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BreachForums returns just weeks after FBI-led takedown
Website whack-a-mole getting worse BreachForums is back online just weeks after the notorious dark-web marketplace for stolen data was seized by law enforcement....
EU probes Telegram, because size matters for regulators
Russian info slinger could be on the hook for posting disinformation The European Union is reportedly looking into messaging app Telegram, and whether it has more users than the platform lets on....
T-Mobile to buy US Cellular's wireless ops, plus slice of spectrum for $4.4B
You keep the towers, we'll bag the customer list, says T-Mo T-Mobile US says it will buy US Cellular's wireless business and 30 percent of its spectrum assets for $4.4 billion....
SpiderOak One customers threaten to jump ship following datacenter upgrade
One tricky cluster is causing outrage among longstanding customers Over a month after an April datacenter upgrade coincided with problems with some of its customers' backups, secure storage biz SpiderOak still isn't fully operational, and some angry users say they're ready to cut ties....
OpenAI sets up safety group in wake of high-profile exits
AI biz forms Safety and Security Committee to succeed Superalignment team as it trains latest GPT model OpenAI has created a new safety group as it works on the successor to GPT-4 while grappling with the recent departure of high-profile members who criticized its commercial intent....
NASA, Boeing opt to fly leaky thruster as-is for first crewed Starliner CST-100 mission
Will Boeing's Padstayer become Padleaver on June 1? NASA and Boeing have set another date - June 1 - for the first crewed launch of the Starliner CST-100, a capsule more noted for its reluctance to leave the ground than for its commercial crew capability....
Microsoft's Recall preview doesn't need a Copilot+ PC to run
Just because you could doesn't mean you should Windows Recall has been coaxed into life on a computer lacking the AI hardware shown off by Microsoft at its recent unveiling event....
Nvidia said to be prepping AI PC chip with Arm and Blackwell cores
Rivalry in Windows on Arm space would intensify once GPU giant enters the fray Competition could be heating up in the Windows on Arm space amid talk in the industry that Nvidia is readying a chip pairing next-gen Arm cores with its Blackwell GPU architecture....
Auction house Christie’s confirms criminals stole some client data
Centuries-old institution dodges questions on how it happened as ransomware gang claims credit International auctioning giant Christie's has confirmed data was stolen during an online attack after a top-three ransomware group claimed credit....
Will Windows drive a PC refresh? Everyone's talking about AI
As Lenovo says it'll cram hybrid AI into multiple devices, CIOs and analysts remain unconvinced Morgan Stanley is betting AI PCs will drive the next wave of commercial fleet refreshes after Microsoft made public its line-up at Build, and is forecasting the machines will comprise 65 percent of total sales by 2028....
Elon Musk's xAI scores $6B in its series B funding round
Investors continue to buy into the AI hype Elon Musk's xAI has announced a series B funding round of $6 billion that takes the company to a valuation of $24 billion, according to the billionaire....
Parliamentarians urge next UK govt to consider ban on smartphones for under-16s
Digital age of consent at 13 not even enforced, committee finds A committee of MPs has urged the next government to consider a total ban on smartphones for under-16s in the UK....
We polled thousands of IT pros – and sustainability just ain't a priority right now
The planet can wait, pal, we've got other problems Survey results While Big Tech wrings its hands about things like greenhouse gas emissions, IT teams out in the trenches aren't nearly as concerned about the eco-sustainability of their infrastructure....
AWS leads UK cloud market while Microsoft dominates growth and new customers
And guess who has highest margins? Some interesting findings from fresh market watchdog report Microsoft is achieving the highest margins while at the same time achieving the strongest growth in the UK cloud market, according to a working paper from the competition watchdog....
Take two APIs and call me in the morning: How healthcare research can cure cyber crime
In evolving smarter security, open source is the missing link Opinion Some ideas work better than others. Take DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Launched by US President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957 response to Sputnik, its job is to create and test concepts that may be useful in thwarting enemies. Along the way, it's helped make happen GPS, weather satellites, PC technology, and something called the internet....
By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half'
Prepare for the HyperAssistant of the future, maybe Half a decade hence, software development will be transformed by AI assistance, argue four academics from the University of Lugano in Switzerland....
Alibaba Cloud built its edge network hardware on Intel Ethernet ASICs
Custom 2U boxen with Tofino inside are in production and mean Chinese cloud has more space for servers Alibaba Cloud has revealed the hardware design it uses to run networking at its edge locations, and those devices' reliance on Intel Tofino ASICs....
