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With OpenAI, there are no allegiances - just compute at all costs - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 22:32:01 GMT)Google's TPUs might not be on Altman's menu just yet, but he's never been all that picky about hardwareAnalysis No longer bound to Microsoft's infrastructure, OpenAI is looking to expand its network of compute providers to the likes of Oracle, CoreWeave, and apparently even rival model builder Google.… |
Microsoft pulls plug on generous Azure credit program for startups - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 21:57:11 GMT)Up to $150K tier shelved, perks folded into two-track systemMicrosoft has retired its program that granted incorporated AI startups with a validated business plan up to $150,000 in Azure credits and replaced it with a two-track system.… |
Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:08:48 GMT)The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken downai-pocalypse Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers by default in a bid to become the internet's gatekeeper.… |
Microsoft admits to Intune forgetfulness - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:02:21 GMT)Customizations not saved with security baseline policy updateMicrosoft Intune administrators may face a few days of stress after Redmond acknowledged a problem with security baseline customizations.… |
Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn't such a good thing - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:22:15 GMT)Trump's budget bill moves back to the House with some modsIt took a tie-breaking vote from the Vice President JD Vance to pass Trump's budget reconciliation bill through the Senate on Tuesday, but a controversial section that would have barred states from regulating AI was struck down in a much clearer fashion. … |
Chip design is a RISC-y business: Codasip puts itself up for sale - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:35:13 GMT)R&D teams are 'separable' says biz, which is open to offers for parts or the wholeEuropean RISC-V biz Codasip has put itself up for sale, citing an expression of interest during a recent funding round, and is now openly touting for buyers.… |
Apple accuses former engineer of taking Vision Pro secrets to Snap - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:30:18 GMT)He didn't cover his tracks very well, the iGiant claims in a court filingAn ex-Apple employee who allegedly thought he was clever enough to sneak out the back door to a job at Snap loaded up with Cupertino's secrets has instead found himself on the receiving end of a lawsuit. … |
International Criminal Court swats away 'sophisticated and targeted' cyberattack - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:34:05 GMT)Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaignThe International Criminal Court (ICC) says a "sophisticated" cyberattack targeted the institution, the second such incident in two years.… |
Fedora 43 won't drop 32-bit app support – or adopt Xlibre - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:17:09 GMT)Community vetoes plans to axe i686 compatibility and switch X11 forksThe Fedora community has quickly dropped a couple of recent proposed changes – one highly controversial, the other rather less so.… |
NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:31:12 GMT)Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatmentNASA has extended recovery efforts for its stricken Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to mid-July, but is warning that if the probe remains silent, the mission could end.… |
EU rattles its purse and AI datacenter builders come running - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:02:11 GMT)176 expressions of interest to erect 'gigafactories' across 16 member states, with 3 million GPUs neededIt's pork barrel time in Europe for Nvidia (and possibly AMD) as corporations bid for a slice of the €20 billion ($23.6 billion) fund to build proposed AI Gigafactories to advance the EU's AI credentials.… |
Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:19:07 GMT)Copilot's confidence was... misplacedNot content with humiliating ChatGPT at the hands of Video Chess on an Atari 2600 emulator, Robert Caruso has tried again, this time with Microsoft's Copilot.… |
Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:29:09 GMT)Plus: Consumers respond to imminent Win 10 cutoff date with collective 'Meh'World War Fee Total PC shipments in the US will increase by just 2 percent this year, thanks to Trump's tariffs and little appetite from consumers for spending on "big-ticket" items, despite the looming end of Windows 10 support.… |
Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:15:07 GMT)Kernel 6.16 may be the last with the new disk formatThe geek titans are clashing once again, and Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has warned: "I think we'll be parting ways" as of kernel 6.17.… |
People have empathy with AI… as long as they think it's human - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:23:10 GMT)Study finds emotional support from chatbots is more readily accepted if participants don't know it's an AIA study of AI chat sessions has shown people tend to have more empathy with a chatbot if they think it is human.… |
Terrible tales of opsec oversights: How cybercrooks get themselves caught - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:27:05 GMT)The silly mistakes to the flagrant failuresThey say that success breeds complacency, and complacency leads to failure. For cybercriminals, taking too many shortcuts when it comes to opsec delivers a little more than that. … |
