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Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a 'willful campaign... to mislead the court' A New York judge has issued a default judgment against two Russian nationals who are alleged to have helped create the "Glupteba" botnet, sold fraudulent credit card information, and generated cryptocurrency using the network.…

Nightly and Developer Edition users will be able to test the new cruelty Mozilla plans to add support for Manifest v3 browser extensions to its online store – addons.mozilla.org – so developers can have them cryptographically signed for distribution.…

Profit down in latest quarter but forecast for 2023 raised Cisco is forging ahead with restructuring that involves cutting jobs, moving headcount to priority divisions and consolidating real estate, despite raising its revenue forecast for the current financial year.…

Ming-Chi Kuo is prognosticating again Ming-Chi Kuo, the analyst with the uncanny ability to predict all things Apple, has said that while the iPhone 15 will ditch its Lightning ports for USB-C next year, only the two high-end models, the Pro and Pro Max, will support higher wired transfer speeds.…

Former BigQuery tech lead tells Reg about data-warehouse-on-your-laptop DuckDB Interview In analytical database systems, the story of the last ten years or more has been about building out. Only databases distributed over multiple nodes could cope with the scale required by so-called Big Data. Web and mobile data were driving demand for systems which scale out, rather than rely on more and more powerful single instances.…

Move over, Mastodon – bungling UK politician's platform finds thousands of new users amid Elon Musk chaos Cast your minds back to the Before Times and you may recall that Matt Hancock was not the UK's disgraced health secretary, but head of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. You may also remember that he took his portfolio so seriously that he had his own mobile app developed: "Matt Hancock MP".…

And it's been sending out hundreds of thousands of malicious emails a day The Emotet malware-delivery botnet is back after a short hiatus, quickly ramping up the number of malicious emails it's sending and sporting additional capabilities, including changes to its binary and delivering a new version of the IcedID malware dropper.…

Scientists have long been unsure of the 'when' of planetary formation – but that question may have been answered Astronomers have long known how planets form, but the when of it has always been unclear. If a Cambridge University team's conclusion from a study of white dwarf stars proves correct, that question has been answered.…

Frustrate enough users and your product will fall. Hint, hint, Elon Note-taking app Evernote, once a darling of busy tech aficionados, announced the end of its 14-year run as an independent company today with its sale to Italian mobile app company Bending Spoons.…

Owner 'shocked' to find itself in Dutch over national security concerns, promises to appeal The UK's secretary of state for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has ordered that the Chinese owner of the Newport Wafer Fab sell off its interest in the facility on grounds of national security.…

Distributed ledger design slowed transactions, smart contracts were not so smart The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has paused its multi-year effort to replace its core trading systems with a blockchain-powered platform, written off up to AU$255 million ($171m) of work, and been advised to reconsider whether distributed ledger technology has a role in the project.…

CEO says new RTX 4090 cards off to a 'great start' despite melting cable issues Remember when we said a growing supply of graphics cards was worrisome because it portended a weakening economy and not just declining interest in crypto-mining?…

Snapdragon giant flips off Softbank, promises processors within next two years Qualcomm intends to ship processors within the next two years using custom Arm-compatible CPU cores designed in house by its acquired Nuvia team.…

DRAM and NAND wafer production cut 20% Micron Technology is making deeper production cuts for 2023 over concerns that the economy is getting worse, continuing a significant reversal from the high demand that made chip shortages the norm during the first two years of the COVID pandemic.…

It's the gift to cybercriminals that keeps on giving Iranian state-sponsored cyber criminals used an unpatched Log4j flaw to break into a US government network, illegally mine for cryptocurrency, steal credentials and change passwords, and then snoop around undetected for several months, according to CISA.…

Cascade Lake and Skylake prove even more expensive than expected VLSI Technology, a patent holding company affiliated with Softbank's Fortress Investment Group, has been awarded $948.8 million in a patent infringement claim against Intel Corporation.…

Norway, France also sound data privacy alarms World Cup apps from the Qatari government collect more personal information than they need to, according to Germany's data protection agency, which this week warned football fans to only install the two apps "if it is absolutely necessary." Also: consider using a burner phone.…

Linux Foundation presents IT and help to key volunteers – and some wonder if this is a deal with the Devil Special report The free and open source software (FOSS) community is caught in a love triangle of sorts.…

Info-stealing trojan hides in malicious PyPI packages on GitHub Malware dubbed WASP is using steganography and polymorphism to evade detection, with its malicious Python packages designed to steal credentials, personal information, and cryptocurrency.…

Not a great look for the electric car company as drivers urged to remain alert Tesla's automated driver assistance system (ADAS) is coming under fire again, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reporting two new fatal Tesla accidents in its monthly ADAS crash report.…

Drawing a line under the share swap drama of 2018, or trying to... Dell has agreed to pay shareholders $1 billion to settle claims it didn't give them the full picture when using their allegedly undervalued shares to finance the $67 billion purchase of EMC in 2016.…

If antitrust regulators aren't happy, the deal won't go through Broadcom has begun the process of getting European Union approval for its proposed $61 billion takeover of cloud and virtualization biz VMware, which the company hopes to close within its current fiscal year.…

Divisive CEO becomes a prisoner of his own device Comment Following a public engineering spat and multiple firings, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has issued an ultimatum to his employees: get hardcore or get out of my way.…

Crypto winter also attributed to semiconductor slumps in recent quarters Canalys Forums APAC Canalys CEO Steve Brazier has proposed that cloud vendors should have similar accountability to credit card companies when accounts are hacked and used to mine cryptocurrency.…

No atmosphere to pollute, but who's going to go up and change that failed drive? The European Commission is to carry out a feasibility study on putting datacenters into orbit as part of its wide-ranging Horizon Europe research program, and has now announced companies taking part in the project.…

