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Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation
AI giant Anthropic says that it has "no choice" but to sue the US government after being officially designated a supply chain risk to national security.…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't smack Moon in 2032, boffins confirm
Scientists have ruled out the possibility that the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 might hit the Moon on December 22, 2032.…
Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports
The Trump administration is reportedly planning new restrictions on GPU exports, aimed not only at controlling who gets them, but at driving AI investment back into the US.…
Microsoft spots ClickFix campaign getting users to self-pwn on Windows Terminal
A new twist on the long-running ClickFix scam is now tricking Windows users into launching Windows Terminal and pasting malware into it themselves – handing the credential-stealing Lumma infostealer the keys to their browser vault.…
UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries
Britain's creative industries will face significant damage unless the government strengthens AI copyright law, according to a House of Lords committee.…
Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027
Microsoft has delayed the opt-out phase for the new enterprise version of Outlook to 2027, giving administrators another 12 months to get ready for migration.…
Son of government contractor arrested after alleged $46M crypto heist from US Marshals
The son of a government contractor was arrested in the Caribbean after allegedly stealing more than $46 million in seized cryptocurrency from the US Marshals Service, the FBI says.…
Norway's Consumer Council targets enshittification
Norway's Forbrukerrådet consumer council is taking aim at the creeping enshittification of modern life in a 100-page report – and a splendid four-minute video which we highly recommend.…
Microsoft finally gets around to fixing Windows 10 Recovery Environment after breaking it in October
Microsoft has finally fixed a Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) bug it introduced in Windows 10's final update.…
UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding
The UK's Treasury is yet to fully commit to joining a multi-billion pound ERP and HR shared services program it has agreed to fund, potentially slashing any resulting savings, according to a report from the National Audit Office.…
Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000
Transport for London has confirmed that a 2024 breach exposed the data of more than 7 million people – a far larger crowd than the few thousand customers originally warned that their details might be at risk.…
UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps
Exclusive The UK's Department for Transport (DfT) is assembling government lawyers to fight the Information Commissioner's decision that it must release a document summarizing the lessons from the 2018 Gatwick drone chaos.…
Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway
Opinion A week ago today, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he'd draw the same lines as Anthropic. By that night, he'd signed a Department of Defense deal that included no such AI protections. What's going on here?…
Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out
On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of times when tech support turned troublesome.…
Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites
Microsoft has started a preview of technology that eases the task of developing websites with complex navigation elements that don’t need a pointing device to operate.…
Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies
Iranian publisher Fars News Agency, which is aligned with the country’s government, has claimed the drone strikes on Amazon Web Services’ Middle East datacenters were deliberate and had strategic significance.…
China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan
China’s government has again made reducing reliance on imported digital technology a major goal.…
Chardlet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license.…
Google says spyware makers and China-linked groups dominated zero-day attacks last year
Zero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached an all-time high last year, with China-linked cyber-espionage groups remaining the most prolific state-backed users, according to Google.…
Okta CEO ‘paranoid’ as vibe coders stir SaaS-pocalypse fears
Okta chairman and CEO Todd McKinnon said he believes it would be difficult for an LLM alone to replicate the quality of SaaS applications his company provides, but that doesn’t stop him from worrying about competition from bots.…

