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Nearly 60 holes found affecting 'more than 30,000' machines worldwide Fifty-six vulnerabilities – some deemed critical – have been found in industrial operational technology (OT) systems from ten global manufacturers including Honeywell, Ericsson, Motorola, and Siemens, putting more than 30,000 devices worldwide at risk, according to the US government's CISA and private security researchers. …

As always, check that O365 login page is actually O365 Someone is trying to steal people's Microsoft 365 and Outlook credentials by sending them phishing emails disguised as voicemail notifications.…

As the House of Zen kills off consumer-friendly non-Pro TR chips A drought of AMD's latest Threadripper workstation processors is finally coming to an end for PC makers who faced shortages earlier this year all while Hong Kong giant Lenovo enjoyed an exclusive supply of the chips.…

Results set to be ratified by labor board by end of the week Workers at an Apple Store in Towson, Maryland have voted to form a union, making them the first of the iGiant's retail staff to do so in the United States.…

Privacy through amnesia not ideal for remembering user choice Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection (ITP) in Safari has implemented privacy through forgetfulness, and the result is that users of Twitter may have to remind Safari of their preferences.…

Wait, we’ll explain As the world continues to grapple with unrelenting inflation for many products and services, the trend of rising prices is expected to have the opposite impact on memory chips for PCs, servers, smartphones, graphics processors, and other devices.…

Chip giant still salty Having successfully appealed Europe's €1.06bn ($1.2bn) antitrust fine, Intel now wants €593m ($623.5m) in interest charges.…

But when it does work, bet you'll fall over yourselves to blow ten large on designer clobber for your avy Facebook owner Meta's pivot to the metaverse is drawing significant amounts of resources: not just billions in case, but time. The tech giant has demonstrated some prototype virtual-reality headsets that aren't close to shipping and highlight some of the challenges that must be overcome.…

Cancelled the K12 CPU? Big mistake. Huge, says Jim Keller Amid the renewed interest in Arm-based servers, it is easy to forget that one company with experience in building server platforms actually brought to market its own Arm-based processor before apparently losing interest: AMD.…

With operations deadline in September, team eager to squeeze more data out of infrared observatory The SOFIA aircraft has returned to New Zealand for a final time ahead of the mission's conclusion later this year.…

Only way to resolve is a rollback – but update included security fixes Microsoft's latest set of Windows patches are causing problems for users.…

Plus: FTC warns against using ML for automatic content moderation, and more In Brief No, AI chatbots are not sentient.…

95% of SOL deposits from 1 person, so margin selloffs could mean collapse Decentralized finance lending platform Solend tried to fend off the effects of the crypto meltdown at the weekend when 97.5 percent of its users voted to give it emergency powers to liquidate its largest customer account. A second vote held today reversed the first.…

Booking appointments and other interactions with hospital portals can lead to some medical details being shared for advertising, class action claims Social media megacorp Meta is the target of a class action suit which claims potentially thousands of medical details of hospital patients were shared with its Facebook brand.…

Assistant US attorney: 'She wanted data, she wanted money, and she wanted to brag' Updated A former Seattle tech worker has been convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusions in a US District Court.…

Plus: Each of the new orgs gets its own finance officer, if the split goes ahead in second half of 2023 French IT services provider Atos has confirmed the departure of its chief financial officer, just days after the CEO resigned in apparent disagreement with a company-wide restructure proposed by the board.…

Plus: Citrix ASM has some really bad bugs, and more In brief More than half of the 24.6 billion stolen credential pairs available for sale on the dark web were exposed in the past year, the Digital Shadows Research Team has found.…

Yes, yet another Debian downstream, but a particularly interesting one SpiralLinux is the result of the creator of GeckoLinux turning their attention to Debian – with an interesting outcome.…

JumpCloud SME report also finds remote workers getting better at following best security practices Not many people are talking about Apple's recent WWDC from an enterprise standpoint. But identity and machine management tool maker JumpCloud says a "shim" to connect "the login to the device through to the Safari browser" is a notable development.…

'Write once, run anywhere' finally came true, thanks to APE and the Cosmopolitan libc A bunch of almost unbelievably clever tech tricks come together into something practical with redbean 2: a webserver plus content in a single file that runs on any x86-64 operating system.…

It's time to toss the Turing test – it's not really about the machines at all Opinion The Turing test is about us, not the bots, and it has failed. …

Short sharp loss of privileges for poor sysadmin who emptied that directory Who, Me? The UK has bins, the US prefers trashcans, and computers like their /bin. How do you think today's episode of Who, Me? is going to go?…

Without so much as a mention of encryption, but with a pastel-hued emoji-heavy nod to ‘sustainable monetization’ Messaging app Telegram, which came to prominence for offering end-to-end encryption that irritated governments, has celebrated passing 700 million active monthly users with a pastel-hued announcement: a paid Premium tier of service.…

