The Register

Beware what could be hiding in those LNK shortcuts A tool sold on the dark web that allows cybercriminals to build malicious shortcuts for delivering malware is being used in a campaign pushing a longtime .NET keylogger and remote access trojan (RAT) named Agent Tesla.…

Someone going by 'Thrax' claims responsibility for 'incredibly easy' breach Apple News shut down Fast Company's news channel after "an incredibly offensive alert" was sent to subscribers following a hack of the business publication on Tuesday evening.…

Analyst says challenges remain in attracting partners to roll out products Oracle's NetSuite has kicked off its Las Vegas conference with a smorgasbord of news aimed at accounts payable, warehouse management, and people management.…

Along with revealing authors, IARPA also wants bot to disguise scribes The US intelligence community has launched a program to develop artificial intelligence that can determine authorship of anonymous writing while also disguising an author's identity by subtly altering their words.…

US campaign group forms as customers complain of lock-in, unclear terms, problems using wares in cloud Campaign group the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing (CFSL) has launched in the US to tackle the "restrictive terms" and anticompetitive business practices that "lock-in" customers and "impedes" a move to the cloud.…

Thinking about shelling out $800? If you break it you're 'screwed' The Apple Watch Ultra was announced this month with a ruggedized design, new button(!), and a focus on outdoorsy types, but now that the repairability fans at iFixit have their hands on it, they're only concerned about one thing – screws.…

UbuntuDDE 22.04 is colorful, and with slightly less Chinese flavor than Ubuntu Kylin The team behind the unofficial Ubuntu remix with the Deepin desktop has rolled out an updated version based on the current Ubuntu long-term support release.…

Worldwide investment set to grow 9% to new high of $99b Investment in semiconductor fab equipment is set to grow 9 percent to a new global high of $99 billion by the end of 2022 as the industry continues to boost capacity despite the worsening global economic outlook.…

Thought shadow IT at your office was bad? Try enforcing workplace device policies on hedge fund traders Updated Ever given a colleague a quick Signal call so you can sidestep a monitored workplace app? Well, we'd hope you're not in a highly regulated industry like staff at eleven of the world's most powerful financial firms, who yesterday were fined nearly $2 billion for off-channel comms.…

Set priorities, expect confusion, keep emergency instructions simple – that's just for starters At the start of the year, when it looked likely that Russia would invade Ukraine, Kyiv-based MacPaw began making a plan for operating during wartime.…

Apps still available on Google Play, digital ministry says it's investigating Russian social media provider VK Company Ltd has confirmed its apps were removed from Apple's App Store.…

And if and when it does, role lacks Cabinet position, complain Lords The UK's position in science and innovation is under threat from a lack of government focus and financial investment according to a House of Lords committee.…

Beta trial for select, chosen customers – gee, so generous and open Intel has announced the Intel Developer Cloud, a platform intended to make it easier for commercial customers to get early access to yet-to-be-released technologies.…

Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure CTO, thinks so Column We all know that the Rust language has become much more popular. By Slashdata's count, Rust users have nearly tripled in the past 24 months.…

Need deepfake tools? GitHub's got 'em All of the materials and tools needed to make deepfake videos – from source code to publicly available images and account authentication bypass services – are readily available and up for sale on the public internet and underground forums. …

Manufacturers allegedly told to connect to NavIC by 2023, which did not make them happy at all India's Ministry of Electronics and IT has clarified that, while the world's second-most populous nation does want smartphone makers to include hardware to connect to its Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) satnav system, it is in no rush to make it happen.…

When a Klingon Bird-of-Prey just won't cut it Bright yellow buoys running AI software have been deployed in an attempt to deter cargo ships from running over nearby whales.…

For just $5,500 and the cost of a quad-core x86 box, z/OS 16 for test and dev on the desktop can be yours IBM has updated its mainframe emulators to bring them into line with its recently released Z16 machines and operating system.…

As Intel expands its collaboration with Chinese car-maker Geely US automotive giant Ford Motor Company has announced the launch of a subsidiary that will focus on developing smart electric vehicles and driver assist technology for the Chinese market. …

Just in time for the Party Congress, whatever the reality of the situation The People's Bank of China, the nation's central bank, has trumpeted its success suppressing Bitcoin and online lending.…

Apparent perp claims to have deleted swiped info as carrier Optus struggles to get its story straight +Comment Australian authorities have asked the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assist with investigations into the data breach at local telco Optus.…

Even Gordon Moore saw it coming, admits CEO While some have given up on Moore’s Law, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger clearly hasn’t. “For decades now, I’ve been in the debate: is Moore’s Law dead? And the answer is no,” he said, during his keynote at the Intel Innovation event this week.…

Code-injection bug in your network security... mmm, yum yum A critical code-injection vulnerability in Sophos Firewall has been fixed — but not before miscreants found and exploited the bug.…

Fun fact: The mission is named after the Latin word for 'delayed' NASA's Moon-ward Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will not be blasting off from Earth until late October at the earliest, after the vehicle was rolled back to its hangar to shelter from an incoming hurricane.…

Unless you're a US government boffin or can get a seat in Dev Cloud Intel’s ever-delayed Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable processors are now available ... in the chipmaker’s Dev Cloud. Anyone looking to actually pick up Intel’s next-gen datacenter silicon is, however, still out of luck, as it looks increasingly likely the chips won’t begin volume shipments until early next year.…

