- BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries
Google Gemini worst offender with 76% error rate Four of the most popular AI chatbots routinely serve up inaccurate or misleading news content to users, according to a wide-reaching investigation.…
- How do you solve a problem like Discovery?
Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US? The White House's Office of Management and Budget is grappling with how to transport Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian Museum in Virginia to Space Center Houston. How would you do it?…
- Shield AI shows off not-at-all-terrifying autonomous VTOL combat drone
Runways? Where we're going, we don't need runways US defense technology biz Shield AI claims it can build a jet-powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) autonomous fighter drone that doesn't need a runway to operate.…
- Britain's Ministry of Justice just signed up to ChatGPT Enterprise
OpenAI sweetens the deal with data residency OpenAI has signed up the UK's Ministry of Justice as the latest public sector customer for ChatGPT Enterprise.…
- New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails
Techie summoned at 02:00 AM to sort things out sent another 2 billion trying to fix it On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register's weekly wander through your tales of tech support.…
- Iran's MuddyWater wades into 100+ government networks in latest spying spree
Group-IB says Tehran-linked crew used hijacked mailbox and VPN to sling phishing emails across Middle East Iran's favorite muddy-footed cyberespionage crew is at it again, this time breaching more than 100 government entities across the Middle East and North Africa, according to researchers at Group-IB.…
- Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more
Mystery customer wants an upgrade that will take some time Supermicro has revised its revenue forecast downwards by a couple of billion dollars, but insisted it’s nothing to worry about.…
- Intel says server CPUs will be hot again – in a good way, to power AI workloads – any year now
Chipzilla returns to profit and suggests customers are primed to sign for foundry services once it nails 18A process Intel has returned to profitability, grown revenue, and suggested demand for AI will ensure its struggling foundry business wins customers and boosts its datacenter CPU business.…
- Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia
The 0-days have left the building Federal prosecutors have charged a former general manager of US government defense contractor L3Harris's cyber arm Trenchant with selling secrets to an unidentified Russian buyer for $1.3 million.…
- Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface
The new Microsoft assistant is a blob named Mico, but you can turn it into everyone’s favorite paper clip. Hands On Microsoft’s Clippy was an anthropomorphic assistant ahead of his time, offering to help you with your Office 97 tasks when all you could do was type and click in response. Today, as part of a massive Copilot Fall Release, Redmond is bringing Clippy back – at least as an avatar for its new AI helper named “Mico”.…
- Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions'
But AWS is still the AI upstart's primary partner Google and Anthropic have struck a deal that will see the AI upstart gain access to up to a million of the web giant’s tensor processing units (TPUs) and involve “tens of billions of dollars.”…
- Don't take AI to Thanksgiving: Bots have hidden biases
It's not a bug, it's a feature Large language models, or LLMs, are biased in one way or another - often many. And there may be no way around that.…
- Playtime’s over: Crooks swipe Toys R Us Canada customer data and dump it online
What?! No complimentary credit monitoring? The Canadian outpost of retailer Toys R Us on Thursday notified customers that attackers accessed a database, stole some of their personal information, then posted the data online.…
- Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything
iPhone and iPad users vexed by denial of spreadsheets Microsoft Excel for the past week has been hanging or crashing on iOS and iPadOS devices, to customers' great annoyance.…
- Norks droning on about your dream job while pwning your PC
Social engineering? Check. Trojanized open source? Check. Lazarus’ pet RAT? Also check North Korea's Lazarus Group has successfully compromised Europe's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sector with its Operation DreamJob campaign, which promises job seekers lucrative employment opportunities - but then delivers a malware-laced offer and a compromised computer.…
- Give Europe some space! 3 companies join forces to reach for the stars
Airbus, Leonardo and Thales seek to 'strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy in space' Three European aerospace giants plan to combine their space units into a single heavyweight, hoping to boost the continent's space autonomy.…
- Blinded by the light: Tesla fixes glaringly bright Cybertruck headlights
Plus: Model 3/Y recall over battery-pack contactors that can cut drive power Feeling a bit blinded by the light when a Cybertruck rolls by? It's not just you — Tesla's recalling most built to date because the boxy pickup's front parking lights are too bright.…
- Trump's workforce cuts blamed as America's cyber edge dulls
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission says years of progress are being undone amid current administration's cuts America's once-ambitious cyber defences are starting to rust, according to the latest annual report from the US Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), which warns that policy momentum has slowed and even slipped backwards thanks to Trump-era workforce and budget cuts.…
- Microsoft suggests temporary registry hack for stricken smart card users
When is an issue not an issue? When it's intentional Microsoft accidentally broke several things in the October 2025 Windows Update, but smart card authentication was not one of them. That was intentionally broken, and the temporary workaround requires a registry hack.…
- Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease
Weak demand for iPhone Air and delays to a costly foldable tablet suggest Cupertino's hardware experiments are struggling Apple's run of hardware experiments appears to be hitting some turbulence: The company's ultra-thin iPhone Air has reportedly failed to catch on with buyers, while its long-awaited foldable iPad is slipping further down the calendar amid engineering snags and soaring costs.…
- Fedora council approves policy allowing AI-assisted contributions
Intense discussion approves AI – but subject to full responsibility and disclosure The Fedora Council has approved AI-assisted contributions to its Linux distribution, following intense debate and subject to strict conditions.…
- Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software
Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers Google has taken down thousands of YouTube videos that were quietly spreading password-stealing malware disguised as cracked software and game cheats.…
- A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees
Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours Amazon has published a detailed postmortem explaining how a critical fault in DynamoDB's DNS management system cascaded into a day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services across multiple brands – with damage estimates potentially reaching hundreds of billions of dollars.…
- SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs
Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings SAP disappointed investors today after reporting full-year cloud revenue at the bottom end of its guidance range, with execs saying customers in manufacturing and the public sector are taking longer to sign contracts.…
- Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles
Cornyn & co ask DoJ to probe respected research institution for trying to 'influence' public The saga of the Great Space Shuttle Relocation has taken another turn after US lawmakers asked the Department of Justice to look into alleged lobbying by the Smithsonian museum to prevent a possible transfer of Discovery to Houston, Texas.…
- Amazon's AI specs aim to stop delivery drivers getting lost between van and porch
Why monitor staff through phones or cameras when Bezos' boxshifter can strap surveillance to their heads? Amazon is testing AI-powered smart glasses to help its drivers get from their vans to customers' doorsteps.…
- Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem
Survey probes interest in AI assistance for locally hosted email setups Microsoft's mission to "Copilot all the things" has reached Exchange Server, with a survey asking if admins want the AI assistant on-prem.…
- SpaceX pulls plug on 2,500 Starlink terminals tied to Myanmar fraud farms
Criminal outfits had been using Musk's broadband beacons to run cyber-slavery scams across Southeast Asia SpaceX says it has shut down thousands of Starlink terminals that were powering Myanmar's notorious scam compounds after its satellite network was found to be keeping human trafficking and cyber-fraud operations online in the country's lawless border zones.…
- Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels'
The wheels on Copilot's hockey stick must be giving off smoke by now Microsoft's finance division has a term for an overly optimistic projection that seems to march backward year after year: the hockey stick on wheels.…
- OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release'
New version includes multithreaded TCP/IP and Raspberry Pi 5 support The 59th version of the OpenBSD operating system is here, six months after 7.7, with multiple improvements in various areas.…
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