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Microsoft forgets about SwiftKey's support site
Injecting Copilot branding will not make TLS certificates auto-renew Another Microsoft certificate has expired, leaving SwiftKey users that are seeking support faced with an alarming certificate error....
US-China chip wars 'mainly ideological' says ex-ASML boss
And it'll be decades before things settle down again Former ASML boss Peter Wennink says the US-China "chip wars" are mainly ideological in nature, and is warning it will likely take decades for the dispute to play out....
Avast secretly gave DoNex ransomware decryptors to victims before crims vanished
Good riddance to another pesky tribe of miscreants Updated Researchers at Avast have provided decryptors to DoNex ransomware victims on the down-low since March after discovering a flaw in the crims' cryptography, the company confirmed today....
Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout
Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose Troubled Birmingham City Council, which was declared effectively bankrupt last year owing in part to a disastrous Oracle implementation, has awarded the tech giant 10 million ($12.8 million) for additional professional services....
Fraud guilty plea flies from Boeing to swerve courtroom over 737 Max crashes
Attorney for families of victims files objection Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud charges related to deadly 737 Max crashes, according to a Sunday night court filing from the US Department of Justice (DoJ)....
Third time was the charm for SingleStore in the cloud, CEO says
Apache Iceberg support makes it a good option for a transactional layer over data lakes, he tells The Register SingleStore, the database that promises analytics and transactions on a single system, took three attempts to get its technology working in the cloud, CEO Raj Verma admitted to The Register....
Fear of commodity chip flood sparks EU probe into China's silicon ambitions
They're cranking 'em out like there's no tomorrow The European Commission is said to be sounding out chipmakers in the region about China's expanding production of commodity silicon, which has sparked concerns that it could flood the global market....
Breaking the rules is in big tech's blood – now it's time to break the habit
Microsoft: All your data are belong to us? World: That's so last century Opinion Microsoft's journey through intellectual property has been a multi-year saga that makes Game of Thrones look like a haiku....
Outback shocker left Aussie techie with a secret not worth sharing
That's not an outage ... that's an outage Who, Me? G'day readers, and welcome once again to The Register's reader-submitted column of cold comfort that we call Who, Me? where you find out that everyone - even clever clogs like you - makes mistakes....
Copilot+ PCs software compatibility issues left to you to sort out, with help from crowdsourcers
Samsung warned users, but the PC industry's big players hardly mention the possibility of problems Buyers worried a Copilot+ PC based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X SoCs might not run software that matters to them are being directed to two community-run sites that crowdsource lists of incompatible code....
Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts
Vietnam now requires it for some purchases. It may be a fraud risk in Singapore. Or ML could be making it safe The use of selfies to verify identity online is an emerging trend in some parts of the world since the pandemic forced more business to go digital. Some banks - and even governments - have begun requiring live images over Zoom or similar in order to participate in the modern economy. The question must be asked, though: is it cyber smart?...
China plans to boost national compute capacity thirty percent by 2025
From 230 Exaflops to 300, with Tesla a part of the plan for energy storage, - and cars China has offered a glimpse at the processing power of its national compute capacity, and pointed to plans to grow it by 30 percent this year alone....
Not-so-OpenAI allegedly never bothered to report 2023 data breach
Also: F1 authority breached; Prudential victim count skyrockets; a new ransomware actor appears; and more security in brief It's been a week of bad cyber security revelations for OpenAI, after news emerged that the startup failed to report a 2023 breach of its systems to anybody outside the organization, and that its ChatGPT app for macOS was coded without any regard for user privacy....
A decade after collapsing, crypto exchange Mt Gox repays some investors
Plus: Samsung strike; India likely upping chip subsidies; Asian nations link payment schemes Asia In Brief Mt Gox, the Japanese crypto exchange that dominated trading for a brief time in the early 2010s before collapsing amid the disappearance of nearly half a billion dollars worth of the digicash, likely as a result of its own shoddy software, has said it will start to repay some investors - in Bitcoin....
A friendly guide to containerization for AI work
Save the headaches, ship your dependencies Hands on One of the biggest headaches associated with AI workloads is wrangling all of the drivers, runtimes, libraries, and other dependencies they need to run....
