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Boy riding bubble realizes what he's on, asks for more air

Fri, 2025-08-15 14:57
Sam Altman, busily planning to spend "trillions" more on datacenters, admitted yesterday that AI is a bit inflated

Sam Altman admitted we're in the midst of an AI bubble Thursday, but don't let that fool you: He still intends to rule over whatever's left after it bursts. …

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Asmi Linux 13 Debian Edition debuts: Xfce desktop never looked so good

Fri, 2025-08-15 14:30
TeejeeTech takes Trixie, adds considerably more polish, yet comes in lighter

Teejeetech turns its attention from Ubuntu to its progenitor. The result is a refined and attractive spin of Debian with Xfce.…

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Microsoft kills volume rebates in name of 'transparency'

Fri, 2025-08-15 13:32
Online Services price changes start November 1, aligning with Microsoft.com rates and eliminating programmatic discounts

Microsoft is updating its pricing approach for Online Services in Enterprise Agreements in the name of consistency and transparency, but could leave some customers paying more.…

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Little LLM on the RAM: Google's Gemma 270M hits the scene

Fri, 2025-08-15 12:32
A tiny model trained on trillions of tokens, ready for specialized tasks

Google has unveiled a pint-sized new addition to its "open" large language model lineup: Gemma 3 270M.…

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Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline

Fri, 2025-08-15 11:45
Who knew zero-days could be so useful to highway speedsters?

The lingering effects of a cyberattack on the Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands are preventing it from reactivating speed cameras across the country.…

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Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?

Fri, 2025-08-15 11:00
Or, more? Eventually, AI companies will stop selling their services as a loss leader, and then the AI "cost-savings" will disappear like dew on a hot summer morning

Bosses throughout the world love the idea of using AI to replace employees. They can talk all they want about how much more efficient everyone will be with AI, but the truth is if they can fire staffers, their bottom line looks better, their stock price goes up, and the CEO makes a ton more money.…

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Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline

Fri, 2025-08-15 10:24
London-based multinational takes customer portal and Voice API platform offline as 'protective measure' following breach

Multinational telco Colt Technology Services says a "cyber incident" is to blame for its customer portal and other services being down for a number of days.…

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Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL

Fri, 2025-08-15 09:15
Government: 'Trust us, it'll be different this time'

Feature The UK government has gone all-in on AI. More than 50 years after Harold Wilson gave his famous "White heat of technology" speech, this is the hot new thing. An AI Strategy has been released. Datacenters are planned. Steps to strengthen AI supply chains are being formulated. And of course, the public sector will lead by example in AI usage.…

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LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins

Fri, 2025-08-15 08:30
System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into 'investigator' and 'detective' roles that bypass privacy guardrails

A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious agents to autonomously harvest users’ personal data, even by attackers with "minimal technical expertise”, thanks to "system prompt" customization tools from OpenAI and others.…

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Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable

Fri, 2025-08-15 07:30
Somebody built a very sick network in the bowels of a hospital

On Call Few make it to Friday without some end-of-week blues, which The Register always treats with a fresh dose of On Call – the reader-contributed column that recounts your stories of tech support contusions.…

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Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide

Fri, 2025-08-15 06:45
As £9 billion MoU sparks debate about value for money, it's time to have your say

Register debate series It's a lot of money, £9 billion ($12 billion). Especially for a government which finds itself — for whatever reason — in a fiscal dead end.…

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Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost

Fri, 2025-08-15 05:15
Next: Modular datacenters ready to host rack-scale systems, to meet endless demand

Manufacturer to the stars Foxconn is building so many AI servers that they’re now bringing in more cash than consumer electronics – even counting the colossal quantity of iPhones it creates for Apple.…

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Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs

Fri, 2025-08-15 01:58
Sees AI costs rising but not certain revenue will match them

Chinese web giant Tencent doesn’t mind if Washington doesn’t let it buy more American GPUs, because it already has all the chips it needs.…

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Breathe easy: Apple Watch can read your oxygen levels again

Thu, 2025-08-14 23:31
iBiz shifts data to iPhone in patent workaround

Apple will deliver a software update for recent US Apple Watch models to reimplement the ability to measure blood oxygen levels, a process known as pulse oximetry.…

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Ransomware crews don't care about your endpoint security – they've already killed it

Thu, 2025-08-14 22:35
Some custom malware, some legit software tools

At least a dozen ransomware gangs have incorporated kernel-level EDR killers into their malware arsenal, allowing them to bypass almost every major endpoint security tool on the market, escalate privileges, and ultimately steal and encrypt data before extorting victims into paying a ransom.…

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Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek's next-gen R2 model

Thu, 2025-08-14 19:54
Chinese AI model dev still plans to use homegrown silicon for inferencing

Unhelpful Huawei AI chips are reportedly why Chinese model dev DeepSeek's next-gen LLMs are taking so long.…

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DARPA’s <s>Cylon raider</s> autonomous fighter jet advances to next phase

Thu, 2025-08-14 19:27
Pilots may soon have to compete against frakking toasters for the title of Top Gun

That autonomous fighter jet from DARPA is so 2023 that the agency is already well into a bid to give future combat jets autonomy for multi-ship missions over the horizon.…

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Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40?

Thu, 2025-08-14 19:03
Government and police employee credentials sold at bargain-basement prices on underground forums

Criminals are selling access to FBI and other law enforcement and government email accounts to other criminals via dark web marketplaces for as little as $40.…

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Equinix signs deals for nukes and fuel cells to power its AI bit barns

Thu, 2025-08-14 18:10
Datacenter giant looks for energy sources outside the grid

Equinix is doing deals with alternative energy providers to support the needs of its datacenters globally, including nuclear options and fuel cell deployments, as the AI fad continues to push a bit barn build boom.…

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'MadeYouReset' HTTP/2 flaw lets attackers DoS servers

Thu, 2025-08-14 17:39
Researchers had to notify over 100 vendors of flaw that builds on 2023's Rapid Reset with neat twist past usual mitigations

Security researchers Gal Bar Nahum, Anat Bremler-Barr, and Yaniv Harel have published details of a "common design flaw" in implementations of the HyperText Transfer Protocol 2 (HTTP/2) allowing those with ill intent to create "massive Denial of Service attacks".…

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