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Scrapping 'temporary' measure will slash queue times at airports... but don't ditch your baggie yet, say officials Everyone remembers the indignity of having to toss water, shampoo, toothpaste because of some far-fetched airport security rules that flew over their head. But the days of clear plastic bags and the rush to buy "travel-sized" toiletries could be coming to an end.…

Didn't say they were good, though – covert ops apparently got 'little to no engagement' from targets In its latest quarterly threat report, Meta said it had detected and disrupted influence operations originating in the US, and it calls out those it believes are responsible: the American military.…

JAXA hopes second lost lander can be recovered for radiation experiments Japan's Equilibrium Lunar-Earth point 6U Spacecraft (EQUEELEUS), one of 10 cubesat payloads aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, has successfully sent back to Earth photos of the far side of the Moon.…

196MWh installation has capacity to power 300,000 homes for two hours Europe's largest battery energy storage installation has gone live in the UK with the capacity to store up to 196MWh of electricity, pointing the way towards greater use of the technology to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy.…

Spoiler alert: court proceedings suggest crypto exchange was a mess and investors will be out of pocket The collapse of crypto exchange FTX has already been turned into a television drama.…

Says sanctions could even accelerate China's drive for silicon self-sufficiency Chinese AI and search giant Baidu has shrugged off the impact of the United States' ban on export of certain semiconductor technologies to the Middle Kingdom, saying it will not have any noteworthy effect on its AI business or autonomous driving operations, and may indeed accelerate China's drive for silicon self-sufficiency.…

DDoS started not long after Russia was declared a state sponsor of terrorism The European Parliament has experienced a cyber attack that started not long after it declared Russia to be a state sponsor of terrorism.…

Takes over presidency of global AI group, and uses G20 leadership to flex manufacturing muscle India's IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has called for development of global standards to ensure that artificial intelligence does not harm humanity.…

Suddenly discovers that game-adjacent tech has its uses – and it's a huge export industry China has declared victory over the scourge of teenage video game addiction.…

Asimov would like a word Next week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on a policy proposal that will allow the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to deploy robots authorized to kill people.…

Shares have already been moving in the wrong direction for Gelsinger's stock awards Intel is making it more difficult for CEO Pat Gelsinger to earn a significant portion of his compensation package, even as such awards have become increasingly out of reach due to a tanking stock price.…

CISA updates security framework, tech industry calls it 'confusing' Federal agencies are continuing to put in place their cybersecurity strategies 18 months after the Biden Administration issued its executive order to strengthen the government's defenses.…

US aviation advisory addresses concerns raised follow 2013 Asiana Airlines crash The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued new guidance calling for flight procedures and training to ensure that pilots can operate aircraft manually, without being too dependent on automated systems.…

A sign of the computer industry’s sad state, but at least there’s supply! All those shiny, expensive graphics cards you've seen sitting on retail shelves the past few months really have been a sign of tough times for the computer industry.…

Flaws in the open-source tool exploited – and India's power grid was a target Microsoft is warning that systems using the long-discontinued Boa web server could be at risk of attacks after a series of intrusion attempts of power grid operations in India likely included exploiting security flaws in the technology.…

The reason your morning drive sucks is because of you, the impulsive human behind the wheel A multi-university research team has discovered the solution to traffic jams plaguing everyone's commutes: AI traffic managers that, rather than driving like impulsive humans, react to their surroundings to make traffic flow more smoothly.…

Two-year ban comes as state attempts to reduce emissions by 85% New York State has banned a practice becoming more common in the crypto-mining industry – the rescuing and repurposing of mothballed fossil fuel plants to exclusively provide energy for mining digital currency.…

Case claims collecting personal data breaches UK GDPR, but implications could be wider A lawsuit filed in the High Court of England and Wales has demanded that Meta's Facebook social media platform stops harvesting personal data for the purposes of advertising and marketing.…

Police reported to be using teargas and smoke bombs against demonstrators Protests have erupted at Foxconn, the largest contract supplier for Apple's iPhone, as workers voice complaints over pay and working conditions following new draconian COVID-19 measures.…

Staff forced to make their own purchases after suppliers walk away due to payment failures The University of Edinburgh has launched a review into its disastrous go-live of an Oracle finance system as it admitted suppliers have walked away over stalled payments.…

Broadband plumber's BT Group parent is determined to cut costs Openreach, the infrastructure arm of UK telco giant BT, looks set to prioritize existing projects rather than starting new buildouts of its fiber broadband network as it seeks to control costs amid surging inflation.…

After a mysterious pause in crackdowns, it looks like the Beijing everyone knows is back China's antitrust watchdog, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), has proposed a revision of the nation's competition law that targets tech firms.…

Alexa, how does Amazon decide when the grand plan for conversational commerce has failed? Comment Black Friday is nearly upon us, but the annual online price-drop frenzy seems to be losing its shine. Numerous reports highlight that discounting may not be all it seems, and buyers would be best to shop around.…

