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This is starting to become a common theme Tesla and Elon Musk are establishing a pattern. Less than a month after defeating one shareholder-led class action securities fraud lawsuit, another has begun.…

Code update will remove the need for translation layer in Linux distros With WINE 8 out, the team is merging in the code changes to add support for the Wayland display server protocol.…

Battery usage optimization comes to Apple MacBooks Google's code gremlins have been tweaking the company's Chrome browser under the hood to help Apple's MacBooks consume less power.…

Talos team warns on third-party threats, but will it work? Betteridge's Law may apply SCSW Supply chain attacks are a serious problem – yet they're long-term operations, and that gives canny admins a chance to nip them in the bud. Always remember to check the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), and never drop your guard.…

Fiscal 2023 'not without its challenges' as bottom line tumbles 76% Zoom, poster child of pandemic web comms, is experiencing the same readjustment as other online tech providers whose businesses ballooned in recent years, but is still managing to pick up more paying customers.…

Syndicate wants to see health service 'stay in control' in face of fierce competition from Palantir The contentious procurement of the UK health service's £480 million ($580 million) Federated Data Platform (FDP) – which US spy-tech firm Palantir is tipped to win – has seen a new competitor enter the fray in the form of a UK consortium of vendors.…

Another option for devs burned by VMware snubbing Apple platforms Apple developers can now access macOS instances orchestrated by Kubernetes on AWS with MacStadium's Orka platform.…

Timely application as delinquencies rise with interest rates A patent application from automaker Ford was published last week for embedded vehicle systems that facilitate an automobile's repossession, including autonomously moving it to a repossession agency.…

And, ahem, seven-figure ad campaigns on publications with a vulture for a logo – right, Joe? There are more than a few strings attached to the $52 billion in funding set aside by the CHIPS and Science Act for domestic chipmaking projects, and this week the Biden administration added another: affordable childcare.…

Join us in the 'new world of opportunity' says GSMA chief The annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) shindig for the telecoms industry has begun in Barcelona, with one of the over-arching themes being the ongoing efforts by IT vendors to muscle their way into the telecoms market.…

Board chairman Hasso Plattner lines up successor to take ERP giant into uncharted territory SAP has begun the succession process which will see the replacement of co-founder Hasso Plattner as chairman of the German software giant's supervisory board amid a seismic change in technology landscapes.…

All the news that's fit to pwn The miscreants who infiltrated News Corporation's corporate IT network spent two years in the media monolith's system before being detected early last year.…

Not that we're urging them to try harder or anything A series of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down nine Danish hospitals' websites for a few hours on Sunday, but did not have any life-threatening impact on the medical centers' operations or digital infrastructure.…

It’s not just another data breach when the victim oversees witness protection programs The US Marshals Service, the enforcement branch of the nation’s federal courts, has admitted to a “major” breach of its information security defenses allowed a ransomware infection and exfiltration of “law-enforcement sensitive information”.…

What’s the frequency, Kenneth? Radio interference can be a pain to deal with, regardless of whether it's a rogue baby monitor interrupting your Wi-Fi or a stadium full of smartphone signals drowning each other out.…

Updating the nation through the power of games. And ads. Lots of ads Ten Japanese companies, including IT services giant Fujitsu and automobile manufacturer Mitsubishi, have embarked on a collaboration to create an advertiser-friendly immersive gaming environment they've grandly named the "Japan Metaverse Economic Zone."…

While we're here, what do you think of Zuck announcing a vague catchup plan to build 'AI personas'? ChatGPT, the buggy generative AI chatbot that is apparently going to change every industry forever by responding to written prompts with slabs of stilted, shabby and sometimes entirely fictional prose, is unable to explain why it experienced an outage on Monday.…

But not the giant ones Musk previewed last year – those still can't get to space without Starship Starlink has sent the first batch of its second-generation satellites into orbit today, but not the full-sized hardware CEO Elon Musk promised last year.…

Those that signed up for the $15,000 package told to queue behind those waiting for safety upgrade Tesla has hit the brakes on the rollout of its Full Self-Driving Beta software to new customers, while it delivers an update to faulty code in existing at least 362,758 cars already using the software in North America.…

Chainguard CEO explains how to secure code given crims know to poison it at the source SCSW The vast majority of off-the-shelf software is composed of imported components, whether that's open source libraries or proprietary code. And that spells a security danger: if someone can subvert one of those components, they can infiltrate every installation of applications using those dependencies.…

Reminder: Elon spent $44 billion on this. Forty-four thousand million dollars Twitter has reportedly axed about another 200 employees, equivalent to roughly 10 per cent of its workforce.…

Elites won't accept anything that takes away power, we're not dazzled by fake predictable intelligence Comment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said his upstart is preparing for the coming of artificial general intelligence – though there's disagreement about what AGI actually means and skepticism about his claim that OpenAI's mission is to ensure that AGI "benefits all humanity."…

When AI gives you lemons, you make orangeade Microsoft is aggressively pushing OpenAI's artificial intelligence technology into seemingly every nook and cranny of its universe.…

If at first you don’t succeed, spy, spy again A former ASML worker accused of stealing trade secrets for advanced chip-making equipment from his employer is now suspected of spying for the Chinese government.…

Techies 'hard at work' and all of that US telco Dish said it is investigating a multi-day network "issue" that knocked some of its systems offline, leaving customers stranded from the web.…

