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Need a cold shower? This is xNix like Windows users imagine it still is Version 9.3 of NetBSD is here, able to run on very low-end systems and with that authentic early-1990s experience.…

Too much junk in the orbital trunk Debris from a Russian anti-satellite missile is causing chaos in orbit, with shards of ex-spacecraft circling the Earth at perilous speeds.…

Chinese game devs targeted – maybe data protection laws too Game engine vendor Unity has announced it will commence operations in China, and has attracted a who's who of local tech giants as investors.…

Feels some actions may amount to coercion to stick with giants' own payment schemes South Korea's Communications Commission (KCC) said on Tuesday it is investigating Google, Apple and domestic app store operator One Store Co. over sneaky ways the companies may be dodging the country's in-app payment laws.…

Sees sunlit uplands ahead with plans for factory and ITaaS expansions Lenovo's Infrastructure Solutions Group has reported a third straight quarterly profit, and the company sees better days ahead in the field so has ordered expansion of plants in Mexico and Hungary.…

Interferometry will be used to turn six toaster-sized satellites into one giant solar observatory NASA has plans to build a telescope six miles (9.66km) wide in Earth orbit, comprised of a constellation of six toaster-sized satellites. The first of those toasters has just been finished. …

Trade minister says to expect more of this sanctions-busting stuff starting in September Iran has announced it used cryptocurrency to pay for imports, raising the prospect that the nation is using digital assets to evade sanctions.…

If you're looking for free speech or privacy, move along GitHub over the past week has tested the trust of its users by enacting policies that call into question its commitment to free speech and privacy.…

Hopes to tap expected growth as it levels up to match rivals' presences Google Cloud has announced it will build facilities in Thailand, Malaysia, and New Zealand.…

Far East Cable acted as a broker in between ZTE and Iranian companies, it's alleged The US Bureau of Industry and Security has accused China's Far East Cable Co. of violating export controls by selling telecommunications equipment to Iran on behalf of supplier ZTE.…

The memory biz is bracing for a recession-fueled drop in demand Micron committed to investing $40 billion in new semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the US over the next decade, even as the company warns of financial headwinds due to slipping product demand.…

Oh, and that critical VMware auth bypass vuln? Miscreants found it, too August Patch Tuesday clicks off the week of hacker summer camp in Las Vegas this year, so it's basically a code cracker's holiday too. …

Car crunch bites, but relief looks likely As the chip shortage rolls on, automakers are still hitting the brakes on production, cutting 180,000 vehicles from production worldwide this week alone.…

On the same day the United States kickstarts one of its own China’s semiconductor investment fund — better known as the Big Fund — has become mired in controversy over the past few weeks as the country’s corruption watchdog continues to sniff out allegations of misconduct.…

American semiconductor manufacturing is back, baby! On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law.…

Covid lockdowns, Chinese regulations and SEC threats make Alibaba's job numbers worrying Alibaba's woes continue, with the Chinese tech giant's latest financial reports indicating it cut nearly 10,000 jobs, or around 3.8 percent of its workforce, in the second quarter of 2022. …

SpaceX to pick up the slack while the rocket is updated yet again Russia's invasion of Ukraine is being felt at Northrop Grumman, forcing it to make alternative plans that now include asking Firefly Aerospace to build the first stage of its Antares rocket.…

AMD Zen chips, meanwhile, are vulnerable to side-channel data scrying A group of computer scientists has identified an architectural error in certain recent Intel CPUs that can be abused to expose SGX enclave data like private encryption keys.…

Alliance will hopefully give students path to job as well as backing Intel's Ohio fab plans A dozen US midwestern research colleges and universities have signed up to a project intended to bolster the semiconductor and microelectronics industries with combined research and education to ensure work for their students in high-tech industries.…

Campaign group Dawn Project results calculated from small sample size, test done without hands on the wheel The latest version of Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta has a bit of a kink: it doesn't appear to notice child-sized objects in its path, according to a campaign group.…

Plus: Crooks swimming around your network, looking for a way in, says Incident Response Threat Report Security teams are facing down more cyberattacks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and sophisticated crooks are using double-extortion techniques and, increasingly, deepfakes in their strikes.…

Patrolling quadrupeds not fitted with 7.62mm tank machine guns – yet Space Force, the sixth branch of the US military has tasked robot dogs with patrolling its base at Cape Canaveral.…

SIGGRAPH 2022: Lenovo's ThinkStation P620 only desktop workstation powered by AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Lenovo has unveiled new mobile workstations based on AMD Ryzen processors, comprising a mid-range model with a 15.6 inch screen, and a 14 inch system pitched as Lenovo's lightest mobile workstation.…

'AES-based operations might be two times slower' without latest updates Microsoft has warned that Windows devices with the newest supported processors might be susceptible to data damage, noting the initial fix might have slowed operations down for some.…

Company had hoped deal would grant access to $300m trust account, but shareholders cleared it out Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Systems has completed its planned merger with DPCM Capital, taking the company public on the New York Stock Exchange.…

