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We make movements when we talk, and gyro, accelerometer and sensor tech could improve speech recog Siri's ability to recognize speech may be getting a boost through the addition of lip-reading - or, more appropriately, lip-feeling - technology, according to a newly published Apple patent....

Initial drive starts in Germany, pushes automotive blueprints The RISC-V open instruction set architecture got a boost today after it emerged that five chip giants are coming together to jointly invest in a company to develop reference architectures based on the standard....

Rare coronal mass ejection so powerful it was observed from Earth, Moon, and Mars Spacecraft orbiting the Earth, Moon, and Mars have all detected the same giant coronal mass ejection from the Sun - the first time vehicles in all three locations - plus one on the surface of Mars - have all observed the same event of this sort....

Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud Opinion If you count Android and Chrome OS as Linux, which I do, the Linux desktop accounts for 44.98 percent of the end user market. But if your idea of the "Linux desktop" has a front end of Cinnamon, GNOME or KDE, then it's more like 3.06 percent. Better than it has been at times, but it's no "Year of the Linux desktop." Maybe, though, it will be someday....

2022's MVNO spat wrapped up as world+dog reminded to check exclusion clauses A High Court judge has dismissed a 2022 24.6 million ($31 million) breach of contract lawsuit in which EE sued Virgin Media when it struck a deal with Vodafone to provide 5G services - something EE claimed was in breach of the pair's MVNO network access agreement....

Tackling sneaky Scope 3 emissions with 'best practices' and a 'climate lens' A telecoms industry body focused on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has called for all companies to take action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions - so-called Scope 3 emissions - across their entire value chain....

Settle in for a weighty story with plenty of gravity On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's regular Friday frolic through readers' memories of tech tasks that turned terrifying before trending towards triumph....

Why 'dont deploy on Frday' is a thnng Boffins have spent two years monitoring the computers of office staff at a large Texas energy concern and found that workers did less and made more mistakes in the afternoon - particularly on Fridays....

Big fines for breaches. Also big powers - including takedowns - for planned Data Protection Board India's long awaited digital Personal Data Protection Bill was tabled in parliament on Thursday, complete with stiff penalties for data breaches and enough exemptions that digital rights orgs have rated it a "win-win" for Big Tech and government....

What could possibly go wrong with this Fujitsu tech? A Japanese supermarket has started analyzing customers' in-store behavior and feeding it to a generative AI to drive an avatar that makes real-time suggestions about stuff you might want to buy....

This is one way to kickstart local manufacturing India yesterday changed its trade rules to require manufacturers of many types of computers to secure an import license to bring their goods into the country....

A man, a plan, and Razzlekhan fought the law - and the law won Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan on Thursday pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges related to the 2016 theft of some 120,000 Bitcoins from Hong Kong-based Bitfinex....

Some people just want to watch the world burn IBM and NASA have put together and released Prithvi: an open source foundation AI model that may help scientists and other folks analyze satellite imagery....

Plus: Tenable CEO blasts Redmond's bug disclosure habits An infamous Kremlin-backed gang has been using Microsoft Teams chats in attempts to phish marks in governments, NGOs, and IT businesses, according to the Windows giant....

Face colleagues five days a week, Jeff Bezos' space firm says Blue Origin, the off-planet enterprise owned by Jeff Bezos, has told staff to get back to the office for a five-day week - a move which sees the twilight of flexible WFH arrangements at the company....

Mysterious Team Bangladesh has carried out 846 attacks since June 2022, mostly DDoS Hacktivism may have dropped off of organization radars over the past few years, but it is now very visibly coming from what is believed to be Bangladesh, thanks to a group tracked by cybersecurity firm Group-IB....

Redmond bugs out of that side quest Microsoft yesterday released then quickly pulled an internal tool for enabling experimental Windows 11 features....

'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks The Lacros project - a contrived acronym for Linux and Chrome OS* - is an internal Google development project with a goal that may sound bizarre: to run the standalone Linux version of the Chrome web browser on top of ChromeOS. According to reports, it looks like this feature could go mainstream after ChromeOS release 116....

One more box checked in humanity's quest to return to the Moon NASA has cleared another hurdle toward sending humans back to the Moon with the successful completion of its first Artemis II recovery test mission....

There's a word for describing going it alone against huge rivals, starts with a B, just can't put our finger on it Brave Software, maker of the Brave web browser, has tuned its search engine to run on a homegrown index of images and videos in an effort to end its dependency on "Big Tech" rivals....

That's not what they meant by 'move fast, break things' ... But maybe brake things Ever wondered why Google Maps Street View images can have such poor quality sometimes? A police incident in the US state of Indiana on Monday may offer an answer....

UK and German user groups issue strong statements after Klein courts investors with cloud strategy User groups representing some of Europe's largest industrial businesses have reacted strongly to SAP's decision to double down on its cloud-only innovation strategy, arguing it breaks trust with anyone that invested in the latest on-prem software and asks them to pay double for innovation....

Actually listening to the experts? We'll believe it when we see it The UK government has confirmed the formation of an expert semiconductor panel to advise on the future of the country's chip industry, and also disclosed the first design incubator to support startups....

Smartphone CPU king talks of 'additional cost actions' as market recovery still out of reach That long feted turnaround in the smartphone market isn't happening anytime soon judging by the latest financial results reported by handset CPU giant Qualcomm - profits plunged by almost 60 percent and more job cuts are looming....

