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There's also an off switch The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo search engine that \ has introduced AI Chat, an optional, free chatbot service - within limits - that provides a choice of models and "can be easily switched off."...

Oracle, Nvidia accused of working with ByteDance, others to provide access to advanced parts within America Chinese companies blocked from getting their hands on cutting-edge AI chips have reportedly been buying access to sanctioned hardware on US soil to avoid raising alarms....

Jury in San Francisco finds founder plus finance VP not guilty Mike Lynch, founder and CEO of Autonomy, has been acquitted of criminal fraud and conspiracy charges arising from the 2011 sale of the British software company to Hewlett-Packard....

The bad news? Gang wasn't deleting victim data after payments LockBit victims who are still trying to clean up their encrypted files are in luck: the FBI has a big set of decryption keys it would love to let you try....

New red-tape will cost us big, American ISPs and their lobbyists claim Telecom industry organizations have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to halt its order to restore net neutrality....

Update that triggered user rage didn't really change much - software company has always been able to scan your stuff A practically ancient terms-of-use update has landed Adobe in freshly boiled water over how the Photoshop giant gives itself the right to review user content stored in its cloud....

Network scan reveals 26 percent of Linux boxes are CentOS 7, EOL later this month. What happens next? Lansweeper's scans of its customers' networks found an awful lot of Linux boxes facing imminent end of life, with no direct upgrade path. This, for clarity, is a very bad thing....

This study is bad, so so bad. The worst study ever. Did you know Hillary Clinton created ISIS? After convicted criminal and twice impeached former president Donald Trump and 70,000 other accounts were booted from Twitter following the January 6 riots, the spread of misleading information on the platform fell....

Opt out or prepare for your posts to be ingested Meta's plans to use customer data in AI training have resulted in complaints to data protection authorities in 11 European countries....

Hmm... world's most valuable companies furthest ahead with world's most coveted tech. WCGW? Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia are set to be investigated for potential antitrust violations with regard to their dominant positions in the burgeoning AI industry, according to reports....

Just a wet dress rehearsal left before debut launch The much-delayed Ariane 6 rocket is scheduled to launch on July 9 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana....

Trend Micro says cloudy email scans trigger GDPR warnings that deter users. Local models that use NPUs don't Computex Trend Micro has outlined how it will tailor its desktop security software for AI PCs, and thinks it might improve security in ways that normal, bog-standard PCs can't match....

Funds are currently seized after being sent to offshore accounts The US Justice Department is seeking permission to recover more than $5 million worth of funds stolen from a trade union by business email compromise (BEC) scammers....

You're not a 1985 truther, are you? We hate to be the ones to break it to all you El Reg readers, but we're informed the classic video game Tetris is turning 40....

Restructure saga kicked into next week, investors unamused Crisis-ridden tech giant Atos has further delayed a decision on its restructuring, putting back until next week the choice of a rescue package to reduce the company's debt and get its finances back in shape....

Time to get moving if you still rely on this deprecated feature Microsoft has finally decided to add the venerable NTLM authentication protocol to the Deprecated Features list....

Coming SiB boom will be a Chinese one while the West is years behind, industry watcher tells us Interview The burgeoning sodium ion battery industry is poised for a big year, says one analyst, though the US and its friends may miss out as China whizzes by....

Experts say Big Red will probably re-release patch in an upcoming cycle A seven-year-old Oracle vulnerability is the latest to be added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog, meaning the security agency considers it a significant threat to federal government....

Someone noticed Britain's about to elect a new govt, amirite? The latest CEO of UK telecoms giant BT says that Scandinavian nations are far more developed than Britain when it comes to telco infrastructure, and the government needs to overhaul regulations to fix this....

What's that Lassie? Our nefarious AI overlords are about to take over the world? You must be barking People who want to understand their dogs might be about to be given a helping paw by AI, according to the latest study....

As tool emerges to probe OS feature's SQLite-based store of user activities Asked to explore the data privacy issues arising from Microsoft Recall, the Windows maker's poorly received self-surveillance tool, Jaime Teevan, chief scientist and technical fellow at Microsoft Research, brushed aside concerns....

We're from the government and we want you to find love and procreate The city of Tokyo plans to launch a dating app in coming months, in the hope it helps to address Japan' declining population....

May come in handy for healthcare orgs, or to turn you off private 5G Computex Delta is a Taiwanese company that specializes in power management kit, the sort of thing that datacenters need. It's therefore very much in demand right now but also, as revealed in the final keynote address of the 2024 edition of the Computex conference, undertakes some tangential R&D...

Legacy apps on Chromebooks is the goal, which won't terrify VDI incumbents like Citrix and Omnissa Google has decided to take on the likes of Citrix and VMware by acquiring an outfit called Cameyo whose tech makes it possible to stream apps into browsers - including on Chromebooks....

Would like to vanquish Veeam and Veritas, but tidying up backup rigs is an easier job Computex Taiwanese storage vendor Synology has revealed a range of backup appliances....

