RIP Bram Moolenaar: Coding world mourns Vim creator

:wq buddy

Obit  Dutch free software developer Bram Moolenaar has died. He was 62. His Vim text editor is probably one of the single most widely used Linux programs of all time.…

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Lawrence Livermore lab repeats fusion breakthrough – yep, still kinda works

Greater yield than last year, but don't ditch your solar panels just yet

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have repeated their breakthrough fusion experiment, which nominally produced more energy than it consumed.…

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Graphene foam is the future of IoT power, say Scottish boffins

An electrically charged spring in your step

A group of Scottish engineers claim to have come up with a new way to harvest the electricity wasted by everyday human movement: electrically conductive foam.…

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TV and film extras are afraid generative AI will copy their faces and bodies to take their jobs

Plus: Apple has spent $22.1B on research for generative AI, and Kickstarter introduces new AI policies

AI in brief  Production companies are scanning the faces and bodies of actors and actresses, who fear their likeness will be used to create fake AI doubles for TV shows and films in the future.…

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Another thing you can blame AI for: Cloud grows but server shipments are down

Investment shifts to meet demand, say analysts. And demand is based on FOMO. WCGW?

The cloud market continues to grow, but at a slowly declining rate, while investment is shifting to meet the demand for AI services, diverting spending away from other projects.…

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We'd pay good money to see... oh dear, Elon Musk 'needs an MRI scan'

What does this mean for his cage fight against Zuck? YOU DECIDE

Opinion  Unreliable billionaire Elon Musk appears adamant that his cage fight with rival social media mogul Mark Zuckerberg will actually go ahead.…

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Bitfinder: The First Ever Crypto Search Engine Built Powered By Bitfinder Algorithm

Bitffinder company, a leading innovator in the world of blockchain technology, is thrilled to introduce Bitfinder, the first-ever

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Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers

And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week

Google is pitching another strategy to convince Googlers to return to the office, specifically the campus at Mountain View HQ: offer them a night in an on-site hotel for $99 where they can simply crawl to their desk the following day.…

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Fujitsu pulls the plug on European client PC sales

Clock is ticking on April 2024 withdrawal

Fujitsu has confirmed to The Register that it will cease selling all personal computers in Europe beginning in spring next year.…

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NFTs: The Digital Renaissance of Art and Creativity

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have sparked a digital renaissance, revolutionizing the art and creative industries. By tokenizing digital art

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Decentralized Identity for the Internet of Things: Securing the Connected Future

As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes increasingly prevalent, ensuring security and privacy in this interconnected world becomes

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Tesla hackers turn to voltage glitching to unlock paywalled features

Oh, this old thing? Yeah, it's got an AMD processor. Why?

Black Hat  There is a way to unlock those paywalled features in your car, as a group of German PhD students demonstrated at Black Hat, but it probably won't keep the automakers up at night. …

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The Strategies of Agile Custom Software Development: Maximizing Efficiency and ROI

As you are most likely well aware, Agile engages repeated evolvement in custom project coordination in general and

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Asahi Linux project hooks up with Fedora: Remix that's not a remix coming soon

FAR out, man: first build for Apple Silicon Macs might make it out this month

The Asahi Linux project, which is working on getting Linux working on Apple Silicon-based Macs, is partnering with the Fedora Project for its new flagship distro.…

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Hide and seek in outer space highlights a battle here on Earth

Voyager's mix of tenacity and discovery should worry its science icon competitors

Opinion  The true measure of technology is not how well it matches human intelligence, but how well it survives human stupidity. Humanity's most iconic robots, the Voyager space probes, seem to be up to that job. Nearly 20 billion kilometers from home and nearly 50 years in deep space, Voyager 2 has just been told to point its antenna away from Earth and await further orders.…

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Techie's quick cure for a curious conflict caused a huge headache

A PC is a PC is a PC, and by any other name would not have taken down the intranet

Who, Me?  Welcome, gentle reader, to the safe place we call Who, Me? where Register readers tell us about the times when their brilliance shone a little dimmer than was needed to reach a brighter future.…

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11 Surprising Ways IT Services Influence Your Day-to-Day Life

There’s a lot happening behind the scenes that make our lives easier and more enjoyable. Many of these

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Fact-Checking Can Influence Recommender Algorithms

In January 2017, Reddit users read about an alleged case of terrorism in a Spanish supermarket. What they

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Scientists Develop Novel Method to Synthesize Azide Compounds for Wider Industrial Applications

Researchers from Japan develop a new method to prepare compounds of organomagnesium intermediates having a protected azido group.