Indonesia's president orders government to stop developing new applications
Nation of 17,000 islands operates 27,000 bits of software Indonesian president Joko Widodo on Monday ordered government officials to stop developing new applications....
China creates $47B chiptech investment fund
Third 'Big Fund' is close to the level of US and EU subsidy programs China has allocated a big pool of money, hoping to spur domestic semiconductor development....
South Korea targets Moon and Mars landings after launching unified space agency
Meanwhile, North Korea's latest rocket fails South Korea launched its first unified space agency on Monday, when the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) took flight in the city of Sacheon....
How's Uncle Sam getting on with Biden's AI exec order? Pretty good, we're told
Former Pentagon deputy CIO Rob Carey tells us guardrails should steer Feds away from bad ML Interview President Biden's October executive order encouraging the safe use of AI included a ton of requirements for federal government agencies that are developing and deploying machine learning technologies....
Venerable ICQ messaging service to end operations in June
Suggested heir is Putin-approved and hard to download outside Russia Venerable instant messaging service ICQ has announced it will shut down for good in June....
A thump with the pointy end of a screwdriver will fix this server! What could possibly go wrong?
No, nothing's broken. I'm just working under this desk for ... reasons Who, Me? As a fresh working week commences, The Register understands that many readers may feel like giving the kit they tend to a good thump. Which is why each week we offer a fresh and hopefully cathartic instalment of Who, Me? so you can take heart from fellow readers' tales of tech support agonies rather than letting irritation overwhelm you and create your own....
Google goes shopping for Indian e-commerce dominance … at Walmart
Invests $350 million in Flipkart Google has invested in Walmart's Indian e-commerce operation Flipkart, which holds almost half of the market for e-commerce on the subcontinent....
Tape is so dead, 152.9 EB of LTO media shipped last year
Blame AI. No, seriously Tape - as a digital storage medium - has been considered dead for your correspondent's entire 29-year career. But that didn't stop manufacturers behind the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) standard shipping 152.9 exabytes worth of the stuff last year....
Bayer and 12 other major drug companies caught up in Cencora data loss
Plus: US water systems fail at cyber security Infosec in brief More than a dozen big pharmaceutical suppliers have begun notifying individuals that their data was stolen when US drug wholesaler Cencora was breached in February....
Samsung disputes report Nvidia isn't happy with its HBM quality
PLUS: Indian TV channel adopts 24x7 AI anchors; Google building first Africa-Australia sub cable; Singtel's strategy reset; and more Asia In Brief Samsung has disputed a report which claimed its high-bandwidth memory products are not performing to Nvidia's satisfaction....
Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators, thanks to port
Blast (processing) from the past Retro interview Just a few weeks ago, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was ported to the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator....
Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks
Our vultures weigh in on the week that was more 'what we Built' than 'what you can Build' Kettle Microsoft held its annual Build developer conference this week with that bizarre Copilot+ PC launch tacked on the side....
Man behind deepfake Biden robocall indicted on felony charges, faces $6M fine
FCC wants to hit this political genius with first-of-a-kind punishment The political consultant who admitted paying $150 to create a deepfake anti-Biden robocall has been indicted on charges of felony voter suppression and misdemeanor impersonation of a candidate....
Best Buy and Geek Squad were most impersonated orgs by scammers in 2023
But criminals posing as Microsoft workers scored the most ill-gotten gains The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shared data on the most impersonated companies in 2023, which include Best Buy, Amazon, and PayPal in the top three....
Nvidia faces local competition for its 'China special' GPUs
Which rival would be so bold as to snatch its business Huawei? Nvidia has cut the price of special GPUs it makes for the Chinese market in the face of local competition from Huawei....
Suspected supply chain attack backdoors courtroom recording software
An open and shut case, but the perps remain at large - whoever they are Justice is served... or should that be saved now that audio-visual software deployed in more than 10,000 courtrooms is once again secure after researchers uncovered evidence that it had been backdoored for weeks....
4 more years! Intelsat, Northrop Grumman extend satellite servicing contract
Mission Extension Vehicle to fuel up helpless but functional sats Northrop Grumman has signed a four-year contract renewal with Intelsat to continue providing on-orbit extension services for satellites....
