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Hint: It's the 'the largest' maker of a key computer component

RSAC  An unnamed tech business hired IBM's X-Force penetration-testing team to break into its network to test its security. With the help of AI automation, Big Blue said it was able to do so within hours.…

Catz talks up company's feel-good efforts... Just don’t mention the margins

Oracle CEO Safra Catz has opened up about the motives driving the world-dominating enterprise software, database and cloud company forward.…

Those with a delicate constitution, look away now

It is rare that the world of vintage desktop operating systems and trashy Euro-pop collide, but on Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest they did, and the results were as baffling as they were explosive.…

Pundit tells The Reg Intel could suffer the effects of retaliation

The Biden administration is reportedly set to quadruple Chinese electric vehicle tariffs as part of an onslaught of increased taxes on imports from the country.…

Another huge investment for chip giant despite losses

Intel is holding negotiations with private equity investor Apollo Global Management to secure $11 billion in funding for a manufacturing facility in Ireland.…

Time for 22H2, the LTSC version, or perhaps something completely different?

Microsoft is warning customers still clinging to Windows 10 21H2 that mere weeks of servicing remain for enterprise and education users.…

M4? The M3 is barely six months old, and what about all those Macs still stuck on the M2? When will they get some love?

Comment  Apple seems to have skipped a few steps in its silicon roadmap.…

Unusually high activity from Sun may have also hastened Hubble's demise

The geomagnetic storm that led to nighttime light shows over the weekend also caused problems for the Starlink satellite broadband service, disrupted GPS signals, and affected the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope.…

Intelligence-sharing platform remains down for maintenance

Europol is investigating a cybercriminal's claims that they stole confidential data from a number of the agency's sources.…

Plus Foxconn defends Wisconsin efforts, Korea to spend on chips, and more

Asia in brief  SoftBank-owned Arm is reportedly preparing to add AI chips to its product portfolio starting in 2025.…

Reports suggest an end of May IPO and a valuation of up to half a billion

A flotation of the company behind the Raspberry Pi computer could come sooner rather than later, according to reports.…

It's called Copilot Runway, not run away

IBM Consulting has boarded the Microsoft Copilot bandwagon with Copilot Runway, a service aimed at assisting businesses to integrate their own AI assistants into their workflows.…

But breaking E2EE and blanket bans aren't thinking at all

Opinion  If your cranky uncle was this fixated about anything, you'd always be somewhere else at Christmas. Yet here we are again. Europol has been sounding off at Meta for harming children. Not for the way it's actually harming children, but because – repeat after me – end-to-end encryption is hiding child sexual abuse material from the eyes of the law. "E2EE = CSAM" is the new slogan of fear.…

Ah, just nod and smile when they talk about Britain and Europe

American GPU cloud operator CoreWeave is expanding its operations across the pond, setting up a new European headquarters in London and revealing plans to build a pair of AI datacenters in the UK, all valued at £1 billion ($1.3 billion).…

'Everybody's learning as they go. But there's a rush to get these apps out'

RSAC  As corporations rush full tilt to capitalize on the AI craze and bring machine-learning-based apps to market, they aren't paying enough attention to application security, says AWS Chief Information Security Office Chris Betz.…

Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?

who, me?  Monday again? It seems like only yesterday it was Sunday. Oh well, that means it's time to kick off the working week with a dose of Who, Me? – The Reg's weekly confessional, where readers share tales of tech mischief and misadventure.…

As gang tactics get nastier while attacks hit all-time highs

Interview  Ransomware hit an all-time high last year, with more than 60 criminal gangs listing at least 4,500 victims – and these infections don't show any signs of slowing.…

McKinsey's solution? Reach out to middle schoolers

The US semiconductor industry is said to be struggling to hire as well as retain staff as the country cranks up its chipmaking capacity to reduce its reliance on foreign supplies.…

Turns out the See 'n Say folks might have been on to something

AI researchers looking for better ways to train large language models are turning to the masters of language acquisition – children – to find out how it's done.…

Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi tells us what's needed to defend vital networks

Interview  Take a glance at the cybersecurity headlines of late, and you'll see a familiar phrase that keeps cropping up: Critical infrastructure. …