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OpenAI reorg at risk as Attorneys General push AI safety - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:18:50 GMT)California, Delaware AGs blast ChatGPT shop over chatbot safeguardsThe Attorneys General of California and Delaware on Friday wrote to OpenAI's board of directors, demanding that the AI company take steps to ensure its services are safe for children.… |
US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:30:34 GMT)South Korean government protests as workers left up s**t creekThe Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it executed its largest single-site raid to date, detaining 475 people at the Hyundai–LG battery plant under construction in Georgia.… |
Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:40:11 GMT)Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting optionsAmong the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.… |
If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here's what they might look like - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:12:57 GMT)Whatever happened to that Baltra thing Tan and crew were helping Apple cook up?Analysis OpenAI is allegedly developing a custom AI accelerator with the help of Broadcom in an apparent bid to curb its reliance on Nvidia and drive down the cost of its GPT family of models.… |
FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:45:35 GMT)Chair Carr calls E-Rate expansions unlawful, Ted Cruz warns of online risks for kidsThe US Federal Communications Commission may soon pull funding for free Wi-Fi on school buses and in libraries after Chair Brendan Carr declared two Biden-era expansions unlawful and proposed eliminating them.… |
The crazy, true story behind the first AI-powered ransomware - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:11:13 GMT)tldr; boffins did itinterview It all started as an idea for a research paper. … |
Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:45:35 GMT)Pro tip, don't install PowerShell commands without approvalA team of data thieves has doubled down by developing its CastleRAT malware in both Python and C variants. Both versions spread by tricking users into pasting malicious commands through a technique called ClickFix, which uses fake fixes and login prompts.… |
HHS warns US health care industry to share data with patients or else - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:09:33 GMT)After years of foot-dragging, penalties for blocking access finally kick inIt took four presidential administrations to finally get it done, but US health care actors that block patient and provider access to electronic medical data may finally begin to face actual consequences.… |
Critical, make-me-super-user SAP S/4HANA bug under active exploitation - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:04:14 GMT)9.9-rated flaw on the loose, so patch nowA critical code-injection bug in SAP S/4HANA that allows low-privileged attackers to take over your SAP system is being actively exploited, according to security researchers.… |
Bot shots: US Army enlists AI startup to provide target-tracking - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:13:09 GMT)Because handing battlefield ID to an algorithm has never gone wrong before, right?The US Army is preparing to deploy a new AI product that promises to automatically identify and track potential targets on the battlefield. However, humans will continue to make life and death decisions.… |
Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer hits exascale threshold at inauguration - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:38:09 GMT)It won't be fully functional for a while, thoughvideo Europe's first exascale supercomputer has finally lived up to expectations, despite not being fully complete, as its general-purpose compute cluster is not set to be ready before next year at the earliest.… |
Firefox ESR 115 won't quit Windows 7 – at least not until March 2026 - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:01:11 GMT)Firefox 145 is dumping 32-bit Linux, thoughMozilla, the maker of Firefox, had some good news this week for users still clinging to Windows 7 – Firefox ESR 115 support is being extended until March 2026.… |
Linux Mint 22.2 polishes the desktop, but kernel updates are the real deal - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:02:12 GMT)Point release brings Cinnamon tweaks, shiny apps, and Ubuntu's Hardware Enablement stackThe latest point release to the current version of Linux Mint brings a newer Cinnamon (if that's your thing) and updates for all.… |
Trump tells Big Tech: Your power woes? Totally fixable - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:01:15 GMT)White House hosts back-slapping dinner for Tim Apple and co, datacenter grid connection relief promised by US PrezPresident Donald Trump has pledged to sort out the power and grid connection nightmares plaguing the US datacenter industry.… |
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:30:07 GMT)Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AIMicrosoft researchers in Cambridge have unveiled its latest iteration of an Analog Optical Computer (AOC) and have inevitably incorporated AI into the technology's capabilities.… |
OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:33:14 GMT)Move over LinkedIn, Altman's crew wants a piece of the actionFor those worried that AI is going to disrupt their jobs, OpenAI has the solution – take its certification and use a newly announced jobs board to find a new role.… |
Fujitsu under fire for bidding on UK public sector deals despite Horizon scandal vow - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:34:47 GMT)Millions continued to flow after Japanese supplier said it would step backThe coordinator of a parliamentary campaign to end Fujitsu's grip on UK government contracting in the wake of the Post Office Horizon scandal has slammed the Japanese vendor's lack of transparency over its promise not to bid for new government work.… |
