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Microsoft throws in the towel on HoloLens 2
Five years of mixed reality - now just mixed feelings Microsoft has axed its HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset and there won't be a hardware replacement, The Register can confirm....
Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it
Chipzilla's AIB market share a rounding error compared to Nvidia, AMD Comment Add-in board (AIB) market share figures for Q2 2024 are out and despite an uptick in overall sector shipments, relatively recent entrant Intel registered at zero percent....
Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI
Complete with Copilot Vision - but sessions won't be stored, insists Redmond Microsoft has made Windows 11 24H2 generally available, dishing out several new features - some that are even useful and interesting - as well as a generous dollop of known issues....
NIST's security flaw database still backlogged with 17K+ unprocessed bugs. Not great
Logjam 'hurting infosec processes world over' one expert tells us as US body blows its own Sept deadline NIST has made some progress clearing its backlog of security vulnerability reports to process - though it's not quite on target as hoped....
After 27 years, Tcl/Tk 9 finally arrives with 64-bit power and Zip file magic
Now that's the kind of stability we like Tcl/Tk 9.0 has moved to Unicode and 64-bit data structures, and can now access compressed files as if they were file systems. It has been worth the considerable wait....
'Patch yesterday': Zimbra mail servers under siege through RCE vuln
Attacks began the day after public disclosure "Patch yesterday" is the advice from infosec researchers as the latest critical vulnerability affecting Zimbra mail servers is now being mass-exploited....
Fresh court filing accuses Oracle of creating 'maze' of options 'hidden' in 'contract'
Big Red says claims are baseless and wants case thrown out Oracle faces a class action lawsuit over allegations it has failed to deliver on its promises including a new claim that it "obfuscates" onerous contract terms in "hidden" documents....
UK's Arm-based Isambard 2 supercomputer powers off for good
Isambard 3 and AI sibling set to pick up the torch The UK's Isambard 2, one of the early Arm-based supercomputers, has officially retired after just a few years of operation. It is superseded by the more powerful Isambard 3 and Isambard-AI, just as British supercomputing enters an uncertain period for funding....
AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence
Fun experiment, but yeah, don't pipe an LLM raw into /bin/bash Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by AI, recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered agent to open a secure connection from his laptop to his desktop machine....
The fix for BGP's weaknesses has big, scary, issues of its own, boffins find
Bother, given the White House has bet big on RPKI - just like we all rely on immature internet infrastructure that usually works The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) protocol has "software vulnerabilities, inconsistent specifications, and operational challenges" according to a pre-press paper from a trio of German researchers....
FBI claims corrupt LA cops helped crypto CEO's cash grab
Feds tell thrilling tale of crypto crooks, Facebook scams, fast cars, guns, betrayal ... and leg extensions? Adam Iza, the founder of cryptocurrency trading platform Zort, has been charged with tax evasion and conspiracy in a bizarre tale of corrupt cops and Facebook employees, stolen digicash, and an alleged $30 million scam....
Singapore tires of Big Tech's slow and half-hearted help for abused users
PM promises agency to handle complaints as he outlines new digital nation plan Singapore is working on legislation and a dedicated agency that would hold online service providers more accountable for cyber bullying, according to prime minister Lawrence Wong....
China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure
Research institute seems to have found Huawei to do it - perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions China Telcom's AI Research Institute claims it trained a 100-billion-parameter model using only domestically produced computing power - a feat that suggests Middle Kingdom entities aren't colossally perturbed by sanctions that stifle exports of Western tech to the country....
US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene
Taxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm's paywall The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cannot reveal weather forecasts from a particularly accurate hurricane prediction model to the public that pays for the American government agency - because of a deal with a private insurance risk firm....
Cruise fined $1.5M for failing to report right away its robo-car dragged a pedestrian
Code-controlled taxi biz tiptoes back with supervised driving in Phoenix and Dallas Embattled driverless taxi outfit Cruise has been fined $1.5 million for leaving some essential details out of its initial reports to the US government about an accident involving one of its robo-vehicles and a pedestrian last year....
Uncle Sam loans $1.5B to reignite Michigan nuclear plant in 2025
Up and atom! The Biden administration has announced plans to reignite a shuttered Michigan nuclear power plant with a $1.5 billion loan that, combined with other nuclear announcements yesterday, suggests the US federal government is right now all in on nuclear energy....
Euro cops arrest 4 including suspected LockBit dev chilling on holiday
And what looks like proof stolen data was never deleted even after ransom paid Building on the success of what's known around here as LockBit Leak Week in February, the authorities say they've arrested a further four individuals with ties to the now-scuppered LockBit ransomware empire....
