Computer vision research feeds surveillance tech as patent links spike 5× A bottomless appetite for tracking people as "objects" A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.… #theregister #IT

Surveillance-linked computer vision patents jump 5×

: A bottomless appetite for tracking people as 'objects'

Supply chain attacks surge with orgs 'flying blind' about dependencies Who is the third party that does the thing in our thing? Yep. Attacks explode over past year The vast majority of global businesses are handling at least one material supply chain attack per year, but very few are doing enough to counter the growing threat.… #theregister #IT

Organizations can’t keep up with supply chain security musts

: Who is the third party that does the thing in our thing? Yep. Attacks explode over past year

Three goes to zero as UK mobile provider suffers voice and text outage Millions of customers left speechless Britain's Three mobile network has suffered a major outage, with voice calls out of action and limitations on texting.… #theregister #IT

UK mobile telco Three suffers voice, text outage

: Millions of customers left speechless

Hyperscalers to eat 61% of global datacenter capacity by decade's end Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22% Hyperscale operators are expected to account for 61 percent of all datacenter capacity by 2030, thanks in part to the growth of cloud services and rising demand for compute to feed AI.… #theregister #IT

Hyperscalers are eating global datacenter capacity

: Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22%

French cybercrime police arrest five suspected BreachForums admins Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums.… #theregister #IT

Paris police claim arrests of five BreachForums admins

: Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes

CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs Learning from the lessons of the past interview  Anuj Kapur, CEO of DevOps darling CloudBees, reckons that AI could retest the founding assumptions of DevOps as a whole, but warns against the risk of creating black-boxed code in the pursuit of greater efficiency. He also says that some customers who rushed into AI… #theregister #IT

CloudBees CEO slams the brakes on AI

interview: Learning from the lessons of the past

Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points Or your cloud-bound soul. Otherwise, $30 please Microsoft has found a new use for Reward Points – and another incentive to upload everything you hold dear to someone else's servers.… #theregister #IT

Microsoft opens a free tier for Windows 10 extended updates

: Or your cloud-bound soul. Otherwise, $30 please

Anthropic: All the major AI models will blackmail us if pushed hard enough Just like people Anthropic published research last week showing that all major AI models may resort to blackmail to avoid being shut down – but the researchers essentially pushed them into the undesired behavior through a series of artificial constraints that forced them into a binary decision.… #theregister #IT

Anthropic: All the major AI models will blackmail

: Just like people

Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft Three American hyperscalers are the gatekeepers to AI, as they possess the necessary compute infrastructure and access to the volumes of data required to train and deploy models at scale. … #theregister #IT

Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom

: Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft

Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up British MPs and peers are questioning the government's decision to continue accepting bids for large-scale IT contracts from Fujitsu, despite the Japanese supplier's previous pledge to stop bidding.… #theregister #IT

MPs question Fujitsu

Updated: Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up