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There's a lot of CO in datacenters, and Big Tech has promised to get to net zero The Open Compute Project, the org best known for offering designs for hyperscale hardware, has rounded up AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft to help it test concrete....

LY Corp's QA team struggled to manage projects while wading through prolix posts LY Corp, a joint venture between Japan's SoftBank Group and South Korea's Naver Corporation known for its flagship messaging app LINE, has detailed how it uses an in-house ChatGPT implementation to keep its quality assurance (QA) tasks on track....

Also testing allowing women to chose female drivers Chinese ride-share provider DiDi Chuxing announced on Thursday that it has started testing a feature that would allow riders to name and shame operators of smelly cars - and even take them off the road....

Those using Windows 11, version 24H2, should see better speed AMD has responded to community concerns about underwhelming gaming performance of its Ryzen 9000 Series desktop processors by attributing disappointing results recorded by independent testers to the vagaries of their system and software setups....

The data analytics vendor's CEO says rival's over $1 billion Tabular acquisition is the 'vindication' Databricks' $1 billion plus purchase of Tabular demonstrates Iceberg has won the data table format wars, according to rival data analytics and ML vendor Snowflake....

Why go to the effort of backdooring code when devs will basically do it for you accidentally anyway SolarWinds left hardcoded credentials in its Web Help Desk product that can be used by remote, unauthenticated attackers to log into vulnerable instances, access internal functionality, and modify sensitive data...

Complaints about lack of notice plus an inquiry from El Reg prompt U-turn by web giant Google Chrome 128, released on Wednesday, does not function without intervention on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver," and Google initially had no plans to fix it....

Big Blue says companies are so obsessed, basic services are going to pot Is chasing the promise of generative AI causing companies to neglect other IT services? IBM seems to think so....

So what's that good for? Like eight of Nvidia's NVL-72s? As GPUs and AI accelerators push beyond one kilowatt of power consumption, many systems builders are turning to liquid cooling to manage the heat. However, these systems still rely on complex networks of plumbing, manifolds, and coolant distribution units (CDUs) to make it all work....

DC appeals court reverses dismissal, finding enough evidence of anticompetitive behavior to proceed The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday found there was sufficient evidence of anticompetitive behavior by Amazon to allow Washington DC's antitrust case against the e-commerce giant to move forward....

And CFO is off, maybe to find a role where she doesn't have to come into the office Zoom continues to turn a profit from providing remote collaboration tools, despite mandating that its own staff must work in the office at least twice a week....

Not related to the massive outage in July, security biz spokesperson told us Some IT administrators suffered a moment of deja vu on Thursday morning as CrowdStrike blamed a cloud service issue for performance problems and lagging boot times affecting some of European customers....

A Paint-like rescue unlikely for old configuration warhorse Microsoft has confirmed that the venerable Windows Control panel will finally be put out to pasture in favor of a shiny new Settings app....

What could the problem be? Reportedly, a cyberattack American oil giant Halliburton is investigating an "issue," reportedly a cyberattack, that has disrupted some business operations and global networks....

More of an Easter egg than a vuln, but a fun one to mess around with Typing a special four-character string will crash your iPhone thanks to a newly discovered, albeit benign, bug in iOS and iPadOS....

Can't even get good signal in my garden Nokia is to equip Axiom Space spacesuits for the Artemis III lunar mission with 4G connectivity....

Controversial concept may not even be a useful goal in computing Gartner is warning that any prospect of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is at least 10 years away and perhaps not certain to ever arrive. It might not even be a worthwhile pursuit, the analyst says....

Whether attack slowdown continues downward trend is the million dollar question that security researchers can't answer Critical industrial organizations continued to be hammered by ransomware skids in July, while experts suggest the perps are growing in confidence that law enforcement won't intervene....

Insiders get ready for Redmond's second run at AI snoopware Microsoft is testing its controversial Windows Recall technology again with a cautious release to Windows Insiders in the hope of nipping another security and privacy outcry in the bud....

Needless to say, it backfired in a big way University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) students may be relieved to hear that an emailed warning about a staff member infected with the Ebola virus was just a phishing exercise....

You awake to find yourself in a dark room... with an empty wallet Did you have a collection of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books? Microsoft offers something similar in the form of its subscription plan advisor, though it's tricky to avoid one particular priced outcome....

Nokia custodian makes efforts to help you fight fondleslab fixation HMD is the company that made the post-Microsoft Nokia Android devices. Now it's going by its own name - and offering greater repairability....

Shuffles financial metrics so Copilot Pro revenue ends up in a happier place Microsoft has changed the way it reports its financial results....

Echoes human rights groups' concerns that it could suppress free speech and more Networking giant Cisco has suggested the United Nations' first-ever convention against cyber crime is dangerously flawed and should be revised before being put to a formal vote....

That's one way to mark the end of an eight-year partnership Walmart has divested around $3.6 billion of stock in Chinese e-retailer JD.com, concluding eight years of partnership....

