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Hope to combat misinformation with graph of observations that prove what you’re reading is reliable Fujitsu and Japan's Keio University have proposed adding an "endorsement layer" to the internet, to verify information and prevent the flow of fake news and disinformation.…

60 days becomes five months and counting, without any indication government can process or learn from flood of trivial incident reports India's minister of state for electronics and information technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, has hinted strongly that he will again extend the deadline to comply with sweeping new information security reporting rules that were imposed as an essential national defence mechanism.…

Don't get your underwear in a twist Miscreants broke into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' computer systems and stole personal data belonging to "some" members, employees, contractors and friends, the church has confirmed.…

When I saw it, I had to reverse engineer it, Kaspersky's lead security researcher tells us Interview Crimeware targeting banks and other financial-services organizations today features sophisticated capabilities and evasion tools, according to Kaspersky's lead security researcher Sergey Lozhkin.…

Eyestrain, nausea not entirely dealt with, military brass remain committed to AR Microsoft Corp's HoloLens mixed reality goggles need further refinement before they're ready for US soldiers, according to a Defense Department report summary.…

Threatening to destroy them could give them just as much leverage, while averting all out war Comment Let's be clear about something: Even if Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), fell into Chinese hands in the event of an invasion, it wouldn't do them much good.…

Let the battle against latency begin Military contractor Lockheed Martin this week announced plans to integrate Ayar Lab’s optical input tech into future defense platforms.…

Get your own Playstation-on-wheels beginning in 2026, and be prepared to pay subscription fees Sony and Honda have announced plans to jointly produce a "premium" electric vehicle that will be built in the United States, and they want it to be on North American roads beginning in 2026.…

Outsourcing national defence didn't work so well in Ukraine The US Navy is outsourcing its satellite data comms to Inmarsat Government up to $980 million over 10 years, despite the current ructions over who actually owns the orbital bit biz.…

It's all about the Benjamins, says Michael Barr Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr says crypto-assets are "unlikely to grow into money substitutes" because they have proven to be so volatile and posed "novel" risks.…

Impressive distro is somewhere between a tech demo and a power user's tool While many Ubuntu remixes just switch the desktop or replace a few default apps, Zinc changes some of the fundamentals. The result is impressive.…

Immediate ban on new installations in 5G networks, all contravening gear must be gone by end of 2027 The UK government has issued formal legal notices to teleco operators instructing them to remove Huawei technology from the country's 5G networks by the end of 2027, though some interim deadlines appear to have been tweaked after operators claimed they needed more time.…

1.41GW, in fact – enough to power around one million homes There is a wealth of untapped hydroelectric potential in the United States – around 1.41GW of energy flowing through pipes, irrigation channels, and aqueducts.…

Hot on heels of Optus and Dialog breaches, criminals turn sights to insurance sector Medibank, a private health insurer in Australia with 3.7 million customers, has confirmed today it is the latest business down under to fall victim to a digital break-in.…

Not even the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer is immune to chip downturn Taiwanese chip making behemonth TSMC beat revenue guidance for calendar Q3, as expected, but has cut its investment budget by at least 10 percent in the face of the semiconductor market slowdown.…

Now what does that flattened Möbius strip logo remind us of? Logowatch MS Office changed its name to Microsoft 365 years ago, but now appears to be doing a mastercleanse to fully scrub away the brand and embrace the entire suite as "productivity" rather than Office apps.…

Uncle Sam is giving out exemptions like Halloween candy to its allies South Korean DRAM and flash memory chip maker SK hynix has been granted a one-year exemption from US Department of Commerce restrictions that ban exports of advanced chips and equipment to China.…

Ubuntu once again courts controversy, but alternative commands are available Some Ubuntu users are not happy at receiving a promotional message at the command line when upgrading their systems.…

Plus: A fresh Amazon NLRB complaint over 'surveillance' A trade union for Alphabet workers has made two complaints with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Google and its contractors about the treatment of tech workers at the search giant's US datacenters.…

Keen interest in messaging platform follows $2 billion fines in US Authorities in the US and the UK are taking a keen interest in the contents of WhatsApp messages among bank employees and their associates in the financial services industry.…

Security expert challenges claim that bypassing encryption is essential to protecting kids Exclusive Laws in the UK and Europe have been proposed that would give authorities the power to undermine strong end-to-end encryption in the pursuit of, in their minds, justice.…

Go ahead, feel redundant: machines reduce maintenance time by 12 days and go places humans cannot On Wednesday Toshiba launched its commercialized robot inspection services for power plant turbine generators.…

Two down, 3,234 to go for Amazon's Kuiper service as it chases Starlink Private rocketry outfit United Launch Alliance (ULA) will send its Vulcan Centaur craft into orbit for the first time in the first quarter of 2023 (hopefully), carrying two important payloads.…

Buyer Avangard's ordnance has reportedly been used against Ukraine Extreme Networks has admitted to breaching sanctions on Russian businesses by selling some of its products to a company that was sanctioned following Russia's 2014 illegal occupation of Crimea.…

HR diversity claims via software are rot, according to boffins Claims that AI-powered recruitment software can boost diversity of new hires at a workplace were debunked in a study published this week.…

Judge rejects defense effort to toss warrantless device search on privacy grounds A US prisoner has been charged with orchestrating an $11 million scam from his cell using a hidden … cellphone.…

