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Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report

Mon, 2025-10-06 15:55
Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot

Deloitte has agreed to refund part of an Australian government contract after admitting it used generative AI to produce a report riddled with fake citations, phantom footnotes, and even a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgment.…

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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to 'endlessly harass' execs

Mon, 2025-10-06 15:41
Crime group claims to have already doled out $1K to those in it 'for money and for the love of the game'

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has launched an unusual crowdsourced extortion scheme, offering $10 in Bitcoin to anyone willing to help pressure their alleged victims into paying ransoms.…

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OpenAI and AMD link arms for AI buildout: It's a power-for-equity swap

Mon, 2025-10-06 14:09
6GW chip pact sends AMD stock soaring, Nvidia has a rival for Altman biz love

AMD and OpenAI have forged a 6 gigawatt agreement to power OpenAI’s AI infrastructure across multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs.…

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EchoStar secures rights to spectrum it plans to sell to SpaceX

Mon, 2025-10-06 13:35
Musk space biz: 'Anyone else that wants to use the spectrum must coordinate with us first'

EchoStar says it has met the regulatory conditions to maintain the spectrum it is selling to Musk's rocketeers.…

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Radiant Group won't touch kids' data now, but apparently hospitals are fair game

Mon, 2025-10-06 13:20
Ransomware crooks utterly fail to find moral compass

First they targeted a preschool network, now new kids on the ransomware block Radiant Group say they've hit a hospital in the US, continuing their deplorable early cybercrime careers.…

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Kicked from RubyGems, maintainers forge new home at Gem Cooperative

Mon, 2025-10-06 13:00
gem.coop server promises continuity after Ruby Central’s takeover of key repos

A team including maintainers removed without notice from the RubyGems.org project has formed the Gem Cooperative and created a new gem server called gem.coop, compatible with RubyGems.…

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An idea that won't sink: China planning underwater datacenter deployment

Mon, 2025-10-06 12:44
Under the sea, under the sea... bit barnacle's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me

China is persevering with underwater datacenters - a deployment off the coast near Shanghai is expected to save on the energy costs of cooling compute infrastructure thanks to ocean currents.…

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Thieves steal IDs and payment info after data leaks from Discord support vendor

Mon, 2025-10-06 12:18
Outsourcing your helpdesk always seems like a good idea – until someone else's breach becomes your problem

Discord has confirmed customers' data was stolen – but says the culprit wasn't its own servers, just a compromised support vendor.…

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Jaguar Land Rover engines ready to roar again after weeks-long cyber stall

Mon, 2025-10-06 10:28
No confirmed date but workers expected to return in the coming days

Jaguar Land Rover is readying staff to resume manufacturing in the coming days, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Reg.…

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Clop crew hits Oracle E-Business Suite users with fresh zero-day

Mon, 2025-10-06 09:40
Big Red rushes out patch for 9.8-rated flaw after crooks exploit it for data theft and extortion

Oracle rushed out an emergency fix over the weekend for a zero-day vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (EBS) that criminal crew Clop has already abused for data theft and extortion.…

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Leak suggests US government is fibbing over FEMA security failings

Mon, 2025-10-06 08:55
Plus, PAN under attack, IT whistleblowers get a payout, and China kills online scammers

Infosec in brief On August 29, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency fired its CISO, CIO, and 22 other staff for incompetence but insisted it wasn't in response to an online attack. New material suggests FEMA's claim may be false.…

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AI: The ultimate slacker's dream come true

Mon, 2025-10-06 08:00
Microsoft's Copilot is helping workers perfect the ancient art of doing sweet f all

Opinion It has been less than three years since ChatGPT lit the fuse of the current explosion of AI everywhere. AI years move even faster than internet years, so there's been time not only for the forcible injection of AI into the workplace courtesy of Microsoft, but the first scientific studies of the effect. Productivity may not have gone up, but anxiety, confusion and annoyance most certainly have.…

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Qualcomm in the dock over 'patent tax' on smartphones

Mon, 2025-10-06 07:15
Consumer group Which? says owners of Apple and Samsung devices overcharged by £480M

Qualcomm is facing a UK trial over allegations that it abused its dominant position in the smartphone chipset market to charge inflated license fees, ultimately driving up device prices for Brit consumers.…

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Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it

Mon, 2025-10-06 06:30
Big Blue turned the air blue

Who, Me? Oh, bother, it's Monday. But rather than curse about another working week rolling around, The Register welcomes it with another instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace whoopsies and reveal how you survived them.…

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AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds

Sun, 2025-10-05 11:38
Top AI models keep saying you’re right, and that’s the problem

State-of-the-art AI models tend to flatter users, and that praise makes people more convinced that they're right and less willing to resolve conflicts, recent research suggests.…

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Hacking contest kerfuffle over copied rules pits Wiz against ZDI

Sun, 2025-10-05 08:32
'Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it'

A new hacking contest has caused a social media kerfuffle over allegations of rule copying and plagiarism.…

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Hacked Ford screens put anti-RTO slogan above CEO’s face

Sat, 2025-10-04 11:20
Carmaker confirms screen hijack, says probe underway

Conference-room screens at Ford's Dearborn HQ were briefly hijacked on Thursday to display a protest image in an apparent swipe at the carmaker's return-to-office policy.…

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India's tech talent pipeline is sputtering

Sat, 2025-10-04 08:00
AI and new wave of offshoring mean graduates can't get gigs

Feature Shubh Kumar graduated from IIT Patna, one of India's famed Institutes of Technology – universities that attract millions of applicants but admit only 18,000 undergraduates.…

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ICE plans to scour Facebook, TikTok, X, and even defunct Google+ for illegal immigration leads

Fri, 2025-10-03 21:44
Draft solicitation calls for nearly 30 contractors to mine social media and other open-source data

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking contractors to trawl social media and other open-source data for potential immigration enforcement leads, assuming public posts can yield actionable intelligence.…

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Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally

Fri, 2025-10-03 20:58
Aspiring Bond villain believes the best place to train our AI overlords is in orbit

Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos says that, within two decades, gigawatt-scale datacenters powered by a continuous stream of photons from the sun will fill Earth's orbit.…

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