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Pay-as-you-go model, privacy protections agreed – ID management freedom not included A trade group of European cloud providers has claimed a small victory in bringing lower prices and more flexibility in deploying Microsoft software on their infrastructure.…

Analysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation VMware on Wednesday announced it has extended the time between major releases from two years to three and extended support for those releases to six years.…

LLM given keys to the web, told to behave and observe safeguards OpenAI's ChatGPT has graduated from chatbot to agent, at least for paying subscribers.…

Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy's predictions that automation would cost jobs at the company have proven accurate at Amazon Web Services.…

Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances... and crime, too Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed individuals in China it accuses of breaking into more than 10 million devices worldwide and using them to build a botnet, called BadBox 2.0, and then to carry out other cybercrimes and fraud.…

Running on Amazon Bedrock, it aims to pave the path from prototype to production Video Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday previewed a service called Bedrock AgentCore to help organizations put AI agents into business-ready production.…

Shovels in the dirt at Fab 3 as Fab 2’s 3nm ramp charges in several quarters early TSMC says it will ramp up production at its second fab site in Arizona earlier than initially expected as it looks to shift nearly a third of its leading-edge wafer output stateside.…

Three perfect 10s in the last month - ISE, ISE, baby Cisco has issued a patch for a critical 10 out of 10 severity bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to run arbitrary code on the operating system with root-level privileges. …

Maybe finish ripping and replacing your telco networks first? Uncle Sam has decided it's time to free US-connected undersea cables from Chinese influence.…

Linking can be helpful – but not always… while disinformation can spread like a virus Beware: the people behind PuTTY, the renowned FOSS SSH client for Windows, are not the same people as those behind the PUTTY.ORG website.…

Non-competitive £220M datacenter deal with tax collector tops £510M pile of public money Fujitsu has been awarded around £510 million ($682 million) in UK public sector contracts since a TV dramatization of the Horizon Post Office scandal – including a recent £220 million ($294 million) deal with the UK tax collector, awarded without competition.…

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016.…

New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Intel Labs, and d-Matrix could significantly reduce the cost of serving up your favorite large language model (LLM) with just a few lines of code.…

The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity Scientists have analyzed data gathered from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to advance our understanding of why anything exists.…

It did get sourced, but nobody cared The result of the pioneering joint Psion and Nokia smartphone effort is still out there on GitHub.…

It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing Microsoft has extended its security update programs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, and Skype for Business 2015 and 2019.…

Bayesian optimizations apparently build better slabs Social media giant Meta has created an AI model to come up with new forms of concrete and used one of the resulting recipes to underpin a new bit barn.…

Our sources tell us mostly back office staff were let go, and that the mood in the office is very pessimistic Updated Intel has filed documents that reveal plans to fire around 5,000 staff, mostly in California and Oregon.…

The Microsoft cofounder breathed that sigh of relief in a Cipher News interview - just before it folded Despite Trump's budget bill slashing many mature clean-energy tax credits, Bill Gates is less worried, since new nuclear incentives, including those his TerraPower venture will leverage, survived intact.…

'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization' Ukrainian hackers claim to have taken out the IT infrastructure at Russia's Gaskar Integration plant, one of the largest suppliers of drones for its army, and also destroyed massive amounts of technical data related to drone production. …

Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out International cops shut down more than 100 servers belonging to the pro-Russian NoName057(16) network this week as part of the Europol-led Operation Eastwood.…

'Everything breaks when you scale that quickly' Thank heavens for former OpenAI engineers inspired to blog about their time at the famously secretive firm, for without them we would have no idea what a wild mess it is in there. …

Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three There was a disturbance in the force on July 14 after Cloudflare borked a configuration change that resulted in an outage, impacting internet services across the planet.…

Westinghouse taps Big G's cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming While AI systems are known to spew wrong information and make up facts, Google and Westinghouse Electric are now pressing generative AI models into service to transform how nuclear reactors are constructed and optimize their operation.…

Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped provide a snapshot of the formation of a planetary system around a young star for the first time, according to astroboffins.…

Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark Updated Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered Google's Android president has confirmed the platform is set to replace ChromeOS – but not when.…

AI boom can't mask trade gloom, says Dutch lithography giant World War Fee Shares in ASML fell by more than 8 percent after it warned that tariff uncertainty over future trade was increasing and net sales were down on the previous quarter.…

Supermarket announces white hat education scheme as four suspects released on bail Co-op Group's chief executive officer has confirmed that all 6.5 million of the organization's members had their data stolen during its April cyberattack - Scattered Spider is believed to be behind the digital heist.…

Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory Exclusive Aviation insiders say Serbia's national airline, Air Serbia, was forced to delay issuing payslips to staff as a result of a cyberattack it is battling.…

Peter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power Comment Last week, UK minister for science, innovation and technology Peter Kyle spoke at Google Cloud Summit in London to tell the audience: 'Now, sometimes I'm accused of being 'too close to big tech',' with the Chocolate Factory's multi-colored logo looming behind him.…

Former staffers of struggling UK biz say they don’t expect to be paid for July UK cybersecurity shop Adarma has confirmed it has entered administration.…

CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line Column Agentic AI will make jobs – but many will involve picking its failures off automated conveyor belts.…

Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today Exclusive VMware has advised partners its current channel program will end, and it seems that smaller players won’t be invited back.…

Network update reports median 25 ms latency – in the US – as capacity rockets upwards Elon Musk’s space broadband service Starlink has hinted that Elon Musk’s Starship will be ready for commercial flights in 2026.…

Coming soon, somewhere in the Middle East or Asia Rideshare OG Uber has announced a plan to roll out “thousands” of robo-taxis from Chinese tech giant Baidu.…

Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish The US government has cleared AMD to resume exporting some accelerators to China.…

Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.…

File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime A former US Army soldier, who reportedly hacked AT&T, bragged about accessing President Donald Trump's call logs, and then Googled 'can hacking be treason,' and 'US military personnel defecting to Russia,' pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into telecom firms' databases and extort at least $1 million.…

Let us delve swiftly into meticulous inquiry with our AI masters Like it or not, ChatGPT and other large language models are changing the world, including affecting how we speak, claims a group of researchers, and the end results could be an erosion of linguistic and cultural diversity.…