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911 is a joke Cisco has warned that its Emergency Responder product can send emergency services to the wrong location under some circumstances....

PLUS: Singapore intros AI safety tools; Satya Nadella fined by Indian gov; China stops influencers flaunting bling ASIA IN BRIEF China's Chang'e-6 Probe has landed on the far side of the Moon on Sunday....

In the not too distant future agency wants to found factories in the sky A space company with a troubled past has been thrown a possible lifeline by DARPA, which has awarded it a contract to demonstrate the first steps towards building an orbital factory....

Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot About 80 percent of the fake news shared on Twitter during the 2020 US presidential election came from just 0.3 percent of users, according to researchers from Israel and the US....

And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in! Kettle There's no avoiding AI and LLMs this year. The technology is being stuffed into everything, from office software to phone apps....

Who needs experts when you have an army of hand-picked super users telling you what you want to hear? Twitch has reportedly dismantled its Safety Advisory Council, and apparently plans to replace the panel with chosen "ambassadors."...

Refurbishing the next machine to come from the original inventor of the Mac Feature Vintage systems guru Cameron Kaiser documents stripping down and fixing a Canon Cat - the most revolutionary computer you've never heard of....

Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage Infosec analysts at Hudson Rock believe Snowflake was compromised by miscreants who used that intrusion to steal data on hundreds of millions of people from Ticketmaster, Santander, and potentially other customers of the cloud storage provider. Snowflake denies its security was defeated....

Similar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a far smaller scale Serial tech and digital privacy critic Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) laid into UnitedHealth Group's (UHG) CEO for appointing a CISO Wyden deemed "unqualified"- a decision he claims likely led to its ransomware catastrophe of late....

Owner ByteDance may be hedging its bets on overturning sale-or-ban bill Developers for the short video app TikTok have reportedly been working on creating a clone of its content algorithm specifically for use in the US since late last year....

Follows arrests and takedowns of recent days After the big dog revelations from the past week, the cops behind Operation Endgame are now calling for help in tracking down the brains behind the Emotet operation....

Suggesting people eat rocks or put glue on pizza? Yeah, that's some artificial intelligence right there Google has finally addressed those unhinged web search results seemingly generated by its AI, screenshots of which circulated far and wide on social media this past week....

Scared of editing a config file? There'll soon be a GUI for that The Windows Subsystem for Linux is due to receive a user interface for settings as well as management enhancements to make the platform more attractive to enterprise administrators....

Astronauts clamber around a mock-up, launch of the real thing is only 4 years away ESA and NASA astronauts are taking the opportunity to clamber around a mock-up of the Lunar I-Hab, a European habitat intended to form part of the Gateway in 2028....

Document database company asking sales peeps to target workloads with 'higher growth potential' MongoDB's valuation tanked by as much as a quarter last night after it lowered expectations for revenue growth during the rest of the year, disappointing investors....

Sector-agnostic group is after your data, wherever you are Infosec researchers revealed today a previously unknown cybercrime group that's been on the prowl for three years and is behaving like some of the more dangerous cyber baddies under Kim Jong-Un's watch....

The Reg talks to Donald Chamberlin, Michael Stonebraker and more about the legendary programming language Feature In the fifty years since SQL was first proposed, it has become the dominant query language for working with relational databases. As such, it underpins the transactions vital to the workings of government, business and the world's economy. But like many standards, its path to global domination is not been a straight one, and in the early years of its gestation, the story could have been very different....

Ongoing fossil fuel use means maybe it's time to revise that idea that AI will kill us with robots Coal-generated energy in the US is set to stick around longer than previously expected, to fulfill increasing demand from datacenters....

800,000 metric tons of cabling is just lying there Increasingly redundant copper wires may be worth over $7 billion to telecommunications firms, should they take the trouble to recycle them....

Starting Monday, users will gradually be warned the end is near On Monday, June 3, 2024, some people using Beta, Dev, and Canary builds of Google's Chrome browser will be presented with a warning banner when they access their extension management page - located at chrome://extensions....

Multiple folks are working on FOSS servers for classic messaging apps Multiple independent efforts are underway to save ICQ from extinction... as well as MSN, AIM, Yahoo! and more....

Tell us what's worse Reg readers: Microsoft support or taking your broken hardware into one of those stores UK owners of borked Surface laptops can now pop into their local Currys rather than deal with Microsoft's own support channels for their device....

An extra-robust, novice-friendly distro, with local apps, that's not ChromeOS EndlessOS 6 is a toughened and much-simplified immutable Debian 12 with a friendly GNOME-based desktop, aimed at kids, education, and novice users....

Working under a cone of silence isn't easy if you get smart On Call Register readers know the secret of tech support is that it's often made harder than necessary by the very customers who require it. Which is why each Friday we offer a fresh episode of On Call, our reader-contributed tales of icky incidents and hidden horrors that we hope create a chance to share misery in company....

Kremlin-aligned gang used Cloudflare and GitHub resources, and they didn't like that one bit Cloudflare's threat intel team claims to have thwarted a month-long phishing and espionage attack targeting Ukraine which it has attributed to Russia-aligned gang FlyingYeti....

Has already hiked prices to cope and is prepared to do it again while you wait for boxes with Nvidia inside Dell believes the cost of DRAM and solid state disks (SSDs) will jump by 15 to 20 percent in the second half of 2024, and will adjust its prices accordingly to pass on the pain....

