TikTok's Chinese app - Douyin - in trouble after spat over the price of jade PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more Asia In BriefΒ  Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, has struck trouble at home after a user falsely claimed a retailer sold inferior jade products at enormous and unjustified markups.… #theregister #IT
TikTok in trouble at home after spat over the price of jade
Asia In Brief: PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more
You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs Rapid7 threat hunter told The Reg wrote a PoC. No he's not releasing it RSACΒ  If Rapid7's Christiaan Beek decided to change careers and become a ransomware criminal, he knows exactly how he'd innovate: CPU ransomware.… #theregister #IT
You think ransomware is bad? Wait until it infects CPUs
RSAC: Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he's not releasing it
Feds disrupt proxy-for-hire botnet, indict four alleged net miscreants The FBI also issued a list of end-of-life routers you need to replace Earlier this week, the FBI urged folks to bin aging routers vulnerable to hijacking, citing ongoing attacks linked to TheMoon malware. In a related move, the US Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four foreign nationals accused of running … #theregister #IT
End-of-life router botnet shut, 4
: The FBI also issued a list of end-of-life routers you need to replace
UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans France's share of MOD cash is growing while the US's shrinks The UK's Ministry of Defence (MOD) is gradually shifting its spending from the US to Europe, according to research from Tussell.… #theregister #IT
The UK
: France's share of MOD cash is growing while the US's shrinks
Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong It might sound like common sense – and it's echoed by science communicators and even ChatGPT – but it's wrong. New research shows eggs are less likely to crack when they land on their side than on their end.… #theregister #IT
Yolk
: MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong
Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests AI phone home Despite stiff export controls on the legitimate sale of AI accelerators to China, stemming the flow of gray market GPUs streaming into the Middle Kingdom remains a point of concern for American lawmakers.… #theregister #IT
Lawmaker wants to fight chip smuggling with tracking devices
: AI phone home
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom The US government's National Science Foundation (NSF) is reportedly axing more than three dozen divisions, including its equity-in-STEM unit, while prepping staff layoffs and yanking over a billion dollars in recently awarded grants. The pu… #theregister #IT
US National Science Foundation axes Equity Division
: DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom
US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check Price tag unknown US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has unveiled an ambitious plan to yank American air traffic control systems out of the 1960s - and he wants Congress to fund the whole project up front so it doesn't get derailed by political wind shifts.… #theregister #IT
Duffy floats ambitious 3-year air traffic system overhaul
: Price tag unknown
A new Lazarus arises – for the fourth time – for Pascal programming fans And if it's your first time around, there's a whole new free book on FreePascal Lazarus 4 is the latest version of the all-FOSS but Delphi-compatible IDE for the FreePascal compiler.… #theregister #IT
A new Lazarus arises – for the fourth time – for Pascal fans
: And if it's your first time around, there's a whole new free book on FreePascal
VC behemoth Insight Partners fears top-secret financial info swiped by cyber-miscreants Weapons-grade fuel for fraud Insight Partners, a mega venture capital firm with more than $90 billion in funds under management, fears network intruders got their hands on internal sensitive data about employees, portfolio companies, investors, and more.… #theregister #IT
Insight Partners fears secret financial info cyber-stolen
: Weapons-grade fuel for fraud