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Filing NeMo: Nvidia's AI framework hit with copyright lawsuit
Nvidia is the latest tech giant to face allegations that it used copyrighted works to train AI models without obtaining the permission of the authors.…
Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0
The earliest known release of Microsoft's 32-bit version of OS/2 is now out there, and intrepid code archeologists have it running. It's a glimpse into an alternatve computing universe.…
Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident
Alaska Airlines is reportedly cooperating on a US Department of Justice (DoJ) criminal investigation into Boeing regarding an incident which saw an aircraft plug blow out of a 737 MAX 9 mid-flight in January.…
Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery
Fancy a cold one? Would it change your mind if that frothy, frosty beer was brewed using treated wastewater?…
PlanetScale ends free tier bid, sheds staff in profitability bid
Distributed database vender PlanetScale has made work-force lay-offs and ended its free-tier services in an effort to achieve sustainable profitability.…
Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit
Redditors hoping to get in early on the company's upcoming IPO had better hope they have a lot of karma in reserve.…
AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find
AI models may consume huge amounts of energy, water, computing resources, and venture capital but they give back so much in the way of misinformation and bias.…
British Library pushes the cloud button, says legacy IT estate cause of hefty rebuild
The British Library says legacy IT is the overwhelming factor delaying efforts to recover from the Rhysida ransomware attack in late 2023.…
European Commission infringed data protection law with Microsoft 365
The European Commission has been reprimanded for infringing data protection regulations when using Microsoft 365.…
UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers
International regulations governing space flight lack rules to protect space tourism passengers from the ill-effects of cosmic radiation, according to researchers.…
How do you lot feel about Pay or say OK to ads model, asks ICO
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has opened a consultation on "consent or pay" business models. We're sure readers of The Register will have a fair few things to say.…
Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system
The team behind the leading replacement OS for end-of-life smartphones are to adopt systemd – to make working with GNOME and KDE easier.…
How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model
Opinion It's a good rule of nostril that if your litigation department is a source of revenue, your business model stinks. The law is there to discourage delinquent behavior when all else fails, not to amplify power for profit. If there's a better, fairer way to stop naughtiness, you should try that first.…
Intern with superuser access 'promoted' himself to CEO
Who, Me? Aaah … Monday! That wonderful week-opening day that brings with it so many possibilities. Including, as Register readers know all too well, the chance to make errors that must then be discreetly buried – the subject of our Who, Me?, our weekly reader-contributed tale of career-threatening bullets you’ve managed to dodge.…
VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May
Exclusive VMware by Broadcom will soon launch a new training experience that will offer “more training at a fraction of the cost they used to pay.”…
China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence
China’s main payment systems, Alipay and WeChat Pay, eased access for foreign users on Friday, a day after Beijing issued new guidelines for its payment industry.…
Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability
Infosec in brief Cybersecurity researchers informed Microsoft that Notorious North Korean hackers Lazarus Group discovered the "holy grail" of rootkit vulnerabilities in Windows last year, but Redmond still took six months to patch the problem.…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members
AI in brief OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has returned the company's board and will serve alongside three new members.…
Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects
Linus Torvalds has released version 6.8 of the Linux Kernel.…
Singtel loses $260 million tax case in Australia
Asia in brief Australia’s Federal Court last Friday dismissed Singtel’s appeal against a past ruling that it engaged in transfer pricing and therefore owes millions in tax.…