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KT may have had an entire team dedicated to infecting its own customers A South Korean media outlet has alleged that local telco KT deliberately infected some customers with malware due to their excessive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading tools....

Russian national accused of attacks in lead-up to the Ukraine war The US Department of Justice has indicted a 22-year-old Russian for allegedly attacking Ukrainian government computers and destroying critical infrastructure systems in the so-called WhisperGate" wiper attack that preceded Russia's illegal invasion of the European nation....

Letter from Einstein, vintage space suit, and ancient computers all up for sale The estate of the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has decided to close Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the Seattle site which housed his beloved collection of vintage technology....

Pocket-change settlements of $6M and $35M await approval in July Apple is preparing to settle two lawsuits next month over alleged iPhone flaws, provided the respective judges agree to the terms of the deals....

OneCoin co-founder allegedly bilked investors out of $4B in digicash Uncle Sam has put a $5 million bounty on any information leading to the arrest or conviction of self-titled "CryptoQueen" Ruja Ignatova, who is wanted in the US for apparently bilking victims out of more than $4 billion in what the Feds describe as the "one of the largest global fraud schemes in history."...

Less than an hour's profit - that sends a strong message for emergency cover America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Verizon a little over a million dollars for failing to route 911 calls during a cellular outage....

Believe it or not, this is modest relative to other predictions A study predicts that US power consumption from datacenters will more than double by 2030....

President Xi tells nation that battle for tech dominance, game between 'international powers' are 'intertwined' US efforts to curb China's advanced chip industries may be having an effect, amid claims that Huawei is having difficulty ramping up production of its Ascend 910B accelerator. The news comes as China's president aims to bolster the country's self-reliance in key technologies including chips....

White House can get back to asking Facebook and co to kindly bin off what the Feds say is misinformation The US Supreme Court has reversed a prior decision barring federal agencies from coordinating with social media platforms to fight misinformation, on the grounds the plaintiffs in the case lacked standing to argue it to begin with....

Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them The US has convicted the 24-year-old leader of an international robbery crew that kidnapped and terrorized wealthy victims during home invasions that were carried out to steal cryptocurrency tokens....

$137M needed to overhaul Play Store too great to bear, Google argues. Oh, and user security is important, too Google has asked a California judge to deny Epic Games' requested remedies after the Play Store was found to be an illegal monopoly, arguing the changes would be too costly and create new security risks for Android users....

After Databricks snaffled Iceberg-linked Tabular, CEO insists there are more than two horses in this race OneHouse, a data lake company based around the open source Apache Hudi table format, has secured $35 million in Series B funding led by Craft Ventures....

The FLX1 runs its own build of 'Trixie' but has an Android layer DEVCONF.CZ Furi Labs' FLX1 is a Debian-based smartphone with decent specs at a competitive price....

Because if there's one thing it really needed more of... Google on Wednesday rolled out additional enterprise browser management features to help IT admins to keep corporate browsing software fit for purpose....

Hey, OneDrive! Leave my files alone User data is being slurped into Microsoft's cloud via OneDrive folder backup without user permission....

Experts say 'circular economy strategies' could keep demand at 2015 levels Demand for raw materials to make electric vehicles will triple by 2050, while lithium-ion batteries could account for more than half the total resources needed for the auto industry by the same date, research from Japan has found....

Exploit attempts for devastating' vulnerabilities already underway Thought last year's MOVEit hellscape was well and truly behind you? Unlucky, buster. We're back for round two after Progress Software lifted the lid on fresh vulnerabilities affecting MOVEit Transfer and Gateway....

Time for plan B (or will it be C?) Crisis-stricken Atos says the chosen bailout proposal from its largest shareholder has fallen through, just weeks after being confirmed, leaving the IT services biz to consider two alternative bids....

Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia's H100 in Llama 70B ... assuming it's actually built Following ChatGPT's debut in late 2022, GPUs - Nvidia's in particular - have become synonymous with generative AI....

Now that's what you call a golden harvest As normies arrive at the world's most middle-of-the-road festival today, by the end of the week Glastonbury will be awash with hundreds of thousands of gallons of chemical-laced urine....

It was Vodafone, basically Exclusive The Register can exclusively reveal that the "IT issue" behind the ongoing chaos at British Airways was due to problems with how its systems interact with the Vodafone platform....

Affordable Connectivity funding coming to an end soon... AT&T thinks that internet-based technology giants should contribute to a fund that subsidizes access to telecoms and broadband services in the US, and wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to force them to do so....

And there's a special offer on the CentOS-compatible Liberty Linux As SUSE ascends its self-imposed ALP, this version may be the last of the fixed release cycle for openSUSE Leap....

Watts down, doc: Boffins find machine learning models can function with more modest power requirements Large language models can be made 50 times more energy efficient with alternative math and custom hardware, claim researchers at University of California Santa Cruz....

