Proposes central body to collect royalties and dole out cash to creators The government of India wants AI companies to pay for accessing content they use to train models, but only once they start producing revenue.

Chute opened early and snagged on a stabilizer VIDEO An Australian parachuting club has been told to improve the software it uses to manage jumps, after an accident in which a jumpers chute hooked on an aircrafts tailplane.

Didnt phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why Houston, we have a problem: NASA has lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.

Blame changed market conditions and attitudes, not the return of Nvidia's H200 to China Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon have called off their planned merger.

But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming Oracle expects its FY 2026 capital expenditures will be $15 billion higher that previously predicted, as the cloudy database biz invests to accommodate AI workloads.

Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting Most big AI providers scrape the open web, hoovering up content to improve their chatbots, which then compete with publishers for the attention of internet users. However, more AI orgs might have to pay up soon, because the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) spec has reached version 1.0, providing guidance on how to set machine-readable rules for crawlers.

Meet 'ShipOS' Palantir and the US Navy have signed a two-year deal to test whether its Foundry operational software can streamline the nations shipbuilding efforts and steer the Secretary of the Navy's top budget priority into port.

If you opt in to the paid service that is Nvidia is developing a new inventory management service that could be used by customers to verify the location of their existing GPU stockpiles.

More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day bug in Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, and the open source project doesn't yet have a fix.

Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, its a worry Alongside TikTok and Instagram, teens have added ChatGPT to the mix. Pew says about two-thirds of US teenagers have tried an AI chatbot, with nearly a third using one every day. Negative mental-health warnings be damned!

California chipset giant says itll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel Qualcomm could soon be serving up RISC-V cores alongside its custom Arm ones following the acquisition of Ventana Micro Systems on Wednesday.

The digital intrusion allegedly caused thousands of pounds of meat to spoil and triggered an ammonia leak in the facility A Ukrainian woman accused of hacking US public drinking water systems and a meat processing facility on behalf of Kremlin-backed cyber groups was extradited to the US earlier this year and will stand trial in early 2026.

Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowr Security researchers have revealed a .NET security flaw thought to affect a host of enterprise-grade products that they say Microsoft refuses to fix.

Countries subject to newly proposed rule include supposed trusted friends like the UK, France, and Germany The next time someone visits the US, customs may ask to see their passport, their Facebook feed, and all of their Instagram posts. The United States maintains a list of 42 countries whose citizens are allowed to enter without a visa, but visitors from those nations may soon have to provide five years' worth of their social media history in order to gain entry.

1,500 military digital defenders spent the past week cleaning up a series of cyberattacks on fictional island Andravia and Harbadus two nations so often at odds with one another were once again embroiled in conflict over the past seven days, which thoroughly tested NATO's cybersecurity experts' ability to coordinate defenses across battlefield domains.

Recent collision data points to comparable injury rates across modern vehicle types Electric cars are no more of a danger to pedestrians than conventional vehicles, according to new research.

They're now good enough to do things well, if you take the time to learn how to steer them Opinion For most of the last year, the phrase 'vibe coding' seemed more punchline than possibility. That outlook altered significantly over the last month after step-changes in quality mean vibe coding tools now generate code thats good enough to rewrite expectations about how IT will operate before the end of this decade.

Getting inferencing infrastructure into orbit may soon be cheaper than building it down here Space startup Aetherflux says it plans to put its first data center satellite into orbit during the first quarter of 2027.

Adapts its engines to power bit barns, and lands cash to fund its takeoff roll Boom Supersonic, the company that hopes to revive faster-than-sound air travel, has diverted into the datacenter power business.

Signoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the ground Space outfit Rocket Lab says its Hungry Hippo is ready to go into space, a fillip for the companys plans to fly its new Neutron launch vehicle.

US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own tech Half a decade of US trade policy aimed at denying China access to America's most potent semiconductor tech has only served to spur China to develop homegrown alternatives.

Plus critical critical Notepad++, Ivanti, and Fortinet updates, and one of these patches an under-attack security hole Happy December Patch Tuesday to all who celebrate. This month's patch party includes one Microsoft flaw under exploitation, plus two others listed as publicly known but just 57 CVEs in total from Redmond.

Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and thats kind of enough Australia's ban on children under 16 holding active social media accounts comes into force on Wednesday. While nobody expects this world-first policy to stop every kid using their favorite online communities, its backers take solace in the mere fact it's sparked global debate.

Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amok The fear of AI agents running amok has thus far halted the wide deployment of these digital workhorses, Okta's president of Auth0, Shiv Ramji, told The Register .

A win for the contractors Congress has released the final version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and critics have been quick to point out that previously proposed rules giving the US military the right to repair its equipment without having to rely on contractors have gone missing.

An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on The Linux Foundation on Tuesday said it has formed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to provide vendor-neutral oversight for the development of AI agent infrastructure.

Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck Hundreds of Porsches in Russia were rendered immobile last week, raising speculation of a hack, but the German carmaker tells The Register that its vehicles are secure.

Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable build Window Maker Live 13.2 is stubbornly keeping 32-bit PCs alive on Debian 13 "Trixie," shipping a new release that boots on i686 hardware.

Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say More than 230 organizations across America have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the construction of datacenters, claiming the current building boom represents a huge environmental and social threat.

Brussels probes whether unpaid web and YouTube content and rivals' lock-outs amount to abuse of dominance The European Commission is launching an antitrust probe at Google for allegedly using web and YouTube content to train its AI algorithms while putting competitors at a disadvantage.

Analysts say demand keeps rising despite constraints, shaky returns, and mounting investor nerves Datacenter capital expenditure is forecast to grow 17 percent annually through 2030, reaching $1.6 trillion, with supply chain constraints pushing up the price of components.

As Trump gives green light to ship Nvidia H200s to China and boost US Three US-based businessmen face potential prison sentences after authorities dismantled a smuggling network accused of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Nvidia GPUs to China.

Have we learned nothing from sci-fi films and TV shows? Interview Imagine botnets in physical form and you've got a pretty good idea of what could go wrong with the influx of AI-infused humanoid robots expected to integrate into society over the next few decades.

Billionaire's bid progresses while agency braces for sweeping reductions and program uncertainty Jared Isaacman has cleared another hurdle on his way to becoming the next NASA Administrator after the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation gave the billionaire SpaceX customer the nod.

February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integration SAP users admit they know very little about the vendor's data and analytics plans since the launch of the new product platform, Business Data Cloud (BDC), in February.

Foreign secretary set to address senior diplomats later today The UK's foreign secretary is calling for closer collaboration with Europe to combat the growing threat of information warfare as hybrid attacks target countries on the continent.

Younger finance pros are just as loyal to Microsoft's venerable spreadsheet app as their elders Despite its advancing years, Microsoft Excel is proving a hit with young finance professionals, many of whom reckon the aging number- cruncher has a bright future.

Digital native? Cloud native? No, we need to be AI native, says Riyadh Air IBM and Riyadh Air have upgraded their contracted agreement, meaning the Saudi operation will not be the world's first digitally native airline, but will instead be the first AI native operator.

UK data watchdog demands public sector improves subject access request processing UK public sector organizations need to improve access for those who want to see their own records of growing up in care, the Information Commissioner says.

As Portugal gives researchers a pass under cybersecurity law Portugal has become the latest country to carve out protections for researchers under its cybersecurity law.