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Orca Security disclosed the bug, and older versions remain vulnerable A proof-of-concept exploit has been published detailing a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. The flaw allows attackers to gain full administrator permissions and then perform any manner of malicious activity.…

If you need even more speed, Nvidia and Broadcom have silicon twice as fast Cisco this week unveiled one of its highest performance and lowest form factor switches yet – a diminutive 1RU pizza box packed with 32 800Gbit/sec ports – at the Open Compute Platform Summit in San Jose.…

AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one Special report GitHub Copilot – a programming auto-suggestion tool trained from public source code on the internet – has been caught generating what appears to be copyrighted code, prompting an attorney to look into a possible copyright infringement claim.…

"Serverless" microVMs further blur the line between containers and virtual machines The FreeBSD developer who brought FreeBSD to Amazon EC² has now got it working on the company's lightweight Firecracker hypervisor.…

Inflation and energy prices force consumers to prioritize household bills over shiny electronic devices The bad news juggernaut just keeps on rolling for devices maker, with global smartphone shipments for calendar Q3 falling to their lowest quarterly rate in eight years.…

Boss says it was 'stealing' – but what do you think? Poll A boss lit a small fire under LinkedIn when he posted that his company had sacked two recently hired engineers for continuing to work a full-time job at another company.…

Involvement with lobby group that welcomed Putin's pals presses buttons Germany's government has stood down the president of its Federal Office for Information Security, Arne Schönbohm, over his links to Russia.…

Almost, but not quite, that moment of Big Tech accountability you've been waiting for One of the CEOs of South Korean super-app Kakao has resigned in the wake of the datacenter fire that disrupted it and other web giants.…

COVID-19 pandemic made a bit of a dent, too A reduction of sulfur in shipping fuel reduced air pollution levels at sea to the lowest levels this century in 2020, according to an AI model built by NASA. The COVID-19 pandemic also helped here, too, natch.…

Or maybe we've just lost our appetite. Either way, lead times are very slowly on the mend It's not your imagination – it really is getting easier to find critical semiconductors.…

Can't say when they’ll roll out for sale or why you want kit with more moving parts Lenovo has staged its annual Tech World gabfest and teased devices with rollable OLED screens that shrink or expand as applications demand.…

As president of the G20, it will have the platform to make it happen India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has indicated the nation will uses its looming presidency of the G20 group of nations to push for multilateral regulation of cryptocurrency.…

Fix-it guides among changes mulled by FTC for home appliances and potentially other stuff In yet another sign the right-to-repair movement is gaining ground in the United States, manufacturers could be forced to provide fix-it guides and maintenance instructions with certain products.…

You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and steal identities? In what can only be described as inevitable, the FBI is warning those eligible for student loan debt relief to keep an eye out for scammers trying to take advantage of President's Biden program.…

Tributes paid to Air Force veteran who helped make first US spacewalk possible Jim McDivitt, a US Air Force pilot and NASA veteran, best-known for flying in the pioneering Gemini and Apollo human spaceflight programs that led to the first manned Moon landing, has died at 93.…

There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views YouTube's recommendation algorithm not only gently traps viewers in mild echo chambers, it is more likely to suggest conservative-leaning videos regardless of your political alignment.…

Goodbye Lightning, hello USB-C and the usual two-year-old processor Apple today announced an updated iPad Pro and a redesigned entry-level iPad.…

SafeBreach supposedly spots somewhat stealthy subversive software SafeBreach Labs says it has detected a novel fully undetectable (FUD) PowerShell backdoor, which calls into question the accuracy of threat naming.…

Have you thought about your supply chains, partnerships, and how far they reach? Tensions between the US, China, and Taiwan have far-reaching impacts beyond semiconductor saber-rattling and trade restrictions. There is an enterprise security angle that CISOs should be on guard to tackle, according to US intelligence.…

Far cry from the $50 billion valuation Gelsinger hoped would fuel foundry empire Intel expects the initial public offering of its Mobileye business unit to muster a valuation of $16 billion, a fraction of the nearly $50 billion figure the autonomous driving division was expected to fetch earlier this year.…

Facebook to dump GIF super-gallery after just enough pestering from UK Meta has thrown in the towel in its protracted legal battle with the UK’s antitrust watchdog over the US giant's $400 million purchase of Giphy. After another ruling against it, the Facebook parent said it will sell Giphy as ordered.…

LiDAR companies lead the pack, with valuations plummeting up to 99% since IPO It's not a great time for self-driving tech startups. The ones that managed an IPO in the past two years have lost a combined 81 percent of their market value, dropping from a total of nearly $51 billion offering time to a mere $9 billion this month.…

More capable kit ready for more demanding machine learning tasks At the 2022 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit on Tuesday, Meta introduced its second-generation GPU-powered datacenter hardware for machine learning and inference – a system called Grand Teton.…

An open source rival to Ableton Ardour, a free multi-platform digital audio workstation (DAW), has released version 7.…

Sorry Adobe but we can let users type or even hand-write directly Mozilla has released the latest version of the leading FOSS browser for Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD and mobile OSes.…

It's plane to see it wants more info on fluid dynamics of flying engines Quantum startup Classiq is working with aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce on developing quantum algorithms to speed computational fluid dynamics for simulations in its engineering work.…

