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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.…
Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome
Obituary John Young, the co-founder of the legendary internet archive Cryptome, died at the age of 89 on March 28. The Register talked to friends and peers who gave tribute to a bright, pugnacious man who was devoted to the public's right to know.…
Forgotten Turing treasure trove rescued from attic goes under the hammer
Precious scientific papers once belonging to wartime codebreaking genius Alan Turing – rescued from an attic clear-out where they faced destruction – are set to fetch a fortune at auction next month.…
Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system
Microsoft is throwing more transactional database systems into its Fabric analytics and data lake environment in expectation the proximity will help users that are adding AI to their systems.…
Ransomware scum leaked Nova Scotia Power customers' info
Nova Scotia Power on Friday confirmed it had been hit by a ransomware attack that began earlier this spring and disrupted certain IT systems, and admitted the crooks leaked data belonging to an unspecified number of its roughly 500,000 customers online. The stolen info may have included billing details and, for those on autopay, bank account numbers.…
Glitch hits kill switch on app web hosting, citing 'bad actors' and worse architecture
Three years after confirming its acquisition by Fastly, Glitch is pulling the plug on its app hosting platform.…
CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that SaaS companies are under fire from criminals on the prowl for cloud apps with weak security.…
Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond
Microsoft has continued to shovel AI into its built-in Windows inbox apps, and now it's rolling out a Notepad update that will use Copilot to write text for you.…
How Java changed the development landscape entirely as code turns 30
Feature It was 30 years ago when the first public release of the Java programming language introduced the world to Write Once, Run Anywhere – and showed devs something cuddlier than C and C++.…
Datacenter biz wants to turn heat and carbon waste into biomass for sale
Euro datacenter operator Data4 is trialling a project to reuse heat from its servers and captured carbon dioxide to grow algae that can then be used in the agri-food or pharmacology sectors.…
FAA gives SpaceX the nod for Starship Flight 9 but doubles the danger zone
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given SpaceX the go-ahead to launch Starship Flight 9, but has nearly doubled the size of the vehicle's Aircraft Hazard Area (AHA).…
Nvidia ain't done with x86 as it taps Intel Xeons to babysit GPUs
Computex When Nvidia first teased its Arm-based Grace CPU back in 2021, many saw it as a threat to Intel and AMD. Four years later, the Arm-based silicon is at the heart of the GPU giant's most powerful AI systems, but it has not yet replaced x86 entirely.…
Lenovo thought it could surf geopolitics, until Trump's sudden tariff changes
Chinese hardware giant Lenovo thought it had prepared for a trade war, but its plan proved insufficient once the US started to rapidly change its tax policies in imported goods.…
What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer
AnduinOS, a one-man project from a Chinese Microsoft engineer, is quite a new Ubuntu remix that reshapes GNOME in the image of Windows 11.…
One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir-run data platform – for now
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has decided not to adopt a national data platform – prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir – until it has more evidence of the benefits and risks.…
Grandpa-conning crook jailed over sugar-coated drug scam
A ruthless cyber conman who duped elderly pensioners – including an 80-year-old man – into smuggling deadly class A drugs was this week locked up.…
BT managers' union mulls options after 'derisory or non-existent pay rise
BT is facing a revolt over pay from its line managers, with unions complaining today about the telco giant dishing out increased dividends to shareholders from its fiscal 2025 earnings.…
User unboxed a PC so badly it 'broke' and only a nail file could fix it
On Call Welcome to a fresh instalment of On-Call, The Register’s reader-contributed column in which you share your tales of tech support triumph, and we try to retell them in an amusing fashion.…
Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates
Stargate, the Open AI led consortium that aims to build giant AI datacenters, has picked the United Arab Emirates as its first non-US destination.…