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Lina Khan’s tenure may end, but the regulatory hurdles she help built aren’t going anywhere Analysis When Donald Trump takes office for his second term on January 20, many expect sweeping changes across the board. But among tech players, when it comes to mergers and acquisitions, those hoping for looser regulations might be disappointed. …

'Facts can't be decided by a roll of the dice' Press freedom advocates are urging Apple to ditch an 'immature' generative AI system that incorrectly summarized a BBC news notification that incorrectly related that suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione had killed himself.…

Says it's not sure what the issue is but points at admins tweaking licensing options It's not just you, there is indeed an activation problem in Microsoft 365 Office triggered by administrators making changes at the licensing level.…

Remarkably compact, remarkably cross-platform, remarkably long beta period Beta 6 of Adélie Linux is arriving, just over six years after Beta 1 – but they do say that good things come to those who wait.…

Forks at dawn.... but it's not great sign for open source Opinion I am so sick of this. I've been a happy WordPress user since it rolled out the door in 2003, and I kissed Vignette (since acquired by OpenText) goodbye. WordPress was just so much easier to use than the alternatives; it was open source; and it was free. It was such a win!…

New shiny if you run Linux on an M1 or M2 The Fedora 41 version of Asahi Linux is out – the go-to Linux distro for Apple Silicon Macs.…

And there his troubles began … On Call Digital technology remains frighteningly finickity, which is why good tech support people are always in demand – and also the reason The Register never tires of telling your support stories each Friday in On Call, the column your generosity makes possible.…

Meanwhile, NASA signs off on Artemis software upgrade Chinese scientists think it's time to rewrite the Moon's history after analyzing samples returned to Earth by the Chang'e 6 mission.…

Yes, LLMs can do the heavy lifting. But good luck getting one to give evidence CANALYS FORUMS APAC Generative AI is being enthusiastically adopted in almost every field, but infosec experts are divided on whether it is truly helpful for red team raiders who test enterprise systems.…

Users report the sound of silence from operating system update Microsoft has logged some new known issues with Windows 11 24H2 and thrown up more safeguard holds until the problems are resolved.…

Aiming to be freeflying by 2028. Handy if anything should happen to the ISS Axiom Space has shuffled the assembly sequence of its space station to remove any dependence it would have on the International Space Station (ISS) by as soon as 2028.…

Chair Jay Obernolte urges Congress to act – whether it will is another matter After 10 months of work, the bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in the US house of Congress has unveiled its report, outlining recommendations for federal AI policy.…

It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the AI dragon Comment Next year will see some truly monstrous compute projects get underway as the AI boom enters its third year. Among the largest disclosed so far is xAI's plan to expand its Colossus AI supercomputer from an already impressive 100,000 GPUs to a cool million.…

Week-long mission set to stretch into ninth month Two astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station aboard Boeing's problem-plagued Starliner are facing another extended delay. …

Both are only thinking about the best interests of users, of course The European Commission (EC) has continued pushing Apple to open up more of iOS to third parties, and Apple has pushed back, warning that doing so risks user privacy.…

Misleading listing on a recruitment site? Whatever next? The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has slapped IT Career Change Ltd on the wrist over a September 2024 ad promoting a career in Health & Safety.…

Amid plans to convert smaller stores, retailer opted to stall December shift as Walmart tech divorce continues Exclusive Asda decided not to go ahead with planned cut-over dates to introduce new systems at some smaller stores earlier this month as part of its technical divorce from Walmart, the previous owner of the UK's third-largest supermarket.…

Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong? Feature The first telephone call in 1876 was marked by Alexander Graham Bell's request to his assistant, Thomas, 'Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.'…

Recent campaign targeted 20,000 folk across UK and Europe with this tactic, Unit 42 warns Unknown criminals went on a phishing expedition that targeted about 20,000 users across the automotive, chemical and industrial compound manufacturing sectors in Europe, and tried to steal account credentials and then hijack the victims' Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.…

