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Devices containing crypto wallets tracked online, then in the real world

Indian authorities seize loot from BitConnect crypto-Ponzi scheme Devices containing crypto wallets tracked online, then in the real world India’s Directorate of Enforcement has found and seized over $200 million of loot it says are the proceeds of the BitConnect crypto-fraud scheme.…

Nation also orders thousands of GPUs to advance local AI smarts

South Korea suspends DeepSeek, which vows to return in better shape Nation also orders enough GPUs to train many more LLMs South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has suspended local availability of apps from Chinese LLM-and-chatbot developer DeepSeek.…

PLUS: Pacific islands targeted by Chinese APT; China’s new rocket soars; DeepSeek puts Korea in a pickle; and more

Asia In Brief  The head of Fujitsu’s North American operations has warned that the Trump administration’s tariff plans will be bad for business.…

DevOps team did the dirty on a database

Data management software vendor Veeam has admitted to an embarrassing oopsie: messing up a restoration job and erasing data.…

When asked to offer honest feedback, maybe pause to ponder how well you play office politics

Who, Me?  Welcome to a fresh Monday, and therefore a new installment of "Who, Me?", our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of making workplace mistakes and scraping your way to safety afterwards.…

Shhh. Don’t tell Hock Tan about those Xeons that unlock functions when you pay a fee

Broadcom is reportedly contemplating a play for Intel.…

If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility?

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has responded to suggestions that the Windows 95 setup was overly complicated. People wanted to know: Why not just do that whole thing in MS-DOS?…

Flaky demand for PCs and smartphones blamed

NAND flash prices are expected to slide due to oversupply, forcing memory chipmakers to cut production to match lower-than-expected orders from PC and smartphone manufacturers.…

Known for popping zero-days of yesteryear, Microsoft puts Apple devs on high alert

Microsoft says there's a new variant of XCSSET on the prowl for Mac users – the first new iteration of the malware since 2022.…

... weeks after US titan was outvoted by other members to let Microsoft join the Euro cloud trade association

Amazon's Web Services wing has exited the board of CISPE (cloud infrastructure service providers in Europe), following a recent update to the Articles of Association that means only corporations based in the region can serve.…

'Satisfied' the risk to national security is 'a real and significant one' that should not be 'prolonged'

The High Court of Justice in the UK has rejected a plea from a China-owned operation for a temporary injunction on a government order requiring it to sell its stake in a Scottish chip design business.…

Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to pay millions for 'amended implementation methodology'

The Bank of England has nearly doubled the money it is dedicating to partner spending for an Oracle cloud transformation, which it began imagining in 2020.…

Trade body wants recommendations fast-tracked and fabs designated critical national infrastructure

Almost two years after the British government published its National Semiconductor Strategy, calls are growing for bolder action and a faster implementation of its recommendations to deliver on its stated goals.…

The little database company with big users gaining fans as it adds consistency to speed and scale

With its 8.0 release, distributed multi-model database Aerospike has added ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications in a move it claims is an industry first.…

El Reg shows you how to run Zyphra's speech-replicating AI on your own box

Hands on  Palo Alto-based AI startup Zyphra unveiled a pair of open text-to-speech (TTS) models this week said to be capable of cloning your voice with as little as five seconds of sample audio. In our testing, we generated realistic results with less than half a minute of recorded speech.…

What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV?

First came Tetris, then Doom – and now a bare-bones Linux instance that boots inside a PDF.…

Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it?

State Of Open  Recent events have brought the plight of open source maintainers front and center, but the problems were brewing for many years.…

'In 50 years, I think we'll view these business practices like we view sweatshops today'

Interview  It has been nearly a decade since famed cryptographer and privacy expert Bruce Schneier released the book Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World - an examination of how government agencies and tech giants exploit personal data. Today, his predictions feel eerily accurate.…

Anyone remember when Volkswagen rigged its emissions results? Oh...

AI model makers love to flex their benchmarks scores. But how trustworthy are these numbers? What if the tests themselves are rigged, biased, or just plain meaningless?…

Plus: Keep calm and plug Anthropic's Claude into public services

Comment  The UK government on Friday said its AI Safety Institute will henceforth be known as its AI Security Institute, a rebranding that attests to a change in regulatory ambition from ensuring AI models get made with wholesome content – to one that primarily punishes AI-abetted crime.…