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Board member offers apology for 'inappropriate' behavior SAP CTO and executive board member Jurgen Muller is set to depart the German software corporation over an "incident" at a company event....

It's going to take more than CAPTCHA to prove you're real Researchers at Microsoft and OpenAI, among others, have proposed "personhood credentials" to counter the online deception enabled by the AI models sold by Microsoft and OpenAI, among others....

Government body claims there is no evidence of customer data being compromised Transport for London (TfL) - responsible for much of the public network carrying people around England's capital - is battling to stay on top of an unfolding "cyber security incident."...

Fusion biz wants to break superconducting tech into other sectors Brit nuclear fusion firm Tokamak Energy has formed a separate division to commercialize the superconducting magnet tech it developed for reactors in other markets including renewable energy or transport....

Appeal panel upholds ban as Musk Xeets up a rage-storm Brazil's Supreme Court has backed an earlier decision to force local carriers to block Elon Musk's social network, X, as the dispute between the billionaire and the South American nation widens....

The GSMA and its friends are looking for ways to bring those within mobile range onto the 'net In 2015 Google gave itself a mission: connect the "next billion" people to the internet. That plan more-than-succeeded, but also left three billion people offline - a situation that other orgs are trying to address....

Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data Alibaba Cloud has revealed homebrew tech it used to improve server fault prediction and detection, which it claims saw its ability to detect problems beat comparable tech by ten percent....

Needs new investors to get beyond current modest products Chinese GPU-maker Xiangdixian Computing Technology has admitted it has not met its development targets and let go of some staff as part of a restructuring plan....

VP Adam Meyers to testify about that faulty software update which ruined July and some of August Crowdstrike is to be hauled before the US House Homeland Security Committee this month to explain why its faulty software update - the one that took down millions of computer systems worldwide - ever happened....

CEO Pavel Durov charged in France, messaging platform insists it abides by EU laws Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was cuffed and charged by the French police last week, was "too free" in his approach to managing the global messaging platform, according to Russia's foreign minister....

Meanwhile, strange noises emanate from Starliner NASA has confirmed the names of the two crew members who will be flying to the International Space Station (ISS) on the next SpaceX mission: NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov....

A Firefox fork aimed at power surfers The Zen Browser is a new effort to modernize web browsing by bringing tiling, workspaces, and so on - and it's blissfully free of Google code....

Almost three years on and many customers have yet to make the move Windows 11 continues to nibble at the market share of Windows 10, although has a way to go before finally surpassing its predecessor....

Despite mogul's US acquittal and recent death, IT giant will follow UK fraud case to its 'conclusion' HPE will pursue the widow of Mike Lynch for the $4 billion in damages it sought from him over the Autonomy merger following the Brit tech tycoon's recent death in a sailing tragedy off the coast of Sicily....

Customers report inability to view transactions Updated UK banking giant Lloyds is struggling to account for malfunctioning online services today as customers report being unable to view transactions through the app or website....

Gadget gladiators line up to supply world's largest healthcare org The NHS has launched a competition worth up to 1.5 billion for suppliers to provide a variety of computer hardware to the world's biggest healthcare organization, including PCs, printers, and peripherals....

Shipments held up following warehouse migration tech glitches, can't cancel orders either Google's Pixel 9 phone appears to be made of pure unobtainium if the experience of some O2* customers is anything to go by....

Set the Control Panel for the heart of the Sun Opinion We may not know exactly when or how, but we do know that the Windows Control Panel is gasping its last. Hurrah....

The technology was willing, but the cache was weak Who, Me? Greetings, gentle reader, and may peace be upon you, for yea verily it is once again Monday and unto Monday we render another instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers unburden themselves with confessions of technical mishap....

Community seems to C Rust more as a burden than a benefit Efforts to add Rust code to the Linux kernel suffered a setback last Thursday when one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux project stepped down - citing frustration with "nontechnical nonsense."...

More help for Nutanix, too Data protection software vendor Veeam has delivered its promised support for open source virtualization contender Proxmox....

Resources hosted at Tencent Cloud involved in Cobalt Strike campaign Chinese web champ Tencent's cloud is being used by unknown attackers as part of a phishing campaign that aims to achieve persistent network access at Chinese entities....

Plus: Alibaba exits regulatory purgatory; India slows CBDC rollout; China creates eight new datacenter hubs ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese academics have suggested nuclear weapons are the only effective way to destroy an asteroid that threatens to collide with Earth - if it's detected at short notice....

Good things come to those who wait - and have deep pockets Review It's no secret that this vulture is partial to an adult beverage or two. But brewing your own? That way lies madness due to the complexities involved. However, the iGulu F1 seeks to make home-brew disasters a thing of the past thanks to automation and idiot-proof ingredients....

Also, US offering $2.5M for Belarusian hacker, Backpage kingpins jailed, additional MOVEit victims, and more in brief A series of IP cameras still used all over the world, despite being well past their end of life, have been exploited to create a new Mirai botnet....