Ubuntu 24.04 upgrades available – to Mantic users
Enjoy some Noble Numbat novelty now - but excluding GNOME 46.1 It comes a bit later than usual, but if you are running Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur, you should start seeing prompts to upgrade to the new release....
Elon Musk says he doesn’t want 100% tariff on China-made electric vehicles
Tesla CEO would have preferred no tariffs, even though they're beneficial to his company Tesla supremo Elon Musk is criticizing the import tax that the Biden administration has levied against Chinese electric vehicles, saying Tesla doesn't need them....
OpenAI tells employees it won't claw back their vested equity
ChatGPT? Write me a really horrid nondisparagement exit clause OpenAI has told former and current staff that it won't enforce nondisparagement agreements that could have cost employees dearly....
Micron told to pay $445M in memory patent infringement case
Case brought by Netlist involved DRAM modules in computer systems Chipmaker Micron is being ordered to cough up a total of $445 million after losing a patent litigation case involving memory module technology brought by rival Netlist....
Wanna curb datacenter outages? Try combating burnout with shorter shifts
If hiring more people to work fewer hours isn't appealing, you could always make a robot do it Datacenter outages remain a perennial problem, with human error among the top contributors. Analyst outfit the Uptime Institute suggests the key to curbing these disruptions could be as simple as shortening shifts....
EMEA enterprise folks scrutinize deals more closely – and it's hurting Workday
Pesky 'macro' stuff forces SaaS biz to yank revenue forecast, share price plunges double digits SaaS application biz Workday is lowering revenue forecasts for the year after saying it is feeling the squeeze of larger customers taking longer to sign off on deals amid a wavering economy....
Microsoft fixes the fix for the Windows Server 2019 NTLM problem
Installation problems with non-English language systems resolved Microsoft has released a fix to fix the fix for NTLM traffic spikes on Windows Server 2019 after the original fix failed to install on some devices where Windows was not set to English language....
AMD's CFO Jean Hu talks CPUs, GPUs and the road ahead
Surging demand, the AI plan, and spinning FPGAs into gold AMD claims it is touching 33 percent in server CPU market share as it looks towards the launch of its next-gen "Turin" processors, and is promising a GPU roadmap for what comes after the MI300 product line....
Manjaro 24 is Arch Linux for the rest of us
Because not everyone has time to be a tech guru Manjaro Linux is the DIY-spirited Arch Linux distro, but made easier - so that those still on their way to guru status will be able to say: "I run Arch, BTW."...
Where do Terraform and OpenTofu go from here?
Here's the tea, for all open sourcers inclined to drink it Opinion Oracle is dropping Terraform for OpenTofu, and IBM's CEO is talking up open source. What does all this mean for both programs? Here's what I see happening....
'Little weirdo' shoulder surfer teaches UK cabinet minister a lesson in cybersecurity
Tory comms leaked thanks to a barefooted Johnny Mercer's wayward situational awareness In setting the date for the UK's next general election, prime minister Rishi Sunak this week essentially announced the start of open season for political reporters all hunting for the top scoop of the day by any means necessary. He may need, however, to brief his ministers on basic opsec if he's going to stop any more internal memos from reaching the front pages....
Capgemini to keep the legacy lights on at HMRC for £245.5M
That's half a billion from generous taxpayers in 2.5 years The UK's tax collector has awarded tech consultancy and service provider Capgemini a contract worth up to 245.5 million to keep legacy systems up and running....
Bad vibrations left techie shaken up during overnight database rebuild
Slow and steady wins the race, but sometimes flooring it saves the day On Call In case the working week has given you bad vibrations, The Register devotes Friday mornings to a fresh instalment of On Call - our (hopefully) cathartic reader-contributed tales of tech support chores that left your peers shaken and stirred....
AWS pledges to spend €15.7B expanding Spanish operations
Much of the money will go to mountainous Aragon - not mainly in the plain Amazon announced it will invest 15.7 billion ($16.9 billion) in the Spanish branch of Amazon Web Services (AWS)....
Alibaba is taking its cloud to Mexico, likely following Chinese manufacturers
More AZs in its Asian backyard also planned Alibaba Cloud announced on Wednesday it will open its first region in Mexico and expand with building new datacenters across Southeast Asia....
Japan's space agency enlists train operator's AI to foresee in-orbit failures
Shinkansen maintenance tricks boost reliability on the ground, so why not? Japan's space agency JAXA has teamed up with West Japan Railway Company to apply the latter's AI-powered failure-prediction technology to operating spacecraft....
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