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Company counting on widespread business adoption to counter server declines HPE Discover EMEA Now that every big tech maker is jockeying for a bite of the AI revenue pie, HPE is pitching to remain relevant by adopting what CEO supremo Antonio Neri calls an "AI native" strategy....

Exploits bypass most secure boot solutions from the biggest chip vendors Hundreds of consumer and enterprise devices are potentially vulnerable to bootkit exploits through unsecured BIOS image parsers....

Legacy auto makers struggle with new tech, and upstarts suffer teething problems with first cars Consumer Reports' latest car reliability survey suggests electric vehicles (EVs) are causing owners more problems than their hybrid or conventional counterparts....

Mixing IBM's foundation models and proprietary data to discover novel antibodies Boehringer Ingelheim is the latest pharma company to turn to AI in the hunt for new treatments and therapies....

OpsRamp now natively available through IT-as-a-service platform HPE Discover EMEA HPE chief technology officer Fidelma Russo showed off an upcoming platform, codenamed Project Ethan, at the company's Discover event in Barcelona this week....

Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions Google is asking Britain's competition watchdog to make a ruling over its allegations Microsoft abused cloud software licensing in an anticompetitive way, months after taking claims of its rival's monopolistic behavior to the Federal Trade Commission....

Hunt continues for the other elusive high-ranking members Another member of the Trickbot malware crew now faces a lengthy prison sentence amid US law enforcement's ongoing search for its leading members....

Groups claim Federated Data Platform requires new legislation to go ahead Health data campaigners are preparing for a legal challenge to the 330 million ($417 million) procurement of the Federated Data Platform (FDP) by NHS England, awarded to US spy-tech firm Palantir last month....

This one weird trick will blow the large language model's artificial mind ChatGPT can be made to regurgitate snippets of text memorized from its training data when asked to repeat a single word over and over again, according to research published by computer scientists....

Scottish health group to tweak security checks, access authorization to avoid a repeat NHS Fife is on the wrong end of a stern ticking off by Britain's data regulator after it made a howling privacy error that aided an as yet unknown person who had entered a hospital ward only to walk off with data on 14 patients....

Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies 9Front, the main project continuing development of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, has emitted another new version, as enigmatic but significant as ever....

At the dawn of the dialup age, making a connection could be complicated On Call As the clock ticks towards the weekend, The Register once again welcomes readers to On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale detailing the trials and tribulations of tech support....

Global database of faces and fingerprints proves its worth European police have for the first time made an arrest after remotely checking Interpol's trove of biometric data to identify a suspected smuggler....

Revenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite Dell has told investors that demand for AI servers has surged, but buyers will be forced to wait 39 weeks to get their hands on the hardware due to supply chain constraints....

Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL re:Invent By The Register's count, Amazon Web Services has made at least 192 product announcements in the past four days at its re:Invent conference....

Zuck boots propagandists, Big G finds surge of action directed at Taiwan Meta and Google have disclosed what they allege are offensive cyber ops conducted by China....

After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue The former IT administrator of a public high school has agreed to plead guilty to a computer abuse charge for deactivating student and staff accounts, wiping some profiles, and disabling the phone system....

And where folks are likely to see a light show A so-called cannibal coronal mass ejection is set to hit Earth on December 1, creating geomagnetic storms across the skies at higher latitudes....

IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals Special report The CEO of an independent watchdog has challenged the award of single-source federal government IT contracts worth over $300 million to AWS, Bluestaq, and VMware....

'SpaceX has made limited progress maturing the technologies needed' Artemis III, the mission intended to put American boots back on the Moon, is unlikely to meet its 2025 launch schedule, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on Thursday....

Awkward hill to die on, but OK Meta has filed a lawsuit challenging the Federal Trade Commission's authority to regulate the social advertising giant....

Plus: 3 critical CVEs in Zyxel NAS devices Google has rolled out six Chrome security fixes including one emergency patch for a bug for which exploit code is already out there. You're encouraged to thus grab the latest updates for the browser....

A single transaction chugs 6.2 million times more than a credit card swipe It probably won't come as a shock to those aware of the electricity usage of the Bitcoin network, but the world's most popular cryptocurrency also uses tons of water to keep itself running....

Deckchairs continue to be rearranged on the jotting platform? Evernote plans to slap restrictions on users of its free tier, and from early next month there will be a limit of 50 notes and one notebook per account....

24 million Americans thought to have had their personal data stolen and sold for pennies A Ukrainian national is facing an eight year prison sentence for running an online marketplace that sold the personal data of approximately 24 million US citizens....

Hello, police? I'd like to report a murder Comment "I hope they stop. Don't advertise. If someone's going to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is."...

No escape from bloat, even without relevant hardware attached Windows users are reporting that Hewlett Packard's HP Smart application is appearing on their systems, despite them not having any of the company's hardware attached....

