I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world Mattel-OpenAI deal paves the way for an AI beach-off Toy giant Mattel has signed a deal with OpenAI to bring the tech industry's buzziest technology to the very youngest generation.… #theregister #IT
Barbie maker Mattel signs up with OpenAI
: Mattel-OpenAI deal paves the way for an AI beach-off
Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memo Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers' customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, according to… #theregister #IT
Ransomware disrupted utility services in SimpleHelp attacks
: Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memo
Ease the seat back and watch some video in your car with next Apple CarPlay Only while parked Apple is enabling video playback on its CarPlay automotive operating system and has integrated it into iOS 26, as long as you're parked.… #theregister #IT
Apple CarPlay gets video support while parked
: Only while parked
Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs Baby got Blackwell GPUs Google Cloud on Wednesday celebrated the debut of virtual machines incorporating Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPU technology, claiming to be the first cloud provider to sell this particular offering.… #theregister #IT
Google Cloud claims first Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VM
: Baby got Blackwell GPUs
US auditors beg Pentagon to pay attention to latest report about IT system flaws The DoD has ignored many past recommendations US government auditors have been trying to whip the Pentagon's IT programs into shape for half a decade, and the latest report suggests it continues to be an uphill battle. … #theregister #IT
Pentagon IT projects have lots of things to to fix, says GAO
: The DoD has ignored many past recommendations
Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads Despite 'multiple enforcement actions,' Joy Timeline HK allegedly wouldn't stop Meta has sued an app maker for advertising on Facebook and Instagram a so-called "nudify" app that uses AI to generate nude and sexually explicit images and videos of individuals without their consent.… #theregister #IT
Meta sues
: Despite 'multiple enforcement actions,' Joy Timeline HK allegedly wouldn't stop
Global Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.… #theregister #IT
Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare with it
UPDATED: Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain
Single passenger reportedly survives Air India Boeing 787 crash Aircraft didn't even get its wheels up before sinking into suburban area A Boeing 787 flying from India to London's Gatwick airport has crashed, leaving one reported survivor among the 242 people aboard.… #theregister #IT
One passenger survives Air India Boeing 787 crash: reports
: Aircraft didn't even get its wheels up before sinking into suburban area
TSMC strengthens Japan ties with joint RD lab in Tokyo University collab underscores pivot to Asia amid unpredictable US policy TSMC has opened a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo in Japan, the company's first such collaboration with an academic institute outside of Taiwan, amid ongoing concerns over the Trump administration's attitude to foreign tech firms.… #theregister #IT
TSMC strengthens Japan ties with joint R&D lab in Tokyo
: University collab underscores pivot to Asia amid unpredictable US policy
AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030 Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets With Moore's Law on its last legs and datacenter power consumption a growing concern, AMD is embarking on an ambitious new goal to boost the energy efficiency of its chips 20-fold before 2030. And it sees rack-scale architectures as a key design point to get there.… #theregister #IT
AMD
: Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets