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Eleven industry associations, representing every tech vendor that matters, warns of economic harm Eleven significant tech-aligned industry associations from around the world have reportedly written to India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) to call for revision of the nation’s new infosec reporting and data retention rules, which they criticise as inconsistent, onerous, unlikely to improve security within India, and possibly harmful to the nations economy.…

Also: Uni details its malware-catching AI, signs of China poking the Russian cyber-bear, and more In brief Somerset County, New Jersey, was hit by a ransomware attack this week that hobbled its ability to conduct business, and also cut off access to essential data.…

Teleportation of quantum information key to future secure data transfer Researchers in the Netherlands have shown they can transmit quantum information via an intermediary node, a feature necessary to make the so-called quantum internet possible.…

Zhuhai Cloud will carry 50 flying and diving machines it can control with minimal human assistance Chinese academics have christened an ocean research vessel that has a twist: it will sail the seas with a complement of aerial and ocean-going drones and no human crew.…

Plus: Police release deepfake of murdered teen in cold case, and more In-brief Governments around the world should pass intellectual property laws that grant rights to AI systems, two academics at the University of New South Wales in Australia argued.…

Nuke incoming? Quick break out the plans for rationing, censorship, property seizures, and more More papers describing the orders and messages the US President can issue in the event of apocalyptic crises, such as a devastating nuclear attack, have been declassified and released for all to see.…

Forget dark-web souks, thousands of these are already being traded on public bazaars Russian crooks are selling network credentials and virtual private network access for a "multitude" of US universities and colleges on criminal marketplaces, according to the FBI.…

Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft often support privacy in public statements, but behind the scenes they've been working through some common organizations to weaken or kill privacy legislation in US states.…

Meanwhile, social network's board rejects resignation of one its directors America's financial watchdog is investigating whether Elon Musk adequately disclosed his purchase of Twitter shares last month, just as his bid to take over the social media company hangs in the balance. …

Time to play blame bingo: Markets? Profits? Too much growth? Russia? Space aliens? Cloud security company Lacework has laid off 20 percent of its employees, just months after two record-breaking funding rounds pushed its valuation to $8.3 billion.…

Entire swaths of gear relies on vulnerability-laden Open Automation Software (OAS) A researcher at Cisco's Talos threat intelligence team found eight vulnerabilities in the Open Automation Software (OAS) platform that, if exploited, could enable a bad actor to access a device and run code on a targeted system.…

CEO acknowledges impact of war, pandemic but says fundamentals ‘are really good’ Nvidia is expecting a $500 million hit to its global datacenter and consumer business in the second quarter due to COVID lockdowns in China and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Despite those and other macroeconomic concerns, executives are still optimistic about future prospects.…

That's the second in a week following similar system in Munich also aimed at researchers HPE is lifting the lid on a new AI supercomputer – the second this week – aimed at building and training larger machine learning models to underpin research.…

Figures disappoint analysts as SaaSy HR and finance application vendor navigates economic uncertainty HR and finance application vendor Workday's CEO, Aneel Bhusri, confirmed deal wins expected for the three-month period ending April 30 were being pushed back until later in 2022.…

Another probe? Mountain View is starting to look like a pincushion at this rate The UK's Competition and Markets Authority is lining up yet another investigation into Google over its dominance of the digital advertising market.…

'Making sure the right resources are aligned to the right opportunity' ahead of next fiscal year Microsoft has hit the brakes on hiring in some key product areas as the company prepares for the next fiscal year and all that might bring.…

Staving off entropy with digital transformation, hybrid office, and automation projects Enterprises are still kitting out their workforce with the latest computers and refreshing their datacenter hardware despite a growing number of "uncertainties" in the world.…

Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, but still troubling as org reveals details of around 100,000 users were grabbed by the baddies GitHub has revealed it stored a "number of plaintext user credentials for the npm registry" in internal logs following the integration of the JavaScript package registry into GitHub's logging systems.…

And that's a bit odd, says Red Canary A strain of Windows uses PowerShell to add a malicious extension to a victim's Chrome browser for nefarious purposes. A macOS variant exists that uses Bash to achieve the same and also targets Safari.…

It's a shame still nothing can be done about all the false positives, though Something for the Weekend WE BRING ENGLISH TO YOUR FEET! reads the email.…

Even non-sysadmins may find this Linux live ISO handy Clonezilla 3 is a new version of an (almost) universal disk-imaging and duplication tool which can copy, or image, almost any mass storage device.…

It says 'Do Not Touch,' not 'Rip Out My Guts' On Call Sure, you might use words like "boom" and "explode" when it comes to errors with your system. But could a whoopsie have the potential to render a chunk of a country uninhabitable? Welcome to On Call.…

Chinese giants' enterprise businesses do well despite lockdowns. Other segments? Strap in for a bumpy ride Ever since Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server business in 2014, one thing has proven elusive: profit.…

Another day, another DDoS attack that tries to scare the victim into paying up with mention of dreaded gang Akamai has spoken of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault against one of its customers during which the attackers astonishingly claimed to be associated with REvil, the notorious ransomware-as-a-service gang.…

So small, you can't feel it crawl Video Robot boffins have revealed they've created a half-millimeter wide remote-controlled walking robot that resembles a crab, and hope it will one day perform tasks in tiny crevices.…

