Silver State goes dark as cyberattack knocks Nevada websites offline Phone lines also down as officials rely on social media to issue updates The state of Nevada is now two days into a cyberattack that has brought down many of its digital services.… #theregister #IT
Cyberattack on state systems keeps Nevada’s office closed
: Phone lines also down as officials rely on social media to issue updates
One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's quite simple.… #theregister #IT
One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave
Updated: Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find
Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us Cloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded more than 19 million instances of malware-laden apps that evaded the web giant’s security scans.… #theregister #IT
Malware-ridden apps made it into Google
: Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us
Two wrongs don’t make a copyright What the Dickens is going on in Germany? Opinion  Let’s talk law and let’s talk donkey. Or. in the British vernacular, ass. In particular, let’s go back to Charles Dickens, a pungent critic of the law, who had one of his characters in Oliver Twist say of a legal assumption that “If the law supposes that, the law is a ass - a idiot.”… #theregister #IT
Axel Springer is fighting the wrong battle at the wrong time
Opinion: What the Dickens is going on in Germany?
Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions +COMMENT  US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose extra tariffs on imports from any nation that dares to regulate American technology companies.… #theregister #IT
Trump threatens taxes, bans, for nations that tax Big Tech
COMMENT: Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions
VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps Because AI, like everything else this year EXCLUSIVE  VMware will port its flagship hypervisor and Cloud Foundation suite to the Arm processor architecture.… #theregister #IT
VMware porting Cloud Foundation to Arm in baby steps
EXCLUSIVE: Because AI, like everything else this year
Nvidia touts Jetson Thor kit for real-time robot reasoning GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latency Nvidia has released a new brain for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor that promises more compute power and more memory than its predecessor.… #theregister #IT
Nvidia touts Jetson Thor kit for real-time robot reasoning
: GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latency
Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse 10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape Comment  We know US President Donald Trump isn't a fan of the US Chips Act. But, turn a government handout into a tit-for-tat transaction and the self described "master dealmaker" is singing a different tune.… #theregister #IT
Trump made Intel an offer it couldn
Comment: 10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape
VMware before Broadcom was ‘A unicorn in fluffy cloudland’ The CEO of VMware’s most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what’s gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better In the 20 months since Broadcom took over VMware, Yves Sandfort has become the most ardent and prolific commentator on the acquisition. The CEO of Germany-headquartered VMware partner… #theregister #IT
VMware before Broadcom was
: The CEO of VMware's most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what's gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better
Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document database's permissive MIT license as if it were an "Open for Business" sign.… #theregister #IT
Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB
: PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license