Dutch regulators, the RDW, announced that after over a year and a half of testing, it has officially approved Tesla’s Full-Self Driving (FSD) Supervised. This makes the Netherlands the first European country to authorize the use of FSD on its roads. This could open the door to wider adoption throughout the EU. Tesla’s European headquarters…
Opinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it’s finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, “an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities.” Oh boy! Just…
Most UK business leaders will keep AI at the top of their spending priorities, with 65 percent planning to maintain investment whether they see immediate measurable returns or not. As debate rages about the need for proving return on investment (ROI) before tech departments open their wallets to buy AI platforms, agents, or enterprise software…
Amazon’s board of directors is urging shareholders to reject a proposal that would have the megacorp disclose more information on the impact of datacenters on its climate commitments. The proposal is one of several shareholder suggestions in the online bazaar’s proxy statement [PDF], sent to all shareholders ahead of its annual meeting next month. It…
Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome. The issue hit tools like HWMonitor and CPU-Z, with users on Reddit and elsewhere starting to notice something wasn’t right when installers tripped…
The Global Electronics Association (GEA) warns that the US ban on foreign-made network routers is impractical because few are made domestically, leaving consumers with little choice and delaying access to next-gen products, just as Wi-Fi 7 adoption should be ramping up. In a report, the body representing the international electronics industry argues that the policy…
Firefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice. Mozilla VP of global policy Linda Griffin said on Thursday that Microsoft pushing Copilot into every corner of Windows it could…
Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India. One of the first signs of the decision was a Xeet from a Chinese user with the handle @adam8157, who claimed a friend…
In a world wracked by wars, beset by difficult economic conditions, and struggling with exploding RAM costs, there’s one piece of good news. NASA’s Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them. Now, the ship is headed back and is due to splash…
Snowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn’t the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflake’s director of product management James Rowland-Jones told The Register. He said that the data analytics company is doubling down on open standards to…