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CISA, FBI, US Treasury warn Kim Jong-un's latest malware has hit healthcare orgs For the past year, state-sponsored hackers operating on behalf of North Korea have been using ransomware called Maui to attack healthcare organizations, US cybersecurity authorities said on Wednesday.…

You wanted flying cars and robo-butlers. Instead, we're getting tooth-cleaning morphing nanoparticle bots Experts in chemistry, dentistry, and engineering have developed a way to electromagnetically control iron oxide nanoparticles to clean plaque on human teeth.…

Cupertino is so sure of Lockdown Mode it's offering $2m to bug hunters to break it Apple's latest security feature won't be used by most of its customers, but those who need Lockdown Mode could find it to be a literal life saver.…

With construction unceremoniously underway, x86 giant may have overplayed its hand COMMENT The way Intel has been talking about the status of its $20 billion Ohio fab project, you would be forgiven if you assumed that construction on the Midwest mega-site has been delayed in light of Congress struggling to pass a large subsidies package that would support new American chip factories.…

RaaS malware devs have been busy bees The Hive group, which has become one of the most prolific ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operators, has significantly overhauled its malware, including migrating the code to the Rust programming language and using a more complex file encryption process.…

Gaming the system was fine for a while, now it's time to get precise about precision Comment A multi-exaflop supercomputer the size of your mini-fridge? Sure, but read the fine print and you may discover those performance figures have been a bit … stretched.…

Open source model improves translation of rarer spoken languages by 70% Meta's quest to translate underserved languages is marking its first victory with the open source release of a language model able to decipher 202 languages.…

Sorry, conspiracy theorists, it's more likely sloppy webdev work rather than spying We expect a certain amount of cookie-based tracking on retail websites and social networks, but in some countries up to 90 percent of government sites have implemented trackers – and serve them seemingly without user consent. …

Round led by Singapore's ABC Impact, which sees growing market for the technology in Asia UK-based liquid cooling company Iceotope has scored £30 million (c $35.7 million) in a funding round led by Singapore's ABC Impact private equity provider, which sees a growing market for the technology in Asia.…

Beawre teh mizpelled pakcage naem Researchers at ReversingLabs have uncovered evidence of a widespread software supply chain attack through malicious JavaScript packages picked up via NPM.…

Digital thieves made off with 20GB of internal documents and customer data Marriott Hotels has leaked data to attackers again and this time the culprits made off with 20GB of information, which reportedly included credit card info and internal company documents. …

Lack of alternative offers means sale may go ahead with expected completion in fiscal 2023 Broadcom's proposed buyout of VMware looks set to proceed after the "go-shop" period for alternative offers expired without any rival bidders coming forward.…

US-led national security bans have left Chinese comms giant seeking inspiration Once mighty Chinese comms giant Huawei has decided the strategy required to surmount a long list of challenges "should not be decided by a handful of people" at the top of the company.…

Back to 2019 with two build numbers. Plus: Previous features may 'disappear' Microsoft has split up its band of unpaid testers, the Windows Insiders, into two groups with the latest updates to the company's Beta Channel.…

Customers 'becoming impatient' to get 'clarity' on the matter, says exec Nexperia has expressed frustration with the UK government's probe into its takeover of Newport Wafer Fab – ongoing since last year – saying the company has invested money into the plant and needs a swift decision.…

Deals leave NHS bodies out of pocket after collapse in value of UK health tech company Seven NHS hospital trusts in the UK including world-renowned pediatric hospital Great Ormond Street appear to have lost millions of pounds following deals with an AI startup that has since delisted from AIM, part of the London Stock Exchange.…

Stop us if you've heard this before: Apple facing charges of anti-competitive behavior in the App Store A UK tribunal has agreed that a Collective Proceedings Order (CPO) potentially involving 19.6 million consumers in the country can go ahead in a case that could cost Apple up to £1.5 billion ($1.8 billion).…

Google, Facebook, Amazon and the rest stand to lose – if rules are actually enforced After nearly two years of legal wrangling, the European Parliament on Tuesday passed the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act, teeing up a showdown between the continent and US tech giants.…

One market down on China's march toward tech self-sufficiency, a bajillion more to go. Beijing's efforts to grow local alternatives to the wares of the world's mightiest tech companies have made progress in the relational database market, according to research by analyst firm International Data Corp (IDC).…

Time to bone up on Hancom Office, the productivity suite that's big in Korea – and nowhere else The governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea (that's South Korea) have reached an in-principle agreement to share data across borders.…

The fun folk who attacked Solar Winds using a poisoned CV and tools from the murky world of commercial hackware Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat intelligence team has claimed that a piece of malware that 56 antivirus products were unable to detect is evidence that state-backed attackers have found new ways to go about the evil business.…

Local carriers are also upset with the laws, which they say will break encryption India's rules governing content takedowns are being challenged by local mobile carriers and Twitter, on grounds that they are technically infeasible and restrict free speech.…

Why go through the hassle of demands and decryption when quietly mining is so much easier? The developer of the AstraLocker ransomware code is reportedly ceasing operations and turning attention to the far simpler art and crime of cryptojacking.…

