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Go forth and install your important security fixes Microsoft says that the problems with the Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview have now been resolved....

IT service giant denies claims, will appeal against verdict A US jury has found that employment practices at Cognizant constitute discriminatory conduct toward non-Indian workers in a case that originated in 2013 and claimed the tech giant favored H-1B visa holders from India over local workers....

As if hospitals and clinics didn't have enough to worry about At least one US healthcare provider has been infected by Trinity, an emerging cybercrime gang with eponymous ransomware that uses double extortion and other "sophisticated" tactics that make it a "significant threat," according to the feds....

Tech giant snaps back, calls DoJ proposals on splitting up Alphabet and more 'government overreach' The US government has confirmed it is considering asking a judge to force Google to divest parts of its business as part of potential remedies in the antitrust case over its control of online searches....

Big emphasis on photos in mobile app Microsoft has unveiled a slew of new features for its OneDrive cloud storage service "all through the magic of AI."...

The real issue is a reluctance to invest Comment Over summer, the UK witnessed a change in government. However, the incoming Labour Party shares some ideas about regulation and innovation with its Conservative predecessor....

BT and some MVNOs very much against union, VMO2 more relaxed because of spectrum deal Opinion is divided in the telecoms industry over the proposed Vodafone and Three UK merger, with at least one rival in favor of the deal, while others want to see the Brit competition regulator scrap it altogether....

A traditional-style rich email client - but for tablets MZLA, the company behind the Thunderbird email client, is finally putting its mobile email client app into beta testing - but it's a lot more mature than that sounds....

Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data? Opinion A year ago it looked as if the world could be Microsoft's oyster. The software giant dominated the enterprise, was catching up to cloudy rivals, and then managed to purchase forty-nine percent of the for-profit subsidiary of ChatGPT creator OpenAI....

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, new Supermarionation is GO! Video Previously unseen footage from the classic British TV show Thunderbirds has been found in a garden shed and restored - where possible - for viewing next year....

Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center GPU-enhanced servers can typically pack up to eight of the accelerators, but Supermicro has built a box that manages to fit 18 of them inside an air-cooled chassis that'll eat up just 3U of rack space....

Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside Chat GPT-maker Open AI announced today that it's appointed a new boss to lead its international expansion....

Still sticking with Arm and not taking RISC-Vs Fabless Taiwanese chip biz MediaTek has unveiled the fourth flagship entry in its Dimensity family of system-on-chips for smartphones and other mobile devices. It's sticking with close companion Arm rather than jumping ship to RISC-V for the CPU cores, for those wondering....

UN report finds Telegram, cryptocurrency are tools of a growing 'criminal service economy' Organized crime syndicates across Asia are using AI, messaging platforms like Telegram, and cryptocurrency to help them expand, with help from dedicated service providers, according to a report the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published on Monday....

Artificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thing Microsoft's LinkedIn will update its User Agreement next month with a warning that it may show users generative AI content that's inaccurate or misleading....

Plus: SAP re-patches a failed patch for critical-rated flaw Patch Tuesday It's the second Tuesday of the month, which means Patch Tuesday, bringing with it fixes for numerous flaws, bugs and vulnerabilities in major software. And this one is a doozy....

First-ever awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence If you needed another sign that we've well and truly entered the AI age, here it is: The first Nobel Prize has been awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence....

Given Amnesty's involvement, it's a safe bet spyware is in play Qualcomm has issued 20 patches for its chipsets' firmware, including one Digital Signal Processor (DSP) software flaw that has been exploited in the wild....

Penned Analytical Engine algorithm in her youth, imagine if she'd lived past 36 Today we remember Ada Lovelace Day, famed for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine....

Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4 TensorWave on Tuesday secured $43 million in fresh funding to cram its datacenter full of AMD's Instinct accelerators and bring a new inference platform to market....

What does IT glimpse but a dating app on your wee little screen If you're using iPhone Mirroring at work: It's time to stop, lest you give your employer's IT department the capability to snoop through the list of apps you have on your phone - dating apps, those tracking medical conditions or sexual history, or any other NSFW apps that you might want to keep to yourself....

Hallucinations, made-up facts... and that's just the human politicians Generative AI has reached its logical conclusion with a chatbot ready to stand in for a congressional incumbent at a debate....

And now SpaceX clarifies special promotion Updated The free Starlink service Elon Musk and SpaceX so graciously promised for communities devastated by Hurricane Helene in the US is not actually entirely free, according to those living in the aftermath - and the satellite operator's own signup page....

How does 90 exaFLOPS sound? Nvidia has confirmed it will be working with mega electronics contractor Foxconn to construct Taiwan's most powerful AI supercomputer....

'Deconversion' can begin now, but initial enrichment, transportation and storage to processors is still TBD The US Department of Energy has awarded shares of an $800 million contract for advanced nuclear fuel deconversion to four companies, but it's unclear who will be in charge of getting refined fuel to those deconversion sites....

NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature rudely discovers its wife never existed The demise of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey remains a haunting cinema moment nearly six decades on for the questions it raises about consciousness, the ethics of AI control, and the limits of rationality, among many other philosophical issues....

