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Cloudy concern allows Graviton2 Arm CPUs to handle your functions Amazon Web Services has made it possible to use its home-baked, Arm-powered Graviton2 CPUs with its Lambda serverless functions.…

Met Office, DeepMind, uni team hope their work will make a splash Computer scientists at DeepMind and the University of Exeter in England teamed up with meteorologists from the Met Office to build an AI model capable of predicting whether it will rain up to 90 minutes beforehand.…

Beijing will oversee their efforts and how their algos work, to stop code messing up society China's authorities have called for internet companies to create a governance system for their algorithms.…

Chill out, OK? Google says it's still up for making Intel's latest Ice Lake data-center processors available in its public cloud service.…

Latest data dump also apparently contains 'a wide range of passwords and API tokens' Entities using the name and iconography of Anonymous (EUTNAIOA) claim to have leaked server disk images extracted from Epik – the controversial US outfit that has provided services to far-right orgs such as the Oath Keepers and Gab, provided a home to social-network-for-internet-outcasts Parler, and hosted hate-hole 8chan.…

Computer vision tool mildly helps doctors identify potentially cancerous cells The US Food and Drug Administration this month authorized the first AI-powered tool designed to help healthcare physicians diagnose prostate cancer.…

Public health experts wonder what took so long YouTube says it will remove anti-vaccine videos from its service and has already blocked the channels operated by several widely viewed anti-vaccine advocates.…

Thanks, science Scientists studying Mars now reckon flooding from lakes contributed to around a quarter of the planet's land erosion and not just continuous flows of water that had been assumed to be the cause.…

Pushy code pressured people to sign up for premium services, netted 'millions of euros' You may be advised not to look a gift horse in the mouth, lest you appear ungrateful for questioning its health. But you probably want to examine your Android phone for GriftHorse, or rather for any of the 200 or so apps with different names that incorporate the malicious code.…

Will someone make the redundancies stop? Kyndryl, the IT infrastructure services division IBM is getting shot of this year, has named its first board of directors in an effort to convert a shrinking sales entity into something more sustainable.…

XSS vulnerability allows miscreants to hijack phone number field on website Apple has been accused of ignoring a vulnerability in the Lost Mode functionality of its AirTags location-tracking accessories which would allow an attacker to seed "weaponised AirTags" for harvesting the iCloud credentials of anyone who find them.…

Don't claim 'no mid-contract price rises if that was not the case' says ASA TalkTalk – the Salford-based telco which has more than four million broadband customers – has been ticked off by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following nine separate complaints about misleading ads.…

PA, MA bring in National Guard to plug gaps, while Boston teacher tells of stripper bus hired for school trip Education administrators in a number of US states are struggling to get children to school as they claim their bus drivers are being poached by online shopping monolith Amazon.…

$600m buys a lot of microsegmentation Content delivery network Akamai is set to crack open the piggy bank with the purchase of Israel-based Guardicore.…

Oh, and boasts over record-breaking return from IoT segment, too Memory maker Micron has some words of encouragement for those who are still struggling to find the parts they need for a PC build at less than usurious pricing: Supply shortages are likely to be "largely resolved" over the next few months.…

2.4m living and non-living Britons could score a payout, reckons lawsuit starter BT is to be sued by the dead as part of a lawsuit alleging that millions of customers were unfairly overcharged as a result of the one-time state monopoly abusing its market dominance.…

Typical: you wait months for new nasties then two come along at once Security outfit Kaspersky has presented research on what appears to be the second new tool of the Nobelium advanced persistent threat group outed so far this week – a piece of malware dubbed Tomiris.…

Rush of subscribers trying to sort it brings network's online portal down iD mobile – the Dixons Carphone-owned mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) which piggybacks on Three UK's network – has apologised after a billing snafu warned 24,000 customers they needed to cough up or else.…

Co-founder takes over after Ilya Sachkov reportedly nabbed Threat intelligence firm Group-IB has said it is "confident in the innocence of the company's CEO and his business integrity" after he was arrested on suspicion of treason – two weeks after the company's homepage was defaced by vandals.…

Retailers not enthused Calls for a hike in the Digital Services Tax (DST) have received a lukewarm response from British business – even among retailers that have been squeezed the most by online giants like Amazon.…

I'll show you 'highly targeted' Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork goes NSFM (Not Safe For Mealtimes) today with a snapshot of Android going places where Windows fears to tread: the gentleman's facilities of a German motorway service station.…

'Minimal' tweaks shared for all to see Development platform outfit Gitpod has taken the covers off an open-source project aimed at running the latest Visual Studio Code remotely via a browser in the form of OpenVSCode Server.…

Nice ideas, if anyone adopts them Interview As the UK infosec industry prepares for government initiatives intended to expand the sector, how should existing companies keep skilled professionals from jumping ship? Amanda Finch, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Information Security, tells us a thing or two about what she thinks works.…

Southeast England authority goes big – despite £100m black hole in finances Kent County Council – which looks after most of the southeastern England county – has named eight vendors on a framework to supply education management systems in deals that could be worth up to £500m.…

Openreach out and touch a rival Interview The news that so-called alternative network CityFibre has just received a £1.1bn cash injection isn't just a story for the pink pages of the Financial Times – it could mean a shift in the UK's communications landscape.…

An intriguing proof of concept for real-time 3D arrives, but without the software it's just a gimmick Review Four years ago in a feature for The Register, I wrote about the latest technologies for three-dimensional photography and videography. At the time, the tech required an array of tens to hundreds of cameras, all pointed inward at a subject, gathering reams of two-dimensional data immediately uploaded to the cloud for hours of post-processing, image recognition, feature extraction, and assembly into three- or four-dimensional media.…

Who wouldn't want a break from Earth's noise? Martian spacecraft will get a temporary break from their normal work schedules when NASA pauses sending any commands from mission control during the upcoming Mars solar conjunction.…

Epic Games and Amazon are first to sign up Microsoft has allowed third-party storefronts into its app store, and its move will make Apple squirm because Epic Games is among the first to use the new facility.…

There is no honour among thieves Security intelligence vendor Flashpoint claims to have found forum comments from customers of the REvil ransomware-as-a-service gang, and they’re not happy. The gang's malware may contain backdoors that REvil uses to restore encrypted files itself.…

Ditching central offices in favour of over 250 regional facilities for a workforce twice the size of Microsoft's Japanese tech giant NTT Group will allow its 320,000 staff to work remotely.…

Prototype run by China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and UAE also cut costs in half A trial of cross-border payments using central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) delivered "a substantial improvement in cross-border transfer speed from multiple days to seconds" according to a report on the experiment.…

Boffins tell US lawmakers social media titans cannot be trusted to police themselves On Tuesday, lawmakers from the US House of Representatives heard from three academics who argued that social media companies cannot be trusted to police themselves.…

Chip titans driving shift to paid-for over-the-air feature upgrades Automakers can't wait to launch lucrative subscription services, such as autonomous driving assistance features – and semiconductor giants say they are providing the tools to make that happen.…

CEO so 'sorry' after deal with US watchdog Activision Blizzard will cough up $18m to settle a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – which accused the California games giant of fostering an internal culture toxic to women staff.…

Networking biz says it won't charge for most egress fees, pledges to undercut Cloudflare on Tuesday announced its R2 Storage service with the promise that it will store customers' data without taking it hostage.…

$1,500 gets you a robo-dog that can't handle stairs ... so here's a flying camera, too Video Amazon has created another custom chip to speed up artificial intelligence in its home electronics.…

Plane-wrecking idiot fowl sent packing by heroic porcine defenders of commercial aviation An unlikely battle is currently going on betwixt the runways of one of Europe's busiest airports, after a company called Extraordinary Pigs was contracted to bring their animals to help protect Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport from marauding geese.…

It tries to load a file from a location any old user can write to A flaw in ASUS's ROG Armoury Crate hardware management app could have allowed low-privileged users to execute code as administrator.…

Governance and compliance are the watchwords here Azure Purview has hit general availability, affording assistance to admins facing governance data overload.…

Kicking sand in the faces of less mighty systems, it is only worth the price tag if stellar performance is a must Oracle has released the latest upgrade to its Exadata database appliance series, claiming to better earlier iterations on I/O and throughput.…

‘One Touch Switch’ is great, but logistics are an issue for BT, while Virgin cites data protection worries Switching broadband providers could be about to become a lot easier if proposals unveiled by Ofcom today are put into place.…

Eight-month analysis finds four-layer obfuscation, two-stage loader, and a new UEFI attack Kaspersky has presented the findings of an eight-month probe into the FinFisher spyware toolset – including the discovery of a UEFI "bootkit" infection method and "advanced anti-analysis methods" such as "four-layer obfuscation."…

Five officers seek $20m in damages from car maker and local restaurant Five Texas residents have filed a lawsuit against Tesla and a local restaurant after an alleged drink-driver ploughed a Model X into the back of two parked police cruisers.…

As much as I wanted to be Gordon Gekko, I'll always be Mr Goxx A cryptocurrency-trading hamster is sending shockwaves through the financial world by generating returns that outperform the S&P 500 index, the Nasdaq 100, and Bitcoin.…

Summer was good while it lasted Strong winds and choppy seas have delayed the deployment of a new subsea fibre cable running under the English Channel connecting data centres in France and the UK.…

UK firm failed to make an impact against the market leaders Blue Prism, poster child of the UK's modest tech boom, has been bought by Vista Equity Partners (VEP) to be merged with Tibco, the integration and buiness intelligence vendor.…

Tech contractors fume at lack of info as company says it will 'try' to get them paid by Friday Giant Group, the umbrella company that has thousands of contractors on its books, has been targeted by a "sophisticated" cyber-attack that floored systems and left workers out in the cold, the biz has now confirmed.…

But it's OK. What's it gonna do – fine itself? "Sorry", much like a tooth-loosening toffee, can be one of the hardest words. That didn't stop the Information Commissioner’s Office from sentencing itself to saying it in the wake of the findings of an internal probe that confirm a rogue employee went a bit trigger happy with the corporate credit card in a luxury chocolate chain last Xmas.…

Chief security adviser Roger Halbheer says best protection is to 'get off AD FS' Microsoft has warned of a new tool designed to exfiltrate credentials and introduce a backdoor into Active Directory servers that is under active use by the Nobelium threat actor group.…

It's quite the show at the OTHER chocolate factory Bork!Bork!Bork! Some habits are hard to shake, and more than one tourist hotspot is having a heck of time leaving Windows XP behind, as today's confection of bork shows.…