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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.…

Government wants access to the 60% of offshore wind potential stuck in deep waters The Biden Administration plans to invest heavily in the expansion of offshore wind energy, with a particular focus on floating turbines that can be placed where ocean breezes have more energy-generating potential.…

Totally not confusing Logowatch Pour one out for Pentium and another for Celeron. After more than two decades, Intel has scrapped the brands in favor of a new moniker.…

After 31 years, a second programming language will be allowed in Open Source Summit Both Linus Torvalds' Open Source Summit keynote and Jonathan Corbet's "Kernel Report" discussed efforts to allow Rust modules in Linux.…

Secondary data in weather, macro-economics to help governments and orgs figure out where to focus their aid An international team of researchers have built a set of machine learning models they say can help predict global food shortages in the near future, helping governments and international agencies understand where they can best help.…

'I feel like I'm literally 15 years old and I just got out of Star Wars and jumped on their bike,' says test driver In a galaxy not so far, far away – this one, actually – a Japanese startup demonstrated its $777,000 "hoverbike" at the Detroit Auto Show.…

All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory Google claims a new streaming service will help developers get data into its BigQuery data warehouse from adjacent transactional systems.…

Fact organic matter was found in sedimentary rock, which preserves fossils here on Earth, 'important' NASA says its Perseverance rover has pulled up some exciting samples "deposited under conditions where life could potentially have thrived" after trundling around an ancient area of wetland that formed when a Martian river emptied water and sediment into a lake.…

Can UK Prime Minister Liz Truss do for tech what she did for cheese and pork markets? The British government is preparing a final campaign of flattery to persuade Arm parent Softbank to opt for a dual New York and London Stock Exchange (LSE) listing when the chip designer's shares are floated later this year.…

No, not the dodgy cryptocurrency kind Open Source Summit The Linux Foundation is backing a new trade body, the OpenWallet Foundation, to create an open standard for digital wallets.…

After extensive coverage of .uk missteps, Kieren McCarthy now vows to fix registry from the inside Though it's been 18 months since the CEO and chairman was ejected from Nominet, the entity that runs the .uk top-level domain still requires dramatic reform, says one of the candidates standing for election to the board of directors.…

Even Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane' Column A few years ago developers knew eBPF as a handy way to build firewalls yet now it's used everywhere for everything. Get ready for io_uring to do the same.…

In the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter On Call Welcome once more to the Friday frolic that is On Call, The Register's forum for your tales of heroic rescues achieved against the odds.…

Not aimed specifically at China … just nations that behave a lot like China President Biden has issued an executive order that prohibits certain entities from investing in US organizations if it will give the investor access to certain information technologies and/or US data.…

Expert tells El Reg: 'It was unusual, a geometrical curiosity' Video The fireball spotted charging through the night-time skies of Scotland and Northern Ireland this week, initially thought to have been some fallen SpaceX hardware, was a meteor after all, according to the UK Meteor Network.…

Cough, cough, U, cough, kraine Akamai says it has absorbed the largest-ever publicly known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack – an assault against an unfortunate Eastern European organization that went beyond 700 million packets per second.…

Requires five years of patching, 24 hour incident reporting, and proper security … for starters The European Commission has revealed a Cyber Resilience Act that will require manufacturers of connected devices to secure them properly before shipping, disclose and fix flaws promptly, and guarantee fixes will flow for five years.…

Wants swarms of small satellites that are harder to destroy – and outsourcing to improve cybersecurity The Biden-nominated chief of space operations for the USA's Space Force (USSF) rates China his greatest challenge, as the Middle Kingdom has developed technologies to destroy space assets.…

AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more Uber is tonight reeling from what looks like a substantial cybersecurity breach.…

Texts, contacts, call logs, photos, and more centrally stored for years without a warrant in sight US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) "routinely conducts warrantless searches of Americans' devices" every year, in a number of cases downloading texts, photos, call logs, and more into a central database where it's stored for 15 years and searchable by some 2,700 federal employees.…

Get ready for face scans, expanded surveillance, violated rights, and more, say critics California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed AB 2273, legislation designed to protect children's online privacy by demanding information from everyone.…

Power consumption plummets, too, so there's that The Merge, the moment Ethereum cryptocurrency abandons proof-of-work for proof-of-stake validation, has concluded. So far, all signs point to a success, though not without some footnotes Ethereum investors should note.…