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Cloud shrugs off woes of retail parent while advertising cash also increased AWS shone in an otherwise subdued set of financials from megacorp Amazon last night.…

Especially when gangs are better funded than local police As cybercriminals become more sophisticated and their attacks more destructive and costly, private security firms and law enforcement need to work together, according to Interpol's Doug Witschi.…

Google says it outperforms comparable models despite needing fraction of training data Google's Deepmind has published a paper proposing a family of machine learning models with the aim of doing more work with far less costly and time-consuming training.…

Customer data collection and retention requirements also increased, including for crypto operators India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has given many of the nation's IT shops a big job that needs to be done in a hurry: complying with a new set of rules that require organizations to report 20 different types of infosec incidents within six hours of detection, be they a ransomware attack or mere compromise of a social media account.…

We have bad news: you probably can't... but good luck anyway UK watchdogs under the banner of the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) have called for views on the benefits and risks of how sites and apps use algorithms.…

You thought Zoom was bad? Welcome to the Thunderdome Something for the Weekend The bloke next to me is acting strangely. Sitting bolt upright and staring straight ahead, he is holding his hand, palm forward, level with his face.…

Sssshhhh! Nobody tell Elon Musk To the surprise of many users, China's largest Twitter-esque microblogging website, Sina Weibo, announced on Thursday that it will publish users' IP addresses and location data in an effort to keep their content honest and nice.…

Code so clever it is like perpetual motion. In C++ On Call Modes of operation always present a challenge for users. Especially when they invent their own. Welcome to a mysterious On Call with an all-too-obvious solution.…

Ouster of rebel CEO should clear path for planned Arm IPO SoftBank-owned chip designer Arm has reportedly regained control of its Chinese joint venture.…

The walls are alive with the sound of music Video Engineers at MIT have created paper-thin speakers using a plastic film and a piezoelectric layer embossed with tiny domes.…

Second shot after lack of humans to fix simple issue crippled sea vessel The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) is attempting to sail across the Atlantic Ocean with no humans on board again, after it failed three days into its first trip last year.…

At least three threat groups are using the loader in malicious email campaigns A sophisticated malware loader dubbed Bumblebee is being used by at least three cybercriminal groups that have links to ransomware gangs, according to cybersecurity researchers.…

Joins open chip standard's international board to show it's really serious this time India's government has announced a plan and roadmap for local semiconductor design and production, based on the open source RISC-V architecture, and set a goal of delivering world-class silicon by the end of next year.…

But it wants server-makers to kick out the option – forever VMware has walked back its decision to end support for non-persistent removable storage as a boot medium for its vSphere suite.…

Tech terms of service dissolve Fourth Amendment rights, EFF warns The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed the 2019 conviction and sentencing of Carsten Igor Rosenow for sexually exploiting children in the Philippines – and, in the process, the court may have blown a huge hole in internet privacy law.…

Some report multimillion-dollar hits while others offer more rosy takes amid component drought Lockdowns in China have been disrupting supply and demand for a variety of semiconductor companies amid broader challenges created by the ongoing global chip shortage.…

Presented by the Wiz team that found the Cosmos DB flaw Microsoft fixed a pair of flaws in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server's authentication process that could have allowed any Postgres admin to gain superuser privileges and access other customers' databases.…

A+ for marketing, F- for blocking aftermarket parts with serial number checks The debut of Apple's self-service repair program has not mended the rift between the iBiz and repair advocacy groups, which continue to see Cupertino's resistance to product repairs as an effort to retain revenue that might otherwise go to others.…

Doing anything Friday night? Fancy watching someone try to catch a rocket with a helicopter? Rocket Lab is to attempt the recovery of an Electron rocket tomorrow night, snagging the booster as it descends back to Earth by parachute.…

Navigate the SALT-y seas of systems-wrangling with the FOSS basis of SUSE Manager The Uyuni project has released a new stable version of its eponymous free enterprise systems-management tool that supports SUSE distros as well as Red Hat (and its many relatives), Ubuntu, and Debian.…

At 15.3 million requests per second, the assault was the largest HTTPS blitz on record lasting 15 seconds Cloudflare this month halted a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a cryptocurrency platform that not only was unusual in its sheer size but also because it was launched over HTTPS and primarily originated from cloud datacenters rather than residential internet service providers (ISPs).…

Lofty, non-binding declaration aims for open, free, interoperable internet in the face of authoritarian threats The United States, along with some 60 other countries, today presented a declaration in which they pledge to "reclaim the promise of the internet" from "a trend of rising digital authoritarianism." …

MongoDB, Couchbase in the crosshairs as Aerospike tries to broaden use cases Distributed NoSQL database Aerospike has added support for JSON documents to a slew of new features included in its Database 6 release.…

Microsoft won, Amazon complained. Amazon won, Microsoft complained. Amazon won... again The US National Security Agency (NSA) has re-awarded a once-secret $10 billion cloud computing services contract to AWS following protests from Microsoft.…

Growth set to continue unabated despite headwinds, CEO says Helpdesk software provider, ServiceNow, has posted revenue of $1.72 billion for the calendar first quarter of 2022, up 27 percent from a year earlier.…

The lines between work and personal life were already blurred anyway Microsoft has taken some tentative steps to make account switching easier in its 365 apps with the addition of a list of signed-in users.…

