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Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China
Facebook's former director of global public policy told a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get the social network into China - including, she alleged, offering up Americans' data.…
Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs
Cloud Next Google on Wednesday announced Firebase Studio, a product pitched as "a cloud-based agentic development environment" – in other words, a browser-based coding workspace that includes AI to help developers to prototype and build apps without writing every line of code themselves.…
Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type
The return of Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo has borne fruit in the form of a new data type - vector sets - for the widely used cache-turned-multi-model database.…
OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit
OpenAI has countersued co-founder Elon Musk, accusing him of unlawful and unfair tactics to derail its restructuring plans and demanding a judge hold him liable for damage allegedly inflicted on the AI super-lab.…
US sensor giant Sensata admits ransomware derailed ops
US sensor maker Sensata has told regulators that a ransomware attack caused an operational disruption, and that it's still working to fully restore affected systems.…
Satellite phone tech coming to your phone this year – but who pays for it?
This year will be Ground Zero for the commercialization of satellite phone services, but a key question is whether operators will charge extra for this capability or include it as part of customer subscriptions.…
Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana
Atlassian has decided to make its Rovo AI suite free but will in future introduce fees for use beyond a yet-to-be-determined threshold.…
AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason
Belgian software house Hyperion Entertainment has released Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2, the version of the classic operating system it launched in 2021. The update targets Amigas with 680x0 processors, including systems enhanced with PiStorm accelerator boards.…
Amazon Nova Sonic AI doesn't just hear you, it takes tonal cues too
Amazon has introduced a foundation model that claims to grasp not just what you're saying, but how you're saying it - tone, hesitation, and more.…
M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'
breaking Readers have flooded our mailboxes with reports that Microsoft 365 Family licensing has fallen over this morning, so if you're wondering why your small business or relatives are unable to open Word, consider yourself told.…
Tech CEO: 4-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity
Interview Civo shifted its workforce to a four-day working week and while it hasn't changed productivity much at the cloud biz, it has helped attract "new talent" and retain existing staff, CEO Mark Boost says.…
Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack
World War Fee As the trade war between America and China escalates, some infosec and policy experts fear Beijing will strike back in cyberspace.…
OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?
The UK government's AI Energy Council held its first meeting this week, in an attempt to square the circle of its AI ambitions with the state of the country's power infrastructure and having the most expensive energy in Europe.…
Staff at UK's massive health service still have interoperability issues with electronic records
UK health professionals remain "skeptical" about electronic patient records, despite the NHS in England achieving more than 90 percent coverage.…
Europol: Five pay-per-infect suspects cuffed, some spill secrets to cops
Following the 2024 takedown of several major malware operations under Operation Endgame, law enforcement has continued its crackdown into 2025, detaining five individuals linked to the Smokeloader botnet.…
Meta's AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you
In the last twelve months generative AI has transformed from a helpful and cheeky tool into something more worrying.…
<i>The Reg</i> translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned
Oracle's letter to customers about an intrusion into part of its public cloud empire - while insisting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was untouched - has sparked a mix of ridicule and outrage in the infosec community.…
Fear of tariffs made the PC market great again in Q1 as vendors emptied factories to dodge price hikes
The first quarter of 2025 saw shipments of new PCs surge, as vendors and buyers tried to move machines before tariffs made them more expensive.…
Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in
Cloud Next This week Google joined a throng of tech vendors pushing the concept of "agentic AI" on an unsuspecting and perhaps unreceptive collection of enterprise users. Questions remain about how effective this tranche of tools will be at solving business problems and how much it might all cost.…
Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons
Cloud Next Google's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216 chips.…