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Symantec suggests Black Basta crew beat Microsoft to the patch The Black Basta ransomware gang may have exploited a now-patched Windows privilege escalation bug as a zero-day, according to Symantec's threat hunters....

But candidate Victor Miller tells The Reg he'll use machine learning to help govern Officials in Wyoming are trying to figure out how to respond to an application to run for mayor of the City of Cheyenne that comes with the promise of AI-assisted governance....

Growing coalition joins federal fray, accusing iGiant of playing monopoly Four more US states have jumped on the Department of Justice's (DoJ) antitrust lawsuit against Apple....

Player MediaTek: Ready The race for Arm-based Windows laptops could soon get interesting, as MediaTek is said to be preparing to enter the game, while the legal battle between Arm and Qualcomm could disrupt the latter's products....

Holy smokes, don't screw this up Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis have joined forces to deliver a high-stakes warning to world leaders: Dive headfirst into AI without thinking about ethics, and you're essentially inviting disaster....

Hello, blackmail: Posters can still see who liked their stuff even if it's a secret from the rest of the digital town square After making the option available for Premium users last year, the site formerly known as Twitter has decided to begin hiding everyone's "likes" to "better protect your privacy."...

The MOVEit breach and ransomware weren't kind to the Feds last year The number of cybersecurity incidents reported by US federal agencies rose 9.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) in 2023 to a total of 32,211, per a new White House report, which also spilled the details on the most serious incidents suffered across the government....

Companies that cooperated with probe will be slightly less hard hit The European Union is set to raise tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, saying they benefit from "unfair subsidization" from the Chinese government....

User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA Global ERP giant SAP has set a deadline of 2027 to get off its ECC ERP system before mainstream support ends. But representatives of German-speaking users fear a significant number will fail to meet the 2030 cut-off when extended support ends....

Dutch intelligence says at least 20,000 firewalls pwned in just a few months The Netherlands' cybersecurity agency (NCSC) says the previously reported attack on the country's Ministry of Defense (MoD) was far more extensive than previously thought....

Nothing is as juicy as a nice fat tender, amirite tech giants? Britain's competition watchdog says it is including the public sector in its investigation into the UK cloud services market, following earlier claims that this area could be overlooked....

No wonder most orgs are slowing their spending Businesses have become more cautious about investing in artificial intelligence tools due to concerns about cost, data security, and safety, according to a study conducted by Lucidworks, a provider of e-commerce search and customer service applications....

German HPC outfit asks for damages, injunction that would see Azure AI shut down Microsoft is facing legal action from German HPC vendor ParTec over claims of patent infringement relating to technology used in putting together AI supercomputers....

At stake: Carmaker's licenses to make and sell motor vehicles in golden state A California judge has rejected Tesla's bid to dismiss claims that the self-driving capabilities of its vehicles were overstated....

'If everybody's got their own little ecosystem, it's very inefficient' AMD and Intel have been rivals for decades, but there's at least one thing they can agree on: they have a common enemy in Nvidia. And the enemy of your enemy can be your friend....

Largest ever study reveals some of the effects on human body aren't as bad as thought, but work needs to be done Scientists have dumped a mountainous cache of research papers on the unsuspecting public in what amounts to the largest collective study of the effects of space travel on human health....

Give yourselves a pat on the back - all 88,000 of you In 2014, Google released Kubernetes, an open source cluster management system that takes its name from the Greek word for "helmsman" or "pilot."...

Creating economies of scale by merging ever-shrinking infrastructure services businesses DXC Technology, the beleaguered tech services provider that emerged from the alliance between HPE Enterprise Services and CSC then lost billions in revenue, is again reportedly the subject of takeover talks....

French firm has nearly tripled in value since beginning of the year France's Mistral AI drew 600 million ($640 million, 510 million) in its latest funding round, bringing its valuation to 5.8 billion ($6.2 billion, 4.9 billion)....

Small businesses have seldom had the chance to understand how they work. A history of PC use makes it possible Column A year and a half into the explosion of AI fueled by ChatGPT, the hype and fear of missing out has begun to thin just enough to make out the shape of two starkly different visions for AI: one that imagines using it to replace people and the other that wants AI to enhance people....

CEO tells The Reg about plumping the portfolio and AI Exclusive IT services biz Advania is buying UK IT solutions provider reseller Servium as it continues to bulk out ops....

Big Red has also cuddled up to Google's cloud and made the transition to high-growth off-prem business Oracle has revealed its cloud will be used by Microsoft to run workloads for OpenAI....

But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy to overcome US sanctions on machine learning accelerators are justifiable, according to the United Arab Emirates minister of AI and digital economy....

Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a policy calling for massive expansion of the nation's cross-border e-commerce industry....

Court docs suggest this matter could have run for years Elon Musk has aborted his legal action against OpenAI....