Closed-loop factories are all the rage as COVID rages on, despite China’s insistence that the virus stop Over 60 percent of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation's (SMIC) Shanghai staff are living around the factory campus, in accordance with the ongoing city-wide COVID lockdown, the Chinese semiconductor foundry confirmed this week.…

Adoption is going so great that growth is barely registering The apparent standstill of Windows 11 adoption is continuing for a second month, according to figures from ad platform AdDuplex.…

Latest LTS release brings a host of welcome changes that feel fast, modern, and powerful US Linux boxshifter System76 has released the new LTS version, 22.04, of its custom Ubuntu remix, Pop!_OS (or "Pop" for short). The Reg FOSS desk took it for a spin.…

UPS giant finds a more permanent solution to a Putin shaped problem, writes off €300m book value Schneider Electric has signed a letter of intent to offload its Russian division to local management, writing off up to €300 million ($315 million) in net book value as a result.…

3-year deal with Toshiba to run tech with customers across the CIty, West End, and Slough BT and Toshiba have announced the trial of a commercial quantum secured metro network in London, set to run for three years to evaluate the use of the technology.…

Not hard to see why Infosys wants to keep staff – rival HCL blames price hikes on pay rises and recruitment costs As Infosys battles attrition that sees more than one in four staffers leave each year, India's Ministry of Labour & Employment has summoned the IT services giant to discuss the legality of a contract clause it uses to stop staff working for rivals or customers.…

Snowball Edge devices needed annual recertification holidays and required LAN-based management Amazon Web Services has made its Snowball Edge devices remotely manageable and finally enabled multi-year deployments of the on-prem data-crunching machines.…

They're currently on 2G – a tactic the government uses to suppress communication India's government has announced it will permit upgrades of mobile networks from 2G to 4G in regions claimed to be hotbeds of a Maoist insurgency.…

To deliver post-pandemic accelerated metaverse continuum experience consultancy. Or something If you want to place a bet on the winner of 2022's weirdest corporate rebranding, here's one likely to make the shortlist: an announcement titled "Accenture Announces Accenture Song".…

Malicious cyber actors go after 2021's biggest misses, spend less time on the classics Security flaws in Log4j, Microsoft Exchange, and Atlassian's workspace collaboration software were among the bugs most frequently exploited by "malicious cyber actors" in 2021 , according to a joint advisory by the Five Eyes nations' cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies.…

Will Redmond start code-naming Windows make-me-admin bugs? Flaws in networkd-dispatcher, a service used in some parts of the Linux world, can be exploited by a rogue logged-in user or application to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing the box to be commandeered, Microsoft researchers said Wednnesday.…

Chocolate Factory's latest mobile code confection refines permissions and error reporting Google on Tuesday released the first beta version of Android 13, the next iteration of its mobile operating system.…

A different type of bug bounty Uncle Sam will dole out up to $10 million for vital information on each of six Russian GRU officers linked to the Kremlin-backed Sandworm gang, who, according to the Feds, have plotted to carry out destructive cyber-attacks against American critical infrastructure.…

The company kept quiet on progress since it announced plan in November After five months of silence on the state of its self-service repair program, Apple has finally launched it for US customers.…

Govt offers lure of subsidies in bid to become electronics manufacturing powerhouse India is hoping it can convince Intel and TSMC to set up new fabs in the country as part of their multibillion-dollar manufacturing expansion blueprint.…

Two years of disaster planning massively reduced recovery time objective, company says If you're unsure how resilient your organization is to a disaster, there's a simple way to find out: unplug one of your datacenters from the internet and see what happens.…

Email about pricing from rival seller of Microsoft licensing and software under spotlight The US Navy must start a "supplemental investigation" into allegations Dell had inside information on a rival's pricing for a $2.5 billion software deal, a federal claims judge has ruled, after the sea forces "failed to fully comply" with an earlier order.…

State-sponsored Bronze President group launches cyber-espionage malware campaign against notional ally China appears to be entering a raging cyber-espionage battle that's grown in line with Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine, deploying advanced malware on the computer systems of Russian officials.…

Personalized news feed has its fans, according to exec Lurking within Microsoft's Q3 2022 earnings reports last night was news that people are indeed still buying Windows PCs, and that half a billion customers are "active users" of the company's news feed, Microsoft Start.…

Peer-to-peer network between different nodes ensures parameters can be exchanged securely HPE has lifted the lid on two new AI products, one aimed at enterprises wanting to build and train machine learning (ML) models at scale, and a second that introduces a decentralized ML system to enable distributed or edge deployments to share updates to their models.…

Former Capita-owned ESS' minimum 3-year deals put under spotlight by CMA Britain's competition watchdog is probing the largest local provider of school management information systems to ascertain if it is abusing its market dominance to force customers to sign three-year agreements.…

Images of bombed streets belie the fact that consultancies are still operating and need income BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has called upon organizations to give Ukraine's tech consultancies serious consideration when tendering for contracts.…

Changes will make things less challenging for developers, but maybe not for users The Fedora development team are planning some significant changes to the way the distro handles graphics, which will help to push forward the state of Linux graphics support – but it may hinder troubleshooting when things go wrong.…

Intel and co outline Holodeck-like DARPA-backed efforts for combat bots Intel has shed some light on its participation in a DARPA program set up to aid the development of autonomous combat vehicles that can go off road. …