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Monday October 27, 2025. 10:00 AM
It's just good at mass-production copy and paste Opinion Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT's AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching and canned responses. Nearly 60 years later, ChatGPT has people making the same ...
When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella Opinion When your cabbie asks you what you do for a living, and you answer 'tech journalist,' you never get asked about cloud infrastructure in return. Bitcoin, mobile phones, AI, yes. Until last week: 'What's this...
Four back-to-back weekends of work – and disastrously bad documentation – will do that do a techie Who, Me? Welcome to Monday morning and another installment of Who, Me? For the uninitiated, it's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of your...
FOSS feud re-ignites with massive counter-claim UPDATED The long battle between Automattic and WP Engine has flared again, this time with accusations the latter company issued “false advertising”, and employed “deceptive business practices.”…
Allows surveillance and cross-border evidence sharing, which worries human rights groups The United Nations on Saturday staged a signing ceremony for the Convention against Cybercrime, the world’s first agreement to combat online crime. And while 72 nations picked up the...
PLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more! Asia In Brief Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for allegedly misleading users...
Sunday October 26, 2025. 11:43 PM
PLUS: Judge spanks NSO; Mozilla requires data use disclosures; TARmageddon meets Rust; And more! Infosec In Brief Former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal is 7'1' (215 cm), and therefore uses car customization companies to modify vehicles to fit his frame. But it appears...
Saturday October 25, 2025. 10:26 AM
Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act The UK's Home Secretary should use her powers to push the tech industry to deploy stronger technical measures against the surge in phone thefts, according to a House of...
One way AI can improve on human work Computer scientists at UC Berkeley say that AI models show promise as a way to discover and optimize algorithms.…
Critical 9.8-rated vulnerability affects Windows Server 2012 - 2025 Governments and private security sleuths warned that attackers are already exploiting a critical bug in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, shortly after Redmond pushed an emergency patch for the...
Friday October 24, 2025. 11:20 PM
31 alleged poker schemers nabbed alongside arrest of separate sports betting ring The feds on Thursday charged alleged mafia associates and current and former National Basketball Association players and coaches with running rigged poker games and illegal sports betting.…
Redmond says it's fixed this particular indirect prompt injection vuln updated Microsoft fixed a security hole in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed attackers to trick the AI assistant into stealing sensitive tenant data – like emails – via indirect prompt injection...
If you listen closely, you’ll realize Sam Altman and the others are only saying sound-alike words Guardrails? What guardrails? Naughty netizens found a way to trick the Sora 2 video generator into producing deepfakes of public figures, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and...
Proposal would fast-track hookups for the megawatt-hungry datacenters driving US electricity demand The US Energy Secretary wants to see datacenters connected to the grid faster, and has directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to implement new rules that...
ChatGPT can now rummage through corporate files via connectors, though Redmond still has the deeper hooks Updated OpenAI is chalenging Microsoft 365 Copilot with 'company knowledge,' a new ChatGPT feature that connects to organizational data to generate business-specific...
iPhone maker overcharged devs and users, says competition court Apple could face claims estimated at around £1.5 billion after it lost a collective case in the UK arguing that its closed systems for apps resulted in overcharging businesses and consumers.…
Datacenter infrastructure and model development spending offset high borrowing costs AI spending is keeping the US economy out of recession, with datacenter infrastructure and model development providing the only significant growth amid trade turmoil, tariff shocks, and high ...
You didn't have plans, did you? Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to patch a critical vulnerability in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).…
Failure at primary datacenter leaves planes parked and passengers angry, second incident since July Updated Timing is everything – except when it isn't. US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet once again due to a mystery IT issue.…
Starmer rebrands unpopular scheme as convenience tool after backlash UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has relaunched his digital ID scheme as something that will make people's lives easier, less than four weeks after announcing it as a measure to tackle illegal working.…
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