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Because nobody wants a big surprise Japan's Toyama Prefecture is launching an AI bear monitoring system, following a recent string of encounters with the wildlife....

Only from its digital doc-signing service, which is isolated from its cloudy storage Dropbox has revealed a major attack on its systems that saw customers' personal information accessed by unknown and unauthorized entities....

Developer of Square and Cash App reportedly has big back-end problems it was slow to fix Fintech biz Block is reportedly under investigation by US prosecutors over claims by a former employee that lax compliance checks mean its Square and Cash App services may have been used by terrorists - or in countries that US orgs are not permitted to do business....

Also adds a Teams plan that's still under development Anthropic, flush with funds from Amazon and Google, has made its Claude chatbot service available in an iOS app and introduced a business-oriented Teams plan....

A $19B valuation sounds like a lot, but then you look at OpenAI AI cloud firm CoreWeave scored $1.1 billion in a recent investment round, bringing its valuation up to $19 billion....

Intrusion investors went through Blount farce trauma, says SEC Jack Blount, the now-ex CEO of Intrusion, has settled with the SEC over allegations he made false and misleading statements about his infosec firm's product as well as his own background and experience....

Always read the terms and conditions carefully IBM has managed to overturn a $1.6 billion judgment against it after an appeals court decided the IT giant was well within its rights to replace software on a customer mainframe belonging to rival BMC with its own code....

Dear _____, please excuse _____'s tardiness. Their alarm didn't go off for (see below). Sincerely, The Register iPhone failing to get you up on time lately? You're not alone - reports have been spreading of just such an issue....

Not a great omen if you were hoping to own a future RV smartphone - tho web giant says it hasn't totally given up Support for RISC-V was dropped from Android's Generic Kernel Image (GKI) thanks to a patch successfully merged today....

Vulnerable elderly people tricked into paying tens of thousands over fake car accidents Sixteen people are facing charges from US prosecutors for allegedly preying on the elderly and scamming them out of millions of dollars....

Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day AWS looks set to intervene after a customer highlighted a flaw that allows S3 bucket owners to be stung with potentially massive charges for attempted accesses they have no control over....

U-turn necessary to comply with Chinese law Despite Elon Musk's insistence that high-definition maps aren't necessary for self-driving cars, Tesla's vehicles in China will technically rely on them now through a partnership with Baidu....

Historical email in antitrust case shows execs 'very, very worried' about capability gaps A fascinating insight into Microsoft's inner workings has been thrown up in some redacted document dumps related to the ongoing Google antitrust trial in the US....

Issue now resolved and isn't thought to be the work of criminals Aussie airline Qantas says its app is now stable following a data breach that saw boarding passes take off from passengers' accounts....

Connection failures reported following installation Microsoft admits that April's Windows update can potentially cause VPN connection failures in both Windows 10 and 11....

Chip giant forecasts strong GPU growth amid mixed financial results AMD's datacenter revenue grew 80 percent and it hopes to make at least $4 billion from its GPUs this year, but shares took a hit as this failed to impress market analysts and the company reported a lackluster first quarter overall....

Uranium is so hot right now, mining CEO is glowing with enthusiasm Growing demand for power hungry AI datacenters has executives at Canadian uranium mine Cameco glowing with anticipation....

Data warehousing giant abandons stance against hybrid analytics Data warehouse stalwart Teradata has shook off its aversion to the lakehouse concept, embracing the idea of performing enterprise analytics on unstructured data - a situation it once argued against....

'Unsustainable' losses neared $1B in 2023 The space above the Earth is getting increasingly crowded as launches become more frequent and satellites are squeezed closer together....

If you lower you expectations, of course. Think more Llama2-7B, less GPT-4 Popular generative AI chatbots and services like ChatGPT or Gemini mostly run on GPUs or other dedicated accelerators, but as smaller models are more widely deployed in the enterprise, CPU-makers Intel and Ampere are suggesting their wares can do the job too - and their arguments aren't entirely without merit....

As the rumor mill whispers about a breakup with AWS VMware by Broadcom has made some fresh concessions to its cloud service provider community - and the customers who rely on it....

'Their convictions wiped clean from the slate,' minister promises The mass exoneration of wrongfully convicted Post Office managers caught up in the Horizon IT scandal has come a step closer in the UK after MPs passed the third stage of a government bill....

Kyndryl exec ponders 'fragility of the planet,' as Intel and Amazon offer advice Comment How did you celebrate or contribute to Earth Day? Sharing is caring so we wanted to highlight the thoughts and advice from Kyndryl, formerly IBM's global tech infrastructure services outpost, and others....

Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samples Analysis Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI - a developer that uses an AI chatbot to generate infrastructure - and the rotten recipes are already appearing at the top of search results....

The Chinese domestic market doesn't care about sanctions Huawei's latest earnings filing revealed that despite US sanctions it still managed to grow its net profits a whopping 564 percent year-on-year....

