Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz (2025/05/27) Nick Clegg, former politico and Zuckcorp policy Prez, seems confused, can Reg readers help him?
Adidas confirms criminals stole data from customer service provider (2025/05/27) Hackers take personal data bytes from the brand with three stripes
Salesforce takeover of Informatica is on for $8 billion (2025/05/27) Marc Benioff eyes up all those lovely data tools for AI push
Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down (2025/05/27) Commercial customers, STEM students all feeling the pain after mega outage of engineering data-analysis tool
UK tax collector puts half a billion on table for call center services (2025/05/27) Taxpayers on hold for 798 years might wish for a better service
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves (2025/05/27) Opinion Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse
The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – simplicity (2025/05/27) Comment Or, rediscovering the KISS principle, the long way round
AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking (2025/05/27) Opinion Nothing will change while big tech sets the rules. We'll need someone even scarier
Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath (2025/05/27) No, not Amazon. China’s SHEIN is in the spotlight for fake discounts, grubby greenery, and evading inquiries
Get a custom paint job for earbuds at a nail salon, type on a baguette, then build a fountain for your PC (2025/05/27) Computex Taiwan's tech expo dishes up the usual oddities - some less bonkers than they seem
China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection (2025/05/27) Chipmaker Hygon, which recently teased a 128-core, 512-thread CPU, merges with server-maker Sugon
Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away (2025/05/26) Who, Me? Life in a corporate aquarium didn’t go swimmingly
Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax' (2025/05/26) World War Fee But pauses tech-adjacent threat to slap all Euro-imports with 50 percent duties
TeleMessage security SNAFU worsens as 60 government staffers exposed (2025/05/26) Infosec In Brief PLUS: Interpol kills more malware; GoDaddy settles in awful infosec case; Giant stolen creds DB exposed
China approves rules for national ‘online number’ ID scheme (2025/05/26) Asia In Brief PLUS: Original emoji retired; Xiaomi's custom silicon; Pakistan dedicates 2,000 MW to AI and crypto
Turns out using 100% of your AI brain all the time isn’t most efficient way to run a model (2025/05/25) Feature Neural net devs are finally getting serious about efficiency
Even a humble keyboard is now political in Taiwan (2025/05/25) Computex Chinese manufacturers are advertising how they dodge tariffs, and tech leaders know they’re in a new world
AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed (2025/05/25) Comment But it's still going to come in through the back door
Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor (2025/05/24) INTERVIEW Michael Daniel also thinks Uncle Sam should increase help to orgs hit by ransomware
Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome (2025/05/24) Obituary The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered