India’s services giants brace for impact as US tariffs bite their customers Wipro was forced to pause an active SAP project due to client’s jitters India’s big four IT services players are all concerned that the USA’s new tariffs regime may see some of their customers spend less on tech – but later spend more to cope with whatever changes are needed to compete in a chang… #theregister #IT
India’s services giants brace for impact as US tariffs bite
: Wipro was forced to pause an active SAP project due to client’s jitters
Ransomware scum and other crims bilked victims out of a 'staggering' $16.6B last year, says FBI Biggest threat to America's critical infrastructure? Ransomware Digital scammers and extortionists bilked businesses and individuals in the US out of a "staggering" $16.6 billion last year, according to the FBI — the highest losses recorded since bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (… #theregister #IT
FBI: Cybercrime cost victims
: Biggest threat to America's critical infrastructure? Ransomware
Booby-trapped Alpine Quest Android app geolocates Russian soldiers Back of the nyet! Russian soldiers are being targeted with an Android app specially altered to pinpoint their location and scan their phones for files, with the ability to exfiltrate sensitive documents if instructed.… #theregister #IT
Trojanized Alpine Quest app geolocates Russian soldiers
: Back of the nyet!
Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a new crew, including Researcher and Analyst bots You. Will. Love. The. LLM. The latest update to Microsoft 365 Copilot brings AI-powered search, so-called reasoning agents, and a new Agent Store. Some users already have access to certain features, while others may have to wait through May.… #theregister #IT
Microsoft 365 Copilot enterprise search, agents updated
: You. Will. Love. The. LLM.
Blue Shield says it shared health info on up to 4.7M patients with Google Ads Tech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anyway US health insurance giant Blue Shield of California handed sensitive health information belonging to as many as 4.7 million members to Google's advertising empire, likely without these individuals' know… #theregister #IT
Blue Shield shared 4.7M people
: Tech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anyway
IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cutting IBM beat Wall Street's expectations for both revenue and income in the first quarter of 2025, but its stock price still dropped more than six percent in after-hours trading.… #theregister #IT
IBM earnings beat dragged down by DOGE contract roulette
: Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cutting
Hyperconverged infrastructure is so hot right now it needs liquid cooling Lenovo brings its Neptune cold plates to servers packing sixth-gen Xeons to run VMware, Nutanix, and AzureStack Hyperconverged infrastructure most often involves a collection of modest 2U servers powered by mid-range processors that aren’t particularly challenging to operate. But Lenovo’s new models packing Xeon 6 pr… #theregister #IT
Hyperconverged infrastructure now needs liquid cooling
: Lenovo brings its Neptune cold plates to servers packing sixth-gen Xeons to run VMware, Nutanix, and AzureStack
Hey Google, if Chrome is going to be single soon, OpenAI is interested ChatGPT maker to join line of suitors if Chocolate Factory forced to offload browser OpenAI's head of product for ChatGPT has flung the company's hat into the ring as a potential suitor for Google's Chrome browser should the search giant be forced to divest itself of the application.… #theregister #IT
OpenAI exec signals interest in Chrome
: ChatGPT maker to join line of suitors if Chocolate Factory forced to offload browser
As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses Now that AI is invading classrooms and homework assignment, students need to learn reasoning more than ever Students are increasingly turning to AI to help them with coursework, leaving academics scrambling to adjust their teaching practices or debating how to ban it altogether.… #theregister #IT
As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, courses face shake-up
: Now that AI is invading classrooms and homework assignment, students need to learn reasoning more than ever
AI bigwigs urge AGs to block OpenAI's profit pivot Elon’s not the only one sounding the alarm over the AI giant’s cash grab A group of AI heavyweights and ex-OpenAI staffers are urging the attorneys general of California and Delaware to block the ChatGPT shop's latest restructuring into a for-profit corporation. … #theregister #IT
AI leaders urge CA, DE AGs to stop OpenAI for-profit shift
: Elon’s not the only one sounding the alarm over the AI giant’s cash grab