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Generate modest interactive apps, spiffy charts, and bland screenplays as needed

Perplexity, an AI search biz, has launched Perplexity Labs, a project automation service capable of generating basic apps and digital assets on demand, with example workflows and project samples to help first-timers get started.…

Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me

ConnectWise has brought in the big guns to investigate a "sophisticated nation state actor" that broke into its IT environment and then breached some of its customers.…

28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents

A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist is scheduled to appear in court today after being caught by the FBI trying to surreptitiously drop top secret information to a foreign government in a public park.…

Cash splashed on damages, infrastructure improvements, and fraud monitoring

A Seattle cancer facility has agreed to fork out around $52.5 million as part of a class action settlement linked to a Thanksgiving 2023 cyberattack where criminals directly threatened cancer patients with swat attacks.…

Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them

Meta has partnered with Anduril Industries to build augmented and virtual reality devices for the military, eight years after it fired the defense firm's founder, Palmer Luckey.…

High-profile logo win for AI? Weeks ahead of year-end and with investors twitchy about returns? Impeccable timing

Microsoft yesterday used a town hall meeting to leak details tell staff about a 100,000 license contract signed with Barclays to use Copilot.…

Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery

A trio of scientists have published a paper that explains how they found a dwarf planet in a database.…

War in Ukraine causes major rethink in policy and spending

The UK is spending more than £1 billion ($1.35 billion) setting up a new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command and is recruiting a few good men and women to join up and staff it.…

Can't build a datacenter overnight, argues tech giant

Dell has confirmed an order backlog of $14.4 billion for AI optimized servers, yet it is tempering investors' expectations for future sales by talking about demand being lumpy and dependencies in the pipeline.…

Latest project gets the green light although Brexit-era brainchild faces spending review

The UK's version of Darpa — a US government blue-sky research body — has invested £23.3 million (c $32 million) into nine teams working to transform "robotic dexterity."…

Take care when downloading AI freebies, researcher tells The Register

Criminals are using installers for fake AI software to distribute ransomware and other destructive malware.…

Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL

The UK’s data watchdog has reprimanded Greater Manchester Police (GMP) force for losing CCTV footage the cop shop was later requested to retain.…

After three service calls, user reflected on their utter stupidity

On Call  As the door closes on another working week, The Register brings you another edition of On Call, our reader-contributed column that recounts your amazing stories from the frontlines of tech support.…

Light is faster than copper, which is important with rack scale architecture

Analysis  AMD officially entered the co-packaged optics race with the acquisition of photonic chip startup Enosemi, announced this week.…

Cadence Systems, Synopsys, and Siemens among those subject to export licenses targeting Middle Kingdom

In the latest assault on China's burgeoning semiconductor industry, the Trump administration has erected new curbs on the sale of chip design software in the region.…

Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams

The US Treasury has sanctioned a Philippine company and its administrator after linking them to the infrastructure behind the majority of so-called "pig butchering" scams reported to the FBI.…

Yet more juicy data for the all-seeing eye

Trump administration darling Palantir has scored another data-guzzling win by partnering with Fannie Mae to detect mortgage fraud using AI. …

'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update is failing to install on some Windows 11 machines, mostly virtual ones, and dumping them into recovery mode with a boot error. Its only recommendation to avoid the problem for now is to dodge the update.…

It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white collar jobs in five years.…

House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley

Chinese government spies burrowed deep into American telecommunications systems and critical infrastructure networks for one reason, according to retired US Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.…