Huawei's battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:26:06 GMT)Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025Exclusive Huawei's product portfolio in Britain is about to shrink again with suppliers informed that its battery energy storage systems (BESS) are to be discontinued locally by the end of 2025.… |
Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:30:13 GMT)Affinity Learning Partnership warns staff after Intradev breachA major UK education trust has warned staff that their personal information may have been compromised following a cyberattack on software developer Intradev in August.… |
Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:31:06 GMT)Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at riskOn Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share your tech support stories.… |
AI code assistants make developers more efficient at creating security problems - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 06:29:08 GMT)Fixes typos, creates timebombsAI coding assistants allow developers to move fast and break things, which may not be ideal.… |
Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 06:01:18 GMT)Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI acceleratorsBroadcom has impressed investors by posting record revenues but admitted it has sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers.… |
Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models - (pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:58:09 GMT)Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from AirbnbUber’s Indian arm has started using its app to offer rideshare and delivery drivers the chance to make a Rupee by classifying data used by AI systems.… |
Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:59:29 GMT)Because nobody's going to spend billions to retrain a model built on dubiously legal contentResearchers have found promising new ways to have AI models ignore copyrighted content, suggesting it may be possible to satisfy legal requirements without going through the lengthy and costly process of retraining models.… |
Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:14:00 GMT)You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? OuchUnknown miscreants are exploiting a configuration vulnerability in multiple Sitecore products to achieve remote code execution via a publicly exposed key and deploy snooping malware on infected machines.… |
Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:18:14 GMT)AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production appsAI models get slammed for producing sloppy bug reports and burdening open source maintainers with hallucinated issues, but they also have the potential to transform application security through automation.… |
Gigs in space: Amazon breaks bandwidth barrier with Kuiper's satellite broadband - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:41:05 GMT)Signs up JetBlue for in-flight connection, but not until 2027Amazon showed off download speeds peaking at 1.28 Gbps from its nascent Project Kuiper internet satellite service and announced an airline deal with US commercial airline JetBlue to provide Wi-Fi in the sky.… |
China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:57:25 GMT)Defrauding search with custom malware, Potato-family exploitsA new China-aligned cybercrime crew named GhostRedirector has compromised at least 65 Windows servers worldwide - spotted in a June internet scan - using previously undocumented malware to juice gambling sites' rankings in Google search, according to ESET researchers.… |
Sky-high budget gap: FAA launches air traffic overhaul, lacks cash to finish it - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:08:09 GMT)Agency wants a single private integrator to herd 74K bits of kit with only 40% of the funding so farGet ready to start flying American skies with a renewed sense of confidence, at least eventually, as the Federal Aviation Administration has finally decided to start soliciting ideas for an overhaul of the US' antiquated air traffic control systems. In classic Trump administration style, the FAA wants a single private-sector integrator to run the overhaul, with the public footing the bill. … |
No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:13:26 GMT)We’ve got hungry American datacenters to feed, argued the lawmaker - a revival Nvidia dubs ‘doomer science fiction’+Comment US lawmakers are looking to apply Trump's America-First agenda to advanced semiconductors by giving US buyers first dibs while restricting the sale of most high-end chips needed for AI to the rest of the world.… |
Microsoft inches toward Rusty Windows drivers, production use still a no-no - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:15:12 GMT)Crates, cargo-wdk, and kernel hooks show progress, but hurdles remainDevelopers keen to write Windows drivers in Rust now have improved tools and samples, but progress is slow and obstacles to production use remain.… |
SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:33:12 GMT)But what goes up will also have to come downSpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has successfully reboosted the International Space Station (ISS), raising the perigee of its orbit by approximately one mile and further eroding the complex's reliance on Russian rocketry.… |
Windows starts asking for admin rights where it shouldn't after security fix - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:45:07 GMT)Patch closes vuln but leaves standard users locked out of common appsMicrosoft's August 2025 Windows Security Update is causing pain for administrators after a fix for a vulnerability led to some unintended consequences.… |
