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Amazon researchers link the compromises of four npm packages, including axios, over the past 18 months to the North Korea-linked group tracked as Sapphire Sleet (www.theregister.com)
13 hours ago Korea Amazon

GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports (www.theregister.com)
7 days ago AI GitHub

Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted (www.theregister.com)
16 days ago Google

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (www.theregister.com)
26 days ago

OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x for individual users (www.theregister.com)
2026-6-26

Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says “advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams”; ESTC closed down 8.70% (www.theregister.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests (www.theregister.com)
2026-6-25 Google Microsoft Mozilla

Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on “basic Python errors” and data cherry-picking (www.theregister.com)
2026-6-25 Microsoft Quantum

Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud temporarily suspended its account without cause; in 2024, GCP deleted the account of an Australian pension fund (www.theregister.com)
2026-5-20 Australia Google

In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but the flood of duplicate AI bug reports has made the security list “unmanageable” (www.theregister.com)
2026-5-18 Linux AI

Arm expects the AGI CPU, its own AI chip for data centers, to drive $2B in sales in FY2027 and FY2028, doubling its March 2026 sales guidance for the period (www.theregister.com)
2026-5-7 AI

Experts say supply chain attacks compromised SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the PyPI package Lightning, in a campaign that calls itself Mini Shai-Hulud (www.theregister.com)
2026-5-2

GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default (www.theregister.com)
2026-4-23 GitHub

The UK's High Court rules that London's Metropolitan Police can keep using live facial recognition; police say the tech has led to 2,100+ arrests since 2024 (www.theregister.com)
2026-4-22 London Facial Recognition

Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor (www.theregister.com)
2026-4-6 AI Netflix

Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs, have been removed from PyPI after a supply chain attack injected them with credential-stealing code (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-25

The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-18 Linux Google AI

Nvidia unveils a server rack with 256 Vera CPUs, with each CPU featuring 88 custom Olympus cores and LPDDR5X memory for up to 1.2 TB/s of bandwidth (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-17 Nvidia

A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-13

The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-11 AI

Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse (www.theregister.com)
2026-3-7 China Google

A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens (www.theregister.com)
2026-2-26 AI

HP says memory now accounts for 35% of its PC bill of materials, up from 15% to 18% in Q4 2025, and expects RAM's share to rise through 2026 (www.theregister.com)
2026-2-25 4Q

Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (www.theregister.com)
2026-2-4 Alibaba AI Tencent

Security researchers warn Moltbot, previously Clawdbot, requires a specialist skillset to use safely, as data exposure risks persist even when set up correctly (www.theregister.com)
2026-1-29

AWS implemented a 15% price hike for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML on January 3; Amazon says it “reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter” (www.theregister.com)
2026-1-7 Amazon

In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay victims of a 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen (www.theregister.com)
2025-12-18

Chinese toymaker FoloToy suspends sales of its GPT-4o-powered teddy bear, after researchers found the toy gave kids harmful responses, including sexual content (www.theregister.com)
2025-11-17 China

Sony unveils the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark dataset to test the fairness of computer vision models, saying it was compiled in a fair and ethical manner (www.theregister.com)
2025-11-6 Sony

Microsoft's Q1 earnings, showing that it had a $3.1B net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply OpenAI lost $11.5B during the quarter based on Microsoft's 27% stake (www.theregister.com)
2025-11-1 Microsoft

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