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UK Online Safety Act 'not up to scratch' on misinformation, warn MPs - (pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:31:15 GMT)Last summer's riots show how some content can be harmful but not illegalThe Online Safety Act fails to tackle online misinformation, leaving the UK in need of further regulation to curb the viral spread of false content, a report from MPs has found.… |
Microsoft offers EU cloud providers fresh commercial terms, staves off risk of litigation - (pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:30:14 GMT)Agreement or otherwise expected from CISPE top brass before AugustExclusive Microsoft has tabled a fresh set of commercial terms for an association of cloud providers in Europe that earlier filed a complaint with antitrust authorities in the trading bloc over allegations of anti-competitive licensing practices.… |
Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well - (pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:29:07 GMT)First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his careerOn Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of tech support terror and triumph.… |
French cops cuff Russian pro basketball player on ransomware charges - (pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:29:11 GMT)'He's useless with computers and can't even install an application' says lawyerA Russian professional basketball player is cooling his heels in a French detention center after being arrested and accused of acting as a negotiator for a ransomware gang.… |
Chinese censorship-busters claim Tencent is trying to kill its WeChat archive - (pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 05:44:05 GMT)Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which cavedAnti-censorship organization GreatFire.org has accused Singapore infosec outfit Group-IB of helping Chinese web giant Tencent to quell its activities.… |
China's biggest car rental company now offers autonomous cars - (pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:59:07 GMT)Three-seater from Baidu delivers itself, follows directions, then finds its way homeChina’s largest car rental operator, Car Inc., now rents autonomous cars.… |
Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:58:59 GMT)Oh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today?A lovestruck US Air Force employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit confidential national defense information after sharing military secrets information about the Russia-Ukraine war with a woman he met on a dating app.… |
Now everybody but Citrix agrees that CitrixBleed 2 is under exploit - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:13:56 GMT)Add CISA to the listThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added its weighty name to the list of parties agreeing that CVE-2025-5777, dubbed CitrixBleed 2 by one researcher, has been under exploitation and abused to hijack user sessions.… |
Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:49:49 GMT)Not even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employeesComment Pat Gelsinger's tenure as Intel's chief executive was epitomized by his unwavering optimism and ambitious plan to return the ailing chipmaker to its former glory. His successor has no such delusions of grandeur.… |
Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:58:03 GMT)It could have the same headcount as 1960 by the end of the monthNASA senior staff are being offered the opportunity to leave voluntarily before the axes start swinging, and it seems likely that thousands will take the escape hatch.… |
Ex-ASML engineer who stole chip tech for Russia gets three years in Dutch prison - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:29:09 GMT)'Whether those files were allowed to go to Russia? I didn't ask'A former ASML and NXP semiconductor engineer will spend three years in a Dutch prison after stealing secret chip technology from his employers and sharing it with Russia.… |
IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:00:06 GMT)Company mum on whether the site will be shutteredIBM, which employees say stands for "I've Been Moved" due to frequent relocation directives, is moving research scientists from its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, to its Silicon Valley Lab a few miles east.… |
EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:25:42 GMT)A new code aims to make it easy to figure outThe EU has a new set of AI regulations poised to take effect soon. While debate over them continues, Brussels has put out a handy guidebook to help companies make sense of what they can and cannot do. … |
Slow down on building power plants for all those new AI datacenters, report warns - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:39:38 GMT)Projections are likely exaggerated, a new analysis from an environmental group saysDatacenters are slurping ever more energy to meet the growing demands of AI, but some estimates of future demand imply an increase in hardware that would be beyond the capacity of global chipmakers to supply, according to an environmental nonprofit.… |
Please don't cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:01:31 GMT)TraCSS is like an FAA for space, and it's slated for the chopping blockSpace industry bigwigs have sent letters to Congressional leaders urging them not to eliminate funding for preventing space collisions, as requested in a budget proposal for FY 2026. … |
Red Hat sweetens the RHEL deal for biz devs – just don't put it in prod - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:32:10 GMT)Up to 25 instances for free, but only to play withIBM's Linux subsidiary is offering a new way to get RHEL without paying, now with up to 25 instances.… |
Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have to - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:28:11 GMT)Gemini CLI integration is nice, but there's little polish in building apps from promptsGoogle today unveiled updates to Firebase Studio at its Cloud Summit event in London, adding Gemini command-line interface (CLI) integration, initial Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and "Agent Mode."… |
Russia, hotbed of cybercrime, says nyet to ethical hacking bill - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:15:06 GMT)Politicians uneasy over potential impact on national security, local reports sayRussia, home to some of the world's most lucrative and damaging cybercrime operations, has rejected a bill to legalize ethical hacking.… |
Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:28:12 GMT)Shipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoffTariff uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump still hangs over the PC industry despite manufacturers navigating a "complex regulatory maze" to avoid being in the firing line over import taxes when the shooting begins.… |
Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:17:06 GMT)'I don't think there's a spare megawatt sitting anywhere idle in all of Europe, or the US, as a matter of fact'Microsoft intends to more than double its European datacenter capacity by 2027, but suspects this won't be easy because of all the red tape and environmental safeguards it faces.… |
Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:19:15 GMT)Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge?NASA has a new interim administrator. US President Donald Trump has announced that former reality TV star and current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be taking on the role.… |
NCA arrests four in connection with UK retail ransomware attacks - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:33:15 GMT)Crime-fighting agency cagey on details, probes into intrusions at M&S, Harrods, and Co-op continueThe UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals suspected of being involved in the big three cyberattacks on UK retail businesses in recent weeks.… |
Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:45:13 GMT)Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in BlightyGoogle Cloud is attempting to ease concerns about where AI data is stored by offering organizations the option to keep Gemini 2.5 Flash machine learning processing entirely within the UK.… |
Outlook takes another sick day - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:02:05 GMT)Millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamedupdated Microsoft Outlook was down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the more than 11 hours.… |
Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:29:06 GMT)Controversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivityThe benefits of the UK health sector's Palantir-powered data and analytics system are being suppressed by the limits of writing back to NHS software, MPs heard this week.… |
At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:27:11 GMT)Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automationUsing AI models to generate exploits for cryptocurrency contract flaws appears to be a promising business model, though not necessarily a legal one.… |
Swiss boffins just trained a 'fully open' LLM on the Alps supercomputer - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:27:12 GMT)Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on topSupercomputers are usually associated with scientific exploration, research, and development, and ensuring our nuclear stockpiles actually work. … |
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:37:43 GMT)New Zealand’s Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy preyResearchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter Jackson.… |
Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:32:41 GMT)Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro waysChina’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.… |
Citrix signals return to the mainstream hypervisor market with a product it says isn’t quite ready for the job - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:45:47 GMT)Cites ‘aggressive licensing changes’ from rivals, but like Broadcom only sells bundlesCitrix has decided to return to the market for mainstream hypervisors with a version of its XenServer product which it currently claims isn’t ready for the job.… |
Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:30:08 GMT)'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missingPresident Trump's budget slashes funding for science and led to the cancellation or reduction of thousands of research programs, so scientists have staged a series of presentations to show legislators innovations that America will miss out on in the future.… |
How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:31:45 GMT)No, really, those are the magic wordsA clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game.… |
Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:31:13 GMT)Built on Chromium, ironicallyPerplexity has released its own web browser called Comet, and it's clearly aimed at Google.… |
Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:00:09 GMT)Hey, teacher, leave those kids to AIAfter committing more than $13 billion in strategic investments to OpenAI, Microsoft is splashing out billions more to get people using the technology.… |
Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:47:29 GMT)Welcome back to the age of dark patternsThe US was supposed to celebrate the enforcement date for an FTC rule requiring companies to offer simple, clear, one-click subscription cancellations next Monday, but a panel of appeals court judges has decided otherwise.… |
US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:06:00 GMT)Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle SamThe US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.… |
AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:17:12 GMT)Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordinglyAMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead to information disclosure.… |
Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:01:48 GMT)Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burnUS Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use case or vetting their data, leaving them to wonder why it doesn't work.… |
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:21:50 GMT)Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of 'AI' companiesUpdated Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying to feed their hungry LLM bots.… |
Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:18:10 GMT)Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 siliconEuro chip designer SiPearl has finally taped out its Rhea1 processor destined for Jupiter, the first European exascale supercomputer, just as its Series A financing round ends with an injection of cash from a new investor.… |
Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:23:24 GMT)But Chocolate Factory love-in sorely lacks detailThe UK government has signed a pact with Google Cloud to "upskill" as many as 100,000 civil servants in the latest tech by 2030.… |
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:15:06 GMT)No word on who pressed the 'MechaHitler' buttonxAI is scrambling to contain the fallout after its Grok chatbot went – and there is no other way of putting this – full Nazi in its X (formerly Twitter) posts.… |
Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:15:12 GMT)Version 140 has built-in MS Exchange support – and a year's updates aheadThe latest version of the messaging client from Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has a bunch of useful new features, and will get updated until mid 2026.… |
Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:26:13 GMT)Plus: Confirms less serious data points like meal preferences also leakedQantas says that when cybercrooks attacked a "third party platform" used by the airline's contact center systems, they accessed the personal information and frequent flyer numbers of the "majority" of the circa 5.7 million people affected.… |
ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:39:13 GMT)Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuffComment The European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing ahead with its European Launcher Challenge (ELC), and the good news is that three of the five pre-selected candidates have yet to explode anything in public.… |
Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:22:09 GMT)Customers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealingsIngram Micro says it is gradually reactivating customer's ordering capabilities across the world, region by region, now its ransomware attack is thought to be "contained".… |
Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:30:28 GMT)Activists argue the resources spent on tech aren't leading to worthwhile numbersPrivacy activists are unimpressed with London's Metropolitan Police and its use of live facial recognition (LFR) to catch criminals, saying it is not effective use of taxpayer money and an overreach by government.… |
C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:26:12 GMT)Akkodis report suggests people skills may be helpful to bring out the best in AIExecutives are losing faith in AI initiatives despite rising investment, according to a study conducted by consultancy Akkodis.… |
Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:33:07 GMT)Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fireAn Iranian ransomware-as-a-service operation with ties to a government-backed cyber crew has reemerged after a nearly five-year hiatus, and is offering would-be cybercriminals cash to infect organizations in the US and Israel.… |
Chipmaker GlobalFoundries acquires chip designer MIPS - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:59:08 GMT)A big bet that RISC-V can make a dent in the AI marketGlobalFoundries has acquired chip design firm MIPS, creating a company that both designs and creates semiconductors.… |
