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And the windows are opened to 6.10 in September or so Linux kernel 6.9 is here, with many under-the-covers improvements that won't be very visible to users, but which tidy things up, fix bugs, and pave the way for future changes....

Going once, going twice, going offline Christie's website remains offline as of Monday after a "technology security issue" shut it down Thursday night - just days before the venerable auction house planned to flog $840 million of art....

Either they learned to brake-check or motorcycles were following too close The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating two rear-end crashes involving Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving cars and motorcycles....

Emergency ambulances diverted while experts restore systems Multiple US security agencies have published advisories on Black Basta after the ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the recent attack on US healthcare provider Ascension....

Catz talks up company's feel-good efforts... Just don't mention the margins Oracle CEO Safra Catz has opened up about the motives driving the world-dominating enterprise software, database and cloud company forward....

Pundit tells The Reg Intel could suffer the effects of retaliation The Biden administration is reportedly set to quadruple Chinese electric vehicle tariffs as part of an onslaught of increased taxes on imports from the country....

Another huge investment for chip giant despite losses Intel is holding negotiations with private equity investor Apollo Global Management to secure $11 billion in funding for a manufacturing facility in Ireland....

Time for 22H2, the LTSC version, or perhaps something completely different? Microsoft is warning customers still clinging to Windows 10 21H2 that mere weeks of servicing remain for enterprise and education users....

M4? The M3 is barely six months old, and what about all those Macs still stuck on the M2? When will they get some love? Comment Apple seems to have skipped a few steps in its silicon roadmap....

Unusually high activity from Sun may have also hastened Hubble's demise The geomagnetic storm that led to nighttime light shows over the weekend also caused problems for the Starlink satellite broadband service, disrupted GPS signals, and affected the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope....

Hint: It's the 'the largest' maker of a key computer component RSAC An unnamed tech business hired IBM's X-Force penetration-testing team to break in and search for security vulnerabilities in their networks....

Plus Foxconn defends Wisconsin efforts, Korea to spend on chips, and more Asia in brief SoftBank-owned Arm is reportedly preparing to add AI chips to its product portfolio starting in 2025....

Reports suggest an end of May IPO and a valuation of up to half a billion A flotation of the company behind the Raspberry Pi computer could come sooner rather than later, according to reports....

Those with a delicate constitution, look away now It is rare that the world of vintage desktop operating systems and trashy Euro-pop collide, but on Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest they did, and the results were as baffling as they were explosive....

Intelligence-sharing platform remains down for maintenance Europol is investigating a cybercriminal's claims that they stole confidential data from a number of the agency's sources....

It's called Copilot Runway, not run away IBM Consulting has boarded the Microsoft Copilot bandwagon with Copilot Runway, a service aimed at assisting businesses to integrate their own AI assistants into their workflows....

NHS England's own survey also reveals suspicions that it would sell data to third parties Four out of five patients worry NHS IT systems may be vulnerable to cyber attacks while around half are concerned that the world's largest single health system will sell their data, according to a recent survey....

With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot ISC Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora supercomputer has officially breached the exaflop barrier, but, once again, it's fallen short of unseating Oak Ridge's Frontier system for the number one spot on this spring's Top500....

But breaking E2EE and blanket bans aren't thinking at all Opinion If your cranky uncle was this fixated about anything, you'd always be somewhere else at Christmas. Yet here we are again. Europol has been sounding off at Meta for harming children. Not for the way it's actually harming children, but because - repeat after me - end-to-end encryption is hiding child sexual abuse material from the eyes of the law. "E2EE = CSAM" is the new slogan of fear....

Ah, just nod and smile when they talk about Britain and Europe American GPU cloud operator CoreWeave is expanding its operations across the pond, setting up a new European headquarters in London and revealing plans to build a pair of AI datacenters in the UK, all valued at 1 billion ($1.3 billion)....

'Everybody's learning as they go. But there's a rush to get these apps out' RSAC As corporations rush full tilt to capitalize on the AI craze and bring machine-learning-based apps to market, they aren't paying enough attention to application security, says AWS Chief Information Security Office Chris Betz....

Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him? who, me? Monday again? It seems like only yesterday it was Sunday. Oh well, that means it's time to kick off the working week with a dose of Who, Me? - The Reg's weekly confessional, where readers share tales of tech mischief and misadventure....

Plus: Google patches another Chrome security hole, and more Infosec in brief Encrypted email service Proton Mail is in hot water again from some quarters, and for the same thing that earned it flack before: Handing user data over to law enforcement....

As gang tactics get nastier while attacks hit all-time highs Interview Ransomware hit an all-time high last year, with more than 60 criminal gangs listing at least 4,500 victims - and these infections don't show any signs of slowing....

McKinsey's solution? Reach out to middle schoolers The US semiconductor industry is said to be struggling to hire as well as retain staff as the country cranks up its chipmaking capacity to reduce its reliance on foreign supplies....

Turns out the See 'n Say folks might have been on to something AI researchers looking for better ways to train large language models are turning to the masters of language acquisition - children - to find out how it's done....

Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi tells us what's needed to defend vital networks Interview Take a glance at the cybersecurity headlines of late, and you'll see a familiar phrase that keeps cropping up: Critical infrastructure....

Advertiser takes super-forum to court after demand for evidence rebuffed Reddit was sued by an unhappy advertiser who claims that internet giga-forum sold ads but provided no way to verify that real people were responsible for clicking on them....

Elon Musk wonders why so many sour Krauts Attempts by climate protesters to storm Tesla's Berlin gigafactory were foiled by German police on Friday, with 16 arrests made....

Sheesh, you just can't trust anything on the internet, huh? OpenAI, the maker of many chatbots and taker of much Microsoft money, denies it's planning to unveil a web search engine on Monday....

Of course the FAA wants a look at the environmental impact of Musk's plans SpaceX's Starship is coming to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida - and its plan to use the launch facility means the Federal Aviation Administration will probe the potential environmental impact of Elon Musk's most powerful rockets blasting off the US East Coast....

Musk's motor biz? Monitoring labor activists? Surely not! The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is taking Tesla back to the hearing chamber, this time to settle whether it interfered with the organizing rights of employees at its factory in Buffalo, New York....

Northern Lights may be visible way further south than usual thanks to outbursts from our Sun Video The US National Weather Service has issued a warning that a G4 solar storm will lash Earth from Friday until Sunday....

But China's the most technologically advanced Interview China remains the biggest cyber threat to the US government, America's critical infrastructure, and its private-sector networks, the nation's intelligence community has assessed....

That other processor company is gaining ground, says Mercury Research Intel continues to rule the roost in the PC chip market, but AMD is gaining ground in server, desktop, and mobile, according to the latest figures from Mercury Research....

Industry looks towards genAI, interest rate cuts for reprieve as America hangs onto its old phones The US smartphone market registered yet another year-over-year decline in shipments in the first calendar quarter, this time down eight percent compared to Q1 2023....

Not a lotto luck for these powerball hunters More than half a million gamblers with a penchant for powerballs will be receiving some fairly unwelcome news very soon, if not already, as cybercriminals have made off with their personal data....

Spaceplane to be shipped to Kennedy Space Center for launch on a Vulcan Centaur Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spaceplane is finally set to launch in 2024 after completing its latest set of tests at NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility....

First big update of the go-to Linux for newer Macs Lagging the mainstream edition by a couple of weeks, the Asahi-flavored version of Fedora 40 is here - redolent with KDE Plasma 6....

Major intrusions by both China and Russia leave a lot to be answered for The US government wants to make Microsoft's vice chair and president, Brad Smith, the latest tech figurehead to field questions from a House committee on its recent cybersecurity failings....

Cameras tested are specced for Baidu's Apollo Six boffins mostly hailing from Singapore-based universities say they can prove it's possible to interfere with autonomous vehicles by exploiting the machines' reliance on camera-based computer vision and cause them to not recognize road signs....

Competition heats up while profits cool down Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is the latest to warn of a potential oversupply in the global market, saying there is an increasingly fierce price war for less advanced silicon in its domestic arena....

'This was a no sh*tter' RSAC A malware-laced USB stick, inserted into a military laptop at a base in Afghanistan in 2008, led to what has been called the worst military breach in US history, and to the creation of the US Cyber Command....

The deepfake dystopia we've been waiting for has already arrived TikTok intends to begin labelling AI-generated images and videos uploaded to its video-sharing service....

Sometimes your own invention just isn't enough anymore Interview The co-author of SQL, the standardized query language for relational databases, has come out in support of the NoSQL database movement that seeks to escape the tabular confines of the RDBMS....

Someone in marketing may be getting fired for this Comment "This is who we are, this is what we stand for," said Apple co-founder Steve Jobs shortly before he relaunched the company in 1997 with its iconic Think Different marketing campaign. This week, the consumer tech giant showed the world its true colors and some were not impressed....

HashiCorp's programs are ideal fit for IBM/Red Hat's software lines, but why buy the company when the software's free and open? Opinion In some ways, IBM paying a cool $6.4 billion for HashiCorp makes perfect sense. HashiCorp's infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool Terraform is very popular and would work well with Red Hat Ansible. And, yes, I've heard the joke about how if you put them together, you'd get "Terrible."...

One, two, three, four is all you need to pass that door Rolling hot off the heels of World Password Day (groan), every May 2 we hacks generally receive hundreds of emails from PR companies repping their respective infosec pros, all espousing their expert opinions on how to create an "iron-clad" or "military-grade" password, or something equally cringey....

Five-star techies share stories of working from the lap of luxury On Call On Call is on vacation this week, so it seems appropriate to share a couple of the stories sent our way after our recent tale of a support contract that saw a techie required to spend a weekend in a $5,000/night hotel suite....

CPU-heavy big iron boasts Intel's HBM-packed Xeons and a tiny complement of Nvidia H100s Boffins in Italy are about to get their hands on a supercomputer that will more than double the resources available to study the effects of climate change....