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Asimov would like a word Next week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on a policy proposal that will allow the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to deploy robots authorized to kill people.…

Shares have already been moving in the wrong direction for Gelsinger's stock awards Intel is making it more difficult for CEO Pat Gelsinger to earn a significant portion of his compensation package, even as such awards have become increasingly out of reach due to a tanking stock price.…

CISA updates security framework, tech industry calls it 'confusing' Federal agencies are continuing to put in place their cybersecurity strategies 18 months after the Biden Administration issued its executive order to strengthen the government's defenses.…

US aviation advisory addresses concerns raised follow 2013 Asiana Airlines crash The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued new guidance calling for flight procedures and training to ensure that pilots can operate aircraft manually, without being too dependent on automated systems.…

A sign of the computer industry’s sad state, but at least there’s supply! All those shiny, expensive graphics cards you've seen sitting on retail shelves the past few months really have been a sign of tough times for the computer industry.…

Flaws in the open-source tool exploited – and India's power grid was a target Microsoft is warning that systems using the long-discontinued Boa web server could be at risk of attacks after a series of intrusion attempts of power grid operations in India likely included exploiting security flaws in the technology.…

The reason your morning drive sucks is because of you, the impulsive human behind the wheel A multi-university research team has discovered the solution to traffic jams plaguing everyone's commutes: AI traffic managers that, rather than driving like impulsive humans, react to their surroundings to make traffic flow more smoothly.…

Two-year ban comes as state attempts to reduce emissions by 85% New York State has banned a practice becoming more common in the crypto-mining industry – the rescuing and repurposing of mothballed fossil fuel plants to exclusively provide energy for mining digital currency.…

Case claims collecting personal data breaches UK GDPR, but implications could be wider A lawsuit filed in the High Court of England and Wales has demanded that Meta's Facebook social media platform stops harvesting personal data for the purposes of advertising and marketing.…

Police reported to be using teargas and smoke bombs against demonstrators Protests have erupted at Foxconn, the largest contract supplier for Apple's iPhone, as workers voice complaints over pay and working conditions following new draconian COVID-19 measures.…

Staff forced to make their own purchases after suppliers walk away due to payment failures The University of Edinburgh has launched a review into its disastrous go-live of an Oracle finance system as it admitted suppliers have walked away over stalled payments.…

Broadband plumber's BT Group parent is determined to cut costs Openreach, the infrastructure arm of UK telco giant BT, looks set to prioritize existing projects rather than starting new buildouts of its fiber broadband network as it seeks to control costs amid surging inflation.…

After a mysterious pause in crackdowns, it looks like the Beijing everyone knows is back China's antitrust watchdog, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), has proposed a revision of the nation's competition law that targets tech firms.…

Alexa, how does Amazon decide when the grand plan for conversational commerce has failed? Comment Black Friday is nearly upon us, but the annual online price-drop frenzy seems to be losing its shine. Numerous reports highlight that discounting may not be all it seems, and buyers would be best to shop around.…

An Apple a day keeps the doctor away, but too many might be a burden on the planet. Opinion Apple's Mac hardware keeps getting thinner and lighter, and its iPads keep becoming more and more capable. I'm hardly the first to observe that the two products are getting closer together - but if Apple's environmental claims mean anything the products are now so close it's irresponsible they don't overlap.…

Microsoft playing chicken with regulators, making it cheaper on Azure Microsoft last week made SQL Server 2022 generally available, and this week started to advise of price hikes for the database.…

Apple doesn't want to bite The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market investigation into cloud gaming and mobile browsers after its study found Apple and Google constitute a duopoly that controls the mobile ecosystem.…

Korea's antitrust org to develop a platform to respond to Big Tech’s sneaky ways According to South Korea's Fair Trade Commission, Apple said it will correct an oddity that sees local developers charged even more than the usual 30 percent Cupertino demands for sales of software in its App Store.…

‘Portfolio optimization’ plan aims to cull some PCs, sell more pricey subscriptions HP Inc. has announced it will lay off between 4,000 and 6,000 staff as part of a cost-cutting drive aimed at adding $1.4 billion to its bottom line in coming years.…

Nothing says 'We love open source and want it to be available in Windows' like only delivering updates from a closed digital tat bazaar Microsoft has made its Store the home of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WLS).…

We knew Wasp 39b was rich in CO, but now we have the full molecular picture The James Webb Space Telescope keeps opening the world to new science. This time it's the first molecular and chemical profile of an exoplanet's atmosphere, complete with signs of active photochemical reactions. …

AI agent proves better than most people in classic game of trust and betrayal Meta researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system called Cicero that can play the classic strategy game Diplomacy at a level comparable to most human players.…

'We allege these fraudsters bled dry each of their victims' of $10m The US government seized seven domain names used in so-called "pig butchering" scams that netted criminals more than $10 million.…

