'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman
OpenAI has brought back GPT-4o after a weekend of user protests - mostly about removal of model choice - following the rollout of GPT-5.…
Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down
Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move comes as Intel's former CEO Craig Barrett weighs in on the troubled chipmaker's future.…
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit
Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.…
UK retail giant M&S restores Click & Collect months after cyber attack, some services still down
British retailer Marks and Spencer updated its website today, confirming its Click & Collect service is once again available to customers.…
The inside story of the Telemessage saga, and how you can view the data
DEF CON On Saturday at DEF CON, security boffin Micah Lee explained just how he published data from TeleMessage, the supposedly secure messaging app used by White House officials, which in turn led to a massive database dump of their communications.…
Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study
In space, no one can hear you sneeze – but that hasn't stopped a team of boffins researching exactly what happens when an astronaut gets a case of the sniffles, and why. The key takeaway, should you find yourself on board a space station and in need of a tissue: maybe skip the spacewalk.…
The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business
Feature Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV charger locations have all become part of its portfolio, alongside the paper-based maps beloved by the nation's legion of cagoule-clad outdoor types.…
Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch
The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's best to think of this as dealing with a buggy lump of undocumented code, because frankly that's what is between you and your next job.…
AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future
Opinion Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that’s a good thing. Meanwhile, real life AI coding tools make coders less productive while spreading the hallucination that they’re more so.…
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest is back for 2024
The IOCCC, as it's familiarly known, is back after a four-year gap, giving the entrants more time to come up with some remarkably devious code.…
Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off
Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries.…
China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests
China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna - and leaving it again afterwards.…
Google fixing Gemini so it doesn't channel paranoid androids quite so often
Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem and plans to fix it.…
Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales
Nvidia and AMD will reportedly be allowed to resume sales in China if they cough a license fee amounting to 15 percent of sales.…
How OpenAI used a new data type to cut inference costs by 75%
Analysis Whether or not OpenAI's new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but their use of a relatively new data type called MXFP4 is arguably more important, especially if it catches on among OpenAI's rivals.…
India’s services giant TCS lays off over 10,000 for reasons including AI, hikes wages for survivors
Asia In Brief Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services will shed over 10,000 staff but will give pay rises to most of those who remain.…
Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console
Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro's Apex One endpoint security platform is under active exploitation, the company admitted last week, and there's no patch available.…
Sudden spike in demand causes issues in Azure East US region
A problem with resources for virtual machines is still affecting users in Azure's East US region after more than a week, frustrated admins have told us, despite Microsoft saying the incident is now resolved.…
DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats
def con A DEF CON hacker walks into a small-town water facility…no, this is not the setup for a joke or a (super-geeky) odd-couple rom-com. It's a true story that happened at five utilities across four states.…
NASA won't name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas
The NASA acting Administrator has picked a Space Shuttle to move to Houston, and the lucky vehicle is... NASA's not telling.…
