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Eight-year-old among those slain, Israel blamed, Iran's Lebanese ambassador wounded, it's said Lebanon says at least nine people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed today after pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across the country. Israel has been blamed....

Some good news for Elon - 2,500 planes to be Starlink Wi-Fi ready as United joins the party Elon Musk's impatience has led to the US Federal Aviation Administration proposing $633,009 in civil penalties against his SpaceX operation for allegedly violating its launch licenses last year....

Auction acts as payback after authority publicly refuses to pay up The trend of ransomware crews claiming to sell stolen data privately instead of leaking it online continues with Rhysida marketing the data allegedly belonging to Port of Seattle for 100 Bitcoin (around $5.9 million)....

Big Blue's Prodigy from the 1980s comes back to haunt FarmVille giant IBM's patent farm has yielded another bumper crop, with a Delaware jury awarding Big Blue $45 million in damages from mobile games maker Zynga....

See? We do have competition, cloud giant tells regulator Cloud behemoth AWS says it is facing stiff competition from on-premises infrastructure, which is a turnaround from its once-proud boast that all workloads would eventually move to the cloud....

Predictably paced programming language plods onward Oracle on Tuesday released Java 23 (Oracle JDK 23), in keeping with its now well-established six-month cadence....

Designations come as new infrastructure spins up in Africa Five individuals and one company with ties to spyware developer Intellexa are the latest to earn sanctions as the US expands efforts to stamp out spyware....

Jurgen Muller agreed to step down from his role at the end of September German prosecutors have confirmed to The Register that SAP's outgoing CTO is under investigation following allegations of sexual harassment....

Is the hype over already? Despite all the hype and billions poured into AI, fewer than half of S&P 500 firms actually mentioned it in their Q2 2024 earnings reports....

Persistent SSO prompts after DMA update addressed in release preview Microsoft continues to apply the electrodes to Windows 10 with an Insider build to deal with single sign-on problems arising from changes made for the European Digital Markets Act and Edge freezing when using Internet Explorer mode....

The 20 most-commented-on tech support columns from On Call's first 500 instalments On Call To celebrate the recent 500th appearance of On-Call, the column that features your tales of tech support torture, The Register has trawled through the archives to find the 20 columns that generated the most comments....

Churns out apps, but testing needed to iron out performance woes Researchers are finding that most companies integrating AI into their tech stack have run headlong into performance and reliability issues with the resulting applications....

Well you wouldn't get far protesting a water system or a power grid, right? The UK government's decision to designate datacenters as critical national infrastructure (CNI) may do more than just offer protection against critical incidents; it may also allow developers to override any local objections to such facilities being built....

UK's second largest retailer set to move ERP to the cloud with AWS, Accenture, and the German software gaint Sainsbury's has become the third top-ten UK retailer to join the SAP program to lift legacy applications to the cloud and migrate them to its latest S/4HANA ERP system....

If there's one thing we know about Big Red, it's being entirely reasonable JavaScript luminaries and at least 2,500 other interested parties have again asked Oracle to set the programming language free by walking away from the trademark for its name....

Digital Realty's Singapore disaster still complicating cloud after a week A week after a fire broke out at a Singapore datacenter, Alibaba Cloud is waiting for some hardware to dry out before it restores services and customer data....

VirtualBox, Parallels, and VMware have all upgraded September has been a big month for desktop hypervisors, with the field's big players all delivering significant updates....

If this really was that useful, they wouldn't be telling us According to a Chinese state-sanctioned study, signals from SpaceX Starlink broadband internet satellites could be used to track US stealth fighters, such as the F-22....

May have reeled in blueprints related to weapons development A Chinese national has been accused of conducting a years-long spear-phishing campaign that aimed to steal source code from the US Army and NASA, plus other highly sensitive software used in aerospace engineering and military applications....

The C in these CVEs stands for Confusing Analysis Microsoft, in a low-key update to its September Patch Tuesday disclosures, has confirmed a just-fixed Internet Explorer vulnerability was exploited as a zero-day before it could be patched....

Pauses European fabs, scores secret US gig, teams up with Amazon, re-orgs its innards, and more! Intel will spin out its Foundry division as an independent subsidiary with its own board, in the hopes of bringing in new sources of capital for the ailing business unit....

Removing de minimis exemption could stymie Beijing's plans to grow its cyber-bazaar abroad The Biden administration announced on Friday it was cracking down on a tax loophole that has enabled Chinese web souks like Shein and Temu to thrive....

And vows to cut ratio of managers-to-employees to 'flatten' the ranks The COVID-19 work-from-home era is over, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told staff in a Monday memo, signaling his desire for staff to return to working in an office five days a week....

You pipsqueaks want memory safety? We'll show you memory safety! We'll borrow that borrow checker After two years of being beaten with the memory-safety stick, the C++ community has published a proposal to help developers write less vulnerable code....

Cops to citizens will be 'on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting' AI is on the verge of ushering in a new era of mass surveillance, says Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, adding that his juggernaut is ready to serve as the technological backbone for such applications....

Now it's the default for all new accounts Snowflake continues to push forward in strengthening its users' cybersecurity posture by making multi-factor authentication the default for all new accounts....

