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Paperwork confirms parent paid $16B for 25% stake held by Vision Fund Arm on Monday publicly filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq stock market, under the ticker ARM....

NB: That will involve handing over your selfies and other personal info to AI outfits to experiment with The US government hopes to add face-based logins to .gov websites - though first it wants to check whether this technology is as biased or unreliable as experts warn....

If spies aren't swiping designs via joint ventures, they're breaking into IT networks and mulling sat hijackings With America outspending the rest of the world on space technologies, those systems and their blueprints are a highly alluring and lucrative target for sticky-fingered spies, Uncle Sam has reminded industry....

Trade org board members petitioning Uncle Sam are who's who of Big Tech Eight US tech-related trade associations penned a letter last week to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and trade ambassador Katherine Tai to oppose India's new import licensing requirement for PCs and other tech kit....

Pioneer of hidden-line removal, co-inventor of Postscript and PDF, author of Illustrator, and charitable benefactor Obit As the creator or co-creator of much of the technology that made Apple's Macintosh and modern computer graphics in general a success, John Warnock's impact is beyond reckoning....

Provides complete security by not letting anyone login Updated Cisco-owned access management firm Duo Security has been unable to give customers access to their own IT systems due to an outage that began on Monday morning....

'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' lost Copyright issues have dogged AI since chatbot tech gained mass appeal, whether it's accusations of entire novels being scraped to train ChatGPT or allegations that Microsoft and GitHub's Copilot is pilfering code....

Identity Access Management? What's that? Insiders are to blame for a May data breach at Tesla, the company claimed in filings after news of the incident was reported months ago by German media....

Middle Kingdom has made a habit of scuppering western mergers of late After all the drama, the UK's competition regulator has given chipmaker Broadcom its unconditional blessing to acquire VMware. However, the merger can still not be considered done and dusted as it faces a potential roadblock from China....

Hold onto your hats people, Lenovo to invest $1B in AI as hardware sales falter Lenovo has hired an experienced executive with financial, M&A and AI chops following a year of declining revenues amid continued efforts to reduce its over-reliance on the struggling PC market....

50% chop effective 'immediately' as department investigates traffic and safety issues Updated San Francisco Bay Area techies who want to hail a driverless Cruise robo-taxi have fewer to pick from after officials said it must reduce its fleet "immediately" in the wake of several incidents, just a day after a collision between an emergency vehicle and an AV on Thursday night....

Update now: Millions of users potentially impacted, plus uncounted warez folks Users of the popular WinRAR compression and archiving tool should update now to avoid a vulnerability that allows code to be run when a user opens a RAR file....

Plus: Bing AI hasn't helped Microsoft eat into Google Search, and more AI in brief OpenAI has acquired its first company, Global Illumination, creators of an online role-playing game that has been compared to Minecraft....

Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons AMD's fourth-gen Eypc processors have arrived on Amazon Web Services in your choice of general-purpose and high-performance compute (HPC) tasks....

Debian Bookworm without the controversial init - or the platform support, or the polish Devuan 5.0 "Daedalus" is derived from Debian 12 "Bookworm", but with the controversial systemdinit replaced by the user's choice of sysvinit, openrc or runit....

Snoopers Charter: Dead cows don't snitch Opinion Information wants to be free. This usefully ambiguous battle cry has been the mischievous slogan of hackers since early networking thinker Stuart Brand coined it in the early 1980s. Intended as part of a discussion about the inherent contradictions of intellectual property, it has bestowed irony in many other places since....

Quest for redundant cables almost resulted in a redundant techie Who, Me? Ah, dear reader, yet again it is Monday, arriving with the same relentless regularity that has made it the bane of human workers and cartoon cats since time immemorial - or at least the early 1900s. But fear not, for The Reg is here to ease your passage into the working week with another instalment of Who, Me? in which we cushion the arrival of the working week with tales of the working weak....

Inflated expectations and an underdeveloped ecosystem have led to consumer disappointment SK Telecom, South Korea's dominant mobile carrier and sibling of chipmaker SK hynix, has declared that 5G was over-hyped, has under-delivered, and has failed to deliver a killer app....

They've also thought of the children, and the poor SMEs trying to stay secure The G20 bloc's ministers responsible for the digital economy met in India on Saturday and proposed something interesting: a Framework for Systems of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)....

ALSO: NYC says kthxbye to TikTok, slain Microsoft exec's wife indicted, and some ASAP patch warnings Infosec in brief Someone at Microsoft has some explaining to do after a messed up DNS record caused emails sent from Hotmail accounts using Microsoft's Outlook service to be rejected and directed to spam folders starting on Thursday....

PLUS: Lucasfilm quits Singapore Sandcrawler'; China criticizes India's tech push; Red Apple celebrates 30 years in China Asia In Brief Tencent's chief strategy officer James Mitchell has told investors the Chinese web giant's hyperscale cloud operation is bullish on its AI-models-as-a-service (MaaS) business because customers will find migration away from it hard....

First lunar attempt since Soviet era ends in Russia's rushed attempt to land a probe on the Moon has failed....

Cops credit security shops with an assist, tho it's a drop in the ocean An Interpol-led operation arrested 14 suspects and identified 20,674 "suspicious" networks spanning 25 African countries that international cops have linked to more than $40 million in cybercrime losses....

Magical models less a replacement for human DMs and more a familiar for GMs Boffins have found a role for AI chatbots where habitual hallucination isn't necessarily a liability....

