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Composer for worst Tomb Raider games jailed over COVID-19 loan fraud
Sad news for the three people who fondly remember the soundtracks to turn-of-the-millennium Tomb Raider – their composer, Peter Connelly, has been sentenced to 16 months behind bars for COVID-19 loan fraud.…
Microsoft patches under-attack SharePoint 2019 and SE
Microsoft is releasing out-of-band security updates for SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, following a warning that vulnerable versions were now under attack.…
Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs isn't just a bad idea, it's the law
Opinion On June 10, social network Bluesky announced that in 15 days it would introduce age verification for UK users, to comply with the UK Online Safety Act. As this law threatens non-compliant content companies with eight-figure fines from July 25, you can see why. The how, however, is breathtakingly inexcusable.…
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo
Who, Me? Welcome again to "Who, Me?" – The Register's Monday column in which readers admit to making mistakes and explain how they managed to keep their careers going afterwards.…
Alaska Airlines grounds itself due to mysterious IT problem
US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet due to an unspecified IT issue.…
Japan discovers object out beyond Pluto that rewrites the Planet 9 theory
Asia In Brief Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory last week announced the discovery of a small body with an orbit beyond Pluto’s, and scientists think its presence means the “Planet 9” theory should be revisited.…
Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore
The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code without permission.…
Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack
Infosec In Brief Microsoft has warned users of SharePoint Server that three on-prem versions of the product include a zero-day flaw that is under attack – and that its own failure to completely fix past problems is the cause.…
US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) intend to reevaluate how H-1B visas are issued, according to a regulatory filing.…
UK uncovers novel Microsoft snooping malware, blames and sanctions GRU cyberspies
The UK government is warning that Russia's APT28 (also known as Fancy Bear or Forest Blizzard) has been deploying previously unknown malware to harvest Microsoft email credentials and steal access to compromised accounts.…
China proves that open models are more effective than all the GPUs in the world
Comment OpenAI was supposed to make good on its name and release its first open-weights model since GPT-2 this week.…
Ex-IDF cyber chief on Iran, Scattered Spider, and why social engineering worries him more than 0-days
Interview Scattered Spider and Iranian government-backed cyber units have more in common than a recent uptick in hacking activity, according to Ariel Parnes, a former colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces' cyber unit 8200.…
Republican calls out Trump admin's decision to resume GPU sales to China
The Republican chair of the US House Select Committee on China has protested the Trump administration's decision this week to lift restrictions on the sale of Nvidia H20 GPUs and similar processors, warning the chips could be used to advance Chinese AI and military interests.…
Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines
Two weeks before the EU AI Act takes effect, the European Commission issued voluntary guidelines for providers of general-purpose AI models. However, Meta refused to sign, arguing that the extra measures introduce "legal uncertainties" beyond the law's scope.…
Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027
Japanese foundry upstart Rapidus says it's on track to begin volume production of 2nm process tech after achieving a major milestone this week.…
Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state
Comment A tech executive's alleged affair exposed on a stadium jumbotron is ripe fodder for the gossip rags, but it exhibits something else: proof that we need not wait for an AI-fueled dystopian surveillance state to descend on us - we're perfectly able and willing to surveil ourselves.…
YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims
Apple has sued tech YouTuber Jon Prosser for allegedly leaking iOS 26 information to the public ahead of its reveal at WWDC in June.…
Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live
Oracle began incentivizing perpetual licenses in favor of subscription deals as it introduced its database systems via rival cloud vendors, say licensing experts.…
As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out
Analysis WeTransfer this week denied claims it uses files uploaded to its ubiquitous cloud storage service to train AI, and rolled back changes it had introduced to its Terms of Service after they deeply upset users. The topic? Granting licensing permissions for an as-yet-unreleased LLM product.…
Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus
Rescuezilla 2.6.1 has introduced a new version based on the latest interim Ubuntu release, while also updating its existing builds on older versions.…