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Carriers likely to get cents on the dollar for ditched Huawei and ZTE kit unless more funds are found The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) notified Congress on Friday that the cost to rip and replace equipment kit from Huawei and ZTE installed at US telcos is more than $3 billion higher than funding allocated for the program.…

Takes up advisory role that might leave time to play with parent company's homebrew cloudy SmartNICs TikTok's Global Chief Security Officer Roland Cloutier has "transitioned" from his job into "a strategic advisory role focusing on the business impact of security and trust programs."…

Plus: Weibo cracks down on political puns; Singaporean crypto biz Vauld restructures; Philippines fights Facebook rumors Asia In Brief Senior execs from Alibaba Cloud were summoned to discuss the data leak that saw information pertaining to a billion Chinese citizens sold on the dark web, according to Nikkei and The Wall Street Journal.…

But tidying things up has contributed to a one week delay on the version 5.19 release Linux kernel developers have addressed the Retbleed speculative execution bug in older Intel and AMD silicon, but the fix wasn't straightforward, so emperor penguin Linus Torvalds has delayed delivery of the next version by a week.…

Also: Lawyers told to dissuade clients from paying off ransomware crooks, and more In brief SMBs, beware: Microsoft said this week it has discovered a North Korean crew targeting small businesses with ransomware since September of last year.…

Performs better than expected, which is just as well – as it's going to be pelted with space rocks Is the $10 billion price tag for the world's most expensive telescope worth it?…

Hate to ruin your Friday Juniper Networks has patched critical-rated bugs across its Junos Space, Contrail Networking and NorthStar Controller products that are serious enough to prompt CISA to weigh in and advise admins to update the software as soon as possible.…

The longer the purchase takes, the more frustrating, says Gartner IT departments are frequently feeling the sting of buyer's remorse following big-ticket enterprise technology purchases.…

All versions are susceptible, there's no patch, so now's a good time to remove this add-on Miscreants have reportedly scanned almost 1.6 million websites in attempts to exploit an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in a previously disclosed buggy WordPress plugin.…

Taiwan gov is threatening a — checks notes — 0.1 percent fine. Yeah, that'll teach em Foxconn is in hot water this week after the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer became a major stakeholder in Chinese semiconductor manufacturer Tsinghua Unigroup without regulatory approval.…

Pay dispute rumbles on, industrial action scheduled for 29 July and 1 August Some 40,000 BT Group employees are scheduling two days of strike action in protest at what the Communication Workers Union described as a real-term pay cut for staff, given the steep rise in inflation.…

Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P In a world ever more hungry for copper, a looming shortage could end green energy transition plans before they even get off the ground.…

A portent of the End Times, or simply a smart corporate move? Probably the latter Microsoft has signed up to the open source Eclipse Foundation Jakarta EE and MicroProfile working groups as an Enterprise and Corporate member.…

Bluster and hot air do not make for a sustainable space program Dmitry Rogozin has been dismissed from his post as boss of Russian space agency Roscosmos.…

The venerable Z80 OS is a now hobbyist favorite The company that still owns Digital Research's CP/M operating system has granted a new, more permissive license for the eight-bit OS, making it free for anyone to modify or redistribute.…

Follina was all very exciting, but did you patch CVE-2022-30136? Trend Micro Research has published an anatomy of a Windows remote code execution vulnerability lurking in the Network File System.…

Chipmaker looks cool next to immersion pros, talks up increased densities Intel has partnered with Green Revolution Cooling (GRC) on a joint whitepaper about liquid immersion cooling. The pair make the case for sustainability, claiming it reduces the power needed to cool a datacenter as well as cutting operational costs.…

When the chips are down: Memory device maker the latest to evaluate direction SK hynix is considering a cut in capital expenditure by as much as 25 percent, another sign that recent high demand for semiconductors is tailing off due to inflation amid growing concerns of oversupply.…

Commissioning pics show spacecraft can peer near as well as far Instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope have turned closer to home to snap images showing the gas giant Jupiter.…

Tracking bracelet rescinded in some areas after uproar and confusion on who dictated its use Some Beijing residents have lashed out at local COVID measures after they were required to wear electronic monitoring wristbands.…

Chipmaker braces for a course correction but remains 'highly confident' in long-term outlook Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has offered guidance adjustments that signal preparations for a market correction despite reporting record profits as customers hoard excessive inventory.…

Death becomes you swiftly but it’s messy making your way back Something for the Weekend Zombies walk among us – until they need a nice sit-down, of course. It can be tiring to be undead. No wonder they drag their feet around and do all that moaning.…

And the app still runs... to this day On Call Sometimes you take the call. Sometimes you place it. Welcome to an On Call where our reader is on the other side of the telephone.…

Third-party software developer blamed for 'improperly storing credentials to our database' The bad news keeps on rolling for British recruitment agency Morgan Hunt amid confirmation it suffered a digital burglary, with intruders making off with the personal data for some of the freelancers on its books.…

