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Take care when downloading AI freebies, researcher tells The Register

Criminals are using installers for fake AI software to distribute ransomware and other destructive malware.…

Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL

The UK’s data watchdog has reprimanded Greater Manchester Police (GMP) force for losing CCTV footage the cop shop was later requested to retain.…

After three service calls, user reflected on their utter stupidity

On Call  As the door closes on another working week, The Register brings you another edition of On Call, our reader-contributed column that recounts your amazing stories from the frontlines of tech support.…

Light is faster than copper, which is important with rack scale architecture

Analysis  AMD officially entered the co-packaged optics race with the acquisition of photonic chip startup Enosemi, announced this week.…

Cadence Systems, Synopsys, and Siemens among those subject to export licenses targeting Middle Kingdom

In the latest assault on China's burgeoning semiconductor industry, the Trump administration has erected new curbs on the sale of chip design software in the region.…

Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams

The US Treasury has sanctioned a Philippine company and its administrator after linking them to the infrastructure behind the majority of so-called "pig butchering" scams reported to the FBI.…

Yet more juicy data for the all-seeing eye

Trump administration darling Palantir has scored another data-guzzling win by partnering with Fannie Mae to detect mortgage fraud using AI. …

'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update is failing to install on some Windows 11 machines, mostly virtual ones, and dumping them into recovery mode with a boot error. Its only recommendation to avoid the problem for now is to dodge the update.…

It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white collar jobs in five years.…

House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley

Chinese government spies burrowed deep into American telecommunications systems and critical infrastructure networks for one reason, according to retired US Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.…

18F says the whole thing was political

Former employees of the US government's 18F tech modernization team have filed an appeal of their termination, arguing that the DOGE-led shuttering of their entire unit was illegal.…

Banks and Warren accuse chip maker of habitual 'disregard for US national security and support for autocratic regimes'

Nvidia is reportedly planning to open a new research and development facility in Shanghai, China, drawing sharp criticism from a pair of US lawmakers.…

Businesses need to adopt AI, says WEF, but uncertainty is a blocker

There are two things keeping chief economists awake around the globe, if the World Economic Forum's latest survey is any indicator: US President Donald Trump's trade policies and AI.…

No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect

Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for backdoor access.…

No, that's not someone on your team who doesn't pull their weight

Salesforce is promising every Slack user a "digital teammate" to help with tasks such as providing summaries of channels and taking notes from meetings. And responding to office banter on the user's behalf, The Register can only assume.…

Hiked prices and thinks that will make buyers nervous

HP Inc. is close to ending production of North-America-bound products in China, after US tariffs kicked a hole in its quarterly profits.…

One of the new smaller monthly releases – and how to tweak it

Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has released the latest version of its messaging client, with some handy extras.…

Tianwen 2 probe launched Thursday and will also get up close with a comet

China’s National Space Agency today launched the nation’s first asteroid sample mission.…

Against backdrop of EU rules on spread of misinfo plus UK probing role of online hate in far right riots

The US government says it'll refuse visas to foreign officials judged to have censored social media posts of American citizens - a move aimed at countries trying to stem the flow of online misinformation.…

Wiggles tiny price for FishOS Ceph-based wares as deprecation of Ceph continues

Updated  Sardina hopes to entice anyone still using SUSE Enterprise Storage (SES) over to FishOS instead with a price-based hook: a license fee of €1 per core, regardless of storage volume.…