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Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project - (pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:32:13 GMT)DoD says deal covers 'warfighting'. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and 'supporting proactive cyber defense'The US Department of Defense has contracted OpenAI to run a pilot program that will create "frontier AI," but it's not clear what they're building together.… |
Alt cloud platform Railway forced to pause lowest tiers after onrush of GCP customers - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:23:10 GMT)A moment of panic as some customers thought the free tiers were going awayOn Monday, Railway, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, decided to throttle software builds by customers in its lowest paying tiers to accommodate unexpected demand for service following the Google Cloud Platform outage last week.… |
Scattered Spider has moved from retail to insurance - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:58:26 GMT)Google threat analysts warn the team behind the Marks & Spencer break-in has moved onCyber-crime crew Scattered Spider has infected US insurance companies following a series of ransomware attacks against American and British retailers, according to Google, which urged this sector to be on "high alert."… |
UK students flock to AI to help them cheat - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:15:30 GMT)No need to plagiarize if you can have AI do it for youA series of Freedom of Information requests shows that students in British universities are increasingly getting busted for using AI to cheat.… |
Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:35:35 GMT)MAGA MVNO and the gold-plated telephone of destinyThe Trump family is getting into the wireless business - and what better way to do it than with a gold-colored Android smartphone that could someday be designed and manufactured in the USA?… |
Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:20:15 GMT)Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yetGaze into the temporal distance and you might spot the end of the age of silicon looming somewhere out there, as a research team at Penn State University claims to have built the first working CMOS computer entirely from two-dimensional materials.… |
Remorseless extortionists claim to have stolen thousands of files from Freedman HealthCare - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:47:58 GMT)The group has previously threatened to SWAT cancer patients and leaked pre-op plastic surgery photosAn extortion gang claims to have breached Freedman HealthCare, a data and analytics firm whose customers include state agencies, health providers, and insurance companies, and is threatening to dump tens of thousands of sensitive files early Tuesday morning.… |
Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:26:09 GMT)For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0Japan is the latest nation hoping to tempt disgruntled US researchers alarmed by the Trump administration's hostile attitude to academia to relocate to the Land of the Rising Sun.… |
Canada's WestJet says 'expect interruptions' online as it navigates cybersecurity turbulence - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:15:13 GMT)Flights still flying - just don't count on the app or website working smoothlyCanadian airline WestJet is warning of "intermittent interruptions or errors" on its app and website as it investigates a cybersecurity incident.… |
LibreOffice adds voice to 'ditch Windows for Linux' campaign - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:02:14 GMT)Next version to drop Windows 7 through 8.1, and 32-bit Windows support is on the way out, tooThe LibreOffice project is preparing to cut some Windows support – and encourages users to switch to Linux.… |
ISS leaks push Axiom Mission 4 launch to no earlier than June 19 - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:35:17 GMT)Evaluation of latest repairs to Russian segment ongoingNASA has pushed back the launch of Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station (ISS), citing concerns over persistent leaks aboard the aging orbital outpost. A new No Earlier Than (NET) date is set for June 19.… |
Eurocops arrest suspected Archetyp admin, shut down mega dark web drug shop - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:28:08 GMT)Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250MOperation Deep Sentinel is the latest international law enforcement collaboration against cybercrime, shutting down Archetyp – one of the largest dark web drug marketplaces.… |
Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:19:11 GMT)6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasksA new benchmark developed by academics shows that LLM-based AI agents perform below par on standard CRM tests and fail to understand the need for customer confidentiality.… |
Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:42:38 GMT)But lose your code and it's gone for goodUpdated Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area will shortly receive a new Recall Export feature, allowing Recall snapshots to be shared with third-party apps and websites.… |
BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:08:41 GMT)As others roll back use of tech due to quality, customers preferring to talk to humansNot content with a corporate blueprint to cut up to 55,000 employees by 2030, UK telecoms giant BT now says even more staff could be replaced with AI, despite the experience of some orgs that have already tried this.… |
Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:41:28 GMT)Student 'believed he could finish' software dev 'project alone and therefore that the rules did not apply to him'A former GCHQ intern was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for stealing top-secret files during a year-long placement at the British intelligence agency.… |
