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Privacy, it's a useful marketing term. *Offer does not apply in China Apple has left a VPN bypass vulnerability in iOS unfixed for at least two years, leaving identifying IP traffic data exposed, and there's no sign of a fix.…

A350 saved from peril by sharp-eyed ground crew Australian wasps have once again brought a passenger aircraft to the brink of peril.…

'We're placing a high priority on it' NASA is pushing ahead to recruit a panel of experts and publish a much-awaited report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), all with a budget of up to $100,000.…

Tech preview is Azure-only for now, adding to previous AWS Arm adventures Red Hat has delivered a tech preview of its OpenShift containerization platform that can drive clusters spanning both x86 and Arm silicon.…

Mandate goes into effect October 1, but industry players will have a year to comply Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications updated cybersecurity laws this week to mandate Big Tech and telecoms companies store user data locally, and control that data with local entities.…

Don’t Panic if you run terabytes of RAM and need to understand a dumped snapshot Oracle's Solaris operating system remains widely used, even though Big Red more or less froze development of the product in 2018 save for regular Support Repository Updates (SRUs) that add minor updates and bug fixes.…

There's always a get-out clause An attempt by lawmakers to improve parts of the US government's cybersecurity defenses has raised questions – and hackles – among infosec professionals.…

Sure, it's pricey, but not using it would be more expensive, says drug maker A one-time gene therapy treatment recently approved by America's FDA is gaining attention not just for its clinical value, but for its price: at $2.8 million, Bluebird Bio's Zynteglo is the most expensive drug in US history.…

Staff remind CEO 'don't be evil' and treat workers equally Hundreds of Googlers this week demanded CEO Sundar Piachi do a better job protecting people seeking abortions by refusing to hand over to law enforcement any customer data that could be used to build a criminal case, and extending the health benefits full-time employees enjoy to contract workers.…

Aiming to make Helium the standard for decentralized networks DIY 5G network outfit FreedomFi has been bought by Nova Labs, the founding team behind the Helium Network.…

Utility companies are offering $2 per kWh for power stored in battery tech More Tesla Powerwall owners in California are getting the option to help fight blackouts – and get paid for it – as thecompany expands its virtual power plant (VPP) program to new areas of the Golden State. …

Best before September 15, 2023 Microsoft has demonstrated that it really does care about Windows on Arm with a new Dev Channel build for Windows that brings native Arm64 support to its camera app as a low-impact start.…

Beijing says legislation designed to interfere with its own efforts to build homegrown semiconductor industry China has reacted negatively to the passing of the US CHIPS Act, saying that the program is anti-competitive and aims to block the Middle Kingdom's efforts to build up its own semiconductor industry.…

46 million requests per second network flood comes as attacks increase by more than 200% compared to last year Google says it has blocked the largest ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June, which peaked at 46 million requests per second.…

Yep, that’s the same company a short-seller is alleging is a ‘useless toy’ Quantum computing startup IonQ now has a second system available on Microsoft's Azure Quantum cloud platform, claiming it will open quantum systems to a wider audience.…

It's taken Mountain View a year to refine the service for the Continent It has taken just over a year, but Google has finally made its Google Workspace Individual product available to European customers.…

As mission-critical nature of software supports prices, users also find reason to invest Despite inflation hitting a 40-year high and expected recessions, growth in enterprise software spending is expected to plow on at a steady 12 percent, according to figures from Forrester.…

For all the billions poured in, is a 'Made in America' sticker worth it? Analysis With all the fanfare and foundry expansions around the signing of the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the semiconductor shortage will soon be over, and the US will emerge as a silicon powerhouse rivaling that of Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung and SK Hynix.…

'Even on a small coin battery, it could run for more than 10 years' claims researcher A newly published research paper describes a compute-in-memory (CIM) chip that combines artificial neurons with resistive RAM (RRAM) so that the AI model weights can be stored and processed on the same chip.…

Financial Services Commission also creates a digital assets task force South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU) said on Thursday it has identified 16 foreign crypto businesses it will investigate for operating unregistered.…

First stage hot fire and launch from UK soil in 2023 Brit rocketeers Skyrora have perched a second stage of its orbital class Skyrora XL atop a stack of containers and performed a successful static fire test of the engine.…

And it IS a crowd – marketplace is busy, so it's hoping open approach sets it apart Former Hadoop stalwart Cloudera has announced a fully managed software as a service (SaaS) version of its data platform which it claims is more open than rivals in the over-crowded market.…

Is this it? The robo-butler dream is coming true? Video Google's largest AI language model is helping robots be more flexible in understanding and interpreting human commands, according to the web giant's latest research.…

Which flavors are the lightest and the heaviest disk and memory-wise? The Reg FOSS desk has lined up the official Ubuntu remixes to see which ones hog the most or least of your computer's resources.…

Food and fuels, too? Totally not sounding like a Star Trek replicator Last year, NASA produced oxygen on Mars. Now, scientists experimenting here on Earth may have found a much more efficient method of doing so for future missions. The resulting equipment could be used to produce the necessary materials for human colonization, too.…

Hardware still required – plus tolerance for visiting the office and remote collaboration Microsoft has advised its partner community that it will soon drop the price it charges for Teams Rooms, and add a version of the product aimed at small business.…

Clop gang thought it hit Thames Water – but real victim was elsewhere A water company in the drought-hit UK was recently compromised by a ransomware gang, though initially it was unclear exactly which water company was the victim.…

Nastymail tracking service blames sloppy sending practices for swelling lists of dangerous mailers Spam-tracking service Spamhaus reported Tuesday that some of the world's biggest brands are getting loose with their email practices, causing its spam blocklists (SBL) to swell significantly.…

Another reason not to play 1989's Rhythm Nation – it messes with some hard disk drives The music video for Janet Jackson's 1989 pop hit Rhythm Nation has been recognized as a cybersecurity vulnerability after Microsoft reported it can crash old laptop computers.…

Network boffins can't say why, suggest not using the worst providers China's DNS resolvers fail two thirds of the time when handling queries for IPv6 addresses, and botch one in eight queries for IPv4, according to a group of Chinese academics.…

As if the VR giants will let that stand – worth a try, though Imagine for a moment that you wanted to spend time in what Meta solipsistically calls the metaverse, a keiretsu of interactive cartoon panoramas powered by commercial surveillance and payment persuasion.…

Chrome flaw has public exploit, WebKit hole actively abused along with kernel escalation Google has issued 11 security fixes for desktop Chrome, including one bug that has an exploit for it out in the wild.…

Looking to book a large house on a weekend? You'll have to jump through a few hoops Pleased with the "success" of a pilot program in Australia, Airbnb is bringing its "anti-party technology" to the US and Canada. …

Top tip: Your RSA private key should not be copied from a public code tutorial A developer says he was able to run his own software on his car infotainment hardware after discovering the vehicle's manufacturer had secured its system using keys that were not only publicly known but had been lifted from programming examples.…

.NET-based malware can push wide range of malicious payloads, and evades detection, Secureworks says A highly pervasive .NET-based crypter that has flown under the radar since about 2015 and can deliver a wide range of malicious payloads continues to evolve rapidly, with almost 10,000 code samples being uploaded to VirusTotal over a 16-month period.…

As promised, Peter Beck is sending a Photon next year. Because he can Rocket Lab's Peter Beck is sending a Photon spacecraft carrying a small probe to Venus, marking the culmination of a childhood ambition for the CEO.…

Linux distro announces the availability of Microsoft tooling on Jammy Jellyfish Ubuntu and Microsoft have brought .NET 6 to the Ubuntu repositories, meaning that you can install it without adding any extra sources to the OS.…

Misinformation's a concern, but Chinese media giant's own data privacy practices also have people worried TikTok has joined Twitter in publishing new US midterm misinformation rules, with considerable crossover in scope and style.…

Boeing 747-based platform now back in California with almost a month to go before science operations end The doomed SOFIA observatory has made an earlier-than-planned return from New Zealand as the Boeing 747-based platform prepares to enter its final month of operations.…

While enterprises are spending more on infrastructure than ever before, what goes up must come down The datacenter industry may be starting to feel the effects of the economic slowdown, leading to further impacts on IT vendors and other suppliers, according to reports, while operators in the UK in particular are feeling the pain from rising energy costs.…

@CEO, that macro looks sus, amirite? Microsoft's Excel is to continue its march to be the coolest software kid on the block as @ mentions move closer to general availability for the desktop version.…

Billions in funding at stake as PM hopeful Liz Truss says bloc 'in breach of agreement' The UK government has launched formal consultations with the EU over the failure to secure its inclusion in the EU's €95.5 billion ($97.6 billion) research funding program since the island nation left the world's richest trading bloc.…

Lucy probe is five years away from getting a closeup of Polymele's satellite NASA scientists working on the Lucy mission, humanity's first exploration of the "Trojan" asteroids that orbit Jupiter's Lagrange points, have found a moon around one of the asteroids the probe will visit.…

Desktop environment celebrates milestone birthday with a beta The two original developers behind the GNOME project started work 25 years ago, and the 43rd version of their brainchild is nearly here.…

Saaaaandia, where the wind comes sweeping 'cross the sea … A novel offshore wind turbine design has been waiting for the right modeling software to come along to help make it a reality, and scientists reckon they've finally built it.…

Scary in post-Roe America, and Poland, and far too many other places It's official: your period and/or pregnancy tracker will probably share your data with law enforcement. And they might even do it on purpose.…

Precedent essentially meant that search results could be considered defamatory, which is dumb Australia's High Court has overturned the 2020 decision that search results pointing to news stories make Google a publisher.…

Two trusts saw nearly $18 million go up in smoke when Sensyne Health was delisted from AIM Two NHS hospitals in the UK have lost nearly £15 million ($18 million) between them due to the collapse in value of an AI startup.…

Does it hope to run Doom on the Moon or something? NASA has awarded a $50 million contract to Microchip Technology, the microcontroller giant, to develop next-generation processors that will enable space computers to be 100 times faster than they currently are.…

Testimonials from Russian generals not welcomed by DJI or Unitree Robotics Russia's military has praised civilian grade Chinese-made drones and robots for having performed well on the battlefield, leading their manufacturers to point out the equipment is not intended or sold for military purposes.…