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Frankly, it's the least of Musk's problems right now Tesla has initiated a voluntary recall of more than 40,000 Model S and Model X vehicles thanks to a bad firmware update that could cause the cars to lose power steering "due to forces from external road dynamics," also known as bumps.…

Germany blocks sale of fab to Chinese firm, Taiwan's investments challenged in Lithuania China is at the center of two conflicts in Europe as the continent strives to shore up domestic chip manufacturing capabilities.…

Phishing-as-a-service group's toolset now includes ways to get around MFA Robin Banks, the phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) platform that was kicked off Cloudflare for malicious activity, is back in action with a Russian service provider and new tools to make it easier to bypass security measures.…

Two breaches: one in 2012, another in 2015 – saw 18m folks' records stolen Experian and T-Mobile US have reached separate settlements with 40 states in America following a pair of data security breaches in 2012 and 2015. The settlement will net authorities $16 million, along with assurances it won't happen again.…

Advertising? 'Anything for that sweet sweet KPI' Windows appears to be testing ads in the user session flyout menu (where you sign out, lock, or change settings) of Windows 11 preview builds, with clearly annoyed Windows Insider, Albacore, sharing screenshots on Twitter.…

Nvidia’s A800 is the new A100, but slower; and Biren’s A100 now 64GBps slower Systems that once contained Nvidia and TSMC chips, which are now restricted by the US government, are popping up this week with slower specs to meet US export controls to China and evade the hassles of obtaining special licenses.…

Maybe they can use more renewable energy – oh crap, that needs semiconductors too A newly created semiconductor industry body is attending the COP27 climate conference this week to talk about members’ aims to hit net zero emissions by 2050 – and hopefully clean up the chip industry's act.…

Pilot project in Geneva ends potential danger to welfare of the birds Yet another squadron of anti-drone eagles is being grounded after officials in Geneva, Switzerland decided advances in the technology made success rates uncertain and even dangerous for the birds to manage.…

If Eliyan’s designs work, this could lower reliance on Asia for chip manufacturing Silicon Valley startup Eliyan thinks its technology for enabling chiplet-based designs can best those from semiconductor giants Intel and TSMC by providing better performance, higher efficiency, fewer manufacturing issues, and more supply chain options.…

Need Another Special Artisan? The US space agency does NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory failed to launch the Psyche asteroid-visiting mission originally scheduled later this year due to an "imbalance between the workload and the available workforce," it admitted in an independent report released late last week.…

Apparently, you can still get laptops with good keyboard feel Review Tuxedo Computers offers an unusual machine: a Linux-based laptop with, of all things, a mechanical keyboard.…

Reveals closer ties to Equinix and Wipro as Broadcom finds new ways to promise peace VMware has used the European edition of its Explore conference to outline a plan to package software for consumption as SaaS while keeping it out of the reach of the extraterritorial jurisdiction enabled by the USA’s Cloud Act.…

Holiday property landlords' vacation from regulation is coming to an end The EU proposed rules this week requiring Airbnb and similar companies to share with officials the identities of hosts renting houses and apartments to tourists.…

Pay is middling, hours are long, but millions of jobs are out there Chinese employers have recently advertised for nearly a million employees with technical AI skills, according to an analysis from US think tank the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).…

Other than that, results are some of the least bad news about hardware sales we've read in weeks Electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd – better known as Foxconn – has reported strong growth in plenty of product categories but warned its Chinese operations may drag it down during Q4.…

$40 billion heading out the door for data management servers and storage in 2022 alone Databases remain the largest single driver of enterprise hardware purchases, according to analyst outfit IDC.…

Asking really good questions about what data can describe matters more than collecting more info Data scientists are important, but what the world needs now is data artists, according to analysts at Gartner's Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney, Australia.…

OK, so you've got a botnet. That don't impress me much Pro-Russia hacktivists' recent spate of network-flooding bot traffic aimed at US critical infrastructure targets, while annoying, have had "limited success," according to the FBI.…

Robots aren't hard. 5G in a room full of metal is. So is explaining why you need a bot to look at blinkenlights Fujitsu Japan will trial a local 5G network as the sole connectivity option for a robot charged with inspecting a datacenter and reporting on any anomalies it finds.…

AI and HPC deployments means propping up 250kW densities per rack With AI and HPC workloads becoming the norm, we can expect a broader push toward high-end power and cooling technologies inside colo facilities.…

Meanwhile, India workers in reported 90% purge In a sign that laying off half the company may not have been the best idea, "dozens" of Twitter employees given notice on Friday were reportedly asked to return over the weekend.…

Uncle Sam follows the money ... all the way to a single-board computer A crook who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoins from the dark web souk Silk Road in 2012 has pleaded guilty and lost the lot, with a stretch behind bars likely ahead of him. …

Don't like the results? The election must have been rigged Misinformation related to tomorrow's US midterm elections hasn't slowed, according to security researchers. …

US government opens purse strings as China eats into America's former lead The Biden administration has carved off a supercomputer’s worth of cash from the Inflation Reduction Act to upgrade the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) national laboratories.…

Just in time for the holidays, a bunch of firing talk to worry Facebook crew More Silicon Valley layoff rumors are swirling and this time it's Meta that might be planning the first broad reduction in the company's history.…

The UK chip designer is suing another firm that has an interest, so IPO it is? Remember when Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK hynix were floated as potential buyers of UK chip designer Arm? Well, it seems that we can now count them out, which means Arm's owner, SoftBank Group, will likely have to move forward with its planned initial public offering.…

