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Organizers change rules as generative ML takes over everything Artists using machine learning software to make music can win a Grammy someday, thanks to a change in the awards' rules....

Just use it sparingly, as it may crash equipment or burn out memory Boffins at the University of California, Davis have devised a purportedly practical way to apply a memory abuse technique called Rowhammer to build unique, stable device fingerprints....

Cops reckon gang swiped as much as $30M from financial orgs International cops have arrested a suspected "key figure" of a cybercrime group dubbed OPERA1ER that has stolen as much as $30 million from more than 30 banks and financial orgs across 15 countries....

Release is good news for fans of Windows 7, 8, and macOS from Sierra to Mojave. The latest version of Firefox browser is out and should help keep some older operating systems viable, at least for another year....

World powers scramble into emergency meetings as US Treasury Secretary heads to Beijing for talks China's move to restrict exports of two elements used in semiconductors has sparked concerns ahead of a visit to Beijing by the US Treasury Secretary, with one Chinese official warning that this is "just the beginning."...

ChatGPT back to partying like it's 2021 OpenAI's experiment with allowing ChatGPT to search the web via Bing has been suspended because the feature inadvertently allowed users to bypass paywalls....

Plus: Facebook corp loses appeal on crossing data streams in Germany Elon Musk's Twitter can breathe easy when it comes to European Union - the beleaguered social media platform won't be challenged in the single market of member states by its newly minted rival, "Threads" from Meta....

No immediate risk of delisting, but company intends to claw its way back The New York Stock Exchange has notified MariaDB, the database services biz formed around a fork of MySQL, that it is not in compliance with its listing manual after the company's share price dipped below $1 over a 30-day period....

Class action claims company refusing to pay mandated fees A proposed class action brought by a former Twitter worker laid off last year, allegedly for not clicking yes on Elon Musk's "go hardcore or go home" email, has accused the company of holding up 891 arbitrations....

How to use a part of your computer you possibly didn't know it had If you have a plain ol' vanilla wheel mouse, it has an extra button you may not know about, and that button has a whole set of handy functions. Here's how to use it....

Can't buy advanced GPUs... and might be blocked from renting them soon The US is preparing to escalate its campaign to block Chinese access to AI by including cloud services among the technologies that require government permission before they can be provided to Chinese customers....

Don't tell Big Red too much, experts advise Exclusive Oracle is firing off unsolicited emails to businesses offering to discuss Java subscription deals, seemingly in an effort to extract information which could be to its benefit in future license negotiations....

Survey suggests 'mediocre services' now cost 14% more UK broadband subscribers are being hit by a double whammy of service disruptions and above-inflation price hikes, but many are caught in fixed-term contracts and unable to switch, according to consumer advocate Which?...

Here come the taishoku daiko to tell your boss to do one... in a polite but unequivocal way Certain tech bosses are notoriously temperamental - so much so that conflict-averse folks have been known to put in their notice while the execs are on leave. But some Japanese employees have taken this a step further - actually employing an agent to quit their job for them....

Wants administrators, manufacturers, and the software they use, to be better China wants its manufacturers to become more reliable, after finding that three key sectors - machinery, electronics, and automobiles - aren't at levels that match global standards of excellence....

Digital payment skeptics of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but grifters and crims Singapore has joined the ranks of nations requiring digital payment operators to follow the same sort of regulations and customer protection requirements that apply to conventional financial institutions....

Zuck's Instagram-adjacent Twitter clone to debut later this week Twitter users dismayed by Elon Musk's chaotic leadership of the microblogging service will soon have an alternative - albeit one run by another tech billionaire. Meta's long-rumored Twitteresque effort is set to debut later this week....

Boss says it has traffic galore and a beautiful balance sheet Yahoo! - the outfit that dominated the web in the late 1990s before Google ate its lunch - is plotting a return to the stock market....

Independence Day launch will leave Europe dependent on the US for space missions On Tuesday July 4, the last Ariane 5 rocket will blast off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. As the rocket's red glare fades, Europe will be without a heavy-lift rocket for the first time in decades, with no reusable one in sight....

Despite Redmond's best efforts to convince competition regulators that product bundles are OK European Union antitrust regulators are edging closer to launching a full-blown probe into Microsoft's bundling of products with Office 365 amid failing efforts by the vendor to deter an official investigation....

When you're on the wrong side of Red Hat, these could be subject to change Last week, the Rocky Linux project said it had found a way to continue delivering its RHEL-based distribution. Now we have some information on how it's doing it....

Post-Brexit strategy set to replace legacy of patchwork systems The UK's tax collector has awarded Deloitte a deal worth up to 100 million ($127 million) to provide a digital gateway for businesses getting goods across UK borders as part of its strategy for post-Brexit trade....

Cognitive scientists question bold claims from OpenAI, Microsoft and others Feature Another day, another headline. Last week, a year-old startup attracted $1.3 billion from investors including Microsoft and Nvidia, valuing Inflection AI at $4 billion....

Both countries want it, but respective red lines could torpedo an agreement The notion that a trade deal between the UK and India might see a flood of cheap tech workers heading to Britain appears to have been scuppered. The British government is prepared to consider temporary visas for skilled workers, but that's as far as it goes....

Boffins given five months to migrate, with vanilla DaaS suggested as the alternative IBM has killed its Cloud for Education - a service it launched just two years ago and touted as "infrastructure and services for academic and research lab compute needs."...

