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Privacy lawsuit blows this way alleging disclosure of names, email addresses, geo info, video titles without permission IBM has been sued again for allegedly allowing third-party ad partners to collect personal data without consent via videos on its Weather Channel website....

They also boost support for populist politicians, study finds Robots are devaluing and derailing workers' careers in both manufacturing and other jobs tied to regional economics, according to a recent study....

An emotionally-manipulable AI in the hands of the Pentagon and CIA? This'll surely end well Palantir has announced a partnership with Anthropic and Amazon Web Services to build a cloudy Claude platform suitable for the most secure of the US government's defense and intelligence use cases....

Enigmatic cosmic signals from outside this galaxy could come from collapsed binary stars Scientists have discovered more clues about the birth of fast radio bursts (FRBs) emitted from distant galaxies whose origins remain a mystery....

Curiosity gives crims access to wallets and passwords Organizations should be on the lookout for bogus copyright infringement emails as they might be the latest ploy by cybercriminals to steal their data....

Data platform vendors can't meet all your needs, warns Gartner Users should beware of the single platform approach when preparing for the demands of AI and machine learning on their data management systems, Gartner is warning....

9 out of 10 are techies, but Zuckerberg lost money Yesterday's stock market bounce after the election of Donald Trump has added billions to the pockets of the tech elite, although apparently Mark Zuckerberg failed to cash in....

Snapdragon X Plus 8-core platform gains traction with 58 laptop designs ... but will Windows users care? Qualcomm is flexing its Arm muscle in the x86 market, highlighting the push into the Windows laptop market during its Q4 2024 earnings call....

May not see full use until 2030 - even if it arrives this year Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is prioritizing, among its manufacturing tools, the acquisition of high numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet scanners for research and development....

Rewrite 'please leave my text editor alone' Windows Insiders will soon get firsthand experience of Microsoft's AI ambitions for Paint and Notepad: the image editor is getting Generative Fill and Erase and the text editor is getting a Rewrite function....

Q2 climbs 23% on Armv9 adoption, but licensing dips Smartphone chip champ Arm is crowing over expanding royalty revenues, driven by uptake of Armv9 technology, yet execs can't stop talking up AI as its future money spinner....

Got a spare $2.9 million lying around? Asking for a friend ... If you fancy yourself a Batman aficionado - and you have Bruce Wayne levels of spending money sitting around - you could be one of the lucky few to score a working, licensed reproduction of The Tumbler from Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy....

Zen 5 3D V-cache is here at last, and priced at $479 - one for the gamers or multi-purpose desktop chip for all? Review AMD is officially launching its hotly anticipated next-gen X3D desktop processors based on the Zen 5 architecture today, which means The Register can let you know about the 8-core Ryzen 9800X3D we've personally taken for a spin....

Hands up who wants to see the 'chopsticks' catch the Super Heavy again? SpaceX will make its next Starship launch attempt on November 18, if all goes to plan - and may also try another catch of the Super Heavy Booster, depending on conditions....

IT spend set to rise nonetheless and it's not all about wundertech Three is the magic number, or more specifically the amount of time in years before a killer app emerges that helps businesses more usefully use generative AI to drive meaingful producitivty gains....

Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul doesn't live up to its name Cisco is issuing a critical alert notice about a flaw that makes its so-called Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul systems easy to subvert....

Environmental, social, and governance? Cutting money spent on power is CEOs' priority Chief execs in key European countries are pushing back on net zero commitments to focus on their core business, in the face of a volatile energy market with rising costs and supply issues....

Nation's favorite cloud-slinger, AWS, unlikely to be taking part A fresh pilot of a four-day working week is currently taking place in the UK, despite several tech giants recently mandating five days a week in the office for their staff....

10,000 of Kim Jong Un's soldiers believed to be headed for front line The EU has joined US and South Korean officials in expressing concern over a Russian transfer of technology to North Korea in return for military assistance against Ukraine....

Government wants to make semiconductors big on home turf again Japan has asked AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train up to 200 chip designers from the country at its US offices over the course of five years to help inject new blood into Japan's semiconductor industry....

In case today's news cycle wasn't shocking enough, here's a gem from Sophos Fresh from a series of serious reports detailing its five-year battle with Chinese cyberattackers, Sophos has dropped a curious story about users of a popular infostealer-cum-RAT targeting a niche group of victims....

Failure to warn customers about chip flaw leads to fraud claim Intel was sued in a federal court in San Jose, California, on Tuesday, based on claims that the chipmaker's 13th and 14th generation desktop processors from 2022 and 2023 are defective....

Electromagnetic radiation contributed to that zincing feeling: analysts The collapse of the 305-meter telescope at Arecibo Observatory in 2020 is being attributed to zinc creep - slow deformation due to stress - in the telescope's cable spelter sockets, according to a committee report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine....

21 lines that show the big man still has what it takes A relatively tiny code change by penguin premier Linus Torvalds is making a measurable improvement to Linux's multithreaded performance....

