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I think we can handle one little Russia. We sent two units, they're bringing any attempts down now The FBI and the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) claim any foreign interference in the 2022 US midterm elections is unlikely to disrupt or prevent voting, compromise ballot integrity, or manipulate votes at scale.…

Lots of talk about the automation and digitization of manufacturing chips too Samsung has gone public with new silicon and outlined plans for its semiconductor business at its Samsung Tech Day 2022 in San Jose, including upcoming DRAM and NAND flash developments.…

Whereabouts of wanted cryptobro unknown, but he's reliably on Twitter South Korea issued a publicly available notice on Wednesday to wanted man and Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon, demanding he return his passport.…

How Meta, er, meta Google-owned DeepMind has applied reinforced learning techniques to the multiplication of mathematical matrices, beating some human-made algorithms that have lasted 50 years and working toward improvements in computer science.…

They can't hurt us if we stay indoors "Space: the final frontier" – not just for humanity but also marketeers, it would seem, as Russian scientists have undertaken a feasibility study on satellite-displayed advertising. They conclude that not only is it possible, but it could also turn a profit.…

And it wouldn't be a Redmond OS update without printing issues The Windows 11 2022 Update that Microsoft started rolling out in September is in its teething phase, with warnings of unexpected restarts and half-completed out of box setups for users when deploying on new devices.…

Biggest demo yet of single and double quantum dots, x86 claims Intel claims to have achieved a milestone in efforts to produce silicon spin qubit devices using existing manufacturing processes, a move they think might pave the way for large-scale production of quantum computers.…

Customers were allegedly sent texts demanding $1,300 or face having ID used in financial crime Aussie police have cuffed a 19-year-old Sydney resident accused of trying to extort money from victims of the recent cyberattack and digital burglary at national telecommunications provider Optus.…

Brace yourself for a weird future where everything is imagined by magic sand we taught how to think Hot on the heels of Meta's Make-A-Video, Google said on Wednesday it too has built an AI-powered text-to-video system. This one's called Imagen Video.…

UK and Germany among adoption leaders in the region Europe is falling behind global leaders in 5G adoption as rising inflation and war in Ukraine affect infrastructure ambition, according to an industry survey.…

CWU: Just like UK government did a reverse-ferret on tax, so will national telecom titan on staff pay BT strikers protesting over pay should take note that the British government was forced to climbdown on its proposed tax cut for the richest in society, and the national telecom operator will inevitably bow to continued protests too.…

Amid inevitable talk of 'red tape' cutting at ruling party conference, data protection experts are concerned Britain's digital minister says the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is "limiting the potential of our businesses," and is vowing to cut data protection "red tape," for the "newly independent nation free of EU bureaucracy."…

If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models? AI algorithms can predict whether a patient is at risk of suffering a stroke, heart attack, or dying from heart disease just by studying images of their retinas, according to research out of England.…

Cribl accused of terrible behaviour, horrible IP practices, implausible deniability Data-crunching outfit Splunk has filed a lawsuit alleging that a former employee stole its source code and used it to start a rival company.…

COVID hiccups be damned, work on instruments and connectivity is under way and space agency JAXA is determined to hit launch window The world’s first mission to collect samples from Phobos, one of two moons orbiting Mars, has progressed to testing its bus system and mission instruments.…

As version ‘Zed’ debuts, project slows down a little OpenStack has completed an alphabet’s worthy of releases, with the project on Wednesday issuing “Zed” – the 26th version of the open-source cloud stack and also adding an optional slower upgrade cadence.…

Just in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the best idea ever China appears to have upgraded its Great Firewall, the instrument of pervasive real-time censorship it uses to ensure that ideas its government doesn’t like don’t reach China’s citizens.…

Passing off a ransom payment as a bug bounty? That's obstruction of justice Joe Sullivan, Uber's former chief security officer, has been found guilty of illegally covering up the theft of Uber drivers and customers' personal information.…

And note to his crime pals – he said he would sing like a canary An ex-Canadian government worker who extorted tens of millions of dollars from organizations worldwide using the NetWalker ransomware has been sent down for 20 years.…

Get ready for that deposition tomorrow, Elon Elon Musk's decision this week to go ahead with his Twitter purchase – after months of trying to wriggle out of the deal – hasn't automatically stopped his upcoming trial, the judge overseeing the case said today.…

LA DA ain't happy about handling of poll workers' info Eugene Yu, CEO of Michigan-based software firm Konnech, has been arrested by police in that US state at the request of the Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, as part of an investigation into the theft of personal information.…

Small, safer vessels could be 'silicon chip' that ushers in new nuclear age As the US Department of Energy (DoE) continues to look for ways to improve molten salt nuclear reactors (MSRs), a team from Brigham Young University in Utah has designed one it says can fit safely in the bed of a 40-foot truck. …

Tell us it’s Russia without telling us it’s Russia Spies for months hid inside a US military contractor's enterprise network and stole sensitive data, according to a joint alert from the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and NSA.…

Adaptable Linux Platform v0.01 shows that the future of SLE is containerized As we reported back in July, the future direction of SUSE Linux Enterprise is starting to take shape, and it's containers all the way down.…

Oh the hijinks of academia Researchers gave a laser beam machine vision and trained it to hunt cockroaches.…

