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VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong
Opinion If you're a tech company marketing manager writing white papers, you'll love a juicy pull quote. That's where a client says something so lovely about you, you can pull it out of the main text and reprint it in a big font in the middle of the page.…
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league
Who, Me? Monday mornings see the resumption of endless coopetition between IT folks and those they strive to serve but sometimes disappoint. The Register celebrates that eternal struggle with a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that offers the chance to admit failures and celebrate escapes.…
Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated
AI upstart Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund it will use to compensate authors whose works it used to train its models without seeking or securing permission.…
All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner, but jobs are safe
All work in IT departments will be done with the help of AI by 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, which thinks massive job losses won’t result.…
Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems
Asia In Brief Microsoft has warned that customers of its Azure cloud may experience heightened latency due to a submarine cable outage in the Red Sea.…
Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says
Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the top of organic search results, are drawing around 10 percent of their sources from documents written by ... other AIs, according to a recent report.…
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus
It is almost half a century since Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to study Jupiter, Saturn, and the atmosphere of Titan. It continues to send data back to Earth.…
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life
Opinion China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin were this week reportedly overheard chatting about the possibility that organ transplants might help them achieve immortality.…
No more waiting for lines: New Windows keyboard shortcuts output em and en dashes with ease
Hands on Writers rely on the humble em dash (—) and en dash (–) to add flavor and function to their sentences. But typing these characters, which are slightly longer than a hyphen, has been a challenge in Windows, up until now.…
Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley
A startup called Job Bolt has created AI avatars that conduct job interviews. The Register couldn't help but give it a try and can report that it's an unnerving experience.…
OpenAI reorg at risk as Attorneys General push AI safety
The Attorneys General of California and Delaware on Friday wrote to OpenAI's board of directors, demanding that the AI company take steps to ensure its services are safe for children.…
US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid
The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it executed its largest single-site raid to date, detaining 475 people at the Hyundai–LG battery plant under construction in Georgia.…
Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features
Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.…
If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here's what they might look like
Analysis OpenAI is allegedly developing a custom AI accelerator with the help of Broadcom in an apparent bid to curb its reliance on Nvidia and drive down the cost of its GPT family of models.…
FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons
The US Federal Communications Commission may soon pull funding for free Wi-Fi on school buses and in libraries after Chair Brendan Carr declared two Biden-era expansions unlawful and proposed eliminating them.…
The crazy, true story behind the first AI-powered ransomware
interview It all started as an idea for a research paper. …
Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python
A team of data thieves has doubled down by developing its CastleRAT malware in both Python and C variants. Both versions spread by tricking users into pasting malicious commands through a technique called ClickFix, which uses fake fixes and login prompts.…
HHS warns US health care industry to share data with patients or else
It took four presidential administrations to finally get it done, but US health care actors that block patient and provider access to electronic medical data may finally begin to face actual consequences.…
Critical, make-me-super-user SAP S/4HANA bug under active exploitation
A critical code-injection bug in SAP S/4HANA that allows low-privileged attackers to take over your SAP system is being actively exploited, according to security researchers.…
Bot shots: US Army enlists AI startup to provide target-tracking
The US Army is preparing to deploy a new AI product that promises to automatically identify and track potential targets on the battlefield. However, humans will continue to make life and death decisions.…