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Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'
Our ancestors made tools from bones … so why not freeze a spider instead of 3D printing parts? Videos Scientists from Rice University in Texas have used a dead spider as an actuator at the end of a robot arm – a feat they claim has initiated the field of "necrobotics".…
Court allows Huawei India CEO to appeal travel ban
Allegations of financial impropriety continue to swirl The CEO of Huawei's Indian operation, Xiongwei Li, has been given permission to appeal a travel ban imposed by India's tax authorities.…
Philippines logs on to Starlink for remote area internet services
Comms ministry boss sees space as preferable to messing around with mountaintop builds The Philippines is considering SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service as a means to provide access for remote communities.…
VMware delivers a load of updates for its Amazonian incarnation
Windows 11 debuts, as service extends to Hong Kong VMware this week announced its virtualization stack for AWS will come to Hong Kong this quarter, one of a number of upgrades and improvements to the Amazonian edition of its core offerings.…
Now another Meta acquisition in jeopardy: VR biz Within
And on the same day revenue declined, web ad spend uncertain, hiring slowed, more AI curation promised The US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to stop Facebook parent Meta from acquiring VR firm Within, claiming the deal could harm competition and consumers.…
FileWave fixes bugs that left 1,000+ orgs open to ransomware, data theft
Internet-connected MDM instances, each with an 'unrestricted number' of managed devices, were vulnerable FileWave has fixed a couple vulnerabilities in its endpoint management software that could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and take full control of the deployment and associated devices.…
We're likely only seeing 'the tip of the iceberg' of Pegasus spyware use against the US
House intel chair raises snoop tool concerns as Google and others call for greater crack down Google and internet rights groups have called on Congress to weigh in on spyware, asking for sanctions and increased enforcement against so-called legit surveillanceware makers.…
Congress continues playing hot potato with $52b CHIPS Act subsidies
Senate throws funding act back over to House to pass Senators today inched billions of dollars in US semiconductor fabrication subsidies a little closer to reality.…
US puts $10 million bounty on North Korean cyber-crews
Kim will be shaking in his shoes The US is offering up to $10 million for information on members of state-sponsored North Korean threat groups, double the amount that the State Department announced in April.…
Apple network traffic takes mysterious detour through Russia
Land of Putin capable of attacking routes in cyberspace as well as real world Apple's internet traffic took an unwelcome detour through Russian networking equipment for about twelve hours between July 26 and July 27.…
Massive solar project in Tennessee is all about Google
Skyhawk Solar could generate up to 100MW of energy to feed Google datacenters A massive solar project is giving the Tennessee Valley Authority - and Google - a big boost of renewable energy.…
There is a path to replace TCP in the datacenter
Forty years in, a protocol that's over the hill and under the gun, at least for the majors One of the most entrenched standards of the last forty years, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), might be seeing the end of the line, at least for applications in some of the world's largest datacenters.…
AWS ups security for Elastic Block Store, Kubernetes service
Stretching its security software a bit further Amazon’s cloud platform is extending security capabilities for a couple of its widely used services; Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).…
Knotweed Euro cyber mercenaries attacking private sector, says Microsoft
Reports seeing 'offensive actor' flinging SubZero malware Microsoft has published an analysis of a Europe-based "private-sector offensive actor" with a view to helping its customers spot signs of attacks by money-hungry gangsters.…
Meta approves four programming languages for workers and developers
Rust never sleeps and is henceforth welcome for backend services and CLI tools Meta, the social ad biz better known as Facebook, on Wednesday endorsed four programming languages as preferred options for employees and for developers building software on its platform, now in the midst of reorientation toward data-rich virtual worlds.…
Juniper says 400G network kit in demand, supply chain worries easing
Hopefully 80-week lead times a thing of the past Juniper Networks said it is seeing strong demand for network kit, especially for 400G products from the cloud and hyperscale sectors, and claims its earlier supply chain difficulties are easing.…
Time from vulnerability disclosures to exploits is shrinking
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 incident response team warns of patch speedups Palo Alto Networks' annual Unit 42 incident response report is out, warning of an ever-decreasing gap between vulnerability disclosures and an increase in cybercrime.…
MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out confusing Lego instructions
