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If they don't crash first, say government auditors Updated The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic control (ATC) systems are perilously out of date, but don't expect replacements anytime soon, says the US Government Accountability Office (GAO)....

Poorly received by investors, the moves comes in a difficult year Cloud-based data warehousing and analytics biz Snowflake has issued $2 billion in bonds with the aim to buy back shares and potentially launch an acquisition strategy....

Thousands of devices remain vulnerable, US most exposed to the threat Tens of thousands of fuel storage tanks in critical infrastructure facilities remain vulnerable to zero-day attacks due to buggy Automatic Tank Gauge systems from multiple vendors, say infosec researchers....

And they didn't even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it Over the past few years, we've grown accustomed to Xeon processors that, generation after generation, come up short of the competition on some combination of core count, clock speeds, memory bandwidth, or PCIe connectivity....

'High time this happened' says Musk Elon Musk has confirmed a change to X that will allow blocked users to view public posts....

Minnow of among government funded whales to double production capacity US-based Polar Semiconductor - the maker of analog and power chip devices and sensors - has bagged $123 million of CHIPS and Science Act funding to nearly double production capacity in the US....

So say our sources, who warn job cuts, outsourcing risk depriving biz of seasoned technical talent IBM's plan to replace thousands of roles with AI presently looks more like outsourcing jobs to India, at the expense of organizational competency....

Mandiant publishes cheat sheet for weeding out fraudulent IT staff Against a backdrop of rising exposure to North Korean agents seeking (mainly) US IT roles, organizations now have a cheat sheet to help spot potential operatives....

Outsourcing firm has been building network for over a decade now - how's that going? The poster child of UK outsourcing, Capita, has won a two-year extension to its license to manage the delivery of the UK's smart meter secure communications platform, a system dogged by delays....

The little computer-that-could benefits as supply chain eases Raspberry Pi has reported a jump in revenue and profit for the first half of 2024, sending the company's shares soaring despite marginally lower volumes than expected....

Lab-based proof-of-concept shows how radiation creates explosive plumes to deflect menacing space rocks US scientists have demonstrated that potentially dangerous asteroids destined for Earth could be deflected from their trajectory using X-rays....

When robots.txt just ain't cutting the mustard Cloudflare on Monday expanded its defense against the dark arts of AI web scrapers by providing customers with a bit more visibility into, and control over, unwelcome content raids....

And it's here to carry your not-very-heavy stuff Researchers from South Korea suggest their Palletrone flying platform may someday be useful for light hauling scenarios....

But work on big ticket items needed to make the combo a contender is yet to commence The effort to bring the Xen hypervisor to the RISC-V instruction set architecture has advanced - a little - but big jobs that would make both projects a contender for more workloads are still on developers' to-do lists....

It only adds up to being as big as Nvidia today, in 2050 The Vietnamese government claims to have found a magical mathematical formula that will elevate its semiconductor industry to an annual turnover of $100 billion by 2050....

Back story to replacement for banned security app isn't enormously reassuring Some US-based users of Kaspersky antivirus products have found their software replaced by product from by a low-profile entity named "UltraAV" - a change they didn't ask for, and which has delivered them untested and largely unknown software from a source with a limited track record....

Maybe a spell in a French cell changed Durov's mind In a volte-face, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that the made-in-Russia messaging platform will become a lot less cozy for criminals....

Still no R' word, but smells like ransomware from here A "cybersecurity issue" has shut down MoneyGram's systems and payment services since Friday, and the fintech leader has yet to update customers as to when it expects to have its global money transfer services back up and running....

11M devices exposed to trojan, Kaspersky says The Necro trojan is once again making a move against Android users, with up to eleven million individuals thought to be exposed to infected apps....

Exploiting workers, undermining public services, exacerbating climate crisis, ITUC says Amazon, Meta, and Tesla have earned the rather dubious honor of being named some of the worst corporate underminers of democracy by the world's largest trade union federation....

More like ServiceNo, or maybe ServiceNotforawhile Some customers of enterprise cloud vendor ServiceNow have been up in arms after a mistake with root certification left many stymied on a Monday morning....

No room for your spy mobiles on our streets The US Commerce Department has decided not to wait for the inevitable, and today announced plans that would ban connected vehicle technology - and vehicles using it - from Chinese and Russian sources....

There's no shortage of sand, but chip plants are thirsty for something even more precious: water Despite finding itself at the center of the United States' trade war with China, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is quickly establishing itself as a hotbed for AI development and its aspirations could soon extend to semiconductor manufacturing....

Land purchased to save it from Trump's border wall 'completely f*cked' by 'gravel, tractors, and space garbage' Elon Musk is facing down the barrel of another multimillion-dollar suit, this time from the makers of irreverent party game, Cards Against Humanity (CAH)....

Potential $5B cash injection from Apollo as Qualcomm sniffs around Comment Apollo Global Management has reportedly proposed a $5 billion investment in Intel. Rumors are swirling about the chip giant exploring a potential deal with the US-based asset management heavyweight, but nothing is locked in yet....

34,000 engineers pledged to the cause, but no word on exec pay Microsoft took a victory lap today, touting the 34,000 full-time engineers it has dedicated to its Secure Future Initiative (SFI) since it launched almost a year ago and making public its first progress report on efforts to improve security in its products and services....

