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Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan launch in 2025 India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will send a humanoid robot astronaut into this space this year, then send it back alongside actual humans in 2025 on its long-delayed Gaganyaan orbital mission....

Procurement process in 2011 deal raises suspicions Indian authorities want to ask IBM and SAP about potentially criminal actions that saw the two tech giants engaged for a 2011 ERP project at Air India....

Everyone should be free to trust AI to make their financial decisions, without knowing if it's also used against them Republican senators are attempting to block the US Securities and Exchange Commission's proposal to restrict financial investment firms' use of AI....

Longtime host Caesars ends relationship at short notice It's an annual meme that DEF CON infosec conference has been canceled, but this time it actually happened....

Sure, datacenters consume lots of energy. But maybe they'll invent stuff that helps It's well established that the tens of thousands of GPUs used to train large language models (LLMs) consume a prodigious amount of energy, leading to warnings about their potential impact on Earth's climate....

Dorsey-backed federated social media alternative promises custom feed algos, and more There's no need to fret if you lost your invite code to decentralized Twitter spinoff Bluesky - the service has thrown open its doors to all comers....

Program that gets the hard-up online needs money by May The US Federal Communications Commission will not accept new signups by folks for its subsidized internet broadband program after Thursday, as it's running out of money to fund the initiative....

Firefox maker promises to lean on personal info brokers to scrub records Mozilla on Tuesday expanded its free privacy-monitoring service with a paid-for tier called Mozilla Monitor Plus that will try to get data brokers to delete their copies of subscribers' personal information....

Will apply 'penalties if they fail to do so' Meta is building tools to detect, identify, and label AI-generated images shared via its social media platforms. It is also testing large language models to automatically moderate content online....

Telco says it's a private matter, data 'not shared externally' Verizon is notifying more than 63,000 people, mostly current employees, that an insider, accidentally or otherwise, had inappropriate access to their personal data....

They're back - and more oblivious than ever Comment If you've paid any attention to social media in the past four days, it's likely you haven't been able to escape the torrent of photos and videos of people wearing Apple's new $3,499 headset in public, tapping away at empty space in front of them, rudely waving at cars, or sporting a pair while driving a Tesla....

Fancy a mainframe that runs Linux? You'll need deep pockets IBM has pushed out a new member of its LinuxONE enterprise-grade Linux lineup that it hopes will appeal to small and medium-sized businesses, but the price tag is unlikely to recommend it to many buyers in this market....

Attack happened in 2023 using a bespoke backdoor, confirming year-old suspicions Dutch authorities are lifting the curtain on an attempted cyberattack last year at its Ministry of Defense (MoD), blaming Chinese state-sponsored attackers for the espionage-focused intrusion....

Despite EV commitment, German giant tells Musk marque to buzz off German software giant SAP has reportedly elected not to buy new electric cars from Tesla, the EV manufacturer led by Elon Musk....

Still no word on how the intruders broke in or the full extent of any possible data compromise Global securities finance tech company EquiLend's systems are now back online after announcing a disruptive ransomware attack nearly two weeks ago....

Everything's fine, but a fastening fell off when it shouldn't have Virgin Galactic has reported itself to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after discovering a detached alignment pin from the mechanism used to keep its suborbital spaceplane attached to the mothership aircraft....

Pair still looking to merge after SK hynix blocked deal Japan is set to provide more subsidies for chip companies Kioxia and Western Digital to boost memory production. The move follows reports that a cancelled merger between the two could be on again....

Admins should get a move on while info is scarce and exploits aren't yet available Fortinet's FortiSIEM product is vulnerable to two new maximum-severity security vulnerabilities that allow for remote code execution....

More changes required in wake of ERP go-live that left staff and suppliers waiting for payment Scotland's University of Edinburgh has awarded systems integrator and support company Inoapps an additional 3.6 million ($4.5 million) contract fee for "changes in requirements and additional work" following a troubled implementation of Oracle that left staff and suppliers paid late....

Company burned through $61.6M in investment Former cloud native darling Weaveworks has announced that it is closing its doors after failing to get acquired and suffering from a "volatile" cash position....

'Noble Numbat' users will face a major post-install upgrade, which isn't ideal The next major release of KDE Plasma is getting close, but not close enough for the next major Ubuntu release....

How good are your takedowns when fresh gangs are linked to previous ops, though? At least 25 new ransomware gangs emerged in 2023, with Akira and 8Base proving the most "successful," research reveals....

Provisional deal will mean companies cannot 'hinder repair' The European Parliament has reached a provisional deal on EU regulations to strengthen consumers' right to repair....

'We have it! Let's use it' proclaims the most warlike GPT-4-Base When high school student David Lightman inadvertently dials into a military mainframe in the 1983 movie WarGames, he invites the supercomputer to play a game called "Global Thermonuclear Warfare." Spoiler: This turns out not to be a very good idea....

The Future Circular Collider, if built, will be three times the size of the LHC CERN wants to build a next-generation particle accelerator that could cost up to 20 billion....

Just in time to cash in on VMware and Citrix uncertainty Microsoft has announced that its Azure Virtual Desktop offering is available on-prem....

