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Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:55:57 GMT)So far, Overview Energy says it has only beamed power from a moving aircraft to standard solar panelsYou can't generate solar power at night unless your panels are in space. A startup that wants to beam orbital sunlight straight into existing solar farms has just emerged from stealth, claiming a world-first power-beaming demo, but with a lot of critical information left unreported. … |
Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:09:31 GMT)No details, no CVE, update your browser nowGoogle issued an emergency fix for a Chrome vulnerability already under exploitation, which marks the world's most popular browser's eighth zero-day bug of 2025.… |
LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:45:55 GMT)UK data regulator says failures were unacceptable for a company managing the world's passwordsThe UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says LastPass must cough up £1.2 million ($1.6 million) after its two-part 2022 data breach compromised information from up to 1.6 million UK users.… |
Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:22:24 GMT)Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extrasLegacy Update was already extremely useful if you chose to disembark from Microsoft's upgrade railroad. Now it's even more so.… |
Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:50:08 GMT)Eight-hour EVA was also first outing for new spacesuitsA pair of taikonauts ventured outside China's Tiangong space station this week to take a closer look at the cracked viewport window of the Shenzhou-20 vehicle.… |
Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:56:16 GMT)DOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academiaPresident Trump's "Genesis Mission" is taking shape with the award of more than $320 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to advance AI in scientific research.… |
Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:42:26 GMT)Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expertA security researcher specializing in tracking China threats claims two of Salt Typhoon's members were former attendees of a training scheme run by Cisco.… |
Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:25:41 GMT)Copilot – your cuddly companion for nighttime introspectionMicrosoft analyzed 37.5 million de-identified Copilot conversations from January to September 2025, excluding commercial and educational accounts. The findings reveal distinct usage patterns based on device, time, and day.… |
10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:26:29 GMT)Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secretsDocker Hub has quietly become a treasure trove of live cloud keys and credentials, with more than 10,000 public container images exposing sensitive secrets from over 100 companies, including a Fortune 500 firm and a major bank.… |
Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030 - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:15:13 GMT)Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline loomsExclusive Airbus is undertaking a major overhaul to migrate its sprawling SAP environment to S/4HANA – and potentially to the cloud – as the aerospace giant grapples with the same deadline pressures facing thousands of enterprise customers worldwide.… |
Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:30:06 GMT)Workers frustrated with security-first changes to workflows and teething issuesExclusive Seven months after a landmark cyberattack, the UK's Legal Aid Agency (LAA) says it's returning to pre-breach operations, although law firms are still wrestling with buggy and more laborious systems.… |
India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:46:06 GMT)Proposes central body to collect royalties and dole out cash to creatorsThe government of India wants AI companies to pay for accessing content they use to train models, but only once they start producing revenue.… |
Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:26:52 GMT)‘Chute opened early and snagged on a stabilizerVIDEO An Australian parachuting club has been told to improve the software it uses to manage jumps, after an accident in which a jumper’s ‘chute hooked on an aircraft’s tailplane.… |
NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:01:50 GMT)Didn’t phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows whyHouston, we have a problem: NASA has lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.… |
Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:10:07 GMT)Blame changed market conditions and attitudes, not the return of Nvidia's H200 to ChinaChinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon have called off their planned merger.… |
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:20:32 GMT)But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is boomingOracle expects its FY 2026 capital expenditures will be $15 billion higher that previously predicted, as the cloudy database biz invests to accommodate AI workloads.… |
Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:18:59 GMT)If you opt in to the paid service that isupdated Nvidia is developing a new inventory management service that could be used by customers to verify the location of their existing GPU stockpiles.… |
700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:31:45 GMT)More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromisedAttackers are actively exploiting a zero-day bug in Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, and the open source project doesn't yet have a fix.… |