Also wants Alphabet to slash losses in Waymo division, buy back shares, lots of them Activist investor TCI Fund Management is calling on Google's parent Alphabet to pursue aggressive cost cutting on the back of a hiring spree during the pandemic, claiming the business could be more efficiently run.…

Tiangong, ISS, and SpaceX satellites will not be affected, according to China's Foreign Ministry The spent Long 6A rocket launching China's Yunhai-3 satellite has broken up, scattering over 50 different chunks into low-Earth orbit after it failed to disintegrate completely upon reentry in the atmosphere.…

Company claims to have emailed customers repeatedly, but many say they didn't receive any Exclusive UK hosting outfit tsoHost has shut down its Gridhost platform amid stinging criticism from customers about the 45-day notice period and general way it was handled.…

Outgoing CEO of NHS Digital says merger with NHS England is needed to 'provide clarity' in tech leadership An outgoing NHS tech chief has defended the decision to merge his organization with a UK government-run unit, arguably diluting the statuary protection of patient data.…

Human scientists can't agree, but computers … uh … find a way Palaeontologists believe they have shed new light on a debate over what kind of dinosaur may have created the ancient tracks at the Lark Quarry Conservation Park in Australia – by analyzing the footprints using AI.…

Little fish lured into the market help whales cash out Somewhere between 73 and 81 percent of retail Bitcoin buyers are likely to be into the negative on their investment, according to research published Monday by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).…

You can go (nearly) that fast too, if you have a spare €2 million lying around Croatian electric car maker Rimac says it has set a new EV speed record, and it's nothing to balk at. The Nevera, its second production vehicle, was just clocked in Germany going a blistering 412 kilometers per hour (258mph).…

Should've used Fibre Channel, although some leaky valves didn't help either NASA has successfully launched its first Artemis mission, after a faulty Ethernet switch threatened the debut of the USA's Space Launch System and return to Lunar exploration.…

Softbank-owned Brit chip designer tells court there is 'no uncertainty' US giant is in the wrong Arm sure picked its moment to fire a return salvo in its legal battle with Qualcomm: right in the middle of the latter's latest Snapdragon processor launch.…

Faint praise: Windows giant tries to follow best practices and wants to improve Microsoft on Tuesday published a 50-page transparency report on how the company handles complaints about sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination, the first in its history.…

Let the games begin... Comment As Qualcomm fights to keep its license agreements to develop next-generation Arm chips for Windows PCs, the American chip giant is getting a fresh reminder that it will eventually face competition from a top rival in the East.…

Houston, we have a PCspooF problem A vulnerability in network technology widely used in space and aircraft could, if successfully exploited, have disastrous effects on those critical systems, according to academics.…

Wi-Fi 7, TSMC 4nm, faster GPU, INT4 and AI everywhere – and a rocky relationship with its CPU designer Qualcomm today finds itself in the peculiar position of announcing its latest flagship mobile processor that relies heavily on technology from an outfit suing the pants off it.…

Spoiler: it may hinge on California's voting block Analysis America's midterm elections didn't result in the widely predicted Republican red wave, but the results show there will be interesting times ahead for American privacy.…

What did we learn from the IoT days? Apparently nothing. If you've noticed car charging stations showing up in your area, congratulations! You're part of a growing network of systems so poorly secured they could one day be used to destabilize entire electrical grids, and which contain enough security issues to be problematic today. …

Team Red believes chip will allow AI inferencing to proliferate in the cosmos AMD claims that AI inferencing is about to become cheaper and more widely available for satellites and other space equipment now that a version of its reprogrammable Versal system-on-chip has been deemed worthy of celestial travel.…

The platform launches alongside new frameworks for AI preprocessing at the edge SC22 Nvidia says users can now extend their 400Gbps InfiniBand networks even farther with the launch of its MetroX-3 long-haul system, which boosts the range of its Quantum-2 switches to 25 miles or 40 kilometers.…

Claims to be able to spot imposters in live video feeds within milliseconds Intel claims it has developed an AI model that can detect in real time whether a video is using deepfake technology by looking for subtle changes in color that would be evident if the subject were a live human being.…

Duo also hope to support development of exascale computing at research institutions Chip designer SiPearl is working with AMD on software support to enable supercomputing systems that pair SiPearl's high-performance Rhea processor with AMD's Instinct GPU accelerators.…

Maybe now San Francisco will allow it to operate in the fog and rain? Self-driving taxi operator Waymo might have a way of getting around its vehicles' problems operating in foggy San Francisco: by turning each into a roving weather station that can adapt to the conditions.…

The way your computerized canine walks down the stairs looks familiar to us, claims MIT spinoff Robotics company Boston Dynamics is suing a rival that has been testing four-legged robot tech at a US Air Force Base, claiming that two of Ghost Robotics' quad-legged unmanned ground vehicles infringe on seven of Boston's patents.…

Climate change goals? Tick. Upping wages and improving working conditions for warehouse staff? Come on Jeff, charity begins at home Comment Amazon founder Jeff Bezos intends to hand out the “majority” of his wealth in support of good causes – although some have suggested he start closer to home with warehouse staff complaints about pay and work conditions.…

Following AppGyver and Ruum, Build potentially takes pressure off devs’ create-this-feature-now list SAP has launched another initiative aimed at helping so-called citizen developers build applications on its enterprise software platforms.…

Well, which one is it, then? Between trying to convince advertisers to keep faith in Twitter and firing engineers for public insubordination, Elon Musk yesterday admitted that one of his other businesses, SpaceX, had bought an ad campaign through the social media website.…

There's gold in them there chip mountains? World's sixth richest man seems to think so Warren Buffett, the sixth richest man on the planet and historically a tech averse stock market gambler, has bought around $5 billion worth of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co shares.…