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Qatari telco reckons deal will give it an 18-24 month lead in region Amid US restrictions curbing the export of certain high-end AI accelerators to much of the Middle East, Silicon Valley's Nvidia has reached an agreement to furnish Qatari telecom Ooredoo's datacenters with "thousands" of GPUs....

Spanish sublet shock solution to housing crisis Tourists in the Spanish city of Barcelona will have fewer lodging options come 2028, as the city has decided to evict operators of short-term apartment rentals....

Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio - but with the added fun of geopolitical risk Alibaba Cloud has created an English language version of Modelscope, its models-as-service offering....

WikiLeaks boss already out of Blighty and, if all goes to plan, ultimately off to home in Australia WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the UK after agreeing to plead guilty to just one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, brought against him by the United States. Uncle Sam previously filed more than a dozen counts....

'Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal' Analysis Introduced in April, the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) was - in the words of its drafters - "the best opportunity we've had in decades to establish a national data privacy and security standard that gives people the right to control their personal information."...

Recording Industry Ass. of America orchestrates war on Udio and Suno Updated Big name record labels are together suing two AI startups for allegedly training their music-generating models on copyrighted tracks without permission, resulting in the software emitting audio that rips off commercial work....

About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we're told A now-patched vulnerability in Ollama - a popular open source project for running LLMs - can lead to remote code execution, according to flaw finders who warned that upwards of 1,000 vulnerable instances remain exposed to the internet....

Same old whinging: We can't change the world if you ask us to do it openly Venture capitalist Y Combinator and more than 140 machine-learning startups have signed an open letter in opposition to a proposed hot-button AI safety law making its way through the California legislature....

Steve Teixeira, said to be CEO-in-waiting, now sues Firefox maker for discrimination, retaliation Mozilla Corporation was sued this month in the US, along with three of its executives, for alleged disability discrimination and retaliation against Chief Product Officer Steve Teixeira....

Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack The Indonesian government has admitted its national datacenter was hit by ransomware criminals, disrupting some of the country's services....

More customers self-reporting to SEC as disruption carries into second week The number of US companies filing Form 8-Ks with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and referencing embattled car dealership software biz CDK is mounting....

Otero family sues Uncle Sam for $80K+ to make everything right A Florida homeowner has sued NASA for more than $80,000 in compensation after debris from the International Space Station smashed a hole in his roof....

iFixit hands out provisional 8 out of 10 for hardware designed with repairs in mind Microsoft has received a thumbs-up from iFixit, with a provisional 8 out of 10 for repairability on its latest Surface Pro and Laptop devices....

Tit for tat spat could be avoided China and the European Commission are to launch consultations on the European Union anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs)....

AlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop Encouraging noises are coming from multiple directions around Linux support for both current and next-generation Arm64 kit....

Seems like as good a time as any to upgrade older hardware There are early indications of active attacks targeting end-of-life Zyxel NAS boxes just a few weeks after details of three critical vulnerabilities were made public....

If it's Boeing, it isn't going joke gets a bit real for 'nauts Boeing's Starliner will remain docked at the International Space Station (ISS) for a while longer as engineers analyze data from the vehicle's propulsion system....

Plus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws The European Commission has published preliminary findings that accuse Apple of breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by preventing developers from telling customers about options outside the App Store....

Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming The UK government has been accused of blowing 174 million ($220 million) on "external advice" for a new radio system for the armed forces that has been beset by delays and cancelled contracts....

The strategy has changed so much that previously poor channel numbers don't count, we're told HPE's GreenLake strategy has changed so completely that the company said it's impossible to compare poor channel sales numbers just three years ago to the modern GreenLake era....

A busy few days for security teams There were data breaches galore in the US last week with various major incidents reported to state attorneys general, some in good time, some not....

Those with curious disposition spoilt for choice as KDE 6.1, Cinnamon 6.2, and IceWM 3.5 all arrive New versions of two of the most popular "traditional" desktops are out, alongside a new release of one of the oldest and smallest....

Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening? Opinion When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the uber-fashionable AI end of tech, Meta has grudgingly complied with a ruling not to feed European social media crap into its training data. Meanwhile, in the industrial slums, 20 percent of running Microsoft SQL Server instances are now past the end of support....

Have you heard the one about the techie who forgot what was on the clipboard? Who, me? Brace yourselves, gentle readers, for it is once again Monday, and the work week has commenced. Thankfully, The Reg is here with another dose of Who, Me? in which readers share tales of times they had a day worse than the one you're having. We hope it helps....

It's not all hype, but more work is needed before solutions are feasible or affordable The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has published the results of an exercise that assessed whether quantum computers will deliver on the promise of solving problems that stump classical machines - with mixed results....

Next: more work on crewed mission, including space yoga for astronauts India's Space Research Organization has signalled its intention to build a reusable launch vehicle after a third test of an unpowered experimental precursor again nailed its landing....

