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Biden broadband benchmarks are BS, says Trump FCC - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:35:35 GMT)No more consideration of affordability or 1 Gbps speed goal if Chairman Carr gets his wayThe next edition of the Federal Communications Commission's broadband expansion progress report is going to paint a rosier reality than usual, if a proposal being put to a vote at next month's meeting gets a pass. … |
Funding for program to stop next Stuxnet from hitting US expired Sunday - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:06:33 GMT)CyberSentry work grinds to a haltGovernment funding for a program that hunts for threats on America's critical infrastructure networks expired on Sunday, preventing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from analyzing activity that could indicate a cyberattack, the program director told Congress on Tuesday.… |
Google AI Overviews are killing the web, Pew study shows (again) - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:24:37 GMT)Summarizing online content is good for the search giant, not so much for publishersai-pocalypse Google Search users are less likely to click on search result links when those pages have AI Overviews, according to the Pew Research Center.… |
Biggest chunk of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3M at auction, cheaper than NASA's sample return mission - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:40:10 GMT)Sotheby's also flogs off dinosaur skeleton for $26MVideos The largest chunk of Mars yet discovered on Earth, a 54-pound (25kg) chunk of the Red Planet, has been purchased at auction for $5.3 million by an unknown bidder.… |
How to get rid of useless keys in Windows and turn them into something helpful - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:10:45 GMT)Turn that Copilot or Scroll Lock key into a media control or extended character.In the era of laptops and tenkeyless keyboards, many of us are living with fewer keys than we had years ago. But even on a small keyboard, you'll find keys that you just don't need. … |
How AI chip upstart FuriosaAI won over LG with its power-sipping design - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:43:13 GMT)Testing shows RNGD chips up to 2.25x higher performance per watt than.... five-year-old Nvidia siliconSouth Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI scored a major customer win this week after LG's AI Research division tapped its AI accelerators to power servers running its Exaone family of large language models.… |
Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:10:14 GMT)The diner is now open in West Hollywood, and Musk wants to start a chainvideo Facing declining sales and a tarnished reputation, EV manufacturer Tesla is looking to a new industry to generate some revenue: Fast-casual food service.… |
Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:43:14 GMT)The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weaknessIf you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies.… |
GitHub command palette wins stay of execution after dev pushback - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:15:05 GMT)Fans say low usage no surprise when obscure but beloved feature disabled by defaultGitHub has "paused" the removal of the command palette, which enables keyboard control of the GitHub web application, following developer protests.… |
Surprise, surprise: Chinese spies, IP stealers, other miscreants attacking Microsoft SharePoint servers - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:40:11 GMT)With more to come, no doubtAt least three Chinese groups are attacking on-premises SharePoint servers via a couple of recently disclosed Microsoft bugs, according to Redmond.… |
Silicon Valley engineer admits theft of US missile tech secrets - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:13:07 GMT)Used stolen info to pitch for Chinese tech talent programA Silicon Valley engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of trade secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including crucial military technology.… |
Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:29:13 GMT)Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspotResearchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation.… |
UK government swoons over OpenAI in legally meaningless love-in - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:01:12 GMT)Credulous minister claims MoU – not contract – with chatbot biz could help 'fix NHS' and 'drive economic growth'The UK's Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) is jumping into bed with chatbot biz OpenAI, signing a memorandum of understanding to expand OpenAI's footprint in the nation while inserting its tech firmly into the public sector.… |
Microsoft patches critical SharePoint 2016 zero-days amid active exploits - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:32:13 GMT)Admins urged to rotate machine keys, restart IIS after emergency fixMicrosoft has good news for administrators running SharePoint Server 2016. The cloud and software megacorp has published updates to close a gaping hole in the document management service.… |
The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:01:17 GMT)The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissionsColumn When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course.… |
Mike Lynch estate owes HPE $943M over Autonomy fallout - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:32:38 GMT)High Court judge slashes tech titan's $4B damages claim by almost 80%A High Court judge has ruled that the estate of Autonomy founder Dr Mike Lynch will not have to pay the billions of dollars sought in damages by HPE following its ill-fated acquisition of Autonomy in 2011.… |
NASA Goddard Center Director quits as agency staffers issue dissent letter - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:43:12 GMT)Voyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics researchUpdated NASA's Goddard Center Director, Makenzie Lystrup, is to depart after just over two years in the role.… |
