An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen
Feature In April, attorney Christine Dudley was listening to a book on her iPhone while playing a game on her Android tablet when she started to see in-game ads that reflected the audiobooks she recently checked out of the San Francisco Public Library.…
Gawd, after that week, we wonder what's next for China and the Western world
Kettle It's been a fairly troubling week in terms of the relationship between China and the Western world.…
Gentoo and NetBSD ban 'AI' code, but Debian doesn't – yet
Comment The Debian project has decided against joining Gentoo Linux and NetBSD in rejecting program code generated with the assistance of LLM tools, such as Github's Copilot.…
How two brothers allegedly swiped $25M in a 12-second Ethereum heist
The US Department of Justice has booked two brothers on allegations that they exploited open source software used in the Ethereum blockchain world to bag $25 million (£20 million).…
Aussie cops probe MediSecure's 'large-scale ransomware data breach'
Australian prescriptions provider MediSecure is the latest healthcare org to fall victim to a ransomware attack, with crooks apparently stealing patients' personal and health data.…
Leasing North American datacenters before they're finished is so hot right now
Since 2023, the leasing rate for datacenters in North America that haven't even been fully built yet has shot up and now stands at 84 percent for the first quarter of this year.…
Reddit goes AI agnostic, signs data training deal with OpenAI
Still upset that Reddit decided to sell all its content to Google for training its AI? Well, bad news: Now OpenAI has jumped into the mix as well.…
Graph database shows Biden outspends Trump in social media ad war
Although Joe Biden spends more on Facebook and Instagram ads than Donald Trump, ads attacking the US president outnumber those attacking his likely rival in this year's presidential election, according to data analysis.…
Three cuffed for 'helping North Koreans' secure remote IT jobs in America
Three individuals accused of helping North Korea fund its weapons programs using US money are now in handcuffs.…
CoreWeave debt deal with investment firms raises $7.5B for AI datacenter startup
AI server startup CoreWeave has raised $7.5 billion in a debt deal from private equity companies Blackstone, BlackRock, and others.…
Rosalind Franklin rover gets another shot at Mars after string of bad luck
NASA and ESA have signed an agreement to finally send the long-delayed ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover to the Red Planet.…
Hugging Face to make $10M worth of old Nvidia GPUs freely available to AI devs
Open source AI champion Hugging Face is making $10 million in GPU compute available to the public in a bid to ease the financial burden of model development faced by smaller dev teams.…
UK competition cops say Microsoft's stake in Mistral is not a merger
Britain's competition watchdog does not think Microsoft's investment in Mistral AI constitutes a merger situation – just weeks after calling for industry views on the agreement.…
Underwater datacenters could sink to sound wave sabotage
Underwater datacenters have yet to take off in any meaningful way, but it seems they could prove vulnerable to attack using sound waves, according to researchers.…
Apple geofences third-party browser engine work for EU devices
Exclusive Apple's grudging accommodation of European law – allowing third-party browser engines on its mobile devices – apparently comes with a restriction that makes it difficult to develop and support third-party browser engines for the region.…
First LockBit, now BreachForums: Are cops winning the war or just a few battles?
Interview On Wednesday the FBI and international cops celebrated yet another cybercrime takedown – of ransomware brokerage site BreachForums – just a week after doxing and imposing sanctions on the LockBit ransomware crew's kingpin, and two months after compromising the gang's website.…
AWS to pump billions into sovereign cloud for Germany
AWS is to invest €7.8 billion in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Germany and make the first AWS Region in the State of Brandenburg available to all customers by the end of 2025.…
Toshiba to shed 4,000 jobs as part of revitalization plan
Toshiba says it will cut up to 4,000 jobs within Japan, a number that accounts for six percent of the company's national workforce, by offering early retirement packages.…
Lords of May-hem: Seven signs it is Oracle's year end
Feature You might be able to tell what time of year it is by the blossom on the trees or bluebells in the woods. But for Oracle customers stuck in an office somewhere, there is another way of knowing that it's May without consulting a calendar.…
Computer sprinkled with exotic chemicals produced super-problems, not super-powers
On Call The Register knows that tech support people are heroes. That's why each Friday we offer a new installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column featuring your stories of dutifully and selflessly taking on the endless and thankless challenge that is tech support.…