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Hopefully 80-week lead times a thing of the past Juniper Networks said it is seeing strong demand for network kit, especially for 400G products from the cloud and hyperscale sectors, and claims its earlier supply chain difficulties are easing.…

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 incident response team warns of patch speedups Palo Alto Networks' annual Unit 42 incident response report is out, warning of an ever-decreasing gap between vulnerability disclosures and an increase in cybercrime.…

But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too? Stumped by a Lego set? A new machine learning framework can interpret those instructions for you. …

Problems with the October 2020 veterans’ hospital software launch being fixed quickly, promises Oracle Computer errors following the go-live of a new Oracle Cerner electronic health records system harmed nearly 150 patients at a Washington hospital, as revealed during a hearing in the US.…

Not the money-printing machine investors were hoping for as demand set to decrease, says Gartner Gartner thinks global semiconductor sales growth will fall this year compared to last, and is forecasting a revenue decline in 2023 as rising inflation and consumers cutting back on spending take a greater toll on demand.…

88 percent of the world's population live under the currently estimated footprint of the debris Space boffins are watching the skies for a 23 metric ton Chinese rocket booster that is expected to crash back to Earth.…

For just a few hundred thou, you can 'reimagine' dusty Jobs garage computer with a massive crack across the circuit board Got several hundred thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Why waste it investing in further education, or paying off debts, when you can spend it on an original "Apple Computer A" prototype, right, Jobs fans?…

Details of adversarial tradecraft detailed, includes many email accounts China's cyber espionage activities are extensive and sophisticated but when the Middle Kingdom tried to steal sensitive economic data from the US Fed, poor security meant its operatives didn't have to dip too far into their bags of tricks.…

Plus Kioxia, WD snag a $680 million cash infusion from Japan South Korean conglomerate SK Group signaled this week it will splurge $22 billion on semiconductor manufacturing, green energy, and bioscience research in the US.…

Faster, higher capacity, and cheaper per gig. What more could you ask for? Oh yeah, endurance? Analysis Micron’s newly launched 232-layer TLC NAND modules could be a boon for data-intensive workloads like database operations and analytics.…

Shaded bits of lava tubes stay at 17°C all lunar day and all lunar night, a contrast with the rest of Luna's frequent fluctuations Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has led scientists to conclude that the Moon hosts around 200 "pits" that offer stable and human-friendly temperatures.…

Worse than during 2020's lockdowns and less than half 2016 sales Smartphone sales have slumped in China, with Q2 seeing the nation revert to volumes last experienced in 2012- the year Samsung launched the Galaxy SIII and Apple gave the world the iPhone 5.…

Big Blue says it helped developed the algos, so knows what it's doing IBM has started offering quantum-resistant crypto – using the quantum-resistant crypto recommended by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).…

Session cookies and 2FA subversion allow takeover of biz and ad accounts, lead to unauthorized ad buys Security vendor WithSecure, which was spun out in March 2022 as F-Secure’s enterprise security arm, claims it’s found malware that targets Facebook Business accounts.…

Server spend surges across Alphabet’s empire Google’s cloud continues to lose money, but the ad giant and its parent company Alphabet aren’t troubled by the $858 million in cloudy red ink produced in its second quarter for financial year 2022.…

Finishes the year with close to $200 billion annual revenue and $185 million a day in profits Microsoft reported poorer than expected fourth quarter results, but still managed to end its FY 2022 rather well.…

Broadband giant says it will appeal jury verdict in negligence case Charter Communications must pay out $7 billion in damages after one of its Spectrum cable technicians robbed and killed an elderly woman, a jury decided Tuesday.…

Plus: Coinbase said to face SEC wrath, blockchain scam CEO admits using victims' millions to fund Hawaiian condo The US government is reportedly investigating Kraken, a massive cryptocurrency exchange suspected of violating sanctions against Iran, and is expected to slap the crypto behemoth with a fine in the near future.…

Don't worry, the crooks totally deleted the data and promised not to use it for evil A ransomware gang has not only taken down WordFly, a mailing list provider for top arts organizations among others, but also siphoned data belonging to the US-based Smithsonian, Canada's Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.…

His latest project, Druglike, most definitely isn't in the pharmaceutical business, from which he's been banned Martin Shkreli, released from prison in May after serving much of his seven-year prison sentence for securities fraud, on Monday announced Druglike, described as "a Web3 drug discovery software platform."…

The Ocean Cleanup pulled all that trash in less than a year, and its newest system could collect 10x more A Dutch startup working to remove plastic garbage from the Pacific Ocean said it's marking a major milestone: extracting 100,000 kg (220,462 lbs) of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP).…

Tesla is not the only biz that can take billions from American taxpayers The US Department of Energy is set to hand General Motors' subsidiary $2.5 billion in loans to help finance the construction of three new EV battery cell plants across the midwest. …

Cool, another Rust project ... Oh A new info-stealer malware is spreading rapidly in the wild as the developer behind it continues to add capabilities and recently released the source code on GitHub.…

Digital security via processor design, hardware-enforced protection … and a friendly desktop Wayland and the KDE Plasma desktop now run on CheriBSD, the special version of FreeBSD for Arm's experimental Morello hardware.…

NASA: First we’ve heard of it Hopes that the departure of Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin from Roscosmos will improve global space relations have been crushed. New boss Yuri Borisov today confirmed a post-2024 withdrawal from the International Space Station project.…

