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Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027
That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else Japanese foundry upstart Rapidus says it's on track to begin volume production of 2nm process tech after achieving a major milestone this week....
Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state
And we're the ones building it Comment A tech executive's alleged affair exposed on a stadium jumbotron is ripe fodder for the gossip rags, but it exhibits something else: proof that we need not wait for an AI-fueled dystopian surveillance state to descend on us - we're perfectly able and willing to surveil ourselves....
YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims
Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device Apple has sued tech YouTuber Jon Prosser for allegedly leaking iOS 26 information to the public ahead of its reveal at WWDC in June....
Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live
Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters Oracle began incentivizing perpetual licenses in favor of subscription deals as it introduced its database systems via rival cloud vendors, say licensing experts....
As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out
WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably Analysis WeTransfer this week denied claims it uses files uploaded to its ubiquitous cloud storage service to train AI, and rolled back changes it had introduced to its Terms of Service after they deeply upset users. The topic? Granting licensing permissions for an as-yet-unreleased LLM product....
Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus
2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time Rescuezilla 2.6.1 has introduced a new version based on the latest interim Ubuntu release, while also updating its existing builds on older versions....
Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight
With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire? Comment The UK's ambition to become a global AI superpower hinges on a vibrant and competitive cloud market. The next few days will show if its competition regulator really appreciates both the pace of change and the scale of remedies needed to achieve both of these things....
The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement
We spoke to the smoot's namesake Interview On a chilly October evening in 1958, a group of MIT students shuffled onto the Harvard Bridge, which separates the university town of Cambridge from Boston proper. The shortest among them lay down on the sidewalk at the bridge's start, his friends marked his length, he got up, moved forward, and repeated the process....
‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’
This job was a car wreck in more than one way On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your terrifying tech support stories....
EU cloud gang wins Microsoft concessions, but fair software licensing group brands them 'stalling tactic'
Pay-as-you-go model, privacy protections agreed - but critics say it just buys 'Microsoft more time to lock in customers' A trade group of European cloud providers has claimed a small victory in bringing lower prices and more flexibility in deploying Microsoft software on their infrastructure, though the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing has blasted it as a "stalling tactic" by the software giant....
VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support
Analysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation VMware on Wednesday announced it has extended the time between major releases from two years to three and extended support for those releases to six years....
OpenAI deputizes ChatGPT to serve as an agent that uses your computer
LLM given keys to the web, told to behave and observe safeguards OpenAI's ChatGPT has graduated from chatbot to agent, at least for paying subscribers....
Laid-off AWS employee describes cuts as 'cold and soulless'
Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy's predictions that automation would cost jobs at the company have proven accurate at Amazon Web Services....
Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China
Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed individuals in China it accuses of breaking into more than 10 million devices worldwide and using them to build a botnet, called BadBox 2.0, and then to carry out other cybercrimes and fraud....
AWS previews AgentCore to jumpstart enterprise AI agents
Running on Amazon Bedrock, it aims to pave the path from prototype to production Video Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday previewed a service called Bedrock AgentCore to help organizations put AI agents into business-ready production....
TSMC aims to make 30% of high-end chips in US with Arizona fab build out
Shovels in the dirt at Fab 3 as Fab 2's 3nm ramp charges in several quarters early TSMC says it will ramp up production at its second fab site in Arizona earlier than initially expected as it looks to shift nearly a third of its leading-edge wafer output stateside....
Watch out, another max-severity, make-me-root Cisco bug on the loose
Three perfect 10s in the last month - ISE, ISE, baby Cisco has issued a patch for a critical 10 out of 10 severity bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to run arbitrary code on the operating system with root-level privileges....
FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables
Maybe finish ripping and replacing your telco networks first? Uncle Sam has decided it's time to free US-connected undersea cables from Chinese influence....
PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle
Linking can be helpful - but not always... while disinformation can spread like a virus Beware: the people behind PuTTY, the renowned FOSS SSH client for Windows, are not the same people as those behind the PUTTY.ORG website....
Fujitsu sorry for Post Office horror – but still cashing big UK govt checks
Non-competitive 220M datacenter deal with tax collector tops 510M pile of public money Fujitsu has been awarded around 510 million ($682 million) in UK public sector contracts since a TV dramatization of the Horizon Post Office scandal - including a recent 220 million ($294 million) deal with the UK tax collector, awarded without competition....
Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog
Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016....
Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x
New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Intel Labs, and d-Matrix could significantly reduce the cost of serving up your favorite large language model (LLM) with just a few lines of code....
Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists
The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity Scientists have analyzed data gathered from CERN's Large Hadron Collider to advance our understanding of why anything exists....
Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian
It did get sourced, but nobody cared The result of the pioneering joint Psion and Nokia smartphone effort is still out there on GitHub....
Microsoft offers vintage Exchange and Skype server users six more months of security updates
It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out - for a price that might buy nothing Microsoft has extended its security update programs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, and Skype for Business 2015 and 2019....
Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor
Bayesian optimizations apparently build better slabs Social media giant Meta has created an AI model to come up with new forms of concrete and used one of the resulting recipes to underpin a new bit barn....
