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I'm a Mac. I'm a PC. You're both annoying me On Call The Register knows that tech support is a vocation that induces frustration, which is why each Friday we offer a new edition of On Call - the reader-contributed column that details real-life support stories so you can at least enjoy misery in company....

We guess the House of Zen wants all you HIP kids to ROCm out with its own runtimes instead Analysis AMD's legal team appears to have clawed back control of much of the ZLUDA project's code base. The open source project, for which the House of Zen pulled support earlier this year, enabled compiled CUDA code to run natively on non-Nvidia GPUs....

Can't reach someone's private server on localhost from outside? No problem A years-old security oversight has been addressed in basically all web browsers - Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, WebKit browsers like Apple's Safari, and Mozilla's Firefox....

Amid reports that plenty of PC production will shift elsewhere, supply chain boss emphasizes agility HP Inc loves China and wants to keep making and designing products there, but also loves the idea of diversifying its operations to other countries in case geopolitics becomes a problem....

Space Launch System project overspent, under-built, and is overdue, government probe finds Boeing and NASA have come in for scathing criticism from federal investigators, who examined the next generation of Space Launch System rockets....

Multiple critical flaws found and they won't be fixed A boffin from British defence contractor BAE has found three critical flaws in Cisco's Small Business SPA300 and SPA500 IP phones - and another couple of nasties - none of which will be fixed or mitigated....

Could we please start taking this seriously? Black Hat One would hope that, after years of telling businesses to secure their systems, enterprises would have better web app security than cybercriminals do. But research presented at Black Hat this week suggests that's not the case at all....

Been injecting prompts to test the safety of large language models? Better call Saul black hat Existing US laws tackling those illegally breaking computer systems don't accommodate modern large language models (LLMs) and can open researchers up to prosecution for what ought to be sanctioned security testing, say a trio of Harvard scholars....

Airline unimpressed with 'unhelpful and untimely' phone call from CEO, Falcon maker says claims untrue Delta Air Lines has come out swinging at CrowdStrike in a letter accusing the security giant of trying to "shift the blame" for the IT meltdown caused by its software - and that CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz's offer of support was too little, too late....

Pension fund claims CEO, CFO covered up truth about money-pit foundry Over the past few weeks, Intel has found itself in a mess of legal trouble over everything from CPUs that slowly fry themselves to allegations it misled investors about the chipmaker's well-being....

American and Brit firms thought they were employing a Westerner, but not so, it's alleged The FBI today arrested a Tennessee man suspected of running a "laptop farm" that got North Koreans, posing as Westerners, IT jobs at American and British companies....

Chipzilla takes its Arc Alchemist A750, gives it some more RAM, and says it's for AI-powered jalopies Intel has finally got around to launching a new GPU - except it's a reskin of a graphics processor already on the market, and this time targeted at the automotive industry....

'All of the defaults are insecure' Zenity CTO warns Black Hat One hopes widely used enterprise software is secure. Get ready for those hopes to be dashed again, as Zenity CTO Michael Bargury today revealed his Microsoft Copilot exploits at Black Hat....

Enterprises used to spend more on own kit than cloud infra services... now it's the other way around Hyperscalers are forcecast to account for more than 60 percent of datacenter space by 2029, a stark reversal on just seven years ago when the majority of capacity was made up of on-premises facilities....

MSI even claims all of its LGA 1700 motherboards will get updated before month end Two of Intel's biggest motherboard partners say their users will start receiving new BIOS updates containing the crucial microcode patch for Raptor Lake CPUs next week....

In celebration of US Navy funded electromagnetic wonder that is the Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator Feature Eighty years ago, IBM presented Harvard University with one of the world's earliest computers: the Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), later known as the Harvard Mark I....

Beefier Arms next to RV rival CPUs, offering a glimpse of the future It's exciting news for RISC-V fans: Raspberry Pi is adding support for the open ISA with the launch of the Pico 2 and the company's new RP2350 microcontroller....

Middle Kingdom netizens can look forward to the same kind of letdown Windows users get with Copilot Developers behind openKylin, the desktop Linux distro backed by China's National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, have decided local users need to take advantage of Intel's Meteor Lake silicon and the neural processing units it includes, tuning the latest release of the OS to Chipzilla's AI PC SoC....

Hundreds of thousands of users potentially vulnerable Password manager 1Password is warning that all Mac users running versions before 8.10.36 are vulnerable to a bug that allows attackers to steal vault items....

Election tech is fine - it's all those idiots buying into the propaganda that's worrying Jen Easterly Black Hat US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director Jen Easterly and her counterparts from the UK and EU want the world to know that, when it comes to securing elections, they've never been more prepared....

Academic, non-profit organizations now being told to pay up - or else Four years after data science biz Anaconda revised its terms of service, some research and academic organizations are just now finding out they have to pay for software they'd previously used at no cost....

No pricing disclosed but plan allows users to order hands-off flights without operating any units Nokia has hooked up with telco Swisscom Broadcast on a "Drones-as-a-Service" network across Switzerland, aimed at the emergency services and other applications where aerial observation is required....

Just snapping the webcam shutter closed won't keep a user safe online New research shows that while many Brits will snap shut a laptop camera in the name of privacy, a worrying amount will just as happily shovel all manner of personal information into an online game in order to get a result they can share with their friends....

There's gold in them thar boards The UK's Royal Mint has cut the ribbon on its Precious Metals Recovery factory, which extracts material from old Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs)....

Sectigo bosses claim it's only a matter of time before Microsoft and Apple drop Big E from their root stores too After falling down in the estimations of major browser makers Google and Mozilla, Entrust faces a lengthy fight on its hands to regain industry trust and once more issue trusted TLS certificates....

