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Trust and safety push promises ability to delete app-associated accounts Google, citing trust and safety concerns, has issued updated policies for those distributing Android apps through the Play Store....

Suffering and financial loss of subpostmasters prompts decision in interim report An inquiry into one of the UK's greatest IT scandals has called for compensation offered by the government to victims falsely accused of fraud to be brought forward and strengthened....

Wait, so it wasn't an elaborate joke? It's been almost four years since we were able to write "Absolutely smashing: Musk shows off Tesla's 'bulletproof' low-poly pickup, hilarity ensues"....

A worrying concession means that the shape of the marketplace is changing The AlmaLinux distribution's goal is shifting from being one-to-one, bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to being application binary interface (ABI) compatible. But this represents a larger shift in the enterprise Linux market....

Meanwhile, ORNL's Summit simulates bacteria battling cicada wings The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has finally completed the installation of the Aurora supercomputer after a bevy of delays but scientists are already clamoring to put it to work....

While Zuckerberg's Threads reels in users at record rates Despite the best efforts of Elon Musk, the world's most compelling/irritating social media platform has been more or less assured as the go-to outlet for the political commentary, shitposting and cat pics. But that looks set to change....

There's probably someone out there who likes a wobbly laptop that cuts their flesh Desktop Tourism In one of the documents uncovered during Microsoft's defense of its acquisition of Activision is a slide in which the software giant expresses its desire for "Surface devices to inspire the ecosystem and set the premium bar for quality and innovation."...

Meanwhile, Conservative stalwart calls to repeal law Campaigners have called for the UK tax collector to respond to a consultation on how to avoid tech contractors paying a double tax while their status is defined....

Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again... oh, hang on Opinion All tech grunts know an update from a vendor can be good news, bad news, or both. Fortunately, there's a quick way to tell even before the first sentence of the community blog post that is today's royal proclamation of choice. If the person addressing the community is an engineer, it's good news. If marketing, not so much....

Employees are kicking back and letting chatbots do the work Almost one in two fleshbags that have dabbled with generative AI believe its responses are always bang on the money, and some are using it at work despite knowing their employer frowns upon it....

Yippee-ki-yay, other sockets! who, me? Welcome, gentle reader, to another instalment of Who, Me? in which we cushion your entry to the working week with tales of Reg readers having worse days than you. So kick off your shoes and socks, make fists with your toes, and read on....

ALSO: More high-profile MOVEit victims; CVSS 4.0 coming soon; and a long list of critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson lobbed a wrench into the works of the country's COVID-19 inquiry by claiming he couldn't remember the passcode to unlock an old phone being sought by investigators....

ALSO: China taikonaut moon plans; Singapore's Temasek to stay clear of crypto; India ponders ban on for-profit .IN sales; and more. APAC in brief India's big four services giants are doing it tough, with Wipro and HCL deferring pay reviews and rises, Infosys rumored to have done the same, and TCS again postponing onboarding for workers to whom it's promised jobs...

You can't steal what you can't access ... we hope Microsoft has vowed to bulk up security around its Azure DevOps cloud services developers use to build their applications and manage their software projects....

PIGEON homes in on your geolocation A trio of Stanford computer scientists have developed a deep learning model to geolocate Google Street View images, meaning it can figure out generally where a picture was taken just by looking at it....

A 100 days over 100F and historic drought don't worry Microsoft or Google With more than a hundred 100F (37.7C) days a year and a persistent drought, on paper Phoenix, Arizona is one of the last places you'd expect to find cloud and colocation providers setting down roots....

Why limit yourself to only stealing AWS credentials? A criminal crew with a history of deploying malware to harvest credentials from Amazon Web Services accounts may expand its attention to organizations using Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform....

After that $20B Vedanta deal went up in smoke Just days after its $19.5 billion semiconductor manufacturing venture with India's Vedanta went belly up, Foxconn is reportedly in talks with Taiwanese giant TSMC and Japan's TMH to build chip factories in India....

We'll see in 42 days whether economical $74.5M rover sticks The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, successfully launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Friday at 1435 local time....

Lawyers say unknown John Does are profiting at Musk's expense Elon Musk's X Corp, lately the parent company of Twitter, is suing four unknown individuals for scraping data from the bird site, claiming that the parties unjustly enriched themselves on the back of Twitter data....

But the outcome is far from certain Teradata is hitting all the major clouds with its VantageCloud Lake technology on Microsoft Azure following a similar deal with AWS, and with a deployment in Google Cloud expected in the first half of next year....

Stock price plunges after malfunction, as vendor works with part supplier to nail down cause Satellite operator Viasat is facing an issue with its latest satellite, which appears to have affected antenna deployment and may impact its ability to deliver high-speed broadband....

The artist formerly known as Bierstadt Haters of official Microsoft Office font Calibri finally have their wish - the infuriatingly 11-point default typeface has been chucked tothe bin in favor of Aptos, the new official font to be used in all the Microsoft Office apps....

AWS Sydney users less fortunate - the backup was deleted Luck, rather than judgement, has given InfluxDB users some hope of restoring 100 days of data after the vendor decided to shut down its Belgium Google Cloud region. Customers depending on the database in Australia are not so fortunate....

The truth is... somewhere in these piles of government documents. Maybe US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been pulling some strings to force the government to spill what it knows about UFOs....

