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Pacific Network Corp and China Unicom join the likes of Huawei, Hytera, Hikvision on list of dangerous suppliers The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has added two Chinese companies to its list of communications equipment suppliers rated a threat to national security: Pacific Network Corp, its wholly owned subsidiary ComNet (USA) LLC, and China Unicom (Americas).…

In this economy, who has $800 to spend on a watch? Sales of wearable computers fell 6.9 percent year over year in the second quarter of 2022, according to analyst outfit IDC.…

Oh. Joy. Microsoft has released the Windows 11 2022 Update – and promised that it will both continue issuing annual big bang releases and start to add new features on a monthly cadence.…

The Wrath of Khan America's Federal Trade Commission is investigating Amazon's proposed acquisition of iRobot, the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner maker, and has asked for more information about the deal from the technology pair.…

chmod a+rw at hyperscale A "critical" Oracle Cloud Infrastructure vulnerability could have been exploited by any customer to read and write data belonging to any other OCI customer without any permission checks, according to Wiz security researchers.…

And don't forget AMD's RDNA 3 GPUs are right around the corner Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled his GPU giant's flagship RTX 40-series graphics cards at GTC today.…

Encryption? Data destruction? Bueller? Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has agreed to pay a paltry $35 million penalty after customers' sensitive records were left unencrypted on unwiped hard drives that were auctioned off after decommissioning.…

The other Tessier-Ashpool AIs are surely disappointed Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute says $160 million in digital assets have been stolen from it in a cyber-heist, though it assures customers that everything's fine.…

The House of Zen is back to its tricks: Chips with three-year-old cores AMD has apparently dug deep into its spare parts bin with today's launch of its 7020-series mobile processors, which it says will bring all-day battery life to more entry-level notebooks.…

Tech giants 'throwing their users to the wolves' Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, and others today faced renewed pressure to protect the privacy of messaging app users seeking healthcare treatment.…

NUC NUC. Who's there? It's me again. You folks still want computers, right? Intel has unveiled the latest addition to its NUC line-up, the NUC 12 Enthusiast, the first to include one of the company's Arc GPUs and targeting content creators and gamers.…

Mark Russinovich goes hardcore against old languages Updated Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich has had it with C and C++, time-tested programming languages commonly used for native applications that require high performance.…

No reason given, but inflation and app tracking changes may both factor Customers of Apple's App Store in several countries and the entire Eurozone should expect price increases beginning as early as October 5.…

It's called Hopper because most of the chips announced today skipped it GTC Nvidia's long-awaited Hopper H100 accelerators will begin shipping later next month in OEM-built HGX systems, the silicon giant said at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) event today.…

Sorry, sorry, Omniverse – and think subscription-based digital twins GTC Nvidia is counting on metaverse FOMO to drive enterprises to its Omniverse-as-a-service platform.…

Scratch Patch ... it's Rip Tuesday: Users complain that Microsoft’s KB5017308 breaks desktop shortcuts A recent cumulative update to Windows 10 is causing headaches for IT administrators who are experiencing problems with their Group Policy Object (GPO) capabilities.…

Upstart CPU integration, incremental improvements – just the way cautious corporate customers like it Oracle on Tuesday marked the release of Java 19 (JDK 19), the latest iteration of the popular general purpose programming language.…

Violence flares amid internet blackouts after woman dies in police custody Elon Musk has said his satellite internet business Starlink will ask for an exemption to US sanctions on Iran.…

Advocacy group claims Verizon and co should be stopped as the practice hurts competition, consumers A public interest group has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to look at whether the wireless industry's voluntary phone unlocking commitments are even effective, claiming the practice harms competition.…

Obsolete media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige Floppy disks may have gone the way of the dodo and joined other extinct media such as punched cards and paper tape, but some people are apparently still using them, and one company even continues to sell them.…

Building features into Teams, Outlook without JSON coding possible with new Cards play Microsoft has pledged to make building new features into Teams, Outlook, and other common apps easier with the introduction of low code development for Cards.…

Ren Kai, vice president of Sino IC Capital, is also on the board of SMIC A non-executive director for Shanghai-based chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and "Big Fund" vice president is under investigation in China for alleged corruption.…

Much better use of time than 'hot singles in your area' The SETI Institute has teamed up with telescope-maker Unistellar on a citizen science campaign asking for space fans' help discovering massive hot Jupiter exoplanet candidates identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).…

Microsoft reanimates the wrong corpse Opinion There is a perennial fad for finding deep truths in religion. Really only one concept stands up: without reincarnation, how can one explain the constant reappearance of old ideas as new in IT?…

Plans to drive more open source – and more transparency – into public sector Open Source Summit The body behind the biggest open source project in the world has opened a European division.…

Needs to be autonomous, interoperable, and capable of scaling to 100,000 nodes The Internet Society’s Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG) has called for the development of “a common, interoperable, autonomous and scalable routing framework within the Solar System Internet.”…

Plus: Cruise expanding self-driving robotaxi operations, and more In brief Everyone agrees that text-to-image models are here to stay, though opinions are divided over AI-generated art.…

