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Buy a new phone or pay food and household energy bills? Shipments to crash in 2022 Smartphone shipments are forecast to shrink globally by 6.5 percent this year as many households feeling the pinch of inflation decide to prioritize paying for food, energy and other essentials over refreshing handsets.…

Starting with Google Firebase and Apache Camel repos Security researchers at Legit Security identified vulnerabilities in the GitHub automated workflows used by Google Firebase and Apache Camel that could have been abused to compromise those open-source projects through their GitHub CI/CD pipeline and insert malicious code.…

Spoiler: They used hard-coded AWS credentials Massive amounts of private data – including more than 300,000 biometric digital fingerprints used by five mobile banking apps – have been put at risk of theft due to hard-coded Amazon Web Services credentials, according to security researchers.…

Could just be a coincidence ... let's keep going into space and see what happens Analyses of blood taken before and after spaceflight have confirmed astronauts undergo genetic mutations that could make them more susceptible to developing cancer and heart disease.…

You'll just have to learn to code instead – oh wait, computers can do that, too By 2026 the call center industry could save up to $80 billion by replacing humans with AI chatbots, according to analysts at Gartner.…

Is nothing sacred? Scumbags are using a photo from the James Webb Space Telescope to smuggle Windows malware onto victims' computers – albeit in a roundabout way.…

You're under app-vest Traffic cops in Surrey, England, have drawn criticism after revealing how they game Waze to spook drivers into slowing down while out on patrol.…

Makes Nvidia tense with ban on Tensor tech that could cost it $400m this quarter alone As part of ongoing efforts to restrict China and Russia accessing advanced American technology, the US government last week banned AMD and NVIDIA from selling some AI kit to China.…

But keep your attorney on a 'short leash' against Tiversa, court warns LabMD, the embattled and now defunct cancer-testing company, will get another chance at suing security firm Tiversa for defamation following an appeals court ruling. …

DeFi, as in, defying belief The FBI has urged people to be cautious and heavily research a DeFi – decentralized finance – provider before putting your money into it, after more than a billion dollars was stolen from these providers in three months.…

Which should make you see red because using renewable energy is supposed to cut their costs SaaS vendors plan to hike prices by between 15 and 20 percent in the next three years, and one of the justifications they’ll use is the cost of their environmental sustainability programs – despite expectations that those efforts would lower their costs.…

As vCEO Raghu Raghuram tells us Big B won’t treat VMware like its other slash and burn acquisitions VMware Explore VMware customers are waiting to see what changes Broadcom will bring to the virtualization giant, with many optimistic the impact will be positive.…

British chip designer unhappy key customer is using lucrative blueprints Updated Arm is suing Qualcomm, one of its key customers, in a row over the latter's Nuvia custom CPU cores.…

Doxing and hate-spreading websites deserve as much space on the internet as you or I, says CEO On Wednesday content delivery network Cloudflare published a blog post explaining the circumstances under which abusive websites are eligible for service, just as a storm is brewing on that very topic.…

All part of an extra 40GWh of production capacity in US, Japan by 2026 Toyota says it plans to invest up to an additional $5.3 billion in electric vehicle (EV) battery production that it will split between facilities in the US and Japan. …

Payment from Crypto.com was off by five zeroes because bank account number was mistakenly entered An Australian woman has been sued after she received part of an erroneous refund from a cryptocurrency exchange – erroneous by five zeroes – that it failed to notice for seven months.…

Original shows, games, the company's other apps, and more also being axed Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has confirmed layoffs at the struggling social media biz, telling employees in a letter that 20 percent of them will lose their jobs, mostly from teams working on one of the variety of projects it also plans to ax.…

Issues ranging from design to banner ads are justified criticisms of a button coming under heavy fire The one-time director of user experience at Microsoft has added his voice to the ongoing chorus of Windows 11 users who are criticizing the design and usability of the latest operating system's Start menu.…

Meanwhile ongoing supply chain difficulties reportedly hampering fab-building efforts Taiwanese chip giant TSMC is to begin volume production of 3nm silicon within weeks, amid warnings that demand for semiconductors is weakening with Korean companies reporting the first drop in shipments for three years.…

We took our first official test drive and became a little infatuated There are so many Debian derivatives out there that a few months ago, we did a roundup that compared some of the leading ones. We mentioned antiX and MX Linux, saying that we planned to come back and give MX a fuller review. The project just put out its second point-release of 2022, which seemed like a good time to do so.…

Minister says it needs to copy Vietnam and China's 'first globalize, then localize' strategy India's Ministry of State for Electronics & Information Technology released a report this week exploring how the subcontinent might increase electronics production by roughly 400 percent and exports by an ambitious 750 percent by 2026.…

Deeply impressive that NASA engineers fixed telemetry transmit glitch on 1970s probe in the first place NASA knows the "how" but not the why of a telemetry data routing snafu that caused "garbled" information about the 45-year-old Voyager 1 probe's position to be sent to mission controllers on the ground.…

Set to take the controls next year as software giant executes tricky maneuver in the cloud SAP has appointed Airbus's Dominik Asam as the CFO who will replace long-serving finance boss Luka Mucic at the German software giant.…

Customers should be able to 'move freely' says Google cloud veep as AWS brands move 'unfair' Microsoft's cloud competitors have reacted negatively to changes the company announced this week to licensing, claiming that they are anti-competitive and will deter customers from moving to other cloud providers.…

The solution? Inventing another 'transformation programme' to transform previous transformation HP is putting together a recovery plan to counter a sharp slowdown in its PC and printer businesses, including yet another transformation program.…

