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Watchdog reportedly well and truly out of love with App Store concessions and fee cuts Apple's amended App Store rules for dating apps in the Netherlands reportedly remain anticompetitive in the eyes of the Netherlands' Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM), raising the possibility that further changes will be required....

Chaebol reckons market is recovering and prices will rise. Analysts agree Samsung has posted another loss, but its semiconductor and memory business has shown signs of life, as inventories normalized and applications like AI drove demand for advanced products....

Nobody knows which state, but government never quite shrugged off claims it uses spyware Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors....

SAP and Oracle services provider Equine Global becomes part of Big Blue IBM has acquired Indonesian ERP consultancy Equine Global and signaled that the purchase represents a sign of its plans "to grow its footprint in the region."...

Proper function keys are the norm once more and the dream of a touchscreen Mac appears to be dead Comment Apple appears to have decided its controversial Touch Bar is no longer needed, as on Monday the last machine that included it - the 13-inch MacBook Pro - vanished from iGiant's site....

Screw it... no wait, unscrew it, cry boffins NASA's first-ever asteroid sample-collecting spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has had its mission extended - and will next visit Apophis, a near-Earth object expected to fly as close as 20,000 miles to our home planet in 2029....

'We're still in the final throes of getting every last member to sign' Top White House officials are working to secure an agreement between almost 50 countries to not pay ransom demands to cybercriminals as the international Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) summit gets underway in Washington DC Tuesday....

Cali jury decides 9-3 Muskmobile maker wasn't at fault when Model 3 veered into tree and exploded Tesla has prevailed in a crucial Autopilot death lawsuit in the US, with a jury today deciding the automaker's software wasn't at fault in a 2019 accident that killed a Model 3 owner and seriously injured two of passengers....

At least two extortion gangs abusing CVE-2023-4966, we're told Citrix Bleed, the critical information-disclosure bug that affects NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, is now under "mass exploitation," as thousands of Citrix NetScaler instances remain vulnerable, according to security teams....

Artists' lawyers vow to fight on A judge has dismissed copyright infringement claims against DeviantArt and Midjourney in the US - and has allowed a case against Stability AI to continue....

Big Apple unlikely to get a bite out of them at this rate, though For a period of two years between September 2019 and September 2021, two Americans and two Russians allegedly compromising the taxi dispatch system at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to sell cabbies a place at the front of the dispatch line....

Software house says it's had UK trademark since 2012 as Zuck & Co know full well Meta's Threads app is facing a trademark challenge from a software biz that says it owns the rights to the name in the UK, and has given Zuck's crew 30 days to change its branding in Blighty or face an injunction....

Everything's down, except Elon's engagement, and that's what really matters, right? The financial state of X, formerly Twitter, has remained cloudy since Elon Musk purchased it a little over a year ago, but internal documents are shedding some light on how much the company believes its worth....

US outfit scrambles to repair operations, restore processing of online orders Ace Hardware appears to have been the latest organization to succumb to a cyberattack, judging by its website and a message from CEO John Venhuizen....

10th arena that chip giant has quit in 2.5 years for $1.8B in annual savings Intel is shedding its silicon photonics transceiver module business as part of restructuring and cost-cutting measures, offloading it to manufacturing company Jabil....

Follows similar efforts from the SEC and DHS in recent months The US has approved mandatory data breach reporting requirements that impose a 30-day deadline for non-banking financial organizations to report incidents....

Funds intended to support carriers for more than 15 years The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized more than $18 billion to be paid to carriers to expand rural broadband....

Spitting in the cloud's eye Dell has teamed up with Facebook parent Meta to try to make it easier for customers to deploy the Llama 2 large language model (LLM) on premises rather than access it via the cloud....

Internet, phone lines, websites, and more went down on Saturday morning The British Library has confirmed to The Register that a "cyber incident" is the cause of a "major" multi-day IT outage....

The sky isn't the limit when it comes to greener fuel alternatives NASA is studying contrails to determine if more environmentally friendly aircraft fuels might reduce their formation....

'No question' it will solve more crimes, Tory MP claims A UK minister for policing has called for forces to double their use of algorithmic-assisted facial recognition in a bid to snare more criminals....

Clients have a little over a year to get their affairs in order Exclusive Unit4, the enterprise software provider popular with government and medium-sized businesses, has announced it will end support of its on-prem systems on December 31, 2024....

Lots to like under the covers, but what was on top made it truly unforgettable Microsoft is rarely shy when it comes to anniversaries. However, one milestone passed last week that the company is still perhaps trying to forget: 11 years since the launch of Windows 8....

