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NCA still left enough for onlookers to wonder if there's anything more to come The grand finale of the week of LockBit leaks was slated to expose the real identity of LockBitSupp - the alias of the gang's public spokesperson - but the reveal has fallen short of expectations....

Publicity around offer breaches loan agreement, or so SEC filing alleges MariaDB has been warned by a bank lender that it may "sweep" its accounts in retaliation for the publication of a private equity bid for the troubled database company....

Lawsuit accuses contractor and co-defendants of 'pacify and delay' tactics Sergey Brin and two of his businesses - Google and Bayshore Global Management - are named in a lawsuit seeking damages over the death of a pilot who attempted to ferry one of Brin's airplanes from California to his private island in Fiji....

Windows 10 users would probably prefer longer support instead of prettier pics Windows Insiders cannot get enough of AI if Microsoft is to be believed, with the company rolling out AI-infused Photo updates for Windows 10 and 11....

Air Canada discovered the hard way that when your AI chatbot makes a commitment, your company will be on the hook for it Opinion I keep hearing about businesses that want to fire their call center employees and front-line staffers as fast as possible and replace them with AI. They're upfront about it....

What Linux distros could learn from the inventor of the hypervisor FOSDEM 2024 How hard can you cut down Linux if you know it will never run on bare metal? Further than any distro vendor we know of has tried to go....

Sometimes the best form of revenge is doing nothing - very politely On Call Taylor Swift is playing in On Call's town tonight, creating a city-wide Friday frenzy. Here at The Register we prefer to end the working week in a gentler fashion by offering a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which we share stories of haters who hated IT, fakers who faked technical nous, and techies who shook it off and got the job done....

Appears to be struggling to find them, even in India, as it's re-posted job ads Meta wants to build accelerators and SoCs to run in its datacenters - for jobs including machine learning - but appears to be struggling to find folks to design them....

No, this was not the cause of cellular network outages that hit the USA on Thursday NASA has warned of strong solar flares that have the potential to interrupt communications in space and down here on Earth....

Nonprofit SFLC links orders to farming protests The global government affairs team at X (nee Twitter) has suspended some accounts and posts in India after receiving executive orders to do so from the country's government, backed by threat of penalties including significant fines and imprisonment....

Goverment takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry minister has called on Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) to improve its management of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after a leak was discovered earlier this month....

Material information withheld from shareholders, it's claimed Juniper Networks, currently in the process of being acquired by HPE, has been accused of violating US securities laws in a shareholder lawsuit....

A name that's commonly shouted by pirates might be a clue, me hearties! Avast has agreed to cough up $16.5 million after the FTC accused the antivirus vendor of selling customer information to third parties....

Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly Comment Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts....

IPO docs drop showing just who has a stake in the forum Reddit will provide content posted on its forums to Google, which will use it to train and update AI chatbots in a deal reportedly worth $60 million a year that could - oddly enough - deliver big bucks to OpenAI boss Sam Altman....

Food delivery giant promises to drop off $375,000, no tip DoorDash will cough up $375,000 to settle claims it trampled California's privacy laws by giving away customers' info without their consent nor giving them the opportunity to opt out....

Prescription orders hit after IT supplier Change Healthcare pulls plug on systems Updated IT provider Change Healthcare has confirmed it shut down some of its systems following a cyberattack, disrupting prescription orders and other services at pharmacies across the US....

With only enough cash on hand to keep the lights on until 2025, loss-making automaker may soon be next casualty of the EV revolution Amid continuing losses, Rivian is laying off 10 percent of its salaried employees and a limited number of hourly folks in an attempt to reduce its expenses....

New features aimed to stamp out problems of the past Law enforcement's disruption of the LockBit ransomware crew comes as the criminal group was working on bringing a brand-new variant to market, research reveals....

It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part Updated Intuitive Machines has tweaked today's Moon landing time to 2230 UTC following the successful insertion of its Odysseus lander into lunar orbit....

Lower operator energy costs or sell power back to grid for $$$ Nokia is tempting mobile network operators with a tool that it thinks will help them monetize the backup battery storage at their cell base station sites....

Researcher makes case for default limits after arriving via Python library A user left with a surprise bill for thousands of dollars after running queries on Google's BigQuery data warehouse has sparked a debate about how vendors should place limits on the use of their tools....

No, this isn't a pitch for a Godzilla sequel A Japanese Yakuza leader is being charged with trafficking nuclear materials by US prosecutors....

Unfettered access to non-public info would have violated FTC order Longtime Twitter staffers saved Elon Musk from himself, according to a letter from the US Federal Trade Commission chair....

If they did it, it gives new meaning to quality family time. Meanwhile, key LockBit leaders remain at large Today's edition of the week-long LockBit leaks reveals a father-son duo was apprehended in Ukraine as part of the series of takedown-related arrests this week....

Our right to exploit workers trumps your right to probe Amazon, currently locked in a legal battle with the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over the mega-souk's treatment of workers, is arguing the watchdog is unconstitutional. And it's not the only corporation testing that line of reasoning....