Nearly a billion dollars in rural broadband subsidies wouldn't go amiss The Chairman of the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, James Comer, is investigating the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision to revoke an award of almost $900 million in rural broadband subsidies to Elon Musk's Starlink....

Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO Google's former chief Eric Schmidt thinks we shouldn't let AI's ballooning power consumption worry us, because putting AI to work on climate change issues will be our best shot at solving them....

Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where's the fun in that? EuroBSDcon 2024 One of Stefano Marinelli's NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be....

Juniper Research argues the only way to beat them is to join them E-commerce fraud is expected to surge in the next five years thanks to AI, and merchants are advised to respond with ... AI....

Linux contributors told to sort out their grammar lest they be actively corrected Picture this. A developer submits a patch to improve the kernel's performance, only to be met with the scornful gaze of Linux chieftain Linus Torvalds, who declares: "Ah, but your participle is dangling! How do you expect the kernel to thrive under such conditions?"...

The SaaS-only provider and Cognizant snag 144.3M in gov software shake-up A cluster of government departments has opted for Workday HR and finance software, as Oracle and Microsoft make up the vendors losing out to the SaaS-only provider....

How do you indent yours? Veteran Microsoft engineer Larry Osterman is the latest to throw his hat into the "tabs versus spaces" ring....

AI is showing the way to new possibilities after a tricky first year A year after winning the rights to build machines based on Intel's Next Unit of Compute (NUC) mini-PC spec, Taiwan's Asus claims it has stabilized the product line and the team that makes it - and is poised to innovate....

Pro-Ukraine hackers claim credit for Russian state broadcasting shutdown Ukrainian hackers shut down Russian state news agency VGTRK's online broadcasting and streaming services on Monday - president Vladimir Putin's 72nd birthday - as Kremlin officials vowed to bring those responsible for the "unprecedented" cyber attack to justice....

XenServer fork plans to make its next version a better target for VMware migrations Vates, the developer behind Xen Server fork XCP-NG, has thanked Broadcom for increasing interest in its work, and criticized Citrix for presenting challenges to its efforts....

Profit doesn't pop despite AI-inspired memory boom, leading to executive mea culpa Samsung Electronics has issued an apology to customers, investors and employees after releasing disappointing preliminary results Tuesday....

Improved security features teased in May now appearing around the world Google has apparently started a global rollout of three features in Android designed to make life a lot harder for thieves to profit from purloined phones....

Plus: Google, Oracle, spend $9.5 billion on Asia datacenters; Philippines to tax clouds; Vietnam infosec praised; and more In Brief Chinese authorities have reportedly let local orgs know they should satisfy their need for AI accelerators by shopping locally - not from Nvidia....

A couple million will do for a start ... but Kim's crews are suspected of stealing much more The US government is attempting to claw back more than $2.67 million stolen by North Korea's Lazarus Group, filing two lawsuits to force the forfeiture of millions in Tether and Bitcoin....

Chocolate Factory vows to appeal A US court has ordered Google to refrain from a wide variety of business practices the web giant uses to bolster its Play Store, as a consequence of its December 2023 antitrust defeat against Epic Games....

Struggling chipmaker scores another win In breaking trends news, Inflection AI revealed its latest enterprise platform would ditch Nvidia GPUs for Intel's Gaudi 3 accelerators....

It's still safe to drink, top provider tells us American Water, which supplies over 14 million people in the US and numerous military bases, has stopped issuing bills and has taken its MyWater app offline while it investigates a cyberattack on its systems....

Is that a sparkler attached to the bottom of your rocket or just something falling off? An unusual event occurred during United Launch Alliance's (ULA) second launch of the Vulcan Centaur at the end of last week. One of the twin Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) lost its nozzle, but the vehicle still made it into space as planned....

This comes after Tesla owner griped of dropped policies on X Geico confirmed to The Register that, following whispering on social media, the US insurance firm is most definitely not canceling all coverage on Tesla Cybertrucks....

Withholding exculpatory evidence from suspects isn't a great look when the tech is already questionable Police around the United States are routinely using facial recognition technology to help identify suspects, but those departments rarely disclose they've done so - even to suspects and their lawyers....

But not hard to believe of business units with over $2 billion in operating losses in 2023 Despite reports of poor demand and mounting losses, Samsung says it has no plans to spin off its foundry business or chip design operation....

D-Wave and Rigetti dip below $1 as AI steals the spotlight The harsh realities of the quantum ecosystem are dawning on markets as two prominent quantum vendors acknowledge they are at risk of being delisted following shares dropping below the $1 mark....

Salt Typhoon may have accessed court-ordered wiretaps and US internet traffic Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies were among the US broadband providers whose networks were reportedly hacked by Chinese cyberspies, possibly compromising the wiretapping systems used for court-ordered surveillance....

They put more risk in a single box than most of us are equipped to handle Opinion Intel recently teased a 128-core Granite Rapids Xeon 6 processor, and your humble vulture thinks you can ignore them - indeed, ignoring them might be your safest course of action....