Talk about a bright idea IEEE 802.11bb, an amendment to the Wi-Fi specification that supports wireless networking using visible and infrared light instead of the radio spectrum, was approved last month by the electrical engineering body....

Only comms lasers, sadly The UK's Northumbria University is working on a laser communication device for small satellites that will pave the way for Britain's first university-led multi-satellite space mission....

Commercial and technical risks yet to be addressed by Home Office, spending watchdog says UK politicians have slammed progress on the 11 billion Emergency Services Network (ESN) - the replacement blue-light mobile voice and data system - saying the government is far too optimistic about its progress and the challenges ahead....

Response to taking out the trash rubbished a reputation On Call Welcome once more to On Call, the weekly column in which Reg readers dump their foulest stories of execrable tech support incidents from which they emerged smelling like roses....

Union prez Fran Drescher thinks Hollywood's digital desires have no style or flair Hollywood's top labor union for media professionals has alleged that studios want to pay extras around $200 for the rights to use their likenesses in AI - forever - for just $200....

Redacted document filed with UK regulator states customers aren't buying Virtzilla's poorly-executed vision Broadcom has argued that VMware will fail to execute its multicloud strategy - and hyperscale clouds therefore won't face strong competition - unless it is allowed to acquire the virtualization titan....

Cites 'tight supply' of certain silicon - the sort of stuff that makes servers interesting Chinese server-maker to the stars, Inspur, has warned investors that it will soon reveal an ugly set of numbers....

Mostly indistinguishable from a premium handset, but the moments it misses may leave you miffed FIRST LOOK A confession: I have learned that the iPhone 13's facial recognition facility can successfully identify me while I brush my teeth....

Brainboxes will need a license, but their makers may get to share digital public goods Chinese authorities published the nation's rules governing generative AI on Thursday, including protections that aren't in place elsewhere in the world....

'Premium' instances, bigger buckets available too Content-delivery-network-turned-cloud-player Akamai has flipped the switch on three bit barns in the US and France. The biz has also launched "premium" instances targeting commercial workloads and improved object storage capabilities....

That bot ain't ruining people's reputation or trampling their privacy, right? Right? America's Federal Trade Commission has started looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT is breaking consumer protection laws by causing reputational or privacy damage....

Exec faces fraud charges, one regulator wants $5 billion fine Alex Mashinsky, the now-former CEO of collapsed cryptocurrency concern Celsius, today faces charges of fraud as prosecutors and watchdogs pile in....

Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware LG Electronics has outlined its ambition to grow revenue from $51 billion company to $78 billion over the next six and a half years, thanks in part to ads streamed to its tellies and subscription services for its appliances....

Avocado prep time could be cut in half, but it still won't change the price Unhappy with the speed at which human workers prep avocados, Chipotle has introduced a robot to get the guacamole going....

Software could be 'an emerging competitive threat' to luxury design SaaS maker, notes regulator Updated The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to launch a full-blown probe of Adobe's takeover of web-first collaboration and software design house Figma after the companies failed to offer remedies to worries about the merger....

Will get involved from production to hydrogen engines, hopes for 5B turnover from tech by 2030 German engineering giant Bosch says it plans to invest 2.5 billion ($2.8 billion) in hydrogen technology, starting with fuel cell power modules to be used initially in trucks built by Nikola Corporation in the US....

There are only 1,300 souls left from 7,500 before Musk, complaint claims Former Twitter employee Courtney McMillian has filed a complaint claiming the company owes $500 million in severance pay to the thousands of people that were chopped from its once 7,500-strong workforce....

Ofcom launches investigation into whether telco is making it difficult for people to cancel services Virgin Media, which provides broadband, phone and TV services in the UK, is in hot water with regulators over allegations that the company is making it difficult for customers to cancel their contracts....

May be about to join systemd as the new tech for graybeards to scorn... but adopt anyway It has taken about 15 years to get there, but there is mounting evidence that the Wayland display server may soon topple X11 as the most common way to get a GUI on Linux....

Amazon, Microsoft and VMware make their moves in the game of machines IBM claims it can cut the cost for AI models in the cloud with custom silicon to cash in on the surge of interest in generative models like ChatGPT....

So much for that 'zero-gravity' cooling The SD card reader on Asus's Steam Deck competitor is failing due to excessive heat, the manufacturer confirmed this week....

Storm-0558 had access to accounts and mail - maybe even for senior US officials US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo and other State and Commerce Department officials were reportedly among the victims of a China-based group's attack on Microsoft's hosted email services....

Fantasy sports bets put on the same footing as online casinos or a punt on the gee-gees India's GST Council seems to have declared war on online gaming - raising taxes on the endeavor to 28 percent, according to the country's Ministry of Finance on Wednesday....

Janus asteroid sats headed for That Box Full Of Old Tech You Should Probably Have Thrown Out But Kept Just In Case NASA's Box Full Of Old Tech It Should Probably Have Thrown Out But Kept Just In Case (BFOOTISPHTOBKJIC) was already probably the world's coolest collection of such cruft, but is now set to gain a pair of fully functional space probes it's decided not to launch....

Improved service massively and slashed costs. Gulp Here's a story from the Department of Massive and Terrifying Irony: a startup Indian software developer struggled to afford its customer support team, so outsourced it - to an AI chatbot that was more efficient and cheaper....