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Like a bat out of hell they'll be gone when November comes Updated Micron is reportedly facing a new hitch to starting work on its proposed fabrication center in New York State: Endangered bats....

It's no hallucination: '4 in 1,000 inferences inaccurate' due to this alone, depending on the setup Meta has identified another reason AI might produce rubbish output: Hardware faults that corrupt data....

Fast, funny, visionary, sure ... anything that knocks OpenAI down a peg will do Video OpenAI challenger Anthropic has delivered its latest model - Claude 3.5 Sonnet - and claimed it outperforms rivals on many tasks....

Won't somebody pleeease think of the ... oh, right, they are A lawsuit accusing Google of breaking America's child privacy laws will proceed to trial as a judge denied the web goliath's motion to throw out the case....

Two ransomware gangs bragged of massive theft of personal info and medical files Consulting Radiologists has notified almost 512,000 patients that digital intruders accessed their personal and medical information during a February cyberattack....

Blockade begins July 20 on national security grounds as antivirus slinger vows to fight back The Biden administration today banned the sale of Kaspersky Lab products and services in the United States, declaring the Russian biz a national security risk....

Downtime set to crash into next week The vendor behind the software on which nearly 15,000 car dealerships across the US rely says an ongoing "cyber incident" has forced it to pull systems offline for a second time in as many days....

Oh, Mike, what have you got yourself into now Dell Technologies and Supermicro have been confirmed as the computer makers building an Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer for Elon Musk's xAI startup....

More big blues at Big Blue ... And of course El Reg coverage is cited in the lawsuit Once again, IBM has been sued for age discrimination, this time alongside spin-off Kyndryl, for allegedly cutting the jobs of older workers while creating similar positions for younger ones....

Class action allowed to continue with EV maker's 'tying' practices the focus A judge has ruled that Tesla must face a lawsuit alleging the electric car manufacturer denies customers and third parties the right to repair its vehicles....

Researchers allegedly stole $3M using the vulnerability, then asked how much it was really worth Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has accused a trio of security researchers of discovering a critical bug, expoliting it to steal millions in digital cash, then using stolen funds to extort the exchange for more....

Where we're at in 2024: Billionaire says he didn't mean to tell everyone to 'go f%$k themselves' Just seven months ago, Elon Musk told an interviewer: "If someone's going to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is."...

Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, bug, er poorly documented feature... user error Following closely after the release of version 256, version 256.1 fixes a handful of bugs. One of these is emphatically not systemd-tmpfiles recursively deleting your entire home directory. That's a feature....

Reduced promotion prospects for those involved, and some already eyeing up the exit route Return to office (RTO) mandates don't work, at least not for a reported 50 percent of Dell staff in the US, some of whom are prepared to let go of promotion hopes and start looking for alternatives that offer more flexibility....

Despite dip in equipment revenue, analysts predict robust rebound Chipmaking equipment suppliers haven't had the greatest start to the calendar year, collectively reporting a sales slump in the opening three months of 2024, according to analyst figures....

IP address of downloads offers crumb trail to orgs who should be ready for Big Red, says licensing expert Organizations that do not consider themselves Oracle customers, but who use Java, can expect a call from the Big Red in the next three to nine months, according to a software licensing specialist....

Publishing right before a major election is apparently just a coincidence A fresh report into the Nobelium offensive cyber crew published by France's computer emergency response team (CERT-FR) highlights the group's latest tricks as the country prepares for a major election and to host this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games....

Germans cooling on proper EVs, according to auto industry group The market share of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is declining in Europe while hybrid electric cars are proving more popular....

Cybercriminals claim they used a zero-day to breach pathology provider's systems Interview The ransomware gang responsible for the current healthcare crisis at London hospitals says it has no regrets about the attack, which was entirely deliberate, it told The Register in an interview....

What if it's LLMs all the way down? Researchers in computing and linguistics have devised a new way to detect errors in large language models, which relies on employing more LLMs....

Nice computer. Shame if anything happened to it Shiny new Surface 7 devices are starting to arrive, but a lack of recovery media is causing problems for some users....

Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it Analyst firm Gartner has published its annual hype cycles for cloud tech and enterprise networking, and both suggest cooling your jets rather than rushing towards AI-assisted tools to operate your tech....

FWIW Microsoft says 'your apps run great' even when emulated on Arm Samsung has debuted Copilot+ PCs running on Qualcomm processors, but warned buyers in South Korea - and seemingly only that nation - that they won't run many common applications....

Andrew Forrest has spent five years railing against promos that falsely claim he's found the route to crypto riches Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest has won the right to sue Meta over ads it carried that falsely depict him endorsing cryptocurrencies and other financial services products....

He's in competition with - and critical of - his former workplace OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever - who last month quit the GPT creator - has unveiled his next gig: an outfit dubbed Safe Superintelligence Inc. that aims to produce a product of the same name - without the "Inc."...