A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely - but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit Analysis Samsung has teased its entry into the GPU industry, but its plans are obscure....

Also: The leaked Apple internal tools that weren't; TV pirate pirates convicted; and some critical vulns, too Infosec in brief The descending ball of trouble over at Snowflake keeps growing larger, with more victims - and even one of the alleged intruders - coming forward last week....

Plus: Huawei closer to divorcing Android; India probes Amazon warehouses; Singapore gets autonomous street sweepers Asia In Brief SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son last week told investors he believes an "artificial superintelligence" that has 10,000 times the intelligence of humans could arrive in as little as three years....

All depends on how you count it - Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Google this week offered reassurance that its vetting of Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged that "as with any software, extensions can also introduce risk."...

In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story Hands on Large language models (LLMs) are generally associated with chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, but they're by no means limited to Q&A-style interactions. Increasingly, LLMs are being integrated into everything from IDEs to office productivity suites....

It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains Kettle The US government on Thursday banned Kaspersky Lab from selling its antivirus and other products in America from late July, and from issuing updates and malware signatures from October....

These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that's totally why we're doing this Apple has delayed plans to deploy artificial intelligence features in Europe because the American giant is unhappy with the continent's privacy regulations....

'Substantial proportion' of America to get a little note from next month Change Healthcare is formally notifying some of its pharmacy and hospital customers that their patients' data was stolen from it by ransomware criminals back in February - and for the first time has concretely disclosed the types of information swiped during that IT intrusion....

Here's America's list of the supposedly dirty dozen Uncle Sam took another swing at Kaspersky Lab today and sanctioned a dozen C-suite and senior-level executives at the antivirus maker, but spared CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky....

Campus faces yet another racial discrimination lawsuit as Clean Air Act violations claims also hit the fan Yet another lawsuit was this week filed against Tesla citing a "systemically ... racially hostile work environment" at the company's Fremont, California plant....

Mozilla backtracking on private window changes after uproar Firefox remains the browser of choice for many, but the latest update has lost users' tabs and makes it much more apparent when they have private tabs open, missing the point of privacy....

Telecoms company will remain a carrier of last resort per CPUC ruling AT&T will have to continue operating landlines in California despite its wish to cut off the less lucrative line of business, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has ruled....

Researchers discuss it in same breath as BlackLotus and MosaicRegressor A new vulnerability in UEFI firmware is threatening the security of a wide range of Intel chip families in a similar fashion to BlackLotus and others like it....

Google's self-driving cars can be tested in way mo' streets now The way is paved for autonomous vehicle company Waymo to extend taxi services beyond San Francisco and into the San Francisco Peninsula and Los Angeles....

Earthly politics and mission planning no match for fast-moving rocky orb Earth possesses "limited readiness" to "quickly implement" needed space missions to defend itself against a devastating asteroid strike, even with 14 years' notice....

Satellite dishes not just for roofs anymore SpaceX is inviting some customers to buy a new Starlink Mini receiver for its satellite broadband service offered as a portable option, with an introductory price tag of $599 in the US....

Or any other hypervisors that might hypothetically be acquired or suddenly get more costly Devconf.cz Moving a VM from one host machine to another is easy. Moving VMs from one hypervisor to another is less trivial - but help is at hand....

At least they didn't get paid their $50 million ransom demand The ransomware gang responsible for the chaos at London hospitals kept true to its word and released a trove of data that it claims belongs to pathology services provider Synnovis....

Not a lot, says NetApp's Matt Watts as he talks file classification, wastage, and power consumption Interview NetApp's Chief Technology Evangelist, Matt Watts, is worried about sustainability and data wastage, even as his employer withdraws third-party support from BlueXP classification....

Never underestimate the stickiness of legacy technology It is 40 years since Robert W Scheifler ushered in the era of the X Window System, a windowing system that continues to stick around despite many distributions looking for alternatives....

There should be honor among techies, but it can be hard to admit error On Call Few among us are faultless, but more often than not it's users and managers who are in the wrong when IT goes awry. Which is why each Friday The Register offers a fresh instalment of On Call - the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of being asked to bail out bores, brats and blockheads....

If Putin likes jammin', we hope NATO likes jammin' too Sweden says its satellites have been impacted by "harmful interference" from Russia ever since the Nordic nation joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) last March....

Open Web Advocacy report calls for these extensive changes to iGiant's rules Exclusive The results of the European Commission's inquiry into Apple's response to the continent's competition rules are expected to surface soon - and reports indicate the regulators are less than enamored with Cook & Co....

Australian telco Optus allegedly left redundant website with poor access controls online for years The data breach at Australian telco Optus, which saw over nine million customers' personal information exposed, has been blamed on a coding error that broke API access controls, and was left in place for years....