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Broadcom makes U-turn on plan to serve top 2,000 VMware customers itself - (pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:28:08 GMT)Now wants to work with 500 and lean more on partners to defend against migrations – which Dell says are on the cardsCanalys APAC Forum Broadcom has revised its strategy to work directly with the top 2,000 "strategic" VMware users, and will instead focus on just 500 – a move that Canalys chief analyst Alastair Edwards described as "a U-turn."… |
NATO tests aquatic drones to protect cables, coastlines - (pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:32:05 GMT)Floating the idea of a robot navyNATO is testing hardware for a potential force that would operate unmanned surface vessels (USV) to patrol the coastal waters of member states and also help protect undersea cables from attack.… |
T-Mobile US CSO: Spies jumped from one telco to another in a way 'I've not seen in my career' - (pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:52:57 GMT)Security chief talks to El Reg as Feds urge everyone to use encrypted chatinterview While Chinese-government-backed spies maintained access to US telecommunications providers' networks for months – and in some cases still haven't been booted out – T-Mobile US thwarted successful attacks on its systems "within a single-digit number of days," according to the carrier's security boss Jeff Simon.… |
Fission impossible? Meta wants up to 4GW of American atomic power for AI - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:30:08 GMT)Facebook titan targets early 2030s for reactor deploymentMeta believes it will need one to four gigawatts of nuclear power, in additional to the energy it already consumes, to fuel its AI ambitions. As such, it will put out a request for proposals (RFP) to find developers capable of supplying that level of electricity in the United States by early 2030.… |
Trump wants SpaceX customer Jared Isaacman as next NASA boss - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:00:07 GMT)Billionaire space tourist and mate of Elon pledges Americans will get to MarsPresident-elect Donald Trump has nominated Jared Isaacman, a notable SpaceX customer, as head of NASA.… |
Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:00:16 GMT)Lawsuit says e-commerce giant cut two zip codes from its own fleet without telling residentsAmazon has trouble in the US capital, where the city's attorney general alleged in a lawsuit filed today that the company excluded two postal zip codes from its fastest Prime delivery service without informing customers. … |
Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:30:14 GMT)TPM 2.0 'non-negotiable' for latest OS, says software giantMicrosoft is not backing down on the hardware requirements for Windows 11, stating that the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is essential for the operating system, even if it is not part of the minimum requirements for Windows Server 2025.… |
Europe's Vega C rocket cleared for launch tonight, first since 2022 - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:00:13 GMT)Nozzle woes in the past for continent's new launcherArianespace's Vega C is set to make a return to flight this evening, almost two years to the day after a second-stage failure doomed its previous launch.… |
Microsoft learned of fresh antitrust probe from the news - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:30:13 GMT)Never mind our alleged cheating of customers – you guys are a bunch of leakers, Redmond tells watchdogMicrosoft isn't happy about an antitrust investigation reportedly kicked off by the FTC recently, but not for the reason you might think: Redmond's mad that it found out about the probe by reading the news. … |
Cops arrest suspected admin of German-language crime bazaar - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:30:06 GMT)Drugs, botnets, forged docs, and more generated fortune for platform sellersGerman authorities say they have again shut down the perhaps unwisely named Crimenetwork platform and arrested a suspected admin.… |
Microsoft says premature patch could make Windows Recall forget how to work - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:03:15 GMT)Installed the final non-security preview update of 2024? Best not hop onto the Dev ChannelMicrosoft has pinned down why some eager Windows Insiders could not persuade the Recall preview to save any snapshots. It's all down to a pesky non-security preview.… |
Elementary OS 8 'Circe' conjures Wayland magic - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:35:10 GMT)Based on Ubuntu 24.04, more accessibility, still looks greatElementary OS 8 "Circe" is here, based on Ubuntu 24.04, with Wayland support in the Pantheon desktop.… |
SAP legacy ERP users wise to ignore offer of single leap to the cloud - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:37:09 GMT)Multi-stage journey preferred in high-risk switch, says user group chairAccording to the chair of the SAP UK and Ireland user group, users of its legacy on-prem ERP systems are set to upgrade their software before they move to the cloud, eschewing the vendor's preferred method as a first step.… |
Fresh releases of Xfce, Mint, Cinnamon desktops out in time for the holidays - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:30:06 GMT)Cinnamon 6.4 is already out and Xfce 4.20 is very nearly readyFancy spending time refreshing your setup over the holidays? Two of the more popular Windows-style FOSS desktops are about to drop new point releases, one for higher-end machines and one for lower-end kit.… |
Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:32:10 GMT)They took the red pillUpdated French and Dutch police have taken down the Matrix chat app, which was designed by criminals for criminals to be a secure encrypted messaging tool.… |
Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:26:13 GMT)Differing China tech policy agendas will send bromance into 'it's complicated' statusCanalys Forums APAC The CEO and founder of channel-centric analyst house Canalys has predicted that the alliance between president-elect Donald Trump and aspiring oligarch Elon Musk will unravel in 2025, putting Tesla's ability to execute on full self-driving vehicles at risk.… |
£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:30:06 GMT)Yes, we've been over this before - several times, in factMicrosoft has been sued in the UK to the tune of more than £1 billion over claims Redmond has been overcharging businesses for Windows Server licenses used on competing cloud platforms. … |
