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Hello? Emergency services? I'd like to report a wrong number
911 is no joke Who, Me? Greetings, gentle readerfolk, and welcome to Who Me? the section of The Reg in which we soften the crushing blow of the working week's return with tales of technical transgression....
Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency
MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs Sigcomm 2024 Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed MegaTE", a traffic engineering (TE) system it uses on its own cloud and which it claims outperforms rivals by tailoring network configurations to the needs of individual flows generated by VMs or containers....
China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation on the idea closes
Eighty-one apps signed up to pilot facial recognition and real name ID system Chinese app developers have signed up to beta test a national cyberspace ID system that will use facial recognition technology and the real names of users, according to Chinese media....
Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers
Happy to have 'em go hybrid as it wises up to the enterprise Fresh from moving its smaller customers off its server-based products onto and into its cloud, Atlassian has softened its cloud-first approach after recognizing that its larger customers can't or won't go there in a hurry - if ever....
Google gamed into advertising a malicious version of Authenticator
Plus: CISA's AI hire; and Canuck SIM swappers busted Infosec in brief Scammers have been using Google's own ad system to fool people into downloading a borked copy of the Chocolate Factory's Authenticator software....
India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months
Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more ASIA IN BRIEF India's government has successfully migrated 25,904 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) to a unified ERP system in just five months, as part of its broader initiative to modernize and streamline rural lending operations....
Lights, camera, AI! Real-time deepfakes coming to DEF CON
Red teamer finds they're easy to make, which is welcome to produce fodder for detection bots DEF CON Visitors to the AI Village at this year's DEF CON hacker conference will have the chance to star in their own deepfake video simply by standing in front of Brandon Kovacs' camera, and watching as he turns them into a digital likeness of a fellow attendee - for a good cause....
IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim
'They actually replaced me with a younger employee' Three years ago, Bruce Maule, worldwide president of channel marketing at IBM, was informed by bosses that his position was being eliminated....
AI boom is reshaping the face of cloud infrastructure
Capex skyrockets as providers prioritize new shiny over traditional server upgrades Analysis Cloud infrastructure is undergoing an upheaval with service providers rushing to deploy servers configured for AI model training, often at the cost of postponing the usual refresh cycle for their standard server hardware....
Bugging out: 53 years since humans first drove a battery-powered car on the Moon
And you thought you had range anxiety Feature Electric vehicles have generated plenty of discussion over the last decade or so. However, it was 53 years ago this week that one of the battery-powered machines first carried humans around the Moon....
DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course
Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request? To accelerate the transition to memory safe programming languages, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is driving the development of TRACTOR, a programmatic code conversion vehicle....
San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking algorithms used by landlords
Automated price-fixing software screwing over tenants? Fog off! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week approved a ban on algorithmic price setting in the rental housing market, a measure targeting real estate management software from the likes of RealPage and Yardi that has been blamed in part for high rents....
Intel tacks two years onto Raptor Lake CPU warranty after voltage crash fiasco
It's starting to sink in for Chipzilla that it's losing some credibility Owners of Intel's 13th and 14th Gen Core desktop processors are set to get an extra two years of warranty coverage....
Say 'ahhhh' – AI robots are now gunning for your gums
Perceptive turns its automated dental dynamo on humans, and Zuck's dad thinks it's great Those with a fear of the dentist's chair should probably look away now because one day a robot might be doing the job - at least if Perceptive has its way....
Uncle Sam sues TikTok for 'extensive' data harvesting from millions of kids
Remember that promise to be nice? You broke it, say prosecutors The US government is suing TikTok, claiming the mega-popular app broke the law by playing fast and loose with millions of kids' data and privacy....
Microsoft's results are in, but the E7 subscription remains mythical. For now
Does the Windows giant's love of 365 add-ons spell doom for a super premium tier? Comment The guessing game over when and if Microsoft might add an E7 tier to its Microsoft 365 lineup continues following the company's latest results....
Israeli hacktivist group brags it took down Iran's internet
WeRedEvils alleges successful attack on infrastructure, including data theft Israel-based hacktivists are taking credit for an ongoing internet outage in Iran....
Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit
Perhaps those thrusters actually burn dollars after all Lurking in Boeing's woeful Q2 financials is an admission that while its Starliner spacecraft might be struggling when it comes to burning fuel, it has no problem whatsoever setting fire to dollar bills....
