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Interpol, cops swoop with intel from cybersecurity bods Interpol and cops in Africa have arrested a Nigerian man suspected of running a multi-continent cybercrime ring that specialized in phishing emails targeting businesses.…

Hypervisor giant too big to be kept ticking over like CA or Symantec. Instead it can wrangle net-connected kit Comment Broadcom’s mooted acquisition of VMware looks odd at face value, but if considered as a means to make edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) more mature and manageable, and give organizations the tools to drive them, the deal makes rather more sense.…

A 'Very English Coop (sic) d'Etat' Emails between leading pro-Brexit figures in the UK have seemingly been stolen and leaked online by what could be a Kremlin cyberespionage team.…

Government has power to unwind transactions such as sale of Newport facility to China-controlled Nexperia The UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has commenced a full national security assessment of Newport Wafer Fab’s acquisition by China-controlled entity Nexperia.…

Incident comes a week after 'SAP glitch' kept some planes on the taxiway Indian budget airline SpiceJet on Wednesday attributed delayed flights to a ransomware attack.…

Nifty slogan and more software suggested as the rectification Mitsubishi Electric has admitted to widespread cheating on its internal quality control efforts.…

This week: Subsidiary's QA staff officially unionize, $18m settlement disputed, and more Current and former Activision Blizzard staff are stepping up their organizing and pressure campaigns on execs as the video-game giant tries to close its $68.7bn acquisition by Microsoft.…

Sure, stonking server and gaming sales, but hiring and expenses to slow down, too Nvidia exceeded market expectations and on Wednesday reported record first-quarter fiscal 2023 revenue of $8.29 billion, an increase of 46 percent from a year ago and eight percent from the previous quarter.…

Meanwhile, Twitter coughs up $150m after using account security contact details for advertising Miscreants have dumped on Telegram more than 142 million customer records stolen from MGM Resorts, exposing names, postal and email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth for any would-be identity thief.…

Meanwhile, Tails 5.0 users told to stop what they're doing over Firefox flaw DuckDuckGo promises privacy to users of its Android, iOS browsers, and macOS browsers – yet it allows certain data to flow from third-party websites to Microsoft-owned services.…

Someone got Zuck'd Meta’s AI business unit set up shop in Microsoft Azure this week and announced a strategic partnership it says will advance PyTorch development on the public cloud.…

Moore's Law got you down? Throw everything at the problem! Quantum, AI, cloud... IT services biz Atos has introduced a suite of cloud-based high-performance computing (HPC) services, based around technology gained from its purchase of cloud provider Nimbix last year.…

Occasional gaping hole and overprivileged users still blight the Beast of Redmond Despite a record number of publicly disclosed security flaws in 2021, Microsoft managed to improve its stats, according to research from BeyondTrust.…

Car maker says miscreants used stolen logins to break into folks' accounts Automaker General Motors has confirmed the credential stuffing attack it suffered last month exposed customers' names, personal email addresses, and destination data, as well as usernames and phone numbers for family members tied to customer accounts.…

What's Mandarin for 'Where's my money?' For five years, Foxconn promised and spectacularly failed to build a much-hyped sprawling factory near Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Now, the area's leaders may be saddled with $300 million in bond repayments that the Taiwanese iPhone maker had promised to repay. …

As Google guru who ported it points out, the operating system did not exist when 1-2-3 came out in 1983 A long lost native Unix version of the killer PC spreadsheet has not only been rediscovered, but almost unbelievably, it's been updated to create a native Linux version.…

Purchasing teams are a bit like help desks – always being asked to answer dumb or inappropriate questions ServiceNow's efforts to expand into more industries will soon include a Procurement Service Management product.…

Wafer madness hits the LRZ in HPE Superdome supercomputer wrapper HPE and Cerebras Systems have built a new AI supercomputer in Munich, Germany, pairing a HPE Superdome Flex with the AI accelerator technology from Cerebras for use by the scientific and engineering community.…

Advocates for MySQL and PostgreSQL see broader future for movement they helped create MySQL pioneer Peter Zaitsev, an early employee of MySQL AB under the original open source database author Michael "Monty" Widenius, once found it easy to identify the enemy.…

Paper authors warn Elon Musk's 2,400 machines could be used offensively An egghead at the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications, writing in a peer-reviewed domestic journal, has advocated for Chinese military capability to take out Starlink satellites on the grounds of national security.…

Some of us have used them for decades, some are seeing them for the first time on marketing slides Systems Approach Explaining what an API is can be surprisingly difficult.…

Developers, developers... and top secret coffee machines. Security at MS is definitely tighter 25 years later Former Microsoft staffer Dave Plummer has revealed how he managed to sneak his wife into a corporate event so that she might experience a Steve Ballmer presentation first hand. The old romantic.…

But think tank says its past attempts at working together haven't gone well Leaders of the Quad alliance – Australia, India, Japan, and the USA – met on Tuesday and revealed initiatives to strengthen collaboration on emerging technologies and cybersecurity, with an unspoken subtext of neutralizing China.…

In detail: Ocean's Eleven-grade ruse in which victims' profiles are rigged from the start Two security researchers have identified five related techniques for hijacking internet accounts by preparing them to be commandeered in advance.…

Another rush job for busy Indian IT shops Indian IT shops have been handed another extraordinarily short deadline within which to perform significant infosec work.…

Treatment could stop coronavirus from replicating inside body An oral medication designed by scientists with the help of AI algorithms could one day treat patients with COVID-19 and other types of diseases caused by coronaviruses.…

CTO shares datacenter secrets with The Reg: NVMe, MariaDB, mid-range x86 CPUs, S3-alike, and more The tech world's pandemic supply chain meltdown drove ServiceNow to place orders for a year worth of datacenter kit in January 2022, believing that doing so was necessary to get the hardware it needed to cope with growing customer workloads.…

Cloudy server testbed coming, open source code filtering into RHEL promised Samsung and Red Hat have pledged to work together on developing software to get the best from emerging memory technologies.…

Software-tuning suite could be used to show where and how Xeon trumps rivals, if customers can believe it Analysis Intel is facing tough competition in the server CPU space, and one way it's trying to stand out — besides trying to make better chips — is its newly acquired Granulate cloud optimization software business that aims to improve application performance and reduce infrastructure costs.…

I get knocked down but I get up again, Italy, Canada, UK, ACLU, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter... are never gonna keep me down Clearview AI is reportedly expanding its facial-recognition services beyond law enforcement to include private industries, such as banking and education, amid mounting pressure from regulators, Big Tech, and privacy campaigners.…

Or so says Google after tracking 30+ vendors peddling surveillance malware Spyware vendor Cytrox sold zero-day exploits to government-backed snoops who used them to deploy the firm's Predator spyware in at least three campaigns in 2021, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG).…

Domain associated with maintainer email expired, taken over in supply-chain attack The Python Package Index (PyPI), a repository for Python software libraries, has advised Python developers that the ctx package has been compromised.…

Might be something for those who find AWS, Azure, GCP overly complex DigitalOcean dipped its toes in the serverless seas Tuesday with the launch of a Functions service it's positioning as a developer-friendly alternative to Amazon Web Services Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.…

Google Project Zero blows lid off bug involving that old chestnut: XML parsing Zoom has fixed a security flaw in its video-conferencing software that a miscreant could exploit with chat messages to potentially execute malicious code on a victim's device.…

It has this weird habit of drawing stereotyped White people, team admit DALL·E 2 may have to cede its throne as the most impressive image-generating AI to Google, which has revealed its own text-to-image model called Imagen.…

Facebook builds FORT to protect against onslaught of regulation, investigation Meta's ad transparency tools will soon reveal another treasure trove of data: advertiser targeting choices for political, election-related, and social issue spots.…

Just as Samsung pledges to invest $360b to shore up next-gen industries Toyota is to slash global production of motor vehicles due to the semiconductor shortage. The news comes as Samsung pledges to invest about $360 billion over the next five years to bolster chip production, along with other strategic sectors.…

Amazon Appstore preview goes wider, plus Windows on Arm platform with Neural Processing Units – Project Volterra Microsoft Build Windows still rules the enterprise, and among all the Azure and Power Platform action during Microsoft's annual Build event for developers, the company had news for users of its flagship operating system.…

The Register speaks to Jim Walker about maturity and super regions Cockroach Labs has finally added a new command line tool with the release of version 22.1 of its eponymous database, out today.…

'Experimental' systemd-sysupdate feature likely to get the most attention Version 251 of the controversial systemd Linux init system is here, and you can expect it to feature in the next version of your preferred distro.…

The software giant's 'orderly exit' appears to be ongoing A Ukrainian minister has accused software giant SAP of continuing to operate in Russia despite the German vendor previously vowing to withdraw from the aggressor nation.…

Graz University findings will become more significant as more AI work is done Neuromorphic chips have been endorsed in research showing that they are much more energy efficient at operating large deep learning networks than non-neuromorphic hardware.…

German optics giant jumps ship to make smartphone cameras for Xiaomi instead Huawei's long established trading relationship with Leica to integrate the German camera maker's technology into its phones is over, the companies have confirmed.…

Crafty file names, encrypted malicious code, Office flaws – ah, it's like the Before Times HP's cybersecurity folks have uncovered an email campaign that ticks all the boxes: messages with a PDF attached that embeds a Word document that upon opening infects the victim's Windows PC with malware by exploiting a four-year-old code-execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office.…

What does that mean? Better latency and a replacement for PulseAudio The next release of Ubuntu, version 22.10 and codenamed Kinetic Kudu, will switch audio servers to the relatively new PipeWire.…

Is... is that why Broadcom wants to buy it? The future of high-performance computing will be virtualized, VMware's Uday Kurkure has told The Register.…

Arm one year, x86 the next, and always faster than a certain chip shop that still can't ship even one standalone GPU Computex Nvidia's push deeper into enterprise computing will see its practice of introducing a new GPU architecture every two years brought to its CPUs and data processing units (DPUs, aka SmartNICs).…

Big Bezos is watching you Amazon is reportedly installing AI-powered cameras in delivery vans to keep tabs on its drivers in the UK.…

Just one instance type for now, but cheaper than third-gen Xeons or EPYCs Amazon Web Services has made its latest homebrew CPU, the Graviton3, available to rent in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure-as-a-service offering.…

Announcement comes as Chinese ride-hailing DiDi Chuxing delists from NYSE under pressure The Chinese government has announced that it will again allow "platform companies" – Beijing's term for tech giants – to list on overseas stock markets, marking a loosening of restrictions on the sector.…