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2024-09-19 23:33:04

Valencia Ransomware crew explodes on the scene, claims California city, fashion giant, more as victims
Boasts 'appear to be credible' experts tell El Reg A California city, a Spanish fashion giant, an Indian paper manufacturer, and two pharmaceutical companies are the alleged victims of what looks like a new ransomware gang that started leaking stolen info this week.…
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2024-09-19 21:57:03

No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom
Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals Buried beneath the endless feeds and attention-grabbing videos of the modern internet is a network of data harvesting and sale that's far more vast than most people realize, and it desperately needs regulation. …
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2024-09-19 20:49:05

Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them
To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap The Iranian cyber snoops who stole files from the Trump campaign, with the intention of leaking those documents, tried to slip the data to the Biden camp — but were apparently ignored, according to Uncle Sam.…
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2024-09-19 20:33:04

Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS
Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue The European Commission intends to force Apple to open its walled garden.…
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2024-09-19 17:25:07

Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals
V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes The second generation of Starlink satellites being lobbed into orbit by SpaceX might not reflect as much sunlight as the old ones, yet astronomers say they're leaking up to 32 times the unintended radio waves inste…
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2024-09-19 16:17:04

1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage
Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by CrowdStrike's outage in July are dropping their current vendor's products.…
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2024-09-19 15:17:05

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate
This is like vi vs Emacs with 'religious overtones,’ project chief laughs Linux is 33 years old. Its creator, Linus Torvalds, still enjoys an argument or two but is baffled why the debate over Rust has attracted so much heat.…
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2024-09-19 14:09:05

Thousands of orgs at risk of knowledge base data leaks via ServiceNow misconfigurations
Better check your widgets, people Security researchers say that thousands of companies are potentially leaking secrets from their internal knowledge base (KB) articles via ServiceNow misconfigurations.…
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2024-09-19 13:09:06

ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it
Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts Over the last 20 years, ERP is the category of enterprise software deemed slowest to modernize because of priority given to sexier front office applications and senior decision-makers' aversion to risk.…
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2024-09-19 12:49:04

Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe
Concerns over the elimination of a future competitor through acquihiring The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has declared it needs fresh powers after the European Commission elected not to investigate Microsoft's acquihire of AI startup Inflection.…
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2024-09-19 12:25:05

UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group
4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy Four UK-based proponents of human rights and critics of Middle Eastern states today filed a report with London's Metropolitan Police they hope will lead to charges against Pegasus peddler NSO Group.…
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2024-09-19 10:49:05

Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it
Kubernetes doyen talks to The Reg about keeping coders coding Interview Acclaimed engineer Kelsey Hightower, who stopped coding for money in 2023, remains an influential figure in the world of software, and he's proposing something that might stir up the open source community.…
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2024-09-19 09:41:10

With billions in UK govt IT contracts about to expire, get the next vendors to act right
Poor performers get renewals, new small outfits discouraged from bidding, say researchers UK government IT contracts worth £23.4 billion are due to end during the current five-year Parliament, according to researchers who warn that poor performing suppliers are hardly ever excluded from bidding…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/09/19/government_it_contracts_expiring/

2024-09-19 08:33:09

SiFive shifts from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator
Seems someone's looking for an Arm wrestle SiFive, having designed RISC-V CPU cores for various AI chips, is now offering to license the blueprints for its own homegrown full-blown machine-learning accelerator.…
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2024-09-19 08:09:10

NTT Data, IBM, team on mainframe cloud for banks
SimpliZCloud is only for India right now, based on big Blue's LinuxONE The mainframe has found another role, thanks to Japan's IT services giant NTT Data which has decided to build a hybrid cloud service based on the IBM LinuxONE platform.…
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2024-09-19 08:09:10

Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin
Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor The Tor project has insisted its privacy-preserving powers remain potent, countering German reports that user anonymity on its network can be and has been compromised by police.…
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2024-09-19 08:09:10

Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters
Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has predicted his hyperscale semiconductor customers will continue building AI clusters for another three to five years, with each generation of machines to double in size.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/09/19/hock_tan_ai_infrastructure_predictions/

2024-09-19 04:09:06

Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers
Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume Lenovo revealed on Tuesday that it will manufacture AI servers at its plant in Puducherry, India, and has opened a new infrastructure research and development lab in Bengalaru.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/09/19/lenovo_india_ai_server_manufacturing/

2024-09-19 02:17:05

LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in
You'll have to opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others excepted LinkedIn started harvesting user-generated content to train its AI without asking for permission, angering netizens.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/09/19/linkedin_ai_data_access/

2024-09-18 22:09:02

Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win
Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky Google has some thank-you cards to send, as the European Union's General Court (GC) has nullified a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) fine levied against the tech giant for anti-competitive advertising behavior. …
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/google_escapes_15b_eu_antitrust_fine/