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Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off
Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries.…
China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests
China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna - and leaving it again afterwards.…
Google fixing Gemini so it doesn't channel paranoid androids quite so often
Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem and plans to fix it.…
Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales
Nvidia and AMD will reportedly be allowed to resume sales in China if they cough a license fee amounting to 15 percent of sales.…
India’s services giant TCS lays off over 10,000 for reasons including AI, hikes wages for survivors
Asia In Brief Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services will shed over 10,000 staff but will give pay rises to most of those who remain.…
Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console
Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro's Apex One endpoint security platform is under active exploitation, the company admitted last week, and there's no patch available.…
DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats
def con A DEF CON hacker walks into a small-town water facility…no, this is not the setup for a joke or a (super-geeky) odd-couple rom-com. It's a true story that happened at five utilities across four states.…
How OpenAI used a new data type to cut inference costs by 75%
Analysis Whether or not OpenAI's new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but their use of a relatively new data type called MXFP4 is arguably more important, especially if it catches on among OpenAI's rivals.…
NASA won't name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas
The NASA acting Administrator has picked a Space Shuttle to move to Houston, and the lucky vehicle is... NASA's not telling.…
The inside story of the Telemessage saga, and how you can view the data
DEF CON On Saturday at DEF CON, security boffin Micah Lee explained just how he hacked into TeleMessage, the supposedly secure messaging app used by White House officials, which in turn led to a massive database dump of their communications.…