Yet another sign x86 giant has moved past Krzanich era to focus on core chip businesses As Intel tries to enact an ambitious comeback plan, the semiconductor giant has been offloading some divisions that aren't key to its core chipmaking business. The latest to get shunted off is the company's PR-friendly drone-powered light-show business, and the buyer is… Elon Musk's brother.…

NIST pushes ahead with CRYSTALS-KYBER, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON, SPHINCS+ algorithms The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recommended four cryptographic algorithms for standardization to ensure data can be protected as quantum computers become more capable of decryption.…

Beijing can't get next-gen lithography gear, America now trying to block sales of older machines The US government is reportedly stepping up efforts to hamper China's ability to grow its semiconductor manufacturing capabilities by pressing for a wider ban on key chipmaking gear.…

DoD puts money behind bug bounty program after reward-free pilot The US Department of Defense has created a broad but short bug bounty program for reports of vulnerabilities in public-facing systems and applications.…

Unlucky few percent of netizens affected by weird timing issue For the past three months, an elusive bug in Google's open-source Chromium project has been causing a small percentage of Chrome extensions to silently fail.…

Silicon Valley and financial institutions may be increasingly inseparable Comment For all their differences, the biggest tech companies share one thing in common: They don't like to stay in their lane. …

UK wants to follow US move to stop sales from equipment manufacturers A group of politicians and lawmakers in the UK have backed a campaign to ban the sale of CCTV systems made by companies alleged to introduce potential security issues as well as being linked to human rights abuses in China.…

Tetraquarks and other discoveries as CERN revs up for Run 3 Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have announced the observation of three never-before-seen particles as the accelerator kicks off its third run.…

Germany's answer to System76 – pre-installed with your preferred distro Tuxedo Computers is launching a second generation of its Pulse high-end Linux laptop.…

Going completely cloud-native will save it $400m a year, CIO estimates The datacenter is dead – at least according to FedEx, which announced plans to close its server farms and transition completely to the cloud, where it hopes to save an estimated $400 million annually.…

But the agency is distinctly aware that it needs more autonomy The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a strategy roadmap to take it into the 2030s and beyond.…

But US administration split on loss of leverage, according to reports US president Joe Biden is debating whether to end or cut Trump-era tariffs imposed on Chinese imports into the United States, according to reports.…

Chemicals supplier warns it expects to raise prices, may cut some product lines More red flags about the semiconductor market are being raised with the news that a key supplier to chipmakers such as TSMC is planning to hike prices, which will likely have a knock-on effect on chip prices.…

Vendors get checklist on what to do when crooks inevitably turn up in space The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has put out an IT baseline protection profile for space infrastructure amid concerns that attackers could turn their gaze skywards.…

Linux's Wayland-only future takes a tentative step closer One of the GNOME developers has suggested that the next major release of Gtk could drop support for the X window system.…

Well, that's one way to ensure it is more widely used ... Alibaba's financial services affiliate, Ant Group, has open sourced its "privacy-preserving Computation Framework."…

One of four contracts set to replace Atos arrangement going back 20 years IBM has won a contract worth £34.2 million (c $41.2 million) as part of a tranche of technology upgrade deals from the UK's National Savings & Investment bank set to be worth hundreds of millions.…

Wireless headphones provide 18 hours of talk-time or 20 hours of listening time for the hybrid worker Review Logitech has lined up another headset to tap into the continuing trend for remote and hybrid working: the Zone Vibe 125.…

Promises funds will be used to support struggling students The Netherlands' Maastricht University has managed to recoup the Bitcoin ransom it paid to ransomware scum in 2019 – and has made a tidy profit on the deal.…

China rubbishes NASA suggestion it wants Luna all to itself NASA and commercial space outfits Rocket Lab and Advanced Space have collectively announced that the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – CAPSTONE – mission has left Earth orbit and is on its way to Luna.…

Appears to have leaked from a cloud thanks to sloppy coding A threat actor has taken to a forum for news and discussion of data breaches with an offer to sell what they assert is a database containing records of over a billion Chinese civilians – allegedly stolen from the Shanghai Police.…

How sad – this looks like a fine excuse to avoid video conferences for a while Google has issued an unexpected update to its Chrome browser to address a zero-day WebRTC flaw that is actively being exploited.…

Identity, payments, data management – the lot – as digital public goods The Indian government has decided to share with the world the many e-governance tools it has created to run the country, under the name Indiastack.global.…

For when the outage lasts so long that your UPS runs out of charge Schneider Electric has teamed up with Dell Technologies on an automated shutdown system for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), based on the integration of its APC PowerChute with Dell's VxRail HCI platform.…

Microsoft says it'll move to 'restrict trials and internal workloads to prioritize growth of existing customers' Microsoft's Azure cloud is having difficulty providing enough capacity to meet demand, according to some customers, with certain regions said to refusing new subscriptions for services.…

Decade-old spat over security tech not over yet as New York institution files for enhanced damages NortonLifeLock and Columbia University's legal tussle over anti-malware patents continued last week, with attorney fees and a new trial in dispute two months after a jury awarded the uni $185 million.…

Microsoft, Amazon and Google all have products showing the damage you do and now so does Softbank offshoot Alibaba is following in the footsteps of larger rivals by launching a tool that customers can use to measure and manage the carbon emissions of their business with the aim of lowering their environmental impact.…