PostgreSQL 18 eyes analytics boost and distributed future - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:00:14 GMT)Async I/O and UUID v7 highlights of the September release, though some SQL features are delayedUsers and developers can expect the release of PostgreSQL 18 in September, the new iteration of the popular open source database, promising new features to enhance analytics and distributed architectures.… |
Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:12:59 GMT)'A cross-platform browser as an OS is now closer than ever,' claims $610M richer cofounders of The Browser CompanyAtlassian today revealed it has purchased New York startup The Browser Company, and it appears the pair have plans to reinvent the ChromeOS wheel with added... AI.… |
Linux Lite relief: 7.6 keeps it simple, shiny, and mostly slim - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:30:10 GMT)Ubuntu 24.04.3, with a prettified Xfce 4.18Linux Lite 7.6 is the latest, slightly updated release of this technologically moderate distro from New Zealand.… |
Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:45:12 GMT)Overly complex architecture featuring SpaceX's Starship to blameA former NASA administrator has told the US Senate Commerce Committee that it is "highly unlikely" the US will return humans to the Moon before a Chinese taikonaut plants a flag on the lunar surface.… |
Enterprises sticking with Windows 10 could shell out billions for continued support - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:01:07 GMT)Nexthink estimates ESU bills could top $7.3B as millions of devices set to miss upgrade deadlineFree support is ending for many editions of Windows 10 on October 14, and enterprises unable to make the jump are on the hook for billions to keep the fixes flowing.… |
SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:12:13 GMT)German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoricSAP says it will pump €20 billion into expanding sovereign cloud infrastructure in Europe over the next ten years, pitching itself as a secure and compliant alternative to American cloud giants.… |
UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:22:14 GMT)ARIA spent £16.5M, has £600M in the tank, and no one asked for it backARIA – the UK science and technology agency inspired by DARPA in the US – was not asked to make savings leading up to the Spending Review, unlike other government departments.… |
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:15:14 GMT)AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complexA UK government department's three-month trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot has revealed no discernible gain in productivity – speeding up some tasks yet making others slower due to lower quality outputs.… |
Sainsbury's eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:30:08 GMT)Privacy campaigners cry foul as grocer joins Asda, Iceland, and others in retail surveillance boomSainsbury's, Britain's second-largest supermarket chain, has caught the attention of privacy campaigners by launching an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech in two of its stores to curb shoplifting.… |
Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:16:10 GMT)GOTO 1976Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.… |
France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies that led to crummy privacy - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:00:11 GMT)Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permissionFrance’s data protection authority levied massive fines against Google and SHEIN for dropping cookies on customers without securing their permission, and also whacked Google for showing ads in email service.… |
IBM Cloud to end free human support, suggests customers use enhanced AI instead - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 03:32:07 GMT)Shift to self-service will apparently improve support, presumably Big Blue's bottom line tooIBM Cloud will update the services it provides under its Basic Support tier, which will move to a self-service model in January 2026.… |
US puts $10M bounty on three Russians accused of attacking critical infrastructure - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:31:10 GMT)Seven-year-old Cisco vuln that remains inexplicably unpatched is their way inThe US State Department has put a $10 million bounty on the heads of three Russians accused of being intelligence agents hacking America's critical infrastructure - primarily via old Cisco kit, it seems.… |
Congressional panel throws cyber threat intel-sharing, funding a lifeline - (pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:01:16 GMT)Clock is tickingUS security leaders have urged lawmakers to reauthorize two key pieces of cyber legislation, including one that facilitates threat-intel sharing between the private sector and federal government, before they expire at the end of the month.… |
Oracle’s layoff train rolls on: 101 in WA, 250+ in CA - with more cuts looming - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:28:15 GMT)Big Red bloodbath not yet acknowledged by the companyOracle on Tuesday laid off more than 100 workers in Washington State and more than 250 in California, though we're told that the database giant may be firing thousands around the world.… |
Android drops mega patch bomb - 120 fixes, two already exploited - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:51:51 GMT)September bundle the largest this year, and possibly the most seriousPatch Tuesday is next week, but Android is ahead of the game, dropping its biggest patch bundle this year while attackers actively exploit two of the now-fixed flaws.… |
Crims claim HexStrike AI penetration tool makes quick work of Citrix bugs - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:06:29 GMT)LLMs and 0-days - what could possibly go wrong?Attackers on underground forums claimed they were using HexStrike AI, an open-source red-teaming tool, against Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure, according to Check Point cybersecurity evangelist Amit Weigman.… |