But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too? Stumped by a Lego set? A new machine learning framework can interpret those instructions for you. …
Computer glitches harmed 'nearly 150' patients after Oracle Cerner system go-live
Problems with the October 2020 veterans’ hospital software launch being fixed quickly, promises Oracle Computer errors following the go-live of a new Oracle Cerner electronic health records system harmed nearly 150 patients at a Washington hospital, as revealed during a hearing in the US.…
Semiconductor market to dip 2.5% next year as inflation hits
Not the money-printing machine investors were hoping for as demand set to decrease, says Gartner Gartner thinks global semiconductor sales growth will fall this year compared to last, and is forecasting a revenue decline in 2023 as rising inflation and consumers cutting back on spending take a greater toll on demand.…
Chinese booster rocket tumbles back to Earth: 'Non-zero' chance of hitting populated area
88 percent of the world's population live under the currently estimated footprint of the debris Space boffins are watching the skies for a 23 metric ton Chinese rocket booster that is expected to crash back to Earth.…
Apple-1 prototype hand-soldered by Woz up for auction, bids expected to reach $500k
For just a few hundred thou, you can 'reimagine' dusty Jobs garage computer with a massive crack across the circuit board Got several hundred thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Why waste it investing in further education, or paying off debts, when you can spend it on an original "Apple Computer A" prototype, right, Jobs fans?…
Weak data protection helped China attack US Federal Reserve, report says
Details of adversarial tradecraft detailed, includes many email accounts China's cyber espionage activities are extensive and sophisticated but when the Middle Kingdom tried to steal sensitive economic data from the US Fed, poor security meant its operatives didn't have to dip too far into their bags of tricks.…
SK Group pledges $22b for US chip, battery manufacturing
Plus Kioxia, WD snag a $680 million cash infusion from Japan South Korean conglomerate SK Group signaled this week it will splurge $22 billion on semiconductor manufacturing, green energy, and bioscience research in the US.…
Micron's 232-layer NAND is a game changer for database workloads
Faster, higher capacity, and cheaper per gig. What more could you ask for? Oh yeah, endurance? Analysis Micron’s newly launched 232-layer TLC NAND modules could be a boon for data-intensive workloads like database operations and analytics.…
NASA's Lunar Orbiter spots comfortably warm 'pits' all over the Moon
Shaded bits of lava tubes stay at 17°C all lunar day and all lunar night, a contrast with the rest of Luna's frequent fluctuations Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has led scientists to conclude that the Moon hosts around 200 "pits" that offer stable and human-friendly temperatures.…
Chinese smartphone sales sink to levels not seen since 2012
Worse than during 2020's lockdowns and less than half 2016 sales Smartphone sales have slumped in China, with Q2 seeing the nation revert to volumes last experienced in 2012- the year Samsung launched the Galaxy SIII and Apple gave the world the iPhone 5.…
IBM puts NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe
Big Blue says it helped developed the algos, so knows what it's doing IBM has started offering quantum-resistant crypto – using the quantum-resistant crypto recommended by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).…
Vietnamese attacker circumvents Facebook security with ‘DUCKTAIL’ malware
Session cookies and 2FA subversion allow takeover of biz and ad accounts, lead to unauthorized ad buys Security vendor WithSecure, which was spun out in March 2022 as F-Secure’s enterprise security arm, claims it’s found malware that targets Facebook Business accounts.…
Google Cloud growth slows, losses grow, bosses unworried
Server spend surges across Alphabet’s empire Google’s cloud continues to lose money, but the ad giant and its parent company Alphabet aren’t troubled by the $858 million in cloudy red ink produced in its second quarter for financial year 2022.…
Microsoft profits rise again despite knocks from China, Russia
Finishes the year with close to $200 billion annual revenue and $185 million a day in profits Microsoft reported poorer than expected fourth quarter results, but still managed to end its FY 2022 rather well.…
Charter told to pay $7.3b in damages after cable installer murders grandmother
Broadband giant says it will appeal jury verdict in negligence case Charter Communications must pay out $7 billion in damages after one of its Spectrum cable technicians robbed and killed an elderly woman, a jury decided Tuesday.…
Crypto exchange Kraken reportedly hunted by the Feds for alleged sanctions busting
Plus: Coinbase said to face SEC wrath, blockchain scam CEO admits using victims' millions to fund Hawaiian condo The US government is reportedly investigating Kraken, a massive cryptocurrency exchange suspected of violating sanctions against Iran, and is expected to slap the crypto behemoth with a fine in the near future.…
Culture shock: Ransomware gang sacks arts orgs' email lists
