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How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model
Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not Opinion It's a good rule of nostril that if your litigation department is a source of revenue, your business model stinks. The law is there to discourage delinquent behavior when all else fails, not to amplify power for profit. If there's a better, fairer way to stop naughtiness, you should try that first....
Intern with superuser access 'promoted' himself to CEO
Older and wiser colleagues couldn't see the funny side Who, Me? Aaah ... Monday! That wonderful week-opening day that brings with it so many possibilities. Including, as Register readers know all too well, the chance to make errors that must then be discreetly buried - the subject of our Who, Me?, our weekly reader-contributed tale of career-threatening bullets you've managed to dodge....
VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May
But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content Exclusive VMware by Broadcom will soon launch a new training experience that will offer more training at a fraction of the cost they used to pay."...
China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence
Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too China's main payment systems, Alipay and WeChat Pay, eased access for foreign users on Friday, a day after Beijing issued new guidelines for its payment industry....
Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability
PLUS: NSA shares cloud security tips; Infosec training for Jordanian women; Critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief Cybersecurity researchers informed Microsoft that Notorious North Korean hackers Lazarus Group discovered the "holy grail" of rootkit vulnerabilities in Windows last year, but Redmond still took six months to patch the problem....
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members
PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW AI in brief OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has returned the company's board and will serve alongside three new members....
Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects
For now, have Linux 6.8, which Linus Torvalds could find no reason to delay Linus Torvalds has released version 6.8 of the Linux Kernel....
Singtel loses $260 million tax case in Australia
PLUS: Chinese tops Steam's language charts; HPE opens Saudi server factory; Indian government apps have flaws Asia in brief Australia's Federal Court last Friday dismissed Singtel's appeal against a past ruling that it engaged in transfer pricing and therefore owes millions in tax....
You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B
Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law Machine-learning researchers and legal experts have released SauLM-7B, which they claim is the first text-generating open source large language model specifically focused on legal work and applications....
Biden's State of the Union included a battle cry against AI mimicry
Lots of pats on the back for the CHIPS Act too US president Joe Biden used the State of the Union address on Thursday to call for a ban on AI voice impersonation....
An engine that can conjure thrust from thin air? We speak to the designer
Chatting to Anmol Taploo about the race to develop tech for satellites Interview Will satellites be capable of generating their own thrust with propellant created out of thin air one day? Scientists at the George Washington University (GWU) and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory reckon so....
The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things
All too many 'smart' devices are security stupid Opinion I was one of the first people to use an Internet of Things (IoT) device. It was Carnegie-Mellon's Computer Science Department's Coke machine*. True, I didn't need to check on it since my school, West Virginia University, was 77 miles from CMU, but I thought it was really cool back in the 1970s that I could see what was what with the coke machine over the Internet. That was then. This is now. Today. I'm less than thrilled by the IoT....
Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort
Florida man would rather have app stay so as not to give gift to 'true enemy of the people' ... Zuckerberg Comment If you had to guess, who would you say former US President Donald Trump hates more: China or Mark Zuckerberg?...
Cybercrime crew Magnet Goblin bursts onto the scene exploiting Ivanti holes
Plus: CISA pulls plug on couple of systems feared compromised There's yet another group of miscreants out there hijacking insecure Ivanti devices: A new, financially motivated gang dubbed Magnet Goblin has emerged from the shadowy digital depths with a knack for rapidly exploiting newly disclosed vulnerabilities before vendors have issued a fix....
Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model
Some might say a blessing in disguise Nano, Google's smallest AI model in its generative Gemini series, will not be available on Pixel 8 handsets due to "some hardware limitations."...
Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth
'Luminous phenomena' on the cards, but half a ton of debris could survive A pallet of used batteries from the International Space Station (ISS) is due to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere at some point in the next day, and some parts of the 2.6 metric ton mass are likely to hit the ground....
Is Russia using Starlink in Ukraine? Congress demands answers
And saying Starlink doesn't work inside Russian borders isn't sufficient... Starlink terminals are reportedly being used by both sides in Russia's war against Ukraine, but now Congressional representatives want to know why....
Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems
Still 'no evidence' of any compromised customer-facing systems, we're told Microsoft has now confirmed that the Russian cyberspies who broke into its executives' email accounts stole source code and gained access to internal systems. The Redmond giant also characterized the intrusion as "ongoing."...
Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard
Preview's promise ends in digital dust Microsoft has abruptly pulled a feature from OneDrive that allows users to upload files to the cloud storage service directly from a URL....
Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI
US spy-tech firm at center of UK health data systems applies its technology to altogether different ends Palantir has won a US Army contract worth $178.4 million to house a battlefield intelligence system inside a big truck....
Change Healthcare registers pulse after crippling ransomware attack
Remaining services are expected to return in the coming weeks after $22M ALPHV ransom Change Healthcare has taken the first steps toward a full recovery from the ransomware attack in February by bringing its electronic prescription services back online....
IBM lifts lid on latest bid to halt mainframe skill slips
Workforce aging, systems still mission-critical ... plus Big Blue looking out for its bread and butter IBM is pinning its hopes on some fresh initiatives - the Mainframe Skills Council and the IBM Z Mainframe Skills Depot - to address a shortage of engineers who have big iron expertise ....
Swiss cheese security? Play ransomware gang milks government of 65,000 files
Classified docs, readable passwords, and thousands of personal information nabbed in Xplain breach The Swiss government had around 65,000 files related to it stolen by the Play ransomware gang during an attack on an IT supplier, its National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) says....
IAB Europe's ad consent popups pose privacy problem
Court of Justice of the European Union says consent identifers are personal info, subject to GDPR Online popup solicitations that seek consent for targeted ads in Europe represent personal information, according to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) - a decision characterized as either a "mortal wound" for online ad tracking, or a welcome clarification, depending on whom you ask....
Plummer talks to us about spending Microsoft's money on a red Corvette
A secret message or just random characters on a license plate? Microsoft veteran Dave Plummer has shared a photo of the Corvette bought by Zip folder support work in Windows and reminded us that, 30 years later, some of the code is probably still running in the operating system....
Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway
And soon learned he had won the argument On Call Welcome once more, dear reader, to On Call - The Register's Friday trawl through a mailbag containing stories of your tech support tales....
AI mishaps are surging – and now they're being tracked like software bugs
The Register speaks to the folks behind the AI Incident Database Interview False images of Donald Trump supported by made-up Black voters, middle-schoolers creating pornographic deepfakes of their female classmates, and Google's Gemini chatbot failing to generate pictures of White people accurately....
Euro-cloud consortium issues ultimatum to Microsoft: Fix your licensing or else
Redmond hasn't budged on deals that make its wares cheaper on Azure, and regulators are circling A group of cloud infrastructure providers in Europe has delivered an ultimatum to Microsoft: End the "unjustified feature and pricing discriminations against fair competition" or face legal action....
Broadcom says VMware to grow revenue by double-digit percentages all year
Networking silicon surges, Carbon Black to be kept in the fold Broadcom has told investors its strategy of forcing VMware customers to buy only big bundles of software will see revenue increase by "double-digit percentage sequentially, quarter over quarter, through the rest of the fiscal year."...
Font security 'still a Helvetica of a problem' says Australian graphics outfit Canva
Who knew that unzipping a font archive could unleash a malicious file Online graphic design platform Canva went looking for security problems in fonts, and found three - in "strange places."...
India plans 10,000-GPU sovereign AI supercomputer
Puts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help India's government has approved a 10,300 Crore ($1.24 billion) funding package to bolster the nation's AI infrastructure....
Securing open source software: Whose job is it, anyway?
CISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up The US government and some of the largest open source foundations and package repositories have announced a series of initiatives intended to improve software supply-chain security, while also repeating calls for developers to increase support for such efforts....
Apple may have made itself a target before the EU's Digital Markets Act comes into force
iPhone giant's $2B fine shows the bloc is serious about regulation Experts say Apple has made itself a target for regulators as the EU introduces stringent new rules under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) which just went into effect....
Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout
Safety watchdog bemoans lack of cooperation with probe Boeing has come in for criticism from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) over documentation detailing who was responsible for failures in the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 door plug attachment....
We're not Meta support: State AGs tell Zuck to fix rampant account takeover problem
'We refuse to operate as customer service representatives' A group of 41 US state attorneys general, tired of serving as a customer complaint clearinghouse for Facebook and Instagram users, have sent a letter to Meta asking it to figure out how to reduce a "dramatic and persistent spike" in account takeovers....
Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam
They can't have x86 goliath building military chips out in the open now can they? Intel is on track to receive $3.5 billion in US CHIPS Act funding to produce advanced semiconductors for American military and intelligence programs....
Windows 10 failing to patch properly? You are most definitely not alone
It looks like you're trying to update an operating system. Shall I be spectacularly unhelpful with that? Microsoft's legendary approach to Windows quality control is on show again with yet another update that is struggling to complete installation, this time on Windows 10 machines....
Chrome users – get an alert when extensions are in danger of falling into wrong hands
Under New Management is an early-warning system for potential poisoning of add-ons with malware Millions of Chrome users now have a way to guard against the threat of extension subversion, that is, if they don't mind installing yet another browser extension....
Possible China link to Change Healthcare ransomware attack
Alleged crim bought SmartScreen Killer, Cobalt Strike on dark-web markets A criminal claiming to be an ALPHV/BlackCat affiliate - the gang responsible for the widely disruptive Change Healthcare ransomware infection last month - may have ties to Chinese government-backed cybercrime syndicates....
Reddit rolling out AI bouncer to halt harrassment
If any mods are considering an anti-IPO blackout, you could be replaced by a bot Reddit is upping its AI game again, this time with the implementation of an LLM-powered harassment filter for the benefit of its army of volunteer moderators....
JetBrains TeamCity under attack by ransomware thugs after disclosure mess
More than 1,000 servers remain unpatched and vulnerable Security researchers are increasingly seeing active exploit attempts using the latest vulnerabilities in JetBrains' TeamCity that in some cases are leading to ransomware deployment....
Tesla Berlin gigafactory to take week-long nap after suspected arson
Losses could surpass 1B as 1,000 vehicles a day go unfinished Tesla's Berlin gigafactory, the company's only production plant in Europe, is still offline following a suspected arson attack days ago, and may remain so for another week....
US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment
Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions ASML is again at the center of chip wars controversy with reports that Washington wants the Dutch government to stop the company servicing and repairing chipmaking equipment it has sold to customers in China....
Apple's had it with Epic's app store shenanigans, terminates dev account
No end in sight for 'horror show' even with EU's DMA Epic Games has followed the tried and tested approach of sharing executive email exchanges following the termination of its developer account by Apple....
Belgian ale legend Duvel's brewery borked as ransomware halts production
Company reassures public it has enough beer, expects quick recovery before weekend Belgian beer brewer Duvel says a ransomware attack has brought its facility to a standstill while its IT team works to remediate the damage....
Venturing beyond the default OS on Raspberry Pi 5
The pros and cons of some other Arm Linux distros for the pocket powerhouse The Raspberry Pi 5 is a capable little desktop computer, and some alternative distros give you more choices than the default Pi OS....
UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings
Now, who was it 'challenged' the NHS to go paperless by 2018? The UK's finance minister has promised the country's National Health Service (NHS) 3.4 billion ($4.33 billion) in IT investment, claiming it would unlock 35 billion ($44 billion) in efficiency savings by the end of the decade....
HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts
13M Instant Ink customers signed up and now a new plan is after millions more HP has 13 million customers signed up to the Instant Ink subscription program, and a recently introduced rental service that includes hardware is similarly forecast to extract "more value" from customers....
Bank's struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages
Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog A report on UK government debt reveals that a public sector bank relied on "people and paper" to process transactions during the pandemic as it struggled to replace outgoing service provider Atos....
The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe
Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality On Thursday, Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force, requiring large gatekeepers companies to play nice with smaller rivals....
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