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Farewell, we hardly scripted thee Updated Microsoft has announced the retirement of GPT Builder. It is giving users just one month before their data is deleted....

Preference for proprietary features restricting open source MySQL adoption, says Peter Zaitsev An experienced MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle might unintentionally kill off the open source database with its preference for adding features to its proprietary systems....

Concerned about secrecy... or just mad no one's buying his AI tech? Comment AI laggard Apple introduced the world to its fashionably late spin on the tech yesterday, and of course mewling billionaire manbaby Elon Musk had to stick an oar in - not that anybody asked....

Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz The data protection watchdogs of the UK and Canada are teaming up to hunt down the facts behind last year's 23andMe data breach....

As usual, things are more complicated than 'bigger number better.' Comment For chipmakers, the AI PC has become a race to the TOPS - with Intel, AMD and Qualcomm each trying to one up the others....

Priced at 2.80, but goes beyond 3.90 in conditional trading Raspberry Pi's IPO took place this morning on the London Stock Exchange. Shares were initially priced at 2.80 ($3.57), but they surged to 3.90 ($4.97) during early trading....

Too bad shareholders, as this will mean pain for them... Atos has opted for a bailout proposal led by its largest shareholder Onepoint to put the company on a firmer financial footing with the injection of capital and a plan to transform it over the next five years....

Kids can be rough despite efforts to keep budget computers out of landfill A Chromebook refresh looms despite Google trying to extend the life of laptops by offering a decade of service updates for models sold since 2021....

Japanese supplier gets 4.75M contract extension amid promise not to bid for govt work The UK's Department for Education has awarded Japanese IT services supplier Fujitsu a 4.75 million ($6 million) contract, despite its promise not to bid for government work before the Post Office Horizon Inquiry concludes....

Feeling empowerment and autonomy at work reportedly key when toiling remotely Many office workers no longer want to sacrifice their entire working week at their desk - the corporate altar of commerce - but for some, the work from home revolution has led to higher levels of neuroticism....

This is not BS, it's cutting-edge material science Worthy Farm, host of the world-famous Glastonbury music festival, already uses cow manure to produce power, but will now allow local startup Levidian to insert its tech into the carbon producing process, thereby producing graphene....

Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry Apple has revealed it created its own datacenter stack - servers using its in-house silicon and operating system - at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Monday....

Lenovo and HPE have also signed deal to carry on hyperconverging VMware by Broadcom has re-signed three key hardware vendors to original equipment manufacturer (OEM) resale agreements....

Mandiant warns criminal gang UNC5537, which may be friendly with Scattered Spider, is on the rampage An unknown financially motivated crime crew has swiped a "significant volume of records" from Snowflake customers' databases using stolen credentials, according to Mandiant....

Offline for four days and counting, as are parent company and e-commerce brand Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa and several of its properties have been offline for four days after a major cyber attack....

WWDC sees Cupertino up to its old trick of adding features - in this case a password manager - that compete directly with third parties Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday teased assorted imminent improvements to the iGiant's operating systems - including enhanced app security, support for RCS in Messages, and a dedicated password management app....

Won't say when build might resume Construction work on Intel's $25 billion semiconductor manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel, has reportedly been postponed....

Cupertino promises private smarts, on-device or in the cloud WWDC At its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, CEO Tim Cook proclaimed from the roof of Apple's headquarters the arrival of "profound" intelligence capabilities in the iPhone giant's products....

What's German for 'thank goodness for actually useful privacy regulations'? Meta will start training its AI models using everyone's social media posts though European Union users can opt out, a luxury the rest of the world won't enjoy....

Management may think valuation is peaking on back of AI fever Nvidia executives are cashing in on their shares, meaning it isn't just investors that are reaping the rewards of its soaring stock value....

Customers not amused A BIOS update from HP is bricking some of its computers, and customers are potentially facing hefty bills for replacement hardware....

The greatest enemy to modern cars - poorly written code Volvo has announced a recall of every single EX30, nearly 72k in all, and it's all because of a relatively minor software error....

A far cry from the half-million claim that crims originally boasted Auction house to the wealthy Christie's says 45,798 people were affected by its recent cyberattack and resulting data theft....

Torn between keynote and blog: Not all AI coding assistant's features appear available Microsoft stands accused of making misleading claims about the general availability of products at its recent Build conference....

Company's fate now rests with SpaceShipTwo's followup Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity has flown its final flight, less than a year since the company began commercial operations....

Expansion of compliance activity follows per-employee licensing change Oracle has started to dispatch Java audit letters to Fortune 200 companies for the first time, according to one licensing expert....

Putting such a dominant power in the middle of your supply chain a risky move... European banks are concerned that growing use of AI will serve to increase their dependence on the big US tech companies and lead to fresh risks for the industry....

