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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....

Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes? Analysis Mozilla this week said it has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym, touting the deal as a way to help the online advertising industry support user privacy while delivering effective adverts....

Everyone wants to be best buddies with Jensen Huang's GPU juggernaut HPE Discover This year HPE Discover 2024 is all about AI hardware developed through an expanded partnership with chip heavyweight Nvidia....

Comms outfit says 'think of the children' isn't a legal reason to reject application T-Mobile US is taking the borough of Wanaque in New Jersey to court for refusing to approve the company's plans to build a cell tower....

Academic-industry project takes next step as key promoter chip designer licks its wounds A group of technology organizations has formed the CHERI Alliance CIC (Community Interest Company) to promote industry adoption of the security technology focused on memory access....

If the new system is so good, why not onboard everyone who accessed the old system? Feature While Meta faces formal proceedings from the European Commission, academics and other researchers have criticized its provision for monitoring misinformation on its social media platforms....

Billions of dollars made available but worst appears to be over The US government is winding down its financial support for healthcare providers originally introduced following the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare in February....

Liberty Linux Lite to keep the updates coming for a few more years ... for a fee SUSE has unveiled a Liberty Linux Lite solution aimed at enticing CentOS 7 administrators facing the impending June 30 end-of-support deadline....

CEO of Dumfries and Galloway admits circa 150K people should assume their details leaked The chief exec at NHS Dumfries and Galloway will write to thousands of folks in the Scottish region whose data was stolen by criminals, admitting the lot of it was published after the trust did not give in to the miscreants' demands....

Fears 'MergeCo' will snaffle disproportionate spectrum Britain's competition watchdog has published responses to its investigation of the proposed merger of the Vodafone and Three mobile networks, varying from welcoming the move as something that will boost competition, to fears it will have the opposite effect....

Just because you could definitely means you should The Raspberry Pi has long been popular with retrocomputing enthusiasts, and its microcontroller - the RP2040 - can also be used for various emulation purposes, now including the original Apple Macintosh 128K....

It's not every tech conference that has story-reading sessions... but maybe they should Devconf.cz Free Software Foundation Europe president Matthias Kirshner's picture book Ada and Zangemann explains the concepts of FOSS to school kids... and managers, marketing people, and victims of Windows-induced Stockholm Syndrome....

TDK tech envisioned as successor to button cells - if it works as promised Japan's TDK Corporation claims its new solid-state battery design has a hundred times the energy density of its previous products....

Be afraid ... be very afraid: AI could also revolutionize tax itself, money boffins argue The International Monetary Fund has suggested one way to ameliorate the impact of AI: a tax on the carbon dioxide emissions created in generating masses of energy to power the computers that many hope will do some thinking for us....

Specially crafted network packet could allow remote code execution and access to VM fleets VMware by Broadcom has revealed a pair of critical-rated flaws in vCenter Server - the tool used to manage virtual machines and hosts in its flagship Cloud Foundation and vSphere suites....

Beijing's interest in generative AI has its limits Chinese web giant Tencent has floated the idea of banning AI-generated videos on its Weixin Channel service, in the grounds that they are low-quality content....

Because not everyone's walking around wearing augmented reality goggles yet Japan's IT services and telecoms giant NTT Corporation has devised a tech that makes 3D images visible in augmented reality applications without requiring special equipment or even direct observation....

Outages came a day after nation launched giveaway of .VN domains in pursuit of improved digital sovereignty Internet connectivity between Vietnam and the rest of the globe has degraded yet again after three of the five submarine internet cables failed around June 15 and remain down....

'TikTag' security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile In 2018, chip designer Arm introduced a hardware security feature called Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) as a defense against memory safety bugs. But it may not be as effective as first hoped....

Pen-testing tools didn't work - and personal info of folks hit by pandemic started appearing in search engines Two consulting firms, Guidehouse and Nan McKay and Associates, have agreed to pay a total of $11.3 million to resolve allegations of cybersecurity failings over their roll-out of COVID-19 assistance....

Something like ... Side effects may include low self esteem, short attention span, and intrusive ads? US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy today said official warning labels should be slapped on social media networks....

Cybercrime super-souk's Dopenugget and Zero Angel may face life behind bars if convicted The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been detained on charges related to owning and operating the illicit souk....

Graphic design giant slammed for using graphic design to bury T&Cs The FTC has sued Adobe in federal court alleging the Photoshop titan and two of its executives deceived artists by concealing termination fees for its subscription software....