Judge asked to green-light payout to shareholders over SEP license and bundling claims Qualcomm investors say if the company stumps up $75 million, this should resolve lawsuits they brought over claims the chipmaker misled them by describing its sales and tech licensing businesses as separate concerns, artificially inflating the share price at the same time....

AlmaLinux and Broadcom added to list of partners for open source Redis fork Momentum is building behind open source Redis alternative Valkey with confirmation of new backers including Broadcom, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and Instaclustr by NetApp....

America's Big 3 cellcos all signed up already, though most of the 'non terrestrial' tech not actually live yet Convergence between mobile networks and satellite services is becoming the norm rather than a niche strategy: a full 91 telecoms operators worldwide are now signed up to agreements with satellite providers....

Spacecraft to spend some extra testing time at ISS before making its way back home Boeing's Starliner will remain at the International Space Station (ISS) for several more days. NASA and Boeing are now targeting no earlier than June 26 for a return to Earth....

Invites comments from rivals and customers at start of merger probe Often the scourge of tech execs in the US, Britain's competition regulator has a new potential target in its sights: HPE's proposed $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks....

Rail company goes full steam ahead with notification letters to Rewards customers about spilled card details and more US rail company Amtrak is writing to users of its Guest Rewards program to inform them that their data is potentially at risk following a derailment of their account security....

Recent patches have broken the update path There are problems with Microsoft's last few Windows 11 updates, leaving some users unable to make the move from Windows 11 Pro to Enterprise....

Hats off to The Guardian for double checking, though British democracy hangs in the balance after internet mischief makers published a deepfake of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage griefing prime minister Rishi Sunak's Minecraft server....

Don't believe the hype Despite some astronomical vendor valuations and predictions that it will transform society, the impact of GenAI in the workplace has yet to materialize, according to a recent global survey....

Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your server - you know you want to Hands on Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has sent many scrambling for alternatives....

YMMV Data from more than 2,000 self-driving vehicles has contributed to a study concluding they may be safer than humans in some conditions, and potentially more dangerous in others....

Sir Peter Beck on bringing balance to the market and more Interview Rocket Lab will hit the 50th launch milestone for its Electron rockets this week but will miss a hoped-for late 2024 date for its first Neutron launch....

Three new Silicon Valley campuses in pipeline to meet demand Supermicro is planning additional facilities to meet increasing demand for liquid-cooled datacenter infrastructure, and will focus on delivering entire plug-and-play installations to customers....

Control-C, Control-V, Enter ... Hell Crafty criminals are targeting thousands of orgs around the world in social-engineering attacks that use phony error messages to trick users into running malicious PowerShell scripts....

Images suggest they could be recent Intel Xeons - perhaps even the sort of kit subject to sanctions Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department on Monday revealed it intercepted 596 CPUs that an alleged smuggler was trying to ship into China....

10,000 qubits reportedly on the cards for one of them, with help from IBM Japan's Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology is set to work on a pair of quantum computers, and inject Nvidia's latest accelerators into one of its existing supercomputers....

Customers aren't thrilled at double subdomain or need for Premium license Atlassian will soon close its infamous CLOUD-6999 feature request ticket - opened in 2011 in response to customers seeking custom domains for its cloudy products - as it claims the feature has been delivered. Customers, however, aren't entirely happy....

It's complementary to Virtzilla, and will eschew controverial aspects of Broadcom's licensing changes HPE Discover AI may be the focus of most of the announcements at HPE's Discover gabfest this year - because it's 2024 - but the Silicon Valley veteran has also taken the opportunity to challenge VMware by Broadcom with a virtualization offering of its own....

Study finds they're taking Putin pushers' point of view 30% of the time Media analyst house NewsGuard tested chatbots from ten top AI developers, and found they all were willing to emit Russian disinformation to varying degrees....

Two decades in the clink would be quite an education A now-former IT director has pleaded guilty to defrauding the university at which he was employed - and a computer equipment supplier - for $2.1 million over five years....

Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now AMD's IT team is no doubt going through its logs today after cyber-crooks put up for sale what is claimed to be internal data stolen from the US microprocessor designer....

If you call 'client-side scanning' something like 'upload moderation,' it still undermines privacy, security On Thursday, the EU Council is scheduled to vote on a legislative proposal that would attempt to protect children online by disallowing confidential communication....

Ancient ruined architecture? What's Intel's Itanium doing in Taiwan? Construction of TSMC's advanced chip packaging facility in Chiayi County, Taiwan, has hit a roadblock after "archaeological ruins" were discovered at the site....

Hey Andy, how do you like them Big Apples? The Amazon Labor Union, which represents the internet giant's workers at its JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, New York, voted overwhelmingly to ally with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Tuesday....

Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video Video Mainstream adoption of generative AI technologies has, in large part, centered around the creation of text and images. But, as it turns out, the statistical probabilities on which these models are based are just as good at generating all manner of other media....