Crew-6 will have to wait to go to space, and everyone in orbit will have to wait that much longer to come home NASA and Space-X scrubbed this morning's launch of the Crew-6 mission to the ISS due to a ground systems issue that made it impossible to measure the Falcon 9 rocket's fuel levels.…

Latest twist in long saga of trying to monetize desktop penguinistas The GNOME and KDE organizations are working on a proposal to crowdsource a big change in Flathub: to make it an app store for Linux – including for paid software.…

QED, NFTs are securities A New York federal judge has ruled that emojis used in certain situations can only "objectively mean one thing" – financial advice indicating a return on investment.…

Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors Job losses at Salesforce appear to be far from over as the CRM specialist sets out its plan to appease a gang of circling activist investors that are influencing its strategy.…

With spares and tools coming from iFixit, no less HMD Global, which took over the Nokia brand for phones, has launched a smartphone designed to be fixed by the owner, with repair site iFixit providing guides and replacement parts.…

Add-on package manager for macOS (and Linux if you need it) FOSS Fest Homebrew is a handy tool if you work in a terminal window on a Mac, which lets you quickly and easily install a wide variety of familiar tools from the wider FOSS world.…

Many foreign companies had already given up – now there's more red tape Starting in June, companies operating in China must undergo a regulatory intervention when sending data abroad, thanks to the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC).…

Softening requirements to spur hardware sales? Nope, it was an error Microsoft says it has dispatched a fix for a glitch that saw it offer an "inaccurate upgrade" to Windows 11 for some users running Windows 10 on computers that were ineligible to receive it.…

Also, don't download that 'ChatGPT Windows client,' and this week's critical vulnerabilities to keep an eye on In brief A Russian national has been hit with a five-count indictment alleging he smuggled hardware and software used for counterintelligence operations out of the US to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and North Korea.…

Converged environment formerly known as Unity 8 breaks free from Ubuntu – and indeed, from tablets Some significant news about what was Canonical's next-gen desktop: it now works well enough on Debian to be its developer's "daily driver."…

There's always a catch if you blame it on trawlers Opinion It was once just an annoyance, even a relief. Now it's paralyzing. "The internet's gone down" signals a halt to all actions, all plans, except the desperate search for reconnection. That's just if it's personal: the consequences for businesses can be much worse. As for entire islands, military alliances or global markets: barely one step away from stone axes.…

Ignoring the manual led to near-failure of mission to escape with precious pile of verified DVDs Who, Me? Wait, what? Is it that time again? Time for Who, Me? in which we invite readers to share stories of the less-brilliant moments of their workplace lives, and how they were caught out – or narrowly escaped.…

Customers are keen on the lower cloudy database prices available after dropping x86 VMware's open source app packaging outfit Bitnami has started offering images ready for deployment on Arm-powered clouds, citing customer demand for the lower prices offered by the likes of AWS, Azure, and Google compared to their x86-powered instances.…

Perhaps just in time to give H-1B holders affected by US tech layoffs somewhere to go other than home German chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed his country's intention to import more qualified IT workers from India.…

Not keen on crypto, either – and looking forward to consistent language on cyber incidents Finance ministers from the G20 bloc have put their names to a document that expresses concern financial services industries have become worryingly reliant on Big Tech, and their resilience could suffer as a result.…

Beijing has filed the paperwork for its LEO constellation, but SpaceX is already there Chinese defence boffins have suggested aggressive countermeasures against SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service.…

PLUS: Australia to appoint cyber-coordinator; FTX Japan resumes operations; India's PC market bucks trend with growth; and more Asia in brief Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy last week weighed into the debate about the propriety of tech workers moonlighting in second gigs, opining that it's not just wrong – it hurts India's drive to modernize.…

Trust us, we're no monopolists Analysis Microsoft President Brad Smith has spent this week in Europe trying to convince EU and UK regulators - and a gaming rival - to support the company's $69 billion bid for Activision Blizzard.…

Software giant takes some files and processes off the exclusion list Microsoft is recommending that Exchange server users scan certain objects for viruses and other threats that until now had been excluded.…

Plan to scan encrypted content to protect children could drive businesses away Encrypted chat service Signal says it will stop operating in the UK if the British government goes ahead with its Online Safety Bill.…

Beware the Dark Side Dutch police have arrested three men for their alleged involvement with a ransomware gang that stole sensitive data and extorted hundreds of thousands of euros from thousands of companies.…

Plus: Lensa AI app maker sued for wacky app photo collection, Supreme Court debates chatbots In brief Meta released its Large Language Model Meta AI, torturously dubbed LLaMA, which promises to perform just as well if not better than similar systems containing billions of more parameters.…

At least we know who isn't going to suffer Stockholm syndrome Ericsson is planning to cut 8,500 workers, or about eight percent of its 105,000-strong workforce.…

$50k buys you '1,000 unique repositories' that may or may not be legit Canadian communications giant Telus is investigating whether crooks have stolen employee data and its source code, all of which is being offered for sale on a criminal forum.…

Don't blame the kids! Ex-city employee charged with $17k power theft Pics A Massachusetts man accused of using his job as a city's assistant facilities director to hide a cryptocurrency mining operation in the crawlspace of a school has surrendered himself to authorities on Friday morning after skipping his Thursday arraignment. …