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Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator Broadcom has cuddled up with OpenAI as the ChatGPT outfit looks for ever more help building out the vast infrastructure it needs to deliver on its dreams of advanced intelligence - and possibly even a profit some day....

'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site....

All-in-one toolkit or over-ambitious feature creep? You decide Version 1.3 of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit has landed, pushing forward the project's goal to consolidate fragmented JavaScript toolchains into a single solution. Yet the rapid expansion has some developers questioning whether Bun is trying to do too much, too fast....

Salesforce CEO praises Trump before walking back criticism of city's policing San Francisco's political establishment rounded on Marc Benioff over the weekend after the Salesforce founder backed the idea of sending in the National Guard to clean up the city's streets....

GPU-based timing attack inspired by decade-old iframe technique Security researchers have resurrected a 12-year-old data-stealing attack on web browsers to pilfer sensitive info from Android devices....

Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data....

Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await SpaceX is counting down to today's 11th flight test of its monster Starship rocket, with weather looking suitable for the opening of the launch window at 18:15 CT (or around 17:00 CT, if the company's billionaire boss is to be believed)....

Bid for transparency on consumption evaporates with Newsom veto California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation requiring data centers to disclose their water consumption, even as he champions efforts to address the state's water scarcity challenges....

Beijing insists it's business as usual - Washington might see it differently China's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing....

Microsoft admits its media creation tool 'might not work as expected' Microsoft has broken its own Windows 11 media creation tool just as millions of users face a deadline to abandon Windows 10 - and with less than 24 hours until support officially ends....

Parent firm's cash keeps division afloat as Post Office inquiry nears final report Fujitsu's UK business has received 280 million ($374 million) in equity from its Japanese owner in the last two years to meet ongoing funding and capital requirements....

Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork Ofcom, the UK's Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan 20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content....

Minister invokes powers to stop firm shifting knowledge to China, citing governance shortcomings The Dutch government has placed Nexperia - a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain's Newport Wafer Fab - under special administrative measures, citing serious governance failures that threaten European tech security....

Even if you never use it, you'll be paying for it thanks to datacenters' never-ending hunger for electricity Opinion When I was a wet-behind-the-ears developer running my programs on an IBM 360, a mainframe that was slower than a Raspberry Pi Zero W, my machine used about 50 kilowatts (kW). I thought that was a lot of power. Little did I know what was coming....

Also, DraftKings gets stuffed, Zimbra collab software exploited again, and Apple bug bounties balloon in brief A bipartisan Senate duo has introduced a bill to revive and extend America's cyber threat-sharing law for another ten years after its authorization lapsed during the government shutdown....

Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-off The government-owned company that runs the UK's most important nuclear site is weighing up whether to keep its legacy SAP software running beyond the vendor's extended support deadline....

Getting swallowed by a whale is a life-changing event no matter what the whale says Opinion The successful, sector-defining, open source Italian embedded platform provider Arduino had a little bash in Turin recently. It made a few announcements, including a new single-board computer (SBC) with a Qualcomm system on a chip (SoC). Oh, and that it had been bought by American dragon-themed mobile chip monster Qualcomm in a deal with total fealty (WTF)....

Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher The British government is putting out feelers to industry ahead of the procurement process for the country's most powerful supercomputer, set to begin next year....

Illicit colo cleanup seemed like a good way to get out of the house during Covid Who, Me? Welcome to another week of nimble newsifying from The Register, which as always kicks off the working week with a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes that almost trashed your career....

Now if Lip Bu Tan can just find a willing customer deep dive Not long after rejoining Intel in 2021, former CEO Pat Gelsinger announced an ambitious plan to reinvent the chipmaker as a contract semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse....

Nuclear power is getting hot, but don't hold your breath for everlasting batteries A venture capital fund is looking for ideas that are out of bounds for traditional investors, seeding technology that may only come to fruition decades down the line, but where researchers can show real results in the lab....

You can't always get what you want Most corporate laptop fleets consist primarily of PCs. However, there's always a contingent of users who beg for Macs. Deciding who gets a Mac in your organization involves balancing IT's need for simplicity, finance's requirement to keep costs under control, and users' desire to work with their preferred tools....

Researchers tracking 2,158 domains hosting YYlaiyu phishing pages Exclusive A Chinese-developed phishing kit hosted on thousands of domains and boasting 97 different brands to make criminals' scams look more believable is driving a surge in financial fraud around the globe, according to security researchers....

AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models....

Does it work? Inconclusive. Still, 55% of business leaders say that adopting AI is worth the impact on workers ai-pocalypse Business leaders are racing to jump aboard the AI bandwagon, and a new study from the British Standards Institute suggests young college grads are being hit hardest....

And they're likely still abusing the same SharePoint flaws for initial access The ransomware gang caught exploiting Microsoft SharePoint zero-days over the summer has added a new tool to its arsenal: Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response app not previously tied to ransomware incidents....

Security team cuts allegedly targeted workers based on race, national origin, age, and whistleblowing Five former members of Kyndryl's internal IT security team have sued the IBM spinoff alleging that they were terminated as part of a campaign targeting employees based on their race, national origin, age, disability, and whistleblowing activities....

Xi to the left of me, Trump is to the right; Huang I am, stuck in the middle with GPUs The US Senate has passed a provision that would give US firms first dibs on advanced chips, just as China tightens customs checks on Nvidia GPUs, leaving the company caught between competing policies across the Pacific....

Usually we'd say patch up... not this time Security research firm Huntress is warning all users of Gladinet's CentreStack and Triofox file-sharing tools to urgently apply an available mitigation, as a zero-day is being actively exploited and there's no patch available....

Viva Insights turns AI guzzling into a leaderboard Microsoft is adding Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights, a tool that lets managers monitor teams to spot those that are gulping down the AI Kool-Aid fastest....

Forescout's phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory - then it quietly shut up shop Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack....

High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stack US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand....

Crooks phish campus staff, slip into HR systems, and quietly reroute paychecks Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems....

Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos NASA's Voyager project could be facing a 26 percent budget cut while the plug is pulled on other programs, according to insiders familiar with the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory....

Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruption Microsoft 365 services toppled over in North America last night due to an infrastructure misconfiguration....

Competition watchdog can now meddle in how the tech giant runs the biggest wing of its organization The UK's competition watchdog has officially slapped Google with "strategic market status," a new legal label that gives the regulator far-reaching powers to rein in how the search giant runs its empire....

Conservative MP told he must not lobby for corporations Rishi Sunak is ready to kick-start his career with a couple of openings in the tech industry, a year after the end of his internship as the prime minister of the world's sixth-largest economy....

US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office....

Prospect apologizes for cyber gaffe affecting up to 160K members UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities....

AI tech not on the hardware compatibility list for now. But future Windows will need it Comment Microsoft has talked up the role played by neural processing units (NPUs) in making Windows more "intelligent," even though the silicon is not currently on the hardware requirements list....

Reputations earned over years of service can work wonders On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories from the frontlines of tech support....

56 bugs across routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers ... time to run for cover A new RondoDox botnet campaign uses an "exploit shotgun" - fire at everything, see what hits - to target 56 vulnerabilities across at least 30 different vendors' routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers, and other network devices, and then infect the buggy gear with malware....

Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on....

Slow down there Andy; you wouldn't want to bump into any hallucinations Despite ongoing concerns over the accuracy, reliability, and trustworthiness of AI in the enterprise, Amazon believes that if it can just make building agents easier for the average worker, they'll be automating the boring parts of their job in no time....

A new spin on workflow automation as Chocolate Factory tries to displace Microsoft as the enterprise go-to Google on Thursday announced the launch of Gemini Enterprise, a platform for automating business workflows using the company's Gemini family of machine learning models....

The miscreants started their attack all the way back on July 10 The raid on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) likely began as early as July - about three months before any public detections - with extortionists compromising "dozens" of organizations, a Google investigation has determined....

More kids see AI as a friend or romantic interest, but few teachers know how to deal with the fallout, study finds Today's students are using AI for everything from tutoring to therapy to romance. A new study warns the tech may be dulling kids' social skills quietly, like booze on the brain....

Houston, we have a custody battle Exclusive The war of words over the possible relocation of Space Shuttle Discovery has ratcheted up, with the office of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) telling The Register that the orbiter belongs in Houston "whether the woke Smithsonian and its cronies in Congress like it or not."...

AI assistant could be duped into leaking code and tokens via sneaky markdown GitHub's Copilot Chat, the chatbot meant to help developers code faster, could be helping attackers to steal code instead....

No word on why the outsourced supplier was storing this data in the first place Communication platform provider Discord has admitted that around 70,000 users had their government IDs stolen as part of its recent data breach....