Don't worry, the crooks totally deleted the data and promised not to use it for evil A ransomware gang has not only taken down WordFly, a mailing list provider for top arts organizations among others, but also siphoned data belonging to the US-based Smithsonian, Canada's Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.…
Martin Shkreli, out of prison for running a Ponzi scheme, now pushes Web3 thing
His latest project, Druglike, most definitely isn't in the pharmaceutical business, from which he's been banned Martin Shkreli, released from prison in May after serving much of his seven-year prison sentence for securities fraud, on Monday announced Druglike, described as "a Web3 drug discovery software platform."…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Now 100,000kg smaller
The Ocean Cleanup pulled all that trash in less than a year, and its newest system could collect 10x more A Dutch startup working to remove plastic garbage from the Pacific Ocean said it's marking a major milestone: extracting 100,000 kg (220,462 lbs) of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP).…
General Motors goes electric with $2.5b US government loan for battery plants
Tesla is not the only biz that can take billions from American taxpayers The US Department of Energy is set to hand General Motors' subsidiary $2.5 billion in loans to help finance the construction of three new EV battery cell plants across the midwest. …
Luca Stealer malware spreads rapidly after code handily appears on GitHub
Cool, another Rust project ... Oh A new info-stealer malware is spreading rapidly in the wild as the developer behind it continues to add capabilities and recently released the source code on GitHub.…
CHERI-based computer runs KDE for the first time
Digital security via processor design, hardware-enforced protection … and a friendly desktop Wayland and the KDE Plasma desktop now run on CheriBSD, the special version of FreeBSD for Arm's experimental Morello hardware.…
Russia's new space chief confirms it will leave ISS after 2024
NASA: First we’ve heard of it Hopes that the departure of Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin from Roscosmos will improve global space relations have been crushed. New boss Yuri Borisov today confirmed a post-2024 withdrawal from the International Space Station project.…
Microsoft warns Windows 10 patch broke printing for some
Stop us if you'd heard this one before... Microsoft's torrid time with patches is continuing after the company admitted that printing might once again be broken in Windows 10 for some users following the application of an update.…
James Webb, Halley's Comet might be set for cosmic dust-up
Comet debris is right in JWST's path, and could further damage its sensitive mirror The James Webb Space Telescope is predicted to pass through Halley's Comet's debris trail next year, meaning that particles could further endanger its sensitive primary mirror.…
Ransomware less popular this year, but malware up: SonicWall cyber threat report
Be ready for a rebound, and protect yourself with patching and segmentation SonicWall has published its latest threat report, showing a drop in ransomware but an increase in malware attacks in the first half of 2022.…
Software issues cost Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess his job
From Beetles to bugs: 'Development of software expertise biggest switch automotive industry has to make' Failure to turn around Volkswagen's software unit seems to have cost CEO Herbert Diess his job in the latest struggle to see the German carmaker modernize its organization.…
About that $1b... IBM says Watson Health assets fetched $230m in pre-tax profits
Unit was supposed to transform oncology yet never turned a profit, ended up in hands of private equity IBM has confirmed it made a few hundred million on the $1 billion sale of the healthcare data and analytics assets housed by its Watson Health unit.…
Eutelsat and OneWeb to join forces across orbits in $3.4b merger
LEO and GEO orbit covered in satellite broadband handshake OneWeb and Eutelsat have signed a memorandum of understanding intended to create a mega multi-orbit satellite broadband provider.…
India is crowdsourcing ideas for its telecommunication reform
Last update of telecom law occurred before the internet even existed India’s Department of Telecommunications has put out a consultation paper calling for input into generational reform of its telecommunication laws.…
Cheap cellular data list is out: And US doesn't make top 200
Modern life is expensive, but Britain's mobile data costs seem to be falling The UK has climbed the rankings for cost per 1GB of mobile data, according to a report from Cable.co.uk, and has reached the dizzying heights of 59th place.…
Hints about SUSE's 'Adaptable Linux Platform' emerge
Direction of future distros may be firming up, along with formidable system requirements The Reg has collated information that points at the direction of the Adaptable Linux Platform – SUSE's future replacement for its conventional distros.…
UK immigration systems delayed by extra Ukraine visa work
Government project watchdog signals red rating for case management system and warns about 'ageing' HMRC datacenter A UK Home Office plan to modernize its immigration technology to achieve "operational efficiencies" and "optimize use of data" received a red rating from the government's projects watchdog as it struggles to process Ukrainian refugees.…
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