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Alleged administrator cuffed in Indonesia, associate arrested in Japan, accused of selling fake Amazons for $60 INTERPOL has revealed a successful investigation into a phishing-as-a-service operation named "16shop" with arrests of alleged operators made in Indonesia and Japan and the platform shut down....

'I don't want China to get to the south pole first with humans and then say this is ours, stay out' NASA boss Bill Nelson says America is "in a space race with China" and wants its astronauts back on the Moon before anyone else - to make sure foreign states don't take control of water and other resources on Earth's natural satellite....

641GB of total memory ought to be enough for anybody (and their LLM) Less than three months after Nvidia's Grace Hopper superchips went into full production, CEO and leather jacket aficionado Jensen Huang this week took to the stage at SIGGRAPH 2023 to unveil an even more capable version of the silicon....

Downfall processor leaks, Teams holes, VPN clients at risk, and more Patch Tuesday Microsoft's August patch party seems almost boring compared to the other security fires it's been putting out lately....

Senator won't be PaLMed off as web giant eyes up healthcare industry Google is under pressure from a US lawmaker to explain how it trains and deploys its medical chatbot Med-PaLM 2 in hospitals....

Aww, c'mon, let us scrape your pages, we've got billions at stake OpenAI, the maker of machine learning models trained on public web data, has published the specifications for its web crawler so that publishers and site owners can opt out of having their content scraped....

Hey, breacher, leave those kids alone Data going back as far as nearly 20 years may have been stolen from the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) after ransomware extortionists breached the government body's IT systems....

The calamity capsule won't be ready to fly until March 2024, and even then a launch date hasn't been ironed out Boeing has thrown in the towel on trying to launch Starliner to the International Space Station this year, and is now targeting the first half of 2024 for the calamity capsule's first crewed flight....

Education buyers ignore campaign group's intense criticism of device's lifespan, 'expect expiration dates for milk, not tech' Chromebook shipments are back in the black - just - and makers of the hardware have the US education sector to thank where buyers ignored a campaign group's recent intensive criticism of the tech's lifespan....

CRM giant fails to get Backpage.com case thrown out on appeal Salesforce is set to face allegations in court that it knew its software was being used by a sex trafficking organization, following an appeal ruling....

'It doesn't help if the organization responsible for the integrity of elections' gets pwned The IT infrastructure of the UK's Electoral Commission was broken into by miscreants, who will have had access to names and addresses of voters, as well as the election oversight body's email and unspecified other systems....

What else do you do when a single GPU node needs 10kW? Digital Realty has announced support for high-density deployments of up to 70 kilowatts per rack in a bid to capitalize on growing demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads....

Plus: India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully enters orbit around Moon, and beams photos back NASA has terminated the LunaH-Map mission after a stuck valve on the ice-hunting cubesat prevented it from reaching the Moon's south pole....

Book to hit face, but Zuckerberg & co tell El Reg it will challenge the ban Norway's data protection authorities are to proceed with fines against Meta over privacy violations against its citizens, to the tune of 1 million Norwegian kroner (about $98,500) per day from August 14....

RAM disguised as an SSD? What will they come up with next? Micron has become the latest chipmaker to announce a compute express link (CXL) 2.0-compliant memory expansion module capable of strapping up to 256GB of DRAM to a spare PCIe x8 interface....

Regulator says with a straight face that it should not be allowed to analyze ethnicity China has released draft regulations to govern the country's facial recognition technology that include prohibitions on its use to analyze race or ethnicity....

Midway through upgrade projects, users are struggling to understand the change of heart In 2020, global ERP giant SAP offered to provide "clarity and choice" on the future of its core platform, vital to the operations of a huge number of large organizations when it extended support for flagship product S/4HANA until 2040....

They kept that quiet Amazon is the most successful manufacturer of Arm server chips, accounting for just over half of Arm-based server CPUs currently deployed, while some chipmakers are also now betting on Arm-based Windows PCs....

US, UK watchdogs also question proposed $20B deal The European Commission has launched an "in-depth" investigation into Adobe's $20 billion deal to acquire Figma, citing concerns that the proposed takeover could harm competition in the design software industry....

Kim Jong Un's cyber-goons aren't above attacking the regime's few friends Two North Korean hacker groups had access to the internal systems of Russian missile and satellite developer NPO Mashinostoyeniya for five to six months, cyber security firm SentinelOne asserted on Monday. The attack illustrates potential North Korean efforts to advance development of missile and other military tech via cyber espionage....

Welcome - but weird - after months-old policy change that seemingly allowed it went viral Vidchat and collaboration outfit Zoom has insisted it never intended to give the impression vidchats it hosts would be fed into an artificial intelligence model, after a delayed viral outrage to a March change to its legalese....

Mission not accomplished Loongson Technology, the company leading China's charge to develop CPUs locally, has revealed its most recent desktop effort performs at a level comparable with Intel's tenth-generation Core architecture....

Not-so smart tech, or officers, it seems Early one February morning this year, six Detroit police officers brought an arrest warrant to the home of Porcha Woodruff. A 32-year-old mother of two, she was eight-months pregnant with a third....

Race to replicate LK-99, and the process used to create it, hits plenty of hurdles Scientists are struggling to verify South Korean eggheads' claim to have synthesized a material that exhibits superconductivity at room temperature and normal pressure....