UK to ban ransomware payments by public sector organizations - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:28:30 GMT)'We're going to smash the business model' NHS, councils, and schools toldThe UK government is proposing to "ban" public sector organizations and critical national infrastructure from paying criminal operators behind ransomware attacks, under new measures outlined today.… |
UK Post Office names public inquiry as risk to £410 million Horizon replacement project - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:17:12 GMT)After abandoning in-house replacement for scandal-hit system, government company looks to off-the-shelf softwareThe UK Post Office has said the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal is a risk to its £410 million ($552 million) plan to replace its ageing POS and accounting system, and may force changes to awarded contracts.… |
Open source's superior security is a matter of eyeballs: Be kind to the brains behind them - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:40:38 GMT)The modern art form that redeemed a Windows utility has lessons for allOpinion The speedrun is one of the internet's genuinely new artforms. At its best, it's akin to a virtuoso piano recital. Less emotional depth, more adrenalin. Watching an expert fly through a game creates an endorphin rush without the expense or time of doing it for yourself. … |
Brit watchdog says public service TV must 'urgently' join Team YouTube - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:42:12 GMT)Ofcom suggests government should use legislation to back PSB content on the platformPublic service broadcasters (PSBs) need to work with Google-owned YouTube "urgently," says the UK's communications watchdog, Ofcom.… |
Science confirms what we all suspected: Four-day weeks rule - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:01:10 GMT)As long as you get paid like a 5-day gigEmployees work better and tire less when working a four-day week, according to a six-month trial involving thousands of individuals.… |
Customers fret about downtime with hyperscalers' PostgreSQL services - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:28:07 GMT)Smaller vendors offering alternatives cash in concernsAnalysis Recent research suggests customers are concerned about the uptime reliability of hyperscalers' PostgreSQL instances, giving smaller alternative vendors an opening to fill the gap.… |
Replit makes vibe-y promise to stop its AI agents making vibe coding disasters - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:58:06 GMT)Announces beta for separate production and development databases that will land in a few weeksVibe coding service Replit has announced changes to its product that should prevent the database deletion disaster reported by one of its users.… |
NASA hacked hardware of camera orbiting Jupiter – and fixed it - (pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 04:58:12 GMT)Deliberate overheating brought relief to Juno probe’s camera, twiceNASA has revealed that one of the cameras on the Juno craft it sent to Jupiter malfunctioned, and that it fixed it with some very, very, remote hardware hacking.… |
Sacramento cops scoured energy records to target suspected weed growers, and the EFF has sued - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:27:16 GMT)Raided homes despite known likelihood that aircon or EVs could explain high electricity consumptionThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has advanced a lawsuit in which it alleges the City of Sacramento misused energy records to accuse residents of growing cannabis, often with disastrous results.… |
Dell scoffs at breach, says miscreants only stole ‘fake data’ - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:46:31 GMT)No customer, partner info stolen, spokesperson tells The RegDell has confirmed that criminals broke into its IT environment and stole some of its data — but told The Register that it's "primarily synthetic (fake) data."… |
If you're forced to use Windows 11, here's how to steal some of your time back - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:18:12 GMT)Fight back against Redmond's productivity sinksWindows 11 is now the most popular desktop operating system, finally beating Windows 10. But it's also loaded with head-scratching default settings that sap your productivity and treat you like a computer illiterate. … |
X tells the French police 'non' to its request for algorithmic data - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:41:36 GMT)Claims it's all a witch hunt by local lawmakersThe site formerly known as Twitter has said it will not hand over any information to French police over an investigation into its recommendation algorithms.… |
Cursor AI YOLO mode lets coding assistant run wild, security firm warns - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:02:51 GMT)You only live once, but regret is foreverCursor's AI coding agent will run automatically, in YOLO mode, if you let it. According to Backslash Security, you might want to think twice about doing so.… |
Another massive security snafu hits Microsoft, but don't expect it to stick - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:58:04 GMT)Move along, nothing to see herecomment Here we go again. Another major Microsoft attack, with this one seeing someone — most likely government-backed hackers — exploiting a zero-day bug in SharePoint Server that Redmond failed to fix.… |
Nvidia extends CUDA support to RISC-V just in time for next wave of Chinese CPUs - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:56:14 GMT)The prime beneficiary of the AI boom has global ambitionsNvidia is officially bringing its CUDA software stack to RISC-V CPUs.… |
Humongous parachute for European Mars landing mission tested successfully - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:29:13 GMT)As US lawmakers wrangle over NASA’s stake in ExoMars, at least the chutes workvideo The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted a successful parachute test for the ExoMars Mars landing rover earlier this month, even as uncertainty looms over US involvement in the project.… |
NASA veteran warns Hubble faces death by a hundred cuts - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:57:06 GMT)Former astronaut laments software shutdowns, staff reductions amid ongoing budget squeezeInterview "I would say I'm cautiously optimistic, but that probably overstates how I'm feeling."… |