Plus, the Surface Laptop drops AMD, Studio arrives with an even higher price, and more Ignite Microsoft put a coat of polish on its Surface line this week, including its third-generation tablet powered by an Arm-based CPU.…

Back off FAA, I'm a scientist Fears that 5G C-band signals could disrupt aircraft altimeters are misplaced, US government researchers claim in a report, saying that current efforts to filter any potentially dangerous frequencies are likely enough to combat problems. …

It's almost like there's some midterms coming up Election workers in US battleground states have been hit by a surge in phishing and malware-laced emails in the run up to their primaries and the upcoming 2022 midterm elections.…

Heh, prove us wrong, kids. Prove us wrong NASA now hopes to blast an unmanned Orion capsule atop a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the Moon on November 14 after suffering, among other delays, a setback due to Hurricane Ian smashing up Florida. …

Insiders tell of struggle to access patient info, meds without working computers Updated Computer systems are still down at CommonSpirit Health – America's second-largest nonprofit hospital network – more than a week after it was hit by a somewhat mystery cyberattack.…

Gah, for a few milliseconds there, we were willing a cold, faceless corporation to succeed General Motors' newest endeavor is a business unit dedicated to producing energy storage systems – and the automaker left no doubts about who it sees as its top competitor in the space: Tesla. …

Redmond hopes move will lure more to its PostgreSQL managed service Ignite Microsoft is launching a database migration tool to help Oracle users shift to a PostgreSQL managed service on Azure.…

Preview service claims to eliminate risks of migrating mission-critical workloads GCN Google is preparing a mainframe modernization service that intends to simplify and lessen the risk of migrating mainframe workloads to the cloud - a complex process that can be frought with pitfalls.…

Energy granddad wants in on the next generation of atomic tech Uranium fuel producer Cameco Corp and investment firm Brookfield Renewable Partners intend to buy Westinghouse Electric Company in a bid to accelerate a nuclear power resurgence. …

Identity governance and SOCs also on the menu Ignite Microsoft is rolling out its usual host of cloud security features and services at this week's Ignite 2022 conference, with the focus on what's happening in and outside the firewall.…

'The Essence of Repugnant Desire', selling via Boring Company website for $100, will accept Dogecoin Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is threatening to break into the fragrance industry with a scent branded “Burnt Hair – The Essence of Repugnant Desire" and it's already for sale on his Boring Co website.…

We spin up Linux PC vendor's first public version of its in-house OS Tuxedo OS 1 is Ubuntu 22.04, tweaked for the company's own kit, with KDE instead of GNOME, a natively packaged Firefox, and Flatpak instead of Snap.…

It's IDM 2.0 ... 2.0. Or perhaps this was the plan all along... Intel has detailed plans to begin some separation between the semiconductor foundry side of its business and the design teams that create its own products. This is part of CEO Pat Gelsinger's efforts to revitalize the company with his Integrated Device Manufacturing 2.0 (IDM 2.0) strategy.…

Will fly passengers to and from city airports, if it ever takes off The fledgling flying taxi industry has been given another vote of confidence with a $60 million investment from US airline Delta in Joby Aviation.…

Staff couldn't access patient records and paper stocks were running low Hospitals in the UK are recovering from an outage in their vital electronic health records system from Oracle Cerner which left doctors unable to access vital patient information.…

Throwing cash at industry to keep chip well from running dry as US sanctions continue to bite The Chinese city of Shenzhen has proposed a plan to lure semiconductor makers, offering subsidies to the tune of 20 percent of a qualifying applicant's annual investment, up to a maximum of $1.4 million a year.…

Running direct numerical simulation on 'an industrial scale' Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) say they have developed a method to run suites of simulations to better understand turbulence in fluid flows and so deliver more efficient combustion for improved space propulsion systems.…

Global tech recruiter Robert Walters says pay scale too high to feel tight grip of inflation, etc Unlike other professions, retired techies may not be beating down the door to return to the workplace to cope with the unrelenting rise in the cost of living, according to a global recruitment agency.…

Check your rooftops: Flying gear caught carrying network-intrusion kit Modified off-the-shelf drones have been found carrying wireless network-intrusion kit in a very unlikely place.…

Who exactly asked for this? Can you explain how it works? Or why? Poll Microsoft and Meta have teamed up in the metaverse, to bring the software giant's OS and productivity tools into The Social Network's Meta Quest virtual reality hardware.…

Will work from Earth orbit, as opposed to the Sun-grazing paths of US and EU solar probes China has placed a solar observation satellite in orbit, to conduct a four-year mission staring at Sol to understand its secrets.…

Opponents want data to flow across borders for business and democracy. Privacy? They've heard of it India's IT minister has hinted that a revised data protection law will drop a requirement for sovereign data storage – satisfying big tech companies, which have railed against onshore storage.…

Stand down Bruce Willis, 'first planetary defense test' a success NASA's DART spacecraft successfully smashed into asteroid Dimorphos with enough impact to alter the rock's orbit, scientists confirmed on Tuesday.…

Because 100G was so 2011 The fiber network connecting the US Department of Energy's (DoE) national laboratories received its first major upgrade in more than a decade this week, boosting its bandwidth capacity to a total of 46Tbit/sec.…