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by Katyanna Quach on (#65K4E)
Holiday property landlords' vacation from regulation is coming to an end The EU proposed rules this week requiring Airbnb and similar companies to share with officials the identities of hosts renting houses and apartments to tourists.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#65K1K)
Pay is middling, hours are long, but millions of jobs are out there Chinese employers have recently advertised for nearly a million employees with technical AI skills, according to an analysis from US think tank the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#65K0W)
Other than that, results are some of the least bad news about hardware sales we've read in weeks Electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd – better known as Foxconn – has reported strong growth in plenty of product categories but warned its Chinese operations may drag it down during Q4.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#65JZS)
$40 billion heading out the door for data management servers and storage in 2022 alone Databases remain the largest single driver of enterprise hardware purchases, according to analyst outfit IDC.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#65JY1)
Asking really good questions about what data can describe matters more than collecting more info Data scientists are important, but what the world needs now is data artists, according to analysts at Gartner's Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney, Australia.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#65JY2)
OK, so you've got a botnet. That don't impress me much Pro-Russia hacktivists' recent spate of network-flooding bot traffic aimed at US critical infrastructure targets, while annoying, have had "limited success," according to the FBI.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#65JX2)
Robots aren't hard. 5G in a room full of metal is. So is explaining why you need a bot to look at blinkenlights Fujitsu Japan will trial a local 5G network as the sole connectivity option for a robot charged with inspecting a datacenter and reporting on any anomalies it finds.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#65JVX)
AI and HPC deployments means propping up 250kW densities per rack With AI and HPC workloads becoming the norm, we can expect a broader push toward high-end power and cooling technologies inside colo facilities.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#65JTX)
Meanwhile, India workers in reported 90% purge In a sign that laying off half the company may not have been the best idea, "dozens" of Twitter employees given notice on Friday were reportedly asked to return over the weekend.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#65JQP)
Uncle Sam follows the money ... all the way to a single-board computer A crook who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoins from the dark web souk Silk Road in 2012 has pleaded guilty and lost the lot, with a stretch behind bars likely ahead of him. …
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#65JQQ)
Don't like the results? The election must have been rigged Misinformation related to tomorrow's US midterm elections hasn't slowed, according to security researchers. …
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by Tobias Mann on (#65JNH)
US government opens purse strings as China eats into America's former lead The Biden administration has carved off a supercomputer’s worth of cash from the Inflation Reduction Act to upgrade the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) national laboratories.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#65JK5)
Just in time for the holidays, a bunch of firing talk to worry Facebook crew More Silicon Valley layoff rumors are swirling and this time it's Meta that might be planning the first broad reduction in the company's history.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#65JGJ)
The UK chip designer is suing another firm that has an interest, so IPO it is? Remember when Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK hynix were floated as potential buyers of UK chip designer Arm? Well, it seems that we can now count them out, which means Arm's owner, SoftBank Group, will likely have to move forward with its planned initial public offering.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#65JBX)
This is no laughing matter, says very stable genius, as Kathy Griffin forced to tweet from dead mom's account Elon Musk, the self-affirmed bastion of free speech, says that anyone setting up a parody Twitter account that isn’t marked as such will be permanently banned from the social network.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#65J6K)
Also, US media hit with JavaScript supply chain attack, while half of govt employees use out-of-date mobile OSes in brief A quartet of malware-laden Android apps from a single developer have been caught with malicious code more than once, yet the infected apps remain on Google Play and have collectively been downloaded more than one million times. …
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by Dan Robinson on (#65J6M)
The two not explicitly linked together but USA still working hard to hurt China semiconductor imports As Washington tries to persuade allies to join its China chip technology export ban, Japan is preparing for a joint research project with the US on the development of next generation advanced semiconductors.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#65J48)
Tech giants and startups rush into the next big thing in security The theft of billions of dollars in cryptocurrency over recent months could have been prevented, and confidential computing is a key to the security fix.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#65J28)
Plus: City of Edinburgh promises to scrap Chinese AI Hikvision cameras, and more In brief OpenAI, Microsoft, and GitHub have been named in a class-action lawsuit claiming its AI-code generating software Copilot violates copyright laws.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#65J12)
Already red-teaming and blue teaming in the international Locked Shields contest every year Japan’s Ministry of Defence (JMOD) announced on Friday that it has formally joined NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE).…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#65HZA)
Even 2022 can't muster this much madness – or can it? Opinion The stupid is strong right now. In politics, economics and climate, crass madness is the order of the day. Commerce has its own flagships of farce, the Ford Edsels and New Cokes of companies being their own worst enemies. That list of legendary loserdom may soon have a new name for the ages, if what Qualcomm claims for Arm's future plans is anywhere near the truth.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#65HXT)
'Every major project' on the table, says government as Autumn Statement looms About half of the UK's planned civil nuclear capacity could be reviewed as the government struggles to fill a £40 billion ($45 billion) black hole in its finances.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#65HWJ)
And it should know – having just failed to catch one Private launch outfit Rocket Lab has again failed to catch one of its Electron launcher's first stages with a helicopter as it floated back to Earth.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#65HVD)
Increase in espionage and cyberattacks since law requiring vulnerabilities first be reported to Beijing Microsoft has asserted that China's offensive cyber capabilities have improved, thanks to a law that has allowed Beijing to create an arsenal of unreported software vulnerabilities.…
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by Matthew JC Powell on (#65HT2)