Asserts Beijing can achieve parity with US capabilities within a decade, thanks to burgeoning private sector China’s space tourism operators will lift off for first time in 2025 at between $280k-$400k per sub-orbital seat, according to the founder of Beijing-backed commercial launch service provider CAS Space, Yang Yiqiang.…

Only in the Mac App Store, as part of FOSS-for-biz strategy software org admits may not quickly deliver results The Document Foundation, the organization that tends the open source productivity suite LibreOffice, has decided to start charging for one version of the software.…

Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said … Your correspondent once met the manager of a contact center dedicated to processing parking and speeding fines. This chap's "customers" were understandably nearly always unhappy, and the folks who answered the phones therefore copped more than their fair share of surliness and abuse.…

For those on tenterhooks over this Moon mission NASA will televise a test on Wednesday to confirm whether a repair made to its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has fixed the hydrogen leak that forced officials to scrub a previous launch attempt.…

From annoying MFA alerts to 'several internal systems' infiltrated Uber, four days after suffering a substantial cybersecurity breach, has admitted its attacker accessed "several internal systems" including the corporation's G Suite account, and downloaded internal Slack messages and a tool used by its finance department to manage "some" invoices.…

Software nasty used to cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, cops say If you've been hit by the LockerGoga ransomware, an international law enforcement effort has publicly released a tool to fix the problem.…

Or was forced into a rethink by legislation Video The iPhone 14 harbors a secret that's a pretty big deal: The internals have been redesigned to make it more repairable, says iFixit. …

So is that three or four stars? Take-Two Interactive confirmed on Monday that its Rockstar Games subsidiary has been compromised and confidential data for Grand Theft Auto 6 has been stolen.…

That is, if the driver and/or car has very quick reflexes and a clear signal Future Ford vehicles could be equipped with technology that lets drivers know if a pedestrian is dangerously close - even if they can't be seen.…

Also, EA goes kernel-deep to stop cheaters, PuTTY gets hijacked by North Korea, and more. In Brief OpenAI's popular natural language model GPT-3 has a problem: It can be tricked into behaving badly by doing little more than telling it to ignore its previous orders.…

Gas giant to come within just 365 million miles. Viewing conditions will be ideal even if you only have binoculars Next Monday, September 26, Jupiter will be the closest to Earth it has been for in 70 years.…

In Cisco's world this makes a $125 Wi-Fi AP 'easier to buy' – maybe easier than its own Meraki kit? Cisco has revealed new hardware it is willing to sell to small businesses outright – no subscription, but still with support and warranty! Such innovation!…

Rules, it turns out, are not meant to be broken. Especially by the person who wrote the rule about how to protect data Who, Me? When designing a procedure for the operation of any system, the first and most important rule should always be: follow the rules. Unfortunately, this particular rule is often forgotten.…

South Korean prosecutor believes he is on the run from charges laid over Luna stablecoin crash Do Kwon, founder of troubled cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs and a wanted man in Korea, took to Twitter over the weekend to deny that he was "on the run" and claim he is fully cooperating with authorities probing the crypto collapses in which he had a hand.…

Just three months ago senior bureaucrat said 'Tax perks are not that important to investors.' Contortions now in place to keep cash flowing The Philippines last week decided to extend incentives offered to foreign outsourcers that offer working from home to local employees.…

PLUS: Qualys CEO says APAC has infosec advantages; Singapore's Sea ebbs in Americas; Toshiba's tepid takeover update; and more Asia In Brief Indonesia's competition regulator, the Komisi Pengawas Persaingan Usaha (KPPU) has alleged that Google has violated local anti-monopoly laws by abusing its dominant position for the distribution of apps and its requirement that developers must use its payment systems.…

Competition is good for everyone. Just keep it friendly, folks Analysis Arm executives this week tried to play down the threat of RISC-V to the silicon architect's business.…

About time someone shined some light onto this Boffins at the University of Michigan in the US and Zhejiang University in China want to highlight how bespectacled video conferencing participants are inadvertently revealing sensitive on-screen information via reflections in their eyeglasses.…

As President Biden rolls out a blueprint for future regulations The US Department of Justice has tapped more than 150 federal prosecutors to form a team keenly focused on cracking down on cryptocurrency-related crimes, it announced on Friday.…

Big Tech forbidden from taking down 'viewpoint-based' posts no matter how awful but lawful The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday said social media platforms are obligated to carry lawful but awful speech, rejecting the entreaties of tech trade groups to block Texas's social media law.…

This is why we don't reuse passwords, kids Parents and teachers received a link to an "inappropriate image" this week via Seesaw after miscreants hijacked accounts in a credential stuffing attack against the popular school messaging app.…

If only the US government had, like, a Dept of Labor or something The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday fired its first warning shot at companies that exploit gig workers.…

We've heard something like this before ... Boss suggests earlier design wasn't that useful to industry Heart Aerospace, which previously planned to have hundreds of 19-seat all-electric planes in the air by 2026, has ditched its previous design in favor of a 30-seat hybrid model with similar capabilities.…