Crims are posing as insurance companies to steal health records and payment info Taking advantage of the ridiculously complex US healthcare billing system Criminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI.… #theregister #IT
Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult material Over 18? Prove it The US Supreme Court has ruled that Texas' age certification law for viewing sexually explicit content is valid, meaning that viewers of such material will have to prove their age.… #theregister #IT
How Broadcom is quietly plotting a takeover of the AI infrastructure market When AI is a nesting doll of networks, so why reinvent the wheel when you can license it instead feature  GPUs dominate the conversation when it comes to AI infrastructure. But while they're an essential piece of the puzzle, it's the interconnect fabrics that allow us to harness them to train and run multi-trillion-parameter… #theregister #IT
Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages 'Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance urging software developers to adopt memory-safe programming languages.… #theregister #IT
Fed chair Powell says AI is coming for your job AI will make 'significant changes' to economy, labor market It may not happen today or even tomorrow, but US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is confident that someday soon AI is going to seriously change the US economy and labor market. … #theregister #IT
Palantir jumps aboard tech-nuclear bandwagon with software deal The AI boom needs power, and startup The Nuclear Company aims to help build Palantir has become the latest tech company to jump on the nuclear power bandwagon - not by making a datacenter deal like Microsoft or Amazon, mind you, but by providing its data analytics software to a startup aiming to help build nuclear… #theregister #IT
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’ Now play dead, like a lot of NASA science programs if the White House gets its way The team behind NASA's 19-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been busy teaching an old spacecraft new tricks, persuading the vehicle to perform a 120-degree roll to peer more clearly into the red planet… #theregister #IT
Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI Getting it in might mean re-racking the entire datacenter and rebuilding the network, though Cisco is talking up the integration of security into network infrastructure such as its latest Catalyst switches, claiming this is vital to AI applications, and in particular the current vogue for "agentic AI."… #theregister #IT
Aloha, you might’ve been pwned: Hawaiian Airlines discloses ‘cybersecurity event’ 'No impact on safety,' FAA tells The Reg Hawaiian Airlines said a "cybersecurity incident" affected some of its IT systems, but noted that flights are operating as scheduled.… #theregister #IT
US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent' Satellite data used for hurricane forecasting is to be abruptly cut off from the end of June due to "recent service changes."… #theregister #IT