Iain Thomson
US News Editor and Journalist at The Register
British journo with @TheRegister. For work security, for play sailing, F1, and Marmite. @iainthomson.bsky.social and Signal iainthomson.60
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theregister.com | Iain Thomson
Californian courts have not been kind to authors this week, with a second ruling going against an unlucky 13 who sought redress for use of their content in training AI models. On Monday, Anthropic won most of its case against three authors over its use of their works to train its AI. Judge William Alsup ruled Anthropic was able to use the authors’ books if it bought them, but not if it pirated their material.
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2 days ago |
theregister.com | Iain Thomson
Intel is shuttering its automotive efforts and laying off the bulk of the team responsible. The chip giant has been building hardware for the car sector for nearly 50 years, but some staff are falling prey to the new CEO's cost-cutting program. The news, previously reported by The Oregonian, fits into new CEO Lip-Bu Tan's priorities for winnowing the Intel workforce and concentrating on technology that pays its way.
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2 days ago |
theregister.com | Iain Thomson
Britain's Three mobile network has suffered a major outage, with voice calls out of action and limitations on texting. The problems kicked off early on Wednesday morning, with Three originally reporting that voice services were lost, but data was still working. This was later amended to say text messages were affected too, but data transmission remained operational. "We're continuing to work on an issue affecting voice services which started earlier today.
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3 days ago |
theregister.com | Iain Thomson
Video On Monday, Elon Musk proudly launched his often-promised Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, but early videos shot by riders show how far the service lags behind Waymo. Back in 2019, Musk predicted that a million self-driving Tesla taxis would roam America's streets by the next year. In fact, the service debuted in 2025 with reportedly around ten rebadged Model Y Teslas. Tesla limited operation to a geofenced section of Austin, and so far only operates in daylight.
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3 days ago |
theregister.com | Iain Thomson
One of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to scan purchased books to train its Claude AI model, but that pirating content is legally out of bounds. In training its model, Anthropic bought millions of books, many second-hand, then cut them up and digitized the content.
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Had a great chat with @mikko about his career shift. https://t.co/fBysiS1xuJ Always an interesting chap with a passion for security. I regret my ex now has the tshirt F-Secure did for the 2005 Sony rootkit scandal and admired his shunning of RSAC 2014 for @TrustyCon
Earlier this year we lost John Young, cofounder of Cryptome and irascible to the end. Many thanks to his partner, the @EFF, @matthew_d_green, and others who shared their tales about the man, not all of them complimentary, but he was a chap of character. https://t.co/pcJ5PY3kKG
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