Alibaba hinted the gig was worth millions each year The US arm of Chinese social video app TikTok has revealed that it has changed the default location used to store users' creations to Oracle Cloud's stateside operations – a day after being accused of allowing its Chinese parent company to access American users' personal data.…

Bans VPNs, Dropbox, and more India's government last week issued confidential information security guidelines that calls on the 30 million plus workers it employs to adopt better work practices – and as if to prove a point, the document quickly leaked on a government website.…

'Editing and review' teams will be required to read everything and report dissent The Cyberspace Administration of China has announced a policy requiring all comments made to websites to be approved before publication.…

Star Trek's glowing circuit boards may not be so crazy Science fiction is littered with fantastic visions of computing. One of the more pervasive is the idea that one day computers will run on light. After all, what’s faster than the speed of light?…

Keep boxes updated and protected to avoid a NAS-ty shock QNAP is warning users about another wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks against its network-attached storage (NAS) devices – and urged customers to update their devices' QTS or QuTS hero operating systems to the latest versions.…

'No one should have to endure abuse just because they are attempting to participate in society' A US task force aims to prevent online harassment and abuse, with a specific focus on protecting women, girls and LGBTQI+ individuals.…

Just cryptocurrency things A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) called Inverse Finance has been robbed of cryptocurrency somehow exchangeable for $1.2 million, just two months after being taken for $15.6 million.…

WikiLeaker-in-chief to appeal Priti Patel's decision UK Home Secretary Priti Patel today signed an order approving the extradition of Julian Assange to America, where he faces espionage charges for sharing secret government documents.…

With Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v Wade, privacy is key A group of senators wants to make it illegal for data brokers to sell sensitive location and health information of individuals' medical treatment.…

$200 a day buys you 90,000 victims A Russian operated botnet known as RSOCKS has been shut down by the US Department of Justice acting with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It is believed to have compromised millions of computers and other devices around the globe.…

GPU giant promises big advancements with Arm-based Grace CPU, says the software is ready Interview 2023 is shaping up to become a big year for Arm-based server chips, and a significant part of this drive will come from Nvidia, which appears steadfast in its belief in the future of Arm, even if it can't own the company.…

Tangle of cables creates headaches and electronic waste, warn senators The US could implement a law similar to the EU's universal charger mandate if a trio of Senate Democrats get their way.…

Redmond's security brand extended to multiple devices without stomping on other solutions Microsoft is extending the Defender brand with a version aimed at families and individuals.…

Plus: enhancements to 3nm tech due to go into production later this year Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC has revealed details of its much anticipated 2nm production process node – set to arrive in 2025 – which will use a nanosheet transistor architecture, as well as enhancements to its 3nm technology.…

I got 99 problems but a patch ain't one? Well, that is the hope anyway If Windows Autopatch arrives in July as planned, some of you will be able to say goodbye to Patch Tuesday.…

Asked for equitable treatment and a boss that doesn't embarrass them SpaceX has reportedly reacted to an open letter requesting accountability for Elon Musk by firing those involved.…

Extended 'summer season' also at fault, says software slinger as share price slides Creative software slinger Adobe booked in double-digit revenues rises in its latest quarter but lowered forecasts due to conflict in Ukraine and and currency challenges. As such, Wall Street frowned and the share price went down.…

If at first you don't succeed, change names and try again. Google Cloud's Anthos on-prem platform is getting a new home under the search giant’s recently announced Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) portfolio, where it will live on as a software-based competitor to AWS Outposts and Microsoft Azure Stack.…

Campaigners fear erosion of rights as narrowing of law proposed as well as political control over independent watchdog The UK government has published its plans for reforming local data protection law which includes removing the requirement for consent for all website cookies – akin to the situation across much of the US.…

The A321XLR assumes you're happy spending 11 hours in a single-aisle plane European aviation giant this week successfully flew a new "long, thin" passenger airplane that the world's airlines think could let them open new routes.…

Cue robot armies of whiny digital seven-year-olds complaining they're being 'cancelled' Something for the Weekend A robot is performing interpretive dance on my doorstep.…

Does your disaster recovery plan include a mysterious missive at a funeral? On Call Every disaster recovery plan needs to contain the "hit by a bus" scenario. But have you ever retrieved a password from beyond the grave? One Register reader has. Welcome to On Call.…

A tougher nut to crack than the regular flavor, some will find it very tasty Canonical's Linux distro for edge devices and the Internet of Things, Ubuntu Core 22, is out.…

Compliance with onshore data storage laws took almost a year – far longer than India has given the rest of the tech world to comply with infosec changes India’s Reserve Bank has lifted its ban on Mastercard issuing new cards within the nation.…

Six percent of revenues at risk if Code of Practice broken Meta, Twitter, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies and publishers have agreed to fight disinformation online in accordance with the European Commission's latest Code of Practice rules, which were published on Thursday.…

This is how Beijing illegally accesses US tech, say Feds The former director of the University of Arkansas’ High Density Electronics Center, a research facility that specialises in electronic packaging and multichip technology, has been jailed for a year for failing to disclose Chinese patents for his inventions.…