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)

So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags

(2025/07/24)

Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work



T-Mobile's satellite service lifts off, and it's open season on rivals

(2025/07/24)

Verizon and AT&T customers can now buy D2C connections à la carte from the magenta monster



Microsoft: SharePoint attacks now officially include ransomware infections

(2025/07/24)

Let the games begin



AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes

(2025/07/24)

So says a study by boffins at Carnegie Mellon University



Coyote malware abuses Microsoft's UI Automation to hunt banking creds

(2025/07/24)

Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users' financial apps



The EFF is 35, but the battle to defend internet freedom is far from over

(2025/07/24)

Interview Palantir, data brokers, and judicial overreach are all on the horizon, executive director Cindy Cohn warns



Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped

(2025/07/24)

Malicious actor reportedly sought to expose AWS 'security theater'



Tesla bets on bot smoke screen as political and market realities bite

(2025/07/24)

Subsidy cliff edge and tariffs threaten Musk biz, but being caught between luxury and mass market may be a worse fate



AI data-suckers would have to ask permission first under new bill

(2025/07/24)

If it passes, the law would redefine the boundaries of fair use



Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?

(2025/07/24)

'Industry, national governments, and the EU' must pay for maintainers. El Reg says charity shouldn't start at home



Britain's AI datacenter plans face energy, planning, investment challenges

(2025/07/24)

You don't become a 'superpower' overnight



Eau no! Dior tells customers their data was swiped in cyber snafu

(2025/07/24)

Updated French fashion house dishes out notices after hackers raided a client database – ShinyHunters suspected



50 years ago, Gates and Allen made the deal that launched Microsoft

(2025/07/24)

How the MITS Altair 8800, a $264 RAM board, and some BASIC changed the world



Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware

(2025/07/24)

The "is" package was infected with cross-platform malware after a scam targeting maintainers



EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court

(2025/07/24)

COMMENT CISPE cites recent channel changes, but the deal was decided on different matters



The tiny tech tribe who could change the world tomorrow but won't

(2025/07/24)

Sometimes, one small tweak can make a very big difference.



Google just spent $14 billion on servers in 91 days, plans even higher spending soon

(2025/07/24)

G-Cloud on track for $50 billion revenue as AI creates a new generation of Google-eyed youth



Mistral AI environmental report confirms AI is a hungry, thirsty beast

(2025/07/24)

French model dev hopes to inspire others to adopt standards-based reporting



AWS closes China AI research center, citing boilerplate 'business priorities'

(2025/07/24)

Nvidia's Jensen Huang just had a win with his argument that the world needs China’s AI brains, now this



Trump AI plan rips the brakes out of the car and gives Big Tech exactly what it wanted

(2025/07/24)

'Build, baby, build', and forget about regulation and wokeness is the gist of it



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"A horrible little boy came up to me and said, `You know in your book
The Martian Chronicles?' I said, `Yes?' He said, `You know where you
talk about Deimos rising in the East?' I said, `Yes?' He said `No.'
-- So I hit him."
-- attributed to Ray Bradbury