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Trump can bluster and bluff all he wants, but iPhone manufacturing isn't coming to the US
US President Donald Trump can huff, puff, and threaten to blow Tim Cook's house down with a 25 percent iPhone import tariff, but analysts say even that threat is unlikely to bring Apple's manufacturing home.…
Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz
Former British deputy PM and Meta apologist Sir Nick Clegg says that forcing AI companies to ask for the permission of copyright holders before using their content would destroy the AI industry overnight.…
Adidas confirms criminals stole data from customer service provider
Adidas is warning customers some of their data was stolen after an "unauthorized" person lifted it from a "third-party customer service provider."…
Salesforce takeover of Informatica is on for $8 billion
Salesforce is to buy Informatica, the enterprise data management and analytics biz, for around $8 billion.…
Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down
Software biz MathWorks is cleaning up a ransomware attack more than a week after it took down MATLAB, its flagship product used by more than five million people worldwide.…
UK tax collector puts half a billion on table for call center services
The UK's tax collector has confirmed plans to contract out call center services with an associated price tag of £500 million ($677 million).…
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
Opinion I use AI a lot, but not to write stories. I use AI for search. When it comes to search, AI, especially Perplexity, is simply better than Google.…
The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – simplicity
Comment Linux distro wars are nothing new. "Advocacy" (a euphemism for angry argument) about hardware, OSes, programming languages and editors goes back as long as different computers have existed. Computers appeal to geeky folks, and geeky folks readily get a little too attached to things — and then become possessive and defensive about them.…
AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking
Opinion How much harm does AI cause the environment? As a report from the MIT Technology Review just confirmed, nobody knows, and almost nobody cares enough to try and find out. Even if lots of people did care a lot, it wouldn’t change things. The driver of AI’s insane energy addiction is no more amenable to argument than a labrador in possession of an entire roast chicken.…
Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath
The European Commission has warned Chinese e-tailer SHEIN to clean up its act, after finding several practices on its website breach local consumer law.…
Get a custom paint job for earbuds at a nail salon, type on a baguette, then build a fountain for your PC
Computex Taiwan’s Computex conference sprawls across four exhibition halls in which almost 1,500 exhibitors jostle for attention.…
China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection
China has spawned a supercomputing contender.…
Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away
Who, Me? Another Monday has arrived, bringing with it the chance for work-in-progress meetings at which managers will recite corporate clichés with astounding sincerity. Which is why The Register always opens the week with a new edition of Who, Me? It's the column in which you share stories of trying to meet your KPIs and somehow escaping when you don't.…
Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'
World War Fee US president Donald Trump has threatened a tariff that would apply only to Apple, and appears to have referred to the European Union’s treatment of American tech companies as part of a threat to slap the bloc with higher tariffs.…
TeleMessage security SNAFU worsens as 60 government staffers exposed
Infosec In Brief Secrets of the Trump administration may have been exposed after a successful attack on messaging service TeleMessage, which has been used by some officials.…
China approves rules for national ‘online number’ ID scheme
Asia In Brief China last week approved rules that will see Beijing issue identity numbers that netizens can use as part of a federated identity scheme that will mean they can use one logon across multiple online services.…
Turns out using 100% of your AI brain all the time isn’t most efficient way to run a model
Feature If you've been following AI development over the past few years, one trend has remained constant: bigger models are usually smarter, but also harder to run.…
Even a humble keyboard is now political in Taiwan
Computex Every time I attend Taiwan's Computex exhibition I'm bewildered by the dozens of vendors selling unremarkable keyboards and mice.…
AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed
Comment As AI pilots within enterprises increasingly flame out, OpenAI is making a pivot to consumers, suggesting AI is more likely to sneak into the enterprise through users than walk in through the front door. But IT departments will still have to deal with it once it arrives.…
Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor
INTERVIEW Uncle Sam's cybersecurity apparatus can't only focus on China and other nation-state actors, but also has to fight the much bigger damage from plain old cybercrime, says former White House advisor Michael Daniel. And the Trump administration's steep cuts to federal government staff are making that a lot harder.…