Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed' Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated "slop" bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions that are draining maintainers' time.… #theregister #IT
Curl takes action against time-wasting AI bug reports
: Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'
Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift? Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play? Comment  Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has weighed in on the increasingly heated discussion regarding the impending end of Windows 10. Are Windows 11's hardware requirements all about security or just a sales ploy in disguise?… #theregister #IT
Microsoft moved the goalposts before. Could it happen again?
Comment: Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play?
Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped Kernel 6.15 is taking shape and it looks like it will eliminate support for Intel's 486 chip and its contemporaries.… #theregister #IT
Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support
: Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped
Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines' Fans and writers of science fiction are not necessarily enthusiastic about artificial intelligence - especially when it's used to vet panelists for a major sci-fi conference.… #theregister #IT
WorldCon use of AI to vet panelists prompts backlash
: Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines'
Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs Seeing as the company’s CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious World War Fee  Citrix has found a new use for virtualization: Avoiding tariffs.… #theregister #IT
Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding tariffs
World War Fee: Seeing as IT giant's CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious
New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote New Zealand’s government has signaled its support for a bill to ban social media for children under 16, but without explicitly making it a government initiative.… #theregister #IT
New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s
: Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote
Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off AMD expects the Trump administration's newly implemented export controls on GPUs and AI accelerator sales to China to take a $1.5 billion byte out its 2025 revenues, executives revealed on a Tuesday earnings call with Wa… #theregister #IT
US export controls on AI chips will cost AMD $1.5B in 2025
: But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off
Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House The Attorneys General of 17 states and Washington, DC have sued the Trump administration over an executive order halting all federal approvals for wind energy projects.… #theregister #IT
Trump
: We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House
Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp snoop drama Don't f&#k with Zuck A California jury has awarded Meta more than $167 million in damages from Israeli surveillanceware slinger NSO Group, after the latter exploited a flaw in WhatsApp to allow its government customers to spy on supposedly secure communications.… #theregister #IT
NSO Group must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp spy case
: Don't f&#k with Zuck
Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction A developer of mobile sports apps has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, seeking to recover commissions iBiz allegedly collected in violation of a federal injunction intended to allow developers to use alternative payment sys… #theregister #IT
Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments
: Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction