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Phony LinkedIn recruitment ads? Groundbreaking Chinese government snoops - hiding behind the guise of fake consulting companies - are actively trying to recruit the thousands upon thousands of US federal employees who have been fired since President Trump took office....

Crooks must be licking their lips at the possibilities Uncle Sam's consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would've treated certain data brokers as credit bureaus, forcing them to follow stricter laws when flogging Americans' sensitive data....

Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss? Elon Musk's xAI has apologized after its Grok generative chat-bot started spouting baseless conspiracy theories about White genocide in response to unrelated questions....

Python, TypeScript, Azure SDK devs among those let go Microsoft's recent round of layoffs appears to have fallen largely on software developers, including several prominent Python developers and a veteran TypeScript developer....

An overdependence on hyperscalers and a mountain of debt could pull the rug out Comment CoreWeave this week said it would plow between $20 and $23 billion into GPU bit barns by year's end in order to meet growing demand from model builders and hyperscalers....

Tax bods characterize it more as a brainstorming session, says Elon's unit wasn't involved Congressional Democrats are again demanding answers from a federal agency over whether DOGE's latest tech makeover could put taxpayer data at risk....

Epic's latest submission blocked right after CEO offered truce with Cupertino Apple has blocked Epic Games' submission of Fortnite, just as it was set to return to iOS in the US. Now it cannot be found in the US App Store nor via the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union....

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away Microsoft is pulling the free MS365 Business Premium licenses granted to non-profits and replacing them with Business Basic and discounts for its other services....

'We hope it makes attendees feel safe reporting violations' A Seattle court this week dismissed with prejudice the defamation case brought against DEF CON and its organizer Jeff Moss by former conference stalwart Christopher Hadnagy....

Extending all the dumped devices' lives by 12 months? Like taking 2M cars off the road each year Tech buyers should purchase refurbished devices to push vendors to make hardware more repairable and help the shift to a more circular economy, according to a senior analyst at IDC....

The tech biz was in the process of dropping the payroll company as it learned of the breach EXCLUSIVE A ransomware attack at a Middle Eastern business partner of payroll company ADP has led to customer data theft at Broadcom, The Register has learned....

Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained Microsoft is offering to make a series of concessions for up to ten years to pacify European Commission antitrust regulators. This follows protests from users that tying Teams with its biz productivity applications hinders competition....

CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacity The UK needs more nuclear energy generation just to power all the AI datacenters that are going to be built, according to the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS)....

We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers If at first you don't succeed, transform, transform, and transform again is the corporate motto at Atos these days. The lumbering French-based megacorp has created another blueprint to return to its glory days, and it includes job cuts, offshoring and... AI....

Success of UK's Universal Credit has lessons for government IT projects, former minister claims Former UK government minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith has told a committee of MPs that the digitization of Universal Credit is a success story other government departments can learn from....

DPM signs off 96MW bit barn, citing national policy shift The British government has stepped in to overturn a local council's refusal of a proposed datacenter on green belt land, citing updated national planning policy that urges councils to find space for bit barns, labs, gigafactories, and other strategic infrastructure....

After UK spends hundreds of millions, several say existing systems are better English hospitals are voicing their concern about the functionality provided by Palantir, the US spy-tech firm that won a 330 million ($437 million) deal to run the Federated Data Platform for NHS England, as around a third of trusts go live on the system....

Self-taught coders who work in HR and have a doctorate in English tend to do that On Call Bosses often ask IT pros to clean up messes made by amateurs, and in this week's On Call - The Register's reader-contributed tech support column - we have just such a tale to tell....

Gives both platforms the generative AI will freshen it up and shift it to the cloud' treatment In 2017 Amazon Web Services and VMware were best buddies as they launched a combined cloud service. In 2025 AWS is dismissing Virtzilla as a legacy outfit that needs to be re-platformed to the cloud ASAP before it sinks your business....

Fears surrendering to GenAI makes humans less competitive Science fiction author Neal Stephenson has suggested AIs should be allowed to fight other AIs, because evolution brings balance to ecosystems, but also thinks humans should stop using AI before it dumbs down our species....

Lawyers prepare to get suited and booted if 'Plan B' to address unfair competition claims is a no show Microsoft has failed to deliver a special version of Azure for EU cloud providers on time, raising the specter of legal action if it is unable to devise a "commercially equivalent solution" in less than two months' time....

Cupertino's plan to spend $500bn stateside wasn't enough to placate the tycoon of tariffs US president Donald Trump has told Apple CEO Tim Cook he has a problem with his plan to manufacture iThings in India....

They're smishing, they're vishing The FBI has warned that fraudsters are impersonating "senior US officials" using deepfakes as part of a major fraud campaign....

