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Data privacy, data schmivacy Updated Here's a workaround for the baby formula shortage: buy a pregnancy test at Walgreens and you may receive free formula in the mail.…

Can't get into that machine? No problem, just trust this completely sketchy looking tool Industrial engineers and operators are being lured into running backdoor malware disguised as tools for recovering access to work systems.…

High-end Arc A750 will compete with *checks notes* a GeForce RTX 3060 Comment As Intel's first wave of discrete Arc GPUs slowly make it out into the wild, the chipmaker is making clear that its latest attempt in the graphics market won't challenge the best from Nvidia or AMD.…

'Blue Onyx' defies the odds, defies logic, and fulfills an incredible dream (to quote a long-running film franchise) The Rocky Linux Project has released version 9 of its RHEL-compatible distro and debuted its new build service.…

Plus: Head of AI and Autopilot at Tesla quits, FIFA rolls out AI in this year's football World Cup, and more In brief Weeks after Cruise launched its autonomous, driverless taxi rides to the public in San Francisco, numerous vehicles mysteriously piled up and blocked several lanes of incoming traffic downtown.…

Democrats: regulations needed to assess how much energy used and emissions created, says letter to DoE, EPA Cryptocurrency miners can't be trusted to give honest information about the power they use so a group of Senators and Representatives want the federal government to compel them to be transparent.…

Citizen services only moved online in May. What could possibly go wrong? Albania's online public services and websites have gone dark following what appears to be a cyberattack.…

Wafer company says it has 'significant reason' to believe Israeli chipmaker misappropriated IP IQE, producer of compound semiconductor wafers, has filed a lawsuit against Israeli chipmaker Tower Semiconductor, claiming the company misappropriated its intellectual property. Tower is in the process of being acquired by chip giant Intel.…

The curse of Patch Tuesday strikes again as error codes wreak minor havoc Complaints over Microsoft's latest patch Tuesday have intensified after some Windows 11 users found their systems worse for wear following installation.…

After offloading McAfee and Wind River, the x86 giant is building a commercial software business again Analysis Intel is in the midst of a massive effort to rekindle its chipmaking machine, in addition to building a business out of selling software for the second time in less than a decade.…

Systems will help with the DoD's most demanding computational challenges including AI, ML, and analytics Defense giant BAE Systems has secured a five-year $699 million contract with the US Army in support of the force's high-performance computing (HPC) programs.…

Making down payment to Vertical Aerospace for VX4 electric VTOL fleet American Airlines has committed to making pre-delivery payments for 50 Vertical Aerospace VX4 electric VTOL aircraft.…

They paint themselves as eco-saints, but the numbers tell another story Every year the likes of Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and others trot out their annual environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reports and boast to the world how responsible they are.…

More flavors than than an ice cream shop means something for just about everyone There are probably more variants of Debian than any other Linux distro, which can make it confusing. To provide some clarity,The Reg has lined up the main suspects.…

Mobiles and tablets among sectors identified for regulation India’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs says it is developing a right to repair framework to reduce waste and bolster parts of the economy.…

Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies Opinion Intel has produced some unbelievable graphs in its time: projected Itanium market share, next node power consumption, multicore performance boosts. The graph the company showed at the latest VLSI Symposium, however, was a real shocker.…

And this is why we test the tests Who, Me? We take a break from busted backups in today's Who, Me? in favor of laser-guided missiles and a reminder to check every element in your test plan.…

Before you could say 'economic espionage', a factory in China was making bits of iThings The New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office has alleged that a Chinese company hired local employees of a company that supplies parts to Apple, then bid for work with the iGiant.…

Unless anyone else ever accesses your PC in any way A cryptic website with a single line of text promises to make your Linux box more responsive – if you are willing to accept some risk.…

Namely working on a central bank digital currency The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has dissolved its subcommittee dedicated to crypto-boosterism after deciding it should focus its resources elsewhere.…

Carriers likely to get cents on the dollar for ditched Huawei and ZTE kit unless more funds are found The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) notified Congress on Friday that the cost to rip and replace equipment kit from Huawei and ZTE installed at US telcos is more than $3 billion higher than funding allocated for the program.…

Takes up advisory role that might leave time to play with parent company's homebrew cloudy SmartNICs TikTok's Global Chief Security Officer Roland Cloutier has "transitioned" from his job into "a strategic advisory role focusing on the business impact of security and trust programs."…

Plus: Weibo cracks down on political puns; Singaporean crypto biz Vauld restructures; Philippines fights Facebook rumors Asia In Brief Senior execs from Alibaba Cloud were summoned to discuss the data leak that saw information pertaining to a billion Chinese citizens sold on the dark web, according to Nikkei and The Wall Street Journal.…

But tidying things up has contributed to a one week delay on the version 5.19 release Linux kernel developers have addressed the Retbleed speculative execution bug in older Intel and AMD silicon, but the fix wasn't straightforward, so emperor penguin Linus Torvalds has delayed delivery of the next version by a week.…

