X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest attempt to bring Apple’s M-series magic to the PC Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5 Qualcomm revealed the second act in its bid to overtake Intel and AMD as the leading laptop CPU maker this week with the paper launch of its Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme processors. The company seeks to bring the kind of battery life and performance Apple has gotten… #theregister #IT

Qualcomm details X2 Elite Extreme, its most potent SoC yet

: Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5

North Korea's Lazarus Group shares its malware with IT work scammers Keeping Pyongyang's coffers full North Korean-linked crews connected to the pervasive IT worker scams have upped their malware game, using more advanced tools, including a backdoor that has much of the same code as Pyongyang's infamous Lazarus Group deploys.… #theregister #IT

Lazarus RAT code resurfaces in North Korean IT-worker scams

: Keeping Pyongyang's coffers full

Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net Amazon has settled the Federal Trade Commission's case against it for making it too hard to quit Prime, and while it naturally didn't admit to any wrongdoing, it's still going to pay out one of the larg… #theregister #IT

Amazon settles FTC Prime lawsuit, much to Khan

: Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net

AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42 Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors Despite protest letters, concerns that it's biased and untrustworthy, model tweaks to appease its billionaire boss, and even a past incident where it called itself "MechaHitler," xAI's Grok is still being made available to government… #theregister #IT

GrokAI offers services to Feds for just $0.42

: Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors

Callous crims break into preschool network, publish toddlers' data Images of toddlers and home addresses leaked in reprehensible landmark attack A cyber criminal crew has targeted Kido International, a preschool and daycare organization, leaking sensitive details about its pupils and their parents.… #theregister #IT

Cybercrooks publish toddlers

: Images of toddlers and home addresses leaked in reprehensible landmark attack

Harness pitches AI agents as your new DevOps taskmasters Productivity gains promised, but humans still expected to audit the bots At its Unscripted event in London, DevOps company Harness presented its latest AI-driven modules, including an AI pipeline builder, AI test automation, autonomous code fixing when builds fail, AI AppSec (application security) and even AI-driven chaos testing, w… #theregister #IT

Harness pitches AI agents as your new DevOps taskmasters

: Productivity gains promised, but humans still expected to audit the bots

DARPA amps up effort to make AI power-conscious New research program seeks ‘energy-aware’ ML that balances performance with power draw It's notoriously difficult to consistently measure the energy usage of AI models, but DARPA wants to put an end to that uncertainty with new "energy-aware" machine learning systems. … #theregister #IT

DARPA wants AI to know when it

: New research program seeks ‘energy-aware’ ML that balances performance with power draw

EU probes SAP over alleged software support stranglehold While EC suspects vendor's practices stifle competition, it argues it is in line with industry standards The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into SAP's behavior in the aftermarket for maintenance and support services in Europe.… #theregister #IT

EU probes SAP over alleged software support stranglehold

: While EC suspects vendor's practices stifle competition, it argues it is in line with industry standards

Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts Ruby Central is accused of ousting maintainers from core gems under pressure from Shopify Ruby Central is said to have quietly snatched control of several flagship Ruby open source projects from their long-time maintainers without their consent, following pressure from Shopify, one of its biggest backers.… #theregister #IT

Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts

: Ruby Central is accused of ousting maintainers from core gems under pressure from Shopify

Google reminds EU that Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks a year later Mountain View gripes over slow-moving regulators while Redmond rakes it in Google is like a dog with a bone over Microsoft's cloud licensing policies, not letting Euro regulators forget about what it sees as anti-competitive practices that penalize those wanting to run Windows software on rival cloud plat… #theregister #IT

Google points out Microsoft

: Mountain View gripes over slow-moving regulators while Redmond rakes it in