being granted a license for the next Starship launch after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it had completed the safety review of the company's Starship-Super Heavy license evaluation....

Neither Excel nor PowerPoint safe as baddies continue to find ways around protections Cybercriminals are once again abusing macro-enabled Excel add-in (XLL) files in malware attacks at a vastly increased rate, according to new research....

Tech leaders and politicos descend on Britland to thrash out regulation and governance UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today opened the global AI Safety Summit hosted in Britain, with guests including tech CEOs and heads of other nations set to discuss ways to keep the world safe amid AI development....

Chat chopped and Copilot preview still rolling out The next major Windows 11 update has lurched into the light, containing a few new enhancements as well as other features that have trickled out of Redmond over the last month or so....

Fresh strategies unveiled to balance military and commercial interests in space A lack of situational awareness capabilities is holding back Europe's ambitions in space, according to the chair of the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking Partnership (EU SST) - a group that is laboring to up the accuracy and quality of space tracking, particularly of orbiting debris....

RansomedVC owner takes to Telegram to flog criminal enterprise The short-lived RansomedVC ransomware operation is being shopped around by its owner, who is claiming to offer a 20 percent discount just a day after first listing it for sale....

Handle with care, but a native package is still a good sign Mozilla has published a native Debian package of Firefox - the pre-beta-test Nightly build, rather than the current released version....

All in the name of science, or just a political stunt? This week marks 25 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and became the oldest person to orbit the Earth....

Kaj Arno mulls cash crisis, de-listing threat, job cuts, and strategy rewrite at MySQL fork vendor Exclusive "We saw the dark clouds for a long, long while," MariaDB Foundation CEO Kaj Arno told The Register....

Pints, pork scratchings, and password-free Wi-Fi: The nearly perfect brew It may be a place of refuge for world-weary Brits, but the humble boozer is where they most fear Wi-Fi attacks....

In the lab, anyway As AI finds its way into some chip design workflows - resulting in neural networks helping design better processors for neural networks - Nvidia has shown off what can be done in that area with chatbots....

Watchdog reportedly well and truly out of love with App Store concessions and fee cuts Apple's amended App Store rules for dating apps in the Netherlands reportedly remain anticompetitive in the eyes of the Netherlands' Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM), raising the possibility that further changes will be required....

Chaebol reckons market is recovering and prices will rise. Analysts agree Samsung has posted another loss, but its semiconductor and memory business has shown signs of life, as inventories normalized and applications like AI drove demand for advanced products....

Nobody knows which state, but government never quite shrugged off claims it uses spyware Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors....

SAP and Oracle services provider Equine Global becomes part of Big Blue IBM has acquired Indonesian ERP consultancy Equine Global and signaled that the purchase represents a sign of its plans "to grow its footprint in the region."...

Proper function keys are the norm once more and the dream of a touchscreen Mac appears to be dead Comment Apple appears to have decided its controversial Touch Bar is no longer needed, as on Monday the last machine that included it - the 13-inch MacBook Pro - vanished from iGiant's site....

Screw it... no wait, unscrew it, cry boffins NASA's first-ever asteroid sample-collecting spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has had its mission extended - and will next visit Apophis, a near-Earth object expected to fly as close as 20,000 miles to our home planet in 2029....

'We're still in the final throes of getting every last member to sign' Top White House officials are working to secure an agreement between almost 50 countries to not pay ransom demands to cybercriminals as the international Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) summit gets underway in Washington DC Tuesday....

Cali jury decides 9-3 Muskmobile maker wasn't at fault when Model 3 veered into tree and exploded Tesla has prevailed in a crucial Autopilot death lawsuit in the US, with a jury today deciding the automaker's software wasn't at fault in a 2019 accident that killed a Model 3 owner and seriously injured two of passengers....