All aboard the chatbot hype train! Next stop: Fraud Google has removed a ChatGPT extension from the Chrome store that steals Facebook session cookies – but not before more than 9,000 users installed the account-compromising bot ..read more

Now all it has to do is land The possibioity of the world's first successful privately-funded and operated Moon landing is a little after Japanese aerospace outfit ispace announced its Hakuto-R lander successfully completed a lunar orbit insertion maneuver on Tuesday ..read more

Builds its own seat at the standards development table India's government has presented the nation with a challenge: to lead development and deployment of 6G, both within its borders and elsewhere ..read more

British American Tobacco, Samsung, also burgered up their infosec South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission has fined McDonald's, British American Tobacco, and Samsung for privacy breaches ..read more

We each grab a mic and take apart the Bard stewards responsible for this hype Register Kettle  AI-powered chatbots are 2023's hot tech topic, although users report the results they produce are mixed. At best ..read more

Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus Photography community website DPReview will shut down on April 10, 2023, in conjunction with layoffs announced by parent company Amazon.com in January ..read more

Maybe this is deserved given the problem's in a hidden telnet service Public proof-of-concept exploits have landed for bugs in Netgear Orbi routers – including one critical command execution vulnerability.  ..read more

Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in big data of the past decade Interview  Jordan Tigani made his name as an engineer leading the team behind BigQuery, Google’s data warehouse, which was among a group of systems to transform the market by separating storage and compute. Despite helping win global customers including Vodafone, and taking on big-name rivals Snowflake, Azure Synapse and AWS Redshift, he’s begun to think the approach has run out of “magic beans” for some users ..read more

Now that's a flash bang Police in Ecuador are investigating attacks on media organizations across the country after a journalist was injured by an exploding USB flash drive ..read more

A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that America's Federal Trade Commission has warned it may crack down on companies that not only use generative AI tools to scam folks, but also those making the software in the first place, even if those applications were not created with that fraud in mind.  ..read more