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Open Telemetry founder tools up for project graduation party
Grafanacon The founder of the Open Telemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole to graduate.…
Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave
Microsoft has committed to improving the quality and reliability of Windows, and a step on the path to that goal is… encouraging a chunk of its US staff to leave the company.…
Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table
Intel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center of compute - even as its chip manufacturing struggles persist.…
Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores
Meta plans to deploy tens of millions of Amazon Web Services' Graviton 5 CPU cores as part of a multi-year collaboration that will make the social network among the largest-ever consumers of the cloud giant’s homegrown silicon.…
Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages
Microsoft's update to harden Remote Desktop against phishing attacks has arrived. When users open a Remote Desktop (.rdp) file, they should now see a warning listing all requested connection settings - or they would if it was displaying correctly.…
It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well
Black Hat Asia Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic's Mythos, according to Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO of AI-powered security startup RunSybil and OpenAI's first security hire.…
Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami
Donald Trump has threatened to whack the UK with a "big tariff" if it doesn't scrap its tax on large US tech firms, reviving a long-running spat over who gets to skim the proceeds from Silicon Valley's global empire.…
Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos
Greece is taking a flexible approach to introducing the European Union's biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), after some British passport holders missed flights home following the system's implementation on 10 April.…
UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room
Members of the UK government’s People’s Panel on Digital ID will spend two weekends in Birmingham and three evenings on Zoom discussing how Britain should build a national digital identity system, earning £550 plus expenses for their trouble.…
Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists
A computer glitch in a Spanish betting shop triggered a chain of events that ended with the store manager being kidnapped and held for €50,000 ($58,000) in ransom, allegedly by one of the shop's own employees.…
To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane
On Call Delivering excellent tech support can sometimes require heavy lifting, a feat The Register celebrates each Friday with a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of hoisting glitchy tech back to full function.…
Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years
Black Hat Asia Infosec outfit SentinelOne found malware that tries to induce errors in engineering and physics simulation software and therefore represents an attempt at sabotage, and suggests it was created years before the Stuxnet worm that aimed to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges.…
Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers
Black Hat Asia Developers of rented internet of things infrastructure – stuff like public EV chargers and shared e-bikes – are prioritizing user convenience over security, and leaving themselves exposed to wide-scale denial of service attacks on their services.…
Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter
Claude users who complained about the AI service producing lower-quality responses over the past month weren’t imagining it.…
Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: 'I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code'
EXCLUSIVE It all started with a LinkedIn message, as so many employment scams do these days.…
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why
With more capacity and faster charging, solid-state batteries could be the next big thing in energy. And good news: researchers may have pinned down one major reason these batteries still fail before they can reach widespread commercial use.…
Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain
Anthropic's release last week of Opus 4.7 came with stronger safeguards to prevent misuse. Unfortunately, these safeguards have also managed to thwart legitimate use.…
Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn
A majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt victim organizations’ operations, according to a joint 10-country advisory.…
US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes
The US Department of the Air Force (DAF) has selected three companies for possible nuclear microreactor projects at three of its installations under a program aimed at improving energy resilience if the electricity grid goes down.…
YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard
If you follow PC hardware prices, you’ll know AI demand has pushed memory prices higher as manufacturers prioritize memory for datacenters. To deal with that, you can pay through the nose, buy less memory, or ... try to build your own DRAM.…