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PC component manufacturers won't get priority as area faces fires and heatwaves Officials from the manufacturing hub of Chongqing notified factories on Wednesday that mandated power cuts in the municipality were extended until further notice, affecting both PC and Apple suppliers.…

I am the one who NOCs The folks tasked with defending the Black Hat conference network see a lot of weird, sometimes hostile activity, and this year it included malware linked to Kim Jong-un's agents.…

Plans afoot to replace Oracle EBS/AIX system used by 1.8 million staff dating from 2008 The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is in the market for a company to manage HR and a new electronic staff records system as part of a procurement worth up to £1.7 billion ($2 billion).…

Mobilises the Pi nicely but also frustrates in a few ways Desktop Tourism The Raspberry Pi is rightly celebrated as a very clever feat of design. But I've always found Pi-based machines hard to work with because connecting a Pi to the peripherals needed to make it useful creates a tangle of wires.…

Human remains from millennia ago analyzed by the machines their descendants built AI algorithms can be used to date ancient human remains by analyzing their DNA, just-published research has proposed.…

India wants low-end Chinese smartphones out – and its efforts may be working Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi has warned in its April-June 2022 earnings report that its troubles in India – related to allegations of improperly moving funds offshore – could noticeably affect business.…

Frozen firm has yet to return all funds to netizens More than 30 employees at the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Voyager will receive $1.6 million in bonus pay as the company scrambles to return customers' funds frozen on its platform. …

'Don't be such a Square' hits different these days Block – the digital payments giant formerly known as Square – faces allegations it failed to take adequate measures to protect customers' personal information.…

Chipzilla's story Arc continues Hot Chips Intel says its datacenter-focused Flex-series GPUs, codenamed Arctic Sound, are finally ready, and computer makers are expected to begin shipping systems over the next few months.…

Just more IoT conscripts for the botnet armies Tens of thousands of internet-facing IP cameras made by China-based Hikvision remain unpatched and exploitable despite a fix being issued for a critical security bug nearly a year ago.…

Embedded electronics workaround for his phone's 'aggressive' power management Tesla owner Brandon Dalaly has seemingly implanted a chip in his hand that he uses to unlock his car, among other things.…

PM says shuttered plants can re-open, fresh reactors will be built, old ones are getting their lives extended Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said today his country would begin not only restarting nuclear plants sitting idle since the Fukushima affair, but will begin building reactors as well.…

Just how bad does existing AI hardware have to be to start from scratch? To quench the thirst for ever larger AI and machine learning models, Tesla has revealed a wealth of details at Hot Chips 34 on their fully custom supercomputing architecture called Dojo.…

Well, you can't be attacked if your PC won't boot VMware has admitted an update on some versions of its Carbon Black endpoint solution is responsible for BSODs and boot loops on Windows machines after multiple organizations were affected by the problem.…

Different core counts, different cache sizes, and various cores possible in mix and match design, it says Hot Chips Intel has given more detail on how its upcoming Meteor Lake processors will be made from multiple chiplets, enabling it to mix and match to deliver different capabilities, and easing the introduction of its successor, Arrow Lake – which follows the same construction.…

'Limited subset' of users have emails, usernames, and hashed passwords stolen from the platform Users of popular streaming and media organizing service Plex are waking up to an unpleasant email this morning saying, in the words of a Reg reader, "Plex have been hacked and their main site is down as we all rush to change passwords."…

Enterprise agreements can increase pricing, marring an overall positive assessment from the analyst Updated ServiceNow customers struggle with its pricing policy, feeling they are being nudged into higher price brackets and failing to benefit from supposed discount packages, according to Gartner.…

Artemis 1 is ready to light its candle NASA's most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System, just passed its flight readiness review, bringing it one step closer to meeting a target launch date of August 29. …

Tiny electromechanical units bounce traffic down different fibers Google has scaled its network capacity from over one petabit per second to beyond six petabits per second since 2015, and some of that growth has come from switches that bounce optical signals off an array of mirrors to redirect traffic.…

Utility says there's no reason facilities should be using drinking water, but also wastes a lot itself Thames Water has started looking at the amount of water used by datacenters in the area it serves around London as parts of the UK are hit by drought.…

Don't ask us how this is decided, it probably involved a lot of Perl Once again, Python is at the top of the IEEE's annual survey of popular programming languages – seemingly decided by a grab bag of metrics – while SQL appears to be a crucial skill.…

Sometimes you just want something dead simple that can maybe handle bold, italics, and a hyperlink or two FOSS Fest PanWriter isn't all that small, but it's simple, clean, and does the bare minimum over a plain text editor.…

Smile! You're on Candid Doorbell – and the joke's on us all Column It's hard to understand why anyone expressed surprise when Amazon's VP of public policy, Brian Huseman, recently admitted sharing data with police.…

Cost control measures seem to hit CFO too – he's re-used quotes about cuts Concerns over rising labor costs and the subsequent impacts on their profits have led Indian outsourcer Infosys to cut Q1FY23 variable bonuses to an organizational average of 70 percent of theoretical maximum.…

