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VMware by Broadcom offers a lifeline to small cloud service providers
'White label' program also means retaining customers Exclusive VMware by Broadcom appears to have made concessions to some of the cloud service providers it has previously indicated it will spurn....
Dell adds Nvidia's next GPUs to its portfolio of AI platforms
Nvidia is a kingmaker, and who wouldn't want to be king? Dell has tied its AI flag firmly to Nvidia's mast with its latest offerings, comprising a fully integrated end-to-end platform for enterprise customers looking to build and operate their own AI, plus updated server support for Nvidia's upcoming GPUs, scalable storage and professional services....
Apple to settle class action for $490 million after Tim overcooked China outlook
CEO's optimism was not reflected in the supply chain Apple will cough up $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging CEO Tim Cook concealed plummeting iPhone demand in China from shareholders....
Ker-Splunk! Cisco closes $28 billion analytics acquisition
Job one: Splunkify Talos threat intelligence, then do the same all over the Cisco portfolio Cisco has closed its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk....
India celebrates rapid adoption of its internet of livestock
Latest piece of digital public infrastructure is positively beastly India's Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has celebrated rapid uptake of its effort to digitize the nation's livestock....
What strange beauty is this? Microsoft commits to two more non-subscription Office editions
Just the apps, none of the cloud, forever - for one payment Microsoft has cooked up fresh versions of its Office suite that will be sold under a perpetual license - and promised it will do so again in future....
Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase
Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials At least 900 websites built with Google's Firebase, a cloud database, have been misconfigured, leaving credentials, personal info, and other sensitive data inadvertently exposed to the public internet, according to security researchers....
Fujitsu reveals malware installed on internal systems, risk of customer data spill
Sneaky software slips past shields, spurring scramble Fujitsu has confirmed that miscreants have compromised some of its internal computers, deployed malware, and may have stolen some customer information....
Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs
Five times the performance of the H100, but you'll need liquid cooling to tame the beast For all the saber-rattling from AMD and Intel, Nvidia remains, without question, the dominant provider of AI infrastructure. With today's debut of the Blackwell GPU architecture during CEO Jensen Huang's GTC keynote, it aims to extend its technical lead - in both performance and power consumption....
YouTube creators must now 'fess up to using AI in vids
Not everything requires tagging so feel free to maintain unrealistic beauty standards YouTube has warned content creators that, beginning today, certain uses of AI in their videos must be clearly labeled....
More than 133,000 Fortinet appliances still vulnerable to month-old critical bug
A huge attack surface for a vulnerability with various PoCs available The volume of Fortinet boxes exposed to the public internet and vulnerable to a month-old critical security flaw in FortiOS is still extremely high, despite a gradual increase in patching....
Grok-1 chatbot code released – open source or open Pandora's box?
What hasn't been released by Elon Musk's xAI is also of note As promised, Elon Musk has released the model behind the xAI chatbot, Grok-1....
Investment advisors pay the price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales
SEC bags $400K in settlements Two investment advisors have reached settlements with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly exaggerating their use of AI, which in both cases were purported to be cornerstones of their offerings....
Cyber baddies leak 70M+ files online, claim they're from AT&T
Telco reckons data is old, isn't from its systems More than 70 million records, allegedly stolen from AT&T in 2021, were dumped on a cybercrime forum at the weekend....
HashiCorp reportedly considering sale amid growing challenges
Who would want to snap up Terraform? HashiCorp is the subject of furious industry talk which indicates the company is contemplating a sale amid an increasingly challenging marketplace....
UK tech titan Mike Lynch's US fraud trial begins today
13-year saga continues as jury set to hear claims on both sides of HP's Autonomy acquisition disaster British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's criminal trial kick off today in San Francisco in a case alleging accounting fraud charges that carry a maximum 20-year sentence....
US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions
National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven The US government has dropped details on its National Strategy on Microelectronics Research, outlining top goals and actions for the next five years to boost the semiconductor industry with CHIPS Act investment....
Sorry, Siri: Apple may be eyeing Google Gemini for future iPhones
Famous for keeping everything in-house, Apple may be carving AI-shaped door in its garden wall Apple is reportedly working on a deal with Google to bring the Chocolate Factory's Gemini AI to iDevices, suggesting its own efforts to develop a suitable generative AI model have stalled....
Cyberattack gifts esports pros with cheats, forcing Apex Legends to postpone tournament
Virtual gunslingers forcibly became cheaters via mystery means Updated Esports pros competing in the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Pro League tournament were forced to abandon their match today due to a suspected cyberattack....
Microsoft reseller Bytes says more than 100 undisclosed share trades linked to ex-CEO
Surprise resignation of chief exec happened after FCA probe began, claims filing One of Micrsoft's largest cloud and tech licensing resellers, Bytes Technology Group (BTG), today gave the London Stock Exchange an update on the investigation surrounding the abrupt resignation of its CEO and an ongoing probe by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)....
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version
Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus Bad news from BSD land - the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux....
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term
Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues Microsoft is asking investors to "temper" expectations for quick financial returns from Copilot amid efforts to convince customers that paying "substantial" sums each month is actually worth it....
The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it
The web doesn't work cos the vandals used a candle Opinion Most of us, from time to time, have grievances with our network operators. We complain, we leave bad reviews, we rage-post. But some aren't content with just whinging verbally. They take it up a notch and cut cables, lift street access covers and pour in petrol, they burn down masts....
Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so
Quick thinking turned poor judgement into genius proactivity Who, Me? Welcome once again, dear reader, to the well-trodden path that is Who, Me? - The Register's weekly column dedicated to the tales and travails of readers who strayed, but found their way back....
Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner
But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale' Zero tolerance of failure by information security professionals is unrealistic, and makes it harder for cyber security folk to do the essential part of their job: recovering fast from inevitable attacks, according to Gartner analysts Chris Mixter and Dennis Xiu....
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera
Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, pitched as a more affordable version of its flagship smartphone platform that keeps key features such as the support for on-device generative AI processing, and an always-sensing camera....
Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation
875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested Filipino police rescued 875 "workers" - including 504 foreigners - in a raid late last week on a firm that posed as an online gaming company but in reality operated a forced labor camp that housed romance scam operators....
Uber Australia to pay $178 million to settle cabbies' class action
Nice payday for some, but plenty of Australians still pay extra to help drivers Uber's Australian wheel has agreed to pay AU$272 million ($178 million) to settle a class action brought by cab drivers who claimed their incomes were impacted by the rideshare giant's scofflaw debut down under....
ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: token obfuscation
ALSO: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns in brief Almost as quickly as a paper came out last week revealing an AI side-channel vulnerability, Cloudflare researchers have figured out how to solve it: just obscure your token size....
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs
ALSO: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea India's government has stepped back from its plan to require government approval for AI services before they come online....
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes
Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about Hands On With all the talk of massive machine-learning training clusters and AI PCs you'd be forgiven for thinking you need some kind of special hardware to play with text-and-code-generating large language models (LLMs) at home....
In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind
Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more Feature While in a rush to understand, build, and ship AI products, developers and data scientists are being urged to be mindful of security and not fall prey to supply-chain attacks....
Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts
As FTC starts asking questions about that mega-deal with Google to train AI Ahead of its stock market debut, Reddit has said it's going to make it easier for advertisers to craft normal user posts and run them as ads on the social network....
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4
We thought you people wanted choice, IT colossus sniffs Microsoft is cheerily popping up adverts over Chrome on Windows PCs to push its search engine and AI assistant....
Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash 'next week'
Samsung and TSMC apparently slated to receive $6B and $5B The Biden administration may announce billions in government CHIPS subsidies to offset the cost of Intel's US fab expansion as early as next week....
Microsoft license shuffle means Power Apps users could break the bank
New restrictions seem to usher users toward expensive Dynamics 365 subscriptions Microsoft appears to have updated the licensing rules for its popular Power Apps, which could force some customers to shift their users onto the more expensive licenses, creating a significant hike in costs....
As if working at Helldesk weren't bad enough, IT helpers now targeted by cybercrims
Wave of Okta attacks mark what researchers are calling the biggest security trend of the year IT helpdesk workers are increasingly the target of cybercriminals - a trend researchers have described as "the most noteworthy" of the past year....
Raspberry Pi OS 5.2 is here, with pleasant tweaks to Wayland-based desktop
Kernel 6.6 and small refinements, plus less visible, but meaningful adjustments The Raspberry Pi Foundation has updated its Debian 12-based OS for the pocket-sized powerhouse, with the newest LTS kernel....
FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved
Previous goals were 25Mbps download and a paltry 3Mbps for upload ... and some places don't even have that The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is finally updating its standard for broadband speeds to 100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload, after talking about the issue for years....
We talk to W3C board vice-chair Robin Berjon about the InterPlanetary File System
The decentralized web is alive and well despite Web3 financial scheming Interview The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) debuted nine years ago with the hope of changing the way people interact with content online. It remains an ongoing project....
Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech
Don't start planning your long weekend yet - proposal is likely to be a hard sell in work-obsessed America AI, automation, and other new technologies have made the American worker far more productive than ever before, says US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which is why he introduced a bill this week to shorten the US workweek to 32 hours without a commensurate drop in worker pay....
Microsoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google
Only the Chocolate Factory is 'vertically integrated' to win at 'every AI layer from chips to a thriving mobile app store' Microsoft has told the European Commission's competition authorities that it only entered into agreements with generative AI developers because it had no other option, unlike archrival Google which can do it all alone....
IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%
And the party extends to shareholders with an overall $6B payout IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna bagged a double digit pay bump in 2023 as he met the major financial objectives outlined by the board. The average compensation of employees that helped Big Blue achieve those targets? Up by single digits....
McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles
Global meltdown turns fast food slow Technology certainly helped McDonald's process orders faster, but as soon as a computer fault hit, the burger behemoth was shuttled right back to the 90s....
Cop shop rapped for 'completely avoidable' web form blunder
Made public highly sensitive data on complaints about Metropolitan Police Service The London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime is being rapped by regulators for untidy tech practices that made public the personal data of hundreds of people who filed complaints against the Metropolitan Police Service....
RISE with SAP plan fails to hit go-live date in West of England council
Delays raise questions about 0.5 million legacy support bill, plans for new financial year Updated Gloucestershire County Council has missed the go live date for its RISE with SAP move to the cloud, potentially incurring an additional 500k ($639,000) costs to keep its legacy application up and running....
Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary
Adding extra shine to Ubuntu Jammy... with the lightweight edition to follow One of the more widely used Ubuntu spinoffs, non-techie friendly Zorin has put out three editions of its latest version - Zorin OS 17.1 - and there are still more to come....
UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground
The NIMBYs are fed up, and it's an election year The UK's Data and Digital Infrastructure Minister wants telcos to stop installing new telegraph poles....
Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server
Resulting cycle of rushed repairs and recriminations did wonders for the IT/user relationship On Call Thirsty folk will tell you it's always twelve o'clock somewhere, but Friday comes but once a week and The Register marks it by offering another instalment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of the weird and woeful world of work....
Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses
Reaction from channel was 'stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief' Citrix has allegedly made major changes to its partner program, and one of the consultancies briefed on the new arrangements told The Register that the when the news was delivered to a gathering of the Citrix faithful the result was "stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief."...
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