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Total recall: Mistral AI's Le Chat can now remember your conversations
Mistral AI can now remember personal details about you and use them to offer better prompts. It also has new MCP connectors that businesses can deploy to connect their users to third-party tech services.…
Zscaler latest victim of Salesloft Drift attacks, customer data exposed
Zscaler is the latest company to disclose some of its customers' data was exposed in the recent spate of Salesloft Drift attacks affecting Salesforce databases.…
Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US government contract
Microsoft, the latest tech firm to agree to big software discounts for the US government, is digging even deeper into its bargain bin than the competition by offering a year of free Copilot access to government agencies willing to put up with its other problem products. …
Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI
Speaking ahead of Labor Day – celebrated in the US to recognize the nation's labor movement – Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff said the company had slashed 4,000 customer support roles through the application of AI agents.…
Tesla Model Ys recalled Down Under for overly enthusiastic electric windows
Tesla vehicles sold in Australia have been recalled over a window that could "close with excessive force" on a body part of an unwary driver.…
Stolen OAuth tokens expose Palo Alto customer data
Palo Alto Networks is writing to customers that may have had commercially sensitive data exposed after criminals used stolen OAuth credentials lifted from the Salesloft Drift break-in to gain entry to its Salesforce instance.…
Apple iOS 26 set to dump 75M iPhones on the e-waste pile
The pending release of Apple's iOS 26 could see around 75 million iPhones rendered obsolete, generating more than 1.2 million kilograms of e-waste globally, according to new research.…
Microsoft readies Windows 11 25H2 while Windows 10 circles the drain
Microsoft has made Windows 11 25H2 available to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, as market share figures show the company's flagship operating system continues to enjoy a lead over its doomed predecessor, Windows 10.…
Four more execs man the decks at leaky sales vessel Atos
A publication less kind than The Reg might couch Atos's latest leadership intake as the recruitment of more expensive execs coming armed with buckets to bail water from a sinking vessel.…
Goldman Sachs warns AI bubble could burst datacenter boom
Datacenter capacity is forecast to surge 50 percent by 2027 driven by AI demand, with the sector's energy consumption doubling by 2030, according to the latest research from Goldman Sachs. But the financial services biz says it's watching for signs that AI adoption may fall short of current hype.…
Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers
Huawei's business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from local telco networks.…
Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk
Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world's largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have allowed miscreants to manipulate temperatures and spoil food and medicine, leading to massive supply-chain disruptions.…
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector
Register debate series Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed it expects to spend £9 billion with the software giant over five years.…
Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane
A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on Russia.…
In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception
Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.…
Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins
Chinese web giant Alibaba has reduced network outages by 92 percent, cut load balancing costs by 18.9 percent, and found ways to improve SmartNIC performance by offloading workloads to idle infrastructure.…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity'
Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.…
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber
A team of networking boffins has published fresh research on hollow fiber cables that it claims could offer the lowest ever recorded optical loss for a fiber – meaning the signal would weaken less as it travels, leading to faster speeds and lower latencies.…
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty
Happy Labor Day. The US administration has removed union recognition from NASA as budget cuts and layoffs loom.…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire
Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget alerts.…