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Europol op shutters 12 scam call centers and cuffs 21 suspected fraudsters
Cops prevented crims from bilking victims out of more than 10m - but couldn't stop crime against art A Europol-led operation dubbed Pandora" has shut down a dozen phone scam centers, and arrested 21 suspects. The cops reckon the action prevented criminals from bilking victims out of more than 10 million (8.6 million, $11 million)....
Indonesia sneakily buys spyware, claims Amnesty International
A 'murky' web sees many purchases run through Singapore in a way that hides potential users Indonesia has acquired spyware and surveillance technologies through a "murky network" that extends into Israel, Greece, Singapore and Malaysia for equipment sourcing, according to Amnesty International....
Apple sales slip, but investors offered bite of $110B stock buyback
Mac sales rose, iPads predicted to soar, and AI is riding to the rescue Apple has announced the biggest stock buyback in US history: a $110 billion plan to slurp shareholders' scrip....
Chinese government website security is often worryingly bad, say Chinese researchers
Bad configurations, insecure versions of jQuery, and crummy cookies are some of myriad problems Exclusive Five Chinese researchers examined the configurations of nearly 14,000 government websites across the country and found worrying lapses that could lead to malicious attacks, according to a not-yet-peer-reviewed study released last week....
Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes
I guess the brains down in Africa gonna take some time to do the things they never should have had Starlink's self-imposed end of April deadline to crack down on roaming users who abuse the service has come and gone without appearing to have worked....
Microsoft, Google do a victory lap around passkeys
Windows giant extends passwordless tech to everyone else Microsoft today said it will now let us common folk - not just commercial subscribers - signinto their Microsoft accounts and apps using passkeys with their face, fingerprint, or device PIN....
Prof asks court to protect his Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension from Facebook's ire
You've got to fight for your right to personalize A professor has asked the US courts to confirm he has the right to release a browser extension to help people disengage with Facebook by automatically changing certain settings....
Florida man gets 6 years behind bars for flogging fake Cisco kit to US military
Operation busted after dodgy devices ended up at Air Force Miami resident Onur Aksoy has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for running a multi-million-dollar operation selling fake Cisco equipment that ended up in the US military....
Patch up – 4 critical bugs in ArubaOS lead to remote code execution
Ten vulnerabilities in total for admins to apply Network admins are being urged to patch a bundle of critical vulnerabilities in ArubaOS that lead to remote code execution as a privileged user....
Dozens of vulnerabilities fixed in Xiaomi, Google Android flavors … slowly
Oversecure details bugs spotted and stamped since private disclosure Oversecured, a business that scans mobile apps for security issues, says it has identified more than two dozen vulnerabilities over the past few years affecting Android apps from smartphone maker Xiaomi and Google's Android Open Source Project (AOSP)....
Huawei's hidden hand in optics research competition shocks scholars
US universities awarded money from a company they had severed ties with Huawei secretly sponsored an optics technology research competition run by the Optica Foundation, and donated at least a million dollars to the organization....
NASA plasma propulsion project promises Mars in a flash
System would also make it easier to transport much heavier spacecraft Engineering research outfit Howe Industries is working with NASA to develop a new plasma-based propulsion system that might help solve the problem of moving around the solar system faster with bigger payloads....
Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program
A partial benefit in May then subsidy gets unplugged once and for all The end is nigh for the US Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) as funds finally run out after months of warnings....
Microsoft continues multibillion-dollar cloud and AI sprinkle in Malaysia
Satya reaches once more into his wallet Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a $2.2 billion investment to advancecloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia....
Amazon boss receives tap on wrist for statements violating labor laws
Jass sass gets a pass A US National Labor Relations Board judge has decided that public remarks made by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor laws....
Billions on the line for Google as web search monopoly trial nears end
Chocolate Factory relies on dominance for bulk of its revenues, says US Both the US government and Google will today present their closing arguments in the search engine monopoly case from September....
Federal frenzy to patch gaping GitLab account takeover hole
Warning comes exactly a year after the vulnerability was introduced The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is forcing all federal agencies to patch a critical vulnerability in GitLab's Community and Enterprise editions, confirming it is very much under "active exploit."...