Intel swings the axe again as it looks to lose 5,000 staff
Our sources tell us mostly back office staff were let go, and that the mood in the office is very pessimistic Updated Intel has filed documents that reveal plans to fire around 5,000 staff, mostly in California and Oregon....
Trump tax law keeps Bill Gates' nuclear datacenter dreams alive
The Microsoft cofounder breathed that sigh of relief in a Cipher News interview - just before it folded Despite Trump's budget bill slashing many mature clean-energy tax credits, Bill Gates is less worried, since new nuclear incentives, including those his TerraPower venture will leverage, survived intact....
Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network
'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization' Ukrainian hackers claim to have taken out the IT infrastructure at Russia's Gaskar Integration plant, one of the largest suppliers of drones for its army, and also destroyed massive amounts of technical data related to drone production....
Operation Eastwood shutters 100+ servers used to DDoS websites supporting Ukraine
Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out International cops shut down more than 100 servers belonging to the pro-Russian NoName057(16) network this week as part of the Europol-led Operation Eastwood....
Ex-OpenAI engineer pulls the curtain back on a chaotic hot mess
'Everything breaks when you scale that quickly' Thank heavens for former OpenAI engineers inspired to blog about their time at the famously secretive firm, for without them we would have no idea what a wild mess it is in there....
Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all
Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three There was a disturbance in the force on July 14 after Cloudflare borked a configuration change that resulted in an outage, impacting internet services across the planet....
Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong?
Westinghouse taps Big G's cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming While AI systems are known to spew wrong information and make up facts, Google and Westinghouse Electric are now pressing generative AI models into service to transform how nuclear reactors are constructed and optimize their operation....
JWST peers through dusty curtain to catch young star making baby planets
Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped provide a snapshot of the formation of a planetary system around a young star for the first time, according to astroboffins....
Crims hijacking fully patched SonicWall VPNs to deploy stealthy backdoor and rootkit
Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark Updated Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group....
Google's Android boss suggests ChromeOS could be on borrowed time
Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered Google's Android president has confirmed the platform is set to replace ChromeOS - but not when....
ASML shares tumble as US tariff turmoil rattles investors
AI boom can't mask trade gloom, says Dutch lithography giant World War Fee Shares in ASML fell by more than 8 percent after it warned that tariff uncertainty over future trade was increasing and net sales were down on the previous quarter....
Retailer Co-op: Attackers snatched all 6.5M member records
Supermarket announces white hat education scheme as four suspects released on bail Co-op Group's chief executive officer has confirmed that all 6.5 million of the organization's members had their data stolen during its April cyberattack - Scattered Spider is believed to be behind the digital heist....
Turbulence at Air Serbia, the latest airline under cyber siege
Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory Exclusive Aviation insiders say Serbia's national airline, Air Serbia, was forced to delay issuing payslips to staff as a result of a cyberattack it is battling....
UK tech minister negotiated nothing with Google. He may get even less than that
Peter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power Comment Last week, UK minister for science, innovation and technology Peter Kyle spoke at Google Cloud Summit in London to tell the audience: "Now, sometimes I'm accused of being 'too close to big tech'," with the Chocolate Factory's multi-colored logo looming behind him....
Security shop Adarma ceases trading, confirms it will enter administration
Former staffers of struggling UK biz say they don't expect to be paid for July UK cybersecurity shop Adarma has confirmed it has entered administration....
If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake – forever
CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line Column Agentic AI will make jobs - but many will involve picking its failures off automated conveyor belts....
VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out
Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today Exclusive VMware has advised partners its current channel program will end, and it seems that smaller players won't be invited back....
Starlink says SpaceX targeting 2026 for launch of Starship-ready terabit satellites
Network update reports median 25 ms latency - in the US - as capacity rockets upwards Elon Musk's space broadband service Starlink has hinted that Elon Musk's Starship will be ready for commercial flights in 2026....
Uber to roll out thousands of robo-cabs built by China’s Baidu
Coming soon, somewhere in the Middle East or Asia Rideshare OG Uber has announced a plan to roll out thousands" of robo-taxis from Chinese tech giant Baidu....
AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China
Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish The US government has cleared AMD to resume exporting some accelerators to China....
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop
Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop....
Ex-US soldier who Googled 'can hacking be treason' pleads guilty to extortion
File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime A former US Army soldier, who reportedly hacked AT&T, bragged about accessing President Donald Trump's call logs, and then Googled "can hacking be treason," and "US military personnel defecting to Russia," pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into telecom firms' databases and extort at least $1 million....
German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk
Let us delve swiftly into meticulous inquiry with our AI masters Like it or not, ChatGPT and other large language models are changing the world, including affecting how we speak, claims a group of researchers, and the end results could be an erosion of linguistic and cultural diversity....
Mistral launches Voxtral speech recognition model
Apache-licensed plan takes aim at costlier options Mistral has released an open automatic speech recognition (ASR) software bundle called Voxtral in a bid to undercut rivals on price and quality....
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