Entire process took less than five minutes, prosecutors say A former DoorDash driver has pleaded guilty to participating in a $2.59 million scheme that used fake accounts, insider access to reassign orders, and bogus delivery reports to trigger payouts for food that was never delivered....

Failure could've triggered a small explosion NASA has revived a set of thrusters on the nearly 50-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft after declaring them inoperable over two decades ago....

AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spat An attorney defending AI firm Anthropic in a copyright case brought by music publishers apologized to the court on Thursday for citation errors that slipped into a filing after using the biz's own AI tool, Claude, to format references....

Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you Proposed legislation gaining steam in Congress this week would require high-end GPUs and AI chips to include location-tracking safeguards to ensure US-designed components don't end up in nations against Uncle Sam's wishes, with exporters on the hook for compliance....

Surely Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has nothing to do with it US immigration officials say they are winning the war on H-1B fraud - and say they've got the numbers to prove it....

DragonForce-riding ransomware ring also has 'shiny object syndrome' so will likely move on to another sector soon Interview The same miscreants behind recent cyberattacks on British retailers are now trying to dig their claws into major American retailers' IT environments - and in some cases even deploying ransomware, according to Google....

Expert tells us: 'It is the most unique breach disclosure I've ever seen' Coinbase says some of its overseas support staff were paid off to steal information on behalf of cybercriminals, and the company is now being extorted for $20 million....

Sometimes, less information is more In its latest gambit to reduce the noise of unnecessary security alerts, Socket has acquired Coana, a startup founded in 2022 by researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark that tells users which vulnerabilities they can safely ignore....

Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms Microsoft is retiring Bing Search APIs on August 11, directing customers toward AI products as an alternative....

Lessons learned from last year's security snafu interview Being the chief information security officer at Snowflake is never an easy job, but last spring it was especially challenging....

Aiming for the stars, but sometimes hitting the Caribbean SpaceX supremo Elon Musk says the next Starship will launch next week, however, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hasn't yet given it the green light....

Probe indicates it was all over for Bayesian in just 9 minutes An interim report by the UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has indicated that extreme wind was to blame for the sinking of the yacht Bayesian, claiming the lives of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter, and five others....

MEWSIC to Brit crews' ears will see off anti-ship missiles, among other things Britain's Royal Navy is to get updated electromagnetic warfare (EW) capabilities including launchable decoys to help defend its vessels against threats such as modern anti-ship missiles....

Linux types mobilize website to help people avoid creating more e-waste The "End of 10" website is a cooperative effort to let people know that they have other options besides buying a new computer....

Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes Interview Version 8.1 of Valkey was recently released, marking a year since the creation of the Redis fork. Valkey's co-maintainer, Madelyn Olson, is looking ahead to version 9 as the project settles down....

AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn't thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, too Google's AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its "evolutionary coding agent" powered by large language models to discover and optimize algorithms....

Would you believe it, this RaaS cartel says Russia is off limits DragonForce, a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service operation, has given organizations another cyber threat to worry about - unless they're in Russia, which is off limits to the would-be extortionists....

IT department keeps the infrastructure. Then this new persona takes over and handles the AI stuff Some organizations have started hiring for a new tech job: The Machine Learning Administrator - aka the ML admin"....

Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with less Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough high-end GPUs to train new AI models for years, in part because it's found more efficient ways to do so....

Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster Interview After some teething pains, TensorWave CEO Darrick Horton is confident that AMD's Instinct accelerators are ready to take on large-scale AI training....

More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundant Comment Cost-trimming in the US federal government is all the rage right now - and a new report finds more than $100 million in savings available to the Feds by doing nothing but eliminating redundant and unnecessary IT investments....

Ransomware or critical infra hit? Top US manufacturer maintains steely silence Nucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the US, shut down production operations after discovering its servers had been penetrated....

Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time lucky Intuitive Machines has blamed poor lighting, a problematic altimeter, and difficulties spotting craters for the company's second lunar lander tipping over....

GA date slips out on Japanese site, vanishes from English Red Hat appears to have quietly made RHEL 10 available to paying customers, days ahead of its expected debut at next week's Red Hat Summit....

Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts The future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce....

Nightwing claims insider intel helped secure lucrative CISA work but US says decision is unrelated The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) scrapped a highly lucrative cybersecurity contract originally awarded to Leidos following a legal challenge from rival bidder Nightwing, yet insists the pushback had nothing to do with it....

Ailing chip giant targets 2027 break-even as costly EUV tools raise stakes Intel is wooing external chip customers for its 14A process node to justify the high costs involved, and aims for the foundry division to break even by 2027 - as part of ongoing effort to shake off the struggles of recent years....