Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out? Opinion As Microsoft, Apple et al switch the tech on by default, what happened to asking for permission first?
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LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages FYI Microsoft's IG-for-suits insists lawsuit's claims are without merit
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Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet Who could be so interested in chips, manufacturing, and more, in the US, UK, Europe, Russia... Networks25 Jan 2025 | 20
UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway Spinner says crim's claims 'very significantly overstated' Security25 Jan 2025 | 8
AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud GameOn? It's looking more like game over for that biz Cyber-crime24 Jan 2025 | 14
Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts Can't keep the drama Llama out of this race On-Prem24 Jan 2025 | 26
Fitbit pays Uncle Sam $12M to sprint away from claims of burning-hot smartwatches Your workout warm-up instructions didn't say anything about setting wrists on fire – allegedly! Personal Tech24 Jan 2025 | 6
Exchange update refusenik? Consider yourself warned by Microsoft If you have a 'significantly out of date' Exchange Server, emergency mitigation might stop working Software24 Jan 2025 | 9
The state of Right to Repair: Progress made, but key barriers remain Schematics, repair manuals, part numbers still out of reach for many industries Personal Tech24 Jan 2025 | 9
Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key But what the heck should it do? OSes24 Jan 2025 | 101
What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore? Feature We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course Systems24 Jan 2025 | 12
Qualcomm big cheese Cristiano Amon's pay award jumps 10% At $25.91M, CEO is worth 261 employees Systems24 Jan 2025 | 2
Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two? Could a post-Brexit romance be on the cards? Personal Tech24 Jan 2025 | 85
Cutting cloud costs without compromising performance Optimizing hybrid cloud for financial sustainability and operational efficiency Webinar
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Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss* Patches24 Jan 2025 | 2
Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course Calamity Capsule continues to be calamitous for the bottom line Science24 Jan 2025 | 14
North Korean dev who renamed himself 'Bane' accused of IT worker fraud caper 5 indicted as FBI warns North Korea dials up aggression, plus Russian devs allegedly get in on the act Cyber-crime24 Jan 2025 | 1
Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch Feature Everyone agrees defense matters. How to do it is up for debate
Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors CPO The (good old) boys are back in town
Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more CTO Also, prepare for paused wind projects and the Gulf of America from Trump 2.0 – and that's just day 1
Trump 'waved a white flag to Chinese hackers' as Homeland Security axed cyber advisory boards CSO And: America 'has never been less secure,' retired rear admiral tells Congress
Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin Infosec Ross Ulbricht's family are now appealing for donations to support his reintegration into society
Mega UK datacenter greenlit, but we still don't know who's moving in Hyperscaler mystery deepens as Hertfordshire braces for bit barn blitz On-Prem24 Jan 2025 | 29
WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference New double-digit vintage goes well with all sorts of things OSes24 Jan 2025 | 59
First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works 28nm and fatter processes first, says minister, as semiconductor supply chain players move to cash in Systems24 Jan 2025 | 17
BOFH: How to innosplain your way through an audit Episode 2 [ɪnəʊspleɪn] Verb. 1. The ability to prattle on in a condescending manner about technology that doesn't exist yet BOFH24 Jan 2025 | 35
Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim FYI Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks
User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count? On Call Then suggested a bloke down the pub might be able to help fix it Personal Tech24 Jan 2025 | 109
China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps Paint a target on Myanmar, pledge more info-sharing to get the job done Cyber-crime24 Jan 2025 | 12
Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional 'Public interest alone does not justify warrantless querying' says judge Security24 Jan 2025 | 18
Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths Who guards the guardrail makers? Not the bosses who hire them, it's alleged AI + ML24 Jan 2025 | 9
One of Salt Typhoon's favorite flaws still wide open on 91% of at-risk Exchange Servers But we mean, you've had nearly four years to patch Patches23 Jan 2025 | 4
OpenAI's Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task Hello Operator? Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime? AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 13
Patch now: Cisco fixes critical 9.9-rated, make-me-admin bug in Meeting Management No in-the-wild exploits … yet Patches23 Jan 2025 |
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Intel pitches modular PC designs to make repairs less painful x86 behemoth calls the approach 'innovative' - DIY builders may disagree Personal Tech23 Jan 2025 | 110
Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back Updated OpenAI boss tell world's richest man money is there to fund infrastructure project AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 77
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Meta's pay-or-consent model under fire from EU consumer group Company 'strongly disagrees' with law infringement allegations Personal Tech23 Jan 2025 | 30
ChatGPT has a Thursday lie down OUTAGE Generative AI needs a break, just like the rest of us, m'kay? AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 23
