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Russian cybercriminals were also caught targeting Europe with anti-Ukraine messages Meta says it has disrupted a misinformation network targeting US political discourse ahead of the 2022 midterm elections – and one that sought to influence public opinion in Europe about the conflict in Ukraine.…

Performance-killing workaround rediscovered after 20 years An ancient fix for power management issues on AMD systems has been reducing Linux's performance since 2002. Now it's gone.…

Security tool warns admins and users when a password is used on an untrusted site or stored locally In the latest version of Windows 11, Microsoft is introducing a feature in its Microsoft Defender SmartScreen tool designed to keep passwords safer.…

My friends say I should act my wage. What's my wage again? Young professionals are railing against drops in living standards and stagnant wages by becoming "quiet quitters" unless a pay rise or promotion is possible.…

The Beast of the Middle East: up to 20 times faster than predecessor, that's 884,736 CPU cores across the system HPE has won a project to build a supercomputer in Saudi Arabia that is expected to be the most powerful in the Middle East, used for advancing research in fields such as food, water, energy and the environment.…

Adds new heads to boardroom too but still not word on destination of flotation Chip designer Arm has made a flurry of boardroom appointments ahead of its IPO later this year, including hiring a new Chief Financial Officer with experience taking companies public.…

But you'll need to buy lots of new hardware to get the benefit Analysis As it rolled out the laundry list of new features in Windows 11, version 22H2 this week, Microsoft also unveiled the configuration baseline that systems will have to meet to take advantage of the latest security capabilities.…

Understands income streams, seasonality of sales, how hard drivers work, and safety records Southeast Asia's Uber-clone turned superapp, Grab, collects so much data about its customers and drivers that it can rate their suitability for a loan – and is already a significant lender to its drivers.…

Too many small fish in the pond mean the bigger ones are about to enjoy a feeding frenzy Resesarch on UK gigabit broadband investment toasts alternative network providers' efforts to build infrastructure, but warns that the number of them has now become unsustainable and a period of consolidation looms.…

Headcount in subcontinent quadruples in 3 years thanks to CFO's 'measured approach' to recruitment Salesforce is set to hire 2,500 staff in India – bringing the number in the subcontinent to 10,000 – weeks after it slowed hiring in the US.…

The other open-source productivity suite gets a version bump The latest point-release of Onlyoffice, a free Microsoft Office-compatible suite, is here with multiple small improvements and better support for Asian and African writing systems.…

Report finds increase in anonymous vuln reports The number of vulnerability reports provided by Chinese information security researchers has fallen sharply, according to research by think tank The Atlantic Council, which also found a strangely commensurate increase in bug reports from unknown sources.…

Argue tough economy means everyone needs to pay for the internet's growth – especially those who use it most The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) has again called for big technology companies – and especially video streamers – to pay for their share of internet infrastructure.…

Including assistance for the kind of companies the US is keen to contain Microsoft has celebrated the 30th anniversary of its operations in China with promises to hire more locals and encourage exports.…

Task failed successfully Video A spacecraft smashed head-on into a 170-metre-wide asteroid named Dimorphos on Monday in a first-of-its-kind experiment demonstrating how we could one day potentially divert a hazardous object on a collision course with Earth.…

'Cruise AV automated driving system is still under development' is putting it politely after vehicles block roads Analysis Two San Francisco transit agencies have asked the US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to check the safety of General Motors' Cruise self-driving cars.…

Will those be before or after the nuke strikes Putin keeps banging on about? Russia plans to conduct "massive cyberattacks" on Ukraine and its allies' critical infrastructure and energy sector, according to Kyiv.…

Yeah, and about how it got that data on 20 million people for that research... A study of 20 million LinkedIn users over five years has raised a few eyebrows as it involved quietly analyzing people's connection suggestions to see how that would reflect in their career paths.…

We're pulling in billions, let me check down the back of the sofa TikTok faces a £27 million fine ($29 million ... for the moment, at least) following a British government investigation that found the Chinese media giant may have breached UK data protection laws and failed to protect children's privacy.…

He always wanted to fight in the military – are his draft papers on the way? Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor and self-described whistleblower, has been granted Russian citizenship.…

Government may foot up to 40% of the bill for a fab that runs on time As Intel looks to expand its rebooted foundry empire, the x86 giant's next chip plant may be an advanced packaging facility in the northern Italy.…

It'll reduce emissions a bunch, but stress the grid even more First it came for internal combustion engines, and now the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is proposing a phase out of natural gas water heaters and furnaces – another first among US states.…

Founder of firm at center of fraud claims he's 'not running' right now. Ditched the Fitbit, have you? Korean prosecutors say they have obtained an international wanted persons notice from Interpol to help them find Terraform Labs crypto exec Kwon Do-hyung, aka Do Kwon.…

From small town in North Dakota with a crime problem to file-scrambling nasty Organizations are being warned about a wave of attacks targeting Microsoft SQL Server with ransomware known as Fargo, which encrypts files and threatens victims that their data may be published online if they do not pay up.…

BAE Systems, Malloy Aeronautics team on UK's Brimstone II precision missile work A UK-designed missile being used extensively by Ukrainian forces is getting a new delivery method: A giant quadcopter drone able to carry 300kg (661 lbs) while maintaining a range of 30km (18 miles). …

