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Search, Maps and YouTube later suffer brief outages - nothing as concerning as the injuries suffered by workers Google's consumer-facing and advertising services have faltered after an incident at one of its major datacenters.…

Junior cloud growing nicely, but calls out customers' easing ardor for distributed ledgers Junior cloud Digital Ocean has reported a marked dip in customers using its IaaS services to run blockchains.…

Cyberspace regulator's fraud report finds all is not well behind the Great Firewall Fraudsters in China have targeted a child with promises of allowing them to get around the nation's time limits on playing computer games – for a mere $560, according to the nation's cyberspace administration. Yesterday the CAC detailed some of the 12,000 acts of online fraud perpetrated against minors it handled this year.…

For those that just can't wait for AV1 encoding Intel unveiled its answer to the AMD's FirePro and what used to be Nvidia's Quadro workstation GPUs this week with the launch of a trio of new graphics cards aimed at professional applications like architectural design, engineering, and content creation.…

We're 'highly likely' to see similar attacks, Kaspersky warned Beijing-backed cyberspies used specially crafted phishing emails and six different backdoors to break into and then steal confidential data from military and industrial groups, government agencies and other public institutions, according to Kaspersky researchers.…

Patent lawsuits, the next saga Google hit Sonos with two lawsuits on Monday, claiming patent infringement on seven different technologies associated with smart speakers, as part of its ongoing battle with the audio hardware biz over intellectual property.…

Being the money launderer for North Korea’s Lazarus Group comes at a price The US Treasury Department is levying sanctions against Tornado Cash, a notorious cryptocurrency mixer that it says has been used by threat groups like ransomware gang Lazarus to launder stolen digital assets.…

For now at least, until data catches up Real-time deepfake videos, heralded as the bringers of a new age of internet uncertainty, appear to have a fundamental flaw: They can't handle side profiles.…

DMV goes after manufacturer and dealer licenses The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) last month filed two complaints against Tesla alleging that the car marker violated state law by misrepresenting that its vehicles can drive autonomously.…

The line for chip susidies and tax breaks is getting longer by the minute Qualcomm says it is doubling investments in US chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries in a bid to secure additional wafer capacity with government money on the table.…

Comms giant says several other firms targeted in 'sophisticated attack' Twilio confirmed a breach of the communication giant's network and accessed "a limited number" of customer accounts after tricking some employees into falling for a phishing attack.…

We're pretty sure that doesn't mean it's safe to click on sketchy popups Microsoft wants to make it safer for Edge users to browse and visit unfamiliar websites by automatically applying stronger security settings.…

'Time to update your spreadsheets,' expert says of 'inscrutable' changes AWS has introduced tiered pricing for its Lambda serverless computing platform, claiming this will save on monthly costs for customers who use it to operate large workloads. It will, however, likely add to the complexity of estimating costs for many developers hoping to run a project on AWS.…

Just as square as you remember but minus ET, the worst game of all time Lego has followed up its Nintendo Entertainment System retro throwback with one celebrating the Atari Video Computer System (VCS).…

Don't panic if you're not a fan of big changes… it's 5.20 by another name The next version of the Linux kernel is jumping version numbers, with some performance gains, but it's not a major change all the same.…

It's hard to make things out there when dust-sized particles can destroy them The US Federal Communications Commission is looking at how it can help kickstart manufacturing in space, but said orbital debris needs to be addressed first.…

Gaming product sell-through projection declines but datacenter division sales soar The slowdown in retail spending is taking a toll on Nvidia, which is reporting hefty double digit declines in its Gaming unit, and charges of $1.32 billion, primarily related to inventory and the wider economy.…

You can be a big fish in a big ocean or a small fish in a tiny pond with two leviathans.. how times changed A former TSMC executive has described how a collaborative effort towards 450mm (18-inch) wafers for manufacturing chips was halted when the company realized it would put them in direct competition with Intel and Samsung.…

Free Forever, or Free Until We Decide It Isn't policy criticised in filing A putative class action lawsuit has been filed against Google in California by early adopters who are unhappy about the ads company's decision to demand fees for its Workspace productivity suite.…

Stock market losses lead to write-downs at Vision Fund, but chip designer IPO a ray of light Chip designer Arm booked record revenues for the Q1 ended June 30 and was one of the bright spots in an otherwise loss-heavy start to fiscal 2023 for Japanese parent SoftBank's Vision Fund.…

Users who created shared invitation links for their workspace had login details slip out among encrypted traffic Did Slack send you a password reset link last week? The company has admitted to accidentally exposing the hashed passwords of workspace users.…

Google says this is ‘modern’ computing – if so it feels like a backward step I spend a lot of time in a browser – for years I've used half a dozen pinned tabs to provide easy access to web apps like The Register's CMS and TweetDeck. But when I tried Google's browser-centric ChromeOS Flex I immediately lamented the lack of apps and came to despise Chrome.…

Git back, git back, git back to where your files belong GitLab is chewing on life's gristle. The problem, we hear, is that deadbeat freeloaders are sucking up its hosting lifeforce. The company's repo hive is clogged with zombie projects, untouched for years but still plugged into life support. It's costing us a million bucks a year, sighed GiLab's spreadsheet wranglers, and for what? …

Almost taking the fall for another person's mistake Who, Me? Brickbats and bouquets are the way of things in the world of IT. Consider today's Who, Me? entry where our hero nearly fell on his sword when a bug bounty might have been more appropriate.…

Company declares operations are normal and rebuts allegation Beijing crimped component deliveries Taiwanese electronics manufacturer and Apple supplier Pegatron has issued a statement on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSWE) to refute reports it was forced to suspend operations after Chinese authorities stopped supplies reaching its facilities.…

