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Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you covered AV Linux and MX Moksha are a pair of distros tweaked for audio and music production, each using a different branch of the Enlightenment family of desktops....

Corrected document clears up rollout timeline and confirms switch well ahead of deadline The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed its 312 million Windows 10 laptop refresh was, in fact, followed by a Windows 11 upgrade after an earlier letter to Parliament misstated the department's operating system timeline....

Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome Opinion There were lots of announcements about Kubernetes at KubeCon North America in Atlanta. I should know, I was there from beginning to end. But the biggest Kubernetes story of all didn't get much attention. Kubernetes is retiring its popular Ingress NGINX controller. Ingress NGINX goes to that big bit farm in the sky in March 2026. After that, "there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered."...

Buyers get a one-time discount on screen repairs, which hardly screams we nailed this three-screen thing' Samsung has revealed its first tri-fold phone, and it runs the Korean giant's DeX desktop environment without the need for an external monitor....

Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance Early in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a proposal has emerged suggesting the same community be granted a substantial chunk of the IPv6 numberspace....

'Sanchar Saathi' shares data to help fight fraud and protect carrier security India's government has issued a directive that requires all smartphone manufacturers to install a government app on every handset in the country and has given them 90 days to get the job done - and to ensure users can't remove the code....

Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons The Foundation that promotes the Zig programming language has quit GitHub due to what its leadership perceives as the code sharing site's decline....

Drive around a virtual track in Las Vegas while watching Matt Garman speak on in-game billboards RE:INVENT Amazon Web Services has decided to stream all five keynotes from its re:Invent conference in the hit multiplayer game Fortnite, which is more than a little bit bonkers....

Thrive will use the AI-maker's tech in its managed services and accounting businesess Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. OpenAI says that it has taken an undisclosed ownership stake in Thrive Holdings, the management-focused offshoot of private equity heavyweight Thrive Capital, which itself is a major investor in the ChatGPT maker....

Caveat coder In what appears to be the latest example of a troubling trend of "vibe coding" software development tools behaving badly, a Reddit user is reporting that Google's Antigravity platform improperly wiped out the contents of an entire hard drive partition....

Predictable URLs break security through obscurity and lack of server access controls don't help WordPress is the world's most popular content management system, but not so much with the UK government. The country's Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has blamed an inadvertent budget disclosure last week on misconfiguration of its WordPress website....

You could do that on a CPU, but who can say no to a 30x GPU speed boost? As part of its effort to spread GPUs everywhere, Nvidia is investing $2 billion into simulation giant Synopsys....

And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than 4 million installs are still live in the Edge marketplace....

Surf Google SERPs like it's November 29, 2022, with this workaround for the age of AI slop ChatGPT's public debut on November 30, 2022, is widely seen by critics as the start of the AI-slop era online. Those yearning for a more human-written web can get some relief from a browser extension that filters Google searches to pre-ChatGPT results....

Plus: Aussie Wi-Fi phisher and Brit dark web dealer nailed Cybercrime suspects and offenders across three continents have been rounded up this week, with cases spanning hacked IP cameras in South Korea, evil twin Wi-Fi traps in Australia, and a dark web drug empire in rural England....

Move follows Bank of America's $4B new tech war chest Global bank HSBC and Mistral AI have announced a deal they say will spread the use of generative AI across the financial institution, saving employees time and improving processes....

Blackwell GPUs, Juniper integration, and a planned France lab aim to speed enterprise rollouts HPE is upgrading its Private Cloud AI stack with Nvidia technology and preparing a France-based AI Factory Lab where customers will be able to test out workloads....

Stop AI bloat, fix the operating system, implores veteran software developer Dave Plummer The Windows operating system is buckling under AI features that seem designed more for shareholders than users, and retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer says it's time to hit pause....

Only a select few continue into later life, mainly for the love of the game Young threat actors may be rebels without a cause. These cybercriminals typically grow out of their offending ways by the time they turn 20, according to data published by the Dutch government....

After reassuring regulators all was well, pair debut interconnect to smooth the bumps Re:invent AWS and Google Cloud are promoting a jointly developed multi-cloud connectivity service, despite recently assuring competition authorities that no technical barriers existed for customers wanting to operate across multiple clouds....

Coupang confirms internationally routed intrusion compromised more than half of the country's population South Korean retail behemoth Coupang has admitted to a data breach that exposed the personal details of 33.7 million customers, turning the company's famed "Rocket Delivery" logistics empire into an express shipment for personal information....