Just like robotaxis, actual full self-driving, etc etc in just a few years We regret to inform you that Elon Musk has been using his social media orifice, X, to make some impressively outlandish claims once again. This time, the billionaire stated that SpaceX plans to launch a bunch of uncrewed Starships to Mars "in two years."...

There are other ways to keep things patched, but this one will sting for some Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away, as administrators using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) will soon find out....

A low bar, for sure, but a move in the right direction Apple's iPhone 16 has arrived, and the teardown crew at iFixit has wasted no time in pulling apart the latest device and found its repairability... rather good, relatively speaking....

That 'third party' person sure is responsible for a lot of IT blunders, eh? A major IT hardware manufacturer is correcting a recent security update after customers complained of a password character limit being introduced when there previously wasn't one....

Kubernetes whizz says devs can redefine their roles and capitalize on coding ML rewards Interview Software industry veteran and developer advocate Kelsey Hightower, well known for his contributions to the Kubernetes community, has an interesting take on generative AI: he won't be paying too much attention to it for now, except insofar as how it will be instrumental in changing what it means to be a software engineer....

Losing money on missions, space station delayed, but 'we will not be deterred' Axiom Space CEO Dr Kam Ghaffarian is attempting to reassure customers after an interview that did not go entirely to plan....

Framework promised last year set to reach value of up to 2.5B after chat with supply chain The UK's health system has added 1 billion to a tech deal for software and infrastructure after an "engagement" with suppliers....

Microsoft should look to Apple for lessons in flogging dead horses Opinion In the early 2010s, Intel's PR did the tech press rounds with a hot story. We're so far ahead in chip fab, they said, that nobody will ever catch up. The hacks concluded two things from this: Intel was losing ground fast enough to be scared, and it was right on both counts. How did that pan out again?...

The result was no joke, thanks to a Microsoft glitch Who, Me? Welcome, dear reader, to another instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers share tales of techie woe to remind you that your day could, in fact, be worse....

Beijing is happy at surging sales and production capacity, falling energy requirements Chinese server-maker and contract manufacturer Inspur has detailed a memory cooling tech it claims doubles the heat dissipation efficiency of traditional air cooling without complicating system maintenance....

No malware crew linked to this latest red-teaming tool yet Attackers are using Splinter, a new post-exploitation tool, to wreak havoc in victims' IT environments after initial infiltration, utilizing capabilities such as executing Windows commands, stealing files, collecting cloud service account info, and downloading additional malware onto victims' systems....

Counter-arguments in support spat paint unflattering picture of telco giant's IT estate Broadcom has claimed that AT&T plans to stop using VMware software, but has been tardy about making the move....

Plus: Indian gov's fact-checking unit ruled unlawful; Fukushima datacenter boom; GoTo partners with Tencent, too Asia In Brief Huawei's current PCs are the last it will make that run Windows, and future machines will run its own HarmonyOS instead, according to the chair of the Chinese giant's consumer business group, Yu Chengdong....

PLUS: Payer of $75M ransom reportedly identified; Craigslist founder becomes security philanthropist, and more Infosec In Brief Something's wrong with macOS Sequoia, and it's breaking security software installed on some updated Apple systems....

Gelsinger sold the world on his foundry vision. Walking away won't be easy Comment On Monday, Intel's share price surged on word it was spinning out its foundry biz as an independent subsidiary and signing AWS and the DoD as customers....

Just in case some aliens, say, come along in a billion years and feel like cloning us from extinction Whether or not some future entity will want to bring humanity back after its eventual extinction is now a theoretical if improbable option, thanks to boffins at the University of Southampton in the UK....

Just like almost everyone else, they still love the smell of fried artery-cloggers Fryers of bacon who hope enhanced technology will stop alarms going off over the slightest whiff of smoking oil will have to wait a while longer....

Brazilian model flummoxes calc fans For most of us, a calculator might have been superseded by Excel or an app on a phone, yet there remains a die-hard contingent with a passion for the push-button marvels. So the shocking discovery of an apparently rogue HP-12C has sent tremors through the calculator aficionado world....

Is this from the same gossips who were wrong about Altera and Mobileye or the DoJ subpoenaing Nvidia? Comment Qualcomm may be after more than Intel's PC design business as it has supposedly approached the x86 giant about a possible takeover....

We'll have some fission chips, please The idle Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear power plant may soon be coming back online in Pennsylvania, thanks to a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) between Microsoft and Constellation Energy, which owns the shuttered facility....

Just one victim milked of nearly a quarter of a billion bucks Two individuals are in cuffs and facing serious charges in connection to a major theft of cryptocurrency worth more than $230 million from a single victim....

Valkey leads interest in FOSS alternatives after database slinger tightens terms Around 70 percent of Redis users are considering alternatives after the database company made a shift away from permissive open source licensing....

Fears over chained attacks affecting EOL product The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just added the latest Ivanti weakness to its Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog, a situation sure to annoy some - given that it's yet another path traversal flaw....

If you hadn't guessed, that's the artist formerly known as Remote Desktop Microsoft's breathtaking ability to rename things badly carries on with the Windows App, a hub to stream Windows from a variety of sources....