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Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:33:43 GMT)This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadminsCisco finally delivered a fix for a maximum-severity bug in AsyncOS that has been under attack for at least a month.… |
Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:20:58 GMT)You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALinkRISC-V champion SiFive has joined a growing number of chip companies by throwing its weight behind Nvidia's proprietary NVLink Fusion interconnect tech, a move that casts doubt on the viability of rival interconnect tech UALink.… |
Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:19:25 GMT)The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use casesMore than half of AI projects have been delayed or canceled within the last two years citing complexities with AI infrastructure, according to a research report commissioned by DDN, a data optimization company in partnership with Google Cloud and Cognizant.… |
Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:15:02 GMT)What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and seeWhat policy wonk wouldn't want to click on an attachment promising to unveil US plans for Venezuela? Chinese cyberspies used just such a lure to target US government agencies and policy-related organizations in a phishing campaign that began just days after an American military operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.… |
Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:11:28 GMT)Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are requiredIf you use virtual machines, there's reason to feel less-than-Zen about AMD's CPUs. Computer scientists affiliated with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found a vulnerability in AMD CPUs that exposes secrets in its secure virtualization environment.… |
Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:18:38 GMT)Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt.Datacenters don't come cheap. Oracle debt bond holders are suing the tech giant, because they say that the company didn't tell them it would need to borrow even more money after its original sale, making their purchases less valuable.… |
Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:15:27 GMT)Office workers without AI experience warned to watch for prompt injection attacks - good luck with thatAnthropic's tendency to wave off prompt-injection risks is rearing its head in the company's new Cowork productivity AI, which suffers from a Files API exfiltration attack chain first disclosed last October and acknowledged but not fixed by Anthropic.… |
OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:51:02 GMT)SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuationOpenAI says it will deploy 750 megawatts worth of Nvidia competitor Cerebras' dinner-plate sized accelerators through 2028 to bolster its inference services.… |
Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:50:16 GMT)The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musk’s problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step inThe ongoing Grok fiasco has claimed two more unwilling participants, as campaigners demand Apple and Google boot X and its AI sidekick out of their app stores, because of the Elon Musk-owned AI's tendency to produce illicit images of real people.… |
A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud' - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:00:08 GMT)And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The RegA critical misconfiguration in AWS's CodeBuild service allowed complete takeover of the cloud provider's own GitHub repositories and put every AWS environment in the world at risk, according to Wiz security researchers.… |
Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:38:58 GMT)When margins are this tight, mergers might followThe memory shortage is forecast to push smartphone prices higher in 2026, triggering a market decline and forcing budget phone makers to merge or disappear.… |
Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:12:13 GMT)January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authenticationMicrosoft has kicked off 2026 with another faulty Windows update. This time, it is connection and authentication failures in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 related to the Windows App.… |
Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:03:27 GMT)Research shows erroneous training in one domain affects performance in another, with concerning implicationsLarge language models (LLMs) trained to misbehave in one domain exhibit errant behavior in unrelated areas, a discovery with significant implications for AI safety and deployment, according to research published in Nature this week.… |
US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:30:48 GMT)Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiumsThe Federal Trade Commission has banned General Motors and subsidiary OnStar from sharing drivers' precise location and behavior data with consumer reporting agencies for five years under a 20-year consent order finalized January 14.… |
Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:24:06 GMT)Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practiceThe UK's West Midlands Police has released a woman on bail as part of an investigation into a data breach at a Walsall general practitioner's (GP) surgery.… |
Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:26:35 GMT)Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.The latest version of the Wine Windows app runner arrives a year after version 10. Given its annual release cycle, its magic is starting to seem almost boring and routine, but it's far from it.… |
Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2 - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:49:31 GMT)40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this?Raspberry Pi has launched the AI HAT+ 2 with 8 GB of onboard RAM and the Hailo-10H neural network accelerator aimed at local AI computing.… |
Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:32:06 GMT)Redmond says cheap virtual desktops powered a global wave of phishing and fraudMicrosoft has taken its cybercrime fight to the UK in its first major civil action outside the US, moving to shut down RedVDS, a virtual desktop service used to power phishing and fraud at global scale.… |
Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:18:14 GMT)Cold milk poured over 'spicy mode,' but it might not be enough to escape a huge fineOfcom is continuing with its investigation into X, despite the social media platform saying it will block Grok from digitally undressing people.… |
Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:15:11 GMT)ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgmentMicrosoft's From Software Assurance (SA) program is the subject of a disclosure application as the long-running spat between Microsoft and ValueLicensing over the resale of software licenses rumbles on.… |
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:30:09 GMT)EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's handsAmid continued trade and geopolitical volatility between Europe and the US, Amazon Web Services is making its European Sovereign Cloud generally available today and plans to expand so-called Local Zones.… |
Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:23:04 GMT)Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sellExclusive Dell has filed a claim against VMware in the software licensing dispute brought by supermarket giant Tesco and wants the virtualization giant should fork over at least £10 million under certain circumstances.… |
China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:27:31 GMT)Hasn’t revealed how much kit did the job, so Nvidia can probably rest easyChinese outfit Zhipu AI claims it trained a new model entirely using Huawei hardware, and that it’s the first company to build an advanced model entirely on Chinese hardware.… |
AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:13:24 GMT)Forrester principal analyst JP Gownder says jobs eaten by bots don't come backInterview Analyst firm Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst J. P. Gownder remains unconvinced that AI will revolutionize productivity.… |
Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute - (pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:30:16 GMT)Adafruit claims SparkFun aims to shoot the messenger for criticizing corporate tolerance of intoleranceRetailer SparkFun Electronics last month said it would no longer do business with electronics kit-maker Adafruit Industries, citing violations of SparkFun's Code of Conduct during online interactions.… |
CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:13:08 GMT)Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try againA group of CrowdStrike shareholders who sued the company over losses sustained following its 2024 global outage will have to head back to the drawing board if they hope to recoup losses, as a Texas judge has deemed they failed to adequately state a claim.… |
Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:45:17 GMT)But private data will stay private and won't be used for training, Google saysGoogle on Wednesday began inviting Gemini users to let its chatbot read their Gmail, Photos, Search history, and YouTube data in exchange for possibly more personalized responses.… |
New Linux malware targets the cloud, steals creds, and then vanishes - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:39:35 GMT)Cloud-native, 37 plugins … an attacker's dreamA brand-new Linux malware named VoidLink targets victims' cloud infrastructure with more than 30 plugins that allow attackers to perform a range of illicit activities, from silent reconnaissance and credential theft to lateral movement and container abuse. … |
Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:01:28 GMT)Grid and generation capacity are not being added fast enough to support the scale of growth many forecasts assumeA looming shortage of electrical power is set to constrain datacenter expansion, potentially leaving many industry growth forecasts looking overly optimistic.… |
There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:53:31 GMT)Had it been around in 2020, it could have flagged tens of billions before payouts, PRAC tells CongressA fraud-detection AI model trained on COVID-19 loan data could have flagged potentially tens of billions of dollars in payments before they went out, reducing the feds' pay-and-chase cleanup, the US government's Pandemic Response Accountability Committee told Congress on Tuesday.… |
France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:17:01 GMT)Three major GDPR violations, including a lack of basic security controls, lead to hefty dent in profitsThe French data protection regulator, CNIL, today issued a collective €42 million ($48.9 million) fine to two French telecom companies for GDPR violations stemming from a data breach.… |
Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:45:09 GMT)Support expires for Windows Server 2008, and the codebase released to manufacturing in 2006Microsoft has quietly maintained support for an OS that's nearly 18 years old, but its time has finally passed - the Windows Vista-powered Windows Server 2008 took its last breath this week.… |
'Imagination the limit': DeadLock ransomware gang using smart contracts to hide their work - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:16:44 GMT)New crooks on the block get crafty with blockchain to evade defensesResearchers at Group-IB say the DeadLock ransomware operation is using blockchain-based anti-detection methods to evade defenders' attempts to analyze their tradecraft.… |
AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:41:24 GMT)Investment in datacenters to peak by 2029, place your bets pleaseThe AI-driven datacenter construction frenzy shows no signs of slowing, but neither do concerns that the whole edifice could collapse under the weight of its own hype and mounting investment demands.… |
Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:15:11 GMT)Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaksThe latest Firefox is here with some handy changes – most of which differ depending on what OS and type of CPU you run it on.… |
Cyber-stricken Belgian hospitals refuse ambulances, transfer critical patients - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:52:36 GMT)Attack enters second day with major disruption to healthcare provisionTwo hospitals in Belgium have cancelled surgeries and transferred critical patients to other facilities after shutting down servers following a cyberattack.… |
Eurail passengers taken for a ride as data breach spills passports, bank details - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:43:15 GMT)Travel biz tells customers to change passwords beyond its own servicesEurail has confirmed customer information was stolen in a data breach, according to notification emails sent out this week.… |
UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:20:46 GMT)U-turn leaves questions on costs, funding, and benefits unansweredThe UK government has backed down from making digital ID mandatory for proof of a right to work in the country, adding to confusion over the scheme's cost and purpose.… |
Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:47:13 GMT)Committee raises concerns over delays and loopholes in proposed lawThe Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has criticized the UK government's handling of AI nudification tools, saying it is taking too long to ban apps, and that expedited legislation does not encompass multi-purpose platforms used to create nude images.… |
Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:00:06 GMT)Component up 63% since September, more pricey memory coming to a supply chain near youEnterprise IT infrastructure buyers are bracing for hefty price hikes across servers, storage systems, and networking kit, driven by steep inflation in memory component costs that industry analysts warn will soon cascade through the supply chain.… |
Spanish power giant sparks breach probe amid claims of massive data grab - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:15:12 GMT)Endesa says payment info stolen after alleged crook boasted of 1 TB-plus haulSpanish energy giant Endesa is warning customers about a data breach after a cybercrim claimed to have walked off with a vast cache of personal information allegedly tied to more than 20 million people.… |
Windows 2000 rusts in peace by the sea - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:30:07 GMT)When salty coastal air meets memory errors in one of Portugal's rail ticket machinesBork!Bork!Bork! It's back to the railways of Portugal for today's bork. Remember how we called Windows 2000 the unkillable cockroach of the IT world? Seems it's been upset by software peeking at memory where it shouldn't.… |
Anthropic finds $1.5 million to help Python Foundation improve security - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:25:15 GMT)AI upstart also upscales its Labs to find the next frontierThe Python Software Foundation (PSF) has an extra $1.5 million heading its way, after AI upstart Anthropic entered into a partnership aimed at improving security in the Python ecosystem.… |
India’s flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:35:33 GMT)One payload out of fifteen survived and sent home some useful dataIndia’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has commenced an investigation into the failure of a PSLV launcher.… |
Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:21:10 GMT)America first, for sales and access to foundriesThe Trump administration will only allow exports of Nvidia and AMD GPUs to China if local buyers can get all the kit they want.… |
Google rekindles relationship with jilted JPEG XL image format - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:52:02 GMT)Chromium commit adds support for image decoder after the Big G ditched it a few years backGoogle has added support for the JPEG XL (JXL) image format to the open source Chromium code base, reversing a decision in 2022 to drop the technology.… |
Windows info-disclosure 0-day bug gets a fix as CISA sounds alarm - (pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:36:00 GMT)First Patch Tuesday of 2026 goes bigMicrosoft and Uncle Sam have warned that a Windows bug disclosed today is already under attack.… |
Memory shortage could push PC shipments to pre-pandemic lows - (pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:55:33 GMT)Could be back to 2016 levelsThe rising cost of memory due to shortages is likely to persist into late 2027, driving higher device prices and lackluster configurations for PCs, tablets, and phones, IDC research manager Jitesh Ubrani told The Register.… |
Popular Python libraries used in Hugging Face models subject to poisoned metadata attack - (pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:17:17 GMT)The open-source libraries were created by Salesforce, Nvidia, and Apple with a Swiss groupVulnerabilities in popular AI and ML Python libraries used in Hugging Face models with tens of millions of downloads allow remote attackers to hide malicious code in metadata. The code then executes automatically when a file containing the poisoned metadata is loaded.… |
Anthropic Claude wants to be your helpful colleague, always looking over your shoulder - (pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:56:31 GMT)Just be careful not to entrust the AI model with your sensitive dataAnthropic on Monday announced the research preview of Claude Cowork, a tool for automating office work that comes with the now familiar recitation of machine learning risks.… |