Maker of sometimes less than accurate AI chatbot reminds everyone not to believe everything you read on the net FDC OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has driven a lot of hype around generative AI, but as he reminded attendees at Intel's Foundry Direct Connect (FDC) event Wednesday, not everything you read on the internet is true....

Most reports center on AT&T, which has admitted trouble; T-Mobile, Verizon deny issues Updated Residents of the United States woke this morning to find widespread outages in cellular service, with AT&T bearing the brunt of a seemingly nationwide issue....

Threat to data means submarine infrastructures should get status of 'highest possible national significance' The European Commission has issued recommendations to up the security and resilience of submarine data cables, but says private finance should fund projects to expand capacity, assisted by governments where necessary....

Don't want to learn how Windows works? Copilot can help you with that Windows Insiders are set to receive more Copilot in Windows features, following an update for the Canary and Dev Channels to add extra functions for users unwilling to click through icons....

London Stock Exchange listed Bytes Technology Group 'working to clarify details' after Neil Murphy resigns Neil Murphy, the boss of Bytes Technology Group - one of Microsoft's largest cloud and software licensing resellers - has quit with immediate effect, at the same time admitting to making secret stock trades in the company....

As bankrupt local authority slashes services and hikes taxes, consultants enjoy 1k-a-day while system still can't offer auditable accounts Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, is considering ditching Oracle as its main ERP and HR software after a disastrous implementation has left it unable to file auditable accounts, with the budget rising from 20 million ($25 million) to 131 million ($166 million)....

Machine-learning boffins find open source neural nets can optimize their own queries Large language models have given rise to the dark art of prompt engineering - a process for composing system instructions that elicit better chatbot responses....

Fedora, though, won't - until at least the version after next Installation remains a pain point for many Linux distros, but everyone is working hard on it. Some of those efforts are bearing fruit... but not all of them....

Absence of an on-board pilot will lower costs and raise blood pressure, starting soon in Texas Boeing-backed autonomous aircraft startup Wisk expects to be operational by the end of the decade, at which time it will provide customers with air taxi at a price point comparable to an UberX ride, according to APAC VP Catherine MacGowan....

Your own personal chatbot awaits Google has released a family of "open" large language models named Gemma, that are compact enough to run on a personal computer....

Trove reveals RATs that can pop major OSes, campaigns against offshore and local targets A cache of stolen document posted to GitHub appears to reveal how a Chinese infosec vendor named I-Soon offers rent-a-hacker services for Beijing....

His Majesty's Royal Cypher adopted the Tudor Crown, so a new icon was needed Logowatch GOV.UK websites this week started implementing a major change: a new crown icon....

Separation of church and state? More like separation of Product and Foundry FDC Pat Gelsinger wants to make Intel the world's second largest chip manufacturer by 2030, and that means serving businesses the x86 giant has traditionally seen as competitors....

Jensen Huang defends colossal GPU purchases made by hyperscalers, claims they're 'fairly allocated' Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has claimed responsibility for hyperscalers' decisions to extend the operating life of their server fleets, and suggested they've done so because they can't improve performance by persisting with general-purpose computing and must instead adopt accelerated machines....

This technology is all the rage right now, still too risky for armed forces The US Department of Defense is reportedly working with startup Scale AI to test generative AI models for military use....

Oh hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea President Biden has empowered the US Coast Guard (USCG) to get a tighter grip on cybersecurity at American ports - including authorizing yet another incident reporting rule....

Easy to defend against stuff that may never actually work - oh there we go again, being all cynical like Apple says it's going to upgrade the cryptographic protocol used by iMessage to hopefully prevent the decryption of conversations by quantum computers, should those machines ever exist in a meaningful way....

Now that definitely would be an encounter at far point Riverside, Iowa, self-proclaimed hometown of Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk, has a erected a statue of their fictional hero, and Captain Kathryn Janeway has one in her future birthplace Bloomington, Indiana, as well....

Machine learning to smooth bumps in the update road Windows 11 users still clinging to the past are to be dragged into a bright, 23H2-shaped future by Microsoft, whether they want to or not....

Sent 5,000+ fake handsets to Apple for repair in hope of getting real ones back Two Chinese nationals are facing a maximum of 20 years in prison after being convicted of mailing thousands of fake iPhones to Apple for repair in the hope they'd be replaced with new handsets....

Urgent patching advised to protect attacks against setup wizards Infosec researchers say urgent patching of the latest remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in ConnectWise's ScreenConnect is required given its maximum severity score....

IF (orbit == wrong) THEN oops; A software error on the part of Firefly Aerospace doomed Lockheed Martin's Electronic Steerable Antenna (ESA) demonstrator to a shorter-than-expected orbital life following a botched Alpha launch....

More and more obvious what a key market ML is for the chip designer Chip designer Arm has unveiled two additional Neoverse Compute Subsystem blueprints in its portfolio, and is working with Samsung on its next high-performance Cortex-X core on the Korean chipmaker's 2nm production process....

Judge allows fraud case to continue after customer resubmits complaint A judge has allowed a fraud case against Oracle to continue after a customer resubmitted allegations that it was misled about the tasks Big Red's NetSuite software could perform....