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Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE
Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.…
ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data
Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.…
Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS
In a cautionary tale of agentic AI, AWS reportedly suffered service outages caused by its own AI coding tools in December - though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.…
Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed
A judge-led commission in Quebec has found that the state agency responsible for driver's licenses and license plates misled the Canadian government about a troubled SAP ERP project that ran more than C$245 million ($179 million/ £132.6 million) over budget.…
Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs
Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.…
Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work
Accenture staff must demonstrate they have fully bought into the consultancy's AI vision if they want to get on.…
Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play
Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid in time, tinkering, and slowly unlearning a decade of GitHub muscle memory.…
Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame
Hard drive manufacturers have already sold all the units they will make this year, and it looks like the AI infrastructure boom is to blame, with hyperscalers soaking up all the high-capacity storage.…
LLM wrote it? Fine, but show us human documentation, demands EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it will accept LLM generated code from contributors to its open source projects but will draw the line at non-human generated comments and documentation.…
CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug
Uncle Sam's cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that's been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024.…
From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding
25 years after the Agile Manifesto, a group of experts hosted by one its signatories met to consider the impact of AI on software development, concluding among other things that test-driven development has never been more important.…
Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets
Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and security technology secrets and then trying to cover their tracks when the scheme began to unravel.…
Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Should org get £500k fine?
The UK's data protection watchdog has scored a small win in a lengthy legal battle against a British retail group that lost millions of data records during a 2017 breach.…
HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears
The UK tax collector has exempted 661 people from moving to quarterly software-based reporting under its Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme, about half the number who have applied.…
Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos
On Call By the end of the working week, it's natural to feel the walls closing in a little, which is why every Friday morning The Register frees things up a little by publishing a new installment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…
Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him
The CEO of code review platform provider Snyk has announced he will stand down so the company can find someone better-equipped to steer the company into the age of AI.…
India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook
India’s top telco, Reliance Jio, has announced plans to spend $110 billion on datacenters to run AI workloads and says it will use them to deliver services with the same “extreme affordability” it brought to the mobile communications market.…
AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures
AI agents are becoming more common and more capable, without consensus or standards on how they should behave, say academic researchers.…
Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT
Researchers at Proofpoint late last month uncovered what they describe as a "weird twist" on the growing trend of criminals abusing remote monitoring and management software (RMM) as their preferred attack tools.…
NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle
NASA has released the findings from its investigation of the ill-fated crewed Boeing Starliner mission of 2024, and while it still isn't sure of the root technical causes, it's admitted that trusting Boeing to do a thorough job appears to have been a mistake. …