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Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform
Palantir is working with "AI upskilling platform" Multiverse to provide an apprenticeship program specific to its Federated Data Platform (FDP), the NHS analytics system being run under a controversial contract.…
UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit
British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O'Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to solicit digital currency and threaten high-profile individuals.…
Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some
On the eve of its Ignite conference, Microsoft has managed to break the first Extended Security Update (ESU) for many commercial Windows 10 customers.…
AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory
Opinion Remember when the hottest news in the schoolyard was which band was the hottest this week? Those days are back, baby. An AI-generated band called Breaking Rust has just hit the top of the Billboard Country chart in the US with a song called Walk My Walk. Some questions will never be answered – could it ever release a sea shanty, and will all the albums be compilations? What this means for the future of the music industry, the AI industry, and music itself, is less funny.…
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
Who, Me? Welcome to another week of work, a moment The Register celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you 'fess up to follies, false moves, and faux pas – and explain how you escaped.…
Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives
The market for server virtualization tools is about to fragment, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting
Asia In Brief India’s Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar Land Rover, has revealed the cyberattack that shut down production in the UK has so far cost it around £1.8 billion ($2.35 billion).…
Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack
INFOSEC IN BRIEF The US Senate passed a resolution in July to force the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to publish a 2022 report into poor security in the telecommunications industry but the agency has not delivered the document.…
Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab
Exclusive Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs announced a new collaboration with Global Unichip Corp (GUC) on Sunday to integrate its optical I/O chiplets into the Taiwanese semiconductor design services provider's XPU reference designs.…
Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems
Interview In the datacenter biz, power is the product. You either have it or you don't, Chris Sharp tells El Reg.…
Apple’s new 15% mini-app deal finally gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in
Apple has cut its take to 15 percent on purchases inside mini apps running within other iOS apps, and reached a parallel agreement with Tencent that brings WeChat's vast mini-program ecosystem into its revenue net.…
Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60%
If you haven't noticed, DRAM memory has gotten a lot more expensive in recent weeks. …
Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee
Large language models frequently ship with "guardrails" designed to catch malicious input and harmful output. But if you use the right word or phrase in your prompt, you can defeat these restrictions.…
Fortinet finally cops to critical make-me-admin bug under active exploitation
Fortinet finally published a security advisory on Friday for a critical FortiWeb path traversal vulnerability under active exploitation – but it appears digital intruders got a month's head start.…
Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay
Last year, Canonical increased its paid extended support lifespan to 12 years. Now, it's increasing it again, to 15 years ... for a price.…
Crims poison 150K+ npm packages with token-farming malware
Yet another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as "one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history" - but with a twist. Instead of injecting credential-stealing code or ransomware into the packages, this one is a token farming campaign.…
Now you can share your AI delusions with Group ChatGPT
Feel like your team's group chat is a bit lifeless? Remote coworkers not really collaborating as well as they should be? There's a new way to stir the pot now that OpenAI has piloted ChatGPT group chats: cram a chatbot into the conversation and let it chime in whenever it thinks it should.…
AMD grabs more x86 share as Intel stumbles in entry-level chips
AMD continues to claw market share away from Intel in CPU shipments, growing faster than its rival in most segments. Meanwhile business in the x86 processor arena is unusually flat overall, likely due to stockpiling over tariff fears.…
Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit
Amazon has rebranded its satellite broadband plan from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo. And no, Leo doesn't stand for "Late Entrants Only," even though the project is years behind Starlink and still not ready for anyone to use.…
FBI flags scam targeting Chinese speakers with bogus surgery bills
Chinese speakers in the US are being targeted as part of an aggressive health insurance scam campaign, the FBI warns.…