What a surprise, said no one Samsung chairman Lee Jae-yong was acquitted of stock manipulation charges related to a 2015 company merger in Seoul Central District Court on Monday....

Australia's Appen boasted of clients including Amazon and Microsoft. Then work dried up, Gen AI arrived, and Google bailed AI is so hot right now, and assumed to be the future of everything. But troubles at an Australian AI developer show the field is not all sunshine and roses....

The stakes are high because the disputed items - photoresists - are essential for EUV lithography The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY RF) is suing a subsidiary of Japan's JSR Corporation over claims that photoresist materials developed by the foundation were commercialized and patented illegally....

Except for the data used for a controversial murder investigation. That stays. Forever Singapore's government announced on Monday it had deleted almost all the personal data collected from its COVID tracking systems - TraceTogether (TT) and SafeEntry (SE) - as of February 1. Almost....

Chocolate Factory matches Microsoft money for memory safety Google on Monday donated $1 million to the Rust Foundation specifically to improve interoperability between the language and C++....

Creeps on notorious bulletin board 4Chan reportedly decided to humiliate prominent women The viral lewd deepfake images of popstar Taylor Swift reportedly stemmed from an online competition on 4chan, challenging contestants to break AI software content filters....

At this point you might be better off just shutting the stuff down Various miscreants are attempting to exploit the latest Ivanti flaw, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-21893 that can be used to hijack equipment....

The melding of Neoverse cores and x86 giant's latest process tech was bound to happen eventually Intel Foundry Services (IFS) has found a customer in Faraday Technology, which plans to fab its Arm Neoverse-based processors using the x86 giant's 18A process tech....

What is on HHS paper will most likely become law, Google security boss says Interview If you are responsible for infosec at a US hospital or other healthcare organization, and you treat the government's new "voluntary" cybersecurity performance goals (CPGs) as, well, voluntary, you're ignoring the writing on the wall....

Supplier to beleagered US aerospace giant spots problem, which would not be an 'immediate flight safety issue' US aerospace giant Boeing is set to delay the deliveries of nearly 50 of its popular 737 Max aircraft after a supplier discovered a series of incorrectly drilled rivet holes....

Horse, meet stable door AnyDesk has copped to an IT security "incident" in which criminals broke into the remote-desktop software maker's production systems. The biz has told customers to expect disruption as it attempts to lock down its infrastructure....

Our survey shows you like your away-from-office comforts Every week we run a reader survey at the bottom of articles and the results for last week's question on home working made for interesting reading....

Buy 'em, rent 'em, smuggle 'em - export restrictions don't cover illegitimate means US trade restrictions have made it harder for Chinese companies and government agencies to get their hands on advanced semiconductor technologies, but apparently not impossible....

Look Ma: no tether! It is 40 years since the iconic image of Bruce McCandless II, floating free and untethered above the Earth while testing out the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), was snapped from the Space Shuttle Challenger....

It isn't just the price that makes your eyes look so weird Tech repair champ iFixit has disassembled Apple's newly released Vision Pro headset and came up with an explanation for why the EyeSight display looks so weird....

It's the second Chicago hospital to disclose a major incident in the same week For the second time in one week, cybercriminals have targeted a Chicago children's hospital, this time causing significant operational disruption....

Five months after cloud love-in, critics worry about costs of deploying Oracle hardware and DBs in Microsoft's cloud As the dust settles on Microsoft's decision to house Oracle hardware in its datacenters, experts keeping a close eye on Big Red's commercials are warning customers to tread carefully when choosing the transition....

Shares in French IT giant plummet 25% Ailing tech integrator Atos is in talks with creditors on refinancing options for debt following the cancellation of its 720 million ($774 million) rights issue and ongoing uncertainty over efforts to split the company to secure its future....

Plus: Another lawyer is in trouble for citing fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT, and more AI In Brief More than half of undergraduates in the UK are using AI to complete their assignments, according to a study conducted by the Higher Education Policy Institute....

You were warned AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow....

CEO Peter Beck on the future of commercial launches and not raining debris over national reserves Interview Rocket Lab is a relatively small player in a launcher marketplace dominated by governments and billionaires. However, despite some notable anomalies, the company is starting 2024 with a packed schedule and grand plans for the future....

After car-crash implementation, Birmingham City Council must weigh up options after current problems are fixed Auditors of Europe's largest local government body say it's time to decide whether to grind on with a rollout of Oracle - an ERP project set to be five times over-budget and which has shattered the council's financial reporting - or choose another system....

The one thing you don't want your data security to be is, er, edgy Opinion Are you a Windows user? How many spoons do you own? Have you counted them lately? The reason we ask is due to the old adage, "the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." When it comes to the tech giants, they like to talk about their commitment to data security a whole lot, but by Jiminy they like rifling through your cutlery drawer while they're doing it....

What is it? It's an instrument used to train pilots, but that's not important right now who, me? Welcome once again, gentle reader, to another instalment of Who, Me? - the Monday missive in which Reg readers share stories of occasions on which their prowess didn't quite meet tech repair challenges....