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Thanks, we'll take any good news, large or small, right now Vid The aviation industry's attempts to go green are getting a boost from an unlikely place: carbon-neutral jet fuel pulled from thin air.…

Tech giants and digital rights groups didn't like it, but at least it was a law The government of India has scrapped the Personal Data Protection Bill it's worked on for three years, and announced it will – eventually – unveil a superior bill.…

Simple to exploit, enough to pocket $3,000 A Danish ethical hacker was able to work his way uninvited into a closed Cloudflare beta and found a vulnerability that could have been exploited by a cybercriminal to hijack and steal someone else's email.…

Plan to educate the children turned out to be a 'won't someone think of the children?' moment The UK's Parliament has ended its presence on TikTok after MPs pointed out the made-in-China social media service probably sends data about its users back to Beijing.…

Accenture roped in to find the weakest link One of the world's most prominent and mission–critical uses of the blockchain - The Australian Securities Exchange's (ASX) project to replace its CHESS core trading systems with a distributed ledger – has struck further trouble.…

SOL holders literally S.O.L. Millions of dollars worth of Solana cryptocurrency and other tokens were stolen from seemingly thousands of netizens this week by thieves exploiting some kind of security weakness or blunder.…

Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year Exclusive GitLab plans to automatically delete projects if they've been inactive for a year and are owned by users of its free tier.…

Or just see it as preparing them for the future What with American students increasingly subject to surveillance software, 15 advocacy groups want the US Department of Education to set monitoring policies that are consistent with civil rights laws.…

Beats screwing around actually crafting these unloved tokens A Bitcoin mining outfit said it made $9.5 million in credits selling electricity back to the power grid of Texas at a premium when energy demand rose to record levels during a heatwave last month.…

Tachyum blames deep conflicts of interest as source of Prodigy delays Exclusive Server chip startup Tachyum has been plagued by delays producing its Prodigy Universal Processor, which meshes CPU, GPU and AI-geared matrix units in a single architecture.…

Organizations can be more proactive in tracking threats, finding holes in their protection Microsoft says it will give enterprise security operation centers (SOCs) broader access to the massive amount of threat intelligence it collects every day.…

That's just the tip of the iceberg – and now he faces potentially years in the clink A now-former T-Mobile US store stole at least 50 employees' work credentials to run a phone unlocking and unblocking service that prosecutors said netted $25 million.…

Time to take another gander at that pitch deck Venture capital is the latest to feel the pinch from the economic downturn, with venerable Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator's Summer 2022 cohort consisting of less than 250 companies, down from over 400 last Winter's list - a drop of 40 percent.…

About one in ten computations for loans, credit cards, etc said to be wrong US credit agency Equifax says errant computer code led the company to provide inaccurate credit information about US folks to financial institutions for a period of about three weeks earlier this year.…

A $26m chunk of the infrastructure bill set aside to prove it can handle inverter-based energy The Biden administration is confident in the US's ability to demonstrate its power grid can run entirely on clean power, so it's giving the Department of Energy $26 million to stand up projects to do this.…

It's all fun and games until somebody gets their files encrypted Miscreants making use of typosquatting are being spotted by researchers at Sonatype, emphasizing the need to check that the package is really the one you meant to download.…

What would you do with an otherwise healthy spacecraft? ESA has admitted defeat and declared the mission of its Sentinel-1B spacecraft is at an end after attempts to deal with a borked power bus ended in failure.…

Ancient, yes, but its progenitor VMS isn't dead just yet There's a proposal to remove the code for the DECnet networking protocol from the Linux kernel… but what was DECnet anyway?…

How's that renewable energy transition going? Amazon increased its total carbon footprint by 18 percent during 2021, despite promises to transition entirely to renewable energy for its operations before the end of the decade.…

Monolith found in Australian field actually a piece of SpaceX vehicle Australian media has reported that space debris found in New South Wales was indeed junk from a SpaceX mission, including one piece measuring nearly three meters in length.…

Automotive makers say they still can't buy enough semiconductors to meet car buyers demands Infineon, the largest chip supplier to the automotive sector, has upgraded revenue and margin forecasts for 2022 as customers continue to struggle to source enough semiconductors to fulfill their needs.…

Small-town troubles go hyperscale in one Virginia county over land, resources, and noise Comment It's easy to think of zones and regions for cloud services in the abstract, as just another spot on the map to spin up virtual machines and services.…

Chairman reminds world that production depends on comms with US, Europe and Japan The chairman at TSMC - the company most crucial to global chip supply - has considered tech industry fears of a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan, concluding such an event would render its fabs inoperable.…

Also sniffs out stats and errors to help decide when failure is about to happen Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has published its latest quarterly report detailing the reliability of disk storage deployed in its datacenters.…

Plus: Even market authorities can't seem to keep up with Microsoft's Defender branding The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has given a provisional nod to the proposed merger of British cybersecurity company Avast and US rival NortonLifeLock.…