Windows giant know exactly how to get these types fired up Microsoft is looking for a share of the financial services industry's wallets, talking up new features and a "compliance" program for its industry cloud in the run-up to next week's Ignite 2022 show.…

Well, yeah, when the batteries and power supplies can handle it, too Experimental tech designed to cool NASA equipment in space has an Earth-bound use as well: slashing electric vehicle charging times to five minutes or less.…

Neat algorithmic trick squeezing into 256KB of RAM, barely enough for inference let alone teaching Researchers claim to have developed techniques to enable the training of a machine learning model using less than a quarter of a megabyte of memory, making it suitable for operation in microcontrollers and other edge hardware with limited resources.…

New language will be official, probably within a couple of months The first big change for the forthcoming Linux kernel 6.1 is in… and it's a big one.…

Cloud and equipment makers also keen to escape Softbank's licensing boot Analysis Arm might not think RISC-V is a threat to its newfound foothold in the datacenter, but growing pressure on Chinese chipmaking could ultimately change that, Forrester Research analyst Glenn O'Donnell tells The Register.…

No formal offer yet received, Baring Private Equity Asia linked with ailing IT services house BPO and IT services multi-national DXC Technology has confirmed it is in contact with a "financial sponsor" that is interested in buying the business, amid indications that Baring Private Equity Asia is the suitor.…

Memory maker says plant will help to boost memory production in America Micron has committed to a $100 billion memory chip fabrication plant in New York State, just days after saying it was cutting back on investment because of weakening demand in the semiconductor market.…

British minister famed for love of imperial measures picks a spot in center of industrial decline UK business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has proposed building the UK’s first nuclear fusion power plant in a center of industrial decline.…

Patiently gathers data that can be used to identify the victims, says Kaspersky Cybersecurity biz Kaspersky has spotted a modified version of the Tor Browser it says collects sensitive data on Chinese users.…

And it's not the only venerable window manager still in development A new version of a quarter-century-old window manager shows that there's still room for improvement and innovation, even in established, mature tools.…

Scientists believe moth larvae saliva can oxidize, degrade polyethylene The caterpillar larvae of the wax moth produce saliva with enzymes capable of oxidizing and degrading polyethylene, offering a potential solution to the plastic pollution challenge.…

Anyone remember SoftBank's pledge to double headcount in Britain? Arm has reportedly chopped around 20 percent of its headcount in the UK, unpicking some of the recruitment commitments parent SoftBank made to the government when it bought the chip designer.…

How apt Physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this week for performing breakthrough quantum entanglement experiments.…

Industry insists it needs new blood, yet offers are being rescinded, pay rises delayed, and workers are furious Indian IT Service giant Wipro has confirmed to The Register that it expects employees will return to its office for at least three days a week as of October 10.…

No 'corruption' alleged, rumours of a big win selling to Apple make shunting a little odd The CEO of Chinese RAM and SSD maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Company (YMTC) appears to have stepped down from his position, a move that follows the departure of several other senior Chinese chipmaking execs in recent weeks.…

‘This is not what justice looks like’ says US attorney of sanction for leak of 100 million records Convicted wire fraud perpetrator Paige Thompson (aka "erratic") has been sentenced to time served and five years of probation with location and computer monitoring, prompting U.S. Attorney Nick Brown to label the sanctions unsatisfactory.…

Local activists help pen letter to government requesting - in very stern language - reasons why it's been targeted Developers of the open source VideoLAN media player have challenged India’s government to explain why the project’s web site has been blocked.…

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree Hotel chain Shangri-La Group has admitted to its systems being attacked, and personal data describing guests accessed by unknown parties, over a timeframe that includes the dates on which a high-level international defence conference was staged at one of its Singapore properties.…

Somebody missed the memo – this internet giant always gets its own way Amazon has sued Washington state's Department of Labor & Industries, claiming an order by government officials requiring the internet mega-giant to reduce hazards at a warehouse breaks the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.…

While accused of already breaking terms of an earlier deal IBM is preparing to settle yet more age discrimination and wage theft complaints against the IT giant, though in one instance where it has already done so, Big Blue is accused of failing to comply with the terms of its settlement agreement.…

Good time to be selling automation tools The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal civilian agencies to scan for and report software vulnerabilities in their IT systems more frequently under a directive issued this week.…

Phrasing, Arizona... AG claims deal is 'historic' Google will pay $85 million to settle a privacy lawsuit that accused the internet behemoth of deceiving netizens regarding its harvesting of people's location data and using this personal info to rake in billions of dollars in advertising revenue.…

Remaining employees can continue work in different countries, though they'll struggle to get a flight out GPU maker Nvidia is shutting down its operations in Russia following its earlier decision to stop selling products there. The company is said to be offering employees the chance to continue working for it in another country.…

World's richest man wants to kill trial – and presumably end more text message embarrassment Updated Trading in shares of Twitter was halted today on news that Elon Musk has decided to revive his takeover of Twitter, which would involve buying the company at the originally agreed price of $54.20 per share and ending their legal squabbles. …

It's officially official: Mobile devices will be required to use USB-C from 2024, with laptops following in 2026 After an initial agreement in June, the European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly to approve a USB-C charging standard that will force electronics manufacturers to ditch other ports, proprietary or otherwise. …