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Volvo recalls all of its 72K EX30 cars due to software bug that obscures speedometer
The greatest enemy to modern cars - poorly written code Volvo has announced a recall of every single EX30, nearly 72k in all, and it's all because of a relatively minor software error....
Christie's confirms RansomHub crooks stole data on 45K clients
A far cry from the half-million claim that crims originally boasted Auction house to the wealthy Christie's says 45,798 people were affected by its recent cyberattack and resulting data theft....
The Microsoft GA that wasn't: Analyst rips into availability of Copilot in Fabric
Torn between keynote and blog: Not all AI coding assistant's features appear available Microsoft stands accused of making misleading claims about the general availability of products at its recent Build conference....
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity bows out to make way for Delta Class successor
Company's fate now rests with SpaceShipTwo's followup Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity has flown its final flight, less than a year since the company began commercial operations....
Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time
Expansion of compliance activity follows per-employee licensing change Oracle has started to dispatch Java audit letters to Fortune 200 companies for the first time, according to one licensing expert....
Euro banks worry AI will increase their dependence on US big tech
Putting such a dominant power in the middle of your supply chain a risky move... European banks are concerned that growing use of AI will serve to increase their dependence on the big US tech companies and lead to fresh risks for the industry....
Microsoft pulls Windows 11 24H2 from Insider Release Preview Channel
Recall controversies, performance problems, apps freezing as some call it 'disastrous' Microsoft has quietly frozen the rollout of Windows 11 24H2 to Windows Insiders on the Release Preview Channel....
Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon is not taking this lying down, as shown by aggressive migration promotions VMware by Broadcom has made another change to its licenses - this time by disallowing on-demand use of its software in VMware Cloud on AWS....
Snowflake tells customers to enable MFA as investigations continue
Also, industry begs Uncle Sam for infosec reg harmony, dueling container-compromise campaigns, and crit vulns infosec in brief Cloud data analytics platform Snowflake said it is going to begin forcing customers to implement multi-factor authentication to prevent more intrusions....
Norway's sovereign wealth fund aims to zap Musk's monster Tesla pay deal
Concerned about size of award given 'performance triggers' and 'dilution' Norway's sovereign wealth fund aims to shoot down Elon Musk's planned $56 billion compensation package at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting scheduled for Thursday this week, June 13....
Two arrested in UK over fake cell tower-powered smishing campaign
Thousands of dodgy SMS messages bypassed network filters in UK-first case British police have arrested two individuals following an investigation into illegal homebrew phone masts used for SMS-based phishing campaigns....
Disenchanted Windows user? Pop open a fresh can of Linux Lite
Version 7.0 has landed - the Ubuntu Noble based one Linux Lite 7.0 "Galena" is out, the new release of this simplified and Snap-free distro based on Ubuntu 24.04, aka "Noble Numbat."...
Michael Dell lends support to bid for Everton Football Club
Texan Mick set to become honorary blue Scouser if winning bid hits back of the net Forget AI PCs or AI servers, tech titan Michael Dell is reportedly backing a takeover bid for Everton football club from two prospective owner fans....
Fragile Agile development model is a symptom, not a source, of project failure
Changing the fig leaf can't change what lies beneath ... Opinion You've got to be light on your toes to keep up with Agile. Some say it's the inherently right way to do software. Others call it a cult, overblown and misleading. One way to tell would be to compare Agile and non-Agile project success rates, and that's just what consultancy Engprax did....
Seething CEO shoulder surfed techie after mistaken takedown of production server
What's in a name? Quite a bit, it turns out, when 50 servers all have the same one Who, Me? Hold your nose, gentle reader, as we dive headlong into the bucket of ice water that is the start of the working week. But fear not, for The Reg is here to warm your innards with a dose of Who, Me? - our weekly tale of technical shenanigans gone wrong....
EU grants €15M funding for ICARUS inflatable heat shield
Just don't let it fly too close to the Sun EXCLUSIVE A European consortium has received 15 million of EU funding to develop an inflatable heat shield designed to recover rocket stages and land spacecraft on Mars....
Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit
Worker happiness hits an all-time low A study claims to have proof of what some have suspected: return to office mandates are just back-channel layoffs and post-COVID work culture is making everyone miserable....
