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It's fixed now, but aside from an error with the Braintree GraphQL API it's not clear what happened If you were planning on sending someone money via PayPal, or use it for business, we've got bad news: It's down around the world....

Never mind ESU... how about that upgrade? Microsoft is encouraging Windows 10 users to move to Windows 11 with more full-screen ads in the doomed operating system that urge users to buy a new Windows 11 PC....

Filing also suggests it flogging off Android, stops scraping content for AI without opt-out The US Department of Justice last night finally filed court documents proposing Google divest itself of Chrome - the most popular browser in the world by a huge margin....

Gartner weighs the pros and cons of the latest enterprise hotness Among the optimism and opportunities perceived around AI agents, Gartner has spotted some risks - namely that organizations might create "thousands of bots, but nobody now remembers what those bots do or why they were built."...

Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used The UK government has set out plans detailing how it will use the new law it has created to control online platforms and social media - with one telling exception....

Now it's up to OEMs and devs to decide whether they want in Arm has published its PC Base System Architecture (PC-BSA) specification, the blueprint for standardizing Arm-based PCs....

Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots In mock interviews for software engineering jobs, recent AI models that evaluated responses rated men less favorably - particularly those with Anglo-Saxon names, according to recent research....

Zomato boss Deepinder Goyal leaves a sour taste in the mouth The CEO of Indian restaurant booking and food deliver app Zomato has posted a job ad in which he seeks a chief of staff who is willing to pay for the privilege of working with him....

Digital end of life planning saves your loved ones from a little extra anguish Japan's National Consumer Affairs Center on Wednesday suggested citizens start "digital end of life planning" and offered tips on how to do it....

After beefing with Elon Musk, comms minister wants to diversify product choice Brazilian telco Telebras signed to resell satellite broadband services from Chinese satellite internet company SpaceSail as an alternative to Starlink - despite the service not having actually commenced....

Low-priced freelancers and call centers are at risk Pakistan's IT Industry Association (P@SHA) - the nation's sole tech biz lobby group - has warned that government policy could lead to business closures and financial losses among its constituents, and damage the nation's IT exports....

DoJ also shutters allleged crimeware and credit card mart PopeyeTools The US Department of Justice has issued an indictment that names five people accused of stealing millions in cryptocurrency - and we are told they are suspected members of cyber-gang Scattered Spider....

Meet Liminal Panda, which prowls telecom networks in South Asia and Africa A senior US senator has warned that American tech companies' activities in China represent a national security risk, in a hearing that saw infosec biz CrowdStrike testify it has identified another cyber-espionage crew it believes is backed by Beijing....

DoJ alleges merely overpriced offers from reseller followed inflated deals from IT giant The US Department of Justice has reached a $4.35 million settlement with Dell and its reseller Iron Bow over claims that the two businesses colluded to rig bids for business with the US Army....

Takeover still expected to close late 2024 or early next year HPE CEO Antonio Neri told The Register today his corporation is working with the US Department of Justice to answer any questions" officials may have about the IT infrastructure giant's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks....

Survey respondents doubt it boosts performance or even lightens the load Despite all the top-down buzz around enterprise AI, most job seekers are unconvinced that it is making their work lives easier....

Change Healthcare's $2 billion recovery is still a work in progress Still reeling from its February ransomware attack, Change Healthcare confirms its clearinghouse services are back up and running, almost exactly nine months since the digital disruption began....

OSS-Fuzz is making a strong argument for LLMs in security research Google's OSS-Fuzz project, which uses large language models (LLMs) to help find bugs in code repositories, has now helped identify 26 vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw in the widely used OpenSSL library....

In-house DPU and HSM silicon also shown off Ignite One of the advantages of being a megacorp is that you can customize the silicon that underpins your infrastructure, as Microsoft is demonstrating at this week's Ignite conference in Chicago....

In-space engine reignition paves way for orbital missions SpaceX has notched up another test flight of its Starship behemoth, but chose not to try catching the Super Heavy Booster this time....

Vendor offers 20% discount on new model, but not patches Owners of older models of D-Link VPN routers are being told to retire and replace their devices following the disclosure of a serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability....

IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts Special report Kyndryl, the managed infrastructure services business spun out of IBM in 2021, earlier this month repeated its somewhat glum prediction that its revenue will shrink by two to four percent for its fiscal 2025, the year ending March 31....

GreenLake update dangles juicy carrot for VMware refugees HPE is continuing its GreenLake push with availability of its own virtualization product, plus disconnected operations for regulated environments, while touting an object storage platform intended to deliver greater performance and scale for modern workloads....

If only the company in the title knew how to scale servers in the cloud The debut of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 yesterday was met with severe turbulence as servers struggled to keep up with user demand....

Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Obit Professor Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, has died aged 96....