Overbudget Project Future will continue to cause problems into Q2 next year, chairman admits Asda's delayed tech divorce from Walmart, which involved a complete SAP ERP upgrade, has caused "severe disruption" hitting the UK retailer's quarterly revenue....

Budget model slips in at $45 while other boards climb amid AI-driven component crunch Raspberry Pi has raised prices across much of its latest lineup while launching a new $45 Raspberry Pi 5 with 1GB of RAM, it's first sub-$50 model in the series....

Zut alors! Cybercrooks scored names, numbers, and license IDs The French Football Federation (FFF) has conceded that attackers broke into its member management software using a compromised account, scoring a match sheet's worth of player data in the process....

Authority follows Birmingham and West Sussex, which both suffered disastrous transitions Updated Southwest England's Dorset Council is preparing to swap its legacy SAP ERP for an Oracle-built replacement in a project set to cost 14.2 million over three years....

Rubber-key revival leans on Linux, emulation, and third-party ROMs The Spectrum is an inexpensive home entertainment gadget from Retro Games Ltd (RGL) that's hauntingly similar to a totally unrelated 1980s home entertainment device that was loved by millions....

Openreach pushes for legal overhaul as apartments fall through fiber rollout gaps Brits living in blocks of flats or apartments risk missing out on high-speed fiber broadband due to quirks in domestic regulations that can hinder access for telco engineers....

Outfit called 'Zava' selling 'intelligent athletic apparel' is now in the spotlight as Redmond's fake brand for the AI age Microsoft appears to have moved on from two of its most loyal and enthusiastic "customers"....

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Corrupt data could have made A320 autopilot do things exceeding the aircraft's structural capability' Airlines around the world have rushed to roll back software that powers Airbus A320 planes after the aviation giant discovered a recent update could put the aircraft in danger....

PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more! Asia in Brief Singapore's government last week told Google and Apple to prevent fake government messages....

PLUS: Exercise app tells spies to stop mapping; GitLab scan reveals 17,000 secrets; Leak exposes Iran's Charming Kitten; And more! Infosec In Brief Switzerland's Conference of Data Protection Officers, Privatim, last week issued a resolution calling on Swiss public bodies to avoid using hyperscale clouds and SaaS services due to security concerns....

Roscosmos confirms 'damage' as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027 The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damage during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos....

Automation flaw in CI/CD workflow let a bad pull request unleash worm into npm PostHog says the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm compromise was "the largest and most impactful security incident" it's ever experienced after attackers slipped malicious releases into its JavaScript SDKs and tried to auto-loot developer credentials....

Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable' British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files....

Project cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepens French cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company's servers over concerns about France's approach to digital privacy....

If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE - and tmux The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up....

Pushes semiconductor familiarity via chip-shaped edible squares SK hynix has launched HBM-themed square corn snacks at 7-Eleven, because nothing explains bandwidth like carbs and chocolate....

Training outfit scrambles to fix all-male lineup before December kickoff Cybersecurity training provider TryHackMe is scrambling to recruit women infosec pros to help with its Christmas challenge following backlash concerning a lack of gender diversity....

Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce For as long as I have been a reporter and analyst in the IT sector, November has always been supercomputing month. Way before there was a TOP500 ranking of supercomputers in June 1993 but just as I was leaving university, the first Supercomputing Conference was held in Orlando in 1988. And that November SC show set the cadence for high-performance computing for the decades that followed....

Another reason why the OS seems to swell with every update Changing text in Microsoft Windows requires freezing string updates well before code changes stop, often leading to strange wording that persists for years....

Ex-NCSC chief Ciaran Martin asked to examine how forecast ended up online ahead of schedule The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has drafted in former National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief Ciaran Martin to sniff out how its Budget day forecast wandered onto the open internet before the Chancellor had even reached the dispatch box....

OBR says the scheme will cost 600M a year with no identified savings The UK government has finally put a 1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans - days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure....

Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain The UK government collected just 800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent tax year....

Nordic datacenter operator's cool-climate facilities attract bids amid AI-driven market frenzy Digital Realty and a consortium including Equinix are competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian datacenter operator, according to reports....

A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions....

Fresh court filings try to keep the case about copyright, and in US courts VMware has come out swinging in its case against Siemens over alleged unlicensed use of its software....

Our soup's not toxic but this chap's behavior was' is the gist of the defense Food company Campbell's, best known for its soups and the iconic cans they come in, has parted ways with a vice president for IT after another member of the company's tech team recorded him criticizing the company's products....

Talk about buyer's remorse South Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a serious cyberattack....

ReliaQuest finds fresh crop of phishing domains and toxic tickets Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest....