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Cyber-crooks slip into Vans, trample over operations
IT systems encrypted, personal data pilfered from North Face parent, we're told A digital break-in has disrupted VF Corp's operations and its ability to fulfill orders, according to the apparel and footwear giant....
Adobe ditches $20B Figma takeover under pressure from monopoly cops
Now Photoshop giant needs to cough up that $1B break-up fee Adobe has decided to abandon its $20 billion acquisition of Figma in a concession to regulatory pressure in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States....
Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse
$270M secret building project includes 5,000 sq ft bunker On a remote part of Kauai, the fourth largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, someone with a lot of money is bankrolling an extensive construction project....
Apple pulls Watch Series 9, Ultra 2 from shelves in US after Masimo patent brawl
Get those holiday orders wrapped up now, because the bell tolls for iStrap If you're planning to give someone an Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2 for the holidays you'd better act fast: Apple plans to pull both models from shelves in the United States in mere days after losing a patent fight earlier this year....
Facing stiff competition, Intel's Lisa Spelman reflects on Xeon hurdles, opportunities
With Emerald Rapids, Chipzilla's Xeon roadmap is back on track - now it just needs to stay there Interview Intel's 5th-gen Xeon server processors have launched into the most competitive CPU market in years....
EU launches investigation into X under Digital Services Act
Musk-owned platform first to face freshly minted rules Elon Musk's X has earned the dubious honor of being the first online platform to have formal Digital Services Act (DSA) proceedings launched against it, with the European Commission accusing it of disseminating illegal content among other violations of the recently enacted rule....
Apple's easiest to replace battery is in... an iMac
iFixit tears down the M3 workstation The iFixit gang has rounded out their year by tearing into 2023's M3 iMac, where they found Apple's most replaceable battery yet....
Microsoft puts the 'why?' in Wi-Fi with latest Windows patch
Redmond stuffs IT admin Christmas stockings with network issues Microsoft has broken Wi-Fi connectivity for some users with a recent Windows update....
IBM buys 50-year-old Software AG's enterprise tech units for €2.13B in cash
Big Blue shall not iPaaS up on app integration, APIs and data management to help with AI push IBM will buy two of European software industry veteran Software AG's tech platforms for 2.13 billion in cash....
National Grid latest UK org to zap Chinese kit from critical infrastructure
Move reportedly made after consulting with National Cyber Security Centre The National Grid is reportedly the latest organization in the UK to begin pulling China-manufactured equipment from its network over cybersecurity fears....
SUSE's Captain Container on sailing the open source seas
Peter Smails talks community, licensing, and AI pragmatism Interview Open source companies do not run on goodwill alone, and industry veteran SUSE is walking the tighrope between pleasing the community and charging cold hard cash for some of its wares....
UK will be HQ for high-flying next-gen fighter jet treaty with Italy, Japan
Global Combat Air Program aims to replace Eurofighter Typhoon and Mitsubishi F-2 Britain will be acting as headquarters for a not-so-secret next-generation fighter aircraft program the UK has linked up with Japan and Italy to build, the MoD revealed late last week....
CLIs are simply wizard at character building. Let’s not keep them to ourselves
The magic that defied the iron will of Steve Jobs has a lot more to offer Opinion The passage of time can harsh one's mellow in bittersweet ways. Tech anniversaries, while they do make you feel "That can't be true, it was just the other year," also offer the chance of a bit of fun in the form of emulated nostalgia....
PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here
Some jokes don't deserve an audience Who, Me? As the year rolls down to its inevitable conclusion, we're running out of Mondays. But have no fear, gentle reader - future Mondays will bring you further installments of Who, Me? in which Register readers share their tales of tech support gone wrong....
Halley's Comet has begun its long trek back toward Earth
Mark your diary for 2061 - if you're over the disappointment of 1986's fuzzy blob Halley's Comet, officially 1P/Halley, has begun its long journey back towards Earth after making it to aphelion - the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun - on December 9....
Google Groups ditches links to Usenet, the OG social network
The online communities that arguably fuelled the search giant's dominance have become too nasty to bother with Google Groups has announced it will end support for Usenet - a significant change that undoes one of the early decisions that propelled the search and ads giant to dominance....
Your landlord should offer on-prem cloud, suggests immersed datacenter upstart
Server tanks can do more than heat water - they can also build into resilient many-site clouds Building owners should consider an on-site datacenter an amenity they need to offer tenants - according to an Australian outfit that hopes to provide those same datacenters....