Critics blast Microsoft's limited reprieve for those stuck on Windows 10 - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:17:11 GMT)Users tired of being 'yanked around' as end of support loomsMicrosoft's latest attempts to ease the transition to Windows 11 for Windows 10 users "don't go far enough," according to privacy campaigners that worry about the prospect of millions of PCs going to landfill.… |
A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:00:07 GMT)Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates wellA year after the Right to Repair laws passed in California and Minnesota, many product makers still aren't doing much to help consumers fix the gear they bought.… |
Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:31:13 GMT)Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacySecure comms biz Proton has joined a lawsuit that alleges Apple’s anticompetitive ways are harming developers, consumers, and privacy.… |
DRAM spot prices doubled last week - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 05:33:09 GMT)Fears that DDR4 has hit the end of the road and the return of tariffs may be to blameSpot prices for DRAM have doubled in the last week.… |
China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12 - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:27:16 GMT)America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thingChina’s Northwestern Polytechnical University last week flew a hypersonic craft and claimed the test achieved some world-first feats.… |
Oracle just signed one mystery customer that will double its cloud revenue in 2028 - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:03:48 GMT)Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migrationOracle has landed a mystery customer that will add more than $30 billion to the database giant's annual revenues, more than doubling the size of its current cloud business.… |
US shuts down a string of North Korean IT worker scams - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:17:39 GMT)Resulting in two indictments, one arrest, and 137 laptops seizedThe US Department of Justice has announced a major disruption of multiple North Korean fake IT worker scams.… |
Want a job? Just put 'AI skills' on your resume - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:21:56 GMT)It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word'ai-pocalypse For job seekers wondering which AI skills to bone up on, the answer appears to be simple based on a look at the past year of employment data: Just learn to use it. … |
AIs have a favorite number, and it's not 42 - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:28:31 GMT)Ask a model to guess a number from 1 to 50 and it's likely to answer 27Asked to guess a number between 1 and 50, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Meta's Llama 4 all provided the same answer: 27.… |
Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:36:59 GMT)Someday, my prince will comeGoogle has agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). That's assuming, of course, the Massachusetts-based startup can actually get the miniaturized sun to make more power than it consumes, something even the Chocolate Factory admits is a bit of a "moonshot."… |
British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:29:15 GMT)Don't leave the door open to disgruntled workersA judge has sentenced a disgruntled IT worker to more than seven months in prison after he wreaked havoc on his employer's network following his suspension, according to West Yorkshire Police.… |
Norwegian lotto mistakenly told thousands they were filthy rich after math error - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:02:17 GMT)Oh, you have to divide by 100?Thousands of Norwegians mistakenly thought they'd won life-changing sums in last week's Eurojackpot after a manual coding slip at state-owned operator Norsk Tipping.… |
Scattered Spider crime spree takes flight as focus turns to aviation sector - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:31:15 GMT)Time ticking for defenders as social engineering pros weave wider webJust a few weeks after warning about Scattered Spider's tactics shifting toward the insurance industry, the same experts now say the aviation industry is now on the ransomware crew's radar.… |
Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:56:42 GMT)NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during testvideo Old Space has shown itself to be just as adept at explosive malfunctions as New Space, with Northrop Grumman encountering an anomaly during a static fire test of an updated solid rocket booster design.… |
Mitch Kapor finally completes MIT master's degree after 45-year detour - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:28:12 GMT)During which he coded Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founded Mozilla and the EFFThe man behind Lotus 1-2-3 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has wrapped up a master's degree at MIT Sloan, decades after dropping out to help kickstart the PC software boom.… |
VMware must support crucial Dutch govt agency as it migrates off the platform, judge rules - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:33:38 GMT)Court says State arm cannot be left without maintenance, patches and upgrades because of Broadcom's new licensing modelBroadcom's VMware subsidiary must provide a Dutch government organization with continued software support for at least two years while it manages a migration to an alternative platform, according to a court ruling, or else face fines up to €25 million ($29 million).… |
Sinaloa drug cartel hired a cybersnoop to identify and kill FBI informants - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:13:10 GMT)Device compromises and deep-seated access to critical infrastructure exposed surveillance vulnerabilities in agency's workA major Mexican drug cartel insider grassed on his fellow drug-peddlers back in 2018, telling the FBI that a cartel "hacker" was tracking a federal official and using their deep-rooted access to the country's critical infrastructure to kill informants.… |