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Technology to Find EV Charging Vulnerabilities

Idaho National Laboratory intern Jake Guidry has developed a cybersecurity research tool that could improve the security of

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One weekend's TwitX chaos brings threats from Japan; indemnity promises for users; prominent account seizures

Plus: news of the tawdry Musk vs Zuck bout

Japan’s Ministry of Finance issued a warning late last week regarding an account on the platform formerly known as Twitter that impersonates its top currency official, Masato Kanda, in just one of a string of incidents involving X Corp and Elon Musk in recent days.…

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Microsoft hits back at Tenable criticism of its infosec practices

'Not all fixes are equal,' argues Redmond, and this one for the Power Platform didn't need to be rushed

Microsoft has explained why it seemingly took its time to fix a flaw reported to it by infosec intelligence vendor Tenable.…

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Five Eyes nations detail dirty dozen most exploited vulnerabilities

PLUS: FBI admits buying NSO spyware; "IT" company busted for drugs 'n guns biz; this week's critical vulns

Infosec in brief  If you're wondering what patches to prioritize, ponder no longer: An international group of cybersecurity agencies has published a list of the 12 most commonly exploited vulnerabilities of 2022 – a list many will recognize. …

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India hits pause on import ban after Apple and Samsung pull out

ALSO: That's not a limp, that's 68 iPhones strapped to your body; Malaysia scores giant fab; Phishing phlops in Hong Kong; and more

Asian in brief  A day after introducing a requirement that PC and server vendors secure a license to imports their products, India's government has put the brakes on the program.…

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Fiber Optic Cables Detect and Characterize Earthquakes

In California, thousands of miles of fiber optic cables crisscross the state, providing people with internet. But these

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GlycoMIP Nurtures New Research Community Around Glycomaterials

Linda Caudill believes the building of a research facility to study one of life’s critical building blocks –

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Tackling Cosmic Radiation in Next-Gen Space Computing

Researchers at USC Information Sciences Institute are developing ways to protect future hardware from the effects of space,

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Testing the Waters: How to Optimize Restoration of Corals?

When it comes to the restoration of corals on coral reefs, most attention is directed to the corals

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Geologists Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Landslides

A new technique developed by UCLA geologists that uses artificial intelligence to better predict where and why landslides

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Quantum Technology and Sustainable Chemicals: How Scientists are Paving Way to Brighter Future

Two Swinburne University of Technology Scientists will place Australia at the forefront of the sustainable production of commodity

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Neutrons Look Inside Working Solid-State Battery to Discover Its Key to Success

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory were the first to use neutron reflectometry to

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Lab Under Every Chicken: Researchers Create Packaging Tray That Warns of Food Contamination

McMaster researchers have created a new packaging tray that can signal when salmonella or other dangerous pathogens are

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Experiment arrives at the ISS to see if astronauts can keep things cool

No sweat, but this could take us to infinity and beyond

A science experiment that arrived at the International Space Station on Friday will help engineers build heating and air conditioning units to keep astronauts alive on missions.…

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Wearable Device to Prevent Dangerous Dehydration

An innovative wearable device to warn of dehydration in the elderly is being designed by a University of

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Sustainability in the (Self-Healing) Concrete Mix

Scientists are paving the way for sustainable construction with self-healing, self-sensing, and hydrophobic concrete. In a massive leap

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New Algorithm Ensnares Its First ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid

An asteroid discovery algorithm — designed to uncover near-Earth asteroids for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming 10-year survey

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Deutsche Bahn stands to lose €400M if it has to do Huawei with Chinese kit

Telcos also due to get it in the neck unless the government pays up

Reliance on Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei could end up costing Germany's state-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn upwards of €400 million if a rip-and-replace order is issued.…

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New Online Resource Puts a Literary Spin on Studying Video Games

A new e-book written as part of U of T’s Scholars in Residence program shows how video games

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Researchers Tune Thermal Conductivity of Materials ‘On the Fly’ for More Energy-Efficient Devices

Record-setting thermal conductivity discovery could lower energy consumption and improve heat management in electronic devices. A team led

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Google offers to alert netizens when their personal info shows up in Search

I Have Been Pw, er, Indexed

Google is carrying out its corporate mission statement – to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful – by offering to hide certain information in its search results.…

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Canada's Telus to shed 6K workers as profits plunge 61%

Big cheese asks if anyone wants to take early retirement?

