German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal (2025/05/28) More cases about 2015 software swindle stuck in legal traffic jam
DragonForce double-whammy: First hit an MSP, then use RMM software to push ransomware (2025/05/28) Updated SimpleHelp was the vector for the attack
SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again (2025/05/28) Musk’s rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either
ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it (2025/05/28) Computex Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements
Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool (2025/05/28) Millions may fall for it - and end up with malware instead
From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled' (2025/05/28) He was responding to a gripe from a Russian IT provider about competition from Microsoft and Zoom
Oracle's $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI's Abilene, Texas DC to handle (2025/05/27) 400,000 GB200s could be more than a 1.2GW datacenter can chew
Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia (2025/05/27) No more features for the design darling - now it’s all about chatting with your tabs like they’re sentient
AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads (2025/05/27) 'Your well-honed customer experience is noise to an agent'
New Russian cyber-spy crew Laundry Bear joins the email-stealing pack (2025/05/27) Dutch intel services, Microsoft go big-game hunting
Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates (2025/05/27) The rebellion grows and it seems resistance is not futile
Trump can bluster and bluff all he wants, but iPhone manufacturing isn't coming to the US (2025/05/27) He'll need to be way more aggressive than a 25% tariff, say analysts, and even then it would take years
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