Stop us if you'd heard this one before... Microsoft's torrid time with patches is continuing after the company admitted that printing might once again be broken in Windows 10 for some users following the application of an update.…

Comet debris is right in JWST's path, and could further damage its sensitive mirror The James Webb Space Telescope is predicted to pass through Halley's Comet's debris trail next year, meaning that particles could further endanger its sensitive primary mirror.…

Be ready for a rebound, and protect yourself with patching and segmentation SonicWall has published its latest threat report, showing a drop in ransomware but an increase in malware attacks in the first half of 2022.…

From Beetles to bugs: 'Development of software expertise biggest switch automotive industry has to make' Failure to turn around Volkswagen's software unit seems to have cost CEO Herbert Diess his job in the latest struggle to see the German carmaker modernize its organization.…

Unit was supposed to transform oncology yet never turned a profit, ended up in hands of private equity IBM has confirmed it made a few hundred million on the $1 billion sale of the healthcare data and analytics assets housed by its Watson Health unit.…

LEO and GEO orbit covered in satellite broadband handshake OneWeb and Eutelsat have signed a memorandum of understanding intended to create a mega multi-orbit satellite broadband provider.…

Last update of telecom law occurred before the internet even existed India’s Department of Telecommunications has put out a consultation paper calling for input into generational reform of its telecommunication laws.…

Modern life is expensive, but Britain's mobile data costs seem to be falling The UK has climbed the rankings for cost per 1GB of mobile data, according to a report from Cable.co.uk, and has reached the dizzying heights of 59th place.…

Direction of future distros may be firming up, along with formidable system requirements The Reg has collated information that points at the direction of the Adaptable Linux Platform – SUSE's future replacement for its conventional distros.…

Government project watchdog signals red rating for case management system and warns about 'ageing' HMRC datacenter A UK Home Office plan to modernize its immigration technology to achieve "operational efficiencies" and "optimize use of data" received a red rating from the government's projects watchdog as it struggles to process Ukrainian refugees.…

Miscreants boast of 78GB haul, officials say everything's fine The LockBit ransomware crew is claiming to have stolen 78GB of data from Italy's tax agency and is threatening to leak it if a ransom isn't paid by July 31.…

Officials came right out and said this is all about scoring a global win China has decided it needs a fast charging standard for devices sold inside the Middle Kingdom, and hopes its efforts will see its preferred tech rule the world.…

Or an eight-core AMD Ryzen. Not made for personal use, but what's stopping you? There's something satisfying about fitting a decent processor in a small form factor, and the latest example is a credit card-sized single-board computer that uses an 11-gen Intel Core part.…

Are you not enough of a time thief already, Zuckerberg? Meta's engineering team has proposed doing away with leap seconds.…

As NASA launches 11th annual ISS Research and Development Conference NASA will have to continue relying on international cooperation to keep the International Space Station (ISS) ticking over to 2030 and beyond, despite plans to replace the laboratory with private commercial space stations. …

Expect it to be bundled into managed desktop services from HP Inc. HP Inc.'s late 2021 acquisition of Teradici has borne fruit with the creation of a product called HP Anyware that will replace HP's own zCentral Remote Boost.…

About 250 automotive applications in two decades – a fraction of what it files in a single year, mind Is Apple really getting into the automotive business? A joint investigation between Japanese financial publication Nikkei and Tokyo analytics company Intellectual Property Landscape found that Apple has filed patents – at least 248 of them – for everything from seats and windows to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology that allows smart cars to talk to each other. …

And ponders more listings in China – the day after Beijing announces super-regulator for tech Chinese web giant Alibaba has announced it wants to upgrade its listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) to primary status – putting it on par with its New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) presence.…

GPU giant promises to make ML accessible to even the most modest biz Nvidia aims to take the pain out of machine-learning development this week with the latest release of its AI Enterprise suite, which includes a low-code toolkit for machine-learning workloads.…

Lack of patent rights waiver in CC0 cited as problematic Fedora, the popular Linux distribution, will no longer incorporate software licensed under CC0, the Creative Commons "No Rights Reserved" license.…

Boffins find common code constructs that may be exploitable to achieve remote code execution Back in March, security researchers reported a critical command injection vulnerability in Parse Server, an open-source backend for Node.js environments.…

Oops, did the Un-carrier under-count by 29m punters? T-Mobile US has agreed to pay about $550 million to end legal action against it and improve its security after crooks infiltrated the self-described Un-carrier last summer and harvested personal data belonging to almost 77 million customers.…

And yes, Musk is back in the headlines, denying another affair Twitter is investigating claims that a near-seven-month-old vulnerability in its software has been exploited to obtain the phone numbers and email addresses of a reported 5.4 million users. …

Routers flooded with internet traffic in filter blunder, watchdog told Canadian telecom giant Rogers will spend C$10 billion ($7.7 billion) to ensure that day-long outage earlier this month doesn't happen again, its CEO has said.…

'Closed loop' ordered to keep fabs and manufacturing plants running amid COVID-19 outbreaks Employees at Shenzhen facilities owned by Chinese chipmaking giant SMIC and other manufacturers will have to sleep at work this week due to the local government reportedly ordering the companies to enter a "closed-loop" operating mode.…