Canadian telco Telus plans to ditch 6,000 workers across its business — about six percent of its global workforce — after its profits fell 61 percent year over year during the second quarter of 2023.…

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Two US Navy sailors charged with giving Chinese spies secret military info

'Quite obviously f**king espionage,' one suspect allegedly blabbed

Two US Navy service members appeared in federal court Thursday accused of espionage and stealing sensitive military information for China in separate cases.…

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The Rise in In-Person Events

The dawn of a new era for in-person events is here, infused with insights gained from over two

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Behold, Incus: Check out this fork of Canonical's LXD 'containervisor'

Lead dev Graber quits Ubuntu maker, helps out this new project

SUSE developer Alexa Sarai has created Incus, a fork of Canonical's LXD code, with the backing of the now-former lead developer of the container-manager-cum-hypervisor.…

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Alarm raised over Mozilla VPN: Wonky authorization check lets users cause havoc

SUSE security engineer goes public on unfixed problem after disclosure drama

A security engineer at Linux distro maker SUSE has published an advisory for a flaw in the Mozilla VPN client for Linux that has yet to be addressed in a publicly released fix because the disclosure process went off the rails.…

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Read lips? Siri wants to feel them, according to fresh Apple patent

We make movements when we talk, and gyro, accelerometer and sensor tech could improve speech recog

Siri's ability to recognize speech may be getting a boost through the addition of lip-reading – or, more appropriately, lip-feeling – technology, according to a newly published Apple patent.…

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Big chip players join forces to form another RISC-V venture

Initial drive starts in Germany, pushes automotive blueprints

The RISC-V open instruction set architecture got a boost today after it emerged that five chip giants are coming together to jointly invest in a company to develop reference architectures based on the standard.…

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Astronaut-menacing sunstorm spotted rippling across inner solar system

Rare coronal mass ejection so powerful it was observed from Earth, Moon, and Mars simultaneously

Spacecraft orbiting the Earth, Moon, and Mars have all detected the same giant coronal mass ejection from the Sun – the first time vehicles in all three locations - plus one on the surface of Mars - have all observed the same event of this sort.…

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Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud

Opinion  If you count Android and Chrome OS as Linux, which I do, the Linux desktop accounts for 44.98 percent of the end user market. But if your idea of the "Linux desktop" has a front end of Cinnamon, GNOME or KDE, then it's more like 3.06 percent. Better than it has been at times, but it's no "Year of the Linux desktop." Maybe, though, it will be someday.…

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Judge throws out EE's £25M 5G contract suit against Virgin Media

2022's MVNO spat wrapped up as world+dog reminded to check exclusion clauses

A High Court judge has dismissed a 2022 £24.6 million ($31 million) breach of contract lawsuit in which EE sued Virgin Media when it struck a deal with Vodafone to provide 5G services – something EE claimed was in breach of the pair's MVNO network access agreement.…

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Molecular Additive Enhances Next-gen LEDs – but Shortens Their Lifespans

By tinkering with the material makeup of perovskite LEDs, a cheaper and more easily-made type of LED, Stanford

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Telecom giants dial up the heat on suppliers: It's not you, it's your CO2

Tackling sneaky Scope 3 emissions with 'best practices' and a 'climate lens'

A telecoms industry body focused on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has called for all companies to take action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions - so-called Scope 3 emissions - across their entire value chain.…

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Learning from Superheroes and AI: How a Chatbot can Teach Kids Supportive Self-talk

At first, some parents were wary: An AI audio chatbot was supposed to teach their kids to speak

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Computer Model of Real Life Brain Plots More Accurate Route for Neurosurgeons

Scientists have developed a new method and model for measuring the physical properties of the human brain to

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Cracking in Lithium-ion Batteries Speeds up Electric Vehicle Charging

Cracks in predominant lithium-ion electrodes shorten battery lifespans, but a neuroscience-inspired technique shows that they have an upside.