Binance accused of tax evasion by India's finance department - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:27:07 GMT)Minister reveals 17 crypto players owe $100 million – with Binance the baddest of the badIndia's Finance Ministry has alleged crypto exchange Binance evaded almost $85 million in tax – the vast majority of around $96 million it claims digi-dollar outfits haven't paid.… |
RISC-V's AI champion just scored $693M cash infusion - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:01:11 GMT)Architecture may be good for more than cut-rate SoCs and high-volume microcontrollers after allRISC-V chip designer Tenstorrent has won $693 million of investment – an endorsement of its plans to use the permissively licensed instruction set architecture for workloads like AI.… |
FTC scolds two data brokers for allegedly selling your location to the meter - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:29:07 GMT)'Where we go is who we are' totally isn't a creepy ad slogan at allThe FTC has reached a settlement with two data brokerages over allegations they harvested precise location data that shows when people entered hospitals, places of worship, and even attended protests supporting the late George Floyd.… |
AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows - (pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:14:11 GMT)Cloud colossus reckons it can clarify hallucinations, get your apps off Microsoft's OS at pleasing speedre:Invent Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman opened the cloud computing service's 13th annual re:Invent conference by observing: "Generative AI has the potential to disrupt every single industry out there."… |
Perfect 10 directory traversal vuln hits SailPoint's IAM solution - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:45:14 GMT)20-year-old info disclosure class bug still pervades security softwareIt's time to rev up those patch engines after SailPoint disclosed a perfect 10/10 severity vulnerability in its identity and access management (IAM) platform IdentityIQ.… |
Outlook is poor for those still on Windows Mail, Calendar, People apps by end of year - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:30:13 GMT)We're sure you'll learn to love the new Outlook for Windows appMicrosoft is preparing to kill off the old Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps by the end of this month and shift users to the Outlook for Windows app.… |
SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:02:03 GMT)Probe may not make it to 30 as funding runs out and replacement is launchedESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is approaching what could be its final year of operations as it hits the 29th anniversary of its launch.… |
Major energy contractor reports 'limited' access to IT after ransomware locks files - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:00:14 GMT)ENGlobal customers include the Pentagon as well as major oil and gas producersAmerican energy contractor ENGlobal disclosed that access to its IT systems remains limited following a ransomware infection in late November.… |
Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:32:43 GMT)Tens of thousands of AWS’ Trn2 instances to fuel Anthropic's next-gen modelsRe:Invent Amazon Web Services teased its next gen AI accelerator dubbed Trainium3 at re:Invent on Tuesday, which it says will deliver 4x higher performance than its predecessor when it arrives late next year.… |
AWS introduces S3 Tables, a new bucket type for data analytics - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:30:56 GMT)One of the most significant API changes since S3 was launched, AWS VP tells usRe:Invent There are two important changes to AWS's ubiquitous S3 storage service arriving soon: first, a new Table bucket type aimed at data analytics; and second, a previewed metadata feature that uses S3 tables to enable fast query of S3 data.… |
Judge again cans Musk's record-setting $56B Tesla package - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:45:06 GMT)'Even if a stockholder vote could have a ratifying effect, it could not do so here,' says Delaware ChancellorElon Musk's controversial $56 billion Tesla compensation package, voided by a Delaware court in January and reinstated by shareholder vote in June, has failed to move Judge Kathaleen McCormick to reverse her original decision, rendering Musk's pay package void yet again. … |
Are Copilot+ PCs really the fastest Windows PCs? X and Copilot don't think so - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:15:11 GMT)Microsoft marketing skewered by X platform users... and its own chatbotOpinion Microsoft's recent post on X that Copilot+ PCs are "the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever" is being rebuffed by the platform's context panel and the software vendor's own chatbot.… |
Gelsinger departs Intel with $9.7M handshake - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:45:38 GMT)CEO's severance pales in comparison to Musk's billion-dollar Tesla battleOutgoing Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger is set to receive severance pay of around $9.7 million following his departure from the chip giant.… |
$373M ASML chipmaker shrinks to $228 – but it's made of Lego - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:16:08 GMT)What to buy the techie who has everything?If you thought $373 million was a little bit beyond your budget to get your hands on the latest chipmaking machines, ASML will let you have one for just $228 – provided you don't mind it being made of Lego.… |
Severity of the risk facing the UK is widely underestimated, NCSC annual review warns - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:45:09 GMT)National cyber emergencies increased threefold this yearThe number of security threats in the UK that hit the country's National Cyber Security Centre's (NCSC) maximum severity threshold has tripled compared to the previous 12 months.… |
UK government spends another £1B on cloud migration and services - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:14:15 GMT)New framework set to help public sector orgs move on amid lock-in fearsThe UK government has awarded a contract worth up to £1 billion ($1.3 billion) to get tech services companies to help various bodies and departments make the leap to the cloud.… |
