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Europe worried about French safety findings Apple's woes over the iPhone 12's electromagnetic waves do not seem to be going away, with more EU countries intending to take another look at the device following France's decision to halt sales earlier this week....

How about the ministers go next? UK citizens wondering if Whitehall civil servants really "get" technology may be heartened to learn that the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology have signed up for the STEM Futures scheme....

And they cost less than a box of donuts Stolen cloud credentials cost about the same as a dozen donuts, according to IBM X-Force, whose threat intel team says logins make up almost 90 percent of goods and services for sale on dark web marketplaces....

Well, when it's finished, anyway Google has begun breaking out its Outline proxy client-server code into an SDK so developers can eventually bake the censorship-evading tech into their apps....

Build a new XT with HDMI graphics or run Windows ME at 4K - because why not? The retro computing hobby is always throwing up innovative ideas and methods... such as a CGA card with HDMI output, new 8088 PC systems, or drivers to enable full hardware-accelerated 3D for Windows 98 in a VM....

Black hole stun: They're more than 1,400 light years closer than the previous record holder Not to alarm anyone, but the nearest black holes to Earth are closer than we previously thought....

When you're shopping from 'TBMPOY' or 'CARWORNIC' will you even notice the difference? Amazon.com has unleashed a generative AI service for sellers in its supersized souk....

TikTok-esque Mini Worlds, part of the Tencent empire, shamed, fined, warned to do better China's cyberspace regulator on Wednesday ordered Tencent's QQ messaging platform to shut down its short video creation and sharing service for 30 days after it found it had exposed minors to graphic sexual material....

Those of you happy to spend ten hours in a single-aisle A321, take note Airbus has commenced functional and reliability testing of its A321XLR, a passenger plane expected to open up new routes by allowing the aviation workhorse that is the A320 family to easily handle transatlantic trips and journeys of ten hours or more....

Security is important, so is fair trade, says Foreign Ministry China's Foreign Ministry has denied reports that government agencies have restricted the use of Apple's iPhone....

To Nutanix go the spoils, to VMware users comes a compatibility nightmare Cisco has discontinued its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure products....

Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now Google has confirmed it is this week laying off a few hundred staff from its global recruitment team....

Decision to combine user-curated feed with algorithmic stuff leaves coders fuming A week ago, GitHub fused its home page feed with algorithmic recommendations, infuriating more than a few users of the Microsoft-owned code-hosting giant....

Homeland Security told to mind costs, fix up privacy controls Twice delayed and over budget, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been told by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that it needs to correct shortcomings in its biometric identification program....

Another load of automakers teams up to lean into the inevitable If you want to gauge the automotive industry's temperature on electric vehicles, just take a look at the volume of collaborative projects they're all working on, including most recently an initiative from Ford, BMW and Honda's American arm to develop a standard for bidirectional vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging....

No, your CEO is not on Teams asking you to transfer money Deepfakes are coming for your brand, bank accounts, and corporate IP, according to a warning from US law enforcement and cyber agencies....

Ransomware group nicked info from employee of airline, say researchers Aerospace giant Airbus has fallen victim to a data breach, thanks in part to the inattention of a third party....

We're just better, says Big G Google is facing charges from the US Department of Justice that it maintains a dominant position in internet search through payments to device makers and browser developers that keep it as the default search option....

Who's that poking around in your infrastructure? Roles, permissions, policies, and more Sure, cloud infrastructure is complex. But keeping track of identities (human and machine) and permissions across multiple cloud environments, and making sure all of these entitlements aren't abused to break into cloud environments - well, that's truly a Herculean task....

This would make the Golden State the third to enact a similar law The Apple-backed California right-to-repair bill has made its way effortlessly through the state Assembly, and is now just one procedural vote away from heading to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk for signature....

Think Debian 12 plus Mint's polish and a friendlier UX for non-techies The next version of Linux Mint's alternative flavor, its Debian 12-based edition, is looming, and it's reassuringly unexciting....

It's not as if space is hard, is it? The three companies tapped by Amazon to launch its Project Kuiper constellation have confirmed that they're definitely going to get the satellites into orbit despite repeated delays....

Watchdog worries over electromagnetic waves, Apple disagrees Apple's launch party for its latest iPhone was marred slightly yesterday as the French National Frequency Agency (ANFR) told the company that its iPhone 12 breached electromagnetic wave limits....

No, miscreants won't be able to use it to read secret printed docs Researchers in California have found that Wi-Fi signals can be used to image objects on the far side of a wall, and claim to have demonstrated that such a system can even pick out complex shapes such as letters of the alphabet....

Cut and shut is so last century, now it's copy and clone Researchers have found almost 15,000 automotive accounts for sale online and pointed at a credential-stuffing attack that targeted car makers....

Plus: Spending watchdog slams 'counter-productive staffing cuts' in technology Tech skills shortages and reliance on legacy systems are holding back the UK government's efforts to improve efficiency at a time when public finances are under severe pressure....

Fun technique - but how practical is it? Some smart cookies at institutions in China and Singapore have devised a technique for reading keystrokes and pilfering passwords or passcodes from Wi-Fi-connected mobile devices on public networks, without any hardware hacking....