No, this isn't the weird logic of cryptocurrency infecting the IRS. It's a 'Fight us and everyone loses even more' kinda deal Imploded cryptocurrency exchange FTX owes a lot of people a lot of money - but has convinced America's tax collectors at the IRS to give it a massive discount on its $24 billion tax bill....

Tycoon's private firms got Nvidia GPUs first because automaker couldn't use them yet Comment Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed he redirected Nvidia H100 GPUs intended for the car manufacturer to X and xAI, two private firms he owns....

Beware of zero-click malware sliding into your DMs Miscreants exploited a zero-day in TikTok to compromised the accounts of CNN and other big names. The app maker has confirmed there was a cyberattack, and that it has scrambled to secure accounts and prevent any further exploitation....

Think biologically not digitally to go from megawatts to watts, HAI gathering told The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on Wednesday celebrated five years of cat herding, which is to say shepherding the responsible development of machine learning....

Malware code potentially sold off, tweaked, back at it infecting victims RansomHub, a newish cyber-crime operation that has claimed to be behind the theft of data from Christie's auction house and others, is "very likely" some kind of rebrand of the Knight ransomware gang, according to threat hunters....

Bristol researcher granted 375K to improve airborne wind energy systems We may be inching closer to a post-turbine wind energy future if a grant awarded to a University of Bristol boffin for wind-harvesting, ground-tethered drone research is any indication of things to come....

In-process OLAP database flies the nest DuckDB has become a fully fledged database release with its 1.0 iteration, promising a new data model and greater stability to enhance backwards compatibility....

Let's get that brave duo to the ISS and then home to Earth safely Boeing's NASA-backed Starliner crew capsule, at long last, successfully blasted off from a Florida launch pad today with two brave humans onboard....

'We love our farms' says Culpeper, but we also like internet mega-souk and others setting up servers Interview When we last checked in on Culpeper County, Virginia, folks there were contesting the construction of an Amazon datacenter while officials sought to attract more server-hosting estates to the area....

That backdoor's not meant to be there? Zyxel just released security fixes for two of its obsolete network-attached storage (NAS) devices after an intern at a security vendor reported critical flaws months ago....

So about that commercial servicing mission, hmm? NASA has confirmed that the time has come: the venerable Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is to run in one-gyro mode from now on....

Chocolate Factory entangled in yet another anti-competitive claim The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled that a class action lawsuit accusing Google of anti-competitive practices can proceed....

'Current and former employees should retain their freedom to report their concerns to the public' open letter says Current and former Google DeepMind and OpenAI staff have signed an open letter calling for support and protection for whistleblowers and accountability among companies at the leading edge of AI development....

Despite unbundling video and chat app from Office, Redmond 'committed to find a resolution to regulators' concerns' Microsoft says it will likely take "additional steps" in a bid to resolve the European Commission antitrust investigation into its bundling of Teams with Office....

Shipments of servers used for artificial intelligence jump more than 100% to $900M, share price up double digits Two magical letters, A and I, helped lift Hewlett Packard Enterprise's share price by as much as 15 percent in after-hours trading following a ramp in orders for systems to train and run customers' AI models....

Frees up some of the cash Chipzilla's already sunk into Fab 34 Intel is to pocket $11 billion from private equity biz Apollo Global Management in exchange for 49 percent of a joint venture that will effectively run Intel's fabrication plant in Ireland....

Keeping things neutral will be harder, say critics, as tiny startup acquired In September last year it was a company with around 25 employees, all working remotely. Last night, Tabular was bought by analytics and machine learning platform Databricks for a reported $1 billion....

Windows Insiders set to get first hands on feature updates Microsoft is reopening the Windows 10 Beta Channel for Windows Insiders in a clear sign that there is still life in the old dog....

Public officials allegedly bribed to allow extradition-dodging travel Four arrests were made this week as part of an international probe into two overlapping corruption schemes that allowed cybercrims on INTERPOL watch lists to travel freely without flagging any alerts....

Swedish furniture giant has 10 paid in-game jobs to fill First Ryanair, now flatpack chairs - IKEA is coming to Roblox....

Group founder reveals all to The Reg Interview Sometimes people want to abuse AI systems to leak corporate secrets. Other times they just want to force an LLM to talk like a pirate....

Splitting hotly contested spectrum could get messy Nokia and Swedish telco Telia have completed a pilot deployment using the upper 6 GHz spectrum band, hoping to add capacity and coverage for future expansion. However, some regulators such as the UK's Ofcom think this band should be available for both mobile and Wi-Fi....

In praise of knowing the requirements before you start cranking out code A study has found that projects adopting Agile practices are 268 percent more likely to fail than those that do not....

Because who doesn't love a $373M toy? ASML and Belgian R&D biz Imec have opened a lab giving chipmakers access to the latest High NA EUV lithography equipment and associated tools to accelerate development of their next-gen products....

I feel the need, the need for ... a Euro-made military drone AI-piloted drones that accompany and assist human-piloted fighter jets are very much on military minds - and Airbus is showing off its take on the technology....