Redmond splats dozens of bugs as does Adobe while Arm drivers and PHP under active attack Patch Tuesday Microsoft kicked off our summer season with a relatively light June Patch Tuesday, releasing updates for 49 CVE-tagged security flaws in its products - including one bug deemed critical, a fairly terrifying one in wireless networking, and one listed as publicly disclosed....

Bills from legal fights reach 1% of GDP. Hallucination rate no doubt higher Brazil has apparently hired OpenAI in an attempt to help prosecutors get better at handling cases and save the administration money....

TerraPower's atomic facility needs lots of low-enriched uranium and who mainly makes it ... ah, jeez Unwilling to let a little thing like reality stand in its way, Bill Gates' TerraPower has broken ground on its Wyoming nuclear power plant without any guarantee it'll have the fuel needed to run the thing once it's finished....

This benefits management, but not us shareholders! Enterprise software firm HashiCorp and its executives have been sued by an investor who claims the public company's agreement to be acquired by IBM is designed to enrich corporate leaders at the expense of shareholders....

Human settlement of the Moon made a little easier thanks to thermite topsoil A study proposes that the Moon's dusty topsoil, also known as regolith, can produce thermal energy....

Secure storage company hasn't spilled details on how they got in Pure Storage is the latest company to confirm it's a victim of mounting Snowflake-related data breaches....

Funding will expand manufacturing by 50% in three years, says Uncle Sam The Biden administration's push to bring more semiconductor manufacturing to the US has reached new heights with $23.9 million to expand Rocket Lab's New Mexico space chip bakery....

Customers, partners, operations remain uncompromised, BlackBerry says BlackBerry-owned cybersecurity shop Cylance says the data allegedly belonging to it and being sold on a crime forum doesn't endanger customers, yet it won't say where the information was stored originally....

Farewell, we hardly scripted thee Updated Microsoft has announced the retirement of GPT Builder. It is giving users just one month before their data is deleted....

Preference for proprietary features restricting open source MySQL adoption, says Peter Zaitsev An experienced MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle might unintentionally kill off the open source database with its preference for adding features to its proprietary systems....

Concerned about secrecy... or just mad no one's buying his AI tech? Comment AI laggard Apple introduced the world to its fashionably late spin on the tech yesterday, and of course mewling billionaire manbaby Elon Musk had to stick an oar in - not that anybody asked....

Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz The data protection watchdogs of the UK and Canada are teaming up to hunt down the facts behind last year's 23andMe data breach....

As usual, things are more complicated than 'bigger number better.' Comment For chipmakers, the AI PC has become a race to the TOPS - with Intel, AMD and Qualcomm each trying to one up the others....

Priced at 2.80, but goes beyond 3.90 in conditional trading Raspberry Pi's IPO took place this morning on the London Stock Exchange. Shares were initially priced at 2.80 ($3.57), but they surged to 3.90 ($4.97) during early trading....

Too bad shareholders, as this will mean pain for them... Atos has opted for a bailout proposal led by its largest shareholder Onepoint to put the company on a firmer financial footing with the injection of capital and a plan to transform it over the next five years....

Kids can be rough despite efforts to keep budget computers out of landfill A Chromebook refresh looms despite Google trying to extend the life of laptops by offering a decade of service updates for models sold since 2021....

Japanese supplier gets 4.75M contract extension amid promise not to bid for govt work The UK's Department for Education has awarded Japanese IT services supplier Fujitsu a 4.75 million ($6 million) contract, despite its promise not to bid for government work before the Post Office Horizon Inquiry concludes....

Feeling empowerment and autonomy at work reportedly key when toiling remotely Many office workers no longer want to sacrifice their entire working week at their desk - the corporate altar of commerce - but for some, the work from home revolution has led to higher levels of neuroticism....

This is not BS, it's cutting-edge material science Worthy Farm, host of the world-famous Glastonbury music festival, already uses cow manure to produce power, but will now allow local startup Levidian to insert its tech into the carbon producing process, thereby producing graphene....

Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry Apple has revealed it created its own datacenter stack - servers using its in-house silicon and operating system - at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Monday....

Lenovo and HPE have also signed deal to carry on hyperconverging VMware by Broadcom has re-signed three key hardware vendors to original equipment manufacturer (OEM) resale agreements....

Mandiant warns criminal gang UNC5537, which may be friendly with Scattered Spider, is on the rampage An unknown financially motivated crime crew has swiped a "significant volume of records" from Snowflake customers' databases using stolen credentials, according to Mandiant....

Offline for four days and counting, as are parent company and e-commerce brand Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa and several of its properties have been offline for four days after a major cyber attack....

WWDC sees Cupertino up to its old trick of adding features - in this case a password manager - that compete directly with third parties Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday teased assorted imminent improvements to the iGiant's operating systems - including enhanced app security, support for RCS in Messages, and a dedicated password management app....

Won't say when build might resume Construction work on Intel's $25 billion semiconductor manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel, has reportedly been postponed....