One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's quite simple.… #theregister #IT
Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us Cloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded more than 19 million instances of malware-laden apps that evaded the web giant’s security scans.… #theregister #IT
Two wrongs don’t make a copyright What the Dickens is going on in Germany? Opinion  Let’s talk law and let’s talk donkey. Or. in the British vernacular, ass. In particular, let’s go back to Charles Dickens, a pungent critic of the law, who had one of his characters in Oliver Twist say of a legal assumption that “If the law supposes that, the law is a ass - a idiot.”… #theregister #IT
Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions +COMMENT  US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose extra tariffs on imports from any nation that dares to regulate American technology companies.… #theregister #IT
VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps Because AI, like everything else this year EXCLUSIVE  VMware will port its flagship hypervisor and Cloud Foundation suite to the Arm processor architecture.… #theregister #IT
Nvidia touts Jetson Thor kit for real-time robot reasoning GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latency Nvidia has released a new brain for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor that promises more compute power and more memory than its predecessor.… #theregister #IT
Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse 10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape Comment  We know US President Donald Trump isn't a fan of the US Chips Act. But, turn a government handout into a tit-for-tat transaction and the self described "master dealmaker" is singing a different tune.… #theregister #IT
VMware before Broadcom was ‘A unicorn in fluffy cloudland’ The CEO of VMware’s most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what’s gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better In the 20 months since Broadcom took over VMware, Yves Sandfort has become the most ardent and prolific commentator on the acquisition. The CEO of Germany-headquartered VMware partner… #theregister #IT
Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document database's permissive MIT license as if it were an "Open for Business" sign.… #theregister #IT
xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok Lawsuit 'consistent with Mr Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment' says Altman's crew Elon Musk's xAI and X businesses have shown a bad case of the Mondays by launching an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI that claims the duo are trying to stifle competition in the mobile machine-intelligence world.… #theregister #IT