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Clients have a little over a year to get their affairs in order Exclusive Unit4, the enterprise software provider popular with government and medium-sized businesses, has announced it will end support of its on-prem systems on December 31, 2024....

Lots to like under the covers, but what was on top made it truly unforgettable Microsoft is rarely shy when it comes to anniversaries. However, one milestone passed last week that the company is still perhaps trying to forget: 11 years since the launch of Windows 8....

Oh, you're not joking The UK government may be onto something with its strategy to support the domestic semiconductor industry. In a strange twist of fate, some experts are starting to say that its approach makes sense....

If you're in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing purposes so long as you live in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland....

Radio bouncing off multiple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache Researchers say they have developed a method to remotely track the movement of objects in a room using mirrors and radio waves, in the hope it could one day help monitor nuclear weapons stockpiles....

Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables Google has significantly advanced its efforts to have Android run on CPUs that use the RISC-V instruction set architecture....

Kaspersky also on the way out due to unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security' The government of Canada has decided that Tencent's WeChat app, and Kaspersky's security suite, are too risky to run on government-issued mobile devices....

All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit Australia's SBS will allow users of its video streaming services to opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting....

Risk of significant data loss' for on-prem customers Atlassian has told customers they must take immediate action" to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool....

50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested Vietnam will train 50,000 engineers to work in its semiconductor industry between now and 2030 ,as it seeks to embed itself further into the global chip supply chain....

MacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199 Apple has announced its M3 silicon, claimed they are the first CPUs for desktop computers built on a three-nanometre process, and packed them into its MacBook Pro and iMac products....

Developer labels action 'unfounded' after company and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer have been charged with fraud by America's financial watchdog, which alleges the software maker knew its security was in a poor state ahead of the SUNBURST supply chain attack....

Fix on the way but for those trapped in boot loop hell, data recovery isn't certain Google has confirmed that some people's Pixel devices have lost access to local storage or become trapped in reboot loops after applying the Android 14 software update....

Not old enough to legally buy a beer, old enough for a 30-month term A 20-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars for his role in a SIM-swapping ring that stole nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency from dozens of victims....

As Uncle Sam releases internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified on Monday at the US government's Google antitrust trial - and acknowledged that, yes, default settings are valuable....

ML players must alert Uncle Sam if they're training a foundation model, and more US President Joe Biden issued an executive order today putting in place some safeguards that may mitigate societal risks stemming from increasingly powerful AI technology....

At $1.89 an hour per GPU, you too can have ML compute for the low, low price of just $68M a year AI infrastructure provider Voltage Park revealed Sunday it has acquired 24,000 Nvidia H100 accelerators, which it plans to begin leasing to enterprises, startups and research institutions early next year....

Now please subscribe to premium and let us host your 'entire financial life' It's no longer just opinion to say the platform formerly known as Twitter has declined in many ways since Elon Musk's takeover, but you wouldn't know that from the sound of all the back-patting from what's left of the company's engineering team....

Just tricks, no treats with these 3 vulns Three unpatched high-severity bugs in the NGINX ingress controller can be abused by miscreants to steal credentials and other secrets from Kubernetes clusters....

Still, it's not like it's a matter of life and death, is it? The US Department of Defense's update of its aging nuclear arsenal could cost as much as $350 billion over the next 20 years, yet oversight problems mean that some of the cash infusion could be wasted....

Researchers just scratching surface of their understanding of campaign dating back to 2020 Security researchers have uncovered a multi-year cryptojacking campaign they claim autonomously clones GitHub repositories and steals their exposed AWS credentials....

And other novelties likely next year in kernel 6.7 The merge window has opened for what will become Linux version 6.7, and below we've compiled some things that are likely to be included in the new release....

Tracing DMCA's dubious legacy over 25 tech-turbulent years It has been 25 years since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into US law by President Bill Clinton, ushering in an era of intellectual property (IP) protection for all. Or that was the hope....

Latest decision follows failure of Kioxia merger and pressure from activist investor Elliott Management Western Digital is to split into two separate entities, one formed from the NAND flash memory division and the other from the hard drive unit. The move follows the collapse of WD's proposed merger with memory chipmaker Kioxia....

Research sheds light on attitudes holding industry back Almost one in five men in IT explain why fewer females work in the profession by arguing that "women are naturally less well suited to tech roles than men."...

This marks the third criminal intrusion at the institution in as many years Stanford University has confirmed it is "investigating a cybersecurity incident" after an attack last week by the Akira ransomware group....

Regulatory red dragon keeping silent with a day left until deadline VMware and Broadcom are trying to quell investor fears that China's competition regulator could kill the proposed $61 billion merger, issuing a joint statement to say the transaction "will close soon"....

NASA: Nice rocket, but what about the dust? Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has unveiled a mockup of the cargo version of its Blue Moon lunar lander ahead of a crewed version intended for NASA's Artemis program....