Debian 12-based version should be your first choice for a non-systemd distro The MX Linux project has rolled out a new major release, based on Debian 12, and is on its way to becoming our favorite distro....

Time for a proper secure clinical image transfer system, perhaps? Staff at NHS Lanarkshire - which serves over half a million Scottish residents - used WhatsApp to swap photos and personal info about patients, including children's names and addresses....

Unmanned aircraft trial will skip delays caused by boat-battering weather Mail delivery has long been touted as a use case for drone technology, but it's the wind-blasted archipelago of Orkney, off the coast of northern Scotland, that has beaten the rest of the UK to achieving this....

Invaders already spent four or more months frolicking inside Norwegian government servers Intruders who exploited a critical Ivanti bug to compromise 12 Norwegian government agencies spent at least four months looking around the organizations' systems and stealing data before the intrusion was discovered and stopped....

Orbiter is supposed to be ready by 2028, so JV partners had better hurry Airbus will help build a replacement for the International Space Station (ISS), planned for five years from now....

Two hours a day maximum and a guarantee of no nasties - parents everywhere might just welcome the Communist approach to this issue +COMMENT The Chinese government has floated a plan to limit the amount of time minors can spend using electronic devices and the content they can access, plus a plan to ensure the nation's entire content ecosystem produces age-appropriate material....

That's vastly more cores than Xeons Intel puts in a single CPU sold to the public Amazon Web Services has started offering a cloudy server packing a custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and boasting 96 cores or 192 vCPUs....

Drawing flying pandas is useful. But Chinese web giant isn't saying how AI on wheels is practical China's AI-forward web giant Baidu has delivered on its promise to have its ERNIE large language model (LLM) used in cars, naming carmaker Great Wall Motors and "digital cockpit" creator ECARX as collaborators....

Set to join Intel, Nvidia in observing bus speed limits After the US slapped restrictions on the sale of AI accelerators into China, Nvidia - and later Intel - launched nerfed versions of their silicon that could be shipped to the Middle Kingdom without Uncle Sam blowing his stack. Now AMD is working on an export-compliant processor of its own to sell overseas....

AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers, maybe Meta on Wednesday released AudioCraft, a set of three AI models capable of automatically creating sound from text descriptions....

Ten ways you can blow a hole in your software by misusing AI tech The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) has released a top list of the most common security issues with large language model (LLM) applications to help developers implement their code safely....

UK mulls an 'appropriate response' Meta, after fighting European GDPR-related lawsuits for years, has said it will seek explicit consent from EU users before using their data to serve up highly targeted ads....

At the same time, company pipped to be preparing for IPO Servers powered by Arm chips are on the rise, especially in China, where new figures estimate that 40 percent of Arm-based servers are now deployed....

However boffins in academia need to match the progress made in Big Tech, and always challenge poor data quality The last decade has seen great strides in the application of artificial intelligence to scientific discovery, but practitioners need to know when and how to improve their use of AI and must challenge poor data quality....

First some steering wheels were falling off, now others allegedly won't steer The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened another investigation into steering issues in Tesla vehicles - the second such probe the agency has launched this year....

Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers Microsoft is making a minor concession that allows customers with specific licenses to run Office wares in an AWS cloud - a week after Europe's competition regulators decided to officially probe its biz policies and practices....

Interesting move against backdrop of US sanctions Intel has opened an innovation hub in China to help local technology startups, despite the Biden administration's crackdown intended to prevent China from developing advanced technologies....

Where does Agent P work again? Version 254 of systemd marks the 115th release of this ever-growing init system for Linux. Expect to see it in the autumn releases of Ubuntu and Fedora, and in Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed sooner....

Hefty box said to be 'slightly larger than a carry-on' - but likely not for budget flyers Virgin Media O2's business arm has released a plug-and-play private 5G network product, meaning customers should be able to get a 5G service operating anywhere with power and an internet connection....

Here's looking at Euclid Astronomers are breathing a sigh of relief that the 600-megapixel Euclid wide-angle space telescope's instruments appear to be working well, despite discovering a gap in the orbiter's hull that allowed sunlight to leak through and contaminate some images....

CMA admits Sony deal might change the battlefield The UK's markets watchdog has reopened a consultation on the $69 billion tie-up between Activision Blizzard and Microsoft months after it blocked the proposed sale on the back of competition concerns....

Big Blue scores 54.7M project, taking business from Fujitsu as Home Office consolidates work The UK's Home Office has handed IBM a 54.7 million ($70 million) contract to work on the biometric matcher platform to support its police and immigration services in identifying suspects against a database of fingerprint and photo data....

Not all heroes wear capes - some are 50-year-old antennas A signal from Voyager 2 has been detected by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) over a week after communications with the distant probe were lost, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Tuesday....

Chips based on the tech could boost efficiency of electric vehicles Scientists at Japan's Chiba University claim they've developed a method that uses lasers to create diamond wafers that could one day power next-gen semiconductors....

WeChat accused of 'contempt for Parliament' as transparency rules floated for platforms An Australian Senate Committee has recommended banning Chinese social media apps in the land down under, on grounds the Communist Party of China uses them to spread propaganda and misinformation....

Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it had hired Puneet Chandok as its new leader for India and Southeast Asia. Chandok's previous gig was president of AWS for India and South Asia....