Got an idea for dealing with space waste? NASA wants to hear from you
Using a nearby crater as a landfill is not a sustainable way to live on the Moon NASA has launched a $3 million prize challenge for innovators with solutions for waste on the Moon and deep space habitats....
Evil Corp's deep ties with Russia and NATO member attacks exposed
Ransomware criminals believed to have taken orders from intel services The relationship between infamous cybercrime outfit Evil Corp and the Russian state is thought to be extraordinarily close, so close that intelligence officials allegedly ordered the criminals to carry out cyberattacks on NATO members....
After 3 years, Windows 11 has more than half Windows 10's market share
Microsoft's latest OS is performing dismally compared to predecessors Windows 11 has finally reached more than half of Windows 10's market share, with just over a year before support for Windows 10 ends....
NCA unmasks man it suspects is both 'Evil Corp kingpin' and LockBit affiliate
Aleksandr Ryzhenkov alleged to have extorted around $100M from victims, built 60 LockBit attacks The latest installment of the National Crime Agency's (NCA) series of ransomware revelations from February's LockBit Leak Week emerges today as the agency identifies a man it not only believes is a member of the long-running Evil Corp crime group but also a LockBit affiliate....
TSMC preps facilities as Taiwan braces for powerful Super Typhoon Krathon
Plants in Tainan and Kaohsiung face heavy rainfall Taiwan's TSMC disclosed to The Register on Tuesday that it was battening down the hatches at its facilities in preparation for the arrival of Super Typhoon Krathon....
Kyndryl follows in IBM's footsteps with rolling layoffs likely affecting thousands
Underutilized staff get sent to the 'bench' - and seldom return Special report Kyndryl, the IT services biz spun out of IBM in late 2021, has been following in the footsteps of its parent by discreetly shedding hundreds of workers, largely in the US....
Windows 11 user hurt by the KB5043145 update? Microsoft offers a way out
Might be best to give it a miss for now Microsoft has offered a Known Issue Rollback (KIR) for users affected by the many and varied problems with the KB5043145 build of Windows 11....
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund throws cash at FreeBSD and Samba
Unix-like to work on infrastructure, SMB reimplementation on 'key milestones' EuroBSDCon Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), which is backed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, is funding open source work again. This time, the recipients are the FreeBSD Foundation and SerNet, which is one of the backers of the Samba Project....
Three, Voda promise £10-a-month or below mobile tariffs in bid to sway CMA on merger
Tie-up probe concerned the pair's union would mean higher bills, hurt MNVOs Vodafone and Three UK have pledged to maintain retail mobile tariffs at 10 or below for at least two years after their proposed merger, in response to the UK market watchdog's insistence their alliance would lessen local competition....
Germany is monitoring Microsoft to 'stop anti-competitive practices'
Wants to peer into gaps in DMA to keep Redmond honest in cloud and AI Germany plans to keep closer tabs on Microsoft to identify and "stop anti-competitive practices" that are not currently covered by the European Commission's Digital Markets Act (DMA), namely cloud computing and AI....
Earth's new mini-moon swings by, then ghosts us by late November
No need for farewells, 2024 PT5 may drop in again in 2055 Everybody be on their best behavior: Earth has a visitor. 2024 PT is an asteroid that took up residence in orbit on Sunday to become a "mini-moon."...
Canon ships first nanoimprint chipmaking machine to R&D lab
Lithography technique does not require a light source, unlike ASML's complex extreme ultraviolet approach Canon has shipped its first ever nanoimprint lithography machine to the Texas Institute for Electronics for use in its R&D labs....
AT&T claims VMware by Broadcom offered it a 1,050 percent price rise
And that Broadcom has prevented vendors from selling to the telco giant AT&T has claimed that Broadcom made it an offer to increase prices by 1,050 percent, and may be influencing other vendors to make a migration harder....
Fire halts production at Indian iPhone factory
Tata was about to double the workforce at the plant Authorities are investigating a fire that broke out last weekend at a Tata Electronics facility that produces iPhone components in India. Production at the plant has been halted indefinitely....
Epic Games starts Battle Royale with Samsung, Google over app store practices
Alleges Korean giant's app store lockdown is no accident, and anticompetitive Updated Epic Games has launched another lawsuit in pursuit of its goal of selling its apps direct rather than through platform owners' app stores - this time placing Samsung in its sights....