You'd wear a big clunky headband instead of invoking an assistant … why exactly? Chinese consumer electronics outfit Xiaomi has teased a device that it says will allow users to control their home using brainwaves.…

Eben Upton talks to The Reg about the little computer gaining version 1.2 conformance Updated Raspberry Pi supremo Eben Upton has trumpeted the arrival of Vulkan 1.2 conformance for the Raspberry Pi 4. Vulkan is an abstraction layer – like OpenGL – for game devs working on graphics-intensive apps.…

Offers 5MB Outlook Lite App that works on phones with only 1GB RAM Microsoft has made Outlook Lite available in select markets for low-powered Androids.…

Because if there's one thing you can trust with this x86 giant, it's deadlines and roadmaps Intel said it intends to add Wi-Fi 7 hardware to laptops and other PCs "by 2024", and a year later for the rest of the market.…

Dammit Jim, I'm a piece of autonomous equipment, not a doctor NASA is funding research to build an autonomous robot gripper theoretically capable of performing medical surgery, and which is to be launched to the International Space Station in 2024.…

NIST's nifty new algorithm looks like it's in trouble One of the four encryption algorithms the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommended as likely to resist decryption by quantum computers has had holes kicked in it by researchers using a single core of an Intel Xeon CPU, released in 2013.…

Is this what they mean by garbage collection? Anyone who’s driven by a landfill is all too aware of the stinky consequences of our lifestyles.…

UEFI is sorted, but BYO licenses are required Amazon Web Services has found a way to let its customers run Windows 11 in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).…

Oh what a failing! Toyota-owned heavy vehicle manufacturer Hino has admitted to misconduct concerning engine certifications going back to 2003, with improved data-handling practices and test software among the promised fixes.…

And is if to confirm the link, a DDoS takes out Taiwan's presidential website ahead of senior politico's arrival Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has tied her controversial visit to Taiwan to an alleged barrage of China-directed cyber-attacks against the territory.…

When Intel said demand was down, did it mean just for its chips? AMD rode surging demand for its datacenter silicon and a healthy appetite for Ryzen notebooks to a solid end to its second quarter of the year, which saw it hit more than $6 billion in sales.…

Meanwhile, a security update for rsync VMware has fixed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that hits 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS severity scale and is present in multiple products.…

Flash mob exploits Nomad's validation code blunder Cryptocurrency bridge service Nomad, which describes itself as "an optimistic interoperability protocol that enables secure cross-chain communication," has been drained of tokens notionally worth $190.7 million if exchanged for US dollars.…

Neural network training and whatnot didn't occur to 18th century founders America urgently needs to rewrite its patent laws to recognize modern artificial intelligence technologies, business and IP leaders have said.…

And just lays off about a quarter of staff Updated Robinhood's cryptocurrency operations has been formally fined $30 million for violating New York's anti-money-laundering and cybersecurity regulations.…

Behavioral economics study suggests rights holders don't understand psychology The anti-piracy campaigns can have the opposite effect and increase the misappropriation of protected content, according to research.…

Underground forums are so last year. Telegram, Discord offer better privacy, functionality to criminals, says Intel 471 Cybercriminals are turning to messaging apps like Telegram and Discord as alternatives to popular underground forums: not only for the private communications and security features but also as avenues for spreading malware.…

Now will you all please return to our $5b headquarters? Apple's corporate mask mandate has essentially ended, as the company said in an internal memo that masks will no longer be required in most locations. …

Includes 'engineering, maintenance, logistics, and material support' under Joint Strike Fighter program US defense giant Lockheed Martin has bagged a $213 million contract for upgrade work to a datacenter connected with the F-35 fighter program at Eglin US Air Force Base in Florida.…

What could go wrong? Study finds waste is more reactive, making it more dangerous The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is set to approve the country's first ever small modular reactor (SMR) design, setting up a potential expansion of small-scale nuclear power stations across the country. …

Please stop leaving credentials where miscreants can find them Want to build your own army? Engineers at CloudSEK have published a report on how to do just that in terms of bots and Twitter, thanks to API keys leaking from applications.…

Put your answers on how to 'eliminate waste and stay entrepreneurial' in Sprint box by mid-August Google is asking its 174,000 workers for areas to improve efficiency and ways to up productivity on the back of last week’s less glitzy financial results and an uncertain global economy.…

It's not the first rival open standard has assimilated – remember Gen-Z? Compute Express Link (CXL) is now set to become the standard high-performance interconnect for linking CPUs to devices and distributed memory as it is set to absorb rival OpenCAPI specification efforts.…

No wonder AWS isn't being shy spending capex on buildouts Enterprises are still splashing the cash on cloud infrastructure services with market revenues leaping by a third in Q2 – unlike other parts of the industry that boomed in the pandemic but are now running out of steam.…

From the department of You Had One Job. Good luck expensing that Uber ride Microsoft's Outlook has been having trouble with emails containing complicated tables.…