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Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party Customer information said to have been stolen from Neiman Marcus's Snowflake instance has been put up for sale on the dark web for $150,000....

It's not entirely clear what actions the ChatGPT maker plans to take, if any ChatGPT developer OpenAI has sent out emails to users based in countries it considers "unsupported," saying it will block their access for good starting July 9....

Business is more lucrative than you might think The FBI says in just 12 months, scumbags stole circa $10 million from victims of crypto scams after posing as helpful lawyers offering to recover their lost tokens....

Now windshield wipers are failing and trim is detaching of its own accord Tesla has issued two more physical Cybertruck recalls, bringing the total number of hardware issues the electric-car maker has had to fix on the troubled vehicle to three in as many months....

Dance! Dance for me! ByteDance may not be the only company hurt by a US ban on TikTok: Oracle put a warning in its recently filed annual report that such a move could hit its revenue and profits as a provider of hosting services....

But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says SAP customers looking for infrastructure support for ERP software from community cloud, cloud-like, or former co-location providers should do so with care, as they could take a hit on risks and TCO in the long run....

Cisco was briefly the world's most valuable company too, you know, just before the dot com bust Nvidia has rapidly lost about $500 billion off its market capitalization amid concerns that the GPU maker may have become overvalued or that the AI market powered by its chips is a bubble set to burst....

Software System Award recognises his contributions to education Andy Tanenbaum, creator of MINIX, has been recognized for his code, seminal textbooks, and wider educational influence over much of the modern FOSS world....

Crafty crims broke in but encryption stopped any nastiness US cybersecurity agency CISA is urging high-risk chemical facilities to secure their online accounts after someone broke into its Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT) portal....

Compute, storage, and networking virtualization brought together - with live ESXi patching VMware by Broadcom has previewed an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation bundles that appear to deliver on past promises to make the virty giant's wares easier to acquire and operate....

Statement of Objections sent to Redmond HQ following probe that began July 2023 Microsoft broke the European Union's antitrust regulations by "tying" collaboration tool Teams to its dominant online Office productivity suite, according to preliminary findings from an investigation begun in July 2023....

Attacking the NHS is a very bad move UK and US cops have reportedly joined forces to find and fight Qilin, the ransomware gang wreaking havoc on the global healthcare industry....

Which isn't to say Nvidia and hyperscalers will win, says analyst Steve Brazier, as regulators circle HPE discover Walking the floor at HPE's Discover show in Las Vegas last week, this vulture was left with the distinct impression that HPE and its partners believe that the age of turnkey on-prem enterprise-level AI has arrived....

Lawsuit demands big changes and a little transparency in reporting Intel executives have been hit by a shareholder derivative lawsuit from an investor alleging that they and others were misled regarding the financial performance of the company's foundry business....

Low-code and report production vie for early use cases, but risks remain With vendors obsessed with adding generative AI to everything, does it really have a place in ERP software? It's very early days, say analysts at Forrester....

Just when you think we've solved chlorofluorocarbons Large numbers of low Earth orbit satellites such as those operated by Starlink could pose a threat to the planet's ozone layer once they re-enter the atmosphere, according to recent research....

National Fire Agency responds with inspection of 213 battery-related workplaces A fire at a lithium battery manufacturing plant in Hwaseong, South Korea on Monday killed at least 23 people and injured eight others....

Qatari telco reckons deal will give it an 18-24 month lead in region Amid US restrictions curbing the export of certain high-end AI accelerators to much of the Middle East, Silicon Valley's Nvidia has reached an agreement to furnish Qatari telecom Ooredoo's datacenters with "thousands" of GPUs....

Spanish sublet shock solution to housing crisis Tourists in the Spanish city of Barcelona will have fewer lodging options come 2028, as the city has decided to evict operators of short-term apartment rentals....

Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio - but with the added fun of geopolitical risk Alibaba Cloud has created an English language version of Modelscope, its models-as-service offering....

WikiLeaks boss already out of Blighty and, if all goes to plan, ultimately off to home in Australia WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the UK after agreeing to plead guilty to just one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, brought against him by the United States. Uncle Sam previously filed more than a dozen counts....

'Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal' Analysis Introduced in April, the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) was - in the words of its drafters - "the best opportunity we've had in decades to establish a national data privacy and security standard that gives people the right to control their personal information."...

Recording Industry Ass. of America orchestrates war on Udio and Suno Updated Big name record labels are together suing two AI startups for allegedly training their music-generating models on copyrighted tracks without permission, resulting in the software emitting audio that rips off commercial work....

About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we're told A now-patched vulnerability in Ollama - a popular open source project for running LLMs - can lead to remote code execution, according to flaw finders who warned that upwards of 1,000 vulnerable instances remain exposed to the internet....

