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Narco kingpins aren't coming for your apes, but internet con artists still are The US Treasury Department has assessed the risk of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) being used for illicit finance, and has found them wanting for lack of proper roadblocks preventing illegal applications....

And with up to 960MW of capacity on the table, that may only be the beginning Amazon's nuclear-powered cloud campus in Pennsylvania, USA, will reportedly be home to more than a dozen new datacenters over the next decade....

Rosenworcel suggests bringing risk down to 1 in 1,000 for debris-emitting blasts - will other countries play ball? The chair of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has called on the US watchdog to tighten up rules that aim to prevent accidental satellite explosions that would litter Earth's orbit with debris....

Customize and replace it all with one tool Fans of repairable and upgradeable kit will be pleased to hear that the latest version of Framework Computer's 13in laptop sports Intel Core Ultra CPUs along with a hi-res display module and an improved webcam option....

Uncle Sam wants Maven Smart System to be in use across DoD by 2029 Palantir is unlikely to put critics at ease with its latest US government contract: A $480 million award from the Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) to get the data-gobbling biz's Maven AI warfighting code in the hands of the entire DoD....

Sky shipping can now go beyond visual range of operators - starting in Texas and then maybe airspace near you Amazon Prime Air has received approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration to fly its package-delivery drones beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) of remote operators....

Rival AT&T is also with AST, although T-Mobile went with SpaceX's Starlink Verizon has become the latest telco to sign up for a satellite phone service, joining rival US operator AT&T in choosing AST SpaceMobile as its provider, even though the latter has yet to put any of its commercial satellites into orbit....

Operation Endgame just beginning: 'Stay tuned,' says Europol An international law enforcement operation led by Europol has kicked off with the announcement of multiple arrests, searches, seizures and takedowns of malware droppers and their operators....

Avoidance of evil intent means required SMB signing and no more guest fallback Microsoft's Ned Pyle has issued a warning to Windows 11 24H2 users. Security has been tightened up, so attempting to access some third-party Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices or a USB drive plugged into certain routers might fail....

Latest nozzle redesign means a late 2024 launch is on the cards The European Space Agency (ESA) is getting closer to returning its Vega-C rocket to flight following a successful test by the prime contractor, Avio, at its Italian test facility....

Allure of AI fails to inspire customers to increase software spending with CRM giant Salesforce has disappointed investors by posting revenue below expectation and forecasting sales for the next quarter at the lowest level of growth for more than two decades....

This just in: We lost your personal info, but here's 2 years' worth of Experian The BBC has emailed more than 25,000 current and former employees on one of its pension schemes after an unauthorized party broke into a database and stole their personal data....

His hospital employer is also being sued for not stepping in sooner In an ongoing civil lawsuit, an IT worker is accused of launching a "destructive cyber campaign of hate and revenge" against a police officer and his family after being issued with a ticket for jaywalking....

More work needed to translate ISS success into something that can be used on Earth Boffins have used conditions aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to try out treatments for posttraumatic osteoarthritis....

Five current and former employees file formal charges with US employment watchdog Exclusive Kyndryl, the IT services firm spun out of IBM, has been accused by multiple employees within its CISO Defense security group of discrimination on the basis of age, race, and disability, in both internal complaints and formal charges filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)....

More cybercrime means more problems and understaffed teams stretched to the limit Managed Service Partners (MSPs) say cybersecurity dwarfs all other main concerns about staying competitive in today's market....

Welcome to the 'agentic' era Video The GenAI Summit 2024 opened at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, and the people, who came to hear about artificial intelligence, had made a mess of things....

Samsung, SK, Kioxia and others make bank, booking double digit bounces in Q1 revenue NAND flash industry revenue is surfing a growth wave thanks to demand for solid state drives (SSDs) in AI servers, meaning increased prices for buyers as OEMs rush to stockpile components....

As it offers 3nm shake-and-bake Cortex-X925, A725 processor designs for phones, PCs Analysis Arm this week announced the availability of new top-end CPU and GPU designs ready made for system-on-chips for laptops, smartphones, and similar personal electronics. These cores are expected to power next-gen Android phones, at least, by late 2024....

Big Mike's server shack offered a cryptic response. PLUS: Nutanix results Lenovo has claimed that Dell's breakup with VMware by Broadcom goes deep - so deep that Virtzilla's ex-owner is currently unable to sell jointly engineered systems....

Requests for pricing will soon be encrypted, after implementation deadline was extended India's Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has told market participants they need to adopt encryption - which, shockingly, isn't already implemented - for certain messages sent to its trading platforms when using its Enhanced Trading Interface (ETI)....

Suggests itself as the place to do high-end manufacturing without upsetting anyone Malaysia intends to court RM500 billion ($107 billion) worth of semiconductor industry investment, according to prime minister Anwar Ibrahim....

Workplace safety org identifies 26 hazards in the chipmaking process Two workers at a Samsung Electronics chip plant in South Korea have been treated for exposure to radiation....

