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Silver State goes dark as cyberattack knocks Nevada websites offline
The state of Nevada is now two days into a cyberattack that has brought down many of its digital services.…
One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave
Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's quite simple.…
Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads
Cloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded more than 19 million instances of malware-laden apps that evaded the web giant’s security scans.…
Two wrongs don’t make a copyright
Opinion Let’s talk law and let’s talk donkey. Or. in the British vernacular, ass. In particular, let’s go back to Charles Dickens, a pungent critic of the law, who had one of his characters in Oliver Twist say of a legal assumption that “If the law supposes that, the law is a ass - a idiot.”…
Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech
+COMMENT US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose extra tariffs on imports from any nation that dares to regulate American technology companies.…
VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps
EXCLUSIVE VMware will port its flagship hypervisor and Cloud Foundation suite to the Arm processor architecture.…
Nvidia touts Jetson Thor kit for real-time robot reasoning
Nvidia has released a new brain for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor that promises more compute power and more memory than its predecessor.…
Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse
Comment We know US President Donald Trump isn't a fan of the US Chips Act. But, turn a government handout into a tit-for-tat transaction and the self described "master dealmaker" is singing a different tune.…
VMware before Broadcom was ‘A unicorn in fluffy cloudland’
In the 20 months since Broadcom took over VMware, Yves Sandfort has become the most ardent and prolific commentator on the acquisition. The CEO of Germany-headquartered VMware partner Comdivision Consulting has created almost 300 videos and still has plenty to say about where VMware went wrong, and where Broadcom needs to improve.…
Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB
The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document database's permissive MIT license as if it were an "Open for Business" sign.…
xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok
Elon Musk's xAI and X businesses have shown a bad case of the Mondays by launching an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI that claims the duo are trying to stifle competition in the mobile machine-intelligence world.…
Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites
US government websites are getting an aesthetic and functional overhaul under a Trump executive order and a new "America by Design" initiative headed by a Silicon Valley veteran and DOGE insider. …
The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon
Opinion There tend to be three AI camps. 1) AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world. 2) AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilization as we know it. And 3) "Write an A-Level paper on the themes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet."…
Getting touchy-feely with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2
HANDS ON A $40, 5-inch touchscreen has landed for the Raspberry Pi, offering a smaller sibling for the existing 7-inch model.…
Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech
It's 2025 and the latest mega-album has just been released – on cassette tape. Taylor Swift dropped Life of a Showgirl on digital, vinyl, and the old jewel-cased pencil spinners. They're still with us, complete with tape tangling and endless rewinding to find that specific track you love.…
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it
Who, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your missives about massive mistakes, and how you managed to move on after them.…
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative
The US military’s Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane is in space again for its eighth mission.…
Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors
Asia In Brief Australia’s University of Melbourne last year used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors.…
AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp
Infosec in brief PLUS…
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp
Hands on Training large language models (LLMs) may require millions or even billion of dollars of infrastructure, but the fruits of that labor are often more accessible than you might think. Many recent releases, including Alibaba's Qwen 3 and OpenAI's gpt-oss, can run on even modest PC hardware.…