US firm made OEMs, glass processors sign exclusivity deals, tattle on competitors, claims Euro Commish Corning's Gorilla Glass is found in countless tech products, from smartphones and wearables to automobile windshields, and the European Commission has an inkling its success is due in part to the US-based business cutting anticompetitive deals....

22,000 IP addresses taken down, 59 servers seized, 41 arrests in 95 countries Interpol is reporting a big win after a massive combined operation against online criminals made 41 arrests and seized hardware thought to be used for nefarious purposes....

Screens sprayed with coffee after techies find Microsoft's latest OS in unexpected places Administrators are reporting unexpected appearances of Windows Server 2025 after what was published as a security update turned out to be a complete operating system upgrade....

Changes at the telco giant called for to prevent future abuse AT&T settled with the FCC over claims it submitted false information to obtain funding from US broadband subsidy programs for low-income customers....

Government invokes National Security and Investment Act The British government has ordered a China-owned entity to sell its stake in a Scottish chip company under the authority of the National Security and Investment Act 2021....

Experts say incident has 'all the hallmarks of ransomware' Telematics tech biz Microlise says an attack that hit its network likely did not expose customer data, although staff aren't so lucky....

Need to know how to set up a business? There's an (experimental) AI for that From the department of "this will go well" comes confirmation UK government is trialling an experimental chatbot with 15,000 business users, who can use it to ask questions about tax and available support....

'First impressions matter' but a KDE flavor is in the making - and more publicly at that Ubuntu Summit 2024 At this year's Ubuntu Summit in The Hague, we were really hoping to hear some news about Canonical's new immutable desktop distro....

Won't make a difference for institutional investors, but retail traders be warned, analyst tells El Reg On Friday, Nvidia will supplant Intel after 25 years as the semiconductor sector's representative on the Dow Jones Industrial Average....

Change of mind follows discovery China was playing with it uninvited? Meta has historically restricted its LLMs from uses that could cause harm - but that has apparently changed. The Facebook giant has announced it will allow the US government to use its Llama model family for, among other things, defense and national security applications....

Jakarta who? Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara, is packed with tech If an entire major city was designed from scratch today, what technologies would be built into its fabric? We're discovering as we watch Indonesia erect a new capital with tech at its heart....

Alleged intrusion spotted in June Chinese government cyberspies Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singapore Telecommunications over the summer as part of their ongoing attacks against critical infrastructure operators....

Firefox overlord to 'revisit' advocacy mission The Mozilla Foundation is laying off about a third of its staff. The non-profit org, which oversees the corporation that develops the Firefox web browser, insists it will continue its advocacy mission, though its approach may change....

NP-hard to NP at all Southeast Asia's Uber-esque superapp, Grab, has developed a tool that allows its employees to build large language model (LLM) apps without coding....

Data pinched from pwned outside supplier, thief claims IntelBroker, a notorious peddler of stolen data, claims to have pilfered source code, private keys, and other sensitive materials belonging to Nokia....

Report shines light on unexpected ways your devices sell you out UK consumer champion Which? wants you to know that your air fryer might be spying on you and sharing your data with third parties for marketing purposes....

Hellcat crew claimed to have gained access via the company's Atlassian Jira system Schneider Electric confirmed that it is investigating a breach as a ransomware group Hellcat claims to have stolen more than 40 GB of compressed data -and demanded the French multinational energy management company pay $125,000 in baguettes or else see its sensitive customer and operational information leaked....

FBI recovers just $8M after scam crashes Heartland Tri-State Bank The FBI has recovered $8 million in funds from a cryptocurrency scam that netted $47 million and devastated the Kansas city of Elkhart....

Lock it up. Lock it up Google Cloud is the latest to take the decision away from customers and enforce the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users to improve the security of the minority that don't already have it enabled....

Why? Because that's where the money is Business email compromise scammers are trying to up their success rate by using a DocuSign API....

Smuggler busted on the border carrying naughty items Vadim Yermolenko, 43, a dual US-Russian national and resident of New Jersey, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to his role in sanctions busting as part of a gang that operated in the US and Europe for nearly eight years....

America PAC tells judge winners were preselected, raising a whole new set of legal questions It's a bit of a moot point given the US presidential election is today, but a Pennsylvania judge has declined to stop Elon Musk's $1M election lottery despite the billionaire's America PAC seemingly admitting the whole thing was rigged from the start....

Puppeteer or Pupeter? One of them will snoop around on your machine and steal your credentials An ongoing typosquatting campaign is targeting developers via hundreds of popular JavaScript libraries, whose weekly downloads number in the tens of millions, to infect systems with info-stealing and snooping malware....

Wooden datacenters? Japan can build spacecraft out of the stuff Japan's wooden satellite has been launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a mission to prove that wood can be a viable material for use in space....

Justice still being served, but many systems are down A statewide IT outage attributed to "unauthorized activity" is affecting the availability of services provided by all courts in Washington....

Don't do that, or risk a memory error Microsoft has confirmed that opening too many emails at once in Classic Outlook could result in the application displaying an error before crashing. But don't worry; there's a registry change to fix it....