Northern Ireland government confirms it did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for project - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:35:09 GMT)Scandal-hit IT giant said it wouldn't take on new UK.gov contracts or continue bidding on existing ones unless askedExclusive The Northern Ireland government did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for a £125 million ($167 million) contract, yet the Japanese tech giant to continued to do so, despite promising to quit competing for UK government work during the fallout from the Horizon scandal.… |
Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:30:10 GMT)Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hypeOpinion Among the forever wars in geekdom, defining the difference between science fiction and fantasy is a hot potato destined to outlive the heat death of the universe.… |
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:45:12 GMT)Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protestWho, Me? The only certainties in life are death, taxes … and tech causing trouble, a topic that The Register covers each week in this reader-contributed column we call “Who, Me?” that celebrates the moments you made trouble at work and somehow escaped.… |
Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:21:38 GMT)Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashesGoogle Cloud has explained the massive outage it created last week and, as has happened many times previously, admitted that it broke itself.… |
VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 05:31:12 GMT)German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USAGerman giant Siemens AG has tried to convince a US court to throw out the case in which VMware alleged it used unlicensed software.… |
Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 02:45:10 GMT)PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and moreAsia In Brief Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security company’s armored cash transport unit.… |
Dems demand audit of CVE program as Federal funding remains uncertain - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 22:01:06 GMT)PLUS: Discord invite links may not be safe; Miscreants find new way to hide malicious JavaScript; and more!Infosec In Brief A pair of Congressional Democrats have demanded a review of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program amid uncertainties about continued US government funding for the scheme.… |
The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:32:07 GMT)Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steelFeature For artificial intelligence researchers, the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, changed the world in a way similar to the detonation of the first atomic bomb.… |
Windows 95 testing almost stalled due to cash register overflow - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 08:31:09 GMT)Microsoft veteran on breaking down numbers at the computer storeWindows 95 will soon turn 30. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen recalled that when testing Microsoft's reimagining of Windows, an overflow was discovered that had nothing to do with the operating system itself.… |
Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:41:13 GMT)Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied onScientists in the US have built a system for creating truly random numbers which cannot be tampered with by a third party.… |
As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:08:13 GMT)We take a quick look at the headline features – and the growing differencesRocky Linux 10 has caught up to the other high-profile RHELatives, but gaps between them are widening, both in tech and other ways.… |
US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 23:30:34 GMT)Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201Several of Silicon Valley's top techies are joining the Army Reserve as part of a newly created unit that will be trying to accelerate the use of AI in military planning and operations.… |
Cyber weapons in the Israel-Iran conflict may hit the US - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:07:28 GMT)With Tehran’s military weakened, digital retaliation likely, experts tell The RegThe current Israel–Iran military conflict is taking place in the era of hybrid war, where cyberattacks amplify and assist missiles and troops, and is being waged between two countries with very capable destructive cyber weapons.… |
AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlink - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:59:43 GMT)But the five-satellite upstart has a short time windowA messy legal fight between Ligado and Inmarsat over direct-to-cellular (D2C) spectrum has been settled, giving upstart AST a chance to gain ground on Starlink.… |
Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:20:08 GMT)Some trace back to an outfit under US export controls for alleged PLA linksBoth Apple's and Google's online stores offer free virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by Chinese companies, according to researchers at the Tech Transparency Project, and they don't make this fact readily known to people downloading the apps.… |
Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:58:36 GMT)Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spotOracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has reclaimed the No. 2 spot on Forbes's real-time billionaire list, trailing only Elon Musk after leapfrogging Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.… |
Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:25:13 GMT)Please insert another million dollars to continueBroader AI adoption by enterprise customers is being hindered by the complexity of trying to forecast inferencing costs amid a fear being saddled with excessive bills for cloud services.… |
Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:47:41 GMT)Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directlyExclusive Meta has made lavish and lucrative offers to a select set of AI researchers in an effort to develop superintelligent AI.… |
PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:33:11 GMT)Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep risingThe PCI Special Interest Group (PIC-SIG) just released official specs for PCIe 7.0, doubling the bandwidth again for high-performance kit such as network cards, while hinting that PCIe 8.0 may not achieve the same.… |
Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:24:12 GMT)Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continentApple has updated its iOS/iPadOS 18.3.1 documentation, confirming it introduced fixes for the zero-click vulnerability used to infect journalists with Paragon's Graphite spyware.… |
The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:29:06 GMT)Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analystsFeature In early May, independent digital storage analyst Thomas Coughlin shared news of falling sales and revenue in the first quarter of 2025, continuing a trend that started in around 2010. Coughlin cites data from that year showing around 600 million annual hard disk shipments.… |
Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years' experience and a PhD - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:36:08 GMT)Infosec employers demanding too much from early-career recruits, says ISC2Cybersecurity hiring managers need a reality check when it comes to hiring junior staff, with job adverts littered with unfair expectations that are hampering recruitment efforts, says industry training and cert issuer ISC2.… |
Friday the 13th strikes for Barclays' corporate customers - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:43:05 GMT)Superstitions stoked by blackout of iPortal centralized platform when no maintenance was scheduledBarclays Bank is wrestling with some digital gremlins affecting its corporate banking services this Friday the 13th of June – the final day of the working week for many of us, but perhaps not the poor techies beavering away to restore normal play.… |
Danish department determined to dump Microsoft - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:32:13 GMT)Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from VinlandComment The boss of Denmark's Ministry for Digitalization says her department will move away from Microsoft – starting with LibreOffice.… |
UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:32:07 GMT)Deal includes 'waiver of historic fees'UK universities and colleges have signed a framework worth up to £9.86 million ($13.33 million) with Oracle to use its controversial Java SE Universal Subscription model, in exchange for a "waiver of historic fees due for any institutions who have used Oracle Java since 2023."… |
Forget Vibe Coding, we're all about Vine Coding nowadays - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:28:14 GMT)More like FlAIme Of The WeekFlame Of The Week It's been a while since our last Flame Of The Week, but it appears that AI is generating some strong feelings among our beloved readership.… |
Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:29:12 GMT)It was one of the offenders' final warningFour staffers at the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator data to their personal email accounts.… |
User demanded a ‘wireless’ computer and was outraged when its battery died - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:30:08 GMT)Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptopOn Call By Friday morning, Reg readers’ batteries can sometimes be a little low, which is why we always use the day to offer a jolt of amusement in the form of On Call – the reader contributed column in which we celebrate the lows and lows of tech support.… |
UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:27:07 GMT)STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplishedUPDATED The UK government has just allocated another £2.5 billion to an ambitious fusion energy project without any indication it's progressed much beyond the planning stages.… |
Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 03:03:07 GMT)Alleges dirty PR campaign to slur its techChina’s Yangtze Memory Technologies has accused rival chipmaker Micron of defamation through a campaign to publish nasty stories and reports about it.… |
I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:28:10 GMT)Mattel-OpenAI deal paves the way for an AI beach-offToy giant Mattel has signed a deal with OpenAI to bring the tech industry's buzziest technology to the very youngest generation.… |
Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:55:38 GMT)Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memoRansomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers' customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, according to a Thursday CISA alert.… |
Ease the seat back and watch some video in your car with next Apple CarPlay - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:43:41 GMT)Only while parkedApple is enabling video playback on its CarPlay automotive operating system and has integrated it into iOS 26, as long as you're parked.… |
Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:00:57 GMT)Baby got Blackwell GPUsGoogle Cloud on Wednesday celebrated the debut of virtual machines incorporating Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPU technology, claiming to be the first cloud provider to sell this particular offering.… |
