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Ingram Micro admits summer ransomware raid exposed thousands of staff records

Mon, 2026-01-19 12:32
Maine filing confirms July attack affected 42,521 employees and job applicants

Ingram Micro disclosed that a July 2025 ransomware attack compromised the personal data of tens of thousands of employees.…

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UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids

Mon, 2026-01-19 11:55
Labour's latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer's amendment

The British government may impose a ban on under-16s using social media, despite Labour prime minister Keir Starmer having previously expressed skepticism over the measure.…

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Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT

Mon, 2026-01-19 11:15
Kids return to classrooms after safety infrastructure knocked out

A Warwickshire secondary school says it will fully reopen this week after a cyberattack forced a prolonged closure – though staff will return to classrooms with "very limited access" to IT systems.…

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Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs

Mon, 2026-01-19 11:00
Tradtional considerations back in vogue. On-device AI? Not so much

The majority of PCs that commercial resellers shipped to enterprise customers in Q4 were AI-capable, however, it was the traditional levers of price, battery life and performance these biz buyers were mostly sold on.…

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Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight

Mon, 2026-01-19 10:15
Capable of carrying 1-ton payload and key to strategy protecting North Atlantic from Russian submarines

The Royal Navy has conducted the first flight of a helicopter-sized autonomous drone that is planned to operate from its ships in support of missions, including hunting for hostile submarines.…

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Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack

Mon, 2026-01-19 09:30
Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that

Opinion Europe is famous for having the most tightly regulated non-existent tech sector in the world. This is a mildly unfair characterization, as there are plenty of tech enterprises across the continent, quite a respectable smattering if it wasn't for the US doing everything at least ten times bigger.…

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ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

Mon, 2026-01-19 07:30
Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip

Who, Me? Welcome to another edition of “Who Me?”, The Register’s Monday column that shares your mistakes and celebrates your escapes.…

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Hiring at India’s Big Four outsourcers stalls, as AI seemingly makes an impact

Mon, 2026-01-19 05:03
Revenue growth is sluggish, too

India’s big four outsourcers – HCL, Infosys, TCS and Wipro – have essentially stopped hiring, perhaps coinciding with their increased use of AI to power their practices.…

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Microsoft hiring energy strategists to power its Asian datacenters

Mon, 2026-01-19 02:11
PLUS: ASUS gets into healthcare gadgets; Vietnam’s first fab; Australia's child social ban takes out 4.7 million accounts; And more!

Asia In Brief Microsoft is hiring senior managers to ensure its datacenters in Asia can access the energy they need.…

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Mandiant releases quick credential cracker, to hasten the death of a bad protocol

Sun, 2026-01-18 23:57
PLUS: Navy spy sent to brig for 200 months in brig; Black Axe busted again; Bill aims to crimp ICE apps; and more

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Google’s security outfit Mandiant last week released tools that can crack credentials in 12 hours, in the hope that doing so will accelerate the death of an ancient Microsoft security protocol.…

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Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD

Sun, 2026-01-18 12:21
AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.

Double precision floating point computation (aka FP64) is what keeps modern aircraft in the sky, rockets going up, vaccines effective, and, yes, nuclear weapons operational. But rather than building dedicated chips that process this essential data type in hardware, Nvidia is leaning on emulation to increase performance for HPC and scientific computing applications, an area where AMD has had the lead in recent generations.…

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Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software

Sun, 2026-01-18 09:33
'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast

The splendidly-named "OpenSlopware" was, for a short time, a list of open source projects using LLM bots. Due to harassment, it's gone, but forks of it live on.…

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Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack

Sat, 2026-01-17 12:26
Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves 'hundreds of millions' of devices vulnerable

Hundreds of millions of wireless earbuds, headphones, and speakers are vulnerable to silent hijacking due to a flaw in Google's Fast Pair system that allows attackers to seize control without the owner ever touching the pairing button.…

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S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain

Sat, 2026-01-17 09:33
Rinse of the machines: A cautionary tale about relying on robots

Bork!Bork!Bork! UK water company Severn Trent learned an unfortunate lesson about text-to-speech systems when a robocall to customers went hilariously wrong.…

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Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors

Sat, 2026-01-17 00:41
Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow

OpenAI's budget ChatGPT Go subscription tier has migrated to the US, soon to be accompanied by advertising. The company's free tier will be similarly afflicted.…

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Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants

Sat, 2026-01-17 00:17
It just needs PJM Interconnection, one of the US's biggest grid operators, to green light the auction

The Trump administration says it wants big tech companies to take more accountability for the power their datacenters consume in an effort to shield voters from higher power bills at home.…

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Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day

Fri, 2026-01-16 23:22
Does that kind of time saving actually pay for itself?

Researchers at Dakota State University, in partnership with regional insurance carrier Safety Insurance, devised an experimental chatbot called "Axlerod" to assist independent insurance agents. Whether that assistance was substantial is up for some debate.…

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Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers

Fri, 2026-01-16 21:11
Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12

Micron broke snowy winter ground in New York on Friday to begin building a chip fab that promises to bring up to 50,000 jobs and much-needed computer memory production to US shores, as the AI boom continues to push memory prices up.…

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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Fri, 2026-01-16 16:44
Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug

We're not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn't want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday update, which has made it so that some PCs flat-out refuse to shut down or hibernate, no matter how many times you try.…

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Windows Backup adds second-chance restore at sign-in

Fri, 2026-01-16 16:31
First sign-in restore aims to cut rebuilds when users skip setup options

Microsoft has quietly tweaked Windows Backup for Organizations to include restore at first sign-in.…

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