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Talking points echo those of Ramaswamy and DeSantis as they drop out of the race

A Florida man has chosen the next cultural wars flashpoint he will rally behind in an effort to mobilize the 2024 US presidential electorate: central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).…

Spotting and tackling a widespread problem is a challenge

Open source burnout has reared its head once again, this time in relation to the Rust project. However, the issue is not new, nor are the solutions.…

Critics claim now-fixed vulnerabilities weren't disclosed, flag up grouping of multiple flaws under one CVE

Critics are accusing major tech companies of not sticking to the rules when it comes to registering vulnerabilities with the appropriate authorities.…

'Substantial increase in AWS calls' triggers takedown notice

A plugin and library to permit the control of Haier, Candy, and Hoover appliances recently received takedown requests from Haier Europe's Security and Governance department.…

Fast food chain could face a footlong recovery process if allegations are true

The LockBit ransomware gang is claiming an attack on submarine sandwich slinger Subway, alleging it has made off with a platter of data.…

Committee wants to know which were awarded without competition and more

British MPs have written to the country's Treasury to demand details of all public sector contracts with Fujitsu as the Japanese tech supplier struggles in the wake of the Horizon Post Office Scandal.…

Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers

It was a tricky weekend for techies – not only did Microsoft's Azure Resource Manager fall over across the globe on January 21, 2024, local UK retailing giant Tesco also suffered an outage, cancelling multiple customer deliveries and orders due to "technical difficulties."…

Most advanced semiconductor facility in Europe is being subsidized by Chips Act funding

Water treatment company Gradiant has won a contract to build a plant providing ultrapure water for a chip fabrication facility being constructed in Germany by an unnamed "large semiconductor manufacturer."…

It's all very well offering 'Free Debt Help,' but recipients were unwilling, says watchdog...

A financial services company that illegally dispatched tens of thousands of spam messages promising to help the recipients magically wipe away their debts is itself now a debtor to the UK’s data regulator.…

Waltham Cross bit barn part of Alphabet's plans for 'future capacity needs'

Google has commenced construction of a $1 billion datacenter complex on the outskirts of London it says is needed to provide a reliable service to Google Cloud customers and users of Google in the UK.…

Never let a good crisis go to waste

Opinion  Nine hundred people have had their lives blighted, even destroyed. One of the world's oldest independent judicial systems has been perverted as a publicly owned company – the Post Office – brought private prosecutions* against postmasters. At the heart of it all is a brutal corporate cover-up of a broken IT system.…

Product to protect Oracle virtualization is already on the backup vendor’s roadmap

Exclusive  Backup software vendor Veeam is doing early research on VMware alternative Proxmox, potentially with a view to creating a product to protect data created using the tool.…

Didn't you fix that? Me? I thought you fixed that!

Who, Me?  Greetings and salutations, mighty reader, and welcome once again to Who, Me? in which Register readers like you share tales of the times your effort to deliver tech support went awry.…

Touts custom kernel that creams Linux, coming soon for devs and later for punters

Huawei last week detailed a major release of its HarmonyOS that will see the Chinese giant break with the Linux ecosystem.…

ALSO: Google's geometry reasoning breakthrough; Amazon debuts experimental shopping AI

AI In brief  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that a breakthrough in energy production is required to advance increasingly capable and power-hungry AI models.…

ESA makes its own discovery: the most water ever found on Mars

NASA regained contact with its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, on Saturday two days after it lost communication as the vehicle descended from its most recent flight.…

Also: Another UEFI flaw found; Kaspersky discovers iOS log files actually work; and a few critical vulnerabilities

Infosec in brief  Conor Brian Fitzpatrick – aka "Pompourin," a former administrator of notorious leak site BreachForums – has been sentenced to 20 years of supervised release.…

PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets

Asia In Brief  The alliance struck by Tencent and Meta to bring the latter's Quest VR hardware to China is reportedly faltering.…

Land of the rising profit?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest 2.3 trillion yen ($15.5 billion) to extend its cloud empire in Japan.…

Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you

University of Chicago boffins this week released Nightshade 1.0, a tool built to punish unscrupulous makers of machine learning models who train their systems on data without getting permission first.…