Algorithmic wage discrimination: Not just for gig workers
What's in the box! No seriously, what's in there that sets our wages Interview Algorithmic wage discrimination, as described in an academic paper last year by UC Irvine law professor Veena Dubal, involves "the use of granular data to produce unpredictable, variable, and personalized hourly pay."...
Epic accuses Apple of foul play over iOS access, wants EU to show DMA red card
After button brouhaha, CEO rages Cupertino 'must be stopped' Apple has twice unfairly blocked Epic Games from opening its iOS app portal in the EU, the Fortnite maker claims, and thus is in violation of the continent's Digital Markets Act (DMA)....
Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin
Mozilla shows guts with its extensions - but that's the way the Cook, he crumbles Updated At least two VPNs are no longer available for Russian iPhone users, seemingly after the Kremlin's internet regulatory agency Roskomnadzor demanded Apple take them down....
FCC: T-Mobile US unit gave blind customer the runaround in massive tech support fail
Assurance Wireless must sort out accessibility after handing customer a phone without a screen reader In January 2021, Kenneth Geaniton, a blind consumer who subscribed to the Lifeline service provided by T-Mobile US offshoot Assurance Wireless, found he couldn't access the service after his feature phone died....
Texas court blocks FTC noncompete ban, and you can blame SCOTUS
That was quick: Supremes' gutting of Chevron deference is already paying dividends Regulatory dominoes have begun to fall in the wake of the US Supreme Court's gutting of federal agency rulemaking authority, with the Federal Trade Commission's ban on noncompete agreements the first to be stayed using the SCOTUS decision as justification....
Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals
Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier Exclusive The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. But perhaps no single person was affected as severely as Johanna Groothuizen....
Nvidia forecast to bounce back in China to make $12B selling GPUs
Company's sales in the region have dropped under US plan to curb country's AI hopes Nvidia is forecast to make $12 billion from selling GPUs into China this year despite US trade restrictions aimed at curbing Beijing's AI ambitions....
Paessler pulls subscription licensing switcheroo on PRTG Network Monitor
Customers seek alternatives after claiming costs up from perpetual Exclusive Fears that VMware's switch to subscription-based licensing would lead other vendors to follow suit may be coming true after Paessler confirmed to The Reg it has introduced new subscription pricing for its network monitoring tool, PRTG....
Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler
There's also chatter about whether medium severity scare is actually code red nightmare Infosec circles are awash with chatter about a vulnerability in Ghostscript some experts believe could be the cause of several major breaches in the coming months....
Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray
Looming train wrecks face winning party after it promises investment and innovation Analysis The United Kingdom woke up to the prospect of a new government this morning, but it faces old problems in tech projects, policy, and investment....
Oracle releases experimental next-gen kernel build
UEK-next is bleeding edge - unlike most CentOS-alikes Oracle's Linux engineers have released their build of kernel 6.9 for Oracle Linux - and they're already planning for 6.10 and beyond....
Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard
Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture Top Eurocops are appealing for help from lawmakers to undermine a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) they say is hampering criminal investigations - and it's not end-to-end encryption this time. Not exactly....
Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage
Hello, hello ... what have we here? One very dangerous storage admin, if I'm not mistaken On Call As Friday rolls around, The Register knows many readers are a little fatigued. Which is why we use this day to bring a fresh instalment of On Call - the weekly reader contributed column we hope amuses you enough to shake off a week of tech support torpor and traipse into the weekend with a smile on your dial....
Time Lords decree: No leap second needed in 2024
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, even if Earth is spinning out The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) announced on Thursday there will be no leap second added to 2024....
Good news: Samsung predicts prodigious profit pop
Bad news: It's probably because you have to pay more for RAM Samsung Electronics has advised investors it is set to post bumper profits and notch a big jump in revenue for the quarter ended June 30....
Kindle sputters out: Amazon's e-readers couldn't download content for a day or more
Support line reports 'high volume of contacts' about the problem Owners of Amazon's Kindle e-reader devices looking for something new to read may have had to pick up an actual book - the old-school kind, made of dead trees - for a day or so this week, as their devices would not download content....
We've banned Chinese telco kit and drones. Next: mountain bikes?
DJI builds a power pack for off-road two-wheelers Nations worried about China's ability to use its tech companies for more than trade now have a new class of kit to fret over: mountain bikes, thanks to Middle Kingdom drone-maker DJI's arrival in the field with an electric drive system....