SK hynix's high bandwidth memory buffet fully booked till 2025
Micron also riding the AI wave with 128 GB DDR5 RDIMMs Memory chipmaker SK hynix has already sold all the high bandwidth memory (HBM) it will manufacture this year and most of its expected 2025 production, citing increased demand driven by the AI craze. Micron is also getting in on the act with availability of 128 GB DDR5 RDIMMs for servers....
Vivaldi composes Split View sonata for browser on iPadOS
Tweaks to sorting in Notes and Bookmarks, but WebKit still holds conductor's baton Vivaldi has updated its eponymous browser on iPadOS to take advantage of Split View, although the browser engine remains WebKit-based for now....
Microsoft confirms spike in NTLM authentication traffic after Windows Server patch
Still using ancient protocol suite? April update might make you wish you weren't Microsoft's April 2024 security update blues continue with confirmation of a "significant increase" in NTLM authentication traffic in Windows Server....
NASA solar sail boom demonstrator reaches orbit
Big things come in small packages NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) mission has made contact with Earth and confirmed that all is well with the diminutive spacecraft....
Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else
RISC OS Open 5.30 arrives - with Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi support The new version of RISC OS, the original native Arm OS, runs on eight or nine Arm-based platforms, including the Raspberry Pi Zero, 1, 2, 3 and 4 - and on that last two, this release supports wireless networking....
Not a Genius move: Resurrecting war hero Alan Turing as your 'chief AI officer'
Chatbot vendor should end the campaign and apologize Comment Genius Group has broken free of a crowded field to launch what can only be described as the most tasteless marketing campaign in tech history....
Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host
Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs Exclusive Alibaba Cloud has detailed the tech it developed to run local storage in its servers and bust bottlenecks created by new-generation manycore processors....
Think tank: China's tech giants refine and define Beijing's propaganda push
Taking down TikTok won't stop the CCP's attempt to control global narratives Chinese tech companies that serve as important links in the world's digital supply chains are helping Beijing to execute and refine its propaganda strategy, according to an Australian think tank....
REvil ransomware scum sentenced to almost 14 years inside, ordered to pay $16 million
After extorting $700 million from thousands of victims A Ukrainian man has been sentenced to almost 14 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $16 million in restitution for his role in infecting thousands of victims with REvil ransomware....
A million Australian pubgoers wake up to find personal info listed on leak site
Man arrested and blackmail charges expected after allegations of unpaid contractors and iffy infosec Updated Over a million records describing Australians who visited local pubs and clubs have apparently been posted online....
Japan will use AI to find out what bears do in the woods
Because nobody wants a big surprise Japan's Toyama Prefecture is launching an AI bear monitoring system, following a recent string of encounters with the wildlife....
Dropbox dropped the ball on security, haemorrhaging customer and third-party info
Only from its digital doc-signing service, which is isolated from its cloudy storage Dropbox has revealed a major attack on its systems that saw customers' personal information accessed by unknown and unauthorized entities....
Block accused of mass compliance failures that saw digi-dollars reach terrorists
Developer of Square and Cash App reportedly has big back-end problems it was slow to fix Fintech biz Block is reportedly under investigation by US prosecutors over claims by a former employee that lax compliance checks mean its Square and Cash App services may have been used by terrorists - or in countries that US orgs are not permitted to do business....
Anthropic goes after iPhone fans with Claude 3 chatbot app
Also adds a Teams plan that's still under development Anthropic, flush with funds from Amazon and Google, has made its Claude chatbot service available in an iOS app and introduced a business-oriented Teams plan....
GPU cloud upstart CoreWeave gets $1.1B injection as AI hype train chugs on
A $19B valuation sounds like a lot, but then you look at OpenAI AI cloud firm CoreWeave scored $1.1 billion in a recent investment round, bringing its valuation up to $19 billion....
Infosec biz boss accused of BS'ing the world about his career, anti-crime product, customers
Intrusion investors went through Blount farce trauma, says SEC Jack Blount, the now-ex CEO of Intrusion, has settled with the SEC over allegations he made false and misleading statements about his infosec firm's product as well as his own background and experience....
BMC's $1.6B victory over IBM is TKO on appeal
Always read the terms and conditions carefully IBM has managed to overturn a $1.6 billion judgment against it after an appeals court decided the IT giant was well within its rights to replace software on a customer mainframe belonging to rival BMC with its own code....
