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Five years – that's how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out
Claude creator Anthropic has given customers using its Free, Pro, and Max plans one month to prevent the engine from storing their chats for five years by default and using them for training.…
DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix
Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has made it harder to do business with the US federal government, according to private cloud contender Nutanix.…
vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list
When VMware delivered its Cloud Foundation 9 suite in June, it marked the end of a two-year push to integrate its compute, storage, and networking products. What’s next for the Broadcom business unit? At the VMware Explore conference this week, The Register sniffed out a few other items on its to-do list.…
DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America
The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones. …
Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban
Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry's efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too far.…
FBI, Dutch cops seize fake ID marketplace that sold identity docs for $9
The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity documents for as little as $9.…
How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out
The Pentagon outfit responsible for preventing foriegn agents from infiltrating defense agencies says the US isn't doing a very good job of preventing state secrets from falling into Chinese hands.…
Dialing Earth: Skylo set to leapfrog T-Mobile and offer voice calls via satellite
Users of Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones could soon find themselves able to make voice calls via a satellite connection, if Skylo Technologies can get all its ducks in a row.…
Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly
FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.…
AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas
The new native 68K AmigaOS web browser leans on the machines' underlying emulation system to offer modern facilities on a retro OS.…
'It isn't designed to solve privacy concerns,' Grafana CTO says of Bring Your Own Cloud
INTERVIEW Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is a concept gaining traction as companies seek ways to resolve sovereignty and privacy issues, but its implementation can vary widely depending on interpretation.…
Google and Zed push protocol to pry AI agents out of VS Code's clutches
Google and code editor company Zed Industries have introduced the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) as a standard way for AI agents to integrate with an IDE, with the idea that this will prevent developers getting locked into VS Code.…
SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot
South Korea's privacy watchdog has slapped SK Telecom with a record ₩134.5 billion ($97 million) fine after finding that the mobile giant left its network wide open to hackers through a catalog of bungles.…
Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart
Firefly Aerospace has been given the green light to resume launches after its April failure.…
TransUnion admits 4.5M affected after third-party support app breached
Credit scoring and monitoring biz TransUnion says that it recently suffered a breach affecting nearly 4.5 million individuals.…
Thousands of Citrix NetScaler boxes still sitting ducks despite patches
Thousands of Citrix NetScaler appliances remain exposed to a trio of security flaws that the vendor patched this week, one of which is already being actively exploited in the wild.…
Ransomware crooks knock Swedish municipalities offline for measly sum of $168K
Sweden's municipal governments have been knocked offline after ransomware crooks hit IT supplier Miljödata, reportedly demanding the bargain-basement sum of $168,000.…
Good morning, Brit Xbox fans – ready to prove your age?
Microsoft has begun emailing users of its Xbox gaming platform with likely unwelcome news: users will need to verify their age if they want to keep access to the company's various social services, and it's blaming the UK Online Safety Act.…
Euro banks block billions in rogue PayPal direct debits after fraud glitch
Shoppers and merchants in Germany found themselves dealing with billions of euros in frozen transactions this week, thanks to an apparent failure in PayPal's fraud-detection systems.…
Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
A London law firm leaked the details of nearly 200 people who requested to receive updates about the redress scheme set up for victims of abuse at the hands of the Church of England (CoE).…