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From modems to the Metaverse, Mark Pesce has seen it all Next month will mark forty years since I showed up for the first day of my first professional job. I knew BASIC – I'd even learned how to type RPG-II onto a deck of punched cards – but in reality, I knew nothing.…

Good luck deciding which toxic monopolist deserves your sympathy in this fight Amazon is suing over 10,000 administrators of Facebook groups that offer to post fake reviews on the online souk's website in exchange for products and money.…

Windows as a service is getting more mature and manageable Microsoft has teased a raft of enhancements to its Windows 365 Cloud PCs, among them the chance to use personal accounts to log on to the virtual desktops.…

China, as usual, says it just wants a peaceful and prosperous internet The government of Belgium has claimed it detected three Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat actors attacking its public service and defence forces.…

About '1.5 million' folks and organizations use these gadgets A handful of vulnerabilities, some critical, in MiCODUS GPS tracker devices could allow criminals to disrupt fleet operations and spy on routes, or even remotely control or cut off fuel to vehicles, according to CISA. And there's no fixes for these security flaws.…

Did someone say cheap SSDs in time for the holidays? While semiconductor supply chains remain a mess, if you’re in the market for a new SSD, you may be in luck.…

Some people call me the code cowboy, some call me the gangster of root, 'cause I'm a Joker Google pulled 60 malware-infected apps from its Play Store, installed by more than 3.3 million punters, that can be used for all kinds of criminal activities including credential theft, spying and even stealing money from victims.…

Diehards who replaced their keyboards can get up to $395 repeatedly Apple’s ill-fated butterfly keyboard may be dead, but the company isn’t done paying for the pain it has caused customers.…

Project AirSim can allegedly run 'millions of flights in seconds' Microsoft reckons its flight simulator platform could have autonomous drones trained up and in the sky faster than more traditional methods.…

Clouds burst as nation hits 40C Cloud services and servers hosted by Google and Oracle in the UK have dropped offline due to cooling issues as the nation experiences a record-breaking heatwave.…

No special hardware, internet connection, or cloud service needed, just a regular CPU and webcam Researchers at University College London have developed software that lets users control a computer using voice, facial expressions, hand gestures, eye movements, and larger body motions. All that's required is a regular webcam — no special hardware needed.…

It's an Azure Arc world: Perform patching across your IT estate Update time is always stressful, particularly when one has a seemingly endless array of Windows and Linux machines spinning away in the cloud. To simplify all of this, Microsoft has wheeled out a public preview of Update Management Center.…

If this sounds familiar, it's because the EU is investigating the same thing Apple has been hit by another class-action lawsuit over its mobile payment service – this time in the US with much of the same logic as a similar case in the EU.…

Northrop Grumman, L3Harris Technologies to build the 28-satellite constellation for warning, tracking Northrop Grumman and L3Harris Technologies have won contracts worth up to $1.3 billion to build a 28-satellite constellation to support missile warning and tracking by the US Space Development Agency (SDA).…

Freebie users to get 90 days of message history and file storage Everything seems to be getting more expensive these days, including chat platform Slack.…

Paid-for open source is OK. But here's a form to report the scammers There was some backpedaling from Microsoft overnight as the company tweaked its Store policy to allow the sale of open-source apps that are otherwise available for free.…

Joins roster of tech giants embarking on cuts or recruitment freezes Apple is joining other tech big-hitters that have frozen hiring across parts of their organization in response to a cooling global economy.…

Infrastructure business another high point with 19 percent revenue bump to $4.2 billion IBM sees a strong future for AI and is investing heavily in both the technology and automation to drive it. Hybrid cloud is another key area for the company as it continues to capitalize on its Red Hat assets.…

Canalys prelim Q2 data indicates economic headwinds and worries of 'inventory pile-up' Demand for smartphones is fading amid households' fears about rising inflation and other monetary pressures, although brands including Samsung and Apple are weathering the economic storm.…

India's Cleartrip is being very opaque about what happened An Indian flight booking website majority-owned by US retail colossus Walmart has experienced a data breach, but is saying very little about what happened or the risks to customers.…

ML study combines with citizen science to show talking and singing to infants may have evolutionary roots People sing and talk to young infants in a similar fashion across a range of diverse languages, locations, and societies, a machine learning and citizen science study has found.…

Dated TLS offered as reason why users need to move off some perpetually licensed products already paid for Accounting software vendor Sage is under fire from some customers over sweeping changes to its software licence model that they say is forcing them to repay for wares they already own or lose access to them.…

Support for finance system ends in 2027, leaving questions for HMRC The UK tax collector has opened conversations with tech support companies to keep its ageing SAP estate running in a contract award which could be worth up to £400m.…

Putin declares he'll make his own Googles now, thanks A Russian court fined Google $374 million on Monday for its failure to remove prohibited content, according to the country's internet watchdog Roskomnadzor.…

Segments will account for half of all compute capacity by 2025, IDC says Edge compute and artificial intelligence will outgrow core compute power over the next five years, according to an IDC report commissioned by Inspur systems.…