Apple, Corellium settle iOS virtualization case
iGiant was on the back foot after courts found virtual iPhones were fair use Apple and iOS virtualization software maker Corellium have ended their four-year-long battle with a confidential settlement....
MongoDB warns breach of internal systems exposed customer contact info
PLUS: Cancer patients get ransom notes for Christmas, Delta Dental is the latest MOVEit victim, and critical vulns Infosec in brief MongoDB on Saturday issued an alert warning of "a security incident involving unauthorized access to certain MongoDB corporate systems, which includes exposure of customer account metadata and contact information."...
Pro-China campaign targeted YouTube with AI avatars
PLUS: Beijing wants ten-minute reporting of infosec incidents; Infosys CFO bails; TikTok's Indonesia comeback approved, for now Think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) last week published details of a campaign that spreads English language pro-China and anti-US narratives on YouTube....
Shame about those wildfires. We'll just let the fossil fuel giants off the hook, then?
As world heads into 2024, scientists are asked: When will Big Oil face the heat? Comment You surely noticed much of the world was on fire this year, especially if you were in the western United States, western or eastern Canada, Australia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Tunisia... you get the idea....
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto stolen after Ledger code poisoned
Former worker phished then NPM repo hijacked Cryptocurrency wallet maker Ledger says someone slipped malicious code into one of its JavaScript libraries to steal more than half a million dollars from victims....
Ubiquiti blunder let some folks view others' security cameras, accounts
Cloud misconfig blamed and now fixed Ubiquiti says it fixed a bug that allowed some of its customers to glimpse strangers' security camera footage and access accounts and devices that didn't belong to them....
Google hopes to end tsunami of data dragnet warrants with Location History shakeup
Android giant follows Apple's lead, will store whereabouts on device and delete info earlier by default Google has announced changes to its handling of Location History data that are expected to limit the internet giant's ability to respond to so-called geofence warrants....
Kraft Heinz suggests we simmer down about Snatch ransomware attack claims
Ah, beans The Kraft Heinz Company says its systems are all up and running as usual as it probes claims that some of its data was stolen by ransomware crooks....
Missing tomatoes ketchup with ISS crew after almost a year lost in space
Sadly not saucy enough in this state for return trip to Earth There is good news and bad news regarding the two tomatoes lost aboard the International Space Station (ISS) last year. The good news is that they've been found. The bad news is that they look less than appetizing....
Google Pixel gets privacy mode to keep your selfies safe from prying repair techs
You'd better have 2GB free on that handset and be running Android 14 Google Pixel owners who need to take their devices in for repair now have an option to protect their data from snooping techs in the form of a new "repair mode."...
HashiCorp loses its Hashi, keeps the Corp as co-founder waves goodbye
Mitchell Hashimoto departs, apparently unconnected to controversial licensing change HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto is leaving the building....
SpaceX cleared to test satellite phone service via Starlink
Low Earth orbit cell ops will help remote region get services SpaceX has got approval to run tests of a proposed service that allows unmodified smartphones to make calls via a satellite link....
NKabuse backdoor harnesses blockchain brawn to hit several architectures
Novel malware adapts delivers DDoS attacks and provides RAT functionality Incident responders say they've found a new type of multi-platform malware abusing the New Kind of Network (NKN) protocol....
Last Vega rocket launch delayed over fuel tank vanishing act
Choose your own adventure: Use the old qualification tanks, or squeeze in some from Vega-C? The final Vega rocket launch is being delayed to September 2024 as engineers wrestle with the unusual problem of disappearing fuel tanks....
England's village green hydrogen dream in tatters
Another Johnson era fantasy fails to survive its encounter with science, engineering and economics A second planned trial to provide hydrogen for home heating was this week officially cancelled in England, a government minister has confirmed....
Lenovo leaps into AI limelight with Intel's Emerald Rapids
Incoming datacenter chips will power new ThinkAgile, ThinkSystem boxes Lenovo is the latest vendor to unveil systems aimed at the wave of interest in AI, but the China-based tech giant is also among the first to say its boxes will feature Intel's Emerald Rapids Xeon chips featuring AMX technology for AI acceleration....
To BCC or not to BCC – that is the question data watchdog wants answered
The dos and don'ts of bulk emailing A data regulator has reminded companies they need to take care while writing emails to avoid unintentionally blurting out personal data....