No more MF phish on this MFA cellphone as Azure AD CBA + YubiKey hits preview Microsoft is rolling out another way for smartphone and tablet users to protect themselves from phishing attacks as post-pandemic hybrid work pulls more and more workers under bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies.…

This is no laughing matter, says very stable genius, as Kathy Griffin forced to tweet from dead mom's account Elon Musk, the self-affirmed bastion of free speech, says that anyone setting up a parody Twitter account that isn’t marked as such will be permanently banned from the social network.…

Also, US media hit with JavaScript supply chain attack, while half of govt employees use out-of-date mobile OSes in brief A quartet of malware-laden Android apps from a single developer have been caught with malicious code more than once, yet the infected apps remain on Google Play and have collectively been downloaded more than one million times. …

The two not explicitly linked together but USA still working hard to hurt China semiconductor imports As Washington tries to persuade allies to join its China chip technology export ban, Japan is preparing for a joint research project with the US on the development of next generation advanced semiconductors.…

Tech giants and startups rush into the next big thing in security The theft of billions of dollars in cryptocurrency over recent months could have been prevented, and confidential computing is a key to the security fix.…

Plus: City of Edinburgh promises to scrap Chinese AI Hikvision cameras, and more In brief OpenAI, Microsoft, and GitHub have been named in a class-action lawsuit claiming its AI-code generating software Copilot violates copyright laws.…

Already red-teaming and blue teaming in the international Locked Shields contest every year Japan’s Ministry of Defence (JMOD) announced on Friday that it has formally joined NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE).…

Even 2022 can't muster this much madness – or can it? Opinion The stupid is strong right now. In politics, economics and climate, crass madness is the order of the day. Commerce has its own flagships of farce, the Ford Edsels and New Cokes of companies being their own worst enemies. That list of legendary loserdom may soon have a new name for the ages, if what Qualcomm claims for Arm's future plans is anywhere near the truth.…

'Every major project' on the table, says government as Autumn Statement looms About half of the UK's planned civil nuclear capacity could be reviewed as the government struggles to fill a £40 billion ($45 billion) black hole in its finances.…

And it should know – having just failed to catch one Private launch outfit Rocket Lab has again failed to catch one of its Electron launcher's first stages with a helicopter as it floated back to Earth.…

Increase in espionage and cyberattacks since law requiring vulnerabilities first be reported to Beijing Microsoft has asserted that China's offensive cyber capabilities have improved, thanks to a law that has allowed Beijing to create an arsenal of unreported software vulnerabilities.…

To quote the great philosopher Han Solo: Don't get cocky who, me? Welcome, dear reader, to another installation of Who, Me? in which we recount for your schadenfreude indulgence tales of Regizens who create havoc – either by their own design or others – but mostly emerge unscathed.…

Suggests tweaks to IP semantics as one way to identify protected tech and traffic The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) wants to devise a digital equivalent of its emblems (the red cross and red crescent), to signify that certain digital resources are protected and must not be targeted during cyberwarfare.…

Buyers told of longer wait times for shiny new phones that don't do a lot more than last year’s model Apple has warned that a COVID outbreak in Zhengzhou, China, has impacted production of the iPhone 14 and will mean customers wait longer than anticipated to get their hands on the device.…

Australia's Medibank uses a government-approved Band-Aid to cover a gaping 10-milion-record wound Australian health insurer Medibank – which spent October discovering a security incident was worse than it first thought – has announced it will not pay a ransom to attackers that made off with personal info describing nearly ten million customers.…

PLUS: Tencent's edgy JV; US/China space spat; Facebook's India boss bails to join Snap; and more Asia In Brief Microsoft has informed its channel it will revise corporate licenses and service prices in Japan and South Korea.…

Customers just love taking risks on pricey new tech, right? Analysis If one thing was abundantly clear from Supermicro's Q1 earnings call this month, it's that the server maker really needs Intel, AMD, and Nvidia's next-gen datacenter components to be a hit if it's going to weather the economic downturn.…

To help save x86 titan some cash, we look at the components Intel may want to lose Analysis With a major downturn in revenue and profitability over the past six months, Intel has some tough decisions ahead as it seeks to make billions of dollars in cuts while the beleaguered semiconductor giant tries to enact its grand comeback plan.…

One 8-K filing, two bombshells SolarWinds has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit, and it's also expecting to be slapped with an enforcement action by Uncle Sam – both related to its infamous 2020 supply chain security fiasco, according to the software maker's most recent US regulatory filing.…

Desktop app buckles up for faster switching between chats or channels or join a meeting Microsoft has rolled out an upgrade for its Teams desktop app, and is claiming a more than 30 percent speed jump when switching between chat and channel threads.…

Ericsson's VoIP biz used 'a panoply of hurdles' to keep customers on the hook Vonage has agreed to cough up $100 million to customers for making it nearly impossible to cancel their internet phone service, according to a proposed court order.…

Musk-owned companies have now faced 3 WARN Act lawsuits alleging the same thing The great Twitter cull of '22 is expected to begin today, but a group of tweeps have preempted the event by filing a class action lawsuit against Twitter for violating the WARN Act.…

Crimson Kingsnake impersonates legit attorneys, fakes email threads from your colleagues in far-reaching BEC campaign A new threat group called Crimson Kingsnake is impersonating real law companies and debt recovery services to intimidate businessess into paying bogus overdue invoices.…

An unexpected move, but we suspect that Carl Sagan might have approved Mozilla has announced the successor to the Mozilla Builders incubator: Mozilla Ventures.…