Who cares if they are authentic parts! Come to the iStore instead if you know what's good for you Apple's iPhone 14 can be repaired more easily than its predecessors, but its Pro model retains the architectural inaccessibility of older iPhones and resists replacement parts, even authentic Cupertino kit.…

Turns out all it took was a business-disrupting global pandemic Despite recession fears, most companies are planning to increase IT budgets next year.…

50-year-old software project provides a button the boss can click Analytics stalwart SAS is making its cloud-based Viya platform available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace in the hopes users will be tempted by a clickable, pay-as-you-go option for its ML, data management, and analytics tools.…

If you're gonna force everyone to register an account, at least protect that data, lawsuit argues A lawsuit has accused Samsung of failing to address a cyber-intrusion in early 2022, leading to the theft of US customers' personally identifiable information (PII) in a second attack months later in July.…

Amazon's already said no to country-by-country breakdown Cisco has urged its shareholders to vote against a proposal asking for the company to publish a tax transparency report that breaks down where it pays its taxes on a country-by-country basis.…

India, Turkey, UAE subsidiaries set up slush funds to bribe 'foreign officials' says watchdog Oracle has paid $23 million to the US Securities and Exchange Commission to settle corruption charges that subsidiaries in Turkey, United Arab Emirates and India used “slush funds” to bribe foreign officials to win business.…

X86 giant's 24-core i9 doubles as a space heater Intel doubled down on "more power is better" with the launch of its 13th-gen Core processors at its Innovation event this week. With a 253W thermal design power (TDP) for its latest i9 and i7 desktop processors, water cooling might as well be a requirement.…

TrendForce: Hope for cheaper consumer SSDs intensifies Most manufacturers of NAND flash can expect to see their products cross into loss territory before the end of this year, according to researchers at TrendForce.…

Russian cybercriminals were also caught targeting Europe with anti-Ukraine messages Meta says it has disrupted a misinformation network targeting US political discourse ahead of the 2022 midterm elections – and one that sought to influence public opinion in Europe about the conflict in Ukraine.…

Performance-killing workaround rediscovered after 20 years An ancient fix for power management issues on AMD systems has been reducing Linux's performance since 2002. Now it's gone.…

Security tool warns admins and users when a password is used on an untrusted site or stored locally In the latest version of Windows 11, Microsoft is introducing a feature in its Microsoft Defender SmartScreen tool designed to keep passwords safer.…

My friends say I should act my wage. What's my wage again? Young professionals are railing against drops in living standards and stagnant wages by becoming "quiet quitters" unless a pay rise or promotion is possible.…

The Beast of the Middle East: up to 20 times faster than predecessor, that's 884,736 CPU cores across the system HPE has won a project to build a supercomputer in Saudi Arabia that is expected to be the most powerful in the Middle East, used for advancing research in fields such as food, water, energy and the environment.…

Adds new heads to boardroom too but still not word on destination of flotation Chip designer Arm has made a flurry of boardroom appointments ahead of its IPO later this year, including hiring a new Chief Financial Officer with experience taking companies public.…

But you'll need to buy lots of new hardware to get the benefit Analysis As it rolled out the laundry list of new features in Windows 11, version 22H2 this week, Microsoft also unveiled the configuration baseline that systems will have to meet to take advantage of the latest security capabilities.…

Understands income streams, seasonality of sales, how hard drivers work, and safety records Southeast Asia's Uber-clone turned superapp, Grab, collects so much data about its customers and drivers that it can rate their suitability for a loan – and is already a significant lender to its drivers.…

Too many small fish in the pond mean the bigger ones are about to enjoy a feeding frenzy Resesarch on UK gigabit broadband investment toasts alternative network providers' efforts to build infrastructure, but warns that the number of them has now become unsustainable and a period of consolidation looms.…

Headcount in subcontinent quadruples in 3 years thanks to CFO's 'measured approach' to recruitment Salesforce is set to hire 2,500 staff in India – bringing the number in the subcontinent to 10,000 – weeks after it slowed hiring in the US.…

The other open-source productivity suite gets a version bump The latest point-release of Onlyoffice, a free Microsoft Office-compatible suite, is here with multiple small improvements and better support for Asian and African writing systems.…

Report finds increase in anonymous vuln reports The number of vulnerability reports provided by Chinese information security researchers has fallen sharply, according to research by think tank The Atlantic Council, which also found a strangely commensurate increase in bug reports from unknown sources.…

Argue tough economy means everyone needs to pay for the internet's growth – especially those who use it most The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) has again called for big technology companies – and especially video streamers – to pay for their share of internet infrastructure.…

Including assistance for the kind of companies the US is keen to contain Microsoft has celebrated the 30th anniversary of its operations in China with promises to hire more locals and encourage exports.…

Task failed successfully Video A spacecraft smashed head-on into a 170-metre-wide asteroid named Dimorphos on Monday in a first-of-its-kind experiment demonstrating how we could one day potentially divert a hazardous object on a collision course with Earth.…

'Cruise AV automated driving system is still under development' is putting it politely after vehicles block roads Analysis Two San Francisco transit agencies have asked the US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to check the safety of General Motors' Cruise self-driving cars.…

Will those be before or after the nuke strikes Putin keeps banging on about? Russia plans to conduct "massive cyberattacks" on Ukraine and its allies' critical infrastructure and energy sector, according to Kyiv.…