Recall controversies, performance problems, apps freezing as some call it 'disastrous' Microsoft has quietly frozen the rollout of Windows 11 24H2 to Windows Insiders on the Release Preview Channel....

Amazon is not taking this lying down, as shown by aggressive migration promotions VMware by Broadcom has made another change to its licenses - this time by disallowing on-demand use of its software in VMware Cloud on AWS....

Also, industry begs Uncle Sam for infosec reg harmony, dueling container-compromise campaigns, and crit vulns infosec in brief Cloud data analytics platform Snowflake said it is going to begin forcing customers to implement multi-factor authentication to prevent more intrusions....

Concerned about size of award given 'performance triggers' and 'dilution' Norway's sovereign wealth fund aims to shoot down Elon Musk's planned $56 billion compensation package at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting scheduled for Thursday this week, June 13....

Thousands of dodgy SMS messages bypassed network filters in UK-first case British police have arrested two individuals following an investigation into illegal homebrew phone masts used for SMS-based phishing campaigns....

Version 7.0 has landed - the Ubuntu Noble based one Linux Lite 7.0 "Galena" is out, the new release of this simplified and Snap-free distro based on Ubuntu 24.04, aka "Noble Numbat."...

Texan Mick set to become honorary blue Scouser if winning bid hits back of the net Forget AI PCs or AI servers, tech titan Michael Dell is reportedly backing a takeover bid for Everton football club from two prospective owner fans....

Changing the fig leaf can't change what lies beneath ... Opinion You've got to be light on your toes to keep up with Agile. Some say it's the inherently right way to do software. Others call it a cult, overblown and misleading. One way to tell would be to compare Agile and non-Agile project success rates, and that's just what consultancy Engprax did....

What's in a name? Quite a bit, it turns out, when 50 servers all have the same one Who, Me? Hold your nose, gentle reader, as we dive headlong into the bucket of ice water that is the start of the working week. But fear not, for The Reg is here to warm your innards with a dose of Who, Me? - our weekly tale of technical shenanigans gone wrong....

Just don't let it fly too close to the Sun EXCLUSIVE A European consortium has received 15 million of EU funding to develop an inflatable heat shield designed to recover rocket stages and land spacecraft on Mars....

Worker happiness hits an all-time low A study claims to have proof of what some have suspected: return to office mandates are just back-channel layoffs and post-COVID work culture is making everyone miserable....

Scott Small tells us gang's 'intent and capability' should get the attention of CSOs Interview It might not be as big a name as BlackCat or LockBit, but the Akira ransomware is every bit as dangerous, says one cybersecurity researcher - and it's poised to make a big impact....

Lessons learned from the infosec chief convicted and punished for covering up theft of data from taxi app maker Interview Joe Sullivan - the now-former Uber chief security officer who was found guilty of covering-up a theft of data from Uber in 2016 - remembers sitting down and thinking through the worst-case scenarios he faced following that guilty verdict in 2022....

We all grab a mic and discuss Nvidia, Intel, AMD, strange squid, and a certain CEO's ego Kettle Well, that was Computex 2024. A week of Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others talking up the hardware and software they intend to roll out to the world over the next year or so....

ANDES, in the Andes, is predicted to find the first Population III mega-star The European Southern Observatory (ESO) this week signed a deal with a group of scientific institutions to build a spectrograph that can scan space for the chemical signatures of alien life....

Breaking breaking-news news A 4chan user claims to have leaked 270GB of internal New York Times data, including source code and other web assets, via the notorious image board....

How's your RPKI-based security plan coming along? Feds want to know US broadband providers will soon have to provide proof to Uncle Sam that they are taking steps to prevent Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking and locking down internet routing in general....

Researchers get 4 years, a small pot of cash, and long row to hoe before making tech practical by next decade The Biden administration is still chasing its fusion energy dreams, announcing new strategies and some funding - albeit a relatively paltry amount - to iron out kinks in a future fusion pilot plant....

Criminals expected to counter Tesla truck with water guns and driving offroad A California company has retrofitted a third-party tactical version of Tesla's Cybertruck for the police, though it's not clear if this is really the vehicle officers will want to use....

Windows maker acknowledges 'clear signal' from everyone, then mostly ignores it Microsoft is not giving up on its controversial Windows Recall, though says it will give customers an option to opt in instead of having it on by default, and will beef up the security of any data the software stores....

This one only produces errors 65 percent of the time. Woo-hoo! The issue of quantum supremacy - the point at which quantum computers are able to demonstrate a tangible advantage over classical systems - is dicey to say the least....

Company says just names and SSNs affected, watering down RansomHub's claims Frontier Communications has confirmed more than 750,000 individuals were affected in an April cyberattack on its systems, according to a regulatory filing....

And you thought the Raspberry Pi 5 was getting expensive... The Raspberry Pi IPO could see the company given a market capitalization of 540 million ($686 million) amid speculation that shares may be priced around 2.80 ($3.56)....