Also: Lawyers told to dissuade clients from paying off ransomware crooks, and more In brief SMBs, beware: Microsoft said this week it has discovered a North Korean crew targeting small businesses with ransomware since September of last year.…

Performs better than expected, which is just as well – as it's going to be pelted with space rocks Is the $10 billion price tag for the world's most expensive telescope worth it?…

Hate to ruin your Friday Juniper Networks has patched critical-rated bugs across its Junos Space, Contrail Networking and NorthStar Controller products that are serious enough to prompt CISA to weigh in and advise admins to update the software as soon as possible.…

The longer the purchase takes, the more frustrating, says Gartner IT departments are frequently feeling the sting of buyer's remorse following big-ticket enterprise technology purchases.…

All versions are susceptible, there's no patch, so now's a good time to remove this add-on Miscreants have reportedly scanned almost 1.6 million websites in attempts to exploit an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in a previously disclosed buggy WordPress plugin.…

Taiwan gov is threatening a — checks notes — 0.1 percent fine. Yeah, that'll teach em Foxconn is in hot water this week after the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer became a major stakeholder in Chinese semiconductor manufacturer Tsinghua Unigroup without regulatory approval.…

Pay dispute rumbles on, industrial action scheduled for 29 July and 1 August Some 40,000 BT Group employees are scheduling two days of strike action in protest at what the Communication Workers Union described as a real-term pay cut for staff, given the steep rise in inflation.…

Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P In a world ever more hungry for copper, a looming shortage could end green energy transition plans before they even get off the ground.…

A portent of the End Times, or simply a smart corporate move? Probably the latter Microsoft has signed up to the open source Eclipse Foundation Jakarta EE and MicroProfile working groups as an Enterprise and Corporate member.…

Bluster and hot air do not make for a sustainable space program Dmitry Rogozin has been dismissed from his post as boss of Russian space agency Roscosmos.…

The venerable Z80 OS is a now hobbyist favorite The company that still owns Digital Research's CP/M operating system has granted a new, more permissive license for the eight-bit OS, making it free for anyone to modify or redistribute.…

Follina was all very exciting, but did you patch CVE-2022-30136? Trend Micro Research has published an anatomy of a Windows remote code execution vulnerability lurking in the Network File System.…

Chipmaker looks cool next to immersion pros, talks up increased densities Intel has partnered with Green Revolution Cooling (GRC) on a joint whitepaper about liquid immersion cooling. The pair make the case for sustainability, claiming it reduces the power needed to cool a datacenter as well as cutting operational costs.…

When the chips are down: Memory device maker the latest to evaluate direction SK hynix is considering a cut in capital expenditure by as much as 25 percent, another sign that recent high demand for semiconductors is tailing off due to inflation amid growing concerns of oversupply.…

Commissioning pics show spacecraft can peer near as well as far Instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope have turned closer to home to snap images showing the gas giant Jupiter.…

Tracking bracelet rescinded in some areas after uproar and confusion on who dictated its use Some Beijing residents have lashed out at local COVID measures after they were required to wear electronic monitoring wristbands.…

Chipmaker braces for a course correction but remains 'highly confident' in long-term outlook Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has offered guidance adjustments that signal preparations for a market correction despite reporting record profits as customers hoard excessive inventory.…

Death becomes you swiftly but it’s messy making your way back Something for the Weekend Zombies walk among us – until they need a nice sit-down, of course. It can be tiring to be undead. No wonder they drag their feet around and do all that moaning.…

And the app still runs... to this day On Call Sometimes you take the call. Sometimes you place it. Welcome to an On Call where our reader is on the other side of the telephone.…

Third-party software developer blamed for 'improperly storing credentials to our database' The bad news keeps on rolling for British recruitment agency Morgan Hunt amid confirmation it suffered a digital burglary, with intruders making off with the personal data for some of the freelancers on its books.…

Slacked off and fed up with Teams? Want to escape the clutches of big tech? Element thinks so The decentralized Matrix network has crashed through the 60 million user mark with user growth rate exceeding 70 percent in 2021, according to the company behind the messaging service.…

Perfect political pantomime Conservative lawmakers in the UK rounded off the week with a war of words over a proposed – and now delayed – internet content law.…

Watch out for deadly pinchers after that record-breaking attack The botnet behind the largest-ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been named after a tiny shrimp.…

Bill bloat blamed, countdown continues, Intel irritable, negotiations necessary The Biden administration has had enough of Congressional delays in authorizing $52 billion in chip manufacturing subsidies, and is bringing the heat to Capitol Hill with the clear goal of seeing the funding unlocked before lawmakers leave for August recess. …

Great, another thing that's gone endemic Organizations can expect risks associated with Log4j vulnerabilities for "a decade or longer," according to the US Department of Homeland Security.…

$1.2b deficit? Yup, that oughta do it Cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, a month after it froze all transactions, which prevented netizens from withdrawing funds.…