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the register A quarter of 5-7 year olds now use smartphones, says regulator Cybercriminals threaten to leak all 5 million records from stolen database of high-risk individuals Germany cuffs alleged Russian spies over plot to bomb industrial and military targets Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95 Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why UK unions publish AI bill to protect workers from 'risks and harms' of tech Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud Meta lets Llama 3 LLM out to graze, claims it can give Google and Anthropic a kicking US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans Ransomware feared as IT 'issues' force Octapharma Plasma to close 150+ centers Crooks exploit OpenMetadata holes to mine crypto – and leave a sob story for victims Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO's exit IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students Microsoft aims to triple datacenter capacity to fuel AI boom House passes bill banning Uncle Sam from snooping on citizens via data brokers October 2025 will be a support massacre for a bunch of Microsoft products Fraudsters abused Apple Stores' third-party pickup policy to phish for profits 911 goes MIA across multiple US states, cause unclear TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope 185K people's sensitive data in the pits after ransomware raid on Cherry Health Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week Micron scores $6.1B CHIPS Act cash for New York and Idaho fabs Google laying off staff again and moving some roles to 'hubs,' freeing up cash for AI investments EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible Prolific phishing-made-easy emporium LabHost knocked offline in cyber-cop op Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app Singapore infosec boss warns China/West tech split will be bad for interoperability Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data Taiwanese film studio snaps up Chinese surveillance camera specialist Dahua Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice? America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the ... new commercial Atlas Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures think so