Sneaky HTML smuggling signals MustangPanda shift towards Europe, Checkpoint charges Infosec outfit Checkpoint says it's spotted a Chinese actor targeting diplomatic facilities around Europe....

Lays out ambition to set standards, as a $12 not-quite feature phone emerges to get millions connected India yesterday laid out its ambitions to become a big 6G player - on the same day its biggest carrier tried to lift millions from 2G to 4G....

That's a vulnerability that's under attack, fix available ... cancel those July 4th plans, perhaps? More than 338,000 FortiGate firewalls are still unpatched and vulnerable to CVE-2023-27997, a critical bug Fortinet fixed last month that's being exploited in the wild....

Digital rights folks, as you can imagine, want the tech grounded America's Transportation Security Agency (TSA) intends to expand its facial-recognition program used to screen US air travel passengers to 430 domestic airports in under a decade....

Hey, Zuck - still want your own meme factory? After months of speculation about its future, GIF hosting platform Gfycat is being put down by its parent Snap....

Don't panic but beware the blowback effect China is imposing export restrictions on two elements used in semiconductors and other electronic components, a move likely to be viewed as a calculated response to Western restrictions on sales of chips and their production tech to the Middle Kingdom....

Hey Elon - here's an idea for your next poll: 'Should I step down as CTO of Twitter?' It's been a few weeks since the chaos at Twitter rose to a level worth noting, but that changed this weekend when owner and CTO Elon Musk announced the imposition of limits on how many tweets users can see each day....

Will you choose Salty Sally or Whitey Whitebeard? It doesn't matter; they're both intolerable Every week there seems to be another cynical implementation of AI that devalues the human experience so it is with a breath of fresh air that we report on a bedroom venture that uses GPT-4 technology to frustrate telemarketers....

Attackers accessed it via third-party services provider, says management group It's an awkward Monday for Dublin Airport after pay and benefits details for some 2,000 staff were apparently "compromised" following a recent attack on professional service provider Aon....

Also: OpenAI to open a new office in London, and why the FTC has its eye on the generative AI market AI in brief A researcher is under fire for collecting course materials from lecturers without consent to train a chatbot, which he claimed could solve problems in assignments and exams for a computer science degree at MIT....

Will someone please think of the poor shareholders? Oh, they already have Following a wave of layoffs and stagnating pay, dissent among some of Microsoft's workforce is breaking out against CEO Satya Nadella after he thanked them for their contribution to the "landmark" fiscal '23....

Openreach rival promises first live connections by next summer The UK government has said it will stump up 318 million ($403 million) in funding for network provider CityFibre to link around 218,000 premises in three English counties with fiber internet access as part of its plans to get more of the country connected....

Firefox-maker presses pause on generative AI assistant as complaints mount Mozilla Developer Network, a widely used technical resource for web developers, this week introduced an assistive service called AI Help, perhaps unaware that its robo-helper gives incorrect advice....

When the world's on fire, what number do you call? Opinion It all began on 10th November 1935, when five women burned to death in a house fire in central London. A neighbor had tried to call the fire brigade on his home telephone, but had to wait in a queue for his local exchange. By the time he got through to the operator, it was too late....

The national strategy was released in May - but execs say it's not nearly enough A group of British chip company execs has called on the government to do more to support industry, a month after officials published the nation's Semiconductor Strategy laying out policy initiatives for this vital technology sector....

Such a blatant offside the manager couldn't see a funny side Who, Me? Greetings once again, gentle reader, to the confessional booth known as Who, Me? in which Reg readers unburden themselves with tales of things they shouldn't have done - or that they should have done, and didn't....

Almost anything you download from China could be considered spying, but at least one analyst isn't worried The United States' National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) has warned that China's updated Counter-Espionage law - which came into effect on July 1 - is dangerously ambiguous and could pose a risk to global business....

ALSO: Ransomware hit on Mancunian Uni spills NHS patient deets, USPTO leaks inventor info, and this week's crit vulns Infosec in brief A Russian satellite communication provider has been knocked offline by hackers, and more than one party - including hackers who say they're associated with mutinous mercenary outfit Wagner Group - has claimed responsibility....

Who is behind this lobby group calling for a stock market of network resources? Special report Two of the world's five regional internet registries - which among other things manage the allocation of IP addresses - are in the sights of a secretive lobby group: the Number Resource Society....

If Japanese space boffins have their way, it could be joined by a robotic hummingbird NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has phoned home, more than 60 days after last establishing contact....

PLUS: Philippines cyber-slave raid; South Korea's crypto crackdown; AWS boosts Chinese exports; and more Asia In Brief Japan's government last Friday rebuked Fujitsu for shabby cloud security....

We speak to project scientist on effort to build 3D map of space going back ten billion years Interview Euclid, an advanced telescope built by the European Space Agency to study the nature of dark energy and dark matter, blasted off into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday....

How do you solve a problem like a visa? How do you catch a fraud and bring it down? In depth H-1B visa fraud is rampant and growing, and the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has yet to demonstrate that it can deal with the situation....

Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express is on the rails Analysis As Moore's so-called Law continues to slow, many chipmakers are turning to advanced packaging and chiplet techniques to drive greater efficiencies and performance than what's possible with process shrinks alone....

And so far, they might succeed: Where's the smoking gun? Microsoft and GitHub have tried again to get rid of a lawsuit over alleged code copying by GitHub's Copilot programming suggestion service, arguing that generating similar code isn't the same as reproducing it verbatim....