The o is not short for 'Oh sh...' for Google and co

OpenAI on Monday showed off GPT-4o, its latest multimodal machine learning model, making it partially available to both free and paid customers through its ChatGPT service and its API.…

And the windows are opened to 6.10 in September or so

Linux kernel 6.9 is here, with many under-the-covers improvements that won't be very visible to users, but which tidy things up, fix bugs, and pave the way for future changes.…

Going once, going twice, going offline

Christie's website remains offline as of Monday after a "technology security issue" shut it down Thursday night – just days before the venerable auction house planned to flog $840 million of art.…

Either they learned to brake-check or motorcycles were following too close

Updated  The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating two rear-end crashes involving Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving cars and motorcycles.…

Emergency ambulances diverted while techies restore systems

US information security agencies have published advisories on how to detect and thwart the Black Basta ransomware gang – after the crew claimed responsibility for the recent attack on US healthcare provider Ascension.…

Catz talks up company's feel-good efforts... Just don’t mention the margins

Oracle CEO Safra Catz has opened up about the motives driving the world-dominating enterprise software, database and cloud company forward.…

Pundit tells The Reg Intel could suffer the effects of retaliation

The Biden administration is reportedly set to quadruple Chinese electric vehicle tariffs as part of an onslaught of increased taxes on imports from the country.…

Another huge investment for chip giant despite losses

Intel is holding negotiations with private equity investor Apollo Global Management to secure $11 billion in funding for a manufacturing facility in Ireland.…

Time for 22H2, the LTSC version, or perhaps something completely different?

Microsoft is warning customers still clinging to Windows 10 21H2 that mere weeks of servicing remain for enterprise and education users.…

M4? The M3 is barely six months old, and what about all those Macs still stuck on the M2? When will they get some love?

Comment  Apple seems to have skipped a few steps in its silicon roadmap.…

Unusually high activity from Sun may have also hastened Hubble's demise

The geomagnetic storm that led to nighttime light shows over the weekend also caused problems for the Starlink satellite broadband service, disrupted GPS signals, and affected the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope.…

Hint: It's the 'the largest' maker of a key computer component

RSAC  An unnamed tech business hired IBM's X-Force penetration-testing team to break into its network to test its security. With the help of AI automation, Big Blue said it was able to do so within hours.…

Plus Foxconn defends Wisconsin efforts, Korea to spend on chips, and more

Asia in brief  SoftBank-owned Arm is reportedly preparing to add AI chips to its product portfolio starting in 2025.…

Reports suggest an end of May IPO and a valuation of up to half a billion

A flotation of the company behind the Raspberry Pi computer could come sooner rather than later, according to reports.…

Those with a delicate constitution, look away now

It is rare that the world of vintage desktop operating systems and trashy Euro-pop collide, but on Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest they did, and the results were as baffling as they were explosive.…

Intelligence-sharing platform remains down for maintenance

Europol is investigating a cybercriminal's claims that they stole confidential data from a number of the agency's sources.…

It's called Copilot Runway, not run away

IBM Consulting has boarded the Microsoft Copilot bandwagon with Copilot Runway, a service aimed at assisting businesses to integrate their own AI assistants into their workflows.…

NHS England's own survey also reveals suspicions that it would sell data to third parties

Four out of five patients worry NHS IT systems may be vulnerable to cyber attacks while around half are concerned that the world's largest single health system will sell their data, according to a recent survey.…

With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot

ISC  Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora supercomputer has officially breached the exaFLOPS barrier, but, once again, it's fallen short of unseating Oak Ridge's Frontier system for the number one spot on this spring's Top500.…

But breaking E2EE and blanket bans aren't thinking at all

Opinion  If your cranky uncle was this fixated about anything, you'd always be somewhere else at Christmas. Yet here we are again. Europol has been sounding off at Meta for harming children. Not for the way it's actually harming children, but because – repeat after me – end-to-end encryption is hiding child sexual abuse material from the eyes of the law. "E2EE = CSAM" is the new slogan of fear.…