Users of the sports betting site rolled the dice on reusing passwords and lost A credential stuffing attack over the weekend that affected sports betting biz DraftKings resulted in as much as $300,000 being stolen from customer accounts.…

Datadog security researchers found the flaw before miscreants did Amazon Web Services (AWS) fixed a cross-tenant flaw in AWS AppSync that could allow miscreants to abuse that cloud service to assume identity and access management roles in other AWS accounts, and then gain access to and control over those resources. …

Pay for features like SGX through OEMs Updated Intel's software-defined silicon service will let organizations pay money to enable features that are hardwired into future Xeon server processors such as Intel Software Guard Extensions, signaling a major shift in how users pay for computer chips.…

ACLU agrees that the only way to protect consumers is to control what can be collected Attorneys General from 33 US states are urging the Federal Trade Commission to take a practical step toward reining in commercial surveillance of consumers and minimize the data companies are authorized to collect.…

EFLOW makes the open source OS a full partner of Windows at the far reaches of the cloud Microsoft is rolling out the latest iteration of a tool that lets anyone using a Windows IoT device in Azure to also run containerized Linux workloads.…

Why I yotta... be happy there's somewhere to ronto when I need to express 10^−27 The range of prefixes used within the International System of Units (SI) has been expanded with new names covering very large and very small numbers, driven in part by the ballooning requirements of data storage in some sectors such as data science.…

But keen to avoid any mf bespoke software on the mf planes (and other hardware) The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened a commercial information technology contract to potential bidders including hardware and perpetual license software worth up to $10 billion.…

Court lands on less than the millions asked for after sailors made copies of 3D modeling suite 'hundreds of thousands' of times In 2016, The Register highlighted the irony of the US Navy being accused of being pirates after it was sued for making "hundreds of thousands" of copies of 3D modeling software without purchasing licenses.…

It's all kicking off around company's CICS service IBM has filed a lawsuit against Micro Focus, alleging the enterprise software company copied and reverse-engineered its CICS mainframe service to develop a rival product, the Micro Focus Enterprise Server.…

Meanwhile, Microsoft eyes subcontinent for cloud growth On Monday, AWS launched a new infrastructure region in Hyderabad with three availability zones, making it the second region for the datacenter clusters in India.…

'This store of confidential data is a national treasure that must never be compromised or treated carelessly' As the UK government plans to launch the procurement for a national patient data store, the legal guardian of NHS data has issued a coded warning concerning trust and transparency in health data usage.…

Got the boot from Musk or Zuck? Automaker has 800 techie vacancies to fill Jaguar Land Rover, the famed UK-based automaker, is looking to fill a long list of tech and engineering vacancies by appealing to victims of the recent round of Silicon Valley layoffs.…

Hey, teacher, leave those apps alone The French minister of national education and youth has said that free versions of Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workplace should not be used in schools – a position that reflects ongoing European concerns about cloud data sovereignty, competition, and privacy rules.…

Pre-exascale system will be officially inaugurated at the Bologna Technopole in Italy on November 24 Europe's Leonardo pre-exascale system is set for its official inauguration this week following its confirmation as the fourth most powerful supercomputer on the Top500 list at the recent SC22 conference.…

Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware Amazon Web Services has shown it's willing to operate legacy workarounds for some customers of its elastic compute cloud (EC2).…

Remember that one time the Linux kernel couldn't cope for a moment? That sort of thing should be behind us now The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) has made a decision, and declared that the world can do without leap seconds.…

And ponders subsidies to attract big datacenter and content delivery network builds India's government has delivered a flurry of announcements about data – where it should reside, how it should be regulated, and how it should be paid for.…

Microsoft moves IP Protection into public preview An new Azure service aimed at protecting smaller businesses from the growing threat of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks is now in public preview, according to Microsoft.…

Yet another cautionary tale of diving into crypto investment opps Two Estonian men were arrested yesterday for their alleged roles in running a series of cryptocurrency and money laundering scams that bilked $575 million from "hundreds of thousands of victims" while the suspects used their ill-gotten gains to buy real estate and luxury cars.…

Homegrown chips remain behind for now, but for how much longer? China is set to get its hands on homegrown processors next year that purportedly rival the performance of AMD and Intel chips released over the past two years…

Emergency out-of-band updates to the rescue Microsoft is rolling out fixes for problems with the Kerberos network authentication protocol on Windows Server after it was broken by November Patch Tuesday updates.…

We're back - for the first of many missions to come NASA's Orion spacecraft has arrived at the Moon, and even swung around the dark side, as it prepares to settle into an orbit around Earth's biggest satellite that will take it further from home than any (eventually) manned spacecraft before it. …

Congratulations on the twins! By the way, our discrimination laws are 'subject to interpretation' A former IBM product manager has sued Big Blue alleging that the company discriminated against her for going on maternity leave to have twins.…

That's where the money is Phishing attempts targeting victims in the Middle East increased 100 percent last month in the lead up to the World Cup in Qatar, according to security shop Trellix.…