Brit chip ship's sales may or may not be quite as rosy as hoped, judging from draft paperwork Softbank has reportedly acquired the 25 percent stake its Vision Fund holds in Arm, less than a month before the British processor designer's hotly anticipated initial public offering (IPO)....

Azure giant blames human error, not AI - up to you to swallow that Microsoft took down an article from its sprawling web empire that recommended travelers visit the Ottawa Food Bank on an empty stomach as a tourist attraction in the Canadian capital....

Bad kitty, no catnip for you Here's a heads up. Another version of BlackCat ransomware has been spotted extorting victims. This variant embeds two tools, we're told: the network toolkit Impacket for lateral movement within compromised environments, and Remcom for remote code execution....

And this wiretap, is it in the room with us right now? Google was sued on Thursday for allegedly "wiretapping" several tax preparation websites and gathering people's sensitive personal data....

If a facility falls down, 'the microscope inside it is useless to you' While NASA prepares to journey through the unforgiving vacuum of space to the Moon and Mars, it faces a terrestrial threat in the meantime. A vacuum of funding that has left its own buildings crumbling around it....

What a difference four years makes Germany is determined to remove any systems from its telecoms networks that might pose a security threat, regardless of cost, in a remarkable reversal of the country's stance from just a few years ago....

Maybe Pat dodged a bullet - mature process nodes aren't the kind of thing shareholders get excited about Analysis With its $5.4 billion bid to acquire Tower Semiconductor in ruins, Intel Foundry Services' (IFS) master plan has been turned on its head....

Not in office three days a week? Repeated 'violations' could lead to termination Tough times loom for Meta engineers and the wider workforce that refuse to return to the office for at least three days a week following a warning from HR of the potential career-ending consequences of non-compliance....

That's a massive workload you've got there - how much does it cost? Google is working with Harvard University on a medical research program using public cloud resources rather than a supercomputer to run very large scale simulations.....

Sometimes nothing fails like success Opinion Company after company has had their start in open source software, and then gone on to dump their open source licenses once they've achieved a measure of success. It's time to stop it....

'Perfect' for your next camping trip! For three hours... We've all been there - the camping holiday where the Sun shines for about three hours and the rest of the trip is spent sitting in a tent in soggy misery. What are you supposed to do then?...

When you need to patch a problem in your drone and no one's got the source Imagine a world where, rather than inspiring fear and trembling in even the stoutest of IT professional's hearts, snipping bugs out of, or adding features to, legacy closed-source binaries was just another basic, low-stress task....

If you thought a 700W GPU was hot, imagine what it takes to keep racks full of 15kW accelerators cool Analysis The mad dash to secure and deploy AI infrastructure is forcing datacenter operators to reevaluate the way they build and run their facilities....

Successful failover can sometimes be a failure On Call Nothing ruins a weekend like failed failover, which is why every Friday The Register brings readers a new instalment of On Call, the column in which we celebrate the readers whose recreation is ruined by rotten resilience regimes....

The search for a politically neutral 'truth' goes on Poll Academics have developed a method to assess whether ChatGPT's output displays political bias, and assert the OpenAI model revealed a "significant and systemic" preference for left-leaning parties in the US, UK, and Brazil....

Buyout offer is at 16 per share, compared to 30 at its 2021 IPO Linux-loving software house SUSE is to quit the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and become a private company again, just two years after it listed in 2021....

France likes its payment system, Saudi Arabia is close to co-operating, and the Caribbean is calling India's government has announced that the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to share India Stack, making it the latest territory to adopt the collection of digital public goods the world's most populous nation has created as a means to assist development of government digital services (and its own diplomacy) around the world....

Bizarrely, Bezos's bookshop is also promoting a book about the book A book that purports to recount the history of this month's deadly Maui wildfire has become a bestseller on Amazon, despite reviewers panning the work because its prose is on a par with that of AI....

Web giant comes out swinging, says allegations 'without merit' YouTube has allegedly been tracking children online and targeting them with personalized ads, potentially in violation of its agreement with the FTC and of the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), according to a report released on Thursday....

But it may help with fuzzing Analysis Despite the hype around criminals using ChatGPT and various other large language models to ease the chore of writing malware, it seems this generative AI technology isn't terribly good at helping with that kind of work....

About 2,000 NetScaler installations feared compromised as CISA raises alarm over ShareFile Miscreants are actively exploiting critical bugs in two of Citrix's products, both of which the business IT player fixed earlier this summer....

Software's alleged inability to handle cross traffic central to court battle after two similar road deaths Tesla's Autopilot engineers have claimed the automaker's leadership not only knew the software was unable to detect and respond to cross traffic, it did nothing to fix it....

Don't worry, your downloaded games are safe ... for now? Microsoft revealed Thursday it will shutter its Xbox 360 Store next summer, nearly two decades after the console hit the market. That will leave the IT giant catering for its current-gen Xbox Series X and S consoles....

Measures needed to protect 'national interest,' says Beijing. Rubbish, it's retaliation, scoff critics The price of gallium is said to have hit a 10-month high following export restrictions from China, which kicked in at the beginning of August in response to Western sanctions on sales of advanced technology to the country....

No rush on this seemingly vital component of defense, guys It's taken a few years, but the US Space Force finally has a unit dedicated to target analysis, development, and engagement....

Plaintiffs say recent partnership has 'magnified' danger and allege bypass of anti-stalking feature is allowed A lawsuit filed this week alleges the integration between Amazon location-tracking network Sidewalk and Tile's trackers and apps has "magnified" the danger posed to stalking victims "exponentially," and claims the vendors have been negligent in the implementation of safeguards....