Whatever gear storied cycling site Wiggle used didn't propel it to a successful sale after the biz hit bumps If there's a MAMIL in your life - a Middle Aged Man in Lycra - you may have heard them lament the recent collapse of UK-based cycling and outdoor goods website Wiggle, which has been revealed to have had IT infrastructure in a state that scared away prospective buyers....

Tropical nation ends DC build hiatus and calls for energy optimization everywhere - even software Singapore will offer incentives aimed at encouraging enterprises to upgrade their hardware fleets, as part of a Green Data Centre Roadmap announced yesterday....

Source and motive of 'Pumpkin Eclipse' assault unknown Unknown miscreants broke into more than 600,000 routers belonging to a single ISP late last year and deployed malware on the devices before totally disabling them, according to security researchers....

That said, use of generative ML to sway public opinion may not always be weak sauce OpenAI on Thursday said it has disrupted five covert influence operations that were attempting to use its AI services to manipulate public opinion and elections....

OTOH, 'If we chase a shiny object, we could put ourselves in a perilous position' California Governor Gavin Newsom wants his state's legislators to know that he appreciates their efforts to put the home of Silicon Valley at the forefront of AI regulation, but he's still concerned heavy-handed laws could stifle innovation....

We hired you for one job... Tesla has slammed advisory firm Glass Lewis after its recommendation that shareholders vote against CEO Elon Musk's $44.9 billion pay package and the automaker relocation to Texas....

Narco kingpins aren't coming for your apes, but internet con artists still are The US Treasury Department has assessed the risk of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) being used for illicit finance, and has found them wanting for lack of proper roadblocks preventing illegal applications....

And with up to 960MW of capacity on the table, that may only be the beginning Amazon's nuclear-powered cloud campus in Pennsylvania, USA, will reportedly be home to more than a dozen new datacenters over the next decade....

Rosenworcel suggests bringing risk down to 1 in 1,000 for debris-emitting blasts - will other countries play ball? The chair of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has called on the US watchdog to tighten up rules that aim to prevent accidental satellite explosions that would litter Earth's orbit with debris....

Customize and replace it all with one tool Fans of repairable and upgradeable kit will be pleased to hear that the latest version of Framework Computer's 13in laptop sports Intel Core Ultra CPUs along with a hi-res display module and an improved webcam option....

Uncle Sam wants Maven Smart System to be in use across DoD by 2029 Palantir is unlikely to put critics at ease with its latest US government contract: A $480 million award from the Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) to get the data-gobbling biz's Maven AI warfighting code in the hands of the entire DoD....

Sky shipping can now go beyond visual range of operators - starting in Texas and then maybe airspace near you Amazon Prime Air has received approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration to fly its package-delivery drones beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) of remote operators....

Rival AT&T is also with AST, although T-Mobile went with SpaceX's Starlink Verizon has become the latest telco to sign up for a satellite phone service, joining rival US operator AT&T in choosing AST SpaceMobile as its provider, even though the latter has yet to put any of its commercial satellites into orbit....

Operation Endgame just beginning: 'Stay tuned,' says Europol An international law enforcement operation led by Europol has kicked off with the announcement of multiple arrests, searches, seizures and takedowns of malware droppers and their operators....

Avoidance of evil intent means required SMB signing and no more guest fallback Microsoft's Ned Pyle has issued a warning to Windows 11 24H2 users. Security has been tightened up, so attempting to access some third-party Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices or a USB drive plugged into certain routers might fail....

Latest nozzle redesign means a late 2024 launch is on the cards The European Space Agency (ESA) is getting closer to returning its Vega-C rocket to flight following a successful test by the prime contractor, Avio, at its Italian test facility....

Allure of AI fails to inspire customers to increase software spending with CRM giant Salesforce has disappointed investors by posting revenue below expectation and forecasting sales for the next quarter at the lowest level of growth for more than two decades....

This just in: We lost your personal info, but here's 2 years' worth of Experian The BBC has emailed more than 25,000 current and former employees on one of its pension schemes after an unauthorized party broke into a database and stole their personal data....

His hospital employer is also being sued for not stepping in sooner In an ongoing civil lawsuit, an IT worker is accused of launching a "destructive cyber campaign of hate and revenge" against a police officer and his family after being issued with a ticket for jaywalking....

More work needed to translate ISS success into something that can be used on Earth Boffins have used conditions aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to try out treatments for posttraumatic osteoarthritis....

Five current and former employees file formal charges with US employment watchdog Exclusive Kyndryl, the IT services firm spun out of IBM, has been accused by multiple employees within its CISO Defense security group of discrimination on the basis of age, race, and disability, in both internal complaints and formal charges filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)....

More cybercrime means more problems and understaffed teams stretched to the limit Managed Service Partners (MSPs) say cybersecurity dwarfs all other main concerns about staying competitive in today's market....

Welcome to the 'agentic' era Video The GenAI Summit 2024 opened at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, and the people, who came to hear about artificial intelligence, had made a mess of things....

Samsung, SK, Kioxia and others make bank, booking double digit bounces in Q1 revenue NAND flash industry revenue is surfing a growth wave thanks to demand for solid state drives (SSDs) in AI servers, meaning increased prices for buyers as OEMs rush to stockpile components....