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Redmond doesn't have total control over GPT maker so we lack authority, say monopoly cops The UK's investigation into competition concerns arising from Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI has reached a conclusion, albeit an anticlimactic one in which officials have left loose ends....

Lemme guess ... he'll fix it all with tariffs? We sat through the entire speech so you don't have to Donald Trump has renewed his call for CHIPS Act funding to be cancelled, and suggests any remaining money be set against national debt....

Native mail app? More like no mail app Users of Microsoft Outlook on Apple devices are experiencing service disruptions for a second day....

A first-of-its-kind legal challenge set to be heard this month, per reports Updated Apple has reportedly filed a legal complaint with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) contesting the British government's order that it must forcibly break the encryption of iCloud data....

Muskmobile Facebook group becomes support circle for anti-Tesla abuse Comment Since Elon Musk vigorously threw up a gesture once thought reprehensible at a Trump rally on the day of the president's inauguration, owning a Tesla has taken on a whole new meaning for some....

Redmond says you could ask one for a 'list of deals ... at risk of falling through' Microsoft today announced two software agents that automate certain business functions for Dynamics 365, its enterprise resource planning and customer relationship suite, and Microsoft 365, its cloud productivity suite....

NASA and AstroForge missions prove Space is Hard Engineers are continuing to attempt to make contact with NASA's stricken Lunar Trailblazer probe as hopes for the science planned for the mission begin to fade....

English football club offers apologies after fans' card details stolen from online retail store English football club Leeds United says cyber criminals targeted its retail website during a five-day assault in February and stole the card details of "a small number of customers."...

Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg In 1950, Alan Turing proposed the Imitation Game, better known as the Turing Test, to identify when a computer's response to questions becomes convincing enough that the interrogator believes the machine could be human....

List of attacks by 'No regrets' crew leaking highly sensitive data continues to grow Qilin - the "no regrets" ransomware crew wreaking havoc on the global healthcare industry - just claimed responsibility for fresh attacks on a cancer treatment clinic in Japan and a women's healthcare facility in the US....

Hat and scarf no longer needed for diminutive computer New variants of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 have been launched, giving the devices an extended operating temperature range from -40C to 85C....

Great, we've taken away computers' ability to be accurate and given them anxiety If you think us meatbags are the only ones who get stressed and snappy when subjected to the horrors of the world, think again. A group of international researchers say OpenAI's GPT-4 can experience anxiety, too - and even respond positively to mindfulness exercises....

400MWh now, and 600MWh by next year? Crivens, that's a fat batt! What's claimed to be Europe's largest battery has come to Scotland, after a new facility came online in the country's north....

First crooks gave up encrypting data, and just stole it - now they don't even bother pilfering info. Sheesh! Ransomware extortionists are now using letters sent by snail mail to demand payments, without bothering to infiltrate targets' systems or infect them with malware....

A major policy directive strongly suggesting use of the royalty-free architecture is apparently imminent The permissively licensed RISC-V instruction set architecture appears to be gaining significant momentum in China....

Hunters International ready to off-shore 1.4 TB of info allegedly swiped from Indian giant A subsidiary of Indian multinational Tata has allegedly fallen victim to the notorious ransomware gang Hunters International....

And the FAA's modernization efforts are going so badly they won't exit turbulence any time soon Over a third of the USA's air traffic control systems are in an unsustainable" state, and the FAA's decades-long project to upgrade them is not going well....

Air to ship with M3 while base model gets the A16 Apple on Tuesday unveiled an updated iPad Air with fresh-ish new M-series silicon alongside a new Magic Keyboard with function keys....

FOSS bods file amicus brief in hope of preserving core GNU tenet of freedom forever The Free Software Foundation (FSF) on Monday backed a lone developer's brave effort to overturn a pivotal court ruling that threatens to undermine the AGPLv3 - the foundation's GNU Affero General Public License, version 3....

The heap overflow zero-day in the memory unsafe code by Miss Creant Broadcom today pushed out patches for three VMware hypervisor-hijacking bugs, including one rated critical, that have already been found and exploited by criminals....

But factor in the price increase, and it might be worth sitting this one out Apple has launched a new budget iPhone. Rather than discussing specifications or the price hike, the real question is whether the company's latest and cheapest can be repaired....

Vertical tabs, native Arm64 Linux version, and AMD GPU-accelerated video playback Mozilla's Firefox 136 is out today. Despite recent Mozilla moves, it's still a better choice for the privacy-conscious than Chrome....

Eggheads claim breakthrough in step toward making ancient beasts 'de-extinct' US scientists have created a "woolly" mouse by expressing genetic information gathered from woolly mammoths and elephants, which they see as a step toward bringing the extinct species back to life....

Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing March 3 was a tough day for SpaceX. The company was forced to scrub flight test 8 of its monster Starship rocket and also lost a Falcon 9 first stage, which landed then caught fire and tipped over....

