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GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default (www.theregister.com)
7 days ago 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)
8 days ago London Facial Recognition

Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor (www.theregister.com)
24 days ago 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

Hands-on with Nvidia's DGX Spark: trades some performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, Nvidia's software ecosystem is valuable, and more (www.theregister.com)
2025-10-15 Nvidia

Microsoft releases its first preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major update since November 2021, with a new look and deeper AI integration (www.theregister.com)
2025-9-11 Microsoft AI

Google signs a deal with two power utilities to lower its power use by pausing non-essential AI workloads during demand surges or weather-based grid disruptions (www.theregister.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

Dropbox says it will discontinue Dropbox Passwords, launched in 2020, on October 28 to focus on its core product, and recommends 1Password as a replacement (www.theregister.com)
2025-7-31 Dropbox

Google files a lawsuit in the US against 25 unnamed individuals in China, accusing them of operating the BadBox 2.0 botnet, compromising 10M+ devices worldwide (www.theregister.com)
2025-7-19 China Google

Study: in the past year, ~75% of S&P 500-listed firms have updated their official risk disclosures to detail or expand upon mentions of AI-related risk factors (www.theregister.com)
2025-7-16 AI

AMD announces Zen 5-based Threadripper 9000 CPUs with up to 96 cores, along with RDNA 4-based Radeon AI Pro R9700 workstation GPU, both slated to launch in July (www.theregister.com)
2025-5-21 AI AMD

The EU's Vulnerability Database project, first announced in June 2024, is now fully operational, while the US's NVD struggles with a backlog of submissions (www.theregister.com)
2025-5-14 Database

An IBM survey of 2,000 CEOs finds that only 25% of AI initiatives have delivered expected ROI over the last few years, and only 16% have scaled enterprise wide (www.theregister.com)
2025-5-8 IBM AI

Redis, the popular in-memory data store, returns its main system to open source license AGPL, after facing criticism in 2024 for moving to a dual-license model (www.theregister.com)
2025-5-2

UN says the ~$40B cybercrime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, is expanding globally to regions with weak governance (www.theregister.com)
2025-4-23 Southeast Asia

UK government report: 43% of businesses faced a cyber breach or attack in the past year; phishing was the most common type, affecting 85% of those attacked (www.theregister.com)
2025-4-13

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