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Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?
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Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it
PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out
Perhaps an allow list of domains might be better?| www.theregister.com - Articles
Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice
Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records| www.theregister.com - Articles
Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve
Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year| www.theregister.com - Articles
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan
Nearly three-quarters worry Washington could cut access, yet fewer than half regularly test their fallback| www.theregister.com - Articles
IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in
Leaving this information exposed allowed someone else to gain access| www.theregister.com - Articles
Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra
ESU meter starts running in January, unless you're on the IoT edition| www.theregister.com - Articles
Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen
Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to| www.theregister.com - Articles
News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'
Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'| www.theregister.com - Articles
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time
It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound| www.theregister.com - Articles
HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months
Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady| www.theregister.com - Articles
Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway
It’s just a remote maintenance function, says Zbtlink| www.theregister.com - Articles
Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro
VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter| www.theregister.com - Articles
OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack
It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence| www.theregister.com - Articles
Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent
Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops| www.theregister.com - Articles
An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse
Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional| www.theregister.com - Articles
Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are
Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found| www.theregister.com - Articles
Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see
Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them| www.theregister.com - Articles
Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars
In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate| www.theregister.com - Articles
IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now
A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA| www.theregister.com - Articles
AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries
The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first| www.theregister.com - Articles
Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon
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AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's
Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper| theregister
AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300 APUs, GPUs
Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100| theregister
Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider
Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company| theregister
Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas
But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm
Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures| www.theregister.com - Articles
Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA
SPONSORED POST: The AI factory concept encompasses the new AI stack, explain HPE’s Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA’s Kaushik Shirhatti| www.theregister.com - Articles
SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions
Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B| www.theregister.com - Articles
London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says
Met ordered to improve safeguards after two preventable data breaches| www.theregister.com - Articles
Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn
Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources| www.theregister.com - Articles
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year
Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time| www.theregister.com - Articles
UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack
Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details| www.theregister.com - Articles
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia
Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start| theregister
Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software license claims converge
Tribunal to explore how £270 million reseller case intersects with multibillion-pound class action| www.theregister.com - Articles
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut
The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range| www.theregister.com - Articles
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn’t solve management challenges
This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent| www.theregister.com - Articles
AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project
Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge| www.theregister.com - Articles
AMD's results spotlight risks of putting all your AI eggs in too few baskets
The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first| theregister
Amazon Q2 earnings: strong results, much baloney in press release - Corey Quinn
'Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies'| theregister
IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value
CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'| theregister
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The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now
Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3| theregister
Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing
Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored| theregister
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UK charity bank CAF branded 'disaster' after migration
: Customers booted from system and technical integration missing from upgrade| theregister
Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller
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OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT
New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys| www.theregister.com - Articles
Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages
New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims| www.theregister.com - Articles
Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it
Claiming 'it's my server' was often enough to persuade models to help| www.theregister.com - Articles
This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp …
What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas| www.theregister.com - Articles
Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit
Experts warn hotfix not optional. MSPs warned attacker gains 'full administrative access to an N-central console'| www.theregister.com - Articles
NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs
Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says| www.theregister.com - Articles
AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday
Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports| www.theregister.com - Articles
Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges
Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough| www.theregister.com - Articles
Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras
Cops arrest budding politician for allegedly dealing with Flock's expansion the American way| www.theregister.com - Articles
CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages
Customers told traffic may be limited at certain times following more than ten days offline| theregister
UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware
Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers| www.theregister.com - Articles
NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck
Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts| www.theregister.com - Articles
Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home
Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k| www.theregister.com - Articles
China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits'
Beijing's new rules also protect against copying local chip designs| www.theregister.com - Articles
China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic
For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition| www.theregister.com - Articles
Google Earth's AI makeover survives for just one planetary rotation
Turns out letting anyone rewrite the planet with a prompt had drawbacks| theregister
Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence
Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another| www.theregister.com - Articles
AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns
With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue| www.theregister.com - Articles
Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems
Keyloggers, audio-visual surveillance, and token theft on CaptivePortal's agenda as hospitality sector put on alert| www.theregister.com - Articles
MediaTek lines up $5B war chest for AI datacenter push
Taiwanese silicon biz believes it can take up to 20% of $80B market with upcoming ASIC chips, but analysts are sceptical| www.theregister.com - Articles
Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak
ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education| www.theregister.com - Articles
NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover
Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap| www.theregister.com - Articles
Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict
Trump rejects Tehran theory, blames 'grossly incompetent' governor of Minnesota instead| www.theregister.com - Articles
The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet
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UK government investment arm cops to 40-hour leak of officials' contact details
Employee failed to follow security policy, leaving internal management file open to the public| www.theregister.com - Articles
Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft
LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers by putting them in copyright peril| www.theregister.com - Articles
As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK
Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output| www.theregister.com - Articles
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it
'As a big AI skeptic, you just blew my mind'| www.theregister.com - Articles
Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister
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Amazon slides vs Amazon, Microsoft in big three cloud market
: Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base| theregister
Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it: Deep dive
88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip| theregister
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing
Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating| theregister
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Microsoft dodges questions about Copilot 365 consent
: Consumer price hikes come amid interrogation of why customers have to opt out of added AI features| theregister
Copilot comes to Microsoft 365 Personal / Family for $3 more
Updated: For those of you tearing your hair out, we have a way to disable AI assistant in Word| theregister
Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365
Regulator says subscribers may have been defaulted onto more expensive plans with Copilot features attached| theregister
Microsoft apologizes over Copilot plan confusion
Updated: Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want, once it fixed a bad link| theregister
Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike
Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans| theregister
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Samsung memory workers call off strike and may score six-figure bonuses
PLUS: Huawei says it’s replaced Moore’s Law; Chinese mobile plans add token allowances; Singtel slinging Optus; And more!| theregister
Foxconn predicts AI will destroy low-end manufacturing jobs
Computex: Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutwork| theregister
India blocks Telegram ahead of scandal-hit medical school entrance exam
2.3 million people sit test chasing 100,000 places, and country already canceled it once this year| theregister
EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account
PLUS: India attacks Uber; South Korea warned AI boom is dangerous; Scuba-diving cyborg cockroach; and more!| theregister
Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check
PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!| theregister
China's agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop
PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!| theregister
Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcfra for workloads including AI
PLUS: New CEO for Infosys; China fines Trip.com; India demands GitHub remove Jack Dorsey's distributed social network; And more!| theregister
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Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit
Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening| theregister
NASA sets difficult ground rules for spacecraft relocation
: Draft Request for Proposals says you can move shuttle orbiter but you cannot break it| theregister
NASA pares back Boeing's Starliner deal after 2024 calamity
: Capsule might only manage three crewed missions to the ISS| theregister