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There's a code nasty on a spacecraft in deep space... not the first mission to suffer and won't be the last NASA has explained what caused communication issues with its CAPSTONE spacecraft: a bug in the code.…

Though it's not clear what tech mogul might do seeing that he has committed to completing the transaction Elon Musk has decided that it's impossible to verify the number of bot accounts on Twitter even though the social media network has told him their estimates, how they arrived at such estimates, and provided his team with a "firehose" of user data that is usually sold to corporate customers.…

12.1 friends without benefits as database pros question LTR with Oracle 12.2 Users of Oracle 12.1 database will move off mainstream support at the end of the month, ending access to bug fixes and security patches for the popular system.…

Big Blue reckons it may be a way to side-step the end of Moore's Law IBM says it has come up with a process that will make it easier to make 3D stacked chips, although can't confirm when this technology might be ready.…

The faithful won't care either way but advances aren't earth-shattering Comment Apple's new M2 MacBook Air is available to order, but is it just a case of M1 + 1 = $200?…

Windows giant's UK tentacle still on the hook over pre-owned on-prem software market dominance The stage is set for a courtroom showdown between Brit reseller ValueLicensing and Microsoft after a judge dismissed the Windows giant's latest appeal to toss the case about allegations of unfair licensing.…

First nationwide strikes since 1987 edging closer, warns CWU Exclusive BT has until the middle of next week to confirm it will enter formal talks about employee pay rises or face the prospect of tens of thousands of unionized workers going out on the first nationwide strike since 1987.…

Government proposals unlikely to outlast the new Chancellor anyway UK IT professionals have rejected plans by former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak to make the island nation a "global crypo-asset hub."…

Not all tracks can be hidden and some things can't be unseen On Call Welcome to an On Call where on-site misdeeds resulted in the most dishonorable of discharges.…

Panic! at the distro If you spent the early days of June fighting kernel panics in Ubuntu 20.04, you were not alone – and we now know why.…

Crypto-land told it can't disrupt the global economy or financial system The US Treasury has delivered a framework that responds to President Biden'ss Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, which signalled the administration's desire to ensure that cryptocurrency doesn't introduce risks that could harm either individual investors or the wider economy at home and abroad.…

Why does a smartphone maker have 2kg of gold bars in the office? India reckons it smells tax fraud India's Department of Revenue has acted against scams it alleges originate in China.…

The countdown to compliance began in January – last year China's cyberspace regulator has announced that data exports from the country will require security reviews, beginning September 1.…

Based on 'feedback'. Which one of you asked for this, and why? Microsoft appears set to roll back its decision to adopt a default stance of preventing macros sourced from the internet from running in Office unless given explicit permission.…

They're cheaper than cloudy x86 Apples, but not entirely tempting Amazon Web Services has pressed Apple's M1 processor into service in a new elastic compute cloud instance type: the Mac2.…

What a prick ... of blood was ever going to work in these machines? After a four-month trial, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, former chief operating officer of the utterly failed blood-testing startup Theranos, was found guilty of fraud on Thursday by a jury in California.…

Brain drain of researchers flocking to industry is not the real problem here, report suggests Computer-science departments across US universities do not have enough lecturers to teach increasing numbers of students interested in AI, a report from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) this month suggested.…

Improved supply is welcome – too bad it may be the harbinger of a cooling economy Comment Have you seen this yet? Shelves full of shiny new graphics cards in gleaming defiance to the shortages that plagued the past many months?…

Alleged campaign involved stalking via GPS and hidden cameras, fake interviews, confidential government data Five suspects were indicted in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday for alleged crimes related to a campaign to silence dissidents in the US who opposed the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC).…

1,300 packages from 1,000 automated user accounts set the stage for something big A burst of almost 1,300 JavaScript packages automatically created on NPM via more than 1,000 user accounts could be the initial step in a major crypto-mining campaign, according to researchers at Checkmarx.…

Cold plate tech to be deployed across entire portfolio, pledges China-based contract manufacturer Server maker Inspur is going all-in on liquid cooling, making cold plate cooling technology available across its portfolio and working with third parties to assemble full-lifecycle solutions.…

