The Register

With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire?

Comment  The UK's ambition to become a global AI superpower hinges on a vibrant and competitive cloud market. The next few days will show if its competition regulator really appreciates both the pace of change and the scale of remedies needed to achieve both of these things.…

Running on Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore aims to pave the path from prototype to production

Video  Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday previewed a service called Bedrock AgentCore to help organizations put AI agents into business-ready production.…

This job was a car wreck in more than one way

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your terrifying tech support stories.…

LLM given keys to the web, told to behave and observe safeguards

OpenAI's ChatGPT has graduated from chatbot to agent, at least for paying subscribers.…

Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too

Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed individuals in China it accuses of breaking into more than 10 million devices worldwide and using them to build a botnet, called BadBox 2.0, and then to carry out other cybercrimes and fraud.…

Shovels in the dirt at Fab 3 as Fab 2’s 3nm ramp charges in several quarters early

TSMC says it will ramp up production at its second fab site in Arizona earlier than initially expected as it looks to shift nearly a third of its leading-edge wafer output stateside.…

Maybe finish ripping and replacing your telco networks first?

Uncle Sam has decided it's time to free US-connected undersea cables from Chinese influence.…

Linking can be helpful – but not always… while disinformation can spread like a virus

Beware: the people behind PuTTY, the renowned FOSS SSH client for Windows, are not the same people as those behind the PUTTY.ORG website.…

Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark

Updated  Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

Our sources tell us mostly back office staff were let go, and that the mood in the office is very pessimistic

Updated  Intel has filed documents that reveal plans to fire around 5,000 staff, mostly in California and Oregon.…

New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers

We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Intel Labs, and d-Matrix could significantly reduce the cost of serving up your favorite large language model (LLM) with just a few lines of code.…

The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity

Scientists have analyzed data gathered from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to advance our understanding of why anything exists.…

It did get sourced, but nobody cared

The result of the pioneering joint Psion and Nokia smartphone effort is still out there on GitHub.…

It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing

Microsoft has extended its security update programs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, and Skype for Business 2015 and 2019.…

Bayesian optimizations apparently build better slabs

Social media giant Meta has created an AI model to come up with new forms of concrete and used one of the resulting recipes to underpin a new bit barn.…

The Microsoft cofounder breathed that sigh of relief in a Cipher News interview - just before it folded

Despite Trump's budget bill slashing many mature clean-energy tax credits, Bill Gates is less worried, since new nuclear incentives, including those his TerraPower venture will leverage, survived intact.…

'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization'

Ukrainian hackers claim to have taken out the IT infrastructure at Russia's Gaskar Integration plant, one of the largest suppliers of drones for its army, and also destroyed massive amounts of technical data related to drone production. …

Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out

International cops shut down more than 100 servers belonging to the pro-Russian NoName057(16) network this week as part of the Europol-led Operation Eastwood.…

'Everything breaks when you scale that quickly'

Thank heavens for former OpenAI engineers inspired to blog about their time at the famously secretive firm, for without them we would have no idea what a wild mess it is in there. …

Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three

There was a disturbance in the force on July 14 after Cloudflare borked a configuration change that resulted in an outage, impacting internet services across the planet.…