Oh, you're not joking The UK government may be onto something with its strategy to support the domestic semiconductor industry. In a strange twist of fate, some experts are starting to say that its approach makes sense....

If you're in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing purposes so long as you live in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland....

Radio bouncing off multiple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache Researchers say they have developed a method to remotely track the movement of objects in a room using mirrors and radio waves, in the hope it could one day help monitor nuclear weapons stockpiles....

Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables Google has significantly advanced its efforts to have Android run on CPUs that use the RISC-V instruction set architecture....

Kaspersky also on the way out due to unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security' The government of Canada has decided that Tencent's WeChat app, and Kaspersky's security suite, are too risky to run on government-issued mobile devices....

All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit Australia's SBS will allow users of its video streaming services to opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting....

Risk of significant data loss' for on-prem customers Atlassian has told customers they must take immediate action" to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool....

50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested Vietnam will train 50,000 engineers to work in its semiconductor industry between now and 2030 ,as it seeks to embed itself further into the global chip supply chain....

MacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199 Apple has announced its M3 silicon, claimed they are the first CPUs for desktop computers built on a three-nanometre process, and packed them into its MacBook Pro and iMac products....

Developer labels action 'unfounded' after company and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer have been charged with fraud by America's financial watchdog, which alleges the software maker knew its security was in a poor state ahead of the SUNBURST supply chain attack....

Fix on the way but for those trapped in boot loop hell, data recovery isn't certain Google has confirmed that some people's Pixel devices have lost access to local storage or become trapped in reboot loops after applying the Android 14 software update....

Not old enough to legally buy a beer, old enough for a 30-month term A 20-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars for his role in a SIM-swapping ring that stole nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency from dozens of victims....

As Uncle Sam releases internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified on Monday at the US government's Google antitrust trial - and acknowledged that, yes, default settings are valuable....

ML players must alert Uncle Sam if they're training a foundation model, and more US President Joe Biden issued an executive order today putting in place some safeguards that may mitigate societal risks stemming from increasingly powerful AI technology....

At $1.89 an hour per GPU, you too can have ML compute for the low, low price of just $68M a year AI infrastructure provider Voltage Park revealed Sunday it has acquired 24,000 Nvidia H100 accelerators, which it plans to begin leasing to enterprises, startups and research institutions early next year....

Now please subscribe to premium and let us host your 'entire financial life' It's no longer just opinion to say the platform formerly known as Twitter has declined in many ways since Elon Musk's takeover, but you wouldn't know that from the sound of all the back-patting from what's left of the company's engineering team....

Just tricks, no treats with these 3 vulns Three unpatched high-severity bugs in the NGINX ingress controller can be abused by miscreants to steal credentials and other secrets from Kubernetes clusters....

Still, it's not like it's a matter of life and death, is it? The US Department of Defense's update of its aging nuclear arsenal could cost as much as $350 billion over the next 20 years, yet oversight problems mean that some of the cash infusion could be wasted....

Researchers just scratching surface of their understanding of campaign dating back to 2020 Security researchers have uncovered a multi-year cryptojacking campaign they claim autonomously clones GitHub repositories and steals their exposed AWS credentials....

And other novelties likely next year in kernel 6.7 The merge window has opened for what will become Linux version 6.7, and below we've compiled some things that are likely to be included in the new release....

Tracing DMCA's dubious legacy over 25 tech-turbulent years It has been 25 years since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into US law by President Bill Clinton, ushering in an era of intellectual property (IP) protection for all. Or that was the hope....

Latest decision follows failure of Kioxia merger and pressure from activist investor Elliott Management Western Digital is to split into two separate entities, one formed from the NAND flash memory division and the other from the hard drive unit. The move follows the collapse of WD's proposed merger with memory chipmaker Kioxia....

Research sheds light on attitudes holding industry back Almost one in five men in IT explain why fewer females work in the profession by arguing that "women are naturally less well suited to tech roles than men."...

This marks the third criminal intrusion at the institution in as many years Stanford University has confirmed it is "investigating a cybersecurity incident" after an attack last week by the Akira ransomware group....

Regulatory red dragon keeping silent with a day left until deadline VMware and Broadcom are trying to quell investor fears that China's competition regulator could kill the proposed $61 billion merger, issuing a joint statement to say the transaction "will close soon"....

NASA: Nice rocket, but what about the dust? Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has unveiled a mockup of the cargo version of its Blue Moon lunar lander ahead of a crewed version intended for NASA's Artemis program....

Unwavering loyalty and devotion rewarded with termination Microsoft has decided to axe the Windows Insider MVP program, which is now scheduled to be discontinued at the end of the year....