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Northern Lights may be visible way further south than usual thanks to outbursts from our Sun

Video  The US National Weather Service has issued a warning that a G4 solar storm will lash Earth from Friday until Sunday.…

The deepfake dystopia we’ve been waiting for has already arrived

TikTok intends to begin labelling AI-generated images and videos uploaded to its video-sharing service.…

Advertiser takes super-forum to court after demand for evidence rebuffed

Reddit was sued by an unhappy advertiser who claims that internet giga-forum sold ads but provided no way to verify that real people were responsible for clicking on them.…

Elon Musk wonders why so many sour Krauts

Attempts by climate protesters to storm Tesla's Berlin gigafactory were foiled by German police on Friday, with 16 arrests made.…

Terraform maker's programs are ideal fit for Big Blue, but why splash out when the software's free and open?

Opinion  In some ways, IBM paying a cool $6.4 billion for HashiCorp makes perfect sense. HashiCorp's infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool Terraform is very popular and would work well with Red Hat Ansible. And, yes, I've heard the joke about how if you put them together, you'd get "Terrible."…

Sheesh, you just can't trust anything on the internet, huh?

OpenAI, the maker of many chatbots and taker of much Microsoft money, denies it's planning to unveil a web search engine on Monday.…

Of course the FAA wants a look at the environmental impact of Musk's plans

SpaceX's Starship is coming to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida – and its plan to use the launch facility means the Federal Aviation Administration will probe the potential environmental impact of Elon Musk's most powerful rockets blasting off the US East Coast.…

First big update of the go-to Linux for newer Macs

Lagging the mainstream edition by a couple of weeks, the Asahi-flavored version of Fedora 40 is here – redolent with KDE Plasma 6.…

Musk's motor biz? Monitoring labor activists? Surely not!

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is taking Tesla back to the hearing chamber, this time to settle whether it interfered with the organizing rights of employees at its factory in Buffalo, New York.…

Not a lotto luck for these powerball hunters

More than half a million gamblers with a penchant for powerballs will be receiving some fairly unwelcome news very soon, if not already, as cybercriminals have made off with their personal data.…

But China's the most technologically advanced

Interview  China remains the biggest cyber threat to the US government, America's critical infrastructure, and its private-sector networks, the nation's intelligence community has assessed.…

One, two, three, four is all you need to pass that door

Rolling hot off the heels of World Password Day (groan), every May 2 we hacks generally receive hundreds of emails from PR companies repping their respective infosec pros, all espousing their expert opinions on how to create an "iron-clad" or "military-grade" password, or something equally cringey.…

Five-star techies share stories of working from the lap of luxury

On Call  On Call is on vacation this week, so it seems appropriate to share a couple of the stories sent our way after our recent tale of a support contract that saw a techie required to spend a weekend in a $5,000/night hotel suite.…

That other processor company is gaining ground, says Mercury Research

Intel continues to rule the roost in the PC chip market, but AMD is gaining ground in server, desktop, and mobile, according to the latest figures from Mercury Research.…

Cameras tested are specced for Baidu's Apollo

Six boffins mostly hailing from Singapore-based universities say they can prove it's possible to interfere with autonomous vehicles by exploiting the machines' reliance on camera-based computer vision and cause them to not recognize road signs.…

Industry looks towards genAI, interest rate cuts for reprieve as America hangs onto its old phones

The US smartphone market registered yet another year-over-year decline in shipments in the first calendar quarter, this time down eight percent compared to Q1 2023.…

Spaceplane to be shipped to Kennedy Space Center for launch on a Vulcan Centaur

Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spaceplane is finally set to launch in 2024 after completing its latest set of tests at NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility.…

Major intrusions by both China and Russia leave a lot to be answered for

The US government wants to make Microsoft's vice chair and president, Brad Smith, the latest tech figurehead to field questions from a House committee on its recent cybersecurity failings.…

Competition heats up while profits cool down

Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is the latest to warn of a potential oversupply in the global market, saying there is an increasingly fierce price war for less advanced silicon in its domestic arena.…

'This was a no sh*tter'

RSAC  A malware-laced USB stick, inserted into a military laptop at a base in Afghanistan in 2008, led to what has been called the worst military breach in US history, and to the creation of the US Cyber Command.…