But Virtzilla thinks SmartNICs can ease your security concerns VMware president Sumit Dhawan admits that some of the company's customers are anxious about its acquisition by Broadcom, but insists only a "tiny minority" have offered that response to the deal.…

We'll be back in jiffy The UK's Competition Market Authority has confirmed it is taking another look at its decision ordering Meta to sell Giphy. This comes after a tribunal in London politely suggested the regulator and Facebook's parent bang their heads together and figure out a way forward after the authority made a technical error.…

It doesn't look, smell, or behave like money, but it's far more dangerous, says finance minister India's Reserve Bank (RBI) wants cryptocurrency banned, according to a statement made in parliament on Monday.…

Poetic justice? The virus does love it in some federal prisons Two Florida residents will spend years behind bars and pay more than half a million dollars for wire fraud and identity theft, among other illicit deeds, for running COVID-19 scams.…

Tory turmoil turns off tycoon's Tokyo tech titan theoretically temporarily SoftBank may have stalled plans to take its chip designing subsidiary Arm public in the UK.…

Effectively charging folks in wheelchairs for taking too long to get into ride? Not a great look Uber has promised to cough up a few million of dollars to settle claims it unfairly charged disabled passengers waiting fees if they took extra time to board their rides.…

Or to make the fans shut up. Either way, you won’t be moving much with this setup Computer chips are getting so hot these days, some companies are starting to put liquid cooling into laptops so that they can run faster — or quieter and less hot to the touch.…

As if the crypto world needs any help in making money vanish Cybercriminals posing as legitimate investment firms and cryptocurrency exchanges have stolen tens of millions of dollars from more than 200 people by convincing them to download mobile apps and deposit cryptocurrency into wallets owned by the perpetrators.…

Quite a leap from national baseline of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up The boss of America's communications watchdog has said its standards for minimum broadband speed, unchanged since 2015, are due for a boost.…

Data privacy, data schmivacy Updated Here's a workaround for the baby formula shortage: buy a pregnancy test at Walgreens and you may receive free formula in the mail.…

Can't get into that machine? No problem, just trust this completely sketchy looking tool Industrial engineers and operators are being lured into running backdoor malware disguised as tools for recovering access to work systems.…

High-end Arc A750 will compete with *checks notes* a GeForce RTX 3060 Comment As Intel's first wave of discrete Arc GPUs slowly make it out into the wild, the chipmaker is making clear that its latest attempt in the graphics market won't challenge the best from Nvidia or AMD.…

'Blue Onyx' defies the odds, defies logic, and fulfills an incredible dream (to quote a long-running film franchise) The Rocky Linux Project has released version 9 of its RHEL-compatible distro and debuted its new build service.…

Plus: Head of AI and Autopilot at Tesla quits, FIFA rolls out AI in this year's football World Cup, and more In brief Weeks after Cruise launched its autonomous, driverless taxi rides to the public in San Francisco, numerous vehicles mysteriously piled up and blocked several lanes of incoming traffic downtown.…

Democrats: regulations needed to assess how much energy used and emissions created, says letter to DoE, EPA Cryptocurrency miners can't be trusted to give honest information about the power they use so a group of Senators and Representatives want the federal government to compel them to be transparent.…

Citizen services only moved online in May. What could possibly go wrong? Albania's online public services and websites have gone dark following what appears to be a cyberattack.…

Wafer company says it has 'significant reason' to believe Israeli chipmaker misappropriated IP IQE, producer of compound semiconductor wafers, has filed a lawsuit against Israeli chipmaker Tower Semiconductor, claiming the company misappropriated its intellectual property. Tower is in the process of being acquired by chip giant Intel.…

The curse of Patch Tuesday strikes again as error codes wreak minor havoc Complaints over Microsoft's latest patch Tuesday have intensified after some Windows 11 users found their systems worse for wear following installation.…

After offloading McAfee and Wind River, the x86 giant is building a commercial software business again Analysis Intel is in the midst of a massive effort to rekindle its chipmaking machine, in addition to building a business out of selling software for the second time in less than a decade.…

Systems will help with the DoD's most demanding computational challenges including AI, ML, and analytics Defense giant BAE Systems has secured a five-year $699 million contract with the US Army in support of the force's high-performance computing (HPC) programs.…

Making down payment to Vertical Aerospace for VX4 electric VTOL fleet American Airlines has committed to making pre-delivery payments for 50 Vertical Aerospace VX4 electric VTOL aircraft.…

They paint themselves as eco-saints, but the numbers tell another story Every year the likes of Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and others trot out their annual environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reports and boast to the world how responsible they are.…

More flavors than than an ice cream shop means something for just about everyone There are probably more variants of Debian than any other Linux distro, which can make it confusing. To provide some clarity,The Reg has lined up the main suspects.…

Mobiles and tablets among sectors identified for regulation India’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs says it is developing a right to repair framework to reduce waste and bolster parts of the economy.…

Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies Opinion Intel has produced some unbelievable graphs in its time: projected Itanium market share, next node power consumption, multicore performance boosts. The graph the company showed at the latest VLSI Symposium, however, was a real shocker.…