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Plus there's a PoC for this unpatched Cisco bug Patch Tuesday For its final Patch Tuesday of the year, Microsoft fixed one bug that's already been exploited in the wild – and another that's publicly known.…

Databases, details of 'sexual proceedings in court' and more apparently pilfered from finance IT LockBit claims it was behind a cyber-attack on the California Department of Finance, bragging it stole data during the intrusion.…

Thankfully no customer info – but the spotlight is back on third-party attacks Uber, which has suffered a few data thefts in its time, is this week dealing with the fallout from yet another – this time from one of its technology suppliers.…

Korean tech giant claims big performance, energy efficiency gains with memory tech Samsung has built a claimed first-of-its-kind supercomputer containing AMD datacenter GPUs affixed with its processing-in-memory chips, which the company said can significantly improve the performance and energy efficiency of training large AI models.…

Billions in people's private funds siphoned off to bankroll hedge fund, watchdogs say Police in The Bahamas on Monday nabbed Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), former CEO of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX and crypto hedge fund Alameda Research, at the request of the US government, based on charges filed by multiple federal agencies.…

Plus: Elon Musk is now a number 2 Comment Twitter has taken a match to its Trust and Safety Council, the group of 100 civil rights organizations formed in 2016 to tackle issues like hate speech, child exploitation and suicide on the platform.…

Software behemoth reportedly wants a chat with the regulators – on the other side of the pond this time Updated Microsoft, already under the European Union's microscope for its $69 billion bid for game maker Activision Blizzard, reportedly wants to talk to regulators there to try to see off legal action against Teams based on an antitrust complaint levied two years ago by rival Slack.…

Audio recordings of local whirlwinds provide data on Mars weather, wear and tear of space hardware Audio data recorded by a NASA rover has, for the first time, allowed earthbound humans to hear the sound of a dust devil passing on the Martian surface.…

The 'good old days' were sometimes ugly, but please let us experience their good bits Feature When the market for proprietary UNIX workstations collapsed, few vendors survived… and those that did seemed not to learn much from it.…

That summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting Oracle execs are all smiles following a stellar showing for their cloud operations in the latest full quarter, and Larry Ellison is obviously feeling a little dizzy, telling the world – or anyone who would listen – that Big Red's cloud never fails.…

America: Yeah but they can't help you if it's national security. And it totally is China is fighting back against Washington's semiconductor wars by filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against US chip export controls, claiming they threaten global supply chains.…

Oh joy. Effect on software development inevitable, but it's clearly not devs' replacement, says analyst The global market for low-code development technologies is set to grow nearly 20 percent from 2022, to reach $26.9 billion in 2023, according to a forecast from Gartner.…

Recommendation from top CNIL advisor claims Cupertino broke EU privacy laws Apple tracked users without their consent and deserves to be fined €6 million, according to a top advisor to France's data privacy watchdog. …

Didn't the x86 giant just blow up its data storage biz? The US Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs believes that novel memory tech may be the secret to faster, more accurate nuclear weapon simulations.…

Another Linux OS – but this time it's all about the software packaging NixOS is a distro built with a new sort of software build tool. You can install it and it works, but oddly that isn't really the point.…

German software giant unlikely to repeat 2020's concession to users pressure SAP is likely to hold firm on the 2027 support deadline for ECC, its earlier-generation ERP solution used by thousands of businesses worldwide, making a repeat of 2020's concession unlikely, according to one user group leader.…

Smells like Russian miscreants A type of cryptomining malware targeting Linux-based systems has added capabilities by incorporating an open source remote access trojan called Chaos RAT with several advanced functions that bad guys can use to control remote operating systems.…

When every nanosecond of latency counts, improvements in the physical layer matter Major cloud providers and hyperscalers go to considerable lengths to secure technical advantages over their rivals, and Microsoft last week made just such a move by acquiring fiber optic cable maker Lumenisity.…

Tracked location and kept records of phone calls, and determined ability to travel. Which China will keep doing with other tech, for other reasons China discontinued operation of its COVID tracking app on Monday as part of the Middle Kingdom's transition away from a dynamic zero-COVID strategy.…

Enhancements around HTTP, QUIC, and WebSocket are on the list A month after unveiling the production release of .NET 7, Microsoft has introduced several networking enhancements that touch on issues including security, the HTTP transport layer, and APIs.…

If Uncle Sam got more power out of a reaction than it put in, it's a new dawn for clean energy The US Department of Energy (DoE) is expected to announce a major milestone in the ongoing effort to generate clean power through nuclear fusion.…

'Time of transition' – cough, Broadcom – offered as reason cloud, security, and networking bosses bailed VMware has revealed that three senior executives have chosen to leave the company.…

Indictment imminent on criminal charges, extradition likely. Grab some popcorn Bahamian authorities have arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, after he was indicted on criminal charges.…

Facebook and YouTube among companies that will have to monitor user content Vietnam has celebrated the 25th anniversary of its connection to the internet, and implemented a crackdown on online advertising that sees platforms like YouTube and Facebook responsible for the content that drives their ad revenue.…

Which is pocket change compared to what criminals will pay for zero-days, but thankfully community spirit remains strong Pwn2Own paid out almost $1 million to bug hunters at last week's consumer product hacking event in Toronto, but the prize money wasn't big enough attract attempts at cracking the iPhone or Google Pixel because miscreants can score far more from less wholesome sources.…

Plus: ChatGPT behaving like a virtual machine, Cohere launches multi-lingual large language model In brief Apple's plans for an autonomous vehicle are being pushed back at least one year to 2026 after Cupertino reportedly scraped its previous designs. …