The EV race is well and truly running, and no-one wants to be left in the dust The automotive industry has been shaken this week by news that giant Japanese carmakers Nissan and Honda are contemplating a merger, with Mitsubishi Motors apparently keen to become part of the mix.…

Will consider free speech arguments just nine days before the clock runs out The US Supreme Court has decided to consider made-in-China social network TikTok's appeal against the law that requires it to shift to local ownership, or close, by January 19.…

Derivatives claim seeks damages from execs and board members Beleaguered chipmaker Intel has been sued yet again by shareholders over its foundry business, this time in a derivative lawsuit targeting executives and board members.…

It could end up like Huawei -Trump's gonna get ya, get ya, get ya updated The Feds may ban the sale of TP-Link routers in the US over ongoing national security concerns about Chinese-made devices being used in cyberattacks.…

Authorization comes less than a month after flight 6: 'The FAA continues to increase efficiencies' The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing a license authorization for the next test flight of SpaceX's Starship.…

Enrollment invitations will continue until security improves Microsoft last week lauded the success of its efforts to convince customers to use passkeys instead of passwords, without actually quantifying that success.…

All it took to make an Google Edge TPU give up model hyperparameters was specific hardware, a novel attack technique … and several days Computer scientists from North Carolina State University have devised a way to copy AI models running on Google Edge Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), as used in Google Pixel phones and third-party machine learning accelerators.…

The Unixi-est of desktops gets a wide-ranging update Comment The new version of the longest-established Linux desktop is here, and at last, it's possible to use Wayland – although not everything works yet.…

State-owned retail company was not subordinate to Japanese multinational in technical matters, legal rep says Fujitsu has said it continually told the Post Office about problems with Horizon, the computer system at the center of one of the UK's widest miscarriages of justice, as its client prosecuted branch managers for accounting discrepancies.…

Chicago is my kind of driver model Pour a cup of cocoa and settle down for another episode of Microsoft Storytime. Why do codenames sometimes linger on in the implementation of products?…

Spirits of the NeXTcube, the web ad, and the cursed smartphone deliver a seasonal Technicarol Column On a Christmas Eve when nothing felt right, I lapsed into a deep yet disturbed sleep.…

If you have trouble keeping track of your various streaming subscriptions, you're gonna love the irony Keeping track of the amount of cloudy resources an org uses, and the cost of doing so, is notoriously tricky – so tricky, indeed, that even Netflix isn't on top of it.…

In case of submarine cable failure, call Jeff Bezos Taiwan has started talks with Amazon regarding access to its Kuiper satellite broadband service.…

Not that you needed another reason to enable the 'known senders' setting Criminals are spoofing Google Calendar emails in a financially motivated phishing expedition that has already affected about 300 organizations with more than 4,000 emails sent over four weeks, according to Check Point researchers.…

Victims' feelings might get hurt, global cops contend, and that could hinder reporting Interpol wants to put an end to the online scam known as 'pig butchering' – through linguistic policing, rather than law enforcement.…

You applied the patch that could stop possible RCE attacks last week, right? A critical security hole in Apache Struts 2 – patched last week – is currently being exploited using publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) code.…

'Super' edition promises 67 TOPS and 102GB/s of memory bandwidth for your GenAI projects Nvidia is bringing the AI hype home for the holidays with the launch of a tiny new dev board called the Jetson Orin Nano Super.…

NASA to bid a final farewell to InSight Two years after NASA retired the InSight lander, scientists are continuing to use the vehicle to learn more about Mars.…

Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like Analysis Nvidia is facing its stiffest competition in years with new accelerators from Intel and AMD that challenge its best chips on memory capacity, performance, and price.…

€251 million? Zuck can find that in his couch cushions, but Meta still vows to appeal It's been six years since miscreants abused some sloppy Facebook code to steal access tokens belonging to 30 million users, and the slow-turning wheels of Irish justice have finally caught up with a €251 million ($264 million) fine for the social media biz. …

Feds insist they still don't know what's happening – but note sightings cluster around airport flight paths Analysis Mystery drone fever continues to grip the US East Coast – and appears to be moving inland – as elected officials beg the federal government to do something. ...