Akira: Perhaps the next big thing in ransomware, says Tidal threat intelligence chief
Scott Small tells us gang's 'intent and capability' should get the attention of CSOs Interview It might not be as big a name as BlackCat or LockBit, but the Akira ransomware is every bit as dangerous, says one cybersecurity researcher - and it's poised to make a big impact....
Uber ex-CSO Joe Sullivan: We need security leaders running to work, not giving up
Lessons learned from the infosec chief convicted and punished for covering up theft of data from taxi app maker Interview Joe Sullivan - the now-former Uber chief security officer who was found guilty of covering-up a theft of data from Uber in 2016 - remembers sitting down and thinking through the worst-case scenarios he faced following that guilty verdict in 2022....
Our vulture survived Computex – now he just needs to tell us the highs and lows
We all grab a mic and discuss Nvidia, Intel, AMD, strange squid, and a certain CEO's ego Kettle Well, that was Computex 2024. A week of Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others talking up the hardware and software they intend to roll out to the world over the next year or so....
Astroboffins order most advanced spectrograph ever to sniff out alien life
ANDES, in the Andes, is predicted to find the first Population III mega-star The European Southern Observatory (ESO) this week signed a deal with a group of scientific institutions to build a spectrograph that can scan space for the chemical signatures of alien life....
'New York Times source code' leaks online via 4chan
Breaking breaking-news news A 4chan user claims to have leaked 270GB of internal New York Times data, including source code and other web assets, via the notorious image board....
FCC takes some action against notorious BGP
How's your RPKI-based security plan coming along? Feds want to know US broadband providers will soon have to provide proof to Uncle Sam that they are taking steps to prevent Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking and locking down internet routing in general....
White House hopes $180M will solve science, tech gaps in commercial fusion power
Researchers get 4 years, a small pot of cash, and long row to hoe before making tech practical by next decade The Biden administration is still chasing its fusion energy dreams, announcing new strategies and some funding - albeit a relatively paltry amount - to iron out kinks in a future fusion pilot plant....
California upgrade company aims militarized 'Tactical' Cybertruck at police forces
Criminals expected to counter Tesla truck with water guns and driving offroad A California company has retrofitted a third-party tactical version of Tesla's Cybertruck for the police, though it's not clear if this is really the vehicle officers will want to use....
Defiant Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial Recall – tho as an opt-in
Windows maker acknowledges 'clear signal' from everyone, then mostly ignores it Microsoft is not giving up on its controversial Windows Recall, though says it will give customers an option to opt in instead of having it on by default, and will beef up the security of any data the software stores....
Quantinuum inches closer to fault-tolerant quantum with a 56 qubit machine
This one only produces errors 65 percent of the time. Woo-hoo! The issue of quantum supremacy - the point at which quantum computers are able to demonstrate a tangible advantage over classical systems - is dicey to say the least....
Frontier Communications: 750k people's data stolen in April attack on systems
Company says just names and SSNs affected, watering down RansomHub's claims Frontier Communications has confirmed more than 750,000 individuals were affected in an April cyberattack on its systems, according to a regulatory filing....
Raspberry Pi IPO is oversubscribed multiple times
And you thought the Raspberry Pi 5 was getting expensive... The Raspberry Pi IPO could see the company given a market capitalization of 540 million ($686 million) amid speculation that shares may be priced around 2.80 ($3.56)....
Some investors bet against Nvidia, expecting AI bubble to burst
Short bread's plenty appetizing as dough hungry traders and analysts voice scepticism on endless growth Nvidia is currently riding high on the back of the generative AI wave, yet some believe the GPU champ will have a limited time in the sunlit uplands and are betting that its share price will soon fall....
Cisco fixes WebEx flaw that allowed government, military meetings to be spied on
Researchers were able to glean data from 10,000 meetings held by top Dutch gov officials Cisco squashed some bugs this week that allowed anyone to view WebEx meeting information and join them, potentially opening up security and privacy concerns for highly sensitive meets....
Microsoft updates accessibility feature Voice Access to auto-restart
How do you say something's crash-prone without saying it's crash-prone ... Microsoft is adding the ability for Voice Access to automatically pick itself up should the service fall over....
More than a Joule required to power up enthusiasm for SAP's AI strategy
Customers remain cautious about adoption, while analysts warn of unforeseen costs SAP marked its annual shindig in Orlando this week by pulling the sheets off of AI features for its popular enterprise application platform, but failed to impress analysts attending....