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A low-cost potential therapy for spinal cord injuries

A spinal cord injury is a life-altering event, and the effects, such as muscle weakness and paralysis, can

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How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'

Settle in for a weighty story with plenty of gravity

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's regular Friday frolic through readers' memories of tech tasks that turned terrifying before trending towards triumph.…

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Leading the charge: New research paves the way for energy-efficient power storage and electronics

Since the 1940s, scientists have been exploring the use of niobium oxide, specifically a form of niobium oxide

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Study highlights importance of mineral iron in ocean ecosystems

New research published in Nature has revealed the importance of mineral forms of iron in regulating the cycling of

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Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons

Why 'dont deploy on Frday' is a thnng

Boffins have spent two years monitoring the computers of office staff at a large Texas energy concern and found that workers did less and made more mistakes in the afternoon – particularly on Fridays.…

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Big Tech’s going to love India’s new personal data protection bill, say digital rights groups

Big fines for breaches. Also big powers, including takedowns, for planned Data Protection Board

India’s long awaited digital Personal Data Protection Bill was tabled in parliament on Thursday, complete with stiff penalties for data breaches and enough exemptions to that digital rights orgs have rated it a “win-win” for Big Tech and government.…

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Japanese supermarket watches you shop so AI can suggest more stuff to buy

What could possibly go wrong with this Fujitsu tech?

A Japanese supermarket has started analyzing customers' in-store behavior and feeding it to a generative AI to drive an avatar that makes real-time suggestions about stuff you might want to buy.…

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Out of nowhere, India requires PC and server makers to get an import license

This is one way to kickstart local manufacturing

India yesterday changed its trade rules to require manufacturers of many types of computers to secure an import license to bring their goods into the country.…

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Couple admit they laundered $4B in stolen Bitcoins after Bitfinex super-heist

A man, a plan, and Razzlekhan fought the law – and the law won

Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan on Thursday pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges related to the 2016 theft of some 120,000 Bitcoins from Hong Kong-based Bitfinex.…

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IBM, NASA emit actual open source AI model – for grokking Earth satellite images

Some people just want to watch the world burn

IBM and NASA have put together and released Prithvi: an open source foundation AI model that may help scientists and other folks analyze satellite imagery.…

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Russia's Cozy Bear is back and hitting Microsoft Teams to phish top targets

Plus: Tenable CEO blasts Redmond's bug disclosure habits

An infamous Kremlin-backed gang has been using Microsoft Teams chats in attempts to phish marks in governments, NGOs, and IT businesses, according to the Windows giant.…

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Blue Origin tells staff to catch next rocket back to their desks

Face colleagues five days a week, Jeff Bezos' space firm says

Blue Origin, the off-planet enterprise owned by Jeff Bezos, has told staff to get back to the office for a five-day week – a move which sees the twilight of flexible WFH arrangements at the company.…

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Old-school hacktivism is back because it never went away

Mysterious Team Bangladesh has carried out 846 attacks since June 2022, mostly DDoS

Hacktivism may have dropped off of organization radars over the past few years, but it is now very visibly coming from what is believed to be Bangladesh, thanks to a group tracked by cybersecurity firm Group-IB.…

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Microsoft snatches back internal Windows 11 testing tool soon after release

Redmond bugs out of that side quest

Microsoft yesterday released then quickly pulled an internal tool for enabling experimental Windows 11 features.…

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Lacros rescues Chromebooks by extending their lifespans

'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks

The Lacros project – a contrived acronym for Linux and Chrome OS* – is an internal Google development project with a goal that may sound bizarre: to run the standalone Linux version of the Chrome web browser on top of ChromeOS. According to reports, it looks like this feature could go mainstream after ChromeOS release 116.…

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Symmetric Key Encryption Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis

In today’s digitally interconnected world, the security of sensitive information is paramount. Symmetric key encryption algorithms play a

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QR Codes for Successful Digital Marketing Campaigns

With the establishment and increase of smartphones, consumers are increasingly and easily accessing information about entertainment, services and

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NASA and pals complete Artemis II recovery dress rehearsal

One more box checked in humanity's quest to return to the Moon

NASA has cleared another hurdle toward sending humans back to the Moon with the successful completion of its first Artemis II recovery test mission.…

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Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results

Browsermaker says search service promotes privacy

Brave Software, maker of the Brave web browser, has tuned its search engine to run on a homegrown index of images and videos in an effort to end its dependency on "Big Tech" rivals.…

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Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase

Police say man at the wheel claimed he was scared to stop

Ever wondered why Google Maps Street View images can have such poor quality sometimes? A police incident in the US state of Indiana on Monday may offer an answer.…

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SAP CEO push for cloud-only 'innovation' shatters users' trust in German-speaking heartlands

UK and German user groups issue strong statements after Klein courts investors with cloud strategy

User groups representing some of Europe's largest industrial businesses have reacted strongly to SAP's decision to double down on its cloud-only innovation strategy, arguing it breaks trust with anyone that invested in the latest on-prem software and asks them to pay double for innovation.…

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UK government's semiconductor brain trust meets for the first time

Actually listening to the experts? We'll believe it when we see it

The UK government has confirmed the formation of an expert semiconductor panel to advise on the future of the country's chip industry, and also disclosed the first design incubator to support startups.…

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Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch

Debian 12-based version should be your first choice for a non-systemd distro

The MX Linux project has rolled out a new major release, based on Debian 12, and is on its way to becoming our favorite distro.…

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Programmable Clay: An Innovative Addition to the Chemist’s ‘Toolbox’

University of Missouri researchers invented a programmable clay material and “building-block” to advance discoveries in chemistry, engineering and

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Study Looks at Achilles’ Heel of Insulin Pump Technology

After decades of use of insulin pumps, some patients with diabetes “are running out of real estate” on

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New Software Designs Optimized, Personalized Treatments for Movement Impairments

First of its kind computer-aided engineering tool could aid personalized clinical treatment design. A team of Rice University

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Kubernetes Operators vs. Helm: 4 Key Differences and How to Choose

As one of the leading technologies in the DevOps world, Kubernetes has become a go-to platform for orchestrating

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The World of Immersive Learning and its Future

In today’s rapidly growing and moving digital era, traditional educational and working methods primarily rely on acoustic and

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Brit healthcare body rapped for WhatsApp chat sharing patient data

Time for a proper secure clinical image transfer system, perhaps?

Staff at NHS Lanarkshire - which serves over half a million Scottish residents - used WhatsApp to swap photos and personal info about patients, including children's names and addresses.…

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Orkney islands look to drones to streamline mail deliveries

Unmanned aircraft trial will skip delays caused by boat-battering weather

Mail delivery has long been touted as a use case for drone technology, but it's the wind-blasted archipelago of Orkney, off the coast of northern Scotland, that has beaten the rest of the UK to achieving this.…

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‘Secret Sauce’ Enables New Way to Fabricate Compositionally Graded Alloys

Research into a new, unique technology to fabricate composite metal parts and alloys for a wide range of

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Prepare for plenty more pain from Ivanti's MDM flaws, warn cyber agencies

Invaders already spent four or more months frolicking inside Norwegian government servers

Intruders who exploited a critical Ivanti bug to compromise 12 Norwegian government agencies spent at least four months looking around the organizations' systems and stealing data before the intrusion was discovered and stopped.…

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Airbus to help with International Space Station replacement

Orbiter is supposed to be ready by 2028, so JV partners had better hurry

Airbus will help build a replacement for the International Space Station (ISS), planned for five years from now.…

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China floats strict screentime limits and content crimps for kids

Two hours a day maximum and a guarantee of no nasties - parents everywhere might just welcome the Communist approach to this issue

+COMMENT  The Chinese government has floated a plan to limit the amount of time minors can spend using electronic devices and the content they can access, plus a plan to ensure the nation's entire content ecosystem produces age-appropriate material.…

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AWS claims it's running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon

That's vastly more cores than Xeons Intel sells to the public

Amazon Web Services claims to be running a custom 96-core fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor.…

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Baidu builds AI into cars so you can distract the kids with text-to-image tools

Drawing flying pandas is useful. But Chinese web giant isn't saying how AI on wheels is practical

China's AI-forward web giant Baidu has delivered on its promise to have its ERNIE large language model (LLM) used in cars, naming carmaker Great Wall Motors and "digital cockpit" creator ECARX as collaborators.…

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AMD says it'll jump through Uncle Sam's hoops to sell AI chips to China

Set to join Intel, Nvidia in observing bus speed limits

After the US slapped restrictions on the sale of AI accelerators into China, Nvidia – and later Intel – launched nerfed versions of their silicon that could be shipped to the Middle Kingdom without Uncle Sam blowing his stack. Now AMD is working on an export-compliant processor of its own to sell overseas.…

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Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now

AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers, maybe

Meta on Wednesday released AudioCraft, a set of three AI models capable of automatically creating sound from text descriptions.…

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We're in the OWASP-makes-list-of-security-bug-types phase with LLM chatbots

Ten ways you can blow a hole in your software by misusing AI tech

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) has released a top list of the most common security issues with large language model (LLM) applications to help developers implement their code safely.…

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Use Tech to Save Money: Home Décor Accessories to Save Money on by Using Discounts

When it comes to decorating homes, everyone wants to create a space that reflects their style and personality.