Don't say you weren't warned The latest Steam client finally delivers on the warning from January, dropping support for several older OS versions....

Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 A pair of researchers say they've determined that July 13 was likely the day that X, formerly known as Twitter, made platform-level algorithm changes that increased the visibility of posts made by Elon Musk and Republican-leaning accounts in the run-up to the US election....

CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value Column I recently got to play a 'fly on the wall' at a roundtable of chief information security officers. Beyond the expected griping and moaning about funding shortfalls and always-too-gullible users, I began to hear a new note: data has become a problem....

Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium Exclusive The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) consortium has launched the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) to keep an eye on software licensing practices in the sector....

Seeks grand alliance between manufacturers, developers and content providers - all in the name of socialism The Cyberspace Administration of China last week released guidelines that suggest mobile devices be equipped with "minors mode" that enforces both censorship and automatic usage time limits....

Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later Google on Monday delivered the first developer preview of Android 16 - a release notable for both its status as the first step towards a new version and its release date signalling a change in the release cycle for the OS....

Shuttered reactor's operator says it's needed - once giant seawall is finished The president of Japanese energy company Hokkaido Electric Power wants to restart one of its nuclear reactors due to a surge in demand from local datacenters....

Ransomware scum LockBit claims it did the dirty deed Equinox, a New York State health and human services organization, has begun notifying over 21 thousand clients and staff that cyber criminals stole their health, financial, and personal information in a "data security incident" nearly seven months ago....

No word on when or if the issue will be fixed Chinese government-linked snoops are exploiting a zero-day bug in Fortinet's Windows VPN client to steal credentials and other information, according to memory forensics outfit Volexity....

This malware is FREE for EVERY crook ($300 decryption keys sold separately) A Russian citizen has been extradited from South Korea to the United States to face charges related to his alleged role in the Phobos ransomware operation....

Chatbot seems to choke when fed tricky less-than character Microsoft 365 Copilot appears to have developed an allergy to the less-than typographical symbol, which is preventing users from pasting HTML markup and programming code into the text area for Copilot prompts....

More than 100M rely on gear rife with vulnerabilities, says EPA OIG Nearly a third of US residents are served by drinking water systems with cybersecurity shortcomings, the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General found in a recent study - and the agency lacks its own system to track potential attacks....

Control Panel hobbles to the rescue! As its Ignite conference kicks off, Microsoft is admitting there is another known issue with Windows 11 24H2. If you try to change the time zone, you might find it a challenge....

Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet Ignite Microsoft is set to launch a database service that can manage transactional and analytical workloads in the same system....

Server maker tries accounting reboot amid reports of customers bailing Server maker Supermicro has appointed a new independent auditor and submitted a compliance plan to the Nasdaq stock exchange to avoid being delisted amid reports it is losing customers because of uncertainty over its future....

Amazing that these two bugs got into a production appliance, say researchers Palo Alto Networks (PAN) finally released a CVE identifier and patch for the zero-day exploit that caused such a fuss last week....

Just as good as Apple at making squat boxes, but this one doesn't do very much Ignite Microsoft is having a go at the terminal market with a device purpose-built to connect to Windows 365, imaginatively named "Windows 365 Link."...

Better locking, improved query optimization, and... Copilot Ignite A new version of Microsoft's database warhorse, SQL Server, is on the way, with some useful improvements squeezed between the inevitable artificial intelligence additions....

They can learn, adapt, and make decisions - but don't worry, they're not coming for your job Ignite Microsoft has fresh tools out designed to help businesses build software agents powered by foundation models - overenthusiastically referred to as artificial intelligence, or AI....

Fastidious attacker then tidied up email trail behind them A Maryland AI company has confirmed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it lost $250,000 to a misdirected wire payment....

Probe continues into disruption affecting Germany, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania Two optical fiber internet cables under the Baltic Sea appear to have been disrupted, Germany and Finland confirmed, prompting fresh concerns over possible Russian interference with technology infrastructure....

'Mutual agreement' sees end of contract Updated Fujitsu and a UK public authority have ended a 485 million ($613 million) contract the pair announced in the weeks following a national scandal around the Post Office computer system implemented by the Japanese tech services giant....

MS-DOS, a minimal Windows 3.1, and finally the teal delight of Windows 95 awaited installers Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has settled once and for all the question of why the Windows 95 setup program went on a tour of GUIs before finally introducing the user to the concept of the Start Menu....

Security researcher's reverse engineering effort reveals undocumented reboot timer that will make life harder for attackers Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS 18, appears to have added an undocumented security feature that reboots devices if they're not used for 72 hours....

Admins promised they can get stuff done with fewer clicks this year ... or maybe next Citrix has delivered a little of what it promised in March, when it bundled its software into a "Platform," in the form of new management tools and a revamped user interface....