Japan unleashes regulation Kaiju on Apple's and Google's app store monopolies (2023/06/19) Digital Competition Conf wants rift in markets to allow new app-slingers to spawn
Intel to invest another $25 billion In Israel (2023/06/19) Plans expanded fabs in boost to beleaguered PM and blow to protestors
Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard (2023/06/19) AI in brief PLUS: Nuance voice AI startup hit with privacy lawsuit in California, and why OpenAI urged Microsoft to hold off releasing Bing
Micron warns China's ban could cost it $4 billion annual revenue (2023/06/19) Asia In Brief PLUS: Crypto just isn't cricket in India; China's budget smartphone surge; Jack Ma is back, again; and more
With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of recent cloud outages (2023/06/19) Previous claims its own software updates were the issue remain almost, kinda, plausible
After giving us .zip, Google Domains to shut down, will be flogged off to Squarespace (2023/06/18) Deal involving millions of domain names reportedly hits $180 million
Google searchers from years past can get paid for pilfered privacy (2023/06/17) $23 million set aside to compensate for leaking queries to websites
No-no cop: Illinois bans drones from using facial recognition or weapons (2023/06/17) But police are allowed to fly them for 'public safety' missions
Third MOVEit bug fixed a day after PoC exploit made public (2023/06/17) Millions of people's personal info swiped, Clop leaks begin with 'Shell's stolen data'
Intel to build $4.6B assembly, testing site in Poland (2023/06/16) Germany negotiations reportedly back on track for Magdeburg fab too
Not even Dynamics 365 ERP is safe from Microsoft's Copilot splurge (2023/06/16) The AI tentacles grab supply chain management, projects, and finance
LockBit suspect's arrest sheds more light on 'trustworthy' gang (2023/06/16) Plus: Accused is innocent until proven guilty, but is known to be an Apple fan
Micron chips in $600M for China memory facility despite Beijing sanctions (2023/06/16) It's not very nice being blacklisted for no apparent reason, is it?
Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls (2023/06/16) Health acquisition freezes recruitment after $10 billion contract put on hold
Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation (2023/06/16) Customers also warned to look out for audits following M&As
Capita faces first legal Letter of Claim over mega breach (2023/06/16) Barings Law claims 250 people that 'suspect' data theft signed up to class action
AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots (2023/06/16) We speak to brains behind study into murky world of model teaching
DC thermal management, power kit is getting easier to find and a lot more expensive (2023/06/16) Expect to pay anywhere from 10-20 percent more, analysts tell El Reg
Astroscale wants to be the world's friendly neighborhood space garbage collector (2023/06/16) Just as World Economic Forum pushes for five-year deadline to de-orbit junk
False negative stretched routine software installation into four days of frustration (2023/06/16) On Call You’d think vendors would know when their products are working – not this one