ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

UK's answer to Darpa invests £23.3M in touchy-feely robots

(2025/05/30)

Latest project gets the green light although Brexit-era brainchild faces spending review



Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware

(2025/05/30)

Take care when downloading AI freebies, researcher tells The Register



Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage

(2025/05/30)

Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL



The UK wants you to sign up for £1B cyber defense force

(2025/05/30)

War in Ukraine causes major rethink in policy and spending



Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor

(2025/05/30)

On Call After three service calls, user reflected on their utter stupidity



The House of Zen joins the co-packaged optics race with Enosemi buy

(2025/05/30)

Analysis Light is faster than copper, which is important with rack scale architecture



Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud

(2025/05/30)

Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery



Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war

(2025/05/30)

Cadence Systems, Synopsys, and Siemens among those subject to export licenses targeting Middle Kingdom



Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage

(2025/05/30)

Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look



Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans

(2025/05/30)

Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams



Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud

(2025/05/30)

Yet more juicy data for the all-seeing eye



Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs

(2025/05/29)

'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message



Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful

(2025/05/29)

It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table



Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers

(2025/05/29)

House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley



Elon Musk bragged this group had been 'deleted' when DOGE shut it down - now they're appealing

(2025/05/29)

18F says the whole thing was political



Nvidia is cozying up to China with Shanghai R&D lab plans, Senators cry

(2025/05/29)

Banks and Warren accuse chip maker of habitual 'disregard for US national security and support for autocratic regimes'



Economists blame Trump tariffs, AI explosion for threatening global economy

(2025/05/29)

Businesses need to adopt AI, says WEF, but uncertainty is a blocker



8,000+ Asus routers popped in 'advanced' mystery botnet plot

(2025/05/29)

No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect



Thunderbird is go: 139 follows closely on Firefox's heels

(2025/05/29)

One of the new smaller monthly releases – and how to tweak it



Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff

(2025/05/29)

No, that's not someone on your team who doesn't pull their weight



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