Tim Boucher objects to the mischaracterization of his work in authors' copyright claim Interview Tim Boucher, a Canadian artist, author, and AI activist, sent a letter to the San Francisco judge overseeing an authors' lawsuit against AI firm Anthropic to object to the way the legal filing characterizes his work....

Researchers say that implementing Actions omit privacy details and expose info Many of the GPT apps in OpenAI's GPT Store collect data and facilitate online tracking in violation of OpenAI policies, researchers claim....

The ransomware gang recruits high-profile affiliates from LockBit and ALPHV As RansomHub continues to scoop up top talent from the fallen LockBit and ALPHV operations while accruing a smorgasbord of victims, security and law enforcement agencies in the US feel it's time to issue an official warning about the group that's gunning for ransomware supremacy....

The platform 'has provided sufficient allegations to survive dismissal,' judge says Elon Musk's X Corp and Media Matters for America are headed to trial next year following a judge's refusal to toss the billionaire's lawsuit....

Relax, it's just a drill. This time at least. US Army Special Forces, aka the Green Berets, have been demonstrating their hacking chops in the recent Swift Response 24 military exercises in May, the military has now confirmed....

An ignominious, uncrewed end to Boeing's misfire Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft is set to return to Earth just over a week from now with managers setting a date of no earlier than September 6 for undocking from the International Space Station (ISS) and September 7 to land at White Sands in New Mexico....

The term was mentioned over 140 times during the earnings call Few companies have tied their fortunes to AI as much as Dell Technologies has, with the technology giant seeing a rise in server and networking revenue of 80 percent thanks to AI infrastructure sales, while eyeing potential AI PC dividends coming down the pike....

Open source competitor is still the most popular database among devs, though NoSQL database vendor MongoDB says it is making significant gains against open source relational rival PostgreSQL in a claim that seems to fly in the face of recent research....

From spinoffs to layoffs and a boardroom revolt, 2024 isn't going great for Chipzilla Intel chief Pat Gelsinger has acknowledged the chip giant's financial woes and said he is working to address investor concerns amid talk that the company is considering spinning off its foundry business and delaying expansion of its fabrication plants....

Failure has become rare, but the FAA needs to look into it regardless SpaceX's Falcon 9 has been grounded following a rare mishap during the landing of a veteran booster....

Infosec hounds say they spotted vulnerability during routine travel in the US Updated Cybersecurity researchers say they've found a vulnerability that allowed them to skip US airport security checks and even fly in the cockpit on some scheduled flights....

Besides sanity, of course The CSS Day conference may have come and gone, but Google's Chrome team is keen to keep the spirit alive with a list of what attendees felt was missing from the web....

Cost of the hardware as well as range and lack of charging infrastructure to blame Registrations of battery electric vehicles (BEV) continue to fall in the European continent, as sales growth slows in the US and British manufacturing of the wheeled machines declines sharply....

Incase revives Windows giant's abandoned peripherals range Microsoft's line of PC peripherals is being revived in time for the incoming festive season, with a range reintroduced under the "Designed by Microsoft" brand....

What goes up must come down - just not always on the Moon Astrobotic has continued its policy of transparency with a report into the failings that resulted in its Peregrine lander burning up in Earth's atmosphere rather than making a soft landing on the Moon....

Claims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues In May, Sam Altman, CEO of $80-billion-or-so OpenAI, seemed unconcerned about how much it would cost to achieve the company's stated goal. "Whether we burn $500 million a year or $5 billion - or $50 billion a year - I don't care," he told students at Stanford University. "As long as we can figure out a way to pay the bills, we're making artificial general intelligence. It's going to be expensive."...

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Testing the idea that a platform boss can be responsible for the acts of others, or not helping to investigate them French police have laid multiple charges against Pavel Durov, co-founder and CEO of encrypted messaging platform Telegram....

Thankfully his injuries are not life threatening South Korean crypto CEO Hyung-soo "Hugo" Lee was stabbed in the neck in court during his fraud trial on Thursday, according to numerous reports....

Farsi-language posts target possibly-pro-Israel individuals Government-backed Iranian actors allegedly set up dozens of fake recruiting websites and social media accounts to hunt down double agents and dissidents suspected of collaborating with the nation's enemies, including Israel....

Could monopolise 24 key techs if current trends continue Think Tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has released an update to its Critical Technology Tracker, revealing that China leads the way in 89 percent of the technologies it tracks....

Civilizations detectable at galactic distances could harness all of a star's energy output, boffins reckon Looking for life in the Milky Way is so 20th century - today's alien-hunters are going intergalactic to look for signs of alien intelligence....

But users aren't optimistic it will land softly VMware Explore I've attended VMware's annual conference every year since 2007 and this year the event had a very different flavor....

Apparently made over 100 fake crime reports and bomb threats The US government has indicted two men for allegedly reporting almost 120 fake emergencies or crimes in the hope of provoking action by armed law enforcement agencies....

The setback won't stop us from banking billions, CFO insists Nvidia has confirmed earlier reports that its Blackwell generation of GPUs suffered from a design defect that adversely impacted the yields of the hotly anticipated accelerators....