WPS Office took a long lunch on Wednesday, the day after its developer posted big profits China's top personal productivity suite, WPS Office, experienced a lengthy outage yesterday - during working hours....

2030 vision also calls for its appliances and televisions to turn you into a subscription cash cow LG Electronics plans to expand its datacenter cooling business, to cash in on demand for AI....

Unless you're cool with an unauthorized criminal enjoying admin privileges to comb through your code A critical bug in GitHub Enterprise Server could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a user account with administrator privileges and then wreak havoc on an organization's code repositories....

Plus: Three-year-old ProxyLogon flaw added to CISA's exploited bugs list Microsoft says it's investigating issues with a patch intended to plug a two-year-old flaw in the GRUB open source boot loader that is crashing some dual-boot computers running both Windows and Linux. In that crash users are aptly told: "Something went seriously wrong."...

Tycoon's demise follows US acquittal after years of legal battles with HP Obit UK software tycoon Mike Lynch has been found dead two days after he went missing in a sailing tragedy off the coast of Sicily....

Italian divers reportedly recovered their bodies as search for missing continues The bodies of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter Hannah have reportedly been recovered from the wreck of the yacht Bayesian....

If you needed yet another reminder of what happens when security basics go awry Updated It's a good news day for organizations that don't leave their AWS environment files publicly exposed because infosec experts say those that do may be caught up in an extensive and sophisticated extortion campaign....

That annoying requirement to switch between home and work accounts has finally gone Microsoft has released a unified Teams app, doing away with the requirement to have one app for work or education and another for personal use....

Forget about your love life too, no dating apps until the war is over Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs is warning residents of under-siege regions to switch off home surveillance systems and dating apps to stop Ukraine from using them for intel-gathering purposes....

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google dominate the west, but the Middle Kingdom plays by its own rules The global cloud ecosystem shows a clear split, with China dominated by an almost completely different set of companies compared to the rest of the world - a divide as much due to political reasons as economic factors....

Securiti's Jack Berkowitz polled 20-plus CDOs, and half have hit pause Security and corporate governance concerns are weighing heavily on large enterprises as they try to work Microsoft Copilots into their organizations amid a complex web of existing tech products and access rights....

Onward to Venus! ESA's Juice spacecraft has had close-ups with the Moon and Earth and is on its way to Venus, having snapped images with its monitoring cameras and collected scientific data as it passed....

Construction surged 70% ... with 80% already snapped up The number of bit barns currently under construction has exploded in the wake of the AI boom, surging nearly 70 percent in North America's top markets over the past year to a record high of 3.87 gigawatts, according to a newly published CBRE report....

Documents from NHS England meeting reveal scope of politicos spending intent Exclusive The total planned budget for the English health service's controversial Palantir-based analytics system was set to reach 485 million over four years, according to figures seen by The Register....

Whack yakety-yak app chaps rapped for security crack Slack AI, an add-on assistive service available to users of Salesforce's team messaging service, is vulnerable to prompt injection, according to security firm PromptArmor....

Egress fees? Ticked. Spend discounts? Not yet. Software licensing? Might need to shape up, Microsoft Britain's competition watchdog is scheduled to announce a provisional decision in the coming weeks on its examination into whether the major cloud players engage in practices that may limit customer choice. Its ruling could have far-reaching implications for the cloud sector....

Hoped to dodge child support payments, now faces 81 months inside - and a bigger bill than ever A US man has been sentenced to 81 months in jail for faking his own death by hacking government systems and officially marking himself as deceased....

Chinese fast fashion slingers get their Spider-Man meme moment Shein, a well-known purveyor of desperately cheap goods, has raised lurid claims against its rival Temu in a lawsuit....

Giant solar farm in Australia will make 'leccy that flows under the ocean to Singapore Atlassian CEO Mike Atlassian Cannon-Brookes's plan to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore has been approved by the land down under's government....

Think tank warns US and friends they can't assume Beijing won't catch up China's chip design and fabrication capabilities lag significantly behind the US and its allies, according to a report from US think tank the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)....

Defense contractor gets hacked - what's the worst that could happen US semiconductor manufacturing firm Microchip Technology has revealed an "unauthorized party disrupted the Company's use of certain servers and some business operation."...

Still no love for 1000- or 2000-series In an apparent reversal, AMD has decided that its Ryzen 3000-series processors released in 2019 are actually worth patching against the recently disclosed SinkClose vulnerability....

Another day, another lawsuit over how AI lands training sets Anthropic was sued on Monday by three authors who claim the machine-learning lab unlawfully used their copyrighted work to train its Claude AI model....

AWS first, others to follow VictoriaMetrics has become the latest open source company to offer a hosted product, claiming around five times the savings for customers....

Let's hope the spacesuits hold up for extravehicular activity The Polaris Dawn mission to send humans to a 1,400 km orbit - higher than 1966's Gemini 11 - is set for launch in less than a week....