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xAI's Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups
Public advocacy groups are demanding the US government cease any use of xAI's Grok in the federal government, calling the AI unsafe, untested, and ideologically biased.…
AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says
Chipmaker AMD is looking into a report from the GMP project about two Ryzen processors that failed during testing. Could too much math be to blame?…
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content
With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major content delivery network (CDN) force, 30% of global web traffic now comes from bots. Leading the way and growing fast? AI bots.…
AWS catches Russia's Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials
Amazon today said it disrupted an intel-gathering attempt by Russia's APT29 to trick Microsoft users into unwittingly granting the Kremlin-backed cyberspies access to their accounts and data.…
GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot
Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk's xAI, bringing early access to the company's Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into GitHub Copilot. However, a whistleblower has claimed that the rollout suffers from inadequate security testing and an engineering team operating under duress.…
Pentagon ends Microsoft's use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud
The Pentagon has formally kiboshed Microsoft's use of China-based employees to support Azure cloud services deployed by US government agencies, and it's demanding Microsoft do more of its own digging to determine whether any sensitive data was compromised. …
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs
Intel's agreement with the US government incudes a clause that would allow the feds to take an additional five percent stake in the chipmaker if it ceases to have a controlling share in its foundry business.…
FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam
The Trump administration has accused Google of discriminating against Republicans' emails and warned that the tech giant could be in line for a crackdown.…
RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house
RefreshOS is a Debian and KDE-based distro with a difference: it casts its net a lot wider for tools and components.…
30 years later, Doom returns to SNES with Raspberry Pi RP2350 muscle
Forget Windows 95, it's 30 years since Doom was released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. And thanks to the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, the game is back in cartridge form.…
Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug
Australian development house Click Studios has warned users of its Passwordstate enterprise password management platform to update immediately if not sooner, following the discovery of an authentication bypass vulnerability that opens the doors to an emergency administration account with nothing more than a "carefully crafted URL."…
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11
HP says AI PCs now make up a quarter of its sales, boosting revenue thanks to their higher price tags and the Windows 11 refresh.…
UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout
Senior officials are being summoned to the UK's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to explain why the government has not fully implemented the security recommendations made in a secret review following the 2021 Afghan data breach.…
Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026
Microsoft is to permanently hang up on its Mobile Plans app, directing users to the web and the Windows Settings app in the future.…
UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds
Datacenter developers in the UK are turning to gas for power generation amid lengthy wait times for a connection to the electricity grid.…
How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away
Opinion Say what you like about its role in the destruction of civilization, the net is still good for a few party games. Take bets on when the "Wintel Empire" was first reported as under attack, and by what. Then go and find out.…
Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible
Feature In IT, terms and categories come and go. Distinctions disappear as computing evolves and as something that was shiny and new simply becomes the way that we do things.…
Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync
On Call Why, look at the time! 7:30 AM on Friday morning, the moment at which The Register regularly runs a fresh instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your finest tech support stories.…
China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build
More than a decade after construction began, China has commenced operation of what it claims is the world’s most sensitive neutrino detector.…
China’s KylinOS Linux takes a great leap forward to v11 and kernel 6.6
China’s KylinSoft has delivered a major update to its flagship Linux, which Beijing hailed as a great leap forward for the nation’s ambition to develop operating systems that match and exceed the capabilities of western products.…