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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.…

Plus: Activists fight for EU ban on AI lie detectors, and is the age prediction tool used by Meta accurate? In brief Numerous people start to believe they're interacting with something sentient when they talk to AI chatbots, according to the CEO of Replika, an app that allows users to design their own virtual companions.…

The dude who predicted the Enron collapse bets they will Analysis Jim Chanos, the infamous short-seller who predicted Enron's downfall, has said he plans to short datacenter real-estate investment trusts (REIT).…

Turn off chip detection, bypass need for a Microsoft account, change how Explorer works The latest beta of the popular Windows USB creation tool Rufus adds some handy features, such as removing Microsoft account requirements and turning off TPM chip detection – and there are others too.…

Officials could access data to make immigration decisions, European Parliament report suggests The UK has signed up to a US plan for sharing police-held biometric data about citizens with US border officials.…

Hack the future with a meta museum: 1 weird trick to free 50 years of digital life Opinion The word hacker, for most people, means a youth in a hoodie turning off power stations with a sticker-encrusted laptop. This annoys those who know that the true hacker ethos is to make stuff do things it was not designed to do, with bonus points for charm, ingenuity, and the maximum effect for the work put in. …

We've got the whole weekend. What could go wrong? Who, Me? It's Monday, and this week's column contains another reminder to check that those backups really have worked in an unfortunately synchronized episode of Who, Me?…

KDDI advises customers to act like it's 1993 and rediscover landlines and payphones Almost 40 million residents of Japan spent the weekend in The Time Before Smartphones after local telco KDDI Corp. experienced its biggest outage to date – affecting both voice calls and data communications.…

What are the 'main benefits' of Outlook? Whatever they are, that's all you'll get Microsoft is readying a "Lite" version of its flagship messaging and calendar app for Android.…

Constant crackdowns on bad online behavior don't seem to deter crims The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced a crackdown on investment fraud platforms on Friday in conjunction with the country's Ministry of Public Security.…

Buyers other than cloud operators remain the dominant source of dollars Analyst outfit IDC has predicted that the world's IT buyers will spend more on infrastructure intended for use in clouds than in other scenarios some time during 2022.…

If you can't defend against crypto bros… The British Army has apologized after its Twitter and YouTube accounts were compromised by entities that used them to promote NFTs.…

Industrial systems' security got 99 problems and CVEs are one. Or more The latest threat security research into operational technology (OT) and industrial systems identified a bunch of issues — 56 to be exact — that criminals could use to launch cyberattacks against critical infrastructure. …

openKylin project is latest chapter in Beijing's love-hate relationship with Redmond China’s efforts to end its reliance on Microsoft Windows got a boost with the launch of the openKylin project.…

There are just so many ways to deep fry your chips these days Comment Liquid and immersion cooling have undergone something of a renaissance in the datacenter in recent years as components have grown ever hotter.…

Freedoms eroded, iOS-Android duopoly under fire, chip sources questioned – it's all an opportunity for this phone Interview In June, Purism began shipping a privacy-focused smartphone called Librem 5 USA that runs on a version of Linux called PureOS rather than Android or iOS. As the name suggests, it's made in America – all the electronics are assembled in its Carlsbad, California facility, using as many US-fabricated parts as possible.…

Plus: Cyber-mercenaries said to target legal world, backdoor found on web servers, and more In brief Google on Friday pledged to update its location history system so that visits to medical clinics and similarly sensitive places are automatically deleted.…

We thought you guys were into this whole information hoarding thing TikTok, owned by Chinese outfit ByteDance, last month said it was making an effort to minimize the amount of data from US users that gets transferred outside of America, following reports that company engineers in the Middle Kingdom had access to US customer data.…

Oh no, he DIDn't The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has rejected Google's and Mozilla's objections to the Decentralized Identifiers (DID) proposal, clearing the way for the DID specification to be published a W3C Recommendation next month.…