FortiGate config leaks: Victims' email addresses published online Experts warn not to take SNAFU lightly as years-long compromises could remain undetected Cyber-crime23 Jan 2025 | 6
Banks must keep ahead of risks and reap AI rewards AI has transformed banking across APAC. But is this transformation secure? Partner Content
VMware users gripe over 3-year commitment to renew licenses Chips and software giant Broadcom says it's 'flexible and open' on licensing terms, but customers disagree Virtualization23 Jan 2025 | 24
SK hynix wobbles on market uncertainty, despite record 2024 earnings Shares slide at 'most profitable' company in Korea as world worries over geopolitics Storage23 Jan 2025 |
Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out? Opinion As Microsoft, Apple, and Google switch the tech on by default, what happened to asking for permission first? AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 156
Brit competition watchdog takes aim at Google, Apple's mobile ecosystems CMA flexes its new Strategic Market Status muscles Personal Tech23 Jan 2025 | 14
OpenZFS 2.3 is here, with RAID expansion and faster dedup Coming soon to April's TrueNAS SCALE release, dubbed 'Fangtooth'
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Biz tax rises, inflation and high interest. Why fewer UK tech firms started in 2024 And the government thinks that AI and taking shackles off big tech will help? God help Britain
Asus lets processor security fix slip out early, AMD confirms patch in progress Answers on a postcard to what 'Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability' might mean
Beijing picking up some of the bill for iPhones sold in China What? Why? Xi wants people spending, so has extended a subsidy scheme to phones, tabs, and smartwatches
Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon Old flaws that keep causing trouble haunt Big Red
A rethink of parental leave policy IT workers and programmers set to benefit as Sandvik implements HR reboot
Why AI builds best on private clouds AI projects under pressure to show real value in the tightest of timeframes might be worth keeping on-premises
LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages Microsoft's IG-for-suits insists lawsuit's claims are without merit AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 19
Apple sued for using dangerous 'forever chemicals' in Watch bands Markets smartwatches as health helpers even as they expose some owners to PFAS Personal Tech22 Jan 2025 | 21
Supply chain attack hits Chrome extensions, could expose millions Threat actor exploited phishing and OAuth abuse to inject malicious code Cyber-crime22 Jan 2025 | 5
Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest Updated Meanwhile, datacenter emissions continue to soar On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 12
Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet Who could be so interested in chips, manufacturing, and more, in the US, UK, Europe, Russia...
User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count? On Call Then suggested a bloke down the pub might be able to help fix it
WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference New double-digit vintage goes well with all sorts of things
Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss*
BOFH: How to innosplain your way through an audit Episode 2 [ɪnəʊspleɪn] Verb. 1. The ability to prattle on in a condescending manner about technology that doesn't exist yet
North Korean dev who renamed himself 'Bane' accused of IT worker fraud caper 5 indicted as FBI warns North Korea dials up aggression, plus Russian devs allegedly get in on the act
AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud GameOn? It's looking more like game over for that biz
Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two? Could a post-Brexit romance be on the cards?
Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course Calamity Capsule continues to be calamitous for the bottom line
Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, allegedly resists quantum decryption First fondle This year's model adds lots of AI, improved management, and support for biz buyers Personal Tech22 Jan 2025 | 29
NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans Science22 Jan 2025 | 13
Microsoft issues out-of-band fix for Windows Server 2022 NUMA glitch Update addresses boot failures on multi-node systems Patches22 Jan 2025 | 6
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Better power management, security, and scheduling in Linux kernel 6.13 But no changes to bcachefs OSes22 Jan 2025 | 6
Real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 9
UK tax collector's phone service 'deliberately' bad to push users online, say MPs Cut off nearly 44k peeps who had been waiting 70 minutes for advice on unavoidable chore Public Sector22 Jan 2025 | 75
Former Amazon exec appointed as boss of UK's competition watchdog Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being 'sufficiently focused on growth' CxO22 Jan 2025 | 11
Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner CxO22 Jan 2025 | 13
Ransomware scum make it personal for Reg readers by impersonating tech support That invitation to a Teams call on which IT promises to mop up a spamstorm may not be what it seems CSO22 Jan 2025 | 18
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that Science22 Jan 2025 | 73
Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Science22 Jan 2025 | 30
Securing AI workloads in multi-tenant K8s clusters Discover how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes offloads critical AI tasks to BlueField-3 DPUs Partner Content
OpenAI wants to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself, with help from pals Updated SoftBank, Oracle, MGX form Stargate Project with ChatGPT maker, intend to outspend Microsoft this year AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 16
PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen Updated Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Cyber-crime22 Jan 2025 | 28
App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground Analysis El Reg asked a lawyer to explain WTH is going on Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 39