Britain's National Data Guardian report also warns NHS needs to earn people’s trust, support for controversial data platform As the NHS in England is set to launch a competition for a far-reaching patient data platform, a public consultation has said decisions about health data sharing should not be taken by politicians.…

These memory controllers are aimed at AI-addicted cloud providers and hyperscalers Astera Labs wants to make it simpler and cheaper for cloud and hyperscale customers to keep up with ever larger AI models, by allowing DRAM to be attached directly to a PCIe slot using its Compute Express Link (CXL) memory controllers.…

Enough is Enough crew tells telecom CEO to 'pay up' Left-wing firebrands behind the Enough is Enough campaign in the UK are throwing their weight behind the thousands of BT Group engineers and call center staff on the picket lines today in protest over pay.…

A gentle primer on these chip giants' accelerators – and your essential guide to the conference so far VMware Explore SmartNICs have long been the domain of hyperscale and cloud datacenters, but they remain relatively uncommon in enterprise environments due in large part to the lack of software compatibility. But with official support for AMD and Nvidia's data processing units (DPUs) now baked into VMware's popular hypervisor, that may not be the case for much longer.…

Orbit Fab hopes to charge $20m for a hydrazine refill – and you thought fuel prices down here were bad! Spacecraft running low on fuel could get a refill from an orbital station by the year 2025, according to a startup named Orbit Fab that reckons it can charge $20 million to top up your tank.…

ScanBox installed after victims lured to fake Murdoch news sites with phishing emails Researchers at security company Proofpoint and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) said on Tuesday they had identified a cyber espionage campaign that delivers the ScanBox exploitation framework through a malicious fake Australian news site.…

Watt an interesting idea California is ready to try out something that could help it save water and generate electricity at the same time: solar panels over irrigation canals.…

Digital minister will drive change because, in theory, uploading info to government isn't allowed Japan's digital minister Taro Kono has pledged to rip up laws that require floppy disks and CD-ROMs to be used when sending data to the nation's government.…

And throws a copy of Mudge's allegations to the SEC, too, just in case it hasn't read them yet Elon Musk's lawyers issued a double whammy this week in the ongoing quest by the world's richest man to cancel his own proposed takeover of Twitter.…

Will Newsom sign it? With a possible presidential bid looming, take a guess California lawmakers have approved a major online safety bill to protect children – and critics worry the legislation will turn websites into identity checkpoints.…

Will it be enough to prevent the next software supply-chain attack? Google has created a bug bounty program that will reward those who find and report vulnerabilities in its open-source projects, thereby hopefully strengthening software supply-chain security.…

And so is vSphere for Arm: CEO tells Reg he’s ‘beating up’ the exec responsible for the port VMware Explore VMware is working to bring its flagship virtualization stack to all major processor architectures, CEO Raghu Raghuram said at his company’s Explore conference in San Francisco today.…

Fears of human-rights abuses overshadow Project Nimbus Ariel Koren, a Jewish Googler, claims the internet giant pressured her into resigning in retaliation for her speaking out about Google and Amazon's $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel's government and military.…

Snafu disrupts VMs as cloud giant offers workarounds Microsoft Azure customers running Canonical's Ubuntu 18.04 (aka Bionic Beaver) in the cloud have seen their applications fail after a flawed security update to systemd broke DNS queries.…

Going live in 10 regions, running Ampere Altra silicon Microsoft has opened up Arm-based virtual machines for general availability on its Azure cloud platform, after previewing the technology earlier this year.…

Automaker accused of hiding malfunctioning tech from drivers A lawsuit filed against Tesla this month accuses the automaker of covering up an alleged malfunction that makes vehicles stop for nonexistent objects, sometimes in the middle of traffic, while in Autopilot mode.…

Reworked use of object storage changes footing with competitors but will need to convince devs Teradata has launched analytics and data lake platforms as it strives to steal the march on so-call cloud-native enterprise data warehouse companies.…

HCI platform now supports vSphere 8, vSAN 8, and VCF 4.5 VMware Explore Dell has announced its latest kit co-developed with VMware, including updated VxRail HCI systems with support for network offloading to DPUs, support for VMware's Tanzu Kubernetes Grid in its Apex subscription platform, and a turnkey platform for operating AI workloads.…

Production dips almost 7% between January and July. COVID-19 disruption also blamed Semiconductor shortages might have peaked in some sectors but the automotive industry is still reaching to secure as many chips as it can, with Toyota outlining the continued ramifications.…

Re-composes automation and management tools as ‘Aria’, reduces cloud hardware requirements, tries to reinvent security ... again VMware Explore VMware has delivered on its promise to brings its flagship vSphere compute virtualization suite to SmartNICs that embed a small computer on a network interface controller and run network-centric workloads there to free servers’ CPUs from scutwork.…

City-state can’t beat them, so plans to regulate them, starting with consumer suitability tests The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Monday it is taking measures to reduce the harms caused by cryptocurrency, including conducting "customer suitability tests" as part of its ongoing slow-motion crackdown on the alternative tender.…

Ah, nothing like a classic Trojan horse Watch out: someone is spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware disguised as legitimate-looking applications, such as Google Translate, on free software download sites and through Google searches.…

Investigating the world of Chinese Linux Ubuntu's special distro for the Chinese market has a widening edge over the company's more conventional flavors.…

Your past projects may be a pain, but can they rain fiery death from above? Opinion The International Space Station is showing its age. It's older than a third of the population, over two and a half billion people who have never known a time without humans in orbit.…

You might find copying data over a network goes at least a little quicker Microsoft this month fixed what one of its staffers called an "idiosyncrasy" in the end-to-end SMB compression functionality it began rolling out last year for Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11.…