Minister laments Dell, HPE and pals have the market locked up and little incentive to change India will tweak the incentive scheme it offers to manufacturers of enterprise hardware after disappointing uptake.…

Nascent platform provides miscreants an easier and cheaper way to launch remote access, DDoS, and other attacks A platform that makes it easier for cyber criminals to establish command-and-control (C2) servers has already attracted 3,000 users since launching earlier this year, and will likely expand its client list in the coming months.…

Satellites end up in 'unusable' orbit India's small satellite launch vehicle (SSLV) made a spectacular debut launch on Sunday, but the mission fell short of overall success when two satellites were inserted into the incorrect orbit, rendering them space junk.…

Baidu gets the fare in Chongqing and Wuhan China has issued two licences for robot taxi operations, according to local tech giant Baidu.…

Chinese phone makers' tax deals probed; PayPal back in Indonesia; Boeing seeks sustainability in Japan; and more Asia In brief India's parliament will this week debate a bill that would see the nation's competition regulator add officers with technology industry expertise to its ranks, and gain the power to review and veto takeovers.…

Plus: Meta launches prototype AI chatbot, and cities reverse facial recognition bans In brief The UK's Home Office and Ministry of Justice want migrants with criminal convictions to scan their faces up to five times a day using a smartwatch kitted out with facial-recognition software.…

Plus: That Twitter privacy leak, scammers send Ubers for victims, critical flaw in Cisco gear, and more In brief DuckDuckGo has finally mostly cracked down on the third-party Microsoft tracking scripts that got the alternative search engine into hot water earlier this year.…

And if you train your own AI model for it, you can worry less about licensing Updated GitHub Copilot, one of several recent tools for generating programming code suggestions with the help of AI models, remains problematic for some users due to licensing concerns and to the telemetry the software sends back to the Microsoft-owned company.…

What it's like bargaining with criminals ... and advising clients suffering their worst day yet Interview The first rule of being a ransomware negotiator is that you don't admit you're a ransomware negotiator — at least not to LockBit or another cybercrime gang. …

Find it next to the Cybertruck, Boring tunnel maps, Twitter acquisition and my sense of commitment If Elon Musk's claims made during Tesla's shareholder meeting this week are accurate, get ready for that humanoid robot he promised, some self-driving software update, and an overhauled Cybertruck. Then again, this is Elon we're talking about.…

That's the way the Cook he crumbles Apple, which celebrates its self-professed commitment to free expression and human rights, has reportedly told its suppliers in Taiwan to label their components so they describe Taiwan as a province of the People's Republic of China (PRC).…

Yeah, they do have a habit of being in places where they are no longer welcome Russia's space agency has signaled it may well continue maintaining its chunk of the International Space Station to potentially as far out as 2030. Or as early as 2025.…

The Feds may see things differently Cryptocurrency bridge Nomad sent a message to the looters who drained nearly $200 million in tokens from its coffers earlier this week: return at least 90 percent of the ill-gotten gains, keep 10 percent as a bounty for discovering the security flaw, and Nomad will consider this a "white-hat" hack, as opposed to plain old theft, and not take legal action.…

Can Pat stop the rot – or is the chip giant facing a Kodak moment? Comment Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's carefully assembled house of cards is collapsing around him. And it's not really that surprising when you look at the hand he's been dealt.…

DEF CON may be about to blow lid off security hole The US government is warning of critical vulnerabilities in its Emergency Alert System (EAS) systems that, if exploited, could enable intruders to send fake alerts out over television, radio, and cable networks.…

Two lightweight distros get updated after extended pauses Slax, one of the lightest-weight Linux distros around, and Peppermint OS, a web-centric Debian remix, both put out new versions this week.…

Bezos empire continues to clean up, but did it pick the proper postulates? Updated Megacorp Amazon wants to buy iRobot, a company that is best known for its Roomba autonomous vacuum cleaner.…

Folk of flash meet in person as Compute Express Link 3.0 debuts Flash Memory Summit The Flash Memory Summit 2022 was held as an in-person event again this week for the first time since 2019, at the Santa Clara Convention Center San Francisco, showcasing the latest developments in memory and storage.…

Set hyperdrives for the Chorizos system ... oh actually it's baloney A French scientist's spicy tweet fooled the internet into believing a slice of chorizo was a detailed picture of a star captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. …

Suspected cyberattack at Advanced takes down part of server estate that hosted range of apps Tech services provider Advanced has taken part of its infrastructure offline as it tries to contain a suspected security incident, with a range of hosted applications not available to health customers, including NHS 111 emergency services.…

Buys up land to train and entertain space tourists when they do start Virgin Galactic (VG) is once again delaying its commercial service, shifting the expected launch of well-to-do space tourists from the first three months of 2023 to Q2, amid widening losses for the business.…

Chip giant's efforts to building production capacity outside of Asia gains steam Updated Intel is preparing to close a deal worth at least $5 billion that will see the chip giant build a semiconductor plant in Italy.…

Beijing-backed PR firm is behind at least 72 ersatz web titles, Mandiant says A Beijing-backed PR firm has been accused of being behind at least 72 fake-news websites and social media accounts pushing pro-China propaganda and criticizing the US and its allies. …

An app will always find a way to interrupt what you’re doing Something for the Weekend Mme D and I are in the cellar, listening intently. Nothing.…

I have bigger problems than where you put our code On Call Be careful where you install stuff, and who is doing the installing. Welcome to an On Call in which normal service is interrupted by a military intervention.…