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Complete with new website – but the software's still alpha level stuff, so be careful

Wayback 0.1 is out, the first preliminary release of the new Wayland display server whose announcement we reported a few weeks ago.…

Subsidy cliff edge and tariffs threaten Musk biz, but being caught between luxury and mass market may be a worse fate

Speaking to Tesla investors last night, CEO Elon Musk was optimistic about the future of his automotive manufacturer.…

Thingiverse ditches downloadable designs at the urging of Manhattan District Attorney, who wants more companies to do likewise

Updated  A leading 3D printing site has agreed to purge its library of downloadable gun designs at the urging of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. However, it's unlikely to slow the proliferation of 3D printed weapons, as many other sites offer downloadable gun designs and parts.…

Shadowserver claims miscreants were already poking at a critical hole in early July, long before Switchzilla patched it

Threat actors have actively exploited a newly patched vulnerability in Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) software since early July, weeks before the networking giant got around to issuing a fix.…

Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work

Computer scientists with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, say they've developed a way to remove watermarks embedded in AI-generated images.…

Verizon and AT&T customers can now buy D2C connections à la carte from the magenta monster

T-Mobile's Starlink-to-cellphone service is now out of beta – and the company is using the opportunity to woo customers from other providers by offering à la carte satellite services to AT&T and Verizon customers.…

'Build, baby, build', and forget about regulation and wokeness is the gist of it

The White House on Wednesday announced its AI Action Plan, unveiling a sweeping anti-regulatory approach that disengages the brakes from AI development and datacenter construction in the US. The plan also promises to clamp down on what it called "ideological bias" in AI models.…

Let the games begin

Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring.…

French model dev hopes to inspire others to adopt standards-based reporting

While it's widely known that the computers powering generative AI use a ton of water and power, its actual impact on the environment is often harder to pin down.…

So says a study by boffins at Carnegie Mellon University

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have likened today's large language model (LLM) chatbots to "that friend who swears they're great at pool but never makes a shot" - having found that their virtual self-confidence grew, rather than shrank, after getting answers wrong.…

Goal is 'to enrich our workplace experience'

Exclusive  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced an instant five-day return-to-work mandate for US workers, and warns that staff will be monitored and called out if they don't comply.…

Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users' financial apps

A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft's UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.…

Palantir, data brokers, and judicial overreach are all on the horizon, executive director Cindy Cohn warns

Interview  In July 1990, before the World Wide Web even existed, an unusual alliance was formed to fight for the rights of the emerging online community.…

Malicious actor reportedly sought to expose AWS 'security theater'

The official Amazon Q extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was compromised to include a prompt to wipe the user's home directory and delete all their AWS resources.…

Turn that Copilot or Scroll Lock key into a media control or extended character.

HANDS ON  In the era of laptops and tenkeyless keyboards, many of us are living with fewer keys than we had years ago. But even on a small keyboard, you'll find keys that you just don't need. …

If it passes, the law would redefine the boundaries of fair use

A bipartisan pair of US Senators introduced a bill this week that would protect copyrighted content from being used for AI training without the owner's permission. Content creators from large media companies to individual bloggers could effectively block Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others from appropriating their work.…

French fashion house dishes out notices after hackers raided a client database – ShinyHunters suspected

Updated  Fashion house Dior has begun dropping data breach notices after cybercrooks with a taste for high-end targets made off with customer data.…

'Industry, national governments, and the EU' must pay for maintainers. El Reg says charity shouldn't start at home

GitHub, owned by money-bags Microsoft, has called upon the European Union to create a publicly funded "Sovereign Tech Fund" (EU-STF) to boost the open source software ecosystem.…

You don't become a 'superpower' overnight

Significant hurdles stand in the way of the UK government's push to become a global AI superpower, including energy constraints, planning difficulties and the datacenter investment required for it all.…

How the MITS Altair 8800, a $264 RAM board, and some BASIC changed the world

This week marked the 50th anniversary of the birth of several empires. On July 22, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen signed a deal with Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems.…