TheRegister
Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI
Video Google has confirmed it will merge its ChromeOS and Android operating systems, and that the mobile OS will emerge triumphant.…
Microsoft cuts off Azure phone surveillance support for Israeli military
The president of Microsoft has said it's cutting parts of the Israeli military off from Azure after reports that the army was using the platform in a mass surveillance operation against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.…
X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest attempt to bring Apple’s M-series magic to the PC
Qualcomm revealed the second act in its bid to overtake Intel and AMD as the leading laptop CPU maker this week with the paper launch of its Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme processors. The company seeks to bring the kind of battery life and performance Apple has gotten out of its Arm-based M-series silicon to the Windows market.…
North Korea's Lazarus Group shares its malware with IT work scammers
North Korean-linked crews connected to the pervasive IT worker scams have upped their malware game, using more advanced tools, including a backdoor that has much of the same code as Pyongyang's infamous Lazarus Group deploys.…
Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime
Amazon has settled the Federal Trade Commission's case against it for making it too hard to quit Prime, and while it naturally didn't admit to any wrongdoing, it's still going to pay out one of the largest settlements in FTC history to make the matter go away. …
AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42
Despite protest letters, concerns that it's biased and untrustworthy, model tweaks to appease its billionaire boss, and even a past incident where it called itself "MechaHitler," xAI's Grok is still being made available to government agencies for mere pennies.…
Callous crims break into preschool network, publish toddlers' data
A cyber criminal crew has targeted Kido International, a preschool and daycare organization, leaking sensitive details about its pupils and their parents.…
Harness pitches AI agents as your new DevOps taskmasters
At its Unscripted event in London, DevOps company Harness presented its latest AI-driven modules, including an AI pipeline builder, AI test automation, autonomous code fixing when builds fail, AI AppSec (application security) and even AI-driven chaos testing, where resiliency is tested by introducing random failures.…
DARPA wants AI to know when it's being an energy hog
It's notoriously difficult to consistently measure the energy usage of AI models, but DARPA wants to put an end to that uncertainty with new "energy-aware" machine learning systems. …
EU probes SAP over alleged software support stranglehold
The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into SAP's behavior in the aftermarket for maintenance and support services in Europe.…
Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts
Ruby Central is said to have quietly snatched control of several flagship Ruby open source projects from their long-time maintainers without their consent, following pressure from Shopify, one of its biggest backers.…
Google reminds EU that Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks a year later
Google is like a dog with a bone over Microsoft's cloud licensing policies, not letting Euro regulators forget about what it sees as anti-competitive practices that penalize those wanting to run Windows software on rival cloud platforms.…
Oracle saddles up with $18B debt amid AI infrastructure gamble
Oracle has raised $18 billion in debt, which could help fund massive datacenter investments aimed at meeting surging demand from AI model builders and enterprise customers.…
Zero-day deja vu as another Cisco IOS bug comes under attack
Cisco has confirmed a new IOS and IOS XE zero-day, the latest in a string of flaws that attackers have been quick to weaponize.…
Bcachefs goes DKMS after Torvalds' kernel banishment
The bcachefs file system, now "externally maintained" outside the Linux kernel codebase, offers packages of its first version to be loadable on the fly.…
SAP's 'simplified' licensing leaves users more confused
SAP experts are doubting the enterprise software giant's message that it is simplifying licensing after the changes were discussed at the German-speaking user group conference.…
EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners
Travelers including Britons and Americans visiting most European countries will have to register their fingerprints and faces under a system that goes live next month.…
Empty shelves, empty coffers: Co-op pegs cyber hit at £80m
The Co-operative Group has revealed the cyberattack that knocked its systems offline earlier this year will leave it nursing an £80 million hangover. …
Check your own databases before asking to see our passport photos, Home Office tells UK cops
The Home Office has told police forces to check their own photo databases before asking it to search its libraries of passport and visa facial images, as well as avoiding urgent requests "unless it is absolutely necessary."…
The sweetest slice of Pi: Raspberry Pi 500+ sports mechanical keys, 16GB, and built-in SSD
HANDS ON Raspberry Pi has unveiled a fully loaded version of its computer-in-a-keyboard, featuring oodles of RAM, an SSD, and a clicky, mechanical keyboard. However, you'll pay a relative premium for these features.…