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Evidence of copious sugar hits hinted at unauthorized usage

On Call  By Friday, many readers will feel they need a sugar hit to get through the day, which is why The Register tries to offer a jolt of amusement in the form of a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which we share your tech support tales.…

Nobody thinks of running a website without HTTPs. Safer DNS still seems optional

Systems Approach  Last week I turned on DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) for the systemsapproach.org domain. No need to applaud; I was just trying to get an understanding of what the barriers to adoption might be while teaching myself about the technology.…

Time to 'reimagine' it as a gateway, a gateway to inner peace, er, sales

With three months to go until Microsoft ends support for Windows 10, Dell and Intel want to convince corporate buyers that upgrading their PC fleet is a virtue and not a necessity.…

CISPE cites recent channel changes, but the deal was decided on different matters

COMMENT  Trade group Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has filed a formal appeal before the European General Court to seek annulment of the European Commission's decision to approve Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.…

Psst, wanna buy some innovation?

An estimated $1 billion worth of smuggled high-end Nvidia AI processors have reportedly found their way onto the Chinese black market, despite the US government's strict restrictions on exports of the tech.…

Plus she has to cough up a slice of Pyongyang’s payday

An Arizona woman who ran a laptop farm from her home - helping North Korean IT operatives pose as US-based remote workers - has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for her role in a $17 million fraud that hit more than 300 American companies.…

We're all businesspeople here, right?

Elon Musk could use a win after Tesla's weak second-quarter earnings, and he sort of got it when President Donald Trump proclaimed he wasn't going to use the power of the presidency to destroy his businesses. …

Good luck getting an appointment with your doctor

The AMEOS Group, which runs over 100 hospitals across Europe, has shut down its entire network after crims busted in.…

Component origin isn't tracked, says GAO, meaning the circuits in equipment could be from anywhere

The Pentagon doesn't know where components of its critical systems come from, and it's doing a poor job of finding out, say government auditors. …

They can only enforce consistency based on their training

The White House on Wednesday issued an executive order requiring AI models used by the government to be truthful and ideologically neutral.…

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, you could save yourself a lot of typing

hands on  It happens every day. There's something interesting on your screen that you want to share with others. Perhaps it's an error message you want to send to support. Or maybe you're writing instructions for colleagues and you need to outline how to use software. Whatever the reason, you need a screenshot.…

Complete with new website – but the software's still alpha level stuff, so be careful

Wayback 0.1 is out, the first preliminary release of the new Wayland display server whose announcement we reported a few weeks ago.…

Subsidy cliff edge and tariffs threaten Musk biz, but being caught between luxury and mass market may be a worse fate

Speaking to Tesla investors last night, CEO Elon Musk was optimistic about the future of his automotive manufacturer.…

Thingiverse ditches downloadable designs at the urging of Manhattan District Attorney, who wants more companies to do likewise

Updated  A leading 3D printing site has agreed to purge its library of downloadable gun designs at the urging of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. However, it's unlikely to slow the proliferation of 3D printed weapons, as many other sites offer downloadable gun designs and parts.…

Shadowserver claims miscreants were already poking at a critical hole in early July, long before Switchzilla patched it

Threat actors have actively exploited a newly patched vulnerability in Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) software since early July, weeks before the networking giant got around to issuing a fix.…

Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work

Computer scientists with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, say they've developed a way to remove watermarks embedded in AI-generated images.…

Verizon and AT&T customers can now buy D2C connections à la carte from the magenta monster

T-Mobile's Starlink-to-cellphone service is now out of beta – and the company is using the opportunity to woo customers from other providers by offering à la carte satellite services to AT&T and Verizon customers.…

'Build, baby, build', and forget about regulation and wokeness is the gist of it

The White House on Wednesday announced its AI Action Plan, unveiling a sweeping anti-regulatory approach that disengages the brakes from AI development and datacenter construction in the US. The plan also promises to clamp down on what it called "ideological bias" in AI models.…

Let the games begin

Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring.…

French model dev hopes to inspire others to adopt standards-based reporting

While it's widely known that the computers powering generative AI use a ton of water and power, its actual impact on the environment is often harder to pin down.…