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Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways On Call  As another week drains down the plughole of history, it's time for The Register to once again deliver a fresh instalment of On Call – our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support torments and triumphs.…

Cloudy hosts given short license change deadlines, customers warned of support portal brownouts VMware by Broadcom’s breakup with its end-user compute products will enter a new phase next week, with cloudy service providers and customers both warned of imminent changes.…

Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three quarters of a billion people at risk according to research from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.…

Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down in August, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes alone at the top of the Australian collaborationware company.…

Chipzilla's Foundry business weighs down the Gelsinger gang – for now Intel has reported double-digit growth in client computing revenue, growing demand for AI PCs, and promised of strong gains in the second half of 2024 – but also reported a first quarter loss that sent the chip biz's stock sliding in after-hours trading Thursday.…

If ML proves an expensive habit in future, these money printers won't have much to worry about … probably Alphabet and Microsoft's stock prices jumped in after-hours trading today after the AI-infatuated businesses delivered higher-than-anticipated quarterly earnings.…

Talk about going round the (South) Bend Amazon Web Services (AWS) is adding $11 billion of datacenter capacity in St Joseph County outside South Bend, Indiana, the cloud giant announced Thursday.…

Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks.…

Cash to go out as refunds to punters The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.…

As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts Between shutting down or selling TikTok, owner ByteDance would prefer doing the former.…

Law responds again to pings The FCC voted Thursday to restore America's net neutrality rules, nearly seven years after they were taken offline.…

Pulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company Interview  Infrastructure as code biz Pulumi has updated its eponymous Deployments product with drift detection and automated clean-up for an untidy reality.…

Suspects in Portugal and the US said to have laundered over $100M Two men alleged to be co-founders of cryptocurrency biz Samourai Wallet face serious charges and potentially decades in US prison over claims they owned a product that facilitated the laundering of over $100 million in criminal cash.…

Watch out Intel … Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming Semiconductor giant TSMC has disclosed details of a process technology called A16 that could be delivering the first 1.6nm chips for customers by 2026.…

App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules Spotify claims Apple rejected an update to the popular music streaming app that would have informed users about purchase methods outside of the Apple ecosystem.…

Crew entirely optional DARPA has been working on off-road autonomous vehicles for decades, and now it has a combat-scale unmanned tank to show.…

Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place Birmingham City Council, Europe's biggest local authority, has no way of knowing if financial fraud has been committed after it failed to run security and audit features in a new Oracle Fusion ERP system.…

Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech The global AI infrastructure buying frenzy is still in full swing – so much so that it has pushed the world's second largest memory maker, SK hynix, into its second highest operating profit ever and an all-time high for Q1 revenues.…

Google security crew reveal ‘the four Ds’ to be on the watch for It may come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that experts say, in revealing the most prevalent and likely tactics to meddle with elections this year, that state-sponsored cybercriminals pose the biggest threat.…

Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst? Meta's shares tumbled after company boss Mark Zuckerberg said the quiet bit out loud: it will take a while before AI bets start paying back the huge financial investments it is making.…