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Plus potential links to I-Soon, researchers say Chinese cyberspies have compromised at least 70 organizations, mostly government entities, and targeted more than 116 victims across the globe, according to security researchers....

Latest figures paint grim picture of how viciously the elderly are targeted The FBI says investment fraud was the form of cybercrime that incurred the greatest financial loss for Americans last year....

GPU giant says NIM will eliminate dependency headaches for the low low cost of $4,500/year per GPU Nevermind using large language models (LLMs) to help write code, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that in the future, enterprise software will just be a collection of chat bots strung together to complete the task....

That's a juicy-looking IPO you've got there. Be a shame if someone took a licensing bite Mere days from going public, Reddit is staring down a challenge from Nokia, which has accused the "front page of the internet" ofinfringing some of its thousands of patents....

It's all about privacy, civil rights, civil liberties, ok? The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has an AI roadmap and a trio of test projects to deploy the tech, one of which aims to train immigration officers using generative AI. What could possibly go wrong?...

And you now get keyboard navigation in the built-in PDF reader The latest version of Firefox improves in areas that should help it fit in better on several categories of hardware....

CNN veteran publishes Musk interview that got his X show canceled Comment Last year, two high-profile American news anchors lost their jobs. This year, CNN's Don Lemon joined Fox News's Tucker Carlson with a new show on Elon Musk's X....

Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has dropped into safe mode after one of the spacecraft's three gyroscopes showed signs of degradation....

Innovative Ethereum feature exploited as victims say goodbye to assets Infosec researchers are noting rising cryptocurrency attacks and have encouraged wallet security providers to up their collective game....

You know where plants are much cheaper to construct? Asia Intel and TSMC face new hitches to their chip fabrication plants in Arizona with key suppliers encountering difficulties in building support facilities due to surging costs for building materials and labor....

Latest release of coffee-themed programming language aspires to simplicity with a dozen new features Oracle released Java 22 (JDK 22) on Tuesday, sporting a dozen new features for Java developers....

ChatGPT deems your work to be commendable, innovative, and comprehensive Academics focused on artificial intelligence have taken to using generative AI to help them review the machine learning work of peers....

Ailing tech integrator takes a hard hit... share price down by up to 20% this morning Atos' share price sank as much as 20 percent this morning on confirmation that Airbus is no longer interested in buying the big data and security (BDS) parts of the crumbling tech empire....

Not the best looking street furniture in town UK telco Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) says it can boost mobile services by sticking small cells on top of poles linked to its on-street fiber network cabinets....

GPU-based system offers high performance off Parquet files Analytics software startup Voltron Data claims to have completed the full TPC-H 100 terabyte scale factor on unsorted Parquet files directly from storage in less than an hour with only 6 TB of GPU memory....

Could this be the first green shoot of enterprise vendors paying for long-term maintenance? The Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) has stepped up to maintain Linux kernel version 4.14 - which went out of support in January - to the end of the year. But why that particular version?...

'White label' program also means retaining customers Exclusive VMware by Broadcom appears to have made concessions to some of the cloud service providers it has previously indicated it will spurn....

Nvidia is a kingmaker, and who wouldn't want to be king? Dell has tied its AI flag firmly to Nvidia's mast with its latest offerings, comprising a fully integrated end-to-end platform for enterprise customers looking to build and operate their own AI, plus updated server support for Nvidia's upcoming GPUs, scalable storage and professional services....

CEO's optimism was not reflected in the supply chain Apple will cough up $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging CEO Tim Cook concealed plummeting iPhone demand in China from shareholders....

Job one: Splunkify Talos threat intelligence, then do the same all over the Cisco portfolio Cisco has closed its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk....

Latest piece of digital public infrastructure is positively beastly India's Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has celebrated rapid uptake of its effort to digitize the nation's livestock....

Just the apps, none of the cloud, forever - for one payment Microsoft has cooked up fresh versions of its Office suite that will be sold under a perpetual license - and promised it will do so again in future....

Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials At least 900 websites built with Google's Firebase, a cloud database, have been misconfigured, leaving credentials, personal info, and other sensitive data inadvertently exposed to the public internet, according to security researchers....

Sneaky software slips past shields, spurring scramble Fujitsu has confirmed that miscreants have compromised some of its internal computers, deployed malware, and may have stolen some customer information....

Five times the performance of the H100, but you'll need liquid cooling to tame the beast For all the saber-rattling from AMD and Intel, Nvidia remains, without question, the dominant provider of AI infrastructure. With today's debut of the Blackwell GPU architecture during CEO Jensen Huang's GTC keynote, it aims to extend its technical lead - in both performance and power consumption....