Pensioners, employees and medical pros among those aiming to be compensated for data exposure The number of claimants signing up to a collective action against Capita over the infamous March cyber security break-in and subsequent data exposure keeps going up, according to the lawyer overseeing the case....

Deal for tax collector's legacy application services goes to troupe of suppliers including Accenture, Capgemini and IBM Exclusive UK government has named the winning suppliers on the first tranche of a tech deal which could be worth a total of 4.2 billion ($5.24 billion) for application software services supporting the nation's tax collector....

If the Chocolate Factory can't track you to sell ads, what does it have left? A group of Dutch consumer orgs sued Google today for what it alleges are "large-scale privacy violations."...

Personal AI can redefine the handheld experience and perhaps preserve privacy too Column Smartphone innovation has plateaued. The iPhone 15, launched overnight, has some nice additions. But my iPhone 13 will meet my needs for a while and I won't rush to replace it. My previous iPhone lasted four years....

Humans just can't leave anything alone, huh The leftover lunar descent module, which carried the Apollo 17 crew to the surface of the Moon in 1972, triggers tiny artificial moonquakes that rumble through Earth's natural satellite every lunar morning, according to research....

Same salespeople and same lock-in, which may actually help this time Analyst firm Gartner has observed its clients asking hyperscale cloud vendors to behave more like legacy tech vendors - and feels that might not be the worst thing to happen to organizations seeking to tap into the value of multi-cloud....

Running unsupported and unpatched versions of Exchange Server will do that to a country Sri Lanka's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) is currently investigating a ransomware attack on the government's cloud infrastructure that affected around 5,000 email accounts, it revealed on Tuesday....

As Japan's space agency preps a rover to land on Martian moon Phobos South Korea's science ministry has released a photo taken by the nation's Danuri Moon orbiter depicting the landing site of India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission....

'Obtaining a disruptive capability could be one possible motivation behind this surge in attacks' Espionage-ware thought to have been developed by China has once again been spotted within the power grid of a neighboring nation....

White House bags more voluntary commitments Eight big names in tech, including Nvidia, Palantir, and Adobe, have agreed to red team their AI applications before they're released and prioritize research that will make their systems more more trustworthy, the White House tells us....

Plus: Adobe and Android also tackle abused-in-the-wild flaws Patch Tuesday It's every Windows admin's favorite day of the month: Patch Tuesday. Microsoft emitted 59 patches for its September update batch, including two for bugs that have already been exploited....

Taiwanese also plot $100M investment in Arm IPO, x86 giant gets real about Thunderbolt 5 TSMC is on a spending spree. The Taiwanese factory goliath just acquired a 10 percent stake in Intel-owned IMS Nanofabrication for $430 million and also announced plans to drop another $100 million on Arm's initial public offering (IPO) this week....

Thanks, Europe. Couldn't have done it without EU Video Apple surprised almost no one on Thursday with the announcement of several iPhone 15 models and a renovated smartwatch, the details of which were more or less known or guessed by the cadre of analysts, journalists, and pundits who follow such things....

DARPA awards Boeing $70.5M to develop intercept technology No longer content to trail its rivals in the development of hypersonic weapons, the US military is turning to development of hypersonic weapon interceptors....

$50k to breathe new life into its corpse. The rest of us must move on to OpenSSL 3.0 OpenSSL 1.1.1 has reached the end of its life, making a move to a later version essential for all, bar those with extremely deep pockets....

Back to the drawing board with those China sanctions then, eh? The US looks to be tightening up its technology export restrictions on China following Huawei's release of a new 5G smartphone using homemade chips, a feat many had thought it would not be capable of delivering....

That or it's just really gassy The James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver the goods with scientists publishing insights into the atmospheric properties of a habitable-zone exoplanet....

Another would be copyright class action Pulitzer Prize winning US novelist Michael Chabon and several other writers have filed a proposed class action accusing OpenAI of copyright infringement for allegedly pulling their work into the datasets used to train the models behind ChatGPT....

Exploit observed in the wild as Mountain View pushes out updates Google has rushed out a fix for a vulnerability in its Chrome browser, noting that an exploit already exists in the wild....

Jean Baudrillard would've LOVED this Comment The Postmodernist French philosopher Jean Baudrillard was known for his concept of hyperreality, where the real and imaginary are confused....

Don't expect 'armies of programmers' to rewrite Cerner, says Larry, talking up low-code app dev platform APEX Software and hardware giant Oracle disappointed the stock markets with slightly less than expected revenue for Q1 of 2024, while CTO Larry Ellison teased a closer alliance with Microsoft and its Azure cloud platform....

Chipmaker reigns supreme, at least until iGiant gets its house in order Apple looks to have further delayed the introduction of its own 5G modem chips after it extended an agreement with Qualcomm to use its components until at least 2026....

Not to be a buzzkill, but let's take a deep dive into the disparity Generative AI currently only makes up a small fraction of cloud computing costs for enterprises and cloud providers, despite all the hype....