Same old whinging: We can't change the world if you ask us to do it openly Venture capitalist Y Combinator and more than 140 machine-learning startups have signed an open letter in opposition to a proposed hot-button AI safety law making its way through the California legislature....

Steve Teixeira, said to be CEO-in-waiting, now sues Firefox maker for discrimination, retaliation Mozilla Corporation was sued this month in the US, along with three of its executives, for alleged disability discrimination and retaliation against Chief Product Officer Steve Teixeira....

Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack The Indonesian government has admitted its national datacenter was hit by ransomware criminals, disrupting some of the country's services....

More customers self-reporting to SEC as disruption carries into second week The number of US companies filing Form 8-Ks with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and referencing embattled car dealership software biz CDK is mounting....

Otero family sues Uncle Sam for $80K+ to make everything right A Florida homeowner has sued NASA for more than $80,000 in compensation after debris from the International Space Station smashed a hole in his roof....

iFixit hands out provisional 8 out of 10 for hardware designed with repairs in mind Microsoft has received a thumbs-up from iFixit, with a provisional 8 out of 10 for repairability on its latest Surface Pro and Laptop devices....

Tit for tat spat could be avoided China and the European Commission are to launch consultations on the European Union anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs)....

AlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop Encouraging noises are coming from multiple directions around Linux support for both current and next-generation Arm64 kit....

Seems like as good a time as any to upgrade older hardware There are early indications of active attacks targeting end-of-life Zyxel NAS boxes just a few weeks after details of three critical vulnerabilities were made public....

If it's Boeing, it isn't going joke gets a bit real for 'nauts Boeing's Starliner will remain docked at the International Space Station (ISS) for a while longer as engineers analyze data from the vehicle's propulsion system....

Plus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws The European Commission has published preliminary findings that accuse Apple of breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by preventing developers from telling customers about options outside the App Store....

Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming The UK government has been accused of blowing 174 million ($220 million) on "external advice" for a new radio system for the armed forces that has been beset by delays and cancelled contracts....

The strategy has changed so much that previously poor channel numbers don't count, we're told HPE's GreenLake strategy has changed so completely that the company said it's impossible to compare poor channel sales numbers just three years ago to the modern GreenLake era....

A busy few days for security teams There were data breaches galore in the US last week with various major incidents reported to state attorneys general, some in good time, some not....

Those with curious disposition spoilt for choice as KDE 6.1, Cinnamon 6.2, and IceWM 3.5 all arrive New versions of two of the most popular "traditional" desktops are out, alongside a new release of one of the oldest and smallest....

Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening? Opinion When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the uber-fashionable AI end of tech, Meta has grudgingly complied with a ruling not to feed European social media crap into its training data. Meanwhile, in the industrial slums, 20 percent of running Microsoft SQL Server instances are now past the end of support....

Have you heard the one about the techie who forgot what was on the clipboard? Who, me? Brace yourselves, gentle readers, for it is once again Monday, and the work week has commenced. Thankfully, The Reg is here with another dose of Who, Me? in which readers share tales of times they had a day worse than the one you're having. We hope it helps....

It's not all hype, but more work is needed before solutions are feasible or affordable The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has published the results of an exercise that assessed whether quantum computers will deliver on the promise of solving problems that stump classical machines - with mixed results....

Next: more work on crewed mission, including space yoga for astronauts India's Space Research Organization has signalled its intention to build a reusable launch vehicle after a third test of an unpowered experimental precursor again nailed its landing....

A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely - but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit Analysis Samsung has teased its entry into the GPU industry, but its plans are obscure....

Also: The leaked Apple internal tools that weren't; TV pirate pirates convicted; and some critical vulns, too Infosec in brief The descending ball of trouble over at Snowflake keeps growing larger, with more victims - and even one of the alleged intruders - coming forward last week....

Plus: Huawei closer to divorcing Android; India probes Amazon warehouses; Singapore gets autonomous street sweepers Asia In Brief SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son last week told investors he believes an "artificial superintelligence" that has 10,000 times the intelligence of humans could arrive in as little as three years....

All depends on how you count it - Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Google this week offered reassurance that its vetting of Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged that "as with any software, extensions can also introduce risk."...

In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story Hands on Large language models (LLMs) are generally associated with chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, but they're by no means limited to Q&A-style interactions. Increasingly, LLMs are being integrated into everything from IDEs to office productivity suites....

It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains Kettle The US government on Thursday banned Kaspersky Lab from selling its antivirus and other products in America from late July, and from issuing updates and malware signatures from October....

These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that's totally why we're doing this Apple has delayed plans to deploy artificial intelligence features in Europe because the American giant is unhappy with the continent's privacy regulations....