Breaking the economy of trust: How busts affect malware gangs
It's hard to track down individuals, so why not disrupt the underground market itself? Feature Some of the world's most notorious ransomware and malware-as-a-service (RaaS/MaaS) operators have shut up shop in the past 12 months thanks to international law enforcement efforts, but just because household names like Conti, LockBit, and ALPHV/BlackCat are on the ropes, it doesn't mean we're free from the threat of commodity malware....
Azure Linux 3 hits general availability – but don't expect any frills
Microsoft's distribution gets a new LTS kernel With impeccable timing considering recent Windows issues, Microsoft has made Azure Linux 3.0 generally available. It includes an update to the Linux kernel and new versions of various packages....
DoJ launches probes as AI antitrust storm clouds gather round Nvidia
US regulator reportedly not happy about Run:ai buy... nor industry dominance The US Department of Justice has started an investigation into Nvidia's acquisition of Run:ai, a startup offering orchestration tools for AI workloads....
Fortune 50 biz coughed up record-breaking $75M ransom to halt leak of stolen data
They say crime doesn't pay. They're right - it's the victims doing the paying An unnamed Fortune 50 corporation paid a stonking $75 million to a ransomware gang to stop it leaking terabytes of stolen data....
UK plans to revamp national cyber defense tools are already in motion
Work aims to build on the success of NCSC's 2016 initiative - and private sector will play a part The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) says it's in the planning stages of bringing a new suite of services to its existing Active Cyber Defence (ACD) program....
50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systems Late in the summer of 1974, CP/M first started running on hardware. It became one of the first cross-platform microcomputer OSes, and revolutionized the hardware and software industries....
Microsoft whiz dishes the dirt on the Blue Screen Of Death's colorful past
CrowdStrike reminded the public that BSODs still exist. Their origins go back decades Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has taken to his Old New Thing blog to clear up an apparent mystery regarding the origins of the infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)....
Yes, I am being intolerably smug – because I ignored you and saved the project
The minutes before a maintenance window closes are maybe not the best time to re-learn obscure router syntax On Call The instructions on what to do at 5:00PM Friday are clear: down tools and prepare to have fun for two days. But as many Register readers are required to remain available to fix things all weekend, our team is commanded to use Fridays for a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that describes dodging danger and disasters while performing tech support tasks....
UK crimebusters shut down global call-spoofing outfit that claimed 170K-plus victims
Suspected devs behind Russian Coms cuffed - now to find the users of the nastyware The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has shut down an outfit called Russian Coms - a call-spoofing service believed to have swindled hundreds of thousands of victims....
Japan mandates app to ensure national ID cards aren't forged
First delays, then data leaks - now fraud detection needed at point of use The Japanese government has released details of of an app that verifies the legitimacy of its troubled My Number Card - a national identity document....
Amazon: Our cloud growth just sped up. Did you know we are also quite a big retailer?
Reveals Kuiper broadband sats to fly later this year and solid Q2 sales Amazon.com has taken the unusual step of leading its quarterly results webcast with discussion of performance at Amazon Web Services....
First-time buyers, especially in China, help Apple to quarterly revenue record
iPhone cash is a little off, but AI might just turn that around Apple has posted its best-ever revenue for the June quarter, with help from first-time buyers of Macs and iPads....
India contemplates compulsory dynamic 2FA for digital payments
SMS OTPs are overused, so bring on the tokens and biometrics India's central bank on Wednesday proposed a requirement for dynamically generated second authentication factors for most digital payments....
Appeals court kicks fate of net neutrality in America further down the road
Judges wonder out loud: If Congress wanted this, it would have passed a law, no? The fate of net neutrality in the US still hangs in the balance, with a decision now unlikely before the November presidential election....
US sends cybercriminals back to Russia in prisoner swap that freed WSJ journo, others
Techno-crooks greeted by grinning Putin after landing At least two Russian cybercriminals are among those being returned to their motherland as part of a multinational prisoner exchange deal announced Thursday....
AI to invade hundreds more Taco Bell drive-thrus this year
After McDonald's puts chatbots on ice, TB decides to take a bite Yet another fast food franchise thinks it has what it takes to make the AI-powered drive-thru work....
