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VMware isnt budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses - 29/11 7:55 am

Fresh court filings try to keep the case about copyright, and in US courts VMware has come out swinging in its case against Siemens over alleged unlicensed use of its software.





Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight - 29/11 3:12 am

Roscosmos confirms 'damage' as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027 The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damange during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos.





PostHog admits Shai-Hulud 2.0 was its biggest ever security bungle - 29/11 12:22 am

Automation flaw in CI/CD workflow let a bad pull request unleash worm into npm PostHog says the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm compromise was "the largest and most impactful security incident" it's ever experienced after attackers slipped malicious releases into its JavaScript SDKs and tried to auto-loot developer credentials.





Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer .. - 28/11 11:52 pm

Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable' British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files.





GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance - 28/11 11:44 pm

Project cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepens French cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company's servers over concerns about France's approach to digital privacy.





KDE Plasma sets date to dump X11 as Wayland push accelerates - 28/11 11:03 pm

If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE and tmux The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up.





SK hynix wants you to bond with HBM, so it coated corn in banana chocolate - 28/11 10:15 pm

Pushes semiconductor familiarity via chip-shaped edible squares SK hynix has launched HBM-themed square corn snacks at 7-Eleven, because nothing explains bandwidth like carbs and chocolate.





TryHackMe races to add women to Christmas cyber challenge roster after .. - 28/11 9:32 pm

Training outfit scrambles to fix all-male lineup before December kickoff Cybersecurity training provider TryHackMe is scrambling to recruit women infosec pros to help with its Christmas challenge following backlash concerning a lack of gender diversity.





GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold it just feels like they are - 28/11 8:57 pm

Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce For as long as I have been a reporter and analyst in the IT sector, November has always been supercomputing month. Way before there was a TOP500 ranking of supercomputers in June 1993 but just as I was leaving university, the first Supercomputing Conference was held in Orlando in 1988. And that November SC show set the cadence for high-performance computing for the decades that followed.





Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations - 28/11 8:31 pm

Another reason why the OS seems to swell with every update Changing text in Microsoft Windows requires freezing string updates well before code changes stop, often leading to strange wording that persists for years.





OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder - 28/11 8:02 pm

Ex-NCSC chief Ciaran Martin asked to examine how forecast ended up online ahead of schedule The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has drafted in former National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief Ciaran Martin to sniff out how its Budget day forecast wandered onto the open internet before the Chancellor had even reached the dispatch box.





UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last 1.8B - 28/11 7:25 pm

OBR says the scheme will cost 600M a year with no identified savings The UK government has finally put a 1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure.





UK Digital Services Tax raises 800M from global tech giants - 28/11 6:00 pm

Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain The UK government collected just 800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent tax year.





Digital Realty, Equinix battle for 4.5B atNorth acquisition - 28/11 5:08 pm

Nordic datacenter operator's cool-climate facilities attract bids amid AI- driven market frenzy Digital Realty and a consortium including Equinix are competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian datacenter operator, according to reports.





Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the .. - 28/11 4:00 pm

A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register 's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions.





Soup king Campbells parts ways with IT VP after 3D-printed chicken remarks - 28/11 10:52 am

Our soups not toxic but this chaps behavior was is the gist of the defense Food company Campbells, best known for its soups and the iconic cans they come in, has parted ways with a vice president for IT after another member of the companys tech team recorded him criticizing the companys products.





Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a .. - 28/11 8:41 am

Talk about buyers remorse South Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a serious cyberattack.





Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA reaffirms commitment - 28/11 6:53 am

ExoMars project may actually get to the red planet one day The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project.





Zendesk users targeted as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters spin up fake support .. - 28/11 12:30 am

ReliaQuest finds fresh crop of phishing domains and toxic tickets Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest.





OpenAI cuts off Mixpanel after analytics leak exposes API users - 27/11 11:45 pm

ChatGPT maker places other vendors under review following breach OpenAI says API users may be affected by a recent breach at its former data analytics provider, Mixpanel.





Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation .. - 27/11 11:41 pm

$12K machine promises performance that can scale to 32 chip servers and beyond but immature stack makes harnessing compute challenging hands on Tenstorrent probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when it comes to AI infrastructure. But unlike the litany of AI chip startups vying for VC funding and a slice of Nvidia's pie, Tenstorrent's chips actually exist outside the lab.





FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio .. - 27/11 10:00 pm

Agency flags hijacks of insecure studio-to-transmitter gear after attackers pipe in fake alerts and vulgar audio Malicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system.





Asahi admits ransomware gang may have spilled almost 2M people's data - 27/11 9:15 pm

Brewer finally tallies fallout from September attack as it pushes earnings into 2026 Asahi has finally done the sums on September's ransomware attack in Japan, conceding the crooks may have helped themselves to personal data tied to almost 2 million people.





Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty - 27/11 8:30 pm

OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access A Canadian court has ordered French cloud provider OVHcloud to hand over customer data stored in Europe, potentially undermining the provider's claims about digital sovereignty protections.





Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack - 27/11 8:15 pm

Audit sympathetic toward Comhairle nan Eilean Siar as staff stretched to capacity trying to recover Auditors remain concerned about the cyber resilience of a Scottish council as some systems are yet to be fully rebuilt following a ransomware attack in November 2023.