US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:19:14 GMT)Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, it’s a worryAlongside TikTok and Instagram, teens have added ChatGPT to the mix. Pew says about two-thirds of US teenagers have tried an AI chatbot, with nearly a third using one every day. Negative mental-health warnings be damned!… |
Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:59:10 GMT)Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvestingMost big AI providers scrape the open web, hoovering up content to improve their chatbots, which then compete with publishers for the attention of internet users. However, more AI orgs might have to pay up soon, because the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) spec has reached version 1.0, providing guidance on how to set machine-readable rules for crawlers.… |
US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:51:31 GMT)Meet 'ShipOS'Palantir and the US Navy have signed a two-year deal to test whether its Foundry operational software can streamline the nation’s shipbuilding efforts and steer the Secretary of the Navy's top budget priority into port.… |
Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:25:17 GMT)California chipset giant says it’ll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallelQualcomm could soon be serving up RISC-V cores alongside its custom Arm ones following the acquisition of Ventana Micro Systems on Wednesday.… |
US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:56:59 GMT)The digital intrusion allegedly caused thousands of pounds of meat to spoil and triggered an ammonia leak in the facilityA Ukrainian woman accused of hacking US public drinking water systems and a meat processing facility on behalf of Kremlin-backed cyber groups was extradited to the US earlier this year and will stand trial in early 2026.… |
Microsoft won’t fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:30:39 GMT)Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowrSecurity researchers have revealed a .NET security flaw thought to affect a host of enterprise-grade products that they say Microsoft refuses to fix.… |
Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:29:05 GMT)Countries subject to newly proposed rule include supposed trusted friends like the UK, France, and GermanyThe next time someone visits the US, customs may ask to see their passport, their Facebook feed, and all of their Instagram posts. The United States maintains a list of 42 countries whose citizens are allowed to enter without a visa, but visitors from those nations may soon have to provide five years' worth of their social media history in order to gain entry. … |
Crisis in Icebergen: How NATO crafts stories to sharpen cyber skills - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:29:07 GMT)1,500 military digital defenders spent the past week cleaning up a series of cyberattacks on fictional islandfeature Andravia and Harbadus – two nations so often at odds with one another – were once again embroiled in conflict over the past seven days, which thoroughly tested NATO's cybersecurity experts' ability to coordinate defenses across battlefield domains.… |
Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:41:55 GMT)Recent collision data points to comparable injury rates across modern vehicle typesElectric cars are no more of a danger to pedestrians than conventional vehicles, according to new research.… |
Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:29:14 GMT)They're now good enough to do things well, if you take the time to learn how to steer themOpinion For most of the last year, the phrase 'vibe coding' seemed more punchline than possibility. That outlook altered significantly over the last month after step-changes in quality mean vibe coding tools now generate code that’s good enough to rewrite expectations about how IT will operate before the end of this decade.… |
Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:17:09 GMT)Getting inferencing infrastructure into orbit may soon be cheaper than building it down hereSpace startup Aetherflux says it plans to put its first data center satellite into orbit during the first quarter of 2027.… |
Rocket Lab ready to send a Hungry Hippo into space - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:33:04 GMT)Signoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the groundSpace outfit Rocket Lab says its Hungry Hippo is ready to go into space, a fillip for the company’s plans to fly its new Neutron launch vehicle.… |
Diversion to power datacenters earns Boom Supersonic a ticket to revive fast air transport - (pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:45:15 GMT)Adapts its engines to power bit barns, and lands cash to fund its takeoff rollBoom Supersonic, the company that hopes to revive faster-than-sound air travel, has diverted into the datacenter power business.… |
Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:47:27 GMT)US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own techHalf a decade of US trade policy aimed at denying China access to America's most potent semiconductor tech has only served to spur China to develop homegrown alternatives.… |
Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:42:11 GMT)Plus critical critical Notepad++, Ivanti, and Fortinet updates, and one of these patches an under-attack security holeHappy December Patch Tuesday to all who celebrate. This month's patch party includes one Microsoft flaw under exploitation, plus two others listed as publicly known – but just 57 CVEs in total from Redmond.… |
Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:11:31 GMT)Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and that’s kind of enoughAustralia's ban on children under 16 holding active social media accounts comes into force on Wednesday. While nobody expects this world-first policy to stop every kid using their favorite online communities, its backers take solace in the mere fact it's sparked global debate.… |
How to answer the door when the AI agents come knocking - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:46:07 GMT)Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amokThe fear of AI agents running amok has thus far halted the wide deployment of these digital workhorses, Okta's president of Auth0, Shiv Ramji, told The Register.… |
Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:19:50 GMT)A win for the contractorsCongress has released the final version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and critics have been quick to point out that previously proposed rules giving the US military the right to repair its equipment without having to rely on contractors have gone missing. … |
Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:54:59 GMT)An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels onThe Linux Foundation on Tuesday said it has formed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to provide vendor-neutral oversight for the development of AI agent infrastructure.… |
Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:16:59 GMT)Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuckHundreds of Porsches in Russia were rendered immobile last week, raising speculation of a hack, but the German carmaker tells The Register that its vehicles are secure.… |
Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13 - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:02:15 GMT)Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable buildWindow Maker Live 13.2 is stubbornly keeping 32-bit PCs alive on Debian 13 "Trixie," shipping a new release that boots on i686 hardware.… |
Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:00:27 GMT)Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups sayMore than 230 organizations across America have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the construction of datacenters, claiming the current building boom represents a huge environmental and social threat.… |
Google's AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:05:12 GMT)Brussels probes whether unpaid web and YouTube content – and rivals' lock-outs – amount to abuse of dominanceThe European Commission is launching an antitrust probe at Google for allegedly using web and YouTube content to train its AI algorithms while putting competitors at a disadvantage.… |
Feds bust nefarious plot to ship Nvidia H200s to China and hurt US - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:28:54 GMT)As Trump gives green light to ship Nvidia H200s to China and boost USThree US-based businessmen face potential prison sentences after authorities dismantled a smuggling network accused of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Nvidia GPUs to China.… |
As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:00:10 GMT)Have we learned nothing from sci-fi films and TV shows?Interview Imagine botnets in physical form and you've got a pretty good idea of what could go wrong with the influx of AI-infused humanoid robots expected to integrate into society over the next few decades.… |
NASA nominee Isaacman moves to full Senate vote amid budget carnage - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:08:04 GMT)Billionaire's bid progresses while agency braces for sweeping reductions and program uncertaintyJared Isaacman has cleared another hurdle on his way to becoming the next NASA Administrator after the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation gave the billionaire SpaceX customer the nod.… |
AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:46:12 GMT)Analysts say demand keeps rising despite constraints, shaky returns, and mounting investor nervesDatacenter capital expenditure is forecast to grow 17 percent annually through 2030, reaching $1.6 trillion, with supply chain constraints pushing up the price of components.… |
SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:19:09 GMT)February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integrationSAP users admit they know very little about the vendor's data and analytics plans since the launch of the new product platform, Business Data Cloud (BDC), in February.… |
UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:49:33 GMT)Foreign secretary set to address senior diplomats later todayThe UK's foreign secretary is calling for closer collaboration with Europe to combat the growing threat of information warfare as hybrid attacks target countries on the continent.… |
Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:26:58 GMT)Younger finance pros are just as loyal to Microsoft's venerable spreadsheet app as their eldersDespite its advancing years, Microsoft Excel is proving a hit with young finance professionals, many of whom reckon the aging number-cruncher has a bright future.… |
IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:29:06 GMT)Digital native? Cloud native? No, we need to be AI native, says Riyadh AirIBM and Riyadh Air have upgraded their contracted agreement, meaning the Saudi operation will not be the world's first digitally native airline, but will instead be the first AI native operator.… |
Care leavers mired in red tape trying to get their own records - (pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:45:11 GMT)UK data watchdog demands public sector improves subject access request processingUK public sector organizations need to improve access for those who want to see their own records of growing up in care, the Information Commissioner says.… |