Automated voice ordering still on the menu for the future, though McDonald's is pulling out of its venture with IBM that brought AI to some of its drive-thrus....

Forced to work through lunch, attacked by virus-carrying primates, and sacked for being pregnant - allegedly Another week, another lawsuit for an Elon Musk-owned company, this one filed by a former Neuralink employee claiming she was twice scratched by lab monkeys carrying the Herpes B virus, which is potentially deadly to humans....

Four years on and it's still paying for what California attorney general calls 'unacceptable' practice Months after escaping without a fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the luck of cloud software biz Blackbaud ran out when it came to reaching a settlement with California's attorney general....

Could be used to solve long term digital data storage problems too Boffins at MIT have come up with an amber-like polymer that can be used to preserve DNA, which could allow it to be used for long term storage of information, such as genomes or digital data....

Running on one gyro, but still gazing at the sky The Hubble Space Telescope has resumed science operations in single-gyro mode after one of its three remaining gyros was declared suspect....

CFO talks GPU development, strategy and market dynamics at Nasdaq Investor Conference AI PCs may be talk of the town right now but AMD's chief financial officer reckons that the datacenter remains the chipmaker's major profit engine, and CPU cores are still key for many workloads....

Claim analytics and data platform biz misled investors about size of public cloud forecast Teradata faces the prospect of a class action suit relating to statements to investors....

Is it lingering somewhere between fusion power and self-driving cars? Systems Approach In thinking about the decade-plus worth of efforts to automate the configuration and operation of networks - of which intent-based networking may be the most well-known and ambitious example - are we actually any closer to the automation of networking that we were a decade ago?...

Spanish cops make arrest at airport before he jetted off to Italy Spanish police arrested a person they allege to be the leader of the notorious cybercrime gang Scattered Spider just before he boarded a private flight headed to Naples....

Everything is fine, despite Recall setting fire to the house that Gates built And just like that, Windows 11 24H2 is back....

Infrastructure teams have 'eye on door' as SAP migration enters critical phase Exclusive Asda is transferring more than 100 internal IT workers to Indian outsourcing company TCS as it labors to meet deadlines to move away from IT systems supported by previous owner Walmart by the end of the year....

The clock is ticking - why not try a passkey? Heads up: Amazon Web Services is pushing ahead with making multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for certain users, and we love to see it....

Health club chain headed for the spa on choose a password day A security researcher claims UK health club and gym chain Total Fitness bungled its data protection responsibilities by failing to lock down a database chock-full of members' personal data....

That beige box running a server is easily forgotten ... until it goes wrong Exclusive IT asset management platform Lansweeper has dispensed a warning for enterprise administrators everywhere. Exactly how old is that SQL Server on which your business depends?...

You know what they say about headlines that end in a question mark Opinion AI - loud, confident, and wrong. That's not talking about generative AI's ability to hallucinate, although why not? Rather, it's about the big picture, the platform-wide Recall from Microsoft and, oh dear, Apple Intelligence....

Measure twice, trust never Who, Me? Welcome once again, gentle readerfolk, to the corner of The Reg we call Who, Me? where each Monday morning we share a reader-submitted tale of tech support gone not-quite-right....

Who needs ransomware when you can scare techies into coughing up their credentials? Notorious cyber gang UNC3944 - the crew suspected of involvement in the recent attacks on Snowflake and MGM Entertainment, and plenty more besides - has changed its tactics and is now targeting SaaS applications...

A push for interoperability is accelerating, but maybe not fast enough to stop biometrics taking over Feature From Bangalore to Beijing, when Asians go out to shop, they seldom use a credit or debit card and instead pay using their smartphone to scan a QR code....

South Korean outfit that sparked 'Crypto Winter' will melt away after SEC order Terraform Labs, the outfit behind the $40 billion crash of the TerraUSD stablecoin and its sibling Luna (LUNA) tokens, will pay $4.5 billion to creditors and authorities, then wind itself up....

ALSO: online adoption cyberstalker nabbed; Tesla trade secrets thief pleads guilty; and a critical ASUS Wi-Fi vuln In Brief A popular spam blocklist service that went offline earlier this month has advised users it is down permanently - but at least one potential candidate is stepping up to try to fill the threat intelligence void....

PLUS: Australia to age limit social media; Hong Kong's robo-dogs; India's new tech minister The space junk cleaning mission launched by Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully hunted down one of its targets....