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Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSes - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:13:09 GMT)Cupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixesApple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases.… |
North Korea’s fake tech workers now targeting European employers - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:58:08 GMT)With help from UK operatives, because it’s getting tougher to run the scam in the USANorth Korea’s scamming, thieving, and AI-abusing fake IT workers are increasingly targeting European employers.… |
Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 01:36:09 GMT)But his emails! Sharing them with Google!Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive information.… |
Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:49:46 GMT)Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, moreThunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform.… |
Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:57:53 GMT)AI accelerators to see the light, literallyLightmatter this week unveiled a pair of silicon photonic interconnects designed to satiate the growing demand for chip-to-chip bandwidth associated with ever-denser AI deployments.… |
Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:09:29 GMT)Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonderVision Not even Intel's top brass know what's on newly minted CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block.… |
To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from <em>Reg</em> readers' experiences - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:33:13 GMT)Nobody’s tested the tapes this decade, thinks to back up the Recycle Bin, or takes care when using rmOn Call Special How can you avoid a disaster recovery disaster?… |
Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:36:18 GMT)Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the tableComment At its GPU Technology Conference last month, Nvidia broke with convention by shifting its definition of what counts as a GPU.… |
FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:27:07 GMT)New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problemsThe US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is closing its investigations into both the SpaceX Starship Flight 7 explosion and Blue Origin New Glenn-1 landing failure.… |
Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:32:08 GMT)Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longerMicrosoft will officially hit the half-century mark on Friday as the Windows giant turns 50 years old. What do you consider the highs and lows of the company's journey to dominance?… |
Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:29:09 GMT)'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells usInterview Thomson Reuters, based in Canada, recently scored a partial summary judgment against Ross Intelligence, after a US court ruled the AI outfit's use of the newswire giant's copyrighted Westlaw content didn't qualify as fair use.… |
Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:46:05 GMT)Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spendingMore doubt is being cast over the US CHIPS Act program with the Trump administration threatening to halt payments unless companies in line to receive funding commit to substantially expand their own investments.… |
Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:00:13 GMT)The UK government must be thrilledGoogle will soon offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email for all users, even those who do not use Google Workspace, and says it'll do so without imposing any undue stress on IT admins.… |
Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:32:53 GMT)Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalersAn alliance of cloud service providers in Europe is investing €1 million into the Fulcrum Project, an open source cloud federation tech that gives an alternative to local customers anxious about using US hypercalers.… |
UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:37:23 GMT)Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first timeThe UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.… |
Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success' - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:45:09 GMT)What counts as failure in New Space?Comment Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and – you guessed it – its CEO called the test flight "a great success." This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-called "New Space" – the VC-fueled and risk-friendly private rocket sector?… |
RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:01:14 GMT)Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behindA new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware.… |
Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:24:16 GMT)Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyoutThe UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, overshooting its original three-year timeline.… |
GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:51:54 GMT)Not exactly Snowden levels of skillA student at Britain's top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial.… |
Arm reckons it'll own 50% of the datacenter by year's end - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:35:07 GMT)Optimistic much?Arm expects to see its architecture account for half of the datacenter CPU market by the end of this year, up from 15 percent in 2024, all thanks to the AI boom.… |
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:24:14 GMT)Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govtOpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.… |
Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’ - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:30:12 GMT)How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, tooMicrosoft has quietly revealed it’s redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that Windows presents after it crashes so badly a reboot is the only way out.… |
Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better' - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:52:25 GMT)AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ...Vision Intel's newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn things around.… |
Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:16:06 GMT)Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find?Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet – all of which disappeared after he tipped off the team seemingly behind the highly questionable pictures.… |
CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:09:08 GMT)Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bugOwners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA.… |
Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:16:39 GMT)Indiana Uni rm -rf online profiles while agents haul boxes of evidenceA tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week.… |
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:30:00 GMT)1990s incident response in 2025Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly – it may be scrubbing the web of evidence, too.… |
Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:13:52 GMT)Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE's G42 planned stakeAI chip startup Cerebras Systems says it has cleared a key hurdle ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO), claiming it resolved concerns about its sources of funding with the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS).… |
Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:35:09 GMT)Explanation leaves a 'lot of questions unanswered,' says infosec researcherA digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the American-Israeli security biz claims is a huge exaggeration.… |
AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:34:10 GMT)Silicon Valley's latest energy fixation won't stop the coming power panicAnalysis Atomic energy is becoming the preferred solution to address the projected bump in megawatts needed to charge AI in the future, but it simply won't come soon enough in many cases.… |
LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:32:11 GMT)Only the strong will survive, but analyst says cull will not be as rapid as during dotcom eraGartner says the market for large language model (LLM) providers is on the cusp of an extinction phase as it grapples with the capital-intensive costs of building products in a competitive market.… |
Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:45:10 GMT)Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the otherWindows Insiders will soon get their hands on Microsoft's attempt to ward off another CrowdStrike incident, and the company is also closing a loophole for users who don't want a Microsoft account.… |
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:01:11 GMT)But will they really upend the enterprise PC market? How about software? Networking, anyone?Analysis Disrupt? It's an awful hackneyed term that some analysts, consultants and technologists like to use.… |
Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:15:10 GMT)From smartphones to surveillance cameras to security snafus, there's no escapeOpinion I was going to write a story about how Amazon is no longer even pretending to respect your privacy. But, really, why bother?… |
Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:31:15 GMT)Social media platform magically worth a billion more than what he bought it forComment Billionaire Elon Musk's xAI is to acquire billionaire Elon Musk's X in a deal that values the former at $80 billion and the latter at $33 billion.… |
European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:45:13 GMT)I'm sorry Dave, I can't do thatThe last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is shutting down its computers and boosting out into a retirement orbit around the Sun.… |
Ransomware crews add 'EDR killers' to their arsenal – and some aren't even malware - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:01:29 GMT)Crims are disabling security tools early in attacks, Talos saysinterview Antivirus and endpoint security tools are falling short as ransomware crews increasingly deploy "EDR killers" to disable defenses early in the attack – a tactic Cisco Talos observed in most of the 2024 cases it handled.… |
UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:15:12 GMT)FCA still splashing on customizing, integrating HR and finance system way after 2021 go-liveThe UK's financial regulator is signing a deal worth up to £12.3 million ($15.9 million) with tech services biz Cognizant to make "enhancements" to a Workday HR and finance system it implemented several years ago.… |
When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:30:07 GMT)Make things that work for the billions, not the billionairesOpinion Since it is currently fashionable to make laws by whim and decree, here are three that should apply immediately across techdom. The following are banned: DoNotReply messages, updates that reset your configuration choices to default, and forced incomprehensible choices.… |
Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:30:09 GMT)'I'm glad you asked that question. We'll get to that tomorrow' (After I research the answer)Who, Me? Wait, what? It's Monday again? That means it's time for another instalment of Who, Me? What's that, you ask? It's The Register's Monday column in which we tell your tales of technological messes and celebrate your escapes.… |
Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:28:05 GMT)NHS boffins think there's a connection, but ‘snot all good news: Swallowing batteries is even more dangerousResearchers from the UK’s National Health Service believe increasing adoption of cashless payments may be having an unexpected payoff: Fewer kids are swallowing coins and seeking medical help to remove them.… |
Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:33:12 GMT)11 companies, including SMIC, accused of disguising outposts so they can illicitly serve BeijingChinese tech companies created entities in Taiwan and disguised them so they had no connections to China, so they could lure top tech talent to work on significant projects.… |
China cracks down on personal information collection. No, seriously - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:30:14 GMT)PLUS: Indonesia crimps social media, allows iPhones; India claims rocket boost; In-flight GenAI for Japan AirlinesAsia In Brief China last week commenced a crackdown on inappropriate collection and subsequent use of personal information.… |
Oracle Health reportedly warns of info leak from legacy server - (pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:45:12 GMT)PLUS: OpenAI bumps bug bounties bigtime; INTERPOL arrests 300 alleged cyber-scammers; And more!Infosec in brief Oracle Health appears to have fallen victim to an info stealing attack that has led to patient data stored by American hospitals being plundered.… |
Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship - (pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:30:09 GMT)There's also a new release of the Zorin OS distroThe handy GNOME extension Dash to Panel will live on, under its present maintainer, after winning financial backing from one of the distros that uses it.… |
Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore’s Law is dead and buried - (pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:08:13 GMT)More silicon, more power, more pain for datacenter operatorsComment As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead – and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is.… |
Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel - (pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:50:05 GMT)Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detectionMalware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell.… |
Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing - (pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 09:01:10 GMT)Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover projectAirbus UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the European aerospace giant, has won the £150 million contract to complete a landing system for the long-delayed ExoMars rover.… |
Mobile ad world drama: AppLovin not lovin' short seller assault claiming fraud - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:49:59 GMT)A peek behind the curtain in one corner of online advertisingAppLovin, which provides a way for software developers to make money by embedding ads in their mobile apps, has been sued for a third time this month – after short-seller reports accused the biz of fraud and deceptive revenue practices.… |
Congress takes another swing at Uncle Sam's software licensing mess - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:36:25 GMT)SAMOSA digested by House last year, but choked on in Senate. Second time's a charm?A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is once again pushing legislation aimed at reining in the federal government's fragmented and wasteful software licensing practices.… |
