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theregister 46h ago

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 5h ago

Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report

Report finds regional differences, especially outside the EEA, but it's still a dark tale claiming user manipulation
theregister 33h ago

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
theregister 17h ago

South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot

Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs
theregister 23h ago

OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark

Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder
theregister 18h ago

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content

PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage
theregister 9h ago

LegacyHive: 'Bone-shattering' zero-day from Microsoft's serial tormentor not the haymaker that was promised

Experts say it’s a useful post-compromise tool, for those with the brain cells required to put it together
theregister 32h ago

IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic

CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'
theregister 8h ago

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices

Mega hardware vendor reports problems - but Windows maker isn't yet naming affected models
theregister 32h ago

Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy

Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble
theregister 37h ago

How do you solve a problem like Capita?

Bringing troubled contracts in-house requires skills Whitehall is already struggling to recruit
theregister 31h ago

RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet

HFI proposes a familiar PC-style route from power-on to operating system
theregister 22h ago

Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update

As VMware itself warns of critical flaw in its load balancer
theregister 11h ago

EU lets wearables wriggle out of user-replaceable battery rules

Miniaturization means a professional's touch is needed
theregister 30h ago

Welsh Doxbin admin jailed for egging on swatters from behind a screen

Callum Dare encouraged others to carry out dangerous hoaxes, made mini-movies from the footage
theregister 25h ago

Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs

Remember when last month's 206 CVEs seemed eye-watering?
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