Imagine a government that told Big Tech to improve resilience – then punished failures
It's happening in South Korea South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has reportedly told local web giant Naver to improve its disaster recovery capabilities after not taking adequate measures to prevent service failures....
Australian e-tailer digiDirect customers' info allegedly stolen and dumped online
Full names, contact details, and company info - all the fixings for a phishing holiday Data allegedly belonging to more than 304,000 customers of Australian camera and tech e-tailer digiDirect has been leaked to an online cyber crime forum....
Watch your mirrors: Tesla Cybertrucks have 'Full' 'Self Driving' now
As eggheads reckon Musk-mobiles need human interventions every 13 miles Owners of Tesla's Cybertruck are reporting that a software update enabling the self-styled Full Self Driving (FSD) has become an option for their giant rolling wedges of stainless steel....
Rackspace internal monitoring web servers hit by zero-day
Intruders accessed machines via tool bundled with ScienceLogic, 'limited' info taken, customers told not to worry Exclusive Rackspace has told customers intruders exploited a zero-day bug in a third-party application it was using, and abused that vulnerability to break into its internal performance monitoring environment....
Ransomware forces hospital to turn away ambulances
Only level-one trauma unit in 400 miles crippled Ransomware scumbags have caused a vital hospital to turn away ambulances after infecting its computer systems with malware....
T-Mobile US to cough up $31.5M after that long string of security SNAFUs
At least seven intrusions in five years? Yeah, those promises of improvement more than 'long overdue' T-Mobile US has agreed to fork out $31.5 million to improve its cybersecurity and pay a fine after a string of network intrusions affected millions of customers between 2021 and 2023....
California governor vetoes controversial AI safety law, tells everyone to start over
Newsom doesn't want Golden State to lose its golden goose California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a controversial AI bill, tho don't assume it was necessarily a final win for the tech industry....
AWS must fork out $30.5M after losing P2P network patent scrap
No one really wins when a troll, sorry, assertion entity scores a victory A Delaware jury has determined that Amazon Web Services infringed two networking patents and now owes the current patent holder $30.5 million....
World Wide Web Foundation closes so Tim Berners-Lee can spend more time with his protocol
Who wants to join his so Solid crew? After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down....
SpaceX Falcon 9 grounded again after second stage hits wrong part of ocean
Otherwise, Crew-9 launch was a complete success Updated SpaceX has grounded the Falcon 9 once more, following the launch of the Crew-9 mission, due to an issue with the second stage deorbit burn....
Linux kernel 6.11 lands with vintage TV support
io_uring is getting more capable, and PREEMPT_RT is going mainstream Open Source Summit Europe Released remotely from Vienna, Linux kernel 6.11 is here, with improved monochrome TV support. Yes, in 2024....
Verizon outages across US as hurricane recovery continues
California, Arizona, beyond affected as well as storm-smashed states Updated Verizon customers across the United States are reporting widespread outages on Monday morning, potentially dealing a serious setback to hurricane recovery efforts in America's southeast....
Oracle settles customer NetSuite dispute out of court
Allegations of fraud and unfair business practices dismissed after private mediation A claim against Oracle-owned Netsuite was recently settled out of court following private mediation with a customer that alleged the vendor oversold and under-delivered on software....
Brazilian court sprays Musk's X with more fines for returning after ban
A very expensive 2 days in September for the blocked social media platform X's accidental reappearance in Brazil will cost the company 10 million Brazilian reais, or about $1.83 million, in the latest ruling handed down by the country's Federal Supreme Court....
If you're holding important data, Iran is probably trying spearphish it
It's election year for more than 50 countries and the Islamic Republic threatens a bunch of them US and UK national security agencies are jointly warning about Iranian spearphishing campaigns, which remain an ongoing threat to various industries and governments....
Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster
Blue is the color of some screens after optional KB5043145 update Microsoft's Patch Tuesday preview, KB5043145, arrived last week and is already causing some headaches thanks to serious stability issues....
Remote ID verification tech is often biased, bungling, and no good on its own
Only 2 out of 5 tested products were equitable across demographics A study by the US General Services Administration (GSA) has revealed that five remote identity verification (RiDV) technologies are unreliable, inconsistent, and marred by bias across different demographic groups....
UK Ministry of Defence gets into chipmaking game, buys gallium arsenide fab
State-owned semiconductor production: What is it planning to make there? It's classified UK government has stepped in to buy a fabrication plant to secure supplies of gallium arsenide semiconductors used by the armed forces, saving the jobs of up to 100 skilled workers at the same time....
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