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Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out Five popular AI models all show signs of bias toward viewpoints promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, and censor material it finds distasteful, according to a new report....

Charming Kitten unsheathes its claws and tries to catch credentials The cyber-ops arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has started a spear-phishing campaign intent on stealing credentials from Israeli journalists, cybersecurity experts, and computer science professors from leading Israeli universities....

Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft's Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL....

Rabo's Catlog' smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app A Japanese company called Rabo that makes a smart collar for cats and uses the motto Because nine lives are never enough" has started using AI to monitor feline stress levels....

The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022 Updated The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers (ICANN) has demanded the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) explain why the nomination committee overseeing its board elections suspended voting, or face disciplinary action....

Lip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher Intel is shuttering its automotive efforts and laying off the bulk of the team responsible....

Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free The US State Department last week said foreign nationals seeking to study in the US must make their social media profiles public, prompting some students to delete their social media posts....

Two emergency patches issued in two weeks Hot on the heels of patching a critical bug in Citrix-owned Netscaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that one security researcher dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," the embattled networking device vendor today issued an emergency patch for yet another super-serious flaw in the same products - but not before criminals found and exploited it as a zero-day....

Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack Analysis If you thought AI networks weren't complicated enough, the rise of rack-scale architectures from the likes of Nvidia, AMD, and soon Intel has introduced a new layer of complexity....

It's meant to cut down on false positives but could be a trove for mischief-makers Ring doorbells and cameras are using AI to "learn the routines of your residence," via a new feature called Video Descriptions....

New UI library has 23 years of history - and unexpected roots Cosmoe is a modern C++ UI library, but it's also a new iteration of a project with roots in one of the most elegant GUIs ever written....

A bottomless appetite for tracking people as 'objects' A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s....

Who is the third party that does the thing in our thing? Yep. Attacks explode over past year The vast majority of global businesses are handling at least one material supply chain attack per year, but very few are doing enough to counter the growing threat....

Millions of customers left speechless Britain's Three mobile network has suffered a major outage, with voice calls out of action and limitations on texting....

Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22% Hyperscale operators are expected to account for 61 percent of all datacenter capacity by 2030, thanks in part to the growth of cloud services and rising demand for compute to feed AI....

Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums....

Learning from the lessons of the past interview Anuj Kapur, CEO of DevOps darling CloudBees, reckons that AI could retest the founding assumptions of DevOps as a whole, but warns against the risk of creating black-boxed code in the pursuit of greater efficiency. He also says that some customers who rushed into AI-generated code for fear of missing out (FOMO) are starting to slow down and be more considered....

Or your cloud-bound soul. Otherwise, $30 please Microsoft has found a new use for Reward Points - and another incentive to upload everything you hold dear to someone else's servers....

Just like people Anthropic published research last week showing that all major AI models may resort to blackmail to avoid being shut down - but the researchers essentially pushed them into the undesired behavior through a series of artificial constraints that forced them into a binary decision....

Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft Three American hyperscalers are the gatekeepers to AI, as they possess the necessary compute infrastructure and access to the volumes of data required to train and deploy models at scale....

Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up British MPs and peers are questioning the government's decision to continue accepting bids for large-scale IT contracts from Fujitsu, despite the Japanese supplier's previous pledge to stop bidding....

Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme....

Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy The UK central bank is expecting a 45 percent hike in the maximum cost of support services as it moves to the cloud and executes a revised data and analytics plan....

NetAdmins may be mere years away from devolving into babysitters for bots Not all the autonomous agentic AI that HPE announced at its annual Discover conference this week is live and ready for customers, but don't tell that to the Aruba networking group - whose enthusiasm outpaces its parent company's, at least in terms of talking points....

Fork that - 5k+ times Anthropic says it won't fix an SQL injection vulnerability in its SQLite Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that a researcher says could be used to hijack a support bot and prompt the AI agent to send customer data to an attacker's email, among other things....

Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks NASA is struggling to meet all the goals of its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan, the effort that aims to prevent humanity being wiped out by space rocks that hit Earth....

Musk promised a million auto-autos by 2020. He's delivered maybe 10 Video On Monday, Elon Musk proudly launched his often-promised Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, but early videos shot by riders show how far the service lags behind Waymo....

The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the revised version of the NO FAKES Act, reintroduced in April, would be a disaster for free speech and innovation if signed into law....

