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Land of the rising profit?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest 2.3 trillion yen ($15.5 billion) to extend its cloud empire in Japan.…

Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you

University of Chicago boffins this week released Nightshade 1.0, a tool built to punish unscrupulous makers of machine learning models who train their systems on data without getting permission first.…

Maybe the AGI can finish that Metaverse, haha – oh wait, they're serious

Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg is redirecting Meta-wide efforts to build artificial general intelligence and wants to secure a whopping 350,000 or more Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of the year to make that happen.…

All those neural network weights aren't much without ample decent silicon

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly seeking billions of dollars in capital to build out a network of AI chip fabs.…

Plus: Uncle Sam says Ivanti exploits 'consistent with PRC' snoops

A VMware security vulnerability has been exploited by Chinese cyberspies since late 2021, according to Mandiant, in what has been a busy week for nation-state espionage news.…

The real SLIM's shady

Japan soft-landed a probe on the Moon today – a first for the nation – though its spacecraft is struggling to generate power from its solar arrays.…

Account manager and pals blew it on hotels, cruise, fancy meals and more allegedly

Five people have been accused of pulling off a "brazen" scam that involved submitting more than $7 million in fake work expense claims to an IT consultancy to bankroll hotel stays, a cruise, visits to strip clubs, and more.…

Instead of 100% renewables, most will reach around a tenth of that

Two-hundred and fifty US cities have committed to transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 in the face of slow global progress. However, researchers have now concluded most will fail and are likely to meet just 10 percent of their targets in the next 30 years.…

Now its functions are shattered between innumerable vendors

Retro Tech Week  It may seem that progress in technology proceeds in a linear fashion, with new developments replacing older ones. From this viewpoint, newer technology will always be better, since it is presumed to have built upon what came before it and improved on it.…

Malware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP's bottom line

HP CEO Enrique Lores admitted this week that the company's long-term objective is "to make printing a subscription" when he was questioned about the company's approach to third-party replacement ink suppliers.…

More details emerge as Horizon IT scandal inquiry continues

The Post Office proposed suing Fujitsu over missing data from its audit trail that could be used in the prosecution of victims of the Horizon scandal, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history.…

Shipments alleged to have gone to a sanctioned company

A businessman has been arrested in the US and charged with unlawfully exporting sensitive technology including semiconductors to a sanctioned business with ties to Russia's military and intelligence agencies.…

But what kind of info was actually compromised? None of your business

VF Corporation, parent company of clothes and footwear brands including Vans and North Face, says 35.5 million customers were impacted in some way when criminals broke into their systems in December.…

Sacrificing its academic backups for the sake of the environment

Microsoft's decision to cut the storage in its Microsoft 365 Education line is having some real-world consequences, with a Canadian university imposing draconian measures partly in response to the restrictions.…

El Reg talks to the project's founder

Retro Tech Week  The last units of the second batch of the ZX Spectrum Next are heading off to their owners. If you missed out, we have good news.…

A peek back at the wobbly Windows of yesteryear

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has taken us back to the era of 16-bit Windows and the definition of a "hard error" compared to something a bit softer and easier.…

Pause comes after controversial supplier wins another 9-figure deal paid for by taxpayers

Fujitsu has written to UK Government to confirm it will no longer tender for business in the public sector amid the ongoing inquiry into the Post Office scandal – weeks after winning a £485 million ($614 million) contract.…

Disrespect for physics saw the datacenter, and a career, come tumbling down

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register’s weekly column that tries to balance your diet of industry news with your peers’ experiences of the messes they confront at the coalface of IT.…

Advocate general kicks holes in some of the European Commission's arguments about ancient rebate program

An advisor to Europe’s General Court has torn into the legal logic behind the EU's €1.06 billion ($1.2 billion) antitrust fine levelled against chip giant Intel.…

Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime

A security researcher in Germany has been fined €3,000 ($3,300, £2,600) for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that was exposing almost 700,000 customer records.…