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AI slop hits new high as fake country artist hits #1 on Billboard digital songs chart
AI slop has reached a new level of ascendancy, as a country song by an AI artist has hit number one on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart.…
Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans
Free money is always better than a loan! OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said he doesn't want government-backed loans to fuel his AI ambitions, but he's more than okay with the idea of Uncle Sam handing out tax credits under the US CHIPS Act to subsidize AI server production, bit barns, and grid components.…
Critical federal cybersecurity funding set to resume as government shutdown draws to a close - for now
The US Senate voted on Sunday to advance a short-term funding bill for the federal government, moving the country closer to ending its longest-ever shutdown. Part of the spending bill also restores critical cybersecurity programs that lapsed as the shutdown began. …
Phishers try to lure 5K Facebook advertisers with fake business pages
More than 5,000 businesses that use Facebook for advertising were bombarded by tens of thousands of phishing emails in a credential- and data-stealing campaign.…
How to bluff your way to AI credibility with the right buzzwords
A Gartner survey of 700 CIOs indicates that, by the end of the decade, all business IT work will involve AI, while bots will do 25 percent of that work by themselves. Good news: The analyst firm claims AI causes only one percent of job losses. Bad news: You'll have to learn some new jargon.…
Ironclad OS project popping out Unix-like kernel in a unique mix of languages
If you're looking for a Unix-like, POSIX-compatible, real-time kernel, there's no shortage of projects trying to build one. Ironclad stands out for using the Ada programming language and its formally verifiable SPARK subset.…
Another chance for JPEG XL? PDF will support format as 'preferred solution'
The PDF Association will add support for the JPEG XL (JXL) image format to the PDF spec, according to a recently published presentation from the org's European conference. This inclusion means that JXL may yet gain mainstream adoption, despite being declared obsolete by the Chromium team.…
Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 26H1 is coming, but only with changes to support "specific silicon" – possibly Qualcomm's latest chips due next year – meaning ordinary users are unlikely to see it soon.…
Russian broker pleads guilty to profiting from Yanluowang ransomware attacks
A Russian national will likely face several years in US prison after pleading guilty to a range of offenses related to his work with ransomware crews.…
SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew
SpaceX and Elon Musk are once again being called upon to rescue spacefarers — this time, the Chinese crew of Shenzhou-20, delayed on China's Tiangong space station after suspected space debris damage.…
De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now
Comment The tendency of Linux developers to reinvent wheels is no secret. It's not so much the elephant in the room, as the entire jet-propelled guided ark ship full of every known and unknown member of the Proboscidea from Ambelodon to Stegodon via deinotheres, elephants, mammoths and other mastodons.…
Allianz UK joins growing list of Clop’s Oracle E-Business Suite victims
Allianz UK confirms it was one of the many companies that fell victim to the Clop gang's Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attack after crims reported that they had attacked a subsidiary.…
Three most important factors in enterprise IT: control, control, control
Opinion When the first generation of microcomputers landed on desktops, they promised many things. Affordability, flexibility, efficiency, all the good things still selling IT to this day. Mostly, though, they offered control.…
UK military looking for tactical comms, systems suppliers in deal worth up to £9.6B
The UK government is launching a competition for military grade communications hardware and software in a tender worth up to £9.6 billion ($12.5 billion) including tax.…
Cisco creating new security model using 30 years of data describing cyber-dramas and saves
Exclusive Cisco is working on a new AI model that will more than double the number of parameters used to train its current flagship Foundation-Sec-8B.…
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
Who, Me? Welcome to another week in the world of work, and therefore also to another edition of Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday reader-contributed column in which you admit to the error of your ways.…
Microsoft teases agents that become ‘independent users within the workforce’
Microsoft has teased what it’s calling “a new class” of AI agents “that operate as independent users within the enterprise workforce.”…
Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list
Asia In Brief Chinese infosec blog MXRN last week reported a data breach at a security company called Knownsec that has ties to Beijing and Chinas military.…
Louvre's pathetic passwords belong in a museum, just not that one
Infosec in brief There's no indication that the brazen bandits who stole jewels from the Louvre attacked the famed French museum's systems, but had they tried, it would have been incredibly easy.…
Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
A row is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz part of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be licensed for use by cellular networks and others that want it reserved for Wi-Fi.…