Unwavering loyalty and devotion rewarded with termination Microsoft has decided to axe the Windows Insider MVP program, which is now scheduled to be discontinued at the end of the year....

Some loved it, some laughed at it, but it survived 26 years Microsoft's dedicated OS for embedded and pocketdevices, Windows CE, has reached the end of its support lifetime. People's reactions are very mixed, depending on where they're from....

Gen AI still in the pilot stage, despite government hopes to be world leader Despite the frothing hype around generative AI - and the UK government's hopes it will bring economic growth - only one in ten UK tech leaders have large scale implementations of any kind of AI, a figure that has not changed in five years....

User freedoms caught between network operators and big tech Ofcom says it is trying to strike a balance between user freedom while allowing operators to protect their networks and still offer "premium" services at a higher price, according to updated guidance on net neutrality rules....

That's what happens when you completely misread the market Opinion These are uncomfortable times for Intel and its investors. All the cool kids are talking about AI chips, an area where Intel has no real story to tell. Low power, embedded, and mobile have long been annexed by Arm. Now it looks like Arm is coming for Intel's most iconic territory - the PC....

The result is a very odd mechanical tour guide that thinks it has parents - sure, no problem Video Totally non-evil robot-maker Boston Dynamics has taught one of its "Spot" robo-dogs to talk, by using ChatGPT....

Sadly (?) that idyllic outcome didn't eventuate even after some very risky repairs Who, Me? Welcome once again, gentle readerfolk, to the safe corner of The Register we call Who, Me? in which readers much like yourselves unburden themselves with stories that have been weighing on their minds - because they recall moments when things did not go quite according to plan....

Broadcom buy set to wrap any moment now - probably As the world awaits news of whether Broadcom's acquisition of VMware will close on the target date of October 30 - an outcome thought likely unless China's State Administration for Market Regulation intervenes - the virtualization giant has made a modest change to its practices by shuttering a site used for experimental software - or "Flings" in vSpeak....

Removes references to the NSA, adds KSMBD in-kernel server SMB networking After a typically calm development process, Linus Torvalds has given the world a new cut of the Linux kernel - version 6.6 to be precise....

ALSO: CISA begs for a consistent budget, Las Vegas school breach; Nigeria arrests six cyber princes, the week's critical vulnerabilities Security In Brief Notorious ransomware gang LockBit has reportedly exfiltrated a tremendous amount of sensitive data from aerospace outfit Boeing....

PLUS: Hikvision accused of targeting minorities; Australia's 'cyber-shield'; Huawei's superchip source revealed? Asia In Brief Fujitsu has decided to conduct an "absorption-type merger" of its public cloud operation....

Must try harder, D+ AI models can manage well enough when prompted with text or images, and may even solve complex problems when not making terrible errors....

History suggests Arm's place in the PC market will be anything but 'insignificant' Opinion Pat Gelsinger may not be worried about Arm-compatible PCs eating into Intel's profit margins, but, if recent history tells us anything, he probably should be....

In the name of the firewall, the server, and the home page default, amen The Pope has given his blessing to a free online learning portal aimed at encouraging children to take up software development, while he administers the spiritual kind....

Not exactly the MAC daddy Three years after Apple introduced a menu setting called Private Wi-Fi Address, a way to spoof network identifiers called MAC addresses, the privacy protection may finally work as advertised, thanks to a software fix....

I'll huff and I'll puff and Masimo will blow your sales down The Apple Watch is once again facing a possible US import ban again after the International Trade Commission determined the wearable violated patents held by Masimo for measuring blood oxygen levels....

Minimum of $15,000 per plaintiff, after lawyers' fees. Justice is done! After over seven years of legal battles, a group of former HP employees who claim the venerable firm discriminated against older staff when culling jobs has won a $18 million settlement....

Plus Linux Mint 22 to be based on Ubuntu 'Noble Numbat' The creators of Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop are experimenting with the Wayland protocol - and so is the original developer of Xfce....

Decision comes after CA revokes firm's driverless license and NHTSA signal an investigation Robotaxi operator Cruise's bad week just keeps getting worse: Now the GM-backed business has paused driverless operations across the entire fleet....

Fixes came earlier than scheduled as vulnerability became known to outsiders F5 has issued a fix for a remote code execution (RCE) bug in its BIG-IP suite carrying a near-maximum severity score....

First module of new space station to be launched in 2027 Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a project to build an Orbital Station following a meeting regarding the development of the country's space industry....

There's nothing new about HashiCorp leaving the principle behind Opinion At the Linux Foundation Members Summit in Monterrey, California, topic number one was artificial intelligence and open source. Number two was about HashiCorp dumping Terraform's Mozilla Public License (MPL) for the Business Source License (BSL) 1.1, the resulting OpenTofu fork, and how ticked off HashiCorp CEO David McJannet was about the Linux Foundation's support of OpenTofu....