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PLUS: China bans AI leaders from visiting USA; Acer data leak suspect cuffed; and more

Asia In Brief  India’s top telco Reliance Jio , which boasts over 460 million subscribers, will soon introduce a cloud PC.…

1 in 3 entries are used to extort civilians, says new paper

Fresh research suggests attackers are actively monitoring databases of vulnerabilities that are known to be useful in carrying out ransomware attacks.…

x86 giant still expects to ramp 18A process tech this year

Intel's floundering foundry business hit another speed bump on Friday after executives delayed the completion of its $28 billion Ohio factory build-out until at least 2030.…

Microsoft confirms you have 60 days to export your data or shift to Teams

If you hadn't already noticed when Skype Credit sales were first suspended in December 5, 2024, the once ubiquitous IP telephony and vid calling wunderkind is no more – at least as a paid service for consumers.…

Quantum dot technology allegedly absent from tellies

Hisense USA has been sued for advertising televisions with quantum dot technology that allegedly lack quantum dot technology.…

Accused face up to 20 years in prison

The authorities in Singapore have charged three men with fraud, allegedly in connection with the shipment of Nvidia GPUs into China in violation of US export controls.…

Free speech org criticized constitution and made hard-to-sustain accusations of possible censorship

Membership of InternetNZ, the administrator of New Zealand's .NZ country code top-level domain, has more than tripled in a week after the org's review of its constitution was criticized by a free speech advocacy organization.…

Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia

Updated  At some point in the months ahead, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will consider an effort to reverse a California federal district court's decision in Neo4j v. PureThink.…

Here's another thing AI can do: Cause conflict around whether it's compatible with the very idea of open source

The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) 2025 Board of Directors election is again mired in controversy.…

After almost 23 years on the job, observations end for 2029 re-entry

All good things must come to an end. So it is that the European Space Agency's (ESA) International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) is set to make its final observations.…

Missing assessments, hidden caveats, and overoptimism all contributed to fateful decision, auditors find

"Huge. There could be major problems transacting leading to late payment or collection of debt. The accounts could be wrong."…

Rule hamstringing our datacenters is 'gift' to Middle Kingdom, vice chair argues

Microsoft would like the Trump administration to row back AI export restrictions introduced by his predecessor that affect countries where the cloud services giant has datacenters.…

The question is whether we can find them in stock and at MSRP

With the launch of AMD's RX 9070-series graphics cards, AMD is going back to its roots. Rather than trying to compete with Nvidia on raw performance with another flagship GPU beyond the means of most gamers, the House of Zen aims to undercut its competitor by delivering more frames per dollar.…

Boffins poked around inside censorship engines – here's what they found

Smart folks investigating a memory-dumping vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (GFW) finally released their findings after probing it for years.…

Many can't access online banking although customers can keep tapping away in shops

The UK is full of unhappy workers that are unable to manage their payday cash amid online service outages at a host of major banks.…

Home Office's £450M deal with AWS raises questions over competition and aligning department requirements

UK central government departments need to better align their requirements in cloud computing to get better deals out of the big providers, MPs heard this week.…

Thousands of order lines not picked, causing delays to hospital deliveries

Updated  A state-owned company that handles £4.5 billion ($5.7 billion) annual spending on behalf of the NHS has suffered 35 high-priority computer system alerts in 2024, leading to delays in shipping thousands of products to UK hospitals.…

Turns out you can be too careful checking that backups worked

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates your escapes from dangerous tech support requests.…

Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond's OpenAI-powered cloud – claim

Microsoft has named four of the ten people it is suing for allegedly snatching Azure cloud credentials and developing tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI services – ultimately to generate deepfake smut videos of celebrities and others.…

FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime

The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump's call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.…