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Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win
go.theregister.com Google successfully appeals €1.5B AdSense fine in EUQualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky
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Putin really wants Trump back in the White House
go.theregister.com Putin really wants to put Trump back in the White HouseUS govt, Microsoft report on Kremlin trolls' latest antics to Make America Grate Again
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FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds
go.theregister.com FBI director says Chinese spies 'burned down' their botnetPlus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks
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IBM is quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says
go.theregister.com IBM quietly cutting thousands of jobs, source claimsWe did warn you, Big Blue tells The Reg
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Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com
go.theregister.com LockBit boasts once again of ransoming eFile.comAdd 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life?
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LockBit boasts of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com
go.theregister.com LockBit claims it ransomed IRS-authorized eFile.comAdd 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life?
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Lebanon now hit with walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war
go.theregister.com Walkie talkies detonate in Lebanon following pager bombingsSecond wave of exploding gear pushes death toll higher
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California governor goes on AI law signing spree, but demurs on the big one
go.theregister.com Cali governor signs five AI bills in one dayNewsom still worried about SB 1047's 'chilling effect' on AI industry tax dollar revenue innovation in California
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Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform
go.theregister.com 51 arrests made in global takedown of Ghost crime platformItalian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops
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Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure
go.theregister.com Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to back AI infrastructureTech is going to need datacenters and power sources, and a lot of 'em
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Microsoft unveils Office LTSC 2024 for users that remain stubbornly offline
go.theregister.com Microsoft launches Office LTSC 2024What do you mean you don't want Copilot and Microsoft 365 services?
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Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA's $4.82B lunar relay jackpot
go.theregister.com Intuitive Machines awarded $4.82B for lunar relay servicesSurely at least one crew will get there in the next ten years?
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Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray
go.theregister.com Open source maintainers underpaid and going grayAI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot's work
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Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared
go.theregister.com Despite Russia warnings, critical infrastructure unprepared'Lives will be lost' as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units
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UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B
go.theregister.com UK pensions department launches £1.9B project to unite ERPFour branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes
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Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings
go.theregister.com Cloud giants point the finger at each other in CMA hearingsThose are some mighty powerful underdogs you've got there
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Python in Excel goes live – but only for certain Windows users
go.theregister.com Python in Excel is here, but only for certain Windows usersMac and Android loyals: you can look, but no calculation for now
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New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet
go.theregister.com New RFC prods protocol devs to consider human rightsSomething tells us Vlad and Xi probably won't bother reading it
- go.theregister.com The case for handcrafted software in a mass-produced world
As AI automates programming, it could be worth exploring the value of bespoke code
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China's tech giants buy into Indonesia - just like US tech giants did in India
go.theregister.com China's tech giants buy into Indonesia's digital platformsGoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake
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SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience
go.theregister.com FAA to fine SpaceX $663K for launch license 'violations'Some good news for Elon – 2,500 planes to be Starlink Wi-Fi ready as United joins the party
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Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on criminal collaborationware
go.theregister.com Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on crime appSting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service
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Google Cloud Document AI flaw (still) allows data theft despite bounty payout
go.theregister.com Google Cloud Document AI flaw (still) allows data theftChocolate Factory downgrades risk, citing the need for attacker access
- go.theregister.com Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls
The more successful FOSS gets, the more it becomes a target
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WhatsApp fix to make View Once chats actually disappear is beaten in less than a week
go.theregister.com WhatsApp View Once flaw fix lasts days before failingView Forever, more like it, as Meta's privacy feature again revealed to be futile with a little light hacking
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FAA to fine SpaceX $663K over claims of Musk's launch impatience
go.theregister.com FAA to fine SpaceX $663K for launch license 'violations'Some good news for Elon – 2,500 planes to be Starlink Wi-Fi ready as United joins the party
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Nine dead, thousands hurt in Lebanon after Hezbollah pagers go boom, not beep
go.theregister.com Nine dead, thousands hurt in Lebanon after pagers explodeIsrael blamed, Iran's Lebanese ambassador reportedly among wounded
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No major AI model is safe, but some do better than others
go.theregister.com No major AI model is safe, but some are safer than othersAnthropic Claude 3.5 shines in Chatterbox Labs safety test
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Elon Musk's assassination joke bombs, internet responds with calls for his deportation
go.theregister.com X users say it's time to kick Elon Musk out of the US'No one is trying' to kill Biden or Harris, mogul says after alleged second attempt on Trump's life
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IBM bags $45M as jury rules in patent infringement case
go.theregister.com IBM wins $45M jury award in Zynga patent lawsuitBig Blue’s Prodigy invention from the '80s come back to haunt FarmVille maker
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Hey kids, wanna clock the ISS? ESA's Astro Pi challenge runs your code in space
go.theregister.com The Astro Pi 2024/25 challenge has launchedSend astronauts nice pixel art, or try something a little harder
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The end is in sight for Windows 10, but Microsoft keeps pushing out fixes
go.theregister.com Microsoft still pushing out fixes for Windows 10Persistent SSO prompts after DMA update addressed in release preview
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Oracle urged again to give up JavaScript trademark
go.theregister.com Oracle urged again to surrender JavaScript trademarkIf there's one thing we know about Big Red, it's being entirely reasonable
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IBM scores $45M zinger from Zynga in patent wringer
go.theregister.com IBM win $45M from games maker Zynga in patent battleBig Blue’s Prodigy from the 1980s comes back to haunt FarmVille giant
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Rhysida ransomware gang ships off Port of Seattle data for $6M
go.theregister.com Rhysida ships off Port of Seattle data for $6MAuction acts as payback after authority publicly refuses to pay up
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Objections to datacenter builds may be overruled now they are 'Critical National Infrastructure'
go.theregister.com Objections to DC builds may be overruled in the UKWell you wouldn't get far protesting a water system or a power grid, right?
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AWS claims customers are packing bags and heading back on-premises
go.theregister.com AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises ITSee? We do have competition, cloud giant tells regulator