Microsoft's next Windows 11 update is more 'enablement' than upgrade - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:24:13 GMT)If you didn't like 24H2, you're probably not going to like 25H2Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 25H2 is almost here. However, the upgrade will be little more than an exercise in feature enablement since Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 share the same source code.… |
Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:27:12 GMT)Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goalArm-based servers are rapidly gaining traction in the market with shipments tipped to jump 70 percent in 2025, however, this remains well short of the chip designer's ambitions to make up half of datacenter CPU sales worldwide by the end of the year.… |
Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:43:02 GMT)Test run offers hope for a rail system long past its best-before dateDeutsche Bahn (DB) and Siemens Mobility have managed to get an ICE test train to 405 km/h (251 mph) on the Erfurt-Leipzig/Halle high-speed line.… |
Cloud lobby warns EU: Clamp down on water rules and we'll evaporate - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:49:26 GMT)CISPE floats reforms to avoid new costs, fragmentation, and infrastructure flightThe Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body has put forward recommendations for the EU's Water Resilience Strategy, perhaps mindful that datacenters are perceived as hugely wasteful of precious water resources.… |
Your browser has ad tech's fingerprints all over it, but there's a clean-up squad in town - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:33:12 GMT)Like being hard to spot? They’d much rather you didn’tOpinion There are few tech deceptions more successful than Chrome's Incognito Mode.… |
Junior sysadmin’s first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:30:13 GMT)Sensible CEO wouldn’t let our hero take the blame - a shoddy supervisor got the slapWho, Me? Welcome again to Who, Me? It's the Monday morning column in which readers of The Register admit to making big mistakes and somehow swerving the consequences.… |
Don't pay for AI support failures, says Gradient Labs CEO - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:29:15 GMT)Paying for successful problem resolution is a better business model, argues Dimitri Masininterview Dimitri Masin, CEO of Gradient Labs, argues that companies using AI agents for customer support should only pay when the bot does its job.… |
DoJ clears HPE to buy Juniper if it sells Instant On Wi-Fi and licenses some code - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 05:41:45 GMT)Which it will, happily, to create a networking biz that’s still far smaller than Cisco’s or Nvidia’sThe US Department of Justice (DoJ) has cleared the way for HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks.… |
China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:37:09 GMT)Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021’s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systemsChinese chip designer Loongson last week announced silicon it claims is the equal of western semiconductors from 2021.… |
Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 03:26:11 GMT)PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before privacy; and more!Asia In Brief Canada’s government has ordered Chinese CCTV systems vendor Hikvision to cease its local operations.… |
It's 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:34:56 GMT)PLUS: Crooks target hardware crypto wallets; Bad flaws in Brother printers; ,O365 allows takeover-free phishing; and moreInfosec in Brief Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the malware send cash to the crooks who planted it, according to infosec software slinger Sophos.… |
AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all - (pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:34:10 GMT)More fiction than scienceAnalysis IT consultancy Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls.… |
Ex-NATO hacker: 'In the cyber world, there's no such thing as a ceasefire' - (pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:01:10 GMT)Watch out for supply chain hacks especiallyinterview The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won't carry any weight in cyberspace, according to former NATO hacker Candan Bolukbas.… |
How to get free software from yesteryear's IT crowd – trick code into thinking it's running on a rival PC - (pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 08:30:11 GMT)'This is not a copyright message'Before plug and play was blowing up Windows 98 on a Comdex stage, Windows 95 engineers were grappling with the technology – and on one fateful day they found some unusual text in the BIOS of several PCs that they had to work around.… |
Anthropic chucks chump change at studies on job-killing tech - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:46:34 GMT)$61B business offers $10K–$50K grants to assess AI’s job-market impactAI biz Anthropic is trying to recruit academics to find out exactly how much its technology could crater the jobs market.… |
Crims are posing as insurance companies to steal health records and payment info - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:59:14 GMT)Taking advantage of the ridiculously complex US healthcare billing systemCriminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI.… |
Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult material - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:31:47 GMT)Over 18? Prove itThe US Supreme Court has ruled that Texas' age certification law for viewing sexually explicit content is valid, meaning that viewers of such material will have to prove their age.… |