Why are you even reading this story? Patch now! Citrix patched a critical vulnerability in its NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products that is already being compared to the infamous CitrixBleed flaw exploited by ransomware gangs and other cyber scum, although there haven't been any reports of active exploitation. Yet....

Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copies One of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to scan purchased books to train its Claude AI model, but that pirating content is legally out of bounds....

Fifth and final Crew Dragon ready for first flight to the ISS tomorrow NASA has a launch date for Axiom Mission 4. The much-delayed private astronaut expedition is now targeting for liftoff on Wednesday, June 25....

SPEX Technologies still gets the win, but failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to infringing acts, says order Western Digital has succeeded in having the sum it owed from a patent infringement case reduced from $553 million down to just $1 in post-trial motions, when the judge found the plaintiff's claims had shifted during the course of the litigation....

Say hello to a year's support, but bid goodbye to Pocket The latest Mozilla Firefox is trickling out - and it's an Extended Support Release (ESR)....

A good reminder not to download apps from non-vendor sites Unknown miscreants are distributing a fake SonicWall app to steal users' VPN credentials....

Another OEM has decided we're now in the agentic AI age HPE Discover 2025 In another sign that AI agents have taken over the enterprise zeitgeist, the theme at HPE Discover this year is all about cramming the automated workflow bots anywhere they'll fit, whether or not agentic AI is mature for all use cases....

ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites The second batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites has launched, but Team Bezos has a long way to go to match the coverage of Elon Musk's Starlink....

'Jobright Agent' can apply for jobs on your behalf The jury is still out on whether AI will take your job, but there's a new AI tool that promises to help you find a new one if you're pressed....

'Things will break,' Aviatrix CPO tells El Reg Interview In September, Microsoft will retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure. "It's not quite a Y2K moment," says Aviatrix CPO Chris McHenry, "but things will break."...

Summer Solstice release lands as another distro ditches the old display protocol Depending on who you ask, the recent turbulent times in the world of X11 could be a new dawn - or the eddies around a sinking ship....

20TB of galactic shots a day, backed by Microsofties High on a Chilean mountain the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is, at last, photographing the galaxy and the first shots have found 2,104 new asteroids in the Solar System in its initial ten hours of operation....

Russian judge lets off accused with time served - but others who refused to plead guilty face years in penal colony Four convicted members of the once-supreme ransomware operation REvil are leaving captivity after completing most of their five-year sentences....

CMA roadmap outlines potential restrictions on how ad slinger operates in the country Google is one step closer to strategic market status (SMS) designation in the UK following a proposal from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) regarding search and advertising....

AI boom sparks surge in bit barn funding as firms tout high barriers and sticky clients What do investors find most attractive about datacenters? One of the simple answers is customer lock-in. "When your contracts come to an end, your customers typically prefer to stay at your datacenter," said one asset firm exec....

Split your shell for fun and profit - even over remote connections All the fun of a tiling window manager right on the console, without needing a GUI at all. What's not to like?...

Sales are already surging thanks to Beijing's subsidies and Trump's tariffs China recently launched an initiative to reduce the incidence of obesity in the country, a move analyst firm IDC thinks will fatten the market for smartwatches and smart wristbands....

Nothing startling, even with Google's AI extras Lenovo has released the first Chromebook Plus packing MediaTek's Kompanio Ultra, the system-on-chip that includes a 50 TOPS neural processing unit, and at first glance it looks speedy and includes some AI features but is otherwise mundane....

Gotta keep 'em separated so the marketers and snoops can't come out and play Psylo, which bills itself as a new kind of private web browser, debuted last Tuesday in Apple's App Store, one day ahead of a report warning about the widespread use of browser fingerprinting for ad tracking and targeting....

VMware spin-out is making friends and choosing some enemies Omnissa, the independent company that acquired VMware's former end-user compute portfolio, has tweaked its App Volumes product that packages and deploys desktop apps for use on virtual PCs so it works on physical machines too....

Chinese crew built 1,000+ device network that runs on home devices then targets critical infrastructure A stealthy, ongoing campaign to gain long-term access to networks bears all the markings of intrusions conducted by China's Typhoon' crews and has infected at least 1,000 devices, primarily in the US and South East, according to Security Scorecard's Strike threat intel analysts. And it uses a phony certificate purportedly signed by the Los Angeles police department to try and gain access to critical infrastructure....

Prepping to fight the next war, not the last one video The US Army, alongside British and other NATO partners, is testing the latest counter-drone kit at a training area in Germany. Early feedback is promising, even if most of the hardware isn't American-made....