It's not that Facebook doesn't allow harvesting, it's more that it wasn't authorized, allegedly Facebook parent Meta openly collects data from its billions of users, but when other companies scrape said data, it can be a problem, judging by a pair of lawsuits filed today.…

Update addresses heap buffer overflow and type confusion bugs in Google's browser engine Microsoft has followed Google's lead and issued an update for its Edge browser following the arrival of a WebRTC zero-day.…

What's the opposite of defenestration? To considerable amusement in the Linux community, the infamous lead developer of systemd has a new job – at Microsoft.…

The births bring Musk's brood to 9 ... that we know of Tech mogul Elon Musk quietly welcomed twins last November, bringing the total number of children he's fathered to nine.…

Tom Keane helped Redmond win JEDI deal, respond to GDPR, and ran Azure datacenter infrastructure worldwide Microsoft cloud lieutenant Tom Keane is departing the megacorp where he has spent the past 21 years in various senior roles. He is heading for the exit a month after featuring in a report about the toxic culture among company execs.…

The Brexit and COVID era has seen a litany of failures and half-baked ideas As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to resign – but stay on in a caretaker role for three months – the momentous occasion offers the opportunity to reflect on his legacy of half-baked ideas and unfinished projects.…

Major supplier to US government and enterprise only just getting back on its feet New Jersey-based IT reseller and service provider SHI International was knocked off the web after a July 4 cyberattack.…

The memory chips are here, we're just waiting on Intel and AMD Memory maker Micron has announced availability of DDR5 server DRAM components in preparation for server and workstation platforms from Intel and AMD that are due to support the faster memory standard.…

Singapore's Group-IB was once a Moscow startup and will now conduct 'regional diversification' Singapore-based security vendor and services provider Group-IB has commenced a "regional diversification" program that will see it not just continue to operate in Russia (unlike a great many other companies), but do so with a dedicated entity.…

Lock down your 'piss corridor' – or even better, don't have one at all Many security breaches involve leaks, but not perhaps in the same way as one revealed by noted security consultant Andrew Tierney, who managed to gain unauthorized access to a datacenter via what he delightfully terms the "piss corridor."…

Tech giants under scrutiny by the Competition and Markets Authority The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is kicking off investigations into both Microsoft's merger with Activision Blizzard and concerns about Amazon's Marketplace habits.…

£800m contract focused on education sector will see subcontractors managed by consultant Management consultancy WCL has won a tender with the UK government to supply "everything ICT" in a contract which could be worth up to £800 million (c $950 million) over its lifetime.…

Teradata, Oracle Cloud still play a role in carrier's data-wrangling plans UK telecoms giant Vodafone is deploying an MLOps service within the organization, with the help of Google Cloud.…

No it's not, says Gartner – it's a hardcore sales tactic you can easily counter Some technology vendors have hiked prices by up to 30 percent over the last year and claimed the rises are due to inflation, despite inflation running at a far, far lower rate.…

'It is possible to implement end-to-end crypto in a way that preserves privacy,' claims UK Home Sec Tech companies could be fined $25 million (£18 million) – or ten percent of their global annual revenue – if they don't build suitable mechanisms to scan for child sex abuse material (CSAM) in end-to-end encrypted messages and an amended UK law is passed.…

Other US spooks chime in with similar warnings The directors of the UK Military Intelligence, Section 5 (MI5) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday shared a public platform for the first time and warned of China's increased espionage activity on UK and US intellectual property.…

Google has one already, and Ukraine now has a ‘drone army’ Ukraine has awarded Microsoft and Amazon Web Services the national peace prize, with AWS winning the award for a cloud migration project.…

City of Wuxi trying its best to keep factories open amid COVID outbreak South Korean chipmaker SK hynix has pitched hundreds of tents at its plant in Wuxi, China,…

Again warns investors that alterna-cash is a very risk proposition The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has hinted the city-state may soon impose more regulations on cryptocurrency.…

Upstart promises to tackle that old adage: Garbage in, garbage out IBM says its acquisition of observability startup Databand will help it stop bad data from poisoning customers' machine-learning and analytics workloads and save countless hours of lost time in the process.…

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.…