One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation .. - 27/11 7:00 pm

IT in the firing line as 'legacy' roles under the microscope AI-pocalypse New research suggests AI deployment is creating significant workforce redundancies across major organizations.





Tiny tweak for Pi OS, big makeover for the Imager - 27/11 6:15 pm

Debian 13.2 freshness, better HiDPI support, and 101 other things to run on your Pi Raspberry Pi Ltd has shipped two updates for its single-board computers: a very small refresh to Pi OS 6, and a more substantial upgrade to the tool that writes your Pi's operating system to an SD card.





HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever and it's starting to show - 27/11 5:30 pm

Arm and RISC-V would like a word Feature Remember when high-performance computing always seemed to be about x86? Exactly a decade ago, almost nine in ten supercomputers in the TOP500 (a list of the beefiest machines maintained twice yearly by academics) were Intel-based. Today, it's down to 57 percent.





TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel - 27/11 3:26 pm

Chipzilla can certainly use foundry smarts, but denies the allegation Taiwanese foundry TSMC believes a former executive has leaked company secrets to Intel and is testing the matter in court.





ICANN distances itself from radical proposal which it funded to give .. - 27/11 1:32 pm

Africa is again at the center of strife ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the groups proposal.





Apples lousy AI didnt stop it beating Samsungs smartphone sales for the .. - 27/11 11:52 am

Analyst Counterpoint says second-hand phones are also helping Cupertino to the smartphone shipment summit Apple is set to displace Samsung as the worlds top smartphone manufacturer, measured by shipment volume, according to analyst firm Counterpoint.





AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US .. - 27/11 9:04 am

60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen The cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or problems at Amazon Web Services US East region. The cloud giant has now made a change that will make its own role in such outages less painful.





Gainsight CEO downplays breach, says only a 'handful' of customers had .. - 27/11 4:37 am

Maybe if your hand has 200+ fingers... Gainsight CEO Chuck Ganapathi downplayed the victim count related to his company's recent breach, saying he's only aware of "a handful of customers" who had their data affected after Salesforce flagged unusual activity involving Gainsight's connected app.





Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon - 27/11 2:47 am

HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential This week the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to deliver a 16-fold boost to the nation's computing capacity and eventually put fresh fish on the table.





Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries - 27/11 2:44 am

Even worse, it might have been a 'test run' for future attacks A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, according to Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.





Workday confronts existential threat as customers freeze hiring - 27/11 2:19 am

HR software vendor pushes cross-selling as modest workforce growth exposes vulnerability of per-seat pricing Workday is confronting a troubling reality. Customers aren't hiring much and some are actively cutting staff. The solution? Cross-selling to squeeze more revenue per user out of its installed base.





Mobile industry warns patchwork cyber regs are driving up costs - 27/11 1:12 am

GSMA says fragmented, poorly designed laws add burdens without making networks any safer Mobile operators' core cybersecurity spending is projected to more than double by 2030 as threats evolve, while poorly designed and fragmented policy frameworks add extra compliance costs, according to industry group the GSMA.





Doom hits KiCad as PCB traces become demons and doors - 27/11 12:11 am

Engineer bends layout tool into vector renderer, then pushes frames through a MacBook's headphone jack There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope.





CodeRED emergency alert system CodeDEAD after INC ransomware attack - 26/11 10:54 pm

Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the product Towns and cities across the US are without access to their CodeRED emergency alert system following a cyberattack on vendor Crisis24.





US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for .. - 26/11 10:10 pm

Service limits 20-ship line to two hulls after redesigns and delays torpedo schedule The US Navy is scrapping an entire shipbuilding program in an effort to find alternatives that can be delivered faster to counter expected threats.




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Hajiji dah angkat sumpah Ketua Menteri jam 3 pagi tadi - Harapandaily
Pengerusi Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS), Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor selesai mengangkat sumpah sebagai Ketua Menteri Sabah Ke-17 awal pagi tadi di Istana Seri Kinabalu. Beliau yang memenangi kerusi DUN Sulaman itu mengangkat sumpah di hadapan Yang Dipertua Negeri, Tun Musa Aman pada jam 3 pagi tadi. ..
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Politics : PM Anwar Extends Congratulations To Hajiji - Bernama
KOTA KINABALU, Nov 30 (Bernama) --Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, extended his congratulations to Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor for receiving the new mandate to form the state government.
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Lebih 200 kenderaan rosak di Hatyai sukar dikeluarkan - Kosmo
BUKIT KAYU HITAM – Proses mengeluarkan lebih 200 kenderaan milik rakyat Malaysia yang rosak akibat ditenggelami banjir di Hatyai, Thailand berdepan kesukaran apabila sebahagiannya terbalik serta beralih dari kedudukan asal. Pengusaha trak tunda, Mohd. Akmal Aniq Shahabuddin berkata, ..
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AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday .. - Star
Nov 29 (Reuters) - AI-powered shopping tools helped drive a surge in U.S. online spending on Black Friday, as shoppers bypassed crowded stores and turned to chatbots to compare prices and secure discounts amid concerns about tariff-driven price hikes. Read full story
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Donald Trump says airspace in and around Venezuela .. - Globalnews
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered 'closed in its entirety' to airlines, drug dealers and traffickers.
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Motosikal Pantas Buat Kerja, Givi Malaysia Perkenal .. - Mekanika
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