Intel to shed at least 15% of staff, will outsource more to TSMC, slash $10B in costs
Share price in meltdown as Pat hopes buyers, investors, board can wait for 2026 turnaround Analysis Intel plans to layoff more than 16,000 staff, or at least 15 percent of its workforce, with most cuts coming by the end of the year as the x86 giant scrambles to get its finances under control....
Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing
Hold that thought, citizen The government of President Javier Milei in Argentina last week announced the creation of an artificial intelligence group within the country's Cybercrime and Cyber Affairs Directorate that will use statistical software to predict crime....
Is AI going to pay its way? Wall Street wants tech world to show it the money
2025 could be Peak Nvidia when reality finally kicks in Kettle The tech world has been banging on about the amazing benefits of generative artificial intelligence - so when are we going to see them?...
Too late now for canary test updates, says pension fund suing CrowdStrike
That horse has not just bolted, it's trampled all over kernel space CrowdStrike, after suggesting canary testing as a way to ensure it avoids future blunders leading to global computer outages, has been sued in federal court by investors for not using a phased approach in rolling out updates to customers in the first place....
Bring the hammer down on Nvidia, US progressive and antitrust orgs urge the Feds
Lobbyists would love for rumors of a monopoly probe into GPU goliath to become reality As the US Department of Justice continues mulling an antitrust probe into Nvidia, numerous advocacy groups are urging the Feds on....
Legal eagles target Intel for class action over cooked Raptor Lake CPUs
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with elevated voltage, you may be entitled to compensation A law firm is inviting owners of 13th and 14th Gen Intel Raptor Lake CPUs to join in on an upcoming class action lawsuit....
OpenAI might be a partner, but it's also a competitor, says Microsoft
Either Sam and Satya are on the rocks, or this is just more maneuvering to avoid regulatory scrutiny The honeymoon phase of Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship appears to be at an end, with Redmond naming the recipient of billions of its dollars a competitor in its latest annual report....
FBI, CISA remind US voters that DDoS attacks can't touch election systems
PSA comes amid multiple IT services crises in recent days US law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies are reminding the public that the country's voting systems will remain unaffected by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as the next presidential election fast approaches....
Uber and China's BYD agree deal to roll out 100,000 EV fleet
No timeline yet, but drivers beware: Plans include collaboration on autonomous-capable vehicles Uber and BYD have struck a deal to bring 100,000 BYD electric vehicles onto the Uber platform, starting with Europe and Latin America....
Qualcomm bullish on AI, teases flagship platform coming in October
Chip outfit boosted by Chinese market, but goals for smartphones, PCs are ambitious Qualcomm is confident its bet on AI in phones and Arm PCs will pay off, buoyed by more than 50 percent growth in revenue from Chinese handset makers and a promise of $700 Copilot+ PCs coming next year....
Firefox's Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates
Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority Mozilla is following in Google Chrome's footsteps in officially distrusting Entrust as a root certificate authority (CA) following what it says was a protracted period of compliance failures....
NASA pops repair kit in the mail so astronauts can fix leaky ISS telescope
Upcoming spacewalk should help NICER see more nicely NASA is preparing to launch a repair kit to the International Space Station (ISS) for a telescope that was never designed to be tinkered with by astronauts....
Microsoft services partly down Down Under for Kiwi users
Maybe time to play the cloud hokey pokey? You put your workload in. You take your workload out... Updated Microsoft Azure went down for customers in New Zealand earlier today, taking with it parts of Microsoft 365 and bite-sized chunks of the working day for employees still dealing with the effects of previous outages....
Beetle mania: How bugs are inspiring the next gen of robot aviators
Deploying and folding wings without power might be useful in a tight spot The rhinoceros beetle turns out to be an unlikely source of engineering inspiration for tiny flying robots that can fold their wings when resting or after a collision....
Linux updates with an undo function? Some distros have that
Snapshots, failover, recovery, and uninstallation on a plate The big names mostly can't yet, but some lesser-known Linux distributions offer the ability to undo updates and recover from damage, even automatically....
UK court rules in Intel's favor in R2 Semi power patent case
Legal woes are still ongoing in Italy, France, and Germany The High Court of England and Wales has sided with Intel in a multinational patent dispute brought by R2 Semiconductor alleging the x86 giant infringed on its voltage regulation tech....
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