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Now the 2028 deadline is at risk Engineers at the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) continue to ignore concerns about their next-generation missile interceptors, leaving serious technical shortcomings on the table and threatening the program's 2028 deadline....

Why all three at once? Blame Syniverse - everyone else is AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US are today experiencing international roaming outages, leaving at least some American subscribers unable to use their phones as they expect while overseas....

Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025 Nokia is planning to sell off its undersea internet cable business unit to France....

The database Big Blue doesn't like to talk about gets makeover in November IBM likes to be secretive about Db2, the 41-year-old database still used by some of the world's largest banks and retailers, but occasionally something leaks out....

Bot's arm used to free instrument's dust cover and return to science NASA engineers have performed another remarkable feat of remote debugging and restored the SHERLOC instrument of the Perseverance Mars rover to operation....

Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks Intel has demonstrated an optical chiplet co-packaged with a CPU capable of supporting 4 Tbps data links to feed the increasing datacenter bandwidth requirements of AI and high performance computing (HPC) applications....

Congressman warns tech is getting the 'Huawei Playbook' treatment US Congress members warned against Chinese dominance of the drone industry on Wednesday, elevating the threat posed by Beijing's control of the technology as similar to that of semiconductors and ships....

Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking Anthropic wants governments to think of it when they want AI to make the world a better place. No, seriously....

Tour of recovery options not supposed to be part of KB5039302 Microsoft has pulled a Windows 11 update after users reported boot loops and startup failures....

Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern The UK wing of Atos, the ailing IT services provider that has scored billions of pounds in government contracts locally, has pointed to a "material uncertainty" over its ability to continue trading as a going concern....

SpaceX wins contract for 'deorbit vehicle' at a pleasing price Elon Musk's SpaceX has won a NASA contract to de-orbit the International Space Station (ISS)....

Raymond Chen on cutting loose with a copy of the code Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has dropped another nugget of Microspeak - the "fun fork."...

Pay up or go away, pretty please? For many Reddit has become the go to repository of community and crowdsourced knowledge, a fact that has no doubt made it a prime target for AI startups desperate for training data....

15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs - helped by switches with custom heat sinks Exclusive Alibaba Cloud has revealed the design of an Ethernet-based network it created specifically to carry traffic for training large language models - and has used in production for eight months....

Cultural traditions clash with manufacturing ambitions Updated India's Ministry of Labor and Employment has ordered an investigation of Foxconn - the contract manufacturer supplier also known as Hon Hai Precision and one of Apple's main suppliers - after reports emerged alleging the company will not hire married women to work at its main iPhone assembly plant on the subcontinent....

NAS vendors, healthcare software vendors, and government buyers join the march to silicon sovereignty Chinese chip shop Loongson, which has built modest CPUs based on its own MIPS-like architecture, is on the march towards enterprise workloads....

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....