An Apple a day keeps the doctor away, but too many might be a burden on the planet. Opinion Apple's Mac hardware keeps getting thinner and lighter, and its iPads keep becoming more and more capable. I'm hardly the first to observe that the two products are getting closer together - but if Apple's environmental claims mean anything the products are now so close it's irresponsible they don't overlap.…

Microsoft playing chicken with regulators, making it cheaper on Azure Microsoft last week made SQL Server 2022 generally available, and this week started to advise of price hikes for the database.…

Apple doesn't want to bite The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market investigation into cloud gaming and mobile browsers after its study found Apple and Google constitute a duopoly that controls the mobile ecosystem.…

Korea's antitrust org to develop a platform to respond to Big Tech’s sneaky ways According to South Korea's Fair Trade Commission, Apple said it will correct an oddity that sees local developers charged even more than the usual 30 percent Cupertino demands for sales of software in its App Store.…

‘Portfolio optimization’ plan aims to cull some PCs, sell more pricey subscriptions HP Inc. has announced it will lay off between 4,000 and 6,000 staff as part of a cost-cutting drive aimed at adding $1.4 billion to its bottom line in coming years.…

Nothing says 'We love open source and want it to be available in Windows' like only delivering updates from a closed digital tat bazaar Microsoft has made its Store the home of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WLS).…

We knew Wasp 39b was rich in CO, but now we have the full molecular picture The James Webb Space Telescope keeps opening the world to new science. This time it's the first molecular and chemical profile of an exoplanet's atmosphere, complete with signs of active photochemical reactions. …

AI agent proves better than most people in classic game of trust and betrayal Meta researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system called Cicero that can play the classic strategy game Diplomacy at a level comparable to most human players.…

'We allege these fraudsters bled dry each of their victims' of $10m The US government seized seven domain names used in so-called "pig butchering" scams that netted criminals more than $10 million.…

Users of the sports betting site rolled the dice on reusing passwords and lost A credential stuffing attack over the weekend that affected sports betting biz DraftKings resulted in as much as $300,000 being stolen from customer accounts.…

Datadog security researchers found the flaw before miscreants did Amazon Web Services (AWS) fixed a cross-tenant flaw in AWS AppSync that could allow miscreants to abuse that cloud service to assume identity and access management roles in other AWS accounts, and then gain access to and control over those resources. …

Pay for features like SGX through OEMs Updated Intel's software-defined silicon service will let organizations pay money to enable features that are hardwired into future Xeon server processors such as Intel Software Guard Extensions, signaling a major shift in how users pay for computer chips.…

ACLU agrees that the only way to protect consumers is to control what can be collected Attorneys General from 33 US states are urging the Federal Trade Commission to take a practical step toward reining in commercial surveillance of consumers and minimize the data companies are authorized to collect.…

EFLOW makes the open source OS a full partner of Windows at the far reaches of the cloud Microsoft is rolling out the latest iteration of a tool that lets anyone using a Windows IoT device in Azure to also run containerized Linux workloads.…

Why I yotta... be happy there's somewhere to ronto when I need to express 10^−27 The range of prefixes used within the International System of Units (SI) has been expanded with new names covering very large and very small numbers, driven in part by the ballooning requirements of data storage in some sectors such as data science.…

But keen to avoid any mf bespoke software on the mf planes (and other hardware) The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened a commercial information technology contract to potential bidders including hardware and perpetual license software worth up to $10 billion.…

Court lands on less than the millions asked for after sailors made copies of 3D modeling suite 'hundreds of thousands' of times In 2016, The Register highlighted the irony of the US Navy being accused of being pirates after it was sued for making "hundreds of thousands" of copies of 3D modeling software without purchasing licenses.…

It's all kicking off around company's CICS service IBM has filed a lawsuit against Micro Focus, alleging the enterprise software company copied and reverse-engineered its CICS mainframe service to develop a rival product, the Micro Focus Enterprise Server.…

Meanwhile, Microsoft eyes subcontinent for cloud growth On Monday, AWS launched a new infrastructure region in Hyderabad with three availability zones, making it the second region for the datacenter clusters in India.…

'This store of confidential data is a national treasure that must never be compromised or treated carelessly' As the UK government plans to launch the procurement for a national patient data store, the legal guardian of NHS data has issued a coded warning concerning trust and transparency in health data usage.…

Got the boot from Musk or Zuck? Automaker has 800 techie vacancies to fill Jaguar Land Rover, the famed UK-based automaker, is looking to fill a long list of tech and engineering vacancies by appealing to victims of the recent round of Silicon Valley layoffs.…

Hey, teacher, leave those apps alone The French minister of national education and youth has said that free versions of Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workplace should not be used in schools – a position that reflects ongoing European concerns about cloud data sovereignty, competition, and privacy rules.…

Pre-exascale system will be officially inaugurated at the Bologna Technopole in Italy on November 24 Europe's Leonardo pre-exascale system is set for its official inauguration this week following its confirmation as the fourth most powerful supercomputer on the Top500 list at the recent SC22 conference.…

Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware Amazon Web Services has shown it's willing to operate legacy workarounds for some customers of its elastic compute cloud (EC2).…