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Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft

Three American hyperscalers are the gatekeepers to AI, as they possess the necessary compute infrastructure and access to the volumes of data required to train and deploy models at scale. …

Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer

A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.…

Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy

The UK central bank is expecting a 45 percent hike in the maximum cost of support services as it moves to the cloud and executes a revised data and analytics plan.…

Say hello to a year's support, but bid goodbye to Pocket

The latest Mozilla Firefox is trickling out – and it's an Extended Support Release (ESR).…

Fork that - 5k+ times

Anthropic says it won't fix an SQL injection vulnerability in its SQLite Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that a researcher says could be used to hijack a support bot and prompt the AI agent to send customer data to an attacker's email, among other things.…

Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks

NASA is struggling to meet all the goals of its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan, the effort that aims to prevent humanity being wiped out by space rocks that hit Earth.…

Musk promised a million auto-autos by 2020. He's delivered maybe 10

Video  On Monday, Elon Musk proudly launched his often-promised Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, but early videos shot by riders show how far the service lags behind Waymo.…

The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the revised version of the NO FAKES Act, reintroduced in April, would be a disaster for free speech and innovation if signed into law.…

Gotta keep 'em separated so the marketers and snoops can't come out and play

Psylo, which bills itself as a new kind of private web browser, debuted last Tuesday in Apple's App Store, one day ahead of a report warning about the widespread use of browser fingerprinting for ad tracking and targeting.…

Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copies

One of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to scan purchased books to train its Claude AI model, but that pirating content is legally out of bounds.…

Fifth and final Crew Dragon ready for first flight to the ISS tomorrow

NASA has a launch date for Axiom Mission 4. The much-delayed private astronaut expedition is now targeting for liftoff on Wednesday, June 25.…

SPEX Technologies still gets the win, but failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to infringing acts, says order

Western Digital has succeeded in having the sum it owed from a patent infringement case reduced from $553 million down to just $1 in post-trial motions, when the judge found the plaintiff's claims had shifted during the course of the litigation.…

A good reminder not to download apps from non-vendor sites

Unknown miscreants are distributing a fake SonicWall app to steal users' VPN credentials.…

Another OEM has decided we're now in the agentic AI age

HPE Discover 2025  In another sign that AI agents have taken over the enterprise zeitgeist, the theme at HPE Discover this year is all about cramming the automated workflow bots anywhere they'll fit, whether or not agentic AI is mature for all use cases. …

ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites

The second batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites has launched, but Team Bezos has a long way to go to match the coverage of Elon Musk's Starlink.…

'Jobright Agent' can apply for jobs on your behalf

The jury is still out on whether AI will take your job, but there's a new AI tool that promises to help you find a new one if you're pressed.…

'Things will break,' Aviatrix CPO tells El Reg

Interview  In September, Microsoft will retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure. "It's not quite a Y2K moment," says Aviatrix CPO Chris McHenry, "but things will break."…

Summer Solstice release lands as another distro ditches the old display protocol

Depending on who you ask, the recent turbulent times in the world of X11 could be a new dawn – or the eddies around a sinking ship.…

20TB of galactic shots a day, backed by Microsofties

High on a Chilean mountain the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is, at last, photographing the galaxy and the first shots have found 2,104 new asteroids in the Solar System in its initial ten hours of operation.…

Russian judge lets off accused with time served – but others who refused to plead guilty face years in penal colony

Four convicted members of the once-supreme ransomware operation REvil are leaving captivity after completing most of their five-year sentences.…