Our v3 prediction comes true In September, when Google delayed its Chrome extension platform makeover, we predicted, "This may not be the last time Google revises its transition timeline."…

GPU boss vows 'dramatic shift in the PC graphics landscape' with next-gen CPU While Nvidia and AMD put out high-end graphics cards for those with plenty of money to spend, Intel is doubling down on the mainstream GPU market with lower-power discrete products and CPUs with upgraded integrated graphics.…

To the four out of ten that didn't make it, we salute 'em NASA's Orion capsule splashed down on Sunday, capping a very successful Artemis I mission for the Americans. That said, it was a less successful even for the mission's 10 tiny cubesats, four of which appear to be lost after a variety of malfunctions. …

Are they booing me, Smithers? No, Mr SpaceX, they're saying boo, boo-ster, booster! In a bizarre move Elon Musk took to the stage with Dave Chappelle at a comedy gig in San Francisco this weekend to a chorus of boos, and little in the way of repartee.…

Storage Mover tool to push on-premises workloads to the cloud, where Windows giant wants it Microsoft is introducing a new tool intended to help make migrating files and folders from on-premises systems to the Azure cloud that much easier.…

Aims to take away the pain of designing an SoC in-house RISC-V Summit Ventana Micro Systems is set to unveil a family of datacenter-class processors based on the RISC-V architecture, which it claims will allow buyers to customize the chips to meet their requirements by combining Ventana's CPU cores with other silicon.…

Earth-based experiment provides model result to help expose mysterious substance making up the majority of the Milky Way Scientists have used data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider to show how antimatter can travel long distances through the Milky Way, a result they hope could uncover the secrets of dark matter, the major cosmological mystery.…

100,000 units being sent to resellers as thanks for consumer patience, says CEO Eben Upton Raspberry Pi enthusiasts, rejoice: around 100,000 RPi Zero W, 3A+, and 2GB/4GB RPi 4s are being distributed to resellers for holiday season consumer sales.…

Never mind the corporate sector slowdown, taxpayers' wallets open for business Parts of the commercial world might be saving their money in 2023 with one eye on progress across the economy but the public sector will keep on spending amid continued efforts to reduce technical debt.…

Elon Musk's meeting with Tim Cook at Apple HQ went well, we see Comment You would have thought that after Twitter chief Elon Musk and Tim Cook schmoozed a bit at Apple's headquarters, the two would've reached some sort of common ground following that little "misunderstanding" last month.…

Company still insists takeover of virtualization giant is going through by November '23 Broadcom may be facing an in-depth investigation into its $61 billion takeover of VMware by EU competition watchdogs, dashing the corporation's earlier hopes that its buyout would not meet any major regulatory hurdles.…

US tech giant's data analytics and cloud products for a slice of Brit market action Microsoft said this morning it expects to pull in $5 billion in revenue from a deal with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to haul the British exchange operator's data platform into the cloud.…

If you are concerned about browsing discreetly, this makes it easier The latest Tor Browser is a specially packaged version of Firefox 102 ESR which does all the hard work of setting up a TOR connection.…

Fabless maker goes for open-source chip architecture, with actual chips schedueld to ship late 2023 RISC-V Summit British chip company XMOS has revealed its latest xcore high-performance microcontrollers are to be built around the RISC-V open standard instruction set architecture, in the hopes of opening up the silicon to a wider range of embedded system designers.…

It’s very good, and that's very bad There’s a new chatbot in town, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It is a robot researcher with good communication skills; you can ask it to answer questions about various areas of knowledge and it will write short documents in various formats and in excellent English. Or write bad poetry, incomprehensible jokes, and obey a command like “Write Tetris in C.” What comes out looks like it could be, too.…

Confoundingly camouflaged control covered in cruft confounds careful contractor, crashes kit who, me? Ah, dear reader, once again it is time to greet the day with a tale from Who, Me? – the Reg's welcome to the working week in which readers spill the beans on tech stuff-ups that may or may not have been their fault.…

Also: Guri the air-gap guru strikes again, while pro-Ukraine hackers set up a proxy network in Russia In brief Let's start with the good news: according to a survey of security and business leaders, executives have become far more aware of the importance of cyber security in the past two years, better aligning security teams and leadership. …

Existing Nexus Dashboard to be recommended for sovereign clouds or air-gapped rigs Cisco is a few weeks, give or take a few days, from launching a cloudy management service for its Nexus switches – a move that will change the role of the Nexus Dashboard currently suggested as the best way to manage the devices.…

Japan and the United Arab Emirates launched landers, while JPL has a boring old satellite Humanity has retrieved one attempt to explore its natural satellite, and launched three more.…

'Deep synthesis service providers' otherwise free to create AI-generated humans in line with socialist values China's Cyberspace Administration has issued guidelines on how to do deepfakes the right way.…

Turns a $100 bottle of wine into a $4 soft drink to avoid tax, earning probe by major governments Tax authorities from Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA have conducted a joint probe into "electronic sales suppression software" – applications that falsify point of sale data to help merchants avoid paying tax on their true revenue.…

Kernel boss won't consider code that's late, or hasn't already appeared in Linux-next, for version 6.2 Linux kernel overseer Linus Torvalds has released version 6.1 of the project, and warned that "the merge window from Hell" has now opened.…

FTX Japan payment promise evaporates; VR/AR to boom across APAC; Google wins privacy case Asia In Brief Australia's home affairs and cybersecurity minister Clare O'Neill has given the nation a goal of becoming the world's most cyber secure nation by 2030.…