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Research institute seems to have found Huawei to do it - perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions China Telcom's AI Research Institute claims it trained a 100-billion-parameter model using only domestically produced computing power - a feat that suggests Middle Kingdom entities aren't colossally perturbed by sanctions that stifle exports of Western tech to the country....

Taxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm's paywall The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cannot reveal weather forecasts from a particularly accurate hurricane prediction model to the public that pays for the American government agency - because of a deal with a private insurance risk firm....

Code-controlled taxi biz tiptoes back with supervised driving in Phoenix and Dallas Embattled driverless taxi outfit Cruise has been fined $1.5 million for leaving some essential details out of its initial reports to the US government about an accident involving one of its robo-vehicles and a pedestrian last year....

Up and atom! The Biden administration has announced plans to reignite a shuttered Michigan nuclear power plant with a $1.5 billion loan that, combined with other nuclear announcements yesterday, suggests the US federal government is right now all in on nuclear energy....

And what looks like proof stolen data was never deleted even after ransom paid Building on the success of what's known around here as LockBit Leak Week in February, the authorities say they've arrested a further four individuals with ties to the now-scuppered LockBit ransomware empire....

Using a nearby crater as a landfill is not a sustainable way to live on the Moon NASA has launched a $3 million prize challenge for innovators with solutions for waste on the Moon and deep space habitats....

Ransomware criminals believed to have taken orders from intel services The relationship between infamous cybercrime outfit Evil Corp and the Russian state is thought to be extraordinarily close, so close that intelligence officials allegedly ordered the criminals to carry out cyberattacks on NATO members....

Microsoft's latest OS is performing dismally compared to predecessors Windows 11 has finally reached more than half of Windows 10's market share, with just over a year before support for Windows 10 ends....

Aleksandr Ryzhenkov alleged to have extorted around $100M from victims, built 60 LockBit attacks The latest installment of the National Crime Agency's (NCA) series of ransomware revelations from February's LockBit Leak Week emerges today as the agency identifies a man it not only believes is a member of the long-running Evil Corp crime group but also a LockBit affiliate....

Plants in Tainan and Kaohsiung face heavy rainfall Taiwan's TSMC disclosed to The Register on Tuesday that it was battening down the hatches at its facilities in preparation for the arrival of Super Typhoon Krathon....

Underutilized staff get sent to the 'bench' - and seldom return Special report Kyndryl, the IT services biz spun out of IBM in late 2021, has been following in the footsteps of its parent by discreetly shedding hundreds of workers, largely in the US....

Might be best to give it a miss for now Microsoft has offered a Known Issue Rollback (KIR) for users affected by the many and varied problems with the KB5043145 build of Windows 11....

Unix-like to work on infrastructure, SMB reimplementation on 'key milestones' EuroBSDCon Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), which is backed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, is funding open source work again. This time, the recipients are the FreeBSD Foundation and SerNet, which is one of the backers of the Samba Project....

Tie-up probe concerned the pair's union would mean higher bills, hurt MNVOs Vodafone and Three UK have pledged to maintain retail mobile tariffs at 10 or below for at least two years after their proposed merger, in response to the UK market watchdog's insistence their alliance would lessen local competition....

Wants to peer into gaps in DMA to keep Redmond honest in cloud and AI Germany plans to keep closer tabs on Microsoft to identify and "stop anti-competitive practices" that are not currently covered by the European Commission's Digital Markets Act (DMA), namely cloud computing and AI....

No need for farewells, 2024 PT5 may drop in again in 2055 Everybody be on their best behavior: Earth has a visitor. 2024 PT is an asteroid that took up residence in orbit on Sunday to become a "mini-moon."...

Lithography technique does not require a light source, unlike ASML's complex extreme ultraviolet approach Canon has shipped its first ever nanoimprint lithography machine to the Texas Institute for Electronics for use in its R&D labs....

And that Broadcom has prevented vendors from selling to the telco giant AT&T has claimed that Broadcom made it an offer to increase prices by 1,050 percent, and may be influencing other vendors to make a migration harder....

Tata was about to double the workforce at the plant Authorities are investigating a fire that broke out last weekend at a Tata Electronics facility that produces iPhone components in India. Production at the plant has been halted indefinitely....

Alleges Korean giant's app store lockdown is no accident, and anticompetitive Updated Epic Games has launched another lawsuit in pursuit of its goal of selling its apps direct rather than through platform owners' app stores - this time placing Samsung in its sights....

It's happening in South Korea South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has reportedly told local web giant Naver to improve its disaster recovery capabilities after not taking adequate measures to prevent service failures....

Full names, contact details, and company info - all the fixings for a phishing holiday Data allegedly belonging to more than 304,000 customers of Australian camera and tech e-tailer digiDirect has been leaked to an online cyber crime forum....

As eggheads reckon Musk-mobiles need human interventions every 13 miles Owners of Tesla's Cybertruck are reporting that a software update enabling the self-styled Full Self Driving (FSD) has become an option for their giant rolling wedges of stainless steel....

Intruders accessed machines via tool bundled with ScienceLogic, 'limited' info taken, customers told not to worry Exclusive Rackspace has told customers intruders exploited a zero-day bug in a third-party application it was using, and abused that vulnerability to break into its internal performance monitoring environment....