Chipzilla still has ways to stop these processors cooking in their own juices Intel has claimed the microcode update it's delivering for wonky 13th and 14th generation Raptor Lake CPUs won't compromise the chips' top end clock speeds....

Thank binary brainboxes for helping to inflate PC and Smartphone prices AI infrastructure is a hot commodity, as is the high bandwidth memory (HBM) on which it depends, driving up prices for the newfangled tech and for less glamourous memory and storage hardware....

Vint Cerf revealed Google already uses the string, as do plenty of others The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has agreed to reserve the .internal top-level domain so it can become the equivalent to using the 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0 and 192.168.0.0 IPv4 address blocks for internal networks....

Beijing's first Starlink-slayers are in orbit, and buyers beyond the Great Firewall are on the agenda The first batch of satellites in China's answer to Starlink - known as the Qianfan Constellation, sometimes also called G60 - was launched into orbit on Tuesday....

This guy showed the world how - with the right level of access Black Hat Techniques to forcibly remove security patches from Windows machines so that fixed vulnerabilities are exploitable again were demonstrated this week....

Imec tests show Dutch master etcher has markedly boosted transistor density Research org Imec claims it has demonstrated the viability of ASML's next generation extreme UV technology for next generation chip manufacturing, showing off how it can create patterned structures at a smaller scale than previously possible - in a single pass....

Why run your own evil infrastructure when Big Tech offers robust tools hosted at trusted URLs? Black Hat State-sponsored cyber spies and criminals are increasingly using legitimate cloud services to attack their victims, according to Symantec's threat hunters who have spotted three such operations over recent months, plus new data theft and other malware tools in development by these goons....

Good luck, crackers: It's an isolated processor and storage enclave, and top dollar only comes from a remote attack Samsung has dangled its first $1 million bug bounty for anyone who successfully compromises Knox Vault - the isolated subsystem the Korean giant bakes into its smartphones to store info like credentials and run authentication routines....

'Serendipitous' discovery may have you second guessing your appliances Black Hat A funny thing happened to security researchers at attack surface management company runZero when they were digging into the xz backdoor earlier this year: They found a whole bunch of vulnerabilities stemming from poorly secured or implemented SSH services....

Brand-new Ryzen 9000 processors are about 10% cheaper than their Ryzen 7000 counterparts AMD's next generation of desktop CPUs launch from tomorrow, and they'll feature lower prices than the last series....

Officials may turn to Elon's SpaceX if Calamity Capsule proves too risky to return with crew NASA has shared more details on how it hopes to get Boeing's stricken Starliner craft and its two test pilots safely back to Earth from the International Space Station, if the Calamity Capsule is deemed unsuitable for a crewed return....

Chamber of Progress pens open letter pressing billionaire to behave better amid UK riots Exclusive Echoing objections to social-media fueled violence from the government of the United Kingdom and others, the Chamber of Progress, a tech business advocacy group, is urging billionaire Elon Musk to take his leadership role at X more seriously or resign if he cannot do so....

Bad news: They aren't, and Windows 10 end of support is looming There is some good news for Microsoft on the Windows 11 enterprise adoption front as a survey of more than 750,000 Windows endpoints indicates that a healthy 88 percent of those not already running the tech giant's latest operating system are ready for an upgrade....

Vulnerable services fixed by the cloud biz but open source projects still at risk Black Hat Critical flaws across at least six AWS cloud services could have allowed attackers to execute remote code, steal data, or even takeover a user's account without their knowledge, according to research presented today at Black Hat....

And you thought BlackLotus was a pain in the neck Black Hat Security researchers from SafeBreach have found what they say is a Windows downgrade attack that's invisible, persistent, irreversible and maybe even more dangerous than last year's BlackLotus UEFI bootkit....

Let's get physical, physical ... I don't wanna hear your MMU talk Black Hat Computer security researchers at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found serious security flaws in some of Alibaba subsidiary T-Head Semiconductor's RISC-V processors....

Across China and the US, more than 3.5 million cars have been recalled Tesla has issued a recall in China for four of its electric vehicle models, impacting more than 1.6 million cars....

Radiance much greater than current models, suggests paper Astronomers and other stargazers have new cause for concern about light pollution following claims that Starlink's latest satellites which support phone services may appear five times brighter in the sky than existing ones....

Probe began in June and was over by August, no need for corporate lobbying (you hearing this Microsoft?) The UK's competition watchdog - often a fly in the ointment of proposed global tech acquisitions - has approved Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion buy of rival Juniper Networks....

A simple HTML change and the warning is gone! Researchers say cybercriminals can have fun bypassing one of Microsoft's anti-phishing measures in Outlook with some simple CSS tweaks....

Next SpaceX crew trip moves deep into September while engineers agonize over the Calamity Capsule The saga of Boeing's delayed Starliner capsule continues: NASA has confirmed it pushed back the next SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station to give Starliner teams more time to work out how to bring the spacecraft back to Earth....

Timor-Leste is a known cybercrime hotspot Two days is all it took for Interpol to recover more than $40 million worth of stolen funds in a recent business email compromise (BEC) heist, the international cop shop said this week....

Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified Acronis, the Swiss disaster recovery turned cybersecurity firm and catch-all for managed service providers, has been majority acquired by Europe's largest private equity firm, EQT....

Users just want stuff that works. How hard can it be? Interview You can have your software fast or in a state where it won't blow up in your face. But getting both at the same time in an era of layoffs and restructuring is, at best, challenging and, at worst, impossible....

Nearly 83,000 people had their data stolen amid chaos that struck NHS healthcare The UK's data protection watchdog says it plans to fine a managed software provider to the NHS 6.09 million ($7.7 million) for failings that led to a 2022 ransomware attack....