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Has Cupertino been trolling us all along?

Opinion  Apple! What the hell were you smoking? How can a market leader worth $2.9 trillion make such a massive marketing mistake as the advert for the latest iPad?…

This is why all-nighters are a bad idea

Who, me?  Greetings and salutations, dear readers, and welcome to the sunny spot on the interwebs we like to call Who, Me? in which Reg readers share their tales of tech tasks gone awry.…

Industry reportedly pressuring digital ministry not to cut the cord

Germany may soon remove Huawei and ZTE equipment from its 5G networks, according to media reports.…

Deleted about 40 networks that services needed, causing late Friday fun

In the week after its astounding deletion of Australian pension fund UniSuper's entire account, you might think Google Cloud would be on its very best behavior.…

Bit barns might end up adding to the grid's capacity

Updated  Even before the AI revolution (or bubble) took off in 2023, datacenters already used a decent amount of electricity. And the industry's increasing appetite for machine learning will require even more power.…

PLUS: Connected automakers put on notice; Cisco Talos develops macOS fuzzing technique; Last week's critical vulns

Infosec in brief  Nissan has admitted to another data loss – this time involving the theft of personal information belonging to more than 50,000 Nissan employees.…

PLUS: Grab's fintech profits surges; TSMC exec gets ASML sticker shock; US and China talk about AI, and more.

ASIA IN BRIEF  Jean Qing Liu, the president of China's top rideshare biz DiDi (and daughter of Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi) on Sunday "informed the Company and its board of directors her wish to resign from her current position as a director and president, with a view to focusing on the company's talent and organization, development of supporting functions and social responsibility work."…

The enemy of my enemy is my best friend

Analysis  With its newly formed partnership with Arm server processor designer Ampere Computing, Qualcomm is slowly establishing itself as AI infrastructure startups' best friend.…

Follow us down this deep rabbit hole of privacy policy after privacy policy

Feature  In April, attorney Christine Dudley was listening to a book on her iPhone while playing a game on her Android tablet when she started to see in-game ads that reflected the audiobooks she recently checked out of the San Francisco Public Library.…

For starters: Crypto, import tariffs, and Microsoft shipping out staff

Kettle  It's been a fairly troubling week in terms of the relationship between China and the Western world.…

The problem isn't just that LLM-bot generated code is bad – it's where it came from

Comment  The Debian project has decided against joining Gentoo Linux and NetBSD in rejecting program code generated with the assistance of LLM tools, such as Github's Copilot.…

Feds scoff at blockchain integrity while software bug said to have been at heart of the matter

The US Department of Justice has booked two brothers on allegations that they exploited open source software used in the Ethereum blockchain world to bag $25 million (£20 million).…

Annual conference of cyber intel unit shows UK's alarm over China blaring louder than ever

CyberUK  Regular attendees of CYBERUK, the annual conference hosted by British intelligence unit the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will know that in addition to the expected conference panels, there is usually an interwoven theme to proceedings.…

Throw another healthcare biz on the barby, mate

Australian prescriptions provider MediSecure is the latest healthcare org to fall victim to a ransomware attack, with crooks apparently stealing patients' personal and health data.…

Yet another technological self-sufficiency target for China

The Chinese government says the country's car manufacturers should aim for a quarter of their chips to be sourced from China-based foundries by 2025.…

Yup, demand's that strong

Since 2023, the leasing rate for datacenters in North America that haven't even been fully built yet has shot up and now stands at 84 percent for the first quarter of this year.…

Now Google and OpenAI can slurp up your precious memes and priceless comments

Still upset that Reddit decided to sell all its content to Google for training its AI? Well, bad news: Now OpenAI has jumped into the mix as well.…

Your local nail tech could be a secret agent for Kim’s cunning plan

Three individuals accused of helping North Korea fund its weapons programs using US money are now in handcuffs.…

But incumbent is mentioned a lot more in attack material

Although Joe Biden spends more on Facebook and Instagram ads than Donald Trump, ads attacking the US president outnumber those attacking his likely rival in this year's presidential election, according to data analysis.…

Expansion set for Wuhan. Chances this will go smoothly?

Chinese tech giant Baidu expects its robotaxi wing, Apollo Go, to be profitable next year.…