GPU farm discloses 77% of revenue tied to just two customers, putting Redmond giant front and center GPU cloud provider CoreWeave has filed for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) in the US, aiming to ride the AI wave and capitalize on the huge growth it has experienced recently....

Wasn't the cloud supposed to be the cheap, reliable option? Microsoft's Exchange Administration Center (EAC) has fallen over and appears to be struggling to get up....

Presumably hosted by AWS? Microsoft has launched Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus, a service designed to rapidly bring Cloud PCs back online in the event of an outage....

But what will the parabola specialist do when spares for Boeing's classic run dry? interview Zero-G currently flies researchers and consumers in simulated lunar and zero gravity. And now a trip to Europe and beyond, as well as new aircraft are on the cards for the parabola specialist....

The fate of Skype is sad, but the clock is ticking for enterprises Microsoft SQL Server 2019 quietly slipped out of mainstream support last week, accompanied by fellow retiree SQL Server Big Data Clusters....

Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass Users of some of the less well-known web browsers are getting blocked from accessing multiple sites by Cloudflare's flaky browser-detection routines....

No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent Research from a leading academic shows Android users have advertising cookies and other gizmos working to build profiles on them even before they open their first app....

That's competition, that's protecting our IP, Redmond's lawyers tell UK competition regulator For AWS and Google to urge the UK competition regulator to "intervene and constrain the price" that Microsoft charges them to license its software in their clouds is both "extraordinary and unprecedented."...

Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly High-profile deepfake scams that were reported here at The Register and elsewhere last year may just be the tip of the iceberg. Attacks relying on spoofed faces in online meetings surged by 300 percent in 2024, it is claimed....

Five flaws found in Paragon Partition Manager's kernel-level .sys Ransomware crooks are exploiting a third-party Windows kernel-level driver used and provided by disk management tool Paragon Partition Manager....

Pricing, licensing changes won't feel so bad once you take this private cloud stack for a spin, apparently Exclusive Broadcom has quietly started a closed beta of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9, a major release that fully expresses the tech giant's vision for what a private cloud should be....

Three more fabs on the way which will come online just in time for - checks calendar - Donald to leave office Standing alongside US President Donald Trump, the CEO of Taiwanese chipmaking champ TSMC on Monday announced a plan to invest $100 billion on expanded operations in Arizona....

Mixed messages from Pentagon, CISA as Trump gets pally with Putin and Kremlin strikes US critical networks Comment America's cybersecurity chiefs in recent days have been sending mixed messages about the threat posed by Russia in the digital world....

Judge slams 'significant chaos' that's become Uncle Sam's standard operating procedure The US government's National Science Foundation has reinstated most of its cadre of probationary employees after laying them off en masse last month....

With friends like these... US stock markets have dipped after President Donald Trump confirmed the imposition of a 25 percent tariff on most goods coming into America from Canada and Mexico, and an extra ten percent tariff on China....

Shareholders urged to press CTRL-Z on loyal Gelsinger's 'retirement' Comment Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett has a simple solution to the x86 giant's woes....

Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant The Opera web browser now boasts "agentic AI," meaning users can ask an onboard AI model to perform tasks that require a series of in-browser actions....

And Monday's not looking that steady, either This weekend's Microsoft 365 outage, which left unlucky subscribers unable to login and use its Outlook email service as expected, has been blamed on a "problematic code change" by the Windows giant....

Annual Barcelona tech fest brings demo devices that aren't commercially available... will they ever see light of day? MWC Lenovo has used the MWC event in Barcelona to demo some unusual concept devices including a laptop with a folding screen and another that can be powered by the sun....

Criminal probe understood to have ended following settlement over 'inconsiderate' behavior SAP paid former CTO Jurgen Muller 7.1 million ($7.5 million) after he left the German software company by mutual agreement in September last year....

Ghost positions, HR AI no help - biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts Analysis It's a familiar refrain in the security industry that there is a massive skills gap in the sector. And while it's true there are specific shortages in certain areas, some industry watchers believe we may be reaching the point of oversupply for generalists....

Microsoft Copilot reckons that it didn't have to be like this There has been a clear uptick in the adoption of Windows 11 as enterprises migrate PC fleets ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10....

Flying to the Turks and Caicos tonight? Good luck SpaceX is set to have another go at launching its monster Starship rocket today after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the venture the green light....

Some may have second thoughts about going all-in with an American vendor, no matter where their data is stored Microsoft has completed its EU data boundary, however, analysts and some regional cloud players are voicing concerns over dependencies on a US entity, even with the guarantees in place....

Officials vow to uncover who was behind it The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is currently dealing with a "cybersecurity incident," it confirmed via its X account on Sunday....

ICO looking at what data is used to serve up recommendations The UK's data protection watchdog has launched three investigations into certain social media platforms following concerns about the protection of privacy among teenage users....