AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlink But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window A messy legal fight between Ligado and Inmarsat over direct-to-cellular (D2C) spectrum has been settled, giving upstart AST a chance to gain ground on Starlink.… #theregister #IT
AST gets 45 MHz of new D2C bandwidth to battle Starlink
: But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window
Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continent Apple has updated its iOS/iPadOS 18.3.1 documentation, confirming it introduced fixes for the zero-click vulnerability used to infect journalists with Paragon's Graphite spyware.… #theregister #IT
Apple squashes zero-click bug used for spyware attacks
: Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continent
Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers Please insert another million dollars to continue Broader AI adoption by enterprise customers is being hindered by the complexity of trying to forecast inferencing costs amid a fear being saddled with excessive bills for cloud services.… #theregister #IT
AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud users
: Please insert another million dollars to continue
PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep rising The PCI Special Interest Group (PIC-SIG) just released official specs for PCIe 7.0, doubling the bandwidth again for high-performance kit such as network cards, while hinting that PCIe 8.0 may not achieve the same.… #theregister #IT
PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth
: Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep rising
Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly Exclusive  Meta has made lavish and lucrative offers to a select set of AI researchers in an effort to develop superintelligent AI.… #theregister #IT
Meta offering $10m a year-plus for scarce AI talent: Source
Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly
Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spot Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has reclaimed the No. 2 spot on Forbes's real-time billionaire list, trailing only Elon Musk after leapfrogging Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.… #theregister #IT
Ellison still not world’s richest person
: Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spot
Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says Some trace back to an outfit under US export controls for alleged PLA links Both Apple's and Google's online stores offer free virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by Chinese companies, according to researchers at the Tech Transparency Project, and they don't make this … #theregister #IT
Report: Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs
: Some trace back to an outfit under US export controls for alleged PLA links
The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts Feature  In early May, independent digital storage analyst Thomas Coughlin shared news of falling sales and revenue in the first quarter of 2025, continuing a trend that started in around 2010. Coughlin cites data from that year showing around 600 million annual hard disk shipme… #theregister #IT
The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives
Feature: Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts
Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years' experience and a PhD Infosec employers demanding too much from early-career recruits, says ISC2 Cybersecurity hiring managers need a reality check when it comes to hiring junior staff, with job adverts littered with unfair expectations that are hampering recruitment efforts, says industry training and cert issuer ISC2.… #theregister #IT
Employers are demanding too much from junior cyber recruits
: Infosec employers demanding too much from early-career recruits, says ISC2
Friday the 13th strikes for Barclays' corporate customers Superstitions stoked by blackout of iPortal centralized platform when no maintenance was scheduled Barclays Bank is wrestling with some digital gremlins affecting its corporate banking services this Friday the 13th of June – the final day of the working week for many of us, but perhaps not the poor techies beavering away to restore… #theregister #IT
Friday the 13th strikes for Barclays
: Superstitions stoked by blackout of iPortal centralized platform when no maintenance was scheduled