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The Register is a UK-based website that focuses on technology news and opinions. It was established in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice, and Ross Alderson. The site is published by Situation Publishing Ltd. Key figures include Drew Cullen as an owner, Linus Birtles as the managing director, and Andrew Orlowski serving as the Executive Editor.

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More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama scraping case

1 day ago | 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.
Intel totals automotive group

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.
Organizations can’t keep up with supply chain security musts

2 days ago | theregister.com | Connor Jones

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. New research from SecurityScorecard shows organizations and their security leaders are gravely concerned about supply chain risks. 88 percent of the 550 CISOs and other security higher-ups surveyed expressed worry over supply chain security, but far fewer than half actually monitor security fully across their external suppliers.
UK mobile telco Three suffers voice, text outage

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.
Paris police claim arrests of five BreachForums admins

2 days ago | theregister.com | Connor Jones

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. The arrests on Monday follow the earlier capture in February of a person police suspect of being a cyber crook known as IntelBroker, taking the total number of suspected BreachForums admins in handcuffs to five. BreachForums is one of the world's most infamous and popular cybercrime discussion boards.
MPs question Fujitsu's continued role in UK public sector

2 days ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

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. Following the widespread publicity around the Post Office Horizon scandal in January 2024, Fujitsu, which supplied the faulty computer system, volunteered to stop bidding for UK public sector contracts until the public inquiry had completed.
Home Office anti-encryption site pushes payday loan scheme

2 days ago | theregister.com | Connor Jones

A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme. The pwn on the government's No Place to Hide campaign, which cost over half a million pounds to produce, was first spotted by tech policy expert Heather Burns. The website originally featured a daring stunt involving a parent and child locked in a box, and was greeted with negative reception when it was unveiled three years ago.
Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7M

3 days ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

The UK central bank is expecting a 45 percent hike in the maximum cost of support services as it moves to the cloud and executes a revised data and analytics plan. In an official notice, the Bank of England said it would increase the maximum spending of a framework deal for a raft of services including support for its complex configuration of SAP, "in particular Business Warehouse" and interoperability between multi-cloud environments and on-prem and shared datacenters.
Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo

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.
Judge rules mostly for Anthropic in AI book training case

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.