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Meta says it'll ask Euro peeps nicely before hitting them with personalized ads

UK mulls an 'appropriate response'

Meta, after fighting European GDPR-related lawsuits for years, has said it will seek explicit consent from EU users before using their data to serve up highly targeted ads.…

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Up to 40% of all Arm servers are deployed in China

At the same time, company pipped to be preparing for IPO

Servers powered by Arm chips are on the rise, especially in China, where new figures estimate that 40 percent of Arm-based servers are now deployed.…

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Beyond the hype, AI promises leg up for scientific research

However boffins in academia need to match the progress made in Big Tech, and always challenge poor data quality

The last decade has seen great strides in the application of artificial intelligence to scientific discovery, but practitioners need to know when and how to improve their use of AI and must challenge poor data quality.…

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Tesla steering problems attract regulator eyes for second time this year

First some steering wheels were falling off, now others allegedly won't steer

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened another investigation into steering issues in Tesla vehicles – the second such probe the agency has launched this year.…

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Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy'

Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers

Microsoft is making a minor concession that allows customers with specific licenses to run Office wares in an AWS cloud – a week after Europe's competition regulators decided to officially probe its biz policies and practices.…

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Intel opens chip innovation hub in Nanshan, China

Interesting move against backdrop of US sanctions

Intel has opened an innovation hub in China to help local technology startups, despite the Biden administration's crackdown intended to prevent China from developing advanced technologies.…

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Soft-reboot in systemd 254 sounds a lot like Windows' Fast Startup

Where does Agent P work again?

Version 254 of systemd marks the 115th release of this ever-growing init system for Linux. Expect to see it in the autumn releases of Ubuntu and Fedora, and in Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed sooner.…

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Virgin Media O2 offers plug-in 5G network in a box

Hefty box said to be 'slightly larger than a carry-on' – but likely not for budget flyers

Virgin Media O2's business arm has released a plug-and-play private 5G network product, meaning customers should be able to get a 5G service operating anywhere with power and an internet connection.…

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Meta Will Use AI Chatbots – For What Purpose?

Meta Platforms is gearing up to introduce a series of AI-powered chatbots. This is the new measure aimed

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Metaverse: What is It – and Will It Help Us or Harm Us?

An interconnected world of extended reality is coming that will reshape how we work, play and communicate. It

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After fears that Europe's space scope was toast, its first images look mighty fine

Here's looking at Euclid

Astronomers are breathing a sigh of relief that the 600-megapixel Euclid wide-angle space telescope's instruments appear to be working well, despite discovering a gap in the orbiter's hull that allowed sunlight to leak through and contaminate some images.…

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Researchers Successfully Train a Machine Learning Model in Outer Space for the First Time

For the first time, researchers have trained a machine learning model in outer space, on board a satellite.

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EURIALO – Safe Aviation Ensured From Space

The EURIALO civilian space system will be designed for continuous, global and independent air traffic monitoring, and will

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UK watchdog reopens consultation on Microsoft's bid for Activision Blizzard

CMA admits Sony deal might change the battlefield

The UK's markets watchdog has reopened a consultation on the $69 billion tie-up between Activision Blizzard and Microsoft months after it blocked the proposed sale on the back of competition concerns.…

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IBM to build biometrics system for UK cops and immigration services

Big Blue scores £54.7M project, taking business from Fujitsu as Home Office consolidates work

The UK's Home Office has handed IBM a £54.7 million ($70 million) contract to work on the biometric matcher platform to support its police and immigration services in identifying suspects against a database of fingerprint and photo data.…

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Nematode From the Ice Age

A newly discovered nematode species from the Pleistocene shares a molecular toolkit for survival with the nematode Caenorhabditis

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Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

Not all heroes wear capes – some are 50-year-old antennas

A signal from Voyager 2 has been detected by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) over a week after communications with the distant probe were lost, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Tuesday.…

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Japanese boffins slice semiconductors from diamonds – with lasers!

Chips based on the tech could boost efficiency of electric vehicles

Scientists at Japan's Chiba University claim they've developed a method that uses lasers to create diamond wafers that could one day power next-gen semiconductors.…

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New Tool Explains How AI ‘Sees’ Images and Why It Might Mistake an Astronaut for a Shovel

A team of Brown University brain and computer scientists developed a new approach to understanding computer vision, which

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Australian Senate committee recommends further bans on Chinese social media apps

WeChat accused of 'contempt for Parliament ' as transparency rules floated for all social media

An Australian Senate Committee has recommended banning Chinese social media apps in the land down under, on grounds the Communist Party of China uses them to spread propaganda and misinformation.…

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Microsoft India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok

Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it had hired Puneet Chandok as its new leader for India and Southeast Asia. Chandok's previous gig was president of AWS for India and South Asia.…

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XenServer teases free VMware migration package

Citrix's virtualization spin out goes a bit Musky by revealing its own X-centric logo

XenServer, the Citrix spin-out that will offer a hypervisor and associated management tools for x86 systems, has teased a plan to lure VMware customers as well as a little more detail about its plans to operate as an independent entity.…

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MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, and water

Imagine your home's foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim to have found a novel new way to store energy using nothing but cement, a bit of water, and powdered carbon black – a crystalline form of the element.…

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Socket moves beyond JavaScript and Python and gets into Go

CEO, fresh with funds, lays out the dependency dilemma

Interview  Open source security biz Socket is extending its source code dependency checker, which previously addressed only JavaScript and Python, by adding support for checking Go code.…

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AMD hopes for rebound in the second half of the year as Q2 profits plunge 94%

Don't worry, AI will fix everything, predicts CEO Lisa Su

AMD crawled back to profitability in the second quarter of 2023, reporting net income of $27 million – a drop of 94 percent from this time last year, but a sight better than the $139 million loss the chipmaker sustained in Q1.…

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Google wants to 'supercharge Assistant' with AI as Meta gives bots a personality

Does that include Zuck or?

The chatbot craze isn't slowing any time soon. Google is understood to be injecting generative AI features into its digital assistant. Meanwhile Meta is said to be planning to launch virtual agents with various personas.…

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Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers

Are we out of touch? No, it's the charity that's wrong

Twitter, lately known as X Corp, is suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for allegedly harming its advertising business by documenting vitriol on the social network.…

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How to Fix Buffering Issues on Streaming Services

Nothing spoils the fun of binge-watching your favorite series like endless buffering interruptions. As streaming becomes an essential

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First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online

Westinghouse's 2017 bankruptcy almost ended the Vogtle 3 reactor

It's more than half a decade late coming online and has cost billions more than estimated, but Georgia Power's Vogtle Unit 3, the first US nuclear reactor built from scratch this century, has finally come online. …

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Bacterial byproducts may help stop the stink in future spacesuits

ESA is testing that pink stuff from your dirty bathtub as an antimicrobial Moon suit lining

European space researchers are turning to an interesting place to find new antimicrobial coatings to keep the insides of future space suits from becoming stinky, bacteria-laden biohazards: the bacteria themselves.…

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Bad news: Another data-leaking CPU flaw. Good news: It's utterly impractical

Collide+Power vulnerability leaks secrets bit by bit - but could take months or years to learn a useful secret

Boffins in Austria and Germany have devised a power-monitoring side-channel attack on modern computer chips that exposes sensitive data, but very slowly.…

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SEC lawsuit against Terraform Labs and cofounder Do Kwon lives to fight another day

Crypto bad boy’s appeal denied, despite recent Ripple Labs ruling

A Manhattan judge ruled on Monday that a lawsuit from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon will continue as planned.…

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Mattress maker Tempur Sealy says it isolated tech system to contain cyber burglary

Mega memory foam bedding maker says no sign yet personal info was stolen

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Astronomers testing next-gen asteroid-hunting algorithm discover potentially hazardous object

Scientists explain how the new HelioLinc3D software works to The Register

Astronomers have spotted a potentially hazardous asteroid thanks to a new algorithm that will be deployed in the upcoming Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile, which is currently under construction.…

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Injection Molding in Aerospace Manufacturing: Importance, Advantages, and Applications

