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Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung
Epic Games has settled the case it brought against Samsung over the Korean giant’s treatment of third-party app stores on its Galaxy handsets.…
Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1
World War Fee The Trump administration on Monday announced the tariff rates it will impose on fourteen nations starting on August 1st, and several big technology-producing nations made the list.…
Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia
Analysis During the AI gold rush, the next best thing to selling the shovels – that is, the GPUs –is manufacturing the silicon that makes them possible. But while TSMC and SK-Hynix continue to cash in on Nvidia's successes, Samsung hasn't been nearly so fortunate.…
Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers
A handful of international computer science researchers appear to be trying to influence AI reviews with a new class of prompt injection attack.…
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho
The new nuclear age of small modular reactors may not have materialized yet, but that's not stopping the US Department of Energy from getting to work on even smaller, more modular reactors with a couple of new commercial partners. …
CitrixBleed 2 exploits are on the loose as security researchers yell and wave their hands
Multiple exploits are circulating for CVE-2025-5777, a critical bug in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway dubbed CitrixBleed 2, and security analysts are warning a "significant portion" of users still haven't patched.…
CoreWeave's $9B Core Scientific acquisition is a bid for more power
CoreWeave just added 1.3 gigawatts of datacenter capacity to its rent-a-GPU scheme with the $9 billion acquisition of crypto-mining outfit Core Scientific, the companies announced Monday.…
Apple tries get €500M EU fine tossed
Apple is on the hook for a €500 million (US $587 million) anti-steering fine in the EU, so it's reportedly doing what any profit-driven enterprise in such a position would do: Appealing.…
Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles
Astroboffins have found the first evidence of a double-detonated Type Ia supernova, which could explain why we have enough bright points of reference in the skies to plot our place in the universe.…
Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges
Japanese shipping biz Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is planning to fit out a ship as a floating datacenter that can draw energy from the shore or from an accompanying powership.…
Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long
"You cannot be serious" was likely uttered by more than a few folk watching Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova versus Britain's Sonay Kartal at Wimbledon yesterday after the tennis tournament's AI line-calling tech dropped the ball.…
'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data
The US defense department satellite service that's cutting off the flow of data used for hurricane forecasting is doing so "to mitigate a significant cybersecurity risk" to government "high performance computing environments."…
Phishing platforms, infostealers blamed as identity attacks soar
A rise in advanced phishing kits and info-stealing malware are to blame for a 156 percent jump in cyberattacks targeting user logins, say researchers.…
Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes
Ordnance Survey, the UK's official map maker, is seeking a tech supplier to help it obtain and manage data from utilities companies for a project that aims to avoid damage to subterranean infrastructure, which costs around £2.4 billion a year.…
TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions
Comment Few IT leaders or staffers realize just how much automation, AI, and cloud delivery are disrupting the legal and human frameworks that underpin outsourcing - especially when it comes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, better known as TUPE.…
AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game
Opinion In human imagination, AIs have been good for two things: trying to take over, and loving a good game. The earliest post-war AI thinkers took it almost for granted that once computers could beat humans at chess, true artificial intelligence would have arrived. Such thinking was disproved 50 years on when IBM's Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997. Computers could be very, very good at chess while still having the IQ of a pebble.…
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time
Who, Me? Monday morning brings many readers a return to the world of adults, which The Register marks by bringing you a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of making mistakes for which you are somehow forgiven.…
Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway
Airbus last week revealed it has certified a “Taxibot” to transport its single-aisle planes from stand to runway.…
VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks
As VMware pushes its vision for private clouds built around its core virtualization technology, rival vendors are ramping their efforts to create an alternative stack.…
Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill
Asia In Brief Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has migrated the four million Postgres databases that back its customers’ Jira implementations to Amazon Web Services’ Aurora.…