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Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges

Mon, 2025-07-07 14:28
As power concerns beset builds, this floating datacenter can plug into powership next door

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.…

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Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long

Mon, 2025-07-07 13:31
Line-judging tech flubs crucial point, leaving players and fans seeing red

"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.…

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'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data

Mon, 2025-07-07 12:45
Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings

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."…

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Phishing platforms, infostealers blamed as identity attacks soar

Mon, 2025-07-07 12:00
Get your creds in order or risk BEC, ransomware attacks, orgs warned

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.…

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Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes

Mon, 2025-07-07 10:18
Digital map of subterranean infrastructure promised in 2021 set to launch by year end

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.…

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TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions

Mon, 2025-07-07 09:26
Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't

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.…

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AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game

Mon, 2025-07-07 08:30
A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor

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.…

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Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

Mon, 2025-07-07 07:22
Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error

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.…

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Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway

Mon, 2025-07-07 06:31
Airlines get the chance to cool their jets rather than burn fuel on the ground

Airbus last week revealed it has certified a “Taxibot” to transport its single-aisle planes from stand to runway.…

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VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks

Mon, 2025-07-07 05:27
Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust

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.…

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Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill

Mon, 2025-07-07 00:59
PLUS: Lexmark’s Chinese owners sell to Xerox; India, Australia, target underwater drones; JPMorgan drops custom TLDs; and more!

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.…

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Stalkerware firm gets scooped by SQL-slinging security snoop

Sun, 2025-07-06 20:10
Also, Swiss ransomware posture looks like its cheese, the CVE Program wants YOU, more sus checks and more

Infosec In Brief A security researcher looking at samples of stalkerware discovered an SQL vulnerability that allowed him to steal a database of 62,000 user accounts. …

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Ingram Micro confirms ransomware behind multi-day outage

Sun, 2025-07-06 13:09
SafePay crew claims responsibility for intrusion at one of world's largest tech distributors

Ingram Micro, one of the world’s largest distributors, has confirmed it is trying to restore systems following a ransomware attack.…

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UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites

Sun, 2025-07-06 08:27
Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?

Britain's space agency is looking for a supplier to build a robotic spacecraft to capture and de-orbit two defunct UK-licensed satellites from low Earth orbit.…

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Massive spike in use of .es domains for phishing abuse

Sat, 2025-07-05 12:43
¡Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds

Cybersecurity experts are reporting a 19x increase in malicious campaigns being launched from .es domains, making it the third most common, behind only .com and .ru.…

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iFixit gives new Fairphone 6 top marks for repairability: 10/10

Sat, 2025-07-05 11:30
It's not cheap or high end, but it should last you for years to come

The sixth generation of the Fairphone repairable mobile was launched at the end of June. Now spunger-flingers iFixit have got their hands on it, and liked the result.…

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Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister

Sat, 2025-07-05 08:36
Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze

A UK minister has told Parliament that joining Europe's answer to Starlink — Elon Musk's satellite-based mobile internet service — would be a "stretch" given the nation's current financial challenges.…

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Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her

Fri, 2025-07-04 18:58
Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits

The former head of the US Copyright Office has pushed back against arguments from President Donald Trump's team that her dismissal was lawful.…

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Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0

Fri, 2025-07-04 17:28
Venerable command line tool to depart Windows

Users still clinging on to PowerShell 2.0 just received notice to quit as the command-line tool is officially leaving Windows.…

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Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far

Fri, 2025-07-04 15:32
It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate

deep dive Amazon Web Services (AWS) is in the process of building out a massive supercomputing cluster containing "hundreds of thousands" of accelerators that promises to give its model building buddies at Anthropic a leg up in the AI arms race.…

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