CoreWeave's $9B Core Scientific acquisition is a bid for more power
CoreWeave just added 1.3 gigawatts of datacenter capacity to its rent-a-GPU scheme with the $9 billion acquisition of crypto-mining outfit Core Scientific, the companies announced Monday.…
Apple tries get €500M EU fine tossed
Apple is on the hook for a €500 million (US $587 million) anti-steering fine in the EU, so it's reportedly doing what any profit-driven enterprise in such a position would do: Appealing.…
Ingram Micro confirms ransomware behind multi-day outage
Updated Ingram Micro, one of the world's largest distributors, has confirmed it is trying to restore systems following a ransomware attack.…
Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges
Japanese shipping biz Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is planning to fit out a ship as a floating datacenter that can draw energy from the shore or from an accompanying powership.…
AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game
Opinion In human imagination, AIs have been good for two things: trying to take over, and loving a good game. The earliest post-war AI thinkers took it almost for granted that once computers could beat humans at chess, true artificial intelligence would have arrived. Such thinking was disproved 50 years on when IBM's Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997. Computers could be very, very good at chess while still having the IQ of a pebble.…
Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long
"You cannot be serious" was likely uttered by more than a few folk watching Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova versus Britain's Sonay Kartal at Wimbledon yesterday after the tennis tournament's AI line-calling tech dropped the ball.…
'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data
The US defense department satellite service that's cutting off the flow of data used for hurricane forecasting is doing so "to mitigate a significant cybersecurity risk" to government "high performance computing environments."…
Phishing platforms, infostealers blamed as identity attacks soar
A rise in advanced phishing kits and info-stealing malware are to blame for a 156 percent jump in cyberattacks targeting user logins, say researchers.…
Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes
Ordnance Survey, the UK's official map maker, is seeking a tech supplier to help it obtain and manage data from utilities companies for a project that aims to avoid damage to subterranean infrastructure, which costs around £2.4 billion a year.…
TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions
Comment Few IT leaders or staffers realize just how much automation, AI, and cloud delivery are disrupting the legal and human frameworks that underpin outsourcing - especially when it comes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, better known as TUPE.…
UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites
Updated Britain's space agency is looking for a supplier to build a robotic spacecraft to capture and de-orbit two defunct UK-licensed satellites from low Earth orbit.…
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time
Who, Me? Monday morning brings many readers a return to the world of adults, which The Register marks by bringing you a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of making mistakes for which you are somehow forgiven.…
Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway
Airbus last week revealed it has certified a “Taxibot” to transport its single-aisle planes from stand to runway.…
VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks
As VMware pushes its vision for private clouds built around its core virtualization technology, rival vendors are ramping their efforts to create an alternative stack.…
Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill
Asia In Brief Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has migrated the four million Postgres databases that back its customers’ Jira implementations to Amazon Web Services’ Aurora.…
Stalkerware firm gets scooped by SQL-slinging security snoop
Infosec In Brief A security researcher looking at samples of stalkerware discovered an SQL vulnerability that allowed him to steal a database of 62,000 user accounts. …
iFixit gives new Fairphone 6 top marks for repairability: 10/10
The sixth generation of the Fairphone repairable mobile was launched at the end of June. Now spudger-flingers iFixit have got their hands on it, and liked the result.…
Massive spike in use of .es domains for phishing abuse
Cybersecurity experts are reporting a 19x increase in malicious campaigns being launched from .es domains, making it the third most common, behind only .com and .ru.…
Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister
A UK minister has told Parliament that joining Europe's answer to Starlink — Elon Musk's satellite-based mobile internet service — would be a "stretch" given the nation's current financial challenges.…
Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her
The former head of the US Copyright Office has pushed back against arguments from President Donald Trump's team that her dismissal was lawful.…
