UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.… #theregister #IT

UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

: Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time

Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success' What counts as failure in New Space? Comment  Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and – you guessed it – its CEO called the test flight "a great success." This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-called "New Space" – the VC-fueled and risk-friendly private rocket secto… #theregister #IT

Isar orbital rocket crashes into sea – success, apparently

Comment: What counts as failure in New Space?

RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware.… #theregister #IT

RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory

: Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind

Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, ov… #theregister #IT

Asda-Walmart tech separation costs near £1 billion

: Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout

GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison Not exactly Snowden levels of skill A student at Britain's top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial.… #theregister #IT

Student pleads guilty to smuggling software out of GCHQ

: Not exactly Snowden levels of skill

Arm reckons it'll own 50% of the datacenter by year's end Optimistic much? Arm expects to see its architecture account for half of the datacenter CPU market by the end of this year, up from 15 percent in 2024, all thanks to the AI boom.… #theregister #IT

Arm targets 50 percent of datacenter CPUs this year

: Optimistic much?

Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.… #theregister #IT

Genetic data sharing service openSNP to close down

: Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt

Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’ How about making sure Windows crashes less, and stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too Microsoft has quietly revealed it’s redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that Windows presents after it crashes so badly a reboot is the only way out.… #theregister #IT

Microsoft teases redesigned Windows Blue Screen of Death

: How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too

Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better' OK, AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ... Intel's newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn things around.… #theregister #IT

Intel

Vision: AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ...

Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket 'They went silent and secured the images,' Jeremiah Fowler tells El Reg Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet – all of which disappeared after he tipped off the team seemingly behind the highly ques… #theregister #IT

GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed

: Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find?