The advent of generative AI has made the attack far more pervasive

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is promising a $25,000 reward for the best solution to combat the growing threat of AI voice cloning.…

Perfect timing – now BYD can rub that in Tesla's face along with stealing the global EV sales crown

A hot new Tesla import has arrived in China in the form of a pair of forced software updates for nearly every car the US EV maker has sold in the Middle Kingdom. …

Decades, gone in a flash: Longlived mission was almost derailed by file system whoopsie

It is 20 years this week since NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars, kicking off years of exploration before ending its mission stuck in the sand.…

So long, and thanks for all the sanctions as PR and government relations teams decamp

Chinese tech giant Huawei has reportedly stood down much of its public and government relations teams in the US and Canada, in a sign it may have given up trying to persuade Washington to soften its stance.…

Remember when Microsoft said that about FTC (and then walked it back)?

SpaceX has sued America's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent federal agency responsible for protecting private sector employees' rights, just 24 hours after the body accused Elon Musk's company of treating employees unfairly.…

Fitzpatrick faces potentially decades in prison later this month, so may as well get some foreign Netflix in beforehand

The cybercriminal behind BreachForums was this week arrested for violating the terms of his pretrial release and will now be held in custody until his sentencing hearing.…

Throwback word processor ditched from clean installs, soon to be removed on upgrade

Microsoft has begun ditching WordPad from Windows and removed the editor from the first Canary Channel build of 2024.…

Self-driving car biz says Q1 orders to drop 50% amid widening operating losses

Mobileye shares tanked by up to 27 percent yesterday in pre-market trading after the self-driving tech biz surprised Wall Street by warning that customers are chewing over excess inventory and cutting orders.…

86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all nine files of it

An intrepid code archaeologist has found and uploaded an early ancestor of what became MS-DOS, which ultimately sparked the IBM PC-compatible computer industry.…

Research warns not to make the same mistakes as other electronic patient record systems

A leading expert has warned that the value of the NHS's Federated Data Platform (FDP) will depend on usability testing if it is to improve patient safety and efficiency in the UK health service.…

But we also have a bit to say about Dark Souls, Starfield, Foxhole, and more

The RPG  Greetings, traveler, and welcome back to our occasional gaming column The Register Plays Games.…

Read the manual, they said. If only they'd said it about the right manual

On Call  2024 has commenced, but in today's edition of On Call – The Register’s reader-contributed tales of tech support strife – a reader we'll Regomize as "Stuart" shared a tale caused by a temporal anomaly.…

'Almost everything' wiped in the telecom attack, says Ukraine's top cyber spy

Russia's Sandworm crew appear to have been responsible for knocking out mobile and internet services to about 24 million users in Ukraine last month with an attack on telco giant Kyivstar.…