DoJ says 911 S5 crew earned $100M from 19 million PCs pwned by fake VPNs US authorities have arrested the alleged administrator of what FBI director Christopher Wray has described as "likely the world's largest botnet ever," comprising 19 million compromised Windows machines used by its operators to reap millions of dollars over the last decade....

All that data allegedly going for a song on revived BreachForums Ticketmaster is believed to have had its IT breached by cybercriminals who claim to have stolen 1.3TB of data on 560 million of the corporation's customers - and are now selling all that info for $500,000....

Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder Updated The Internet Archive has been under a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since Sunday, and is trying to keep services going....

Gartner gives us a ray of hope amid ongoing hype and pressure to buy more hardware Gartner is predicting a 33 percent rise in revenue generated by AI chip sales in 2024 versus 2023....

New chip and camera technology bring closer potential of hands-free road time Like nuclear fusion and jet-packs, the self-driving car is a long-promised technology that has stalled for years - yet armed with research, boffins think they have created potential improvements....

Thinking about tripling capacity by 2030? Start thinking about our returns... Notorious tech investment firm Elliott Management has penned a letter to Texas Instruments urging the company to change course on its aggressive plan to boost manufacturing capacity....

Some derivatives haven't got there yet, but it's time to get a move on... Two notable North American Linux distributors have emitted the last release in their 8.x series - although other vendors have yet to catch up with that cycle....

But the repairability war isn't over, says iFixit's Kyle Wiens A right to repair rule just signed into law in Colorado is earning praise from advocates for making the area one of the best jurisdictions for electronics tinkerers and DIYers....

Claims she and other members 'learned about ChatGPT on Twitter' OpenAI's board was only aware that ChatGPT had been launched after reading about it on Twitter, according to a former board member....

Sign up for your turn with the R1 robot if you qualify Elon Musk's Neuralink is recruiting another three subjects for its brain implant study....

Color us shocked: 66% of Apple users said they wouldn't switch for any reason A coming wave of AI-capable smartphones may let vendors distinguish their devices via unique features and user experience, but it also poses challenges for privacy and potential user disillusion if there is too much hype....

It's the difference between export limits on specific chips - and a problematic blanket ban Feature The possibility of America placing sanctions on RISC-V has increased the pressure on RV's governing body and its partners to get their messaging right about what this technology really is....

Microsoft says Kim's hermit nation is pivoting to latest tools as it evolves in cyberspace A brand-new cybercrime group that Microsoft ties to North Korea is tricking targets using fake job opportunities to launch malware and ransomware, all for financial gain....

Data from 1990s adds to previous modelling to show lava-spewers widespread on second planet from Sun New research on data collected in the 1990s shows that on Venus, volcanoes are likely to be both more active and widespread than scientists previously understood....

Feed AutoQuizzer a URL and it will use LLaMa-3 to make a decent multiple-choice test A developer has put large language models (LLMs) to the test, literally, by creating AutoQuizzer - a tool that creates quizzes from text on web pages....

Tiny, powerful, uncluttered: not easy, but a lot to like Alpine Linux 3.20.0 is out, with initial support for a whole new CPU architecture: RISC-V....

Royal Society warns black box models, a lack of documentation, and limited access to computing hamper efforts to understand results Using AI in science promises to add to problems in reproducing important results, the UK's highly prestigious Royal Society has warned....

Raking a talon through piles of plastic parts in search of holiday fun Hands-On Lego has added plastic brick representations of NASA's Space Launch System and the Milky Way Galaxy to its range. We had a go at building both to see if they merit a holiday investment....

It's easier to foresee growing inequality than surging growth Artificial intelligence (AI) may not do much to boost productivity - and could end up widening the income gap between owners of capital and workers....

Another endorsement for the theory that on-prem power generation trumps tapping the grid Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Earth's largest source of electricity-generating gas turbines - has tied its future growth to surging demand for datacenters spurred by adoption of AI and new semiconductor plants....

Intel joins in with plans for better PC-Android integration Tencent and Microsoft have struck a deal that will see the Chinese gaming giant's Android wares available on the Microsoft Store, and playable on Windows PCs....

Training exercises test suitability for both reconnaissance and lethal kinetic action China has shown off a pair of robot dogs - one of them toting a machine gun and the other powered by AI....

GitHub trove details API features that 'contradict' Big G's public statements about how its engine works A trove of documents that appear to describe how Google ranks search results has appeared online, likely as the result of accidental publication by an in-house bot....

Theft happened in October, only now are details coming to light Sav-Rx has started notifying about 2.8 million people that their personal information was likely stolen during an IT intrusion that happened more than seven months ago....

New models will come with a year of Gemini Advanced, too Not to be outdone by the shiny new AI PCs Microsoft showed off last week at its Build conference, Google on Tuesday said various generative AI features will be rolling out to Chromebook Plus laptops over the next few weeks....

You are the product, after all PayPal will use data from billions of customer transactions to supercharge its nascent ad business....

How else are you going to feed all those 1,000-plus watt GPUs? Not long ago an entire rack of systems might consume 10kW or less of power. Today, that's barely enough to run a single GPU server, and those systems are only expected to get hotter and greedier for power amid the AI boom....