You don't get what you don't pay for, but nobody is paid enough to be abused
And it's priceless when that abuse is shown to be unreasonable On Call Here at The Register we don't guarantee much - other than that every Friday morning will feature a new instalment of On Call, our weekly column featuring readers' stories of supplying support services and the sometimes-savage response to their efforts....
Damn, even the Pope thinks AI and autonomous weapons need reining in
Nobody expects the Spanish admonition! Pope Francis urged world leaders to establish an international treaty regulating AI, and warned against relying on machines to make moral and ethical decisions that should be left to humans....
Is it 2000 or 2023? Get ready for AI-anchored news again
'Cos Ananova worked out so well A startup with aspirations of becoming a trusted global news brand is planning to launch a service delivering curated content - written by AI and delivered by artificial anchors....
China’s e-commerce players commit to broaden overseas
If all goes to plan, more Chinese goods will flow into the global market Amazon is set to open an innovation center in the Chinese city of Shenzhen to assist Middle Kingdom businesses increase exports - an effort that aligns with the likes of Alibaba and the wider Chinese e-commerce industry....
Science fiction writers imagine a future in which AI doesn’t abuse copyright, or their generosity
Association offers utopian vision of authors and model-makers bargaining over the price at which to opt-in for content scraping The Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA) has asked us all to imagine a future in which builders of AI models offer a price they're willing to pay for the copyrighted material they need, and creators choose whether to pay it until enough deals are struck that all stakeholders achieve satisfaction....
Everyone's talking about AI but industry reps say few are ready to implement
Finding a reason to do it might be the hardest part CANALYS APAC FORUM Businesses are clamoring to adopt AI, without really knowing what to do with it, according to speakers on a panel at last week's Canalys APAC Forum in Bangkok....
VMware channel partner rates new product bundles and subs-only licenses 'very attractive'
As Broadcom division announces it will keep desktop hypervisors, revive 'Flings' VMware by Broadcom, as the former VMware is now known, has in recent days dished out welcome news for its faithful....
The truth about Dropbox opening up your files to AI – and the loss of trust in tech
'Your info won't be harvested for training' is the new 'Your private chatter won't be used for ads' Comment Cloud storage biz Dropbox spent time on Wednesday trying to clean up a misinformation spill because someone was wrong on the internet....
Four more months of Section 702 snooping slipped into $890B US defense budget bill
Congress renews warrantless spying tool scribbled on back of huge check for the Pentagon US lawmakers today approved an $886 billion defense policy bill that includes a four-month extension to Section 702, the controversial surveillance tool that allows American intelligence to potentially spy on its citizens and permanent residents....
Microsoft seizes websites used to sell phony email accounts to Scattered Spider and other crims
That should solve the global cybercrime problem, right? Microsoft has taken down US-based infrastructure and websites used by a cybercrime group to sell fraudulent online accounts to other crooks including Scattered Spider, the infamous social-engineering and extortion crew that hacked two Las Vegas casinos over the summer....
Google pencils in limited third-party cookie purge for January
One percent of Chrome users will experience the web as if using Firefox or Safari Starting January 4, 2024, Google says it will begin blocking third-party cookies by default in Chrome for one percent of users, only three or four years after rival browsers implemented similar privacy protections....
Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned
Software cons reportedly outweighed public-cloud pros LinkedIn has abandoned its efforts to migrate its datacenter infrastructure to Microsoft Azure four years after announcing the planned move....
Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update
The rapture of the black T-shirt brigade was very short indeed The kernel 6.6.6 version number delighted many a black-clad open source fan, but not for long. It's already been replaced with a more neighborly 6.6.7....
Privacy crusaders accuse X of ad-targeting that flouts EU rules
Campaign to promote 'chat control' legislation allegedly sorted users by political views, religious beliefs An EU privacy rights group has filed a complaint against Elon Musk's X, alleging the platform unlawfully targeted advertisements from the bloc's Home Affairs directorate in a bid to build public support for hotly contested "chat control" legislation....
Microsoft embraces its inner penguin with Linux-powered Windows AI Studio
Visual Studio Code extension preview has a bunch of limitations for now A preview of Microsoft's Windows AI Studio has landed - a set of tools and models from catalogs, including Azure AI Studio and Hugging Face - however you'll need Linux to run it....
NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish
Science and telemetry data hit by latest issue NASA's veteran Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped transmitting engineering and science data back to Earth....
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