New Relic report also sees accelerated uptake of freshly-ground JDK releases The nearly three-year-old Java 17 has overtaken Java 11 as the most widely used long-term support (LTS) version of the programming language, according to app monitors at New Relic....

Growth is rather slower than cloudy rivals, but boss Andy Jassy can explain that Amazon Web Services is on track to earn $100 billion of revenue in FY2024, has improved its margins, and provides the bulk of its parent company's operating income....

Superapp GoTo has an angle on everything - even taming TikTok Indonesian superapp provider GoTo will soon offer to take you for a ride - or loan you money to buy your own....

An ACE in the hole for miscreants The open source R programming language - popular among statisticians and data scientists for performing visualization, machine learning, and suchlike - has patched an arbitrary code execution hole that scored a preliminary CVSS severity rating of 8.8 out of 10....

Vastaamo villain more than doubled reported crime in Nordic nation A cyber-thief who snatched tens of thousands of patients' sensitive records from a psychotherapy clinic before blackmailing them and then leaking their files online has been caged for six years and three months....

Promises to train 850,000 workers and build datacenters Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will invest $1.7 billion in expanding its presence and building datacenters in Indonesia....

Publishers want ChatGPT models destroyed after ML tech trained 'unlawfully' on articles Eight big-city American newspapers have banded together to sue Microsoft and OpenAI, claiming the tech duo unlawfully used the publishers' copyrighted articles to train AI models....

Congress to hear how Citrix MFA snafu led to massive data theft, $870M+ loss UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty will tell US lawmakers Wednesday the cybercriminals who hit Change Healthcare with ransomware used stolen credentials to remotely access a Citrix portal that didn't have multi-factor authentication enabled....

It's not like you need wonks to put driverless robotaxis on public roads or anything The organizational tree at Tesla keeps shedding leaves, and a surprising number keep falling from the top with two more high-profile executives reportedly leaving the firm....

Slotting in the module for ambitious next-generation compute goals Japan's Arm-based Fugaku supercomputer is to be paired with a newly developed quantum system from IBM as part of a project to research and develop future computing systems....

Tried to sell top secret docs for the low, low price of $85K A former NSA employee has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for attempting to freelance as a Russian spy....

Unless you live in Europe or Korea OpenAI's Memory feature is now broadly available for ChatGPT Plus users, meaning many more can feel vaguely uncomfortable about how much the chatbot is "remembering" about their preferences....

Big rise in valuation... for browser that won't let you Control-V any data copied inside it Insta-unicorn Island, with its browser built for the enterprise, has some interesting funding news: it just hit a $3 billion valuation in an era where it's AI or bust in the VC world....

Customers to get their light-up cyberpunk respirators refunded Remember when Razer, better known for overpriced peripheral hardware with RGB blinkenlights aimed at gamers, released an overpriced "N95-grade" face mask?...

15 to 30% won't touch the sides... 50%? Now you're talking Import duties of 40 to 50 percent will be needed to shield the European auto industry from China-based producers, according to a new report....

Second time lucky as competition from Starlink and pals increases Satellite operator SES is to acquire Intelsat for $3.1 billion, creating an entity with more than 100 Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and 26 Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites....

Software doyen hopes to achieve a third impossible thing Interview Bruce Perens believes he can do three impossible things, having already accomplished two of them....

There are many reasons why this is likely more trouble than it's worth EV carmaker Tesla is considering a wonderful money-making wheeze - use all of that compute power in its vehicles to process workloads for cash, like a kind of AWS on wheels....

Europe takes action after Facebook parent withdraws monitoring tool The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against Meta, alleging failure to properly monitor distribution by "foreign actors" of political misinformation before June's European elections....

This nearly Snap-free Ubuntu remix may be about about to win friends and influence people Xubuntu 24.04 is out, and offers a minimal installation option that is considerably more minimal than the other official flavors....

Even the least recyclable part of the process could be recovered 91 percent of the time A recent study proposes that vitrimer could potentially be used for making printed circuit boards (PCBs) that are much more repairable and recyclable than the ones we use today....

No it's not Birmingham this time. West Sussex County Council ERP replacement price to hit 40M A local authority on the southern coast of England expects the cost of swapping its ERP system from SAP to Oracle to go from 2.6 million ($3.26 million) to nearly 40 million ($50 million), as the council seeks a new implementation partner for a project that began nearly five years ago....

On-site generation plant aims to 'alleviate pressure on energy demand from the grid' Vantage Data Centers is joining the crowded Irish datacenter market with its first site in the Emerald Isle due to come online in 2024. In view of ongoing power constraints in the country, the project is to include on-site power generation....

Infosec eggheads find iGiant left EU iOS 17 users open to being tracked around the web Apple's grudging accommodation of European antitrust rules by allowing third-party app stores on iPhones has left users of its Safari browser exposed to potential web activity tracking....

And hatches 2030 plan to beat US for Mars rock retrieval China's space program will next week launch mission that aims to land on the Moon, take samples, and bring them back to Earth....