To quote the great philosopher Han Solo: Don't get cocky who, me? Welcome, dear reader, to another installation of Who, Me? in which we recount for your schadenfreude indulgence tales of Regizens who create havoc – either by their own design or others – but mostly emerge unscathed.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#65HS7)
Suggests tweaks to IP semantics as one way to identify protected tech and traffic The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) wants to devise a digital equivalent of its emblems (the red cross and red crescent), to signify that certain digital resources are protected and must not be targeted during cyberwarfare.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#65HPZ)
Buyers told of longer wait times for shiny new phones that don't do a lot more than last year’s model Apple has warned that a COVID outbreak in Zhengzhou, China, has impacted production of the iPhone 14 and will mean customers wait longer than anticipated to get their hands on the device.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#65HNE)
Australia's Medibank uses a government-approved Band-Aid to cover a gaping 10-milion-record wound Australian health insurer Medibank – which spent October discovering a security incident was worse than it first thought – has announced it will not pay a ransom to attackers that made off with personal info describing nearly ten million customers.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#65HJ7)
PLUS: Tencent's edgy JV; US/China space spat; Facebook's India boss bails to join Snap; and more Asia In Brief Microsoft has informed its channel it will revise corporate licenses and service prices in Japan and South Korea.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#65HD9)
Customers just love taking risks on pricey new tech, right? Analysis If one thing was abundantly clear from Supermicro's Q1 earnings call this month, it's that the server maker really needs Intel, AMD, and Nvidia's next-gen datacenter components to be a hit if it's going to weather the economic downturn.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#65GAB)
To help save x86 titan some cash, we look at the components Intel may want to lose Analysis With a major downturn in revenue and profitability over the past six months, Intel has some tough decisions ahead as it seeks to make billions of dollars in cuts while the beleaguered semiconductor giant tries to enact its grand comeback plan.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#65FX4)
One 8-K filing, two bombshells SolarWinds has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit, and it's also expecting to be slapped with an enforcement action by Uncle Sam – both related to its infamous 2020 supply chain security fiasco, according to the software maker's most recent US regulatory filing.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#65FSH)
Ericsson's VoIP biz used 'a panoply of hurdles' to keep customers on the hook Vonage has agreed to cough up $100 million to customers for making it nearly impossible to cancel their internet phone service, according to a proposed court order.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#65FQ0)
Musk-owned companies have now faced 3 WARN Act lawsuits alleging the same thing The great Twitter cull of '22 is expected to begin today, but a group of tweeps have preempted the event by filing a class action lawsuit against Twitter for violating the WARN Act.…
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by Liam Proven on (#65FMS)
An unexpected move, but we suspect that Carl Sagan might have approved Mozilla has announced the successor to the Mozilla Builders incubator: Mozilla Ventures.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#65FG6)
The official word is 'scheduling conflicts,' but NASA's safety panel has expressed concerns too The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner has been delayed again, this time being pushed back to April 2023 from an earlier planned launch date of February.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#65FDM)
'You'll be hearing from us,' say privacy campaigners who previously forced the government to back down The UK government is set to extract patient-identifiable data from NHS hospital systems and share this with its data platform based on technology from Palantir, a move that seems set to provoke another legal challenge.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#65FAK)
Just hang on while we convince the rest of the world, Commerce Sec tells makers US companies that build chipmaking equipment have been told to tough it out as they face a ban on selling to customers in China, while their rivals elsewhere in the world currently have no such restrictions.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#65FAM)
Alphabet Workers Union says it's an illegal block of workers' right to discuss pay The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) claims the company blocked access to a shared spreadsheet in which it reckons "hundreds" of subcontracted workers had shared their salary details and "up to 50,000" of those staffers are now prevented from looking them up.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#65F8F)
Watchdog claims add-ons to computer purchases appeared to be discounted but did not reflect the standalone RRP Dell's Australian business is in trouble with the country's consumer watchdog for allegedly misleading buyers about the price of displays purchased as an add-on with its computers.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#65F6A)
What forced the change in attitude? The impact on 40,000 broadband connections possibly The Communication Workers Unions (CWU) claims BT Group has agreed to re-enter negotiations to find a solution to the protracted pay dispute that has caused thousands of engineers and call center operators to strike.…
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by Richard Currie on (#65F41)
Don't everyone rush at once NFTs are dead. And stupid. Don't just take our word for it – Bill Gates, widely considered a pretty smart guy, described them as "100 percent based on greater fool theory" and analyst Forrester recently said "most consumers aren't interested in NFT stunts."…
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Freedom isn't free The Ukraine government will continue to be able to run its digital infrastructure through the Microsoft Cloud for free in 2023, the tech giant confirmed today.…
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by Richard Currie on (#65F15)
Magnetic north is on a walkabout, and your OCD will benefit UK map lords at the Ordnance Survey have some big news for people with obsessive compulsive personality disorder or otherwise like everything to be neatly lined up.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#65EZZ)
Extension cords are good for power. Extension tubes? Not so good for air On Call As two precious days of free time loom, The Register offers a two-minute taste of the energy-draining drama that makes weekends so important in another instalment of On-Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of the messes IT people are asked to address.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#65EYE)
But investors aren't impressed by losses and unpleasant outlook Atlassian sees the current round of layoffs and hiring freezes across the tech industry as an opportunity on which it hopes to capitalise – even as its own share price slumps.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#65EX6)
Smooth 'OPERA1ER' hit orgs around the world over four or more years A French-speaking criminal group codenamed OPERA1ER has pulled off more than 30 cyber-heists against telecom organizations and banks across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, stealing upwards of $30 million over four years, according to security researchers.…
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