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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)....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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)....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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."...

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

Connection failures reported following installation Microsoft admits that April's Windows update can potentially cause VPN connection failures in both Windows 10 and 11....

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....

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....

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....

'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....

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....

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....

'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....

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....