Miss your morning iPhone alarm? It's not just you, and Apple is looking into it
Dear _____, please excuse _____'s tardiness. Their alarm didn't go off for (see below). Sincerely, The Register iPhone failing to get you up on time lately? You're not alone - reports have been spreading of just such an issue....
Google pulls RISC-V support from generic Android kernel
Not a great omen if you were hoping to own a future RV smartphone - tho web giant says it hasn't totally given up Support for RISC-V was dropped from Android's Generic Kernel Image (GKI) thanks to a patch successfully merged today....
US charges 16 over 'depraved' grandparent scams
Vulnerable elderly people tricked into paying tens of thousands over fake car accidents Sixteen people are facing charges from US prosecutors for allegedly preying on the elderly and scamming them out of millions of dollars....
AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire
Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day AWS looks set to intervene after a customer highlighted a flaw that allows S3 bucket owners to be stung with potentially massive charges for attempted accesses they have no control over....
Tesla maps out new territory in China with Baidu deal
U-turn necessary to comply with Chinese law Despite Elon Musk's insistence that high-definition maps aren't necessary for self-driving cars, Tesla's vehicles in China will technically rely on them now through a partnership with Baidu....
Microsoft's FOMO after seeing Google AI drove investment in OpenAI
Historical email in antitrust case shows execs 'very, very worried' about capability gaps A fascinating insight into Microsoft's inner workings has been thrown up in some redacted document dumps related to the ongoing Google antitrust trial in the US....
Qantas app glitch sees boarding passes fly to other accounts
Issue now resolved and isn't thought to be the work of criminals Aussie airline Qantas says its app is now stable following a data breach that saw boarding passes take off from passengers' accounts....
Microsoft confesses April Windows update breaks some VPN connections
Connection failures reported following installation Microsoft admits that April's Windows update can potentially cause VPN connection failures in both Windows 10 and 11....
AMD datacenter sales surge 80% in Q1 despite market's lukewarm reception
Chip giant forecasts strong GPU growth amid mixed financial results AMD's datacenter revenue grew 80 percent and it hopes to make at least $4 billion from its GPUs this year, but shares took a hit as this failed to impress market analysts and the company reported a lackluster first quarter overall....
AI boom is great news for the nuclear power dreamers
Uranium is so hot right now, mining CEO is glowing with enthusiasm Growing demand for power hungry AI datacenters has executives at Canadian uranium mine Cameco glowing with anticipation....
Lakehouse dam breaks after departure of long-time Teradata CTO
Data warehousing giant abandons stance against hybrid analytics Data warehouse stalwart Teradata has shook off its aversion to the lakehouse concept, embracing the idea of performing enterprise analytics on unstructured data - a situation it once argued against....
Space insurers make record-breaking loss as orbit gets cramped
'Unsustainable' losses neared $1B in 2023 The space above the Earth is getting increasingly crowded as launches become more frequent and satellites are squeezed closer together....
Intel, Ampere show running LLMs on CPUs isn't as crazy as it sounds
If you lower you expectations, of course. Think more Llama2-7B, less GPT-4 Popular generative AI chatbots and services like ChatGPT or Gemini mostly run on GPUs or other dedicated accelerators, but as smaller models are more widely deployed in the enterprise, CPU-makers Intel and Ampere are suggesting their wares can do the job too - and their arguments aren't entirely without merit....
VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers
As the rumor mill whispers about a breakup with AWS VMware by Broadcom has made some fresh concessions to its cloud service provider community - and the customers who rely on it....
Bill advances to exonerate hundreds in Post Office Horizon scandal
'Their convictions wiped clean from the slate,' minister promises The mass exoneration of wrongfully convicted Post Office managers caught up in the Horizon IT scandal has come a step closer in the UK after MPs passed the third stage of a government bill....
Tech industry sheds some light on the planet's situation via LinkedIn
Kyndryl exec ponders 'fragility of the planet,' as Intel and Amazon offer advice Comment How did you celebrate or contribute to Earth Day? Sharing is caring so we wanted to highlight the thoughts and advice from Kyndryl, formerly IBM's global tech infrastructure services outpost, and others....
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