Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Cloud customers left reeling as forecasts leap hundreds of percent Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget alerts.… #theregister #IT

Microsoft cloud customers hit by messed-up migration

: Cloud customers left reeling as forecasts leap hundreds of percent

Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases A research group funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to invest £118 million ($169.6 million) in applying AI to vaccine research with the UK's Oxford University.… #theregister #IT

Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M vaccine research at Oxford

: Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases

Norway's £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships BAE's sub hunter production line warms up – shame it's not for Britain Norway has ordered British-made Type 26 frigates in a contract valued at roughly £10 billion to the UK economy, but this may delay the introduction of the Royal Navy's own desperately needed ships.… #theregister #IT

Norway

: BAE's sub hunter production line warms up – shame it's not for Britain

DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that's getting bigger. Let's kill it off Don't worry, there's a twist at the end Opinion  Agatha Christie stuck a dagger in the notion that crime doesn't pay. With sales of between two and four billion books – fittingly, the exact number is a mystery – she built a career out of murder that out-bloodied Jack the Ripper. It's a fair bet that had she chosen to write about… #theregister #IT

DDoSing is big and getting bigger – let

Opinion: Don't worry, there's a twist at the end

LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print Trust and believe – AI models trained to see 'legal' doc as super legit Researchers at security firm Pangea have discovered yet another way to trivially trick large language models (LLMs) into ignoring their guardrails. Stick your adversarial instructions somewhere in a legal document to give them an air of unearned legitimacy … #theregister #IT

LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying flaw in legal fine print

: Trust and believe – AI models trained to see 'legal' doc as super legit

ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict desctructive coronal ejections Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter probe has pinpointed the source of electrons expelled by the Sun, with implications for forecasting space weather.… #theregister #IT

ESA

: Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun

I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA At last, enough hours in the day to RTFM Who, Me?  No two mistakes are the same, but The Register thinks they're all worth celebrating each Monday when we serve up a fresh edition of Who, Me? – the reader-contributed column in which we share your most magnificent messes, and your means of making it out alive.… #theregister #IT

I was a part-time DBA – until a fabulous failover foul-up

Who, Me?: At last, enough hours in the day to RTFM

Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Sites at yourcountry.gov may also not bother with HTTPs Internet traffic to government domains often flows across borders, relies on a worryingly small number of network connections, or does not require encryption, according to new research.… #theregister #IT

Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders

: Sites at yourcountry.gov may also not bother with HTTPs

China launches new ‘AI+’ policy to ‘deepen information technology revolution’ PLUS: Spain cancels Huawei deal; Sony wants to use only recycled gold; Video of Alibaba’s uncanny FOSS digital humans; and more Asia In Brief  China’s State Council last week announced a new IT policy called “AI +”, the successor to 2015’s “Internet +”.… #theregister #IT

China launches new ‘AI+’ policy to speed

Asia In Brief: PLUS: Spain cancels Huawei deal; Sony wants to use only recycled gold; Video of Alibaba’s uncanny FOSS digital humans; and more

AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics.… #theregister #IT

AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help

: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"