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Big Blue turned the air blue

Who, Me?  Oh, bother, it's Monday. But rather than curse about another working week rolling around, The Register welcomes it with another instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace whoopsies and reveal how you survived them.…

Cupertino yanks ICEBlock citing safety risks for law enforcement

Apple has deep-sixed an app that tracks the movements of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents – apparently bowing to government pressure.…

Exploding valuations and mountains of debt, and yet....

Analysis  In an employee share sell-off this week, OpenAI achieved a nominal value of $500 billion. In terms of valuation, the posterchild of GenAI — which is yet to make a profit — left in its dust companies like Toyota, the world's largest automaker.…

570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective

A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat's private GitLab repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive documents belonging to customers. …

'Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it'

A new hacking contest has caused a social media kerfuffle over allegations of rule copying and plagiarism.…

Top AI models keep saying you’re right, and that’s the problem

State-of-the-art AI models tend to flatter users, and that praise makes people more convinced that they're right and less willing to resolve conflicts, recent research suggests.…

Carmaker confirms screen hijack, says probe underway

Conference-room screens at Ford's Dearborn HQ were briefly hijacked on Thursday to display a protest image in an apparent swipe at the carmaker's return-to-office policy.…

Draft solicitation calls for nearly 30 contractors to mine social media and other open-source data

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking contractors to trawl social media and other open-source data for potential immigration enforcement leads, assuming public posts can yield actionable intelligence.…

Aspiring Bond villain believes the best place to train our AI overlords is in orbit

Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos says that, within two decades, gigawatt-scale datacenters powered by a continuous stream of photons from the sun will fill Earth's orbit.…

One week after the blitz, beer biz is still stymied

Ransomware has left Japan's biggest brewer struggling to ship beer, with Asahi warning domestic customers to brace for patchy supplies while its core systems stay offline.…

Open source giant admits intruders broke into dedicated consulting instance, but insists core products untouched

What started as cyber crew bragging has now been confirmed by Red Hat: someone gained access to its consulting GitLab system and walked away with data.…

Devs live in terminals - now Jules does too

In the beginning was the command line, and despite all the machine-learning froth, developers still live there. That is why Google has shoved its Jules coding agent into a terminal with a new tool it calls Jules Tools.…

Better hope that bubble doesn't pop

The Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm (aka A16z) crunched startup spending data and found young firms stuffing AI into everything, while bigger businesses remain far more restrained.…

Even spy-tech biz Palantir says 'steady on' as 2.76M Brits demand it be ditched

The British government has finally given more details about the proposed digital ID project, directly responding to the 2.76 million naysayers that signed an online petition calling for it to be ditched.…

Beards, body fat, and cyber refreshers now frowned upon

Cybersecurity training, beards, and body fat have something in common, according to the Pentagon. They're not helping the US military fight and win wars.…

Analysts at Goldman Sachs Global Institute say training is starting to hit its limits, enterprise info troves may be last hope

Those spiffy AI systems that tech companies keep promising require mountains of training data, but high-quality sources may have already run out—unless enterprises can unlock the information trapped behind their firewalls, according to Goldman Sachs…

Overnight shutdown leaves thousands stuck as Oktoberfest crowds stretch city security

Munich Airport was temporarily closed last night following reports of drones buzzing around the area.…

Researchers suggest internet-facing portals are exposing 'thousands' of orgs

Oracle has finally broken its silence on those Clop-linked extortion emails, but only to tell customers what they already should have known: patch your damn systems.…

Modder crams working hardware into plastic shell and fires up Tetris

An enterprising nerd has taken LEGO's new Game Boy creation, performed some suitably geeky magic, and turned it into a real Game Boy.…

Names, numbers, and reg plates exposed in latest auto industry cyber-shunt

Renault UK customers are being warned their personal data may be in criminal hands after one of its supplier was hacked.…