Kim Jong-un has entered the chat Lloyd's of London insurance policies will stop covering losses from certain nation-state cyber attacks and those that happen during wars, beginning in seven months' time.…

Ren Zhengfei warns tough economic times mean it’s time to focus on profit and quality Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei has reportedly told staff that tough economic times represent a real threat to the company.…

Cryptography prof tells Microsoft to get forked Earlier this month, the US Treasury Department sanctioned cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash, claiming it provided money laundering for entities deemed national threats to America.…

Users may get around $0.53 each, Facebook would lose about eight hours of annual profit Meta has offered to pay $37.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit, which claimed its social media platform Facebook illegally harvested location data even when users explicitly denied consent.…

That wasn't actually me on a Zoom call, it was a malicious AI clone built from TV interviews, claims PR A Binance PR exec says crooks created a deep-fake "AI hologram" of him to scam cryptocurrency projects via Zoom video calls.…

Loose access to production systems, out of date software, and more claimed Twitter's former security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko accused the company and its board of directors of violating financial rules, of fraud, and of grossly neglecting its security obligations in a complaint to the US Securities & Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the US Justice Department last month.…

That $52b CHIPS Act ain't enough – we need another $15b Intel is turning to private equity to bankroll its much-hyped chip foundry expansion.…

US watchdog snubs Intuit's request to drop claims of bait-and-switch tactics The FTC is pressing ahead with its allegations of false advertising against Turbo Tax maker Intuit after a brief pause in proceedings.…

Now this x86 giant just needs to ship a compatible CPU Hot Chips Intel offered the closest glimpse yet at its flagship datacenter GPU, code named Ponte Vecchio, at the Hot Chips conference this week, with its own internal benchmarks showing the chip outperforming AMD’s MI250x and competing head-to-head with Nvidia’s upcoming H100 GPU.…

Network interface card LEDs are a risk too by blinking in Morse code An Israeli security researcher known for foiling air gap security measures has published a reminder of just how vulnerable the approaches are to both visual and ultrasonic threats. …

Ready or not, ISS is coming down in 2031, and Amazon, Boeing and more are ready for business NASA has given the go-ahead for the first commercially owned and operated space station, Orbital Reef, to advance to design phase.…

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta spends billions on the concept COMMENT While Meta has been hemorrhaging billions trying to bring CEO Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse to life with little to show for it, China has decided it too will take a crack at the virtual-reality concept.…

Top secret tech theft admission sealed into top secret plea deal An ex-Apple engineer who worked on Titan – the company's "need to know basis" self-driving car project – yesterday admitted to stealing proprietary tech while he was working for the company.…

CEO pledges to 'keep moving Moore's Law forward' during Hot Chips keynote Hot Chips Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sees a future where everything is a computer assembled from chiplets using advanced packaging technologies like Intel's own as the chipmaker seeks to keep Moore's Law alive.…

Privacy case claiming Big Red contravened a string of US laws follows boasts made by Larry Ellison in 2016 Oracle is the subject of a class-action suit alleging the software giant created a network containing personal information of hundreds of millions of people and sold the data to third parties.…

Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr nosedives after more than 64 days aloft An unmanned, solar-powered drone was hours from breaking the world record for the longest-duration flight before it suddenly crashed.…

Telco billionaire purchase A-OK from national security standpoint, apparently, but will he buy up more? The UK government has declared it will take no further action regarding the purchase of BT shares by French telco billionaire Patrick Drahi, following a national security assessment into his Altice company becoming the largest BT shareholder.…

From original author Brian Kernighan, one of the original Unix team In Unix terms, this news is akin to Moses appearing and announcing an amendment to the 10 commandments.…

Japanese giant will stop making mainframes four years later Fujitsu has been awarded a renewed contract for support and maintenance of the aging UK Police National Computer (PNC) after no other companies tendered for the work.…

Energy costs are up 40 percent and OVH isn't going to eat that without sharing some pain French cloud company OVH has announced it will hike its prices.…

New and friendlier CAC, after years of cracking down The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has signaled it would like to smooth growing tensions with internet firms after a couple of years in which it strongly asserted its powers.…

Oh wow, get a load of Google using strcpy() all wrong – strcpy! Haha, you'll never ever catch us doing that Microsoft has described a severe ChromeOS security vulnerability that one of its researchers reported to Google in late April.…

Here's how to detect an intrusion via vulnerable email systems Organizations that didn't immediately patch their Zimbra email systems should assume miscreants have already found and exploited the bugs, and should start hunting for malicious activity across IT networks, according to Uncle Sam.…

Hopefully Lucky 13 spots suggested, all on the south pole near water ice The next US astronauts to set foot on the Moon will find themselves on the summit of a mountain range or the ridge of a crater near the lunar south pole.…

Timing for plan to redirect HTTP requests now indeterminate to allow for further feedback More than a decade after implementing support for secure HTTPS connections on its website, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is finally planning to begin redirecting insecure HTTP connections to the more protected spec.…

But don't worry, Zuck would never misuse this type of sensitive data Novant Health confirmed that it may have disclosed 1.3 million patients' sensitive data, including email addresses, phone numbers, financial information - even doctor's appointment details - to Meta.…