Chip promises better telemetry, security, and traffic engineering, vendor claims Broadcom's latest switch silicon boasts a built in neural networking engine it says can be trained to combat network congestion on the fly, at line speeds, all without compromising latency or throughput....

Shareholder claims company should have 'warned' about issue before stock price plunge Online games platform Roblox is the subject of a proposed class action by an investor claiming the company wasn't forthcoming about alleged flaws in its parental restrictions....

Oh no, errant gyro! NASA has confirmed it is working to resume science operations on the Hubble Space Telescope after an ongoing gyroscope issue put it in safe mode....

Assumed Conti offshoot averages 7 figures for each successful attack but may have issues with, er, 'closing deals' The Black Basta ransomware group has reportedly generated upwards of $100 million in revenue since it started operations in April 2022....

Rackspace? More like Lackspace as customers face upload and delete problems Rackspace is running out of, er, space. At least as far as a portion of its Cloud Files customers served by the LON (London) region are concerned....

'We feel like enterprises are either going to become AI powered, or they're going to become obsolete' HPE - like many tech companies - is betting big on AI in the hope customers will splash enteprise cash on training or fine tuning models and other areas of interest, rather than risk falling behind their peers....

Their resonant orbits have remained unchanged for some 4 billion years Scientists have discovered a rare six-exoplanet system orbiting a nearby bright star....

Bliss not your thing? You could win the Paint version Microsoft has once again reminded us of a time when its operating systems only drove us three-quarters around the bend, by issuing the latest Windows Ugly Sweater that features the default Bliss wallpaper of Windows XP....

Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA SAP again stands accused of breaching trust with customers by a second user group following the decision to introduce innovations in its preferred cloud adoption models exclusively....

Plus some of our own and the ugly Microsoft sweater one of you will win. Please take it off our hands... Kettle The other day we challenged our fine Register readers to share their top technology predictions for 2024 - though with wrong answers only. The best suggestion will win an old ugly Microsoft-themed Christmas sweater....

Plans buffet of components you can assemble into a dream machine Honda has updated its plan to electrify its motorcycle range, creating modular components that can be assembled into customized motorcycles - most with advanced connectivity features....

BLUFFS spying flaw present in iPhones, ThinkPad, plenty of chipsets Multiple Bluetooth chips from major vendors such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, Intel, and Apple are vulnerable to a pair of security flaws that allow a nearby miscreant to impersonate other devices and intercept data....

What's more, a robot managed to cook some of them up. So, y'know, it might not be entirely science fiction Google DeepMind says it has developed an AI model capable of predicting millions of inorganic crystal structures that could potentially be used to form next-gen microprocessors, electric batteries, solar panels, and the like....

Microsoft joins the board in non-voting role OpenAI has made the return of Sam Altman as its CEO official....

'A large pulse of electricity had gone somewhere other than intended, and telemetry stopped coming from the spacecraft' Astrofuturist and former NASA tech Chris Lewicki has revealed he crashed the Spirit Mars rover, and feared he may have destroyed it....

Best not to dismiss it, as Asus looks to be onboard and advances are promised Chinese chip houses Loongson and CXMT have debuted products that demonstrate the Middle Kingdom's increasingly sophisticated semiconductor scene, and an interest for such efforts from major electronics manufacturers....

Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed A US congressional committee has questioned whether Chinese-made Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) devices might have a negative impact on national security, and suggested they may therefore be worthy of the same bans that prevent stateside adoption of other tech....

Pro tip: Don't use your new work email to phish your old firm An ex-Motorola technician in the US has admitted he tried to fraudulently obtain a passport while awaiting trial for a cyberattack on his former employer....

A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin - what could possibly go wrong? Meta has paused shipments of the wearable battery-slash-head strap accessory for its Quest 3 VR goggles amid reports the device bricks itself when charged....

Facebook titan vows to protect two billion voters ... but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU Meta will require advertisers to disclose whether their political ads on its platforms contain any AI-generated or digitally altered content....

Don't be too shocked: Financial giant has been fleeing normie banking lately after failing to find footing The future of Apple's credit card offering has been thrown into limbo, as the iPhone giant apparently wants out of its collaboration with Goldman Sachs, issuer of the Apple Card....

No one's buying these things. Just, uh, ignore the massive markups Nearly 4,000 US auto dealers have signed an open letter urging the Biden administration to slow its plan to push electric vehicles (EVs) onto the populace - because demand is apparently low and the darn things just aren't selling that well....

CISA calls for stronger IT defenses as Texas district also hit by ransomware crew CISA is investigating a cyberattack against a Pennsylvania water authority by suspected Iranian miscreants. The intrusion forced operators to switch a pumping station to manual control....