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Conservative MP told he must not lobby for corporations

Rishi Sunak is ready to kick-start his career with a couple of openings in the tech industry, a year after the end of his internship as the prime minister of the world's sixth-largest economy.…

High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stack

US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand.…

Crooks phish campus staff, slip into HR systems, and quietly reroute paychecks

Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.…

Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos

NASA's Voyager project could be facing a 26 percent budget cut while the plug is pulled on other programs, according to insiders familiar with the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.…

Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruption

Microsoft 365 services toppled over in North America last night due to an infrastructure misconfiguration.…

Competition watchdog can now meddle in how the tech giant runs the biggest wing of its organization

The UK's competition watchdog has officially slapped Google with "strategic market status," a new legal label that gives the regulator far-reaching powers to rein in how the search giant runs its empire.…

US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce

US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office.…

Prospect apologizes for cyber gaffe affecting up to 160K members

UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities.…

AI tech not on the hardware compatibility list for now. But future Windows will need it

Comment  Microsoft has talked up the role played by neural processing units (NPUs) in making Windows more "intelligent," even though the silicon is not currently on the hardware requirements list.…

56 bugs across routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers … time to run for cover

A new RondoDox botnet campaign uses an "exploit shotgun" - fire at everything, see what hits - to target 56 vulnerabilities across at least 30 different vendors' routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers, and other network devices, and then infect the buggy gear with malware.…

Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset

Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …

Slow down there Andy; you wouldn't want to bump into any hallucinations

Despite ongoing concerns over the accuracy, reliability, and trustworthiness of AI in the enterprise, Amazon believes that if it can just make building agents easier for the average worker, they'll be automating the boring parts of their job in no time.…

A new spin on workflow automation as Chocolate Factory tries to displace Microsoft as the enterprise go-to

Google on Thursday announced the launch of Gemini Enterprise, a platform for automating business workflows using the company's Gemini family of machine learning models.…

The miscreants started their attack all the way back on July 10

The raid on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) likely began as early as July - about three months before any public detections - with extortionists compromising "dozens" of organizations, a Google investigation has determined.…

More kids see AI as a friend or romantic interest, but few teachers know how to deal with the fallout, study finds

Today's students are using AI for everything from tutoring to therapy to romance. A new study warns the tech may be dulling kids' social skills quietly, like booze on the brain.…

Houston, we have a custody battle

Exclusive  The war of words over the possible relocation of Space Shuttle Discovery has ratcheted up, with the office of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) telling The Register that the orbiter belongs in Houston "whether the woke Smithsonian and its cronies in Congress like it or not."…

AI assistant could be duped into leaking code and tokens via sneaky markdown

GitHub's Copilot Chat, the chatbot meant to help developers code faster, could be helping attackers to steal code instead.…

No word on why the outsourced supplier was storing this data in the first place

Communication platform provider Discord has admitted that around 70,000 users had their government IDs stolen as part of its recent data breach.…

Rest of the world surges on Windows 10 end-of-life upgrades

WORLD WAR FEE  The global PC market is ticking upward as Windows 10's end-of-life nears, except in North America, where tariff shocks and economic jitters have slowed demand.…

Analyst predicts over-supply will trigger a market correction in favor of deep-pocketed incumbents

Gartner has signaled that the supply of "agentic AI" in terms of models, platforms, and products far outstrips demand, creating a situation that will lead to consolidation and market correction.…