TheRegister

Reddit will provide content posted on its forums to Google, which will use it to train and update AI chatbots in a deal reportedly worth $60 million a year that could – oddly enough – deliver big bucks to OpenAI boss Sam Altman.…

DoorDash will cough up $375,000 to settle claims it trampled California's privacy laws by giving away customers' info without their consent nor giving them the opportunity to opt out.…

Updated IT provider Change Healthcare has confirmed it shut down some of its systems following a cyberattack, disrupting prescription orders and other services at pharmacies across the US.…

Amid continuing losses, Rivian is laying off 10 percent of its salaried employees and a limited number of hourly folks in an attempt to reduce its expenses. …

Law enforcement's disruption of the LockBit ransomware crew comes as the criminal group was working on bringing a brand-new variant to market, research reveals.…

Intuitive Machines has tweaked today's lunar landing time to 2230 UTC following the successful insertion of its Odysseus lander into lunar orbit.…

Nokia is tempting mobile network operators with a tool that it thinks will help them monetize the backup battery storage at their cell base station sites.…

A user left with a surprise bill for thousands of dollars after running queries on Google's BigQuery data warehouse has sparked a debate about how vendors should place limits on the use of their tools.…

A Japanese Yakuza leader is being charged with trafficking nuclear materials by US prosecutors.…

Longtime Twitter staffers saved Elon Musk from himself, according to a letter from the US Federal Trade Commission chair.…

Today's edition of the week-long LockBit leaks reveals a father-son duo was apprehended in Ukraine as part of the series of takedown-related arrests this week.…

Amazon, currently fighting a legal battle with the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over its treatment of workers, is arguing that the labor agency is unconstitutional. And it's not the only company testing that line of reasoning.…

FDC OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has driven a lot of hype around generative AI, but as he reminded attendees at Intel's Foundry Direct Connect (FDC) event Wednesday, not everything you read on the internet is true.…

Residents of the United States woke this morning to find widespread outages in cellular service, with AT&T bearing the brunt of a seemingly nationwide issue.…

The European Commission has issued recommendations to up the security and resilience of submarine data cables, but says private finance should fund projects to expand capacity, assisted by governments where necessary.…

Windows Insiders are set to receive more Copilot in Windows features, following an update for the Canary and Dev Channels to add extra functions for users unwilling to click through icons.…

Neil Murphy, the boss of Bytes Technology Group – one of Microsoft’s largest cloud and software licensing resellers – has quit with immediate effect, at the same time admitting to making secret stock trades in the company.…

Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, is considering ditching Oracle as its main ERP and HR software after a disastrous implementation has left it unable to file auditable accounts, with the budget rising from £20 million ($25 million) to £131 million ($166 million).…

Large language models have given rise to the dark art of prompt engineering – a process for composing system instructions that elicit better chatbot responses.…

Installation remains a pain point for many Linux distros, but everyone is working hard on it. Some of those efforts are bearing fruit… but not all of them.…