In the dynamic world of aerospace manufacturing, one technology stands tall—Injection Molding. This precision-driven process has revolutionized the

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Dry Manufacturing Process For Cleaner, More Affordable High-Energy EV Batteries

The lithium-ion batteries used to power electric vehicles are key to a clean energy economy. But their electrodes

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Czech energy billionaire in talks to buy Atos unit in $2.2B deal

French IT supplier to complete split by selling non-Eviden bits to investment outfit

Ailing French IT supplier Atos is looking to complete its 'transformation' by selling off the remaining half of itself to EP Equity Investment for an estimated €2 billion ($2.20 billion).…

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MIT bods offer PhotoGuard gadget to thwart AI deepfakes

Open source image-massage works … up to a point

Computer scientists claim they've come up with a way to thwart machine learning systems' attempts to digitally manipulate images and create deepfakes.…

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GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default

Bringing automatic window tiling to the mainstream could be big – but what is it and how do you use it?

The GNOME desktop is considering adding support for automatic window tiling. This could be a significant productivity boost for the most common Linux desktop environment – as well as further afield.…

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Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a 'wish', not a plan

Notably stretching the target requires 'a credible pathway towards its delivery,' says committee

The British government is hoping to hit 24 gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity by 2050 as well as roll out a new nuclear reactor every year. But these targets are more of a "wish list" rather than the type of strategic framework you'd need to actually build such capacity, according to a parliamentary committee.…

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AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off

Join Snowflake, Cloudera, Google as Apache format fans

Cloud giant AWS has picked table format Apache Iceberg to extend the reach of its Redshift data warehouse to data lakes, in a move replicated by IBM's Netezza last week.…

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US military battling cyber threats from within and without

As if attacks from China weren't enough, one of the Air Force's own has reportedly gone rogue

The US government is fighting a pair of cyber security incidents, one involving Chinese spies who potentially gained access to crucial American computer networks and the other related to an Air Force engineer allegedly compromised communications security by stealing sensitive equipment and taking it home.…

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AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian

If you need to trick a classifier into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts

Analysis  A Google scientist has demonstrated that OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model (LLM), despite its widely cited capacity to err, can help smash at least some safeguards put around other machine learning models – a capability that demonstrates the value of chatbots as research assistants.…

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China bans export of drones some countries have already banned anyway

Some say retaliation for sanctions, but Beijing says it just wants world peace

China introduced restrictions on Monday that mean would-be exporters will require a license to ship certain drones and related equipment out of the Middle Kingdom.…

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Panasonic liquidates its liquid crystal display business

Here’s your metaphor for the state of the world: factory will be re-used to make EV batteries

Panasonic has announced it has quit the Liquid Crystal Display business and will use the factory where it made the units to build batteries instead.…

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Farewell, Aeolus: Doomed ESA weather sat reenters atmosphere over Antarctica

Not quite a controlled deorbit but not an uncontrolled one, either

Video  The European Space Agency's Aeolus weather satellite has reentered Earth's atmosphere after engineers sent their final commands to destroy the hardware. The machine, or whatever remains of it, was expected to crash into the Atlantic Ocean.…

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Hong Kong High Court declines to force big tech to ban protest song

Looks like it's time for the territory to ramp up its SEO offensive again

Hong Kong's High Court has rejected a government bid to ban online dissemination of a protest song that is often mistaken as the Special Administrative Region's national anthem.…

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Dell pumps out reference designs, plumps services, to bring AI on-prem

Go ahead, spend up big. But be warned: analyst tells us many models 'will never make it to widespread use because they are quite frankly rubbish'

Dell can't wait to tap into the frenzy of spending on ... er ... interest surrounding generative AI, so has cooked up hardware bundles and consulting chops to bring it on-prem.…

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The semiconductor biz is sick, but demand for SiC chips that improve EVs is accelerating

Onsemi CEO says demand for silicon carbide surged – as investors pile in

While chipmakers, memory vendors, and fabs collectively bemoan slow demand and excess inventories, one segment of the semiconductor biz appears to be weathering the storm better than most: silicon carbide (SiC) power circuits used in electric vehicles.…

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Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all

Ongoing issues with Linux and AMD's fTPM – the chip designer's firmware-based TPM – appear to be wearing on kernel overseer Linus Torvalds' nerves, who has suggested switching off the module's random number generator altogether.…

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