'No one is trying' to kill Biden or Harris, mogul says after alleged second attempt on Trump's life Calls to deport Elon Musk from the US are trending on the billionaire's very own social media platform after he wondered aloud, following an apparent second attempt on the life of former President Trump, why no one has tried to assassinate President Biden or Veep Kamala Harris....

What the next few months hold for the productivity chatbot updated Microsoft's Copilot Wave 2 has arrived, bringing agents and unanswered questions....

Putting a spanner in work for plans of opposition party to launch a comeback during next year's elections One of Germany's major political parties is still struggling to restore member data more than three months after a June cyberattack targeting its systems....

Cloud unicorn struggles to make database that can do everything 'margin positive' Two years after announcing a database that can do analytics and transactions in the same system, Snowflake has yet to commercially launch Unistore, its CFO admitted....

'These are difficult decisions,' says Antonio Neri Antonio Neri, the former engineer turned chief executive at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, says the company has to pursue its $4 billion claim against former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch's estate because it is "in the best interest of shareholders."...

Orchestrators of abductions, torture, crypto thefts, and more get their comeuppance One cybercriminal of the most violent kind will spend his best years behind bars, as will 11 of his thug pals for a string of cryptocurrency robberies in the US....

Multi-million euro package to control satellite swerving and debris dodging Neuraspace and the European Space Agency have signed a multi-million Euro contract spanning two years for the Portuguese company's skills in space traffic management (STM)....

Automation is driving the next wave of commoditization, threatening to replace skilled workers Part 1 As we have said before, the software industry has a decades-long history of cost-cutting, commoditization, and a successful sales model of "pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap." This has worrying consequences if your skill set is the next one to be commoditized. But there may be ways out of this narrowing commercial bottleneck....

Telecoms minister pleads with operators to work together The UK issue of multiplying telegraph poles is arising again, with telecoms minister Chris Bryant meeting operators over sharing their infrastructure and consulting residents before installation....

Gartner: ERP giant's flagship cloud-and-upgrade package falls as a ratio of total sales with support deadline looming The latest figures from Gartner indicate SAP is struggling to convince users of the value of its RISE with SAP package, launched to accelerate users' ERP upgrades and switch to the cloud....

* Quite Unlikely A New Technology's Useful, Man Opinion We have a new call to arms in the 21st century battlefront between the West and China. The Middle Kingdom is building an uncrackable national infrastructure based on quantum key distribution (QKD). The laws of physics are being used against us, and we're not keeping up, claims a think tank....

You've got mail ... actually no, you've got nothing Who, Me? Welcome once again to yet another Monday and another instalment of Who, Me? in which Register readers own up to the ... let's say "learning experiences" ... they've enjoyed up in their careers....

Tests show it's just too hard to put the unused 240/4 block to work The 240/4 block of IPv4 addresses - the six percent of the available IPv4 space that is currently not available for public use - should be left alone rather than being added to the pool of available internet resources, according to Geoff Huston, chief scientist of the Asia Pacific Network Internet Center....

Alleges its governance was MIA and its KYC SNAFU The Reserve Bank of India has fined HP Financial Services the equivalent of $12,400 for not complying with regulations - some related to Know Your Customer (KYC) measures - and failing to have necessary IT committees....

Visible and audible warnings, plus metadata, with absence of info considered suspicious China's internet regulator on Saturday proposed a strict regime that will, if adopted, require digital platforms to label content created by artificial intelligence....

Also: Apple to end NSO Group lawsuit; Malicious Python dev job offers; Dark web kingpins busted; and more Infosec In Brief Genetic testing outfit 23andMe has settled a proposed class action case related to a 2023 data breach for $30 million....

Plus: Superapps in trouble across Asia; Indonesia connectivity doubles; Alibaba turns 25; and more! ASIA IN BRIEF Japanese imaging device manufacturer Ricoh last week announced plans to cut 2,000....

Started on a whim, almost a decade later it's a fixture - and a marvelous demonstration of your wit and wisdom A short while back, The Register published the 500th installment of On-Call, the reader-contributed column in which you share your tech support stories....

Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online With less than a month to go before the Nobel Prizes are handed out for the most worthy scientific discoveries of the preceding year, it would be remiss of The Register not to observe the honors conferred by the gong's bratty little brother, the Ig Nobel Prize....

This is going to be ugly. Really ugly Opinion The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and its allies are getting closer to a definition of open source AI. If all goes well, Stefano Maffulli, the OSI's executive director, expects to announce the OSI open source AI definition at All Things Open in late October. But some open source leaders already want nothing to do with it....

I wanna know What you're feeling Tell me what's on your mind Meta is going to resume scraping the personal public feeds of British Facebook and Instagram users for training AI after reaching an agreement with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)....

You gotta admit, that speaks volumes for Cupertino America's drug watchdog this week gave Apple permission to market its AirPods Pro 2 as over-the-counter hearing aids, disrupting an industry where traditional devices have often cost thousands of dollars....

That's zloty money but is it too little, too late? Intel is scrambling to stanch the bleeding of its floundering foundry business, but in Poland at least the chipmaker's luck is looking up....

Oh look, another voluntary, non-binding agreement to do better Some of the largest AI firms in America have given the White House a solemn pledge to prevent their AI products from being used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography and child sexual abuse material....