Atos shuffles debt around as curtain call nears for restructuring saga
Investors will be hoping so anyway Crisis-prone IT services outfit Atos says it is among the top 11 percent of companies in the industry - at least when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks - as it reaches what many investors will be hoping is its final restructuring deal....
Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't
Promise of AI features, but Big Blue won't reveal much more about next steps of its highly regarded relational database Opinion Last week, I committed a crime. No, I did not defraud the IRS/HMRC or steal some Snyder's Pretzels/Cheesy Wotsits. It was much worse. A keen reader pointed out that I had miscounted the number of versions of Db2, IBM's relational database....
AST SpaceMobile promises the Moon with seamless satellite phone service
Yet all its birds remain resolutely earthbound AST SpaceMobile has reiterated its plans to enable a satellite phone service covering the entire continental US that will work seamlessly with existing devices, thanks to spectrum sharing agreements with AT&T and Verizon....
Experimental Mir-based tiling WM is winning acceptance outside Ubuntopia
Miracle-WM takes several more steps forward The Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Canonical's Mir display server has hit 0.3 - and also reaches places you may not expect to find Canonical code....
Datacenter demand driven by AI... but constrained by power shortages
Not content with drinking up all our water, now we'll compete with DCs for power Demand for datacenter space is currently at a high in many markets around the globe because of the AI boom, despite issues with securing adequate power, at least according to commercial real estate firm CBRE....
Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software
Union advises members to turn off features government introduced to allow third parties to update records The UK's doctors' union has advised members running GP surgeries to turn off certain functionality in their IT system to prevent outside organizations adding to their workloads....
Europol nukes nearly 600 IP addresses in Cobalt Strike crackdown
Private sector helped out with week-long operation - but didn't touch China Europol just announced that a week-long operation at the end of June dropped nearly 600 IP addresses that supported illegal copies of Cobalt Strike....
ITER delays first plasma for world's biggest fusion power rig by a decade
Who could have guessed that giant magnets capable of constraining mini-suns would be hard to build? The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a 35-nation effort to create electricity from nuclear fusion, has torn up its project plans and pushed operations of its tokamak back by at least eight years....
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key
Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway Brain Cipher, the group responsible for hacking into Indonesia's Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) and disrupting the country's services, has seemingly apologized for its actions and released an encryption key to the government....
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users
Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point Australia's government has announced its intention to build a Top Secret-rated cloud, with help from Amazon Web Services....
Chinese Gen AI researchers snagged more patents than everyone else combined since 2013
You think the US leads the field? Wrong - OpenAI is way down WIPO's charts The World Intellectual Property Organization has counted the patents and scientific publications related to generative AI it could find between 2014 and 2023, and found 54,000 GenAI-related inventions and over 75,000 scientific publications - and that China utterly dominates the field....
Amazon puts down its Astro robotic business watchdog
Now even the 'droids are being laid off - sheesh! Amazon is axing its Astro for Business robotic security sentry just seven months after announcing the thing....
EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials
'We're not there yet' on development of motors without them Comment China tightening its stranglehold on rare earth elements (REEs) makes now the perfect time for the automotive industry to start thinking about alternatives for EV motors, but not a single proposed solution appears ready for reality....
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI
Take that for ignoring robots.txt! Cloudflare on Wednesday offered web hosting customers a way to block AI bots from scraping website content and using the data without permission to train machine learning models....
Meta training AI models on citizen data gets a hard não from Brazil
Zuckerborg's justification isn't good enough, says watchdog Meta's plan to expand its AI presence in South America has been hamstrung, with Brazilian officials today banning the Facebook parent company from using its citizens' data to train AI algorithms....
Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal
AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC Utility firms American Electric Power (AEP) and Exelon have filed an official objection with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over Talen Energy's nuclear power deal with Amazon....
Traeger security bugs bad news for grillers with neighborly beef
Never risk it when it comes to brisket - make sure those updates are applied Keen meatheads better hope they haven't angered any cybersecurity folk before allowing their Traeger grills to update because a new high-severity vulnerability could be used for all kinds of high jinks....
Patelco banking services AWOL amid ransomware ruckus
Late fees? Don't worry, the credit union has you covered San Francisco-based Patelco Credit Union confirms its service outage was the result of ransomware and has pulled systems offline....
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