Asda hits the brakes on tech tweaks to avoid festive fiasco - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:30:14 GMT)Stability essential ahead of Christmas trading amid ongoing Walmart divorceThe UK's third-largest retailer has accelerated plans for a system freeze during the busy Christmas period as it grapples with a long-running tech divorce from its previous owner.… |
GitHub's boast that Copilot produces high-quality code challenged - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:30:14 GMT)We're shocked – shocked – that Microsoft's study of its own tools might not be super-rigorousGitHub's claim that the quality of programming code written with its Copilot AI model is "significantly more functional, readable, reliable, maintainable, and concise," has been challenged by software developer Dan Cîmpianu.… |
Russia gives life sentence to Hydra dark web kingpin after seizing a ton of drugs - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:29:13 GMT)No exaggeration – literally a ton. Plus, 15 co-conspirators also put behind barsA Russian court has handed a life sentence to the head of the infamous online drugs souk Hydra, and 15 of his co-conspirators will also spend many years behind bars.… |
GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:27:07 GMT)Specialty in cognitive non-routine tasks means high-skilled city workers affectedJobs in geographical areas and scope once thought to be at low risk of automation are soon to be the most affected by generative AI, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).… |
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory datacenter flooded, offline until 2025 - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 04:59:13 GMT)Burst water pipe blots out the Sun – or at least the data about it collected from two probesServers that store data collected by two NASA solar observation satellites are down – and the space agency doesn't know when they'll resume operations – after a four-inch chilled water pipe burst at the facility that houses them.… |
Data on 760K workers from Xerox, Nokia, BofA, Morgan Stanley and more dumped online - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:57:16 GMT)Yet another result of the MOVEit messHundreds of thousands of employees from major corporations including Xerox, Nokia, Koch, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and others appear to be the latest victims in a massive data breach linked to last year's attacks on file transfer tool MOVEit.… |
AWS unveils cloud security IR service for a mere $7K a month - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 01:30:14 GMT)Tap into the infinite scalability... of pricingRe:Invent Amazon Web Services has a new incident response service that combines automation and people to protect customers' AWS accounts - at a hefty price.… |
Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators - (pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:45:09 GMT)140 Middle Kingdom firms added to US trade blacklistUpdated The Biden administration has announced restrictions limiting the export of memory critical to the production of AI accelerators and banning sales to more than a hundred entities.… |
Employee sues Apple over 'spying' claims tied to mandatory devices - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:32:08 GMT)Cupertino's walled garden 'is a prison yard' claims plaintiffSuing your employer while remaining employed is a risky play, but one Apple ad tech manager is trying it – claiming that the iGiant is forcing staff to expose their personal data and threatening them with pay clawbacks over non-compliance.… |
Cost of Gelsinger's ambition proves too much for Intel - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 22:21:51 GMT)At least he'll have company as he joins 15K colleagues headed for the doorComment Pat Gelsinger is out as Intel CEO, cutting short his nearly four-year crusade to revitalize the beleaguered chipmaker.… |
Oh, good. Supermicro board probe clears server slinger of misconduct claims - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:30:07 GMT)But hunts for a fresh CFO 'in light of rapid recent growth'Supermicro said an independent special committee formed earlier this year at the request of the server maker's board found no evidence of corporate misconduct or fraud.… |
Bluesky keeps growing, and so do its problems - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 20:30:12 GMT)Impersonators, harmful content and AI scraping are up, tooIt's undoubtedly a good time to be upstart social media network Bluesky given its rapid growth in the wake of the US presidential election, but questions of moderation and compliance matters are growing along with the influx of humans seeking bluer pastures. … |
OpenAI denies it is building ad biz model into its platform - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:29:09 GMT)Chief financial officer admits 'we're open to exploring other revenue streams in the future'OpenAI has ruled out running adverts on its platforms, for now at least, Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has told The Register.… |
Apple's backwards design mistake and the reversed capacitor - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:25:09 GMT)It's true – the Mac LC III really did have it installed the wrong way roundDid Apple really fit a capacitor backward on the Mac LC III? A multimeter-wielding retro fan has confirmed that, yes – somebody made a mistake decades ago, and a capacitor ended up installed the wrong way.… |
Musk seeks injunction to stop OpenAI morphing into for-profit company - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:00:07 GMT)Politics, electric cars, rockets, and social media not enough to keep some individuals busyElon Musk has filed for an injunction against OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, broadly designed to prevent the GenAI poster child from shifting towards an entirely for-profit business.… |
Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card? - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:40:20 GMT)80486 processor lead architect leaves x86 giant after largest quarterly loss in its historyIntel has confirmed the sudden departure of chief executive Pat Gelsinger, in a move intended to restore investor confidence in the ailing Silicon Valley giant following a year of turmoil.… |
Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:32:06 GMT)Only 10 months left until Windows 10 end of support and people still seem to prefer itDespite Microsoft's push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant's latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter.… |