But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible ChatGPT, OpenAI's fabulating chatbot, produces wrong answers to software programming questions more than half the time, according to a study from Purdue University. That said, the bot was convincing enough to fool a third of participants....

If you can't trust a spyware developer with your info, who can you trust? Stalkerware slinger LetMeSpy will shut down for good this month after a miscreant breached its servers and stole a heap of data in June....

Your neighbor's clacking keys aren't just annoying - they're also exploitable Researchers in the UK claim to have translated the sound of laptop keystrokes into their corresponding letters with 95 percent accuracy in some cases....

:wq buddy Obit Dutch free software developer Bram Moolenaar has died. He was 62. His Vim text editor is probably one of the single most widely used Linux programs of all time....

Greater yield than last year, but don't ditch your solar panels just yet Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have repeated their breakthrough fusion experiment, which nominally produced more energy than it consumed....

An electrically charged spring in your step A group of Scottish engineers claim to have come up with a new way to harvest the electricity wasted by everyday human movement: electrically conductive foam....

Plus: Apple has spent $22.1B on research for generative AI, and Kickstarter introduces new AI policies AI in brief Production companies are scanning the faces and bodies of actors and actresses, who fear their likeness will be used to create fake AI doubles for TV shows and films in the future....

Investment shifts to meet demand, say analysts. And demand is based on FOMO. WCGW? The cloud market continues to grow, but at a slowly declining rate, while investment is shifting to meet the demand for AI services, diverting spending away from other projects....

What does this mean for his cage fight against Zuck? YOU DECIDE Opinion Unreliable billionaire Elon Musk appears adamant that his cage fight with rival social media mogul Mark Zuckerberg will actually go ahead....

And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week Google is pitching another strategy to convince Googlers to return to the office, specifically the campus at Mountain View HQ: offer them a night in an on-site hotel for $99 where they can simply crawl to their desk the following day....

Clock is ticking on April 2024 withdrawal Fujitsu has confirmed to The Register that it will cease selling all personal computers in Europe beginning in spring next year....

Oh, this old thing? Yeah, it's got an AMD processor. Why? Black Hat There is a way to unlock those paywalled features in your car, as a group of German PhD students demonstrated at Black Hat, but it probably won't keep the automakers up at night....

FAR out, man: first build for Apple Silicon Macs might make it out this month The Asahi Linux project, which is working on getting Linux working on Apple Silicon-based Macs, is partnering with the Fedora Project for its new flagship distro....

Voyager's mix of tenacity and discovery should worry its science icon competitors Opinion The true measure of technology is not how well it matches human intelligence, but how well it survives human stupidity. Humanity's most iconic robots, the Voyager space probes, seem to be up to that job. Nearly 20 billion kilometers from home and nearly 50 years in deep space, Voyager 2 has just been told to point its antenna away from Earth and await further orders....

A PC is a PC is a PC, and by any other name would not have taken down the intranet Who, Me? Welcome, gentle reader, to the safe place we call Who, Me? where Register readers tell us about the times when their brilliance shone a little dimmer than was needed to reach a brighter future....

Plus: Musk in 'we will fund your legal bill' promise Japan's Ministry of Finance issued a warning late last week regarding an account on the platform formerly known as Twitter that impersonates its top currency official, Masato Kanda, in just one of a string of incidents involving X Corp and Elon Musk in recent days....

'Not all fixes are equal,' argues Redmond, and this one for the Power Platform didn't need to be rushed Microsoft has explained why it seemingly took its time to fix a flaw reported to it by infosec intelligence vendor Tenable....

PLUS: FBI admits buying NSO spyware; "IT" company busted for drugs 'n guns biz; this week's critical vulns Infosec in brief If you're wondering what patches to prioritize, ponder no longer: An international group of cybersecurity agencies has published a list of the 12 most commonly exploited vulnerabilities of 2022 - a list many will recognize....

ALSO: That's not a limp, that's 68 iPhones strapped to your body; Malaysia scores giant fab; Phishing phlops in Hong Kong; and more Asian in brief A day after introducing a requirement that PC and server vendors secure a license to imports their products, India's government has put the brakes on the program....

No sweat, but this could take us to infinity and beyond A science experiment that arrived at the International Space Station on Friday will help engineers build heating and air conditioning units to keep astronauts alive on missions....

Telcos also due to get it in the neck unless the government pays up Reliance on Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei could end up costing Germany's state-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn upwards of 400 million if a rip-and-replace order is issued....

I Have Been Pw, er, Indexed Google is carrying out its corporate mission statement - to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful - by offering to hide certain information in its search results....

Big cheese asks if anyone wants to take early retirement? Canadian telco Telus plans to ditch 6,000 workers across its business - about six percent of its global workforce - after its profits fell 61 percent year over year during the second quarter of 2023....

'Quite obviously f**king espionage,' one suspect allegedly blabbed Two US Navy service members appeared in federal court Thursday accused of espionage and stealing sensitive military information for China in separate cases....

Lead dev Graber quits Ubuntu maker, helps out this new project SUSE developer Aleksa Sarai has created Incus, a fork of Canonical's LXD code, with the backing of the now-former lead developer of the container-manager-cum-hypervisor....

SUSE security engineer goes public on unfixed client hole after disclosure drama A security engineer at Linux distro maker SUSE has published an advisory for a flaw in the Mozilla VPN client for Linux that has yet to be addressed in a publicly released fix because the disclosure process went off the rails....