Tesla chair begs investors to bless Musk's billions or face an Elon exodus
He needs that compensation because he's easily dist- oo a piece of candy! With a week to go until Tesla's Annual Stockholders' Meeting, board chair Robyn Denholm has written to investors to make sure they ratify CEO Elon Musk's monster pay package - apparently out of fear he could walk....
UK CMA early findings indicate Microsoft restricts cloud choice
Pricing, licensing, ease of switching and more under the microscope The UK's competition watchdog says that Microsoft has a significant degree of market power" in key software products, and that its licensing practices may therefore influence customer choice of cloud providers....
A tale of two missions: Starliner and Starship both achieve milestones
It was the best of times for space fans SpaceX and Boeing both had reasons to celebrate last night: Starship had a successful fourth flight test and Starliner docked with the International Space Station (ISS)....
Russian hacktivists vow mass attacks against EU elections
But do they get to wear 'I DDoSed' stickers? A Russian hacktivist crew has threatened to attack European internet infrastructure as four days of EU elections begin on Thursday....
Real-time and Core editions of Ubuntu arrive
And it's time to upgrade any Mantic Minotaurs you have lying around Canonical has followed up the latest LTS release of Ubuntu with real-time and IoT editions, while ushering the last interim release into retirement....
HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic
And customers are sweating their hardware assets for longer Fewer and fewer pages are being printed at home and in the office, posing something of a challenge for HP and its rivals....
I didn't touch a thing – just some cables and a monitor – and my computer broke
Lies, damned lies, and lies told by end-users who do their own tech support On Call With another working week almost done, The Register once again offers a fresh instalment of On Call, our reader-contributed tale of tech support trials and tribulations....
Spam blocklist SORBS closed by its owner, Proofpoint
Spammers will probably bid to buy it, so community is trying to find a better home for decades-old service Exclusive The Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS) - a longstanding source of info on known sources of spam widely used to create blocklists - has been shuttered by its owner, cyber security software vendor Proofpoint....
Samsung union stages its first ever strike – very politely
Members stop work - on a day many take off, anyway - in pursuit of better conditions Around 28,000 Samsung workers upset over wages may have walked out in protest today, but probably used their holiday allowance to do so. Rampant industrial militancy, this is not....
Lenovo loses its Infrastructure Solutions Group boss
The long and largely unsuccessful effort to turn IBM's x86 server business into consistent profit continues Lenovo has announced the departure of Kirk Skaugen, the head of its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) - the enterprise tech arm of the Chinese hardware giant....
POC exploit code published for 9.8-rated Apache HugeGraph RCE flaw
You upgraded when this was fixed in April, right? Right?? If you haven't yet upgraded to version 1.3.0 of Apache HugeGraph, now's a good time because at least two proof-of-concept exploits for a CVSS 9.8-rated remote command execution bug in the open-source graph database have been made public....
OpenAI to buy electricity from CEO Sam Altman's nuclear fusion side hustle
Knowing your supplier is always good - and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Helion to get access to the startup's not-yet-possible nuclear fusion-driven electricity generators....
Memphis to host 'Gigafactory of Compute' thanks to xAI and Elon Musk's billions
City known for blues, BBQ, and now possibly the 'world's largest supercomputer' xAI plans to build the "world's largest supercomputer" in Memphis, Tennessee according to the city's local government....
DuckDuckGo AI Chat promises privacy for bot conversations
There's also an off switch The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo search engine that \ has introduced AI Chat, an optional, free chatbot service - within limits - that provides a choice of models and "can be easily switched off."...
China's new sanctions loophole: Use export-controlled chips inside the US
Oracle, Nvidia accused of working with ByteDance, others to provide access to advanced parts within America Chinese companies blocked from getting their hands on cutting-edge AI chips have reportedly been buying access to sanctioned hardware on US soil to avoid raising alarms....
Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all charges in US Autonomy fraud trial
Jury in San Francisco finds founder plus finance VP not guilty Mike Lynch, founder and CEO of Autonomy, has been acquitted of criminal fraud and conspiracy charges arising from the 2011 sale of the British software company to Hewlett-Packard....
FBI encourages LockBit victims to step right up for free encryption keys
The bad news? Gang wasn't deleting victim data after payments LockBit victims who are still trying to clean up their encrypted files are in luck: the FBI has a big set of decryption keys it would love to let you try....
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