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Aims to expand optical networking biz, particularly in North America Nokia is set to buy optical networking biz Infinera in a $2.3 billion transaction, the companies have confirmed....

Tech giants can't play the RAG-time blues until they pay their dues - in this case to quality publishers OpenAI and Google on Thursday independently announced fresh collaborations with major publishers as they work to expand paid access to information used by their AI products and services....

Cooling tech left to sweat the details AI is currently the big driver in datacenter investment and will push capital expenditure on the facilities up by nearly 30 percent this year, and is also on track to become the top server workload by deployment within a few years....

Get your hands off my computer, Microsoft! Opinion I've been pointing out Windows security bugs since Windows for Workgroups showed up in 1992 and I showed how you could steal data from your coworker's spreadsheets using Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). You'd think Microsoft would have figured security out by now....

And ordered so rudely this techie had little interest in sticking around to fix the subsequent chaos On Call Techies are often beset by undeserving and despicable dolts who demand daunting feats of tech support. Which is why each Friday The Register brings you a fresh instalment of On Call - the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of defeating those dunderheads....

Simple jailbreak prompt can bypass safety guardrails on major models Microsoft on Thursday published details about Skeleton Key - a technique that bypasses the guardrails used by makers of AI models to prevent their generative chatbots from creating harmful content....

When your chatbots outshine their human trainers, you could pay for expertise ... or just augment your crowdsourced workforce To help catch code errors made by ChatGPT, OpenAI uses human AI trainers in the hope of improving the model. To help the human trainers, OpenAI has developed another AI model called CriticGPT - in case the humans don't spot the mistakes....

Staff were told of lucrative partnership before the rest of us Infosys CEO Salil Parekh has agreed to pay a fine of 25 lakh ($30,000) for failing to implement adequate insider trading controls, according to Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) documents filed on Wednesday....

This has happened before after Moscow made a mess with a missile Astronauts on the International Space Station were told to duck and cover on Thursday after a Russian satellite broke up....

No supply-chain attacks to see over here! After having its website shut down, the polyfill.io owner is fighting back against claims it smuggled suspicious code onto websites all across the internet....

Normally it's the iGiant's prices that give the ol' ticker a hard time A quartet of heart doctors are trying to resuscitate health-monitoring tech outfit AliveCor's antitrust lawsuit regarding the Apple Watch, by arguing changes made to the iMaker's gadget "resulted in a loss of access to a potentially life-saving product."...

Claims customer data, prod environment not affected as NCC sounds alarm TeamViewer on Thursday said its security team just "detected an irregularity" within one of its networks - which is a fancy way of saying someone broke in....

Software techie claims he was snubbed because he wasn't on an H-1B Meta is headed for a legal showdown after judges ruled a hiring discrimination case in the US shouldn't have been dismissed and can go to trial....

Should you stay or should you go now? If Rosenworcel gets her way, there won't be trouble Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....

Taxi app wants to prove it itself is cheaper, greener than owning a motor Comment Uber is launching a month-long trial dubbed the "One Less Car" challenge to demonstrate people are better off using its app-hailed rides rather than each owning a personal vehicle....

Now the 2028 deadline is at risk Engineers at the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) continue to ignore concerns about their next-generation missile interceptors, leaving serious technical shortcomings on the table and threatening the program's 2028 deadline....

Why all three at once? Blame Syniverse - everyone else is AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US are today experiencing international roaming outages, leaving at least some American subscribers unable to use their phones as they expect while overseas....

Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025 Nokia is planning to sell off its undersea internet cable business unit to France....

The database Big Blue doesn't like to talk about gets makeover in November IBM likes to be secretive about Db2, the 41-year-old database still used by some of the world's largest banks and retailers, but occasionally something leaks out....

Bot's arm used to free instrument's dust cover and return to science NASA engineers have performed another remarkable feat of remote debugging and restored the SHERLOC instrument of the Perseverance Mars rover to operation....

Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks Intel has demonstrated an optical chiplet co-packaged with a CPU capable of supporting 4 Tbps data links to feed the increasing datacenter bandwidth requirements of AI and high performance computing (HPC) applications....

Congressman warns tech is getting the 'Huawei Playbook' treatment US Congress members warned against Chinese dominance of the drone industry on Wednesday, elevating the threat posed by Beijing's control of the technology as similar to that of semiconductors and ships....

Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking Anthropic wants governments to think of it when they want AI to make the world a better place. No, seriously....

Tour of recovery options not supposed to be part of KB5039302 Microsoft has pulled a Windows 11 update after users reported boot loops and startup failures....

Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern The UK wing of Atos, the ailing IT services provider that has scored billions of pounds in government contracts locally, has pointed to a "material uncertainty" over its ability to continue trading as a going concern....

SpaceX wins contract for 'deorbit vehicle' at a pleasing price Elon Musk's SpaceX has won a NASA contract to de-orbit the International Space Station (ISS)....

