Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to deliver proposals The Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a group it hopes will create a standard that lets content creators tell AI developers whether it’s OK to use their work.… #theregister #IT

IETF building tech to tell AI scrapers what authors want

: Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky The United States Social Security Administration's internet portal has frequently gone offline in recent weeks, and presented inaccurate or incomplete information to users, perhaps because of changes steered by Elon Musk's cost-trim… #theregister #IT

Social Security website stutters, perhaps due to DOGE action

: Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky

Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on female colleagues at work, home Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization's IT systems to ogle female clinicians using webcams at … #theregister #IT

Pharmacist accused of spying on women using work, home cams

: Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec

AI entrepreneur sent an avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future Interview  The founder of an AI startup who attempted to use an artificially generated avatar to argue his case in court has been scolded by a judge for the stunt.… #theregister #IT

Judge slams AI entrepreneur for having avatar testify

Interview: We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future

Tough luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited OS bug A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low Patch Tuesday  Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix.… #theregister #IT

Patch Tuesday fixes an exploited bug, but not for Windows 10

Patch Tuesday: A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low

TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei – it may cost it $1B+ What did we learn today, hm? TSMC could end up paying $1 billion or more to settle a US investigation into whether the Taiwanese outfit busted sanctions by indirectly producing AI accelerators for America's bête noire / hēi yáng, Huawei.… #theregister #IT

TSMC may face $1B+ penalty for suspected Huawei exports

: What did we learn today, hm?

Canadian nuclear watchdog green-lights construction of first licensed SMR Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another licence entirely Canadian nuclear regulators have approved an Ontario company's request to build a single small modular reactor - the first such license issued in the country. But with the chosen design yet to be operated anywhere in the wor… #theregister #IT https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/04/08/canada_nuclear_regulators_bless_smr_construction/

Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so Meta submitted a specially crafted, non-public variant of its Llama 4 AI model to an online benchmark that may have unfairly boosted its leaderboard position over rivals.… #theregister #IT

Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-n-switch to juice LMArena rank

: Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so

Boeing 787 radio software patch didn't work, says Qatar 'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear Boeing issued a software patch for the VHF radio systems used on its 787 aircraft, and the update turned out to be ineffective, Qatar Airways has complained.… #theregister #IT

Boeing 787 radio software patch didn

: 'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear

Don't open that JPG sent via WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE What a MIME field A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment - and, to be fair, it doesn't take much craft to pull that off.… #theregister #IT

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: What a MIME field