Even our nearest satellite can't stand our gravity An analysis of Australian sedimentary rock has helped to show the Moon was about 60,000km closer to the Earth 2.46 billion years ago than it is now.…

Around 1,000 souls reportedly tossed onto employment bonfire Microsoft is quietly making another round of job cuts to clip costs as even the biggest technology companies react to the financial storm clouds gathering over the global economy.…

Bit barns say they need diesel fuel supplies for backup generators The UK government is reported to have held discussions with datacenter operators about keeping their infrastructure operating during possible power shortages this winter, amid growing concerns there could be blackouts if gas supplies run low.…

The lesser of two REvils? There’s a relationship there, but not enough to say one evolved into the other It has been almost a year since the emerging ransomware gang Ransom Cartel was first detected and the group over that time has racked up a steady drumbeat of victims in such countries as the United States and France and from a broad array of industry sectors.…

Now selling vehicles others can brand, plus software any auto-maker can access Hon Hai Technology Group, the electronics manufacturer to the stars better known as Foxconn, has debuted two new electric vehicle models and production models of a prototype due to roll on Taiwanese roads in 2023.…

E-Walker is a 'seven degrees-of-freedom fully dexterous end-over-end walking robot' Although large in-space construction projects are the stuff of science fiction, they will have to become science fact as missions grow ever more ambitious. Researchers at the University of Lincoln have decided to get a head start.…

Also recommends age verification as Meta tells The Reg it's working on parental controls UK coroner Andrew Walker has sent a report to Meta, Pinterest, Twitter, Snapchat, and the government itself recommending that adults and children each have their own parts of the platform to prevent harm to youngsters.…

Then again, imagine being invaded by Russia Organizations hit earlier by the HermeticWiper malware have reportedly been menaced by ransomware unleashed this month against transportation and logistics industries in Ukraine and Poland.…

NTT Communications and Toyota’s parts maker Denso plan a ‘Security Operation Centre for Vehicles’ Japanese industrial giants NTT Communications Corporation and Denso Corporation have decided to start a business “to respond to the threat of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks against vehicles.”…

Hotwiring is so 2021 Europol this week said it has arrested 31 people in a crackdown on a car-theft ring that developed and used a technique to steal keyless vehicles.…

Wang and Li appointed following death of Ryan Ding Beleaguered Chinese tech giant Huawei has named two execs to run its enterprise and carrier businesses following the death of Ryan Ding Yun, who had managed both units.…

Citrix can do this too. Hyperconverged infrastructure's salad days serving virtual PCs might be ending Amazon Web Services is moving to bring desktop virtualization (VDI) into the age of desktop-as-a-service.…

What? Sanctions-busting sellers aren't interested in your complaints? That's a shame The failure rate of semiconductors shipped from China to Russia has increased by 1,900 percent in recent months, according to Russian national business daily Коммерсантъ (Kommersant).…

Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now America's Sandia National Labs this week said it will investigate using Cerebras' wafer-sized accelerator chips to determine that the nation's nuclear weapons will work as intended, should global annihilation ever be desired.…

Wild story of a multinational law firm, cyber-mercenaries, a sheikh, and more A former Wall Street Journal reporter has sued a multinational law firm, some of its attorneys, and others for allegedly stealing his emails and spreading the messages to wrongly discredit him, leading to his firing.…

Spacecraft coming through, outta the way, watch your step, we're heading to Jupiter NASA's Lucy spacecraft has successfully performed its first gravity-assist flyby of Earth, dodging tens of thousands of satellites and bits of debris.…

Chip giant flutters eyelashes at Europe in hope of early acqusition Broadcom hopes to convince European antitrust regulators to greenlight its $61 billion takeover of VMware early – by claiming it will boost competition with public cloud giants Microsoft, Amazon, and Google.…

Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided not to rebuild Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, shut down in August 2020 due to damage accrued three years earlier.…

Used to tweeting? Get ready for Yeeting After public spats with Twitter and Instagram, Rapper Ye – formerly known as Kanye West – is buying social network Parler, an alternative micro-blogging site often associated with far-right extremists, conspiracy theorists, and others booted from mainstream platforms.…

The funding will continue, until the atoms fuse The US Department of Energy is handing out more fusion power funding, this time doling out $47 million to 38 projects that are exploring the feasibility of tokamak reactors. …

75 collars felt, $1.2m seized in bid to cut off crime network’s financial lifeline Interpol arrested 75 suspected members of the Black Axe West African crime syndicate, and intercepted over $1 million in various bank accounts as part of a wide-ranging multi-country operation aimed at thwarting the group's cyber-fraud efforts that fund its criminal operations.…

The company already sells penguin-infested laptops and desktops, but an x86 Linux fondleslab is new Linux kit shifter, Juno, has a new gadget available for pre-order: a $425 x86-64 tablet with a choice of Linux distros on it. In the UK, that's £449 including VAT.…

Search giant's 'Shopping Units need to go,' say coalition of 43 online comparison tools A group of European comparison shopping service (CSS) companies say Google hasn't been true to the terms of a 2017 settlement requiring it to be more fair to competitors. The coalition now wants EU antitrust regulators to force Google's hand.…

Complaint filed by Daedalus Prime – wasn't he a Transformer? Samsung and TSMC are facing an investigation by the US International Trade Commission (USITC) over allegations of patent infringement involving chips and mobile devices containing those chips.…