Slacked off and fed up with Teams? Want to escape the clutches of big tech? Element thinks so The decentralized Matrix network has crashed through the 60 million user mark with user growth rate exceeding 70 percent in 2021, according to the company behind the messaging service.…

Perfect political pantomime Conservative lawmakers in the UK rounded off the week with a war of words over a proposed – and now delayed – internet content law.…

Watch out for deadly pinchers after that record-breaking attack The botnet behind the largest-ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been named after a tiny shrimp.…

Bill bloat blamed, countdown continues, Intel irritable, negotiations necessary The Biden administration has had enough of Congressional delays in authorizing $52 billion in chip manufacturing subsidies, and is bringing the heat to Capitol Hill with the clear goal of seeing the funding unlocked before lawmakers leave for August recess. …

Great, another thing that's gone endemic Organizations can expect risks associated with Log4j vulnerabilities for "a decade or longer," according to the US Department of Homeland Security.…

$1.2b deficit? Yup, that oughta do it Cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, a month after it froze all transactions, which prevented netizens from withdrawing funds.…

Like a lot of us hope to do, Ingenuity goes on summer break The Mars Ingenuity helicopter is to take a breather to recharge its batteries after its latest successful flight a little over a month ago.…

Just a feeeeew caveats to bear in mind, though Google on Thursday officially released Chrome OS Flex, which aims to bring the web giant's mega-browser operating system to a wider range of systems.…

Customers to start paying more for CPUs, chipsets and other products from October It was almost inevitable, and now we know it's coming. Intel plans to raise the prices of various products this fall due to our common foe: inflation.…

Office-space-as-a-service suits this cloud giant to a T Salesforce is looking to let around half the space in one of its downtown San Francisco high-rises.…

Tesla's biggest battery supplier will reportedly hire 4,000 staff Kansas has landed the largest economic development project in its history, with Japanese tech giant Panasonic set to build a $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in the state.…

'Vanessa' is shaping up nicely – Ubuntu could learn a thing or two The next version of Linux Mint has reached the beta-test stage. The Reg took a look at what's new.…

Déjà vu all over again for laptop maker as researchers poke holes in its code Security researchers have spotted fresh flaws in Lenovo laptops just months after the vendor patched a bunch of its products.…

All-too-brief reminder of quieter times as overcapacity turns to full-on outage Updated Microblogging platform Twitter fell over today, leaving billionaires bereft of playthings and users having to resort to other modes of communication for their conspiracy theories.…

Bloc insists it has right to rule on planned merger between US biotech firms Illumina and Grail A European court has said it can examine M&As among tech and science companies even if one of the parties has no operations in the EU.…

Plans to make auto semiconductors with first tranche of Euro Chips Act cash Bosch is set to invest €3 billion in its semiconductor business by 2026 as part of a broader push to boost the European chip manufacturing industry.…

Massachusetts senator Markey on the charge to stop normalizing surveillance for law enforcement purposes Amazon-owned home security company Ring turned over footage to US law enforcement without permission from the devices' owners 11 times so far in 2022, according to details unveiled by Massachusetts senator Ed Markey.…

Trial revisited the same old issues for a new jury, including CIA’s atrocious infosec practices Former CIA engineer Joshua Schulte was convicted on Wednesday of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks after a mistrial left him free of eight out of 10 charges in March 2020.…

Also: Shades of Windows 10 in the Windows 11 taskbar Microsoft is journeying to the past with a Windows 11 Insider build that allows testers to rip CDs in Media Player and evokes memories of Windows 10.…

Algorithm proves better than primary care doctors at recognizing signs of heart trouble The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first artificial intelligence algorithm powering a digital stethoscope for doctors to detect valvular heart disease more accurately.…

New DRAM chips will also have an impact in AI processing and HPC fields Samsung has unveiled new GDDR6 DRAM chips that it claims are the first with a data transfer rate of 24Gbps per pin, chiefly aimed at increased performance for upcoming high-end graphics cards and GPU accelerators.…

It's good to talk, national telco used to say in ad campaigns.... clearly that didn't include unions and pay disputes A trade union representing tends of thousands of frontline workers at BT and its subsidiary Openreach are all set for the first nationwide strike in 35 years after Britain’s largest telco refused to agree to pay talks.…

It takes one to know WAN AWS has announced the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN, its managed service that can be used to bring together all your infrastructure in the cloud and across multiple sites into a unified global network.…

Market watchers see device spending downturn as blip in robust bigger picture With uncertainty hanging over the global economy, Gartner sees IT spending holding steady at 3 percent growth for 2022, with both winners and losers in different industry segments.…

Sometimes an eggplant really is just an eggplant A survey from Slack and Duolingo has confirmed that the witty emoji you like to drop into your messages could mean something entirely different to the recipient.…

X marks the spot where we could learn more about Earth's early years, too An international team thinks its managed to pinpoint where a 4.5 billion year old meteorite found on Earth came from on Mars.…