Now, about that bill for the private jet that's taking him home to Australia ... Julian Assange is a free man....

We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now A pair of developers have come away from encounters with Apple's latest rules regarding video game emulators in its App Store and concluded the iGiant is not okay with software that emulates a whole operating system....

Admits it's not sure some clicks from from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten Yahoo! Japan will waive $189 million charged to advertisers after deciding they were fraudulently charged, the portal's corporate parent revealed on Tuesday....

Australian study finds GPS trackers - and sometimes AirTags - are in demand for the wrong reasons Tracking devices are in demand from organized crime groups and known perpetrators of domestic violence, according to an Australian study....

Now to figure out if it really is rich in useful stuff that could fuel further exploration China's Chang'e-6 re-entry capsule reached Earth on Tuesday after a 53-day mission to the far side of the Moon. And it came back with a sample onboard....

Text-to-image AI outfit can now buy time to build products and profit Generative AI company Stability AI says it's poised to accelerate development of its text-to-image products thanks to a fresh round of investments and a management shakeup....

Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing American healthcare provider Geisinger fears highly personal data on more than a million of its patients has been stolen - and claimed a former employee at a Microsoft subsidiary is the likely culprit....

Scripts turn malicious, infect webpages after Chinese CDN swallows domain The polyfill.io domain is being used to infect more than 100,000 websites with malware after a Chinese organization bought the domain earlier this year....

What's the matter, you want China to win, huh? It's been slow going expanding America's high-speed internet coverage - and city-level opposition to one proposed national law to streamline broadband roll-outs may stall things further....

Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party Customer information said to have been stolen from Neiman Marcus's Snowflake instance has been put up for sale on the dark web for $150,000....

It's not entirely clear what actions the ChatGPT maker plans to take, if any ChatGPT developer OpenAI has sent out emails to users based in countries it considers "unsupported," saying it will block their access for good starting July 9....

Business is more lucrative than you might think The FBI says in just 12 months, scumbags stole circa $10 million from victims of crypto scams after posing as helpful lawyers offering to recover their lost tokens....

Now windshield wipers are failing and trim is detaching of its own accord Tesla has issued two more physical Cybertruck recalls, bringing the total number of hardware issues the electric-car maker has had to fix on the troubled vehicle to three in as many months....

Dance! Dance for me! ByteDance may not be the only company hurt by a US ban on TikTok: Oracle put a warning in its recently filed annual report that such a move could hit its revenue and profits as a provider of hosting services....

But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says SAP customers looking for infrastructure support for ERP software from community cloud, cloud-like, or former co-location providers should do so with care, as they could take a hit on risks and TCO in the long run....

Cisco was briefly the world's most valuable company too, you know, just before the dot com bust Nvidia has rapidly lost about $500 billion off its market capitalization amid concerns that the GPU maker may have become overvalued or that the AI market powered by its chips is a bubble set to burst....

Software System Award recognises his contributions to education Andy Tanenbaum, creator of MINIX, has been recognized for his code, seminal textbooks, and wider educational influence over much of the modern FOSS world....

Crafty crims broke in but encryption stopped any nastiness US cybersecurity agency CISA is urging high-risk chemical facilities to secure their online accounts after someone broke into its Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT) portal....

Compute, storage, and networking virtualization brought together - with live ESXi patching VMware by Broadcom has previewed an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation bundles that appear to deliver on past promises to make the virty giant's wares easier to acquire and operate....

Statement of Objections sent to Redmond HQ following probe that began July 2023 Microsoft broke the European Union's antitrust regulations by "tying" collaboration tool Teams to its dominant online Office productivity suite, according to preliminary findings from an investigation begun in July 2023....

Attacking the NHS is a very bad move UK and US cops have reportedly joined forces to find and fight Qilin, the ransomware gang wreaking havoc on the global healthcare industry....

Which isn't to say Nvidia and hyperscalers will win, says analyst Steve Brazier, as regulators circle HPE discover Walking the floor at HPE's Discover show in Las Vegas last week, this vulture was left with the distinct impression that HPE and its partners believe that the age of turnkey on-prem enterprise-level AI has arrived....

Lawsuit demands big changes and a little transparency in reporting Intel executives have been hit by a shareholder derivative lawsuit from an investor alleging that they and others were misled regarding the financial performance of the company's foundry business....

Low-code and report production vie for early use cases, but risks remain With vendors obsessed with adding generative AI to everything, does it really have a place in ERP software? It's very early days, say analysts at Forrester....

Just when you think we've solved chlorofluorocarbons Large numbers of low Earth orbit satellites such as those operated by Starlink could pose a threat to the planet's ozone layer once they re-enter the atmosphere, according to recent research....

National Fire Agency responds with inspection of 213 battery-related workplaces A fire at a lithium battery manufacturing plant in Hwaseong, South Korea on Monday killed at least 23 people and injured eight others....