Not everything requires tagging so feel free to maintain unrealistic beauty standards YouTube has warned content creators that, beginning today, certain uses of AI in their videos must be clearly labeled....

A huge attack surface for a vulnerability with various PoCs available The volume of Fortinet boxes exposed to the public internet and vulnerable to a month-old critical security flaw in FortiOS is still extremely high, despite a gradual increase in patching....

What hasn't been released by Elon Musk's xAI is also of note As promised, Elon Musk has released the model behind the xAI chatbot, Grok-1....

SEC bags $400K in settlements Two investment advisors have reached settlements with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly exaggerating their use of AI, which in both cases were purported to be cornerstones of their offerings....

Telco reckons data is old, isn't from its systems More than 70 million records, allegedly stolen from AT&T in 2021, were dumped on a cybercrime forum at the weekend....

Who would want to snap up Terraform? HashiCorp is the subject of furious industry talk which indicates the company is contemplating a sale amid an increasingly challenging marketplace....

13-year saga continues as jury set to hear claims on both sides of HP's Autonomy acquisition disaster British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's criminal trial kick off today in San Francisco in a case alleging accounting fraud charges that carry a maximum 20-year sentence....

National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven The US government has dropped details on its National Strategy on Microelectronics Research, outlining top goals and actions for the next five years to boost the semiconductor industry with CHIPS Act investment....

Famous for keeping everything in-house, Apple may be carving AI-shaped door in its garden wall Apple is reportedly working on a deal with Google to bring the Chocolate Factory's Gemini AI to iDevices, suggesting its own efforts to develop a suitable generative AI model have stalled....

Virtual gunslingers forcibly became cheaters via mystery means Updated Esports pros competing in the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Pro League tournament were forced to abandon their match today due to a suspected cyberattack....

Surprise resignation of chief exec happened after FCA probe began, claims filing One of Micrsoft's largest cloud and tech licensing resellers, Bytes Technology Group (BTG), today gave the London Stock Exchange an update on the investigation surrounding the abrupt resignation of its CEO and an ongoing probe by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)....

Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus Bad news from BSD land - the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux....

Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues Microsoft is asking investors to "temper" expectations for quick financial returns from Copilot amid efforts to convince customers that paying "substantial" sums each month is actually worth it....

The web doesn't work cos the vandals used a candle Opinion Most of us, from time to time, have grievances with our network operators. We complain, we leave bad reviews, we rage-post. But some aren't content with just whinging verbally. They take it up a notch and cut cables, lift street access covers and pour in petrol, they burn down masts....

Quick thinking turned poor judgement into genius proactivity Who, Me? Welcome once again, dear reader, to the well-trodden path that is Who, Me? - The Register's weekly column dedicated to the tales and travails of readers who strayed, but found their way back....

But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale' Zero tolerance of failure by information security professionals is unrealistic, and makes it harder for cyber security folk to do the essential part of their job: recovering fast from inevitable attacks, according to Gartner analysts Chris Mixter and Dennis Xiu....

Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, pitched as a more affordable version of its flagship smartphone platform that keeps key features such as the support for on-device generative AI processing, and an always-sensing camera....

875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested Filipino police rescued 875 "workers" - including 504 foreigners - in a raid late last week on a firm that posed as an online gaming company but in reality operated a forced labor camp that housed romance scam operators....

Nice payday for some, but plenty of Australians still pay extra to help drivers Uber's Australian wheel has agreed to pay AU$272 million ($178 million) to settle a class action brought by cab drivers who claimed their incomes were impacted by the rideshare giant's scofflaw debut down under....

ALSO: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns in brief Almost as quickly as a paper came out last week revealing an AI side-channel vulnerability, Cloudflare researchers have figured out how to solve it: just obscure your token size....

ALSO: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea India's government has stepped back from its plan to require government approval for AI services before they come online....

Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about Hands On With all the talk of massive machine-learning training clusters and AI PCs you'd be forgiven for thinking you need some kind of special hardware to play with text-and-code-generating large language models (LLMs) at home....

Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more Feature While in a rush to understand, build, and ship AI products, developers and data scientists are being urged to be mindful of security and not fall prey to supply-chain attacks....

As FTC starts asking questions about that mega-deal with Google to train AI Ahead of its stock market debut, Reddit has said it's going to make it easier for advertisers to craft normal user posts and run them as ads on the social network....

We thought you people wanted choice, IT colossus sniffs Microsoft is cheerily popping up adverts over Chrome on Windows PCs to push its search engine and AI assistant....