Oracle just signed one mystery customer that will double its cloud revenue in 2028 Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration Oracle has landed a mystery customer that will add more than $30 billion to the database giant's annual revenues, more than doubling the size of its current cloud business.… #theregister #IT

Just one customer will double Oracle

: Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration

US shuts down a string of North Korean IT worker scams Resulting in two indictments, one arrest, and 137 laptops seized The US Department of Justice has announced a major disruption of multiple North Korean fake IT worker scams.… #theregister #IT

US shuts down a string of North Korean IT worker scams

: Resulting in two indictments, one arrest, and 137 laptops seized

Want a job? Just put 'AI skills' on your resume It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word' ai-pocalypse  For job seekers wondering which AI skills to bone up on, the answer appears to be simple based on a look at the past year of employment data: Just learn to use it. … #theregister #IT

AI jobs are skyrocketing, but you don

ai-pocalypse: It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word'

AIs have a favorite number, and it's not 42 Ask a model to guess a number from 1 to 50 and it's likely to answer 27 Asked to guess a number between 1 and 50, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Meta's Llama 4 all provided the same answer: 27.… #theregister #IT

AIs have a favorite number, and it

: Ask a model to guess a number from 1 to 50 and it's likely to answer 27

Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work Someday, my prince will come Google has agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). That's assuming, of course, the Massachusetts-based startup can actually get the miniaturized sun to make more power than it consumes, something even the Chocolate Fact… #theregister #IT

Google hedges bets on fusion future with Commonwealth PPA

: Someday, my prince will come

British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network Don't leave the door open to disgruntled workers A judge has sentenced a disgruntled IT worker to more than seven months in prison after he wreaked havoc on his employer's network following his suspension, according to West Yorkshire Police.… #theregister #IT

Seven months for IT worker who trashed his work network

: Don't leave the door open to disgruntled workers

Norwegian lotto mistakenly told thousands they were filthy rich after math error Oh, you have to divide by 100? Thousands of Norwegians mistakenly thought they'd won life-changing sums in last week's Eurojackpot after a manual coding slip at state-owned operator Norsk Tipping.… #theregister #IT

Norwegian lotto mistakenly told thousands they were rich

: Oh, you have to divide by 100?

Scattered Spider crime spree takes flight as focus turns to aviation sector Time ticking for defenders as social engineering pros weave wider web Just a few weeks after warning about Scattered Spider's tactics shifting toward the insurance industry, the same experts now say the aviation industry is now on the ransomware crew's radar.… #theregister #IT

Scattered Spider switches focus again, this time to aviation

: Time ticking for defenders as social engineering pros weave wider web

Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test video  Old Space has shown itself to be just as adept at explosive malfunctions as New Space, with Northrop Grumman encountering an anomaly during a static fire test of an updated solid rocket booster design.… #theregister #IT

Northrop Grumman rocket test ends in nozzle failure

video: NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test

Mitch Kapor finally completes MIT master's degree after 45-year detour During which he coded Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founded Mozilla and the EFF The man behind Lotus 1-2-3 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has wrapped up a master's degree at MIT Sloan, decades after dropping out to help kickstart the PC software boom.… #theregister #IT

Mitch Kapor completes MIT MBA after 45-year detour

: During which he coded Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founded Mozilla and the EFF