Deployment plan includes unified data governance platform Purview Barclays Bank has selected Microsoft Teams as its preferred collaboration platform, meaning that up to 120,000 of the company's employees and partners globally could be using the service soon.…

Running Windows apps on your M1 Mac just got a bit more expensive Corel-owned Parallels has put out an update for its Windows-on-a-Mac Desktop product with a few neat new features and an eye-watering price.…

Cyberspace Administration of China closes accounts and removes to 'rectify the chaos' China's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) vowed on Tuesday to clean up what it sees as bad and blatantly misleading marketing of virtual currencies.…

Telco promises uplift in capacity and speed once deployed BT has tested operating four carrier components (4CC) on a 5G Standalone network, and claimed it is the first in Europe to demonstrate this on a live network. The technology will deliver higher capacity and speed to end user devices when eventually rolled out across the entire mobile network.…

Lords cite 'frequent' policy changes, lack of metrics, post-Brexit funding as top issues How's the UK doing in its ambitions to become a sci-tech "superpower" by 2030? According to a report by the Lords Science and Technology Committee, it's currently on track to make the phrase an "empty slogan."…

Many sources become one Multimodal AI models, trained on numerous types of data, could help doctors screen patients at risk of developing multiple different cancers more accurately..…

Have it your way – whether you want it or not Burger King has just served spam to many of its customers, who have complained they received an emailed receipt to advise them of a non-existent order for no food.…

Ring-fenced tests planned, despite previous regulatory skepticism about the need for fiat digi-dollars Australia"s Reserve Bank (RBA) has announced it will try to find applications that justify the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).…

Encourages 'eco friendly' consumer choices in exchange for discounts Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba launched a tool on Monday that encourages "eco-friendly consumer behavior" by rewarding customers for purchases and "green" activities on its apps with discounts on more stuff.…

Search, Maps and YouTube later suffer brief outages - nothing as concerning as the injuries suffered by workers Google's consumer-facing and advertising services have faltered after an incident at one of its major datacenters.…

Junior cloud growing nicely, but calls out customers' easing ardor for distributed ledgers Junior cloud Digital Ocean has reported a marked dip in customers using its IaaS services to run blockchains.…

Cyberspace regulator's fraud report finds all is not well behind the Great Firewall Fraudsters in China have targeted a child with promises of allowing them to get around the nation's time limits on playing computer games – for a mere $560, according to the nation's cyberspace administration. Yesterday the CAC detailed some of the 12,000 acts of online fraud perpetrated against minors it handled this year.…

For those that just can't wait for AV1 encoding Intel unveiled its answer to the AMD's FirePro and what used to be Nvidia's Quadro workstation GPUs this week with the launch of a trio of new graphics cards aimed at professional applications like architectural design, engineering, and content creation.…

We're 'highly likely' to see similar attacks, Kaspersky warned Beijing-backed cyberspies used specially crafted phishing emails and six different backdoors to break into and then steal confidential data from military and industrial groups, government agencies and other public institutions, according to Kaspersky researchers.…

Patent lawsuits, the next saga Google hit Sonos with two lawsuits on Monday, claiming patent infringement on seven different technologies associated with smart speakers, as part of its ongoing battle with the audio hardware biz over intellectual property.…

Being the money launderer for North Korea’s Lazarus Group comes at a price The US Treasury Department is levying sanctions against Tornado Cash, a notorious cryptocurrency mixer that it says has been used by threat groups like ransomware gang Lazarus to launder stolen digital assets.…

For now at least, until data catches up Real-time deepfake videos, heralded as the bringers of a new age of internet uncertainty, appear to have a fundamental flaw: They can't handle side profiles.…

DMV goes after manufacturer and dealer licenses The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) last month filed two complaints against Tesla alleging that the car marker violated state law by misrepresenting that its vehicles can drive autonomously.…

The line for chip susidies and tax breaks is getting longer by the minute Qualcomm says it is doubling investments in US chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries in a bid to secure additional wafer capacity with government money on the table.…

Comms giant says several other firms targeted in 'sophisticated attack' Twilio confirmed a breach of the communication giant's network and accessed "a limited number" of customer accounts after tricking some employees into falling for a phishing attack.…

We're pretty sure that doesn't mean it's safe to click on sketchy popups Microsoft wants to make it safer for Edge users to browse and visit unfamiliar websites by automatically applying stronger security settings.…

'Time to update your spreadsheets,' expert says of 'inscrutable' changes AWS has introduced tiered pricing for its Lambda serverless computing platform, claiming this will save on monthly costs for customers who use it to operate large workloads. It will, however, likely add to the complexity of estimating costs for many developers hoping to run a project on AWS.…

Just as square as you remember but minus ET, the worst game of all time Lego has followed up its Nintendo Entertainment System retro throwback with one celebrating the Atari Video Computer System (VCS).…

Don't panic if you're not a fan of big changes… it's 5.20 by another name The next version of the Linux kernel is jumping version numbers, with some performance gains, but it's not a major change all the same.…

It's hard to make things out there when dust-sized particles can destroy them The US Federal Communications Commission is looking at how it can help kickstart manufacturing in space, but said orbital debris needs to be addressed first.…