Only level-one trauma unit in 400 miles crippled Ransomware scumbags have caused a vital hospital to turn away ambulances after infecting its computer systems with malware....

At least seven intrusions in five years? Yeah, those promises of improvement more than 'long overdue' T-Mobile US has agreed to fork out $31.5 million to improve its cybersecurity and pay a fine after a string of network intrusions affected millions of customers between 2021 and 2023....

Newsom doesn't want Golden State to lose its golden goose California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a controversial AI bill, tho don't assume it was necessarily a final win for the tech industry....

No one really wins when a troll, sorry, assertion entity scores a victory A Delaware jury has determined that Amazon Web Services infringed two networking patents and now owes the current patent holder $30.5 million....

Who wants to join his so Solid crew? After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down....

Otherwise, Crew-9 launch was a complete success Updated SpaceX has grounded the Falcon 9 once more, following the launch of the Crew-9 mission, due to an issue with the second stage deorbit burn....

io_uring is getting more capable, and PREEMPT_RT is going mainstream Open Source Summit Europe Released remotely from Vienna, Linux kernel 6.11 is here, with improved monochrome TV support. Yes, in 2024....

California, Arizona, beyond affected as well as storm-smashed states Updated Verizon customers across the United States are reporting widespread outages on Monday morning, potentially dealing a serious setback to hurricane recovery efforts in America's southeast....

Allegations of fraud and unfair business practices dismissed after private mediation A claim against Oracle-owned Netsuite was recently settled out of court following private mediation with a customer that alleged the vendor oversold and under-delivered on software....

A very expensive 2 days in September for the blocked social media platform X's accidental reappearance in Brazil will cost the company 10 million Brazilian reais, or about $1.83 million, in the latest ruling handed down by the country's Federal Supreme Court....

It's election year for more than 50 countries and the Islamic Republic threatens a bunch of them US and UK national security agencies are jointly warning about Iranian spearphishing campaigns, which remain an ongoing threat to various industries and governments....

Blue is the color of some screens after optional KB5043145 update Microsoft's Patch Tuesday preview, KB5043145, arrived last week and is already causing some headaches thanks to serious stability issues....

Only 2 out of 5 tested products were equitable across demographics A study by the US General Services Administration (GSA) has revealed that five remote identity verification (RiDV) technologies are unreliable, inconsistent, and marred by bias across different demographic groups....

State-owned semiconductor production: What is it planning to make there? It's classified UK government has stepped in to buy a fabrication plant to secure supplies of gallium arsenide semiconductors used by the armed forces, saving the jobs of up to 100 skilled workers at the same time....

Ransomware? More like 'we don't care' for everyone but CISOs Efficiency and scalability are key benefits of enterprise cloud computing, but they come at a cost. Security threats specific to cloud environments are the leading cause of concern among top executives and they're also the ones organizations are least prepared to address....

Tie-up between AI toolmaker and Bezos biz doesn't qualify for merger partnership probe The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to drop its investigation into Amazon's alliance with Anthropic, saying the significant deciding factor was a lack of local turnover for the AI toolmaker....

Release codenamed 'Denver' will hit Fedora and Ubuntu next month The latest release of the de facto default desktop of most Linux distros brings some new features - but the GNOME 4x transition isn't done yet....

One branch of tech has learned to work together to solve the near-impossible. Now it's our turn Opinion To say cybersecurity is mostly very good is like saying Boeing's Starliner parts mostly work - true, but you're still going to be sleeping in the office. Moreover, it's questionable whether either are getting any better....

Autofocus would have been nice, though HANDS ON Raspberry Pi has launched a camera module with AI smarts on board. But all that inferencing goodness comes at a price....

The call was coming from inside the house Who, Me? Well, gentle reader, we have some bad news: the weekend is over, and another five days of labor have commenced. The good news is Monday means it's time for a dose of Who, Me? in which Reg readers send in their tales of ... let's say ... hard-earned experience....

Is this AI showing the would-be leader of the free world who's really the boss? Artificial intelligence may have shown the would-be-leader of the free world who's really in charge, after rogue robo-taxis halted the motorcade of US vice-president - and Democratic Party presidential candidate - Kamala Harris....

Great Firewall reaches all the way into space Beijing has published its proposed regulations for satellite broadband, including a requirement that operators conduct censorship in real time....

PSMC does a deal with Tata in what really might be - all hype aside - an actual 'key milestone' It looks like India has scored a deal to host its first semiconductor fab, possibly at the expense of a project in Japan....

LLMs are helpful, but don't use them for anything important AI models just can't seem to stop making things up. As two recent studies point out, that proclivity underscores prior warnings not to rely on AI advice for anything that really matters....

PLUS: UK man charged with hacking US firms for stock secrets; ransomware actor foils self; and more Infosec In Brief Put away that screwdriver and USB charging cable - the latest way to steal a Kia just requires a cellphone and the victim's license plate number....

Plus: SpaceX plans Vietnam investment; Yahoo! Japan content moderation secrets; LG offloads Chinese display factory; and more ASIA IN BRIEF It's not often The Register writes about a cryptocurrency outfit being on the right side of a scam or crime, but last week crypto exchange Binance claimed it helped Indian authorities to investigate a scam gaming app....