I just deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – and I'm a citizen - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:01:41 GMT)In 2025, social media has moved from self-expression to self-entrapmentColumn We don't want to believe what we deeply understand: nothing is really deleted, and someone, somewhere can (and probably will) use that record against us.… |
Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:57:14 GMT)Chipmaker halts updates and support, urges users to migrate immediatelyIntel has abruptly killed off Clear Linux OS, ending Chipzilla's decade-long adventure in this part of the Linux world.… |
Vintage computing boffin releases expansive Intel 286 test suite - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:19:20 GMT)A desire for cycle accuracy results in 32 million recorded CPU states derived entirely from original hardwareThe developer of MartyPC, an emulator for vintage Intel-compatible hardware that targets cycle accuracy, has released a test suite for Intel's classic 80286 processor and compatibles – created, in a fit of raw enthusiasm and hyperfocus, by single-stepping a physical chip from the mid-1980s through the execution of almost 1.5 million instructions.… |
AWS slaps usage caps on Kiro as AI editor preview proves too popular for its own good - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:03:06 GMT)'Actually not terrible' says industry watcher Corey Quinn – but pricing plans have disappearedAWS has introduced daily usage limits and a user waitlist for Kiro, its preview spec-driven AI editor, citing unexpectedly high demand as it works to scale the system.… |
Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:05:15 GMT)The End of Windows 10 is looming. The world needs a simpler, easy, quick, snackable alternativeComment Dear Santa. For Windows-10-end-of-support-day in October, please may we have a dead simple bulletproof all-free OS that gets old PCs online without a Google account, and does nothing else?… |
Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:04:10 GMT)Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoffWith the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) set to shut down a key satellite data stream used in US hurricane forecasting, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts has stepped in with a decoder they say could fill the gap.… |
Four new Android spyware samples linked to Iran's intel agency - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:00:08 GMT)Persians added snooping capabilities to DCHSpy after Israeli bombs fellFour new samples of Android spyware linked to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) that collects WhatsApp data, records audio and video, and hunts for files by name, surfaced shortly after the Iran-Israel conflict began.… |
Composer for worst Tomb Raider games jailed over COVID-19 loan fraud - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:19:08 GMT)Peter Connelly inflated turnover and claimed second payment when only entitled to oneSad news for the three people who fondly remember the soundtracks to turn-of-the-millennium Tomb Raider – their composer, Peter Connelly, has been sentenced to 16 months behind bars for COVID-19 loan fraud.… |
Microsoft patches under-attack SharePoint 2019 and SE - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:03:12 GMT)But an emergency fix for SharePoint Server 2016 is still MIAMicrosoft is releasing out-of-band security updates for SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, following a warning that vulnerable versions were now under attack.… |
Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs isn't just a bad idea, it's the law - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:02:12 GMT)Getting carded is one thing. A full strip search? Welcome to BritainOpinion On June 10, social network Bluesky announced that in 15 days it would introduce age verification for UK users, to comply with the UK Online Safety Act. As this law threatens non-compliant content companies with eight-figure fines from July 25, you can see why. The how, however, is breathtakingly inexcusable.… |
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:32:09 GMT)'This, many considered, was bad'Who, Me? Welcome again to "Who, Me?" – The Register's Monday column in which readers admit to making mistakes and explain how they managed to keep their careers going afterwards.… |
Alaska Airlines grounded itself due to mysterious IT problem - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:29:12 GMT)Now flying again, but not saying what went wrongUPDATED US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet due to an unspecified IT issue.… |
Japan discovers object out beyond Pluto that rewrites the Planet 9 theory - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:58:11 GMT)PLUS: Perplexity AI scores 360-million-customer win in India; Australian billionaire’s political party suffers data breach, won’t contact victims; and moreAsia In Brief Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory last week announced the discovery of a small body with an orbit beyond Pluto’s, and scientists think its presence means the “Planet 9” theory should be revisited.… |
Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:30:11 GMT)AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of thingsThe founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code without permission.… |
Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:13:28 GMT)PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and moreInfosec In Brief Microsoft has warned users of SharePoint Server that three on-prem versions of the product include a zero-day flaw that is under attack – and that its own failure to completely fix past problems is the cause.… |
US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery - (pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:00:15 GMT)Foreign worker program represents betrayal of US computer science students, advocacy group arguesThe US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) intend to reevaluate how H-1B visas are issued, according to a regulatory filing.… |