Not all investors happy that suits get more time to earn significant stock-option awards Not all execs are created equal and those of the Oracle variety remain among the highest paid due to an extension to performance-based stock options that gives them more time to achieve corporate goals.…

Nice sentiment considering power-hungry components, but it's not a lot of cash in DC terms The US Department of Energy is stumping up $42 million in funding for projects to reduce the amount of energy used for cooling in datacenters as part of the government's overarching goal of reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.…

Agency watching forecast before making decision to rollback the SLS, but not doing so would be risky Updated Rocket fans will have to stow the popcorn once again because NASA's rescheduled launch of Artemis I this week has been stood down.…

With censorship looming, US wants to bring internet, communications companies into fray The US Treasury announced last Friday it was issuing a General License that provides some exemptions to Iran sanctions for internet and communication services in an effort to damper censorship.…

Mozilla may seem like it has forgotten, but this is the most customizable browser going There are tons of choices in web browsers, and we're not going to try to persuade you that any particular one is the best. However, Chrome's ever-climbing market share suggests that a lot of people don't know how to get the best out of their browser, because there are still quite a few things you can't readily achieve in Chrome that are straightforward in Firefox and its relatives.…

While one vendor says they help prepare for audit, expert warns they don't defend compliance Oracle has begun to verify software tools from third-party vendors designed to monitor the licensing of Java products in enterprise environments, prompting a warning from one expert.…

Language wars, huh, what are they good for? Opinion Rust is eating into our systems. The first Rusted drivers are being welded into Linux, while Microsoft's Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said C/C++ – until now, the systems languages of choice – should be dropped in favor of Rust henceforth. …

Fake BSOD became tool of revenge when a staffer ignored the sensible rules of seniority Who, Me? Welcome to the working week and therefore to a new instalment of “Who, Me?”, The Register's confessional in which readers reveal and defend their darkest deeds.…

Plus: ML career help, OpenAI releases free speech-recognition model, and more news In brief AI probably won't replace software engineers, but will dramatically change the way they work in the future especially if they can instruct machines using natural language to generate code.…

Culture wars may have come to gentle tales of tweens enjoying friends, fun, and programming Books aimed at encouraging tween girls to code appear to have been removed from classrooms in Pennsylvania's Central York School District.…

Ukrainian outfit Respeecher's GAN-based neural audio enhancer embraces The Dark Side James Earl Jones, the actor who has voiced iconic Star Wars villain Darth Vader since 1977, has reportedly permitted his past utterances to be fed into an AI that will ensure his distinct tones become replicable once he becomes one with the Force.…

It's mostly a channel program with a fancy name, plus more outposts Alibaba Cloud last week staged its annual gabfest and revealed some tasty new cloud services, as well as a billion dollar "ecosystem upgrade" aimed at finding more customers outside China.…

Hails unusually smooth development process despite travel complications Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has offered the community an optimistic prediction that version 6.0 of the project will debut next week.…

PLUS: Warnings on Chinese payment schemes; AWS brushes up its Cantonese; Hong Kong ponders digital dollar; and more! Asia In Brief India's government last week released a draft telco law that defines all over-the-top services as telecoms providers and therefore makes them subject to the same regulations imposed on carriers.…

'One of the most dangerous and active malware developers operating at the moment' Crooks spreading the Noberus ransomware are adding weapons to their malware to steal data and credentials from compromised networks.…

What a mine field Analysis Gamers may not have to fight off cryptocurrency miners or pay scalped prices to get their hands on a GPU now, especially if they're willing to pick up an Nvidia 30-series or AMD 6000-series card…

We chat to the scientists involved in first-of-its-kind mission Feature On Monday, September 26 at 2314 UTC, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in America, and those monitoring ground-based telescopes across our planet, will be celebrating something usually associated with failure in space missions.…

Has someone been Poettering about? Linux distros running on Windows in a WSL2 virtual machine now can use the systemd init system.…

If you've got no OS of your own, you've got little chance to compete, Firefox maker sighs Firefox maker Mozilla is taking aim at Microsoft, Google, and Apple for using their operating systems to steer users to their browsers and stacking the deck against rivals who lack the same OS advantages. Like, for instance, Mozilla.…

Nothing screams Land of the Free like the government ordering you to host awful but lawful content The State of Florida has asked the US Supreme Court to affirm that its social media law SB 7072, which bars online platforms from removing speech they don't want, meets constitutional free speech guarantees.…

Cor, that's a shot in the arm for this upstart CPU ISA RISC-V chip biz SiFive says its processors are being used to manage AI workloads to some degree in Google datacenters.…

A day in the G is like a day on the farm. Every meal a banquet. Every code checkout a parade. I love the G Updated Challenged by questions about Google's cost-cutting at an internal meeting, Alphabet billionaire CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly reassured employees about the internet giant's financial belt tightening by insisting that workplace fun doesn't have to be about money.…

'At least ten' people didn't declare coin income. Wow, what a bust The IRS has been granted a court order to collect records from a bank the agency said will help it identify US taxpayers who failed to report taxable income from crypto trades. …

Even those with older devices will have to sign in if they want to activate new features As part of its takeover of Fitbit, Google will begin requiring customers to use Google accounts to manage their fitness-tracking devices, reigniting privacy concerns over the acquisition in 2019.…

Subscribers have questions – like 'When were you going to tell us?' Updated Australian telecommunications company Optus has fallen victim to a significant cyberattack and data breach.…