Whaddayaknow? It's made it more than halfway to America The autonomous Mayflower ship is making another attempt at a transatlantic journey from the UK to the US, after engineers hauled the vessel to port and fixed a technical glitch. …

I think we can all agree that China is not alone in wishing it had an alternative to Microsoft Windows China has identified "chokepoints" that leave it dependent on foreign countries for key technologies, and the US-based Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) claims to have translated and published key document that name the technologies about which Beijing is most worried.…

Promises modular kit gets you up and running in six to nine months, with AI-powered ops to make it efficient Huawei has entered the data center construction business with an offering that it claims can be built in half the time required by competing methods, then run more efficiently.…

Sure, they’re small Pacific nations, but they’re in very strategic locations China has begun talking to ten nations in the South Pacific with an offer to help them improve their network infrastructure, cyber security, digital forensics and other capabilities – all with the help of Chinese tech vendors.…

Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming Broadcom has signaled its $61 billion acquisition of VMware will involve a “rapid transition from perpetual licenses to subscriptions.”…

Voltage glitch here, glitch there, now you can fiddle with location disc's firmware At the Workshop on Offensive Technologies 2022 (WOOT) on Thursday, security researchers demonstrated how to meddle with AirTags, Apple's coin-sized tracking devices.…

Shut up and take ... poor kids to KFC? In what is either a creepy, weird spin on Robin Hood or something from a Black Mirror episode, we're told a ransomware gang is encrypting data and then forcing each victim to perform three good deeds before they can download a decryption tool.…

Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia Microsoft Build Microsoft Azure on Thursday revealed it will use AMD's top-tier MI200 Instinct GPUs to perform “large-scale” AI training in the cloud.…

Y'know, those large cellphones fixed in place that you share with everyone and have to put coins in. Y'know, those metal disks representing... New York City this week ripped out its last municipally-owned payphones from Times Square to make room for Wi-Fi kiosks from city infrastructure project LinkNYC.…

Now we can say extortionware has jumped the shark Another ransomware strain is targeting VMware ESXi servers, which have been the focus of extortionists and other miscreants in recent months.…

As shareholders sue the social network amid Elon Musk's takeover scramble Twitter has officially entered the post-Dorsey age: its founder and two-time CEO's board term expired Wednesday, marking the first time the social media company hasn't had him around in some capacity.…

You might say its valuation is melting away IPO darling Snowflake's share price took a beating in an already bearish market for tech stocks after filing weaker than expected financial guidance amid a slowdown in orders from some of its largest customers.…

Workplace safety, labor organizing, sustainability and, um, wage 'fairness' all struck down in vote Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's first shareholder meeting was a rousing success for Amazon leadership and Jassy's bank account. But for activist investors intent on making Amazon more open and transparent, it was nothing short of a disaster.…

Unless anyone out there can make a better offer. Oh, Elon? Broadcom has confirmed it intends to acquire VMware in a deal that looks set to be worth $61 billion, if it goes ahead: the agreement provides for a “go-shop” provision under which the virtualization giant may solicit alternative offers.…

Sensibly written code only, please. Plus: what all those 'heated discussions' were about The much-anticipated Perl 7 continues to twinkle in the distance although the final release of 5.36.0 is "just around the corner", according to the Perl Steering Council.…

Schrems III on the cards unless negotiators protect better oversight of US data access requests European privacy campaigner Max Schrems is warning that enhancements to the EU-US Privacy Shield data-sharing arrangements might face a legal challenge if negotiators don't take a new approach.…

I don't think it's going to happen, I don't think it's going to happen... It happened Windows Server 2022 now supports Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, as long as you don't mind installing a preview patch.…

Double ordering, overheating of semiconductor sector, inflation, growing stockpiles = trouble ahead The chip industry is on course for an inventory correction in the second half of 2022 or early 2023 with steep inflation, signs of end-user demand slowing, and companies building stockpiles among the causes.…

Entrepreneur now looking at $33.5b bill if he wants to complete $44b purchase Elon Musk must personally secure $33.5 billion to fund his $44 billion Twitter purchase after allowing a $12.5 billion margin loan against Tesla stock to expire.…

First use of National Security and Investment Act powers as Altice owner looks poised to increase stake further The UK government has kicked off a national security assessment on the investment in BT by French telco tycoon Patrick Drahi, who via his Altice UK organisation topped up his stake to 18 percent late last year.…

A widespread distro that many of its users don't even know they have Version 3.16.0 of Alpine Linux is out – one of the most significant of the many lightweight distros.…

We're only here for DBIRs The cybersecurity landscape continues to expand and evolve rapidly, fueled in large part by the cat-and-mouse game between miscreants trying to get into corporate IT environments and those hired by enterprises and security vendors to keep them out.…

Control and access are becoming a hot button for orgs Interview "It's our data, it's our intellectual property. Being able to migrate it out those systems is near impossible... It was a real frustration for us."…

This shouldn't come as much of a surprise if you've been reading the headlines at all Government departments are guilty of high levels of non-compliance with the UK's off-payroll tax regime, according to a report by MPs.…

Two hour outage 'consistent with an intentional disruption to service' said NetBlocks Internet interruption-watcher NetBlocks has reported internet outages across Pakistan on Wednesday, perhaps timed to coincide with large public protests over the ousting of Prime Minister Imran Khan.…