Raymond Chen on cutting loose with a copy of the code Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has dropped another nugget of Microspeak - the "fun fork."...

Pay up or go away, pretty please? For many Reddit has become the go to repository of community and crowdsourced knowledge, a fact that has no doubt made it a prime target for AI startups desperate for training data....

15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs - helped by switches with custom heat sinks Exclusive Alibaba Cloud has revealed the design of an Ethernet-based network it created specifically to carry traffic for training large language models - and has used in production for eight months....

Cultural traditions clash with manufacturing ambitions Updated India's Ministry of Labor and Employment has ordered an investigation of Foxconn - the contract manufacturer supplier also known as Hon Hai Precision and one of Apple's main suppliers - after reports emerged alleging the company will not hire married women to work at its main iPhone assembly plant on the subcontinent....

NAS vendors, healthcare software vendors, and government buyers join the march to silicon sovereignty Chinese chip shop Loongson, which has built modest CPUs based on its own MIPS-like architecture, is on the march towards enterprise workloads....

KT may have had an entire team dedicated to infecting its own customers A South Korean media outlet has alleged that local telco KT deliberately infected some customers with malware due to their excessive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading tools....

Russian national accused of attacks in lead-up to the Ukraine war The US Department of Justice has indicted a 22-year-old Russian for allegedly attacking Ukrainian government computers and destroying critical infrastructure systems in the so-called WhisperGate" wiper attack that preceded Russia's illegal invasion of the European nation....

Letter from Einstein, vintage space suit, and ancient computers all up for sale The estate of the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has decided to close Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the Seattle site which housed his beloved collection of vintage technology....

Pocket-change settlements of $6M and $35M await approval in July Apple is preparing to settle two lawsuits next month over alleged iPhone flaws, provided the respective judges agree to the terms of the deals....

OneCoin co-founder allegedly bilked investors out of $4B in digicash Uncle Sam has put a $5 million bounty on any information leading to the arrest or conviction of self-titled "CryptoQueen" Ruja Ignatova, who is wanted in the US for apparently bilking victims out of more than $4 billion in what the Feds describe as the "one of the largest global fraud schemes in history."...

Less than an hour's profit - that sends a strong message for emergency cover America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Verizon a little over a million dollars for failing to route 911 calls during a cellular outage....

Believe it or not, this is modest relative to other predictions A study predicts that US power consumption from datacenters will more than double by 2030....

President Xi tells nation that battle for tech dominance, game between 'international powers' are 'intertwined' US efforts to curb China's advanced chip industries may be having an effect, amid claims that Huawei is having difficulty ramping up production of its Ascend 910B accelerator. The news comes as China's president aims to bolster the country's self-reliance in key technologies including chips....

White House can get back to asking Facebook and co to kindly bin off what the Feds say is misinformation The US Supreme Court has reversed a prior decision barring federal agencies from coordinating with social media platforms to fight misinformation, on the grounds the plaintiffs in the case lacked standing to argue it to begin with....

Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them The US has convicted the 24-year-old leader of an international robbery crew that kidnapped and terrorized wealthy victims during home invasions that were carried out to steal cryptocurrency tokens....

$137M needed to overhaul Play Store too great to bear, Google argues. Oh, and user security is important, too Google has asked a California judge to deny Epic Games' requested remedies after the Play Store was found to be an illegal monopoly, arguing the changes would be too costly and create new security risks for Android users....

After Databricks snaffled Iceberg-linked Tabular, CEO insists there are more than two horses in this race OneHouse, a data lake company based around the open source Apache Hudi table format, has secured $35 million in Series B funding led by Craft Ventures....

The FLX1 runs its own build of 'Trixie' but has an Android layer DEVCONF.CZ Furi Labs' FLX1 is a Debian-based smartphone with decent specs at a competitive price....

Because if there's one thing it really needed more of... Google on Wednesday rolled out additional enterprise browser management features to help IT admins to keep corporate browsing software fit for purpose....

Hey, OneDrive! Leave my files alone User data is being slurped into Microsoft's cloud via OneDrive folder backup without user permission....

Experts say 'circular economy strategies' could keep demand at 2015 levels Demand for raw materials to make electric vehicles will triple by 2050, while lithium-ion batteries could account for more than half the total resources needed for the auto industry by the same date, research from Japan has found....

Exploit attempts for devastating' vulnerabilities already underway Thought last year's MOVEit hellscape was well and truly behind you? Unlucky, buster. We're back for round two after Progress Software lifted the lid on fresh vulnerabilities affecting MOVEit Transfer and Gateway....

Time for plan B (or will it be C?) Crisis-stricken Atos says the chosen bailout proposal from its largest shareholder has fallen through, just weeks after being confirmed, leaving the IT services biz to consider two alternative bids....

Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia's H100 in Llama 70B ... assuming it's actually built Following ChatGPT's debut in late 2022, GPUs - Nvidia's in particular - have become synonymous with generative AI....