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Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul - (pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:01:14 GMT)We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El RegIf you were hoping for some relief from stratospheric memory pricing, don't hold your breath. DRAM prices aren't expected to peak until at least 2026, TechInsights analyst James Sanders tells El Reg.… |
Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:04:12 GMT)Custom-designed $10,000 scooter goes 65mph, has a 60-mile range, and runs silentlyhands on Infinite Machine, a New York-based electric vehicle startup, began with a stolen Vespa. … |
ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:15:11 GMT)Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua membersA Venezuelan gang described by US officials as "a ruthless terrorist organization" faces charges over alleged deployment of malware on ATMs across the country, illegally siphoning millions of dollars.… |
DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:03:09 GMT)But not Phil Collins, sadlyThe US Department of Energy (DOE) has a Christmas gift for the AI industry in the shape of agreements for collaboration in the Trump administration's Genesis Mission, which aims to use AI to drive scientific discoveries.… |
WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:16:06 GMT)Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewallsWatchGuard is in emergency patch mode after confirming that a critical remote code execution flaw in its Firebox firewalls is under active attack.… |
Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:06:14 GMT)Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K peopleThe University of Sydney is ringing around thousands of current and former staff and students after admitting attackers helped themselves to historical personal data stashed inside one of its online code repositories.… |
NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:02:13 GMT)UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with AtosAlready £1.4 billion over budget and four years late, a tech transformation project at a UK state-owned bank is outside HM Treasury spending limits and timetable under a revised plan from systems integrator Capgemini.… |
pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:03:05 GMT)Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheenThe new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It's not going to turn the distro world upside down, but it's fun, interesting, and a showcase for the versatility and customizability of the Linux desktop.… |
HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10 - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:03:05 GMT)Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platformHewlett Packard Enterprise has told customers to drop whatever they're doing and patch OneView after admitting a maximum-severity bug could let attackers run code on the management platform without so much as a login prompt.… |
UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:28:11 GMT)Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgradeBritain is set to become a post-3G nation as Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) prepares to be the last of the country's mobile networks to switch off its 3G service, although it may linger for a while at a few sites.… |
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:49:12 GMT)Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solutionExclusive Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider.… |
Ministers confirm breach at UK Foreign Office but details remain murky - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:14:15 GMT)Officials admit 'there certainly has been a hack,' but refuse to confirm China link or data theftThe UK's Foreign Office is investigating a confirmed cyberattack it learned about in October, senior ministers say.… |
Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:30:07 GMT)Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental healthYoung Brits are souring on the internet, with increasing numbers seeing it as damaging to society and their mental health, according to latest research published by Ofcom.… |
GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:00:12 GMT)Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responsesThe UK's Government Digital Service (GDS) will add an AI chatbot to its GOV.UK app in early 2026, before rolling it out across the GOV.UK website used by most government departments and services.… |
Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:30:15 GMT)Are pasties a proxy for weight? Or a cypher for circumference?The Reg Standards Bureau was plunged into uproar this week when a reader suggested a new unit for weight, inspired by Cornwall's revamped food recycling service.… |
User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:30:14 GMT)Hey, teacher, leave that cabling aloneOn Call Welcome once more to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed Friday column in which we share your stories of tech support jobs so wrong, they're right.… |
Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:39:40 GMT)Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concernsTechnicians working on a firewall upgrade made at least ten mistakes, contributing to two deaths, according to a report on a September incident that saw Australian telco Optus unable to route calls to emergency services.… |
China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET - (pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:59:34 GMT)Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'Chinese authorities on Thursday certified the China Environment for Network Innovation (CENI), a vast research network that Beijing hopes will propel the country to the forefront of networking research.… |
Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:39:13 GMT)Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTailEven Amazon isn't immune to North Korean scammers who try to score remote jobs at tech companies so they can funnel their wages to Kim Jong Un's coffers.… |
Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:20:38 GMT)Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.Waterfox, a popular fork of Firefox, is saying nay to AI. Considering how unpopular Mozilla's plan to botify its browser has become, this could win the alternative some converts.… |
Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:54:28 GMT)Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.”Snowflake pushed an update this week that caused a “major outage” worldwide, leaving many users unable to query data, experiencing failures when ingesting files, and receiving error messages for 13 hours, the company wrote in an impact statement.… |
Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:13:00 GMT)Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of dateWeb browsers for desktop and mobile devices tend to receive regular security updates, but that often isn't the case for those that reside within game consoles, televisions, e-readers, cars, and other devices. These outdated, embedded browsers can leave you open to phishing and other security vulnerabilities.… |
Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:53:04 GMT)'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational'Your AWS account could be quietly running someone else's cryptominer. Cryptocurrency thieves are using stolen Amazon account credentials to mine for coins at the expense of AWS customers, abusing their Elastic Container Service (ECS) and their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) resources, in an ongoing operation that started on November 2.… |
Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:07:37 GMT)NGMN warns fragmented standards leave operators guessing about power useThe Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) alliance is calling for standardized ways to measure energy consumption, saying that the industry cannot deliver on its efficiency and sustainability goals without them.… |
Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:02:38 GMT)Ambitious timelines don’t bend the laws of physicsJust when you thought 2025 couldn't get any weirder, Trump Media and Technology Group - best known for Truth Social - is jumping into the still-nascent but heavily funded nuclear fusion industry via a planned merger with TAE Technologies.… |
Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025 - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:47:51 GMT)ByBit attack doing some seriously heavy liftingNorth Korea's yearly cryptocurrency thefts have accelerated, with Kim's state-backed cybercriminals plundering just over $2 billion worth of tokens in 2025.… |
Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:34:15 GMT)Flaw in remote-access appliance lets attackers chain bugs for root-level takeoverSonicWall has warned customers of a zero-day flaw in its SMA 1000 remote-access appliance that's being actively exploited, potentially allowing attackers to escalate privileges and take over boxes.… |
FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:52:24 GMT)Justice Department claims unlicensed exchange funneled ransomware profitsUS feds have dismantled a crypto laundering service that they say helped cybercrooks wash tens of millions of dollars in dirty digital cash, seizing its servers and unsealing charges against an alleged Russian operator.… |
Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:19:29 GMT)Billionaire space tourist inherits troubled agency facing budget chaos, workforce cuts, and a Moon race against ChinaNASA has a new administrator. Billionaire and space tourist Jared Isaacman was confirmed by the US Senate by a vote of 67 to 30.… |
NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:02:22 GMT)Around 2,000 GP practices use its productsUpdated An NHS tech supplier is investigating a cyberattack that affected its systems in the early hours of Sunday.… |
React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:42:39 GMT)Security boffins warn flaw is now being used for ransomware attacks against live networksMicrosoft says attackers have already compromised "several hundred machines across a diverse set of organizations" via the React2Shell flaw, using the access to execute code, deploy malware, and, in some cases, deliver ransomware.… |
BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:01:06 GMT)Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giantsThe UK government wants the BBC to help Brits understand AI and develop basic technology skills as part of the public broadcaster's next charter period.… |
DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:38:26 GMT)18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500The UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has appointed a new chief exec to tackle spiraling waits for practical driving tests with bots overrunning its aging booking system.… |
UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:15:12 GMT)Investigatory Powers Commissioner says reforms have failed to close oversight gapsThe UK's Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) has several regulatory gaps that must be plugged in future legislative reforms, according to Investigatory Powers Commissioner (IPC) Sir Brian Leveson.… |
Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:37:53 GMT)MPs press minister for answers – and get fewIf UK readers are perplexed by the country's seemingly shambolic state of broadband and telecoms, relative to other European nations, insight can be gleaned from a one-off evidence session conducted by Parliament.… |
United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:45:06 GMT)World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'NetThe United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday reached consensus on a review of the world’s internet governance arrangements and preserved the current multi-stakeholder model that means governments are just one of many voices that debate the future of the internet.… |
Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:41:21 GMT)Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supplyMemory-maker Micron Technology has predicted that RAM shortages are here to stay, meaning higher prices for servers probably are, too.… |
ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:52:54 GMT)Believes it can translate workflow smarts into AI ROIIn October, Salesforce debuted Agentforce IT in a direct challenge to ServiceNow’s ITSM product, and analyst firm Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst Charles Betz rated it the “most credible threat” ServiceNow has ever faced.… |
Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:28:05 GMT)GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their headsPurdue University last week said it will require incoming undergraduate students to meet an "AI working competency" requirement in order to graduate.… |
Attacks pummeling Cisco AsyncOS 0-day since late November - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:51:46 GMT)No timeline for a patchSuspected Chinese-government-linked threat actors have been battering a maximum-severity Cisco AsyncOS zero-day vulnerability in some Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and Secure Email and Web Manager (SEWM) appliances for nearly a month, and there's no timeline for a fix.… |
CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:29:10 GMT)Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties aheadinterview No good idea - like rewarding open source software developers and maintainers for their contributions - goes unabused by cybercriminals, and this was the case with the Tea Protocol and two token farming campaigns.… |
Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:54:54 GMT)Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and GoogleIn today's episode of "Amazon Kremlinology," AWS has put out a press release that shows a significant shuffle of one of AWS's most storied leaders.… |
Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:17:03 GMT)Vermont lawmaker proposes DC moratorium to give Congress time to rein in the AI boomUS Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is calling for a nationwide moratorium on datacenter construction, saying it would "give democracy a chance to catch up … and make sure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the wealthiest people on Earth."… |
All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:18:47 GMT)Startup expects its first Kaleidos reactor to power on at Idaho National Lab next yearAmid the AI boom, nuclear power is in vogue, with venture capitalists lining up to plow hundreds of millions into small modular reactor (SMR) startups to make their datacenter energy headaches go away.… |
GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:26:35 GMT)Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.updated Following publication of our original article, GitHub reversed its decision. The Microsoft-owned developer site has taken to X to admit it might have made a mistake by unilaterally announcing plans to charge people for using their own hardware to host runners.… |
NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:42:22 GMT)Spacecraft was 'rotating in an unexpected manner' and might have shifted orbitNASA is still trying to recontact the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it stopped responding earlier this month, with fragmentary tracking data hinting the craft may be tumbling and off its predicted trajectory.… |
Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:03:39 GMT)Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failingsIn proposing a settlement agreement, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that Illusory Systems must repay users funds lost in a 2022 cyberattack.… |
AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:00:12 GMT)CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankersGenerating code using AI increases the number of issues that need to be reviewed and the severity of those issues.… |
NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:54:57 GMT)Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information warNATO is in an existential race to develop sovereign cloud-based technologies to underpin its mission, the alliance's Assistant Secretary General for Cyber and Digital Transformation told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) last week.… |
California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:10:13 GMT)Full Self-Driving Capability marketing deemed a 'violation of state law'The California DMV says Tesla's use of the term Autopilot is misleading and violated state law, but has hit the brakes on a proposed 30-day suspension of the car maker's manufacturing and dealer licenses.… |
