AFRINIC election delayed after ISP Association wins injunction over voter rights Polling was supposed to start on Monday. Organizers warn situation is fluid A court in Mauritius has postponed the long-awaited election at the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC).… #theregister #IT
AFRINIC election delayed after voter rights complaint
UPDATED: Polling was supposed to start on Monday - moved to Wednesday after court revisited the case
Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project DoD says deal covers 'warfighting'. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and 'supporting proactive cyber defense' The US Department of Defense has contracted OpenAI to run a pilot program that will create "frontier AI," but it's not clear what they're building together.… #theregister #IT
OpenAI scores $200m Defense Department AI pilot deal
: DoD says deal covers 'warfighting'. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and 'supporting proactive cyber defense'
Alt cloud platform Railway forced to pause lowest tiers after onrush of GCP customers A moment of panic as some customers thought the free tiers were going away On Monday, Railway, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, decided to throttle software builds by customers in its lowest paying tiers to accommodate unexpected demand for service following the Google Cloud Platform outage… #theregister #IT
Railway pauses lowest tiers after onrush of GCP customers
: A moment of panic as some customers thought the free tiers were going away
Scattered Spider has moved from retail to insurance Google threat analysts warn the team behind the Marks & Spencer break-in has moved on Cyber-crime crew Scattered Spider has infected US insurance companies following a series of ransomware attacks against American and British retailers, according to Google, which urged this sector to be on "high alert."… #theregister #IT
Scattered Spider targets insurance firms, Google warns
: Google threat analysts warn the team behind the Marks & Spencer break-in has moved on
UK students flock to AI to help them cheat No need to plagiarize if you can have AI do it for you A series of Freedom of Information requests shows that students in British universities are increasingly getting busted for using AI to cheat.… #theregister #IT
Huge increase in UK students using AI to cheat for grades
: No need to plagiarize if you can have AI do it for you
Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone MAGA MVNO and the gold-plated telephone of destiny The Trump family is getting into the wireless business - and what better way to do it than with a gold-colored Android smartphone that could someday be designed and manufactured in the USA?… #theregister #IT
Trump-branded MVNO and gold-colored phone launches
: MAGA MVNO and the gold-plated telephone of destiny
Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet Gaze into the temporal distance and you might spot the end of the age of silicon looming somewhere out there, as a research team at Penn State University claims to have built the first working CMOS computer entirely from two-dimensional materials.… #theregister #IT
Penn State research team builds 2D CMOS system
: Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet
Remorseless extortionists claim to have stolen thousands of files from Freedman HealthCare The group has previously threatened to SWAT cancer patients and leaked pre-op plastic surgery photos An extortion gang claims to have breached Freedman HealthCare, a data and analytics firm whose customers include state agencies, health providers, and insurance companies, and is t… #theregister #IT
Freedman HealthCare targeted by cyber extortionists
UPDATED: The group has previously threatened to SWAT cancer patients and leaked pre-op plastic surgery photos
Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0 Japan is the latest nation hoping to tempt disgruntled US researchers alarmed by the Trump administration's hostile attitude to academia to relocate to the Land of the Rising Sun.… #theregister #IT
Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent
: For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0
Canada's WestJet says 'expect interruptions' online as it navigates cybersecurity turbulence Flights still flying - just don't count on the app or website working smoothly Canadian airline WestJet is warning of "intermittent interruptions or errors" on its app and website as it investigates a cybersecurity incident.… #theregister #IT
WestJet:
updated: Flights still flying - just don't count on the app or website working smoothly