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Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:16:49 GMT)First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory?The lure of AI spending was too much for Micron to ignore. On Wednesday, the US chipmaker announced it's abandoning its Crucial memory and storage lineup to bolster its supply of enterprise-focused chips, including those used in AI systems.… |
John Henry still leading the race vs. AI in customer service - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:30:15 GMT)Gartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AIThe world’s smallest digital violin is playing for AI chatbots, which are having a hard time elbowing out their human counterparts for jobs in customer service, according to a Gartner study.… |
Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:10:18 GMT)Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The RegYou don't have to be smarter than a fifth grader (or even a first grader) to commit potential copyright infringement using AI tools. One IP attorney watched over the weekend as his young son built a bedtime story generator that used copyrighted characters without permission. … |
'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:55:37 GMT)Finish reading this, then patchA maximum-severity flaw in the widely used JavaScript library React, and several React-based frameworks including Next.js allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable instances. The flaw is easy to abuse, and mass exploitation is "imminent," according to security researchers.… |
MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:37:44 GMT)Letting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argueA group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, has asked the Justice Department and the White House to stop protecting Big Tech against copyright claims.… |
China's reusable rocket makes it to orbit but fails to stick the landing - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:30:06 GMT)An ‘anomaly’ meant a fireball arrived at the recovery zone instead of a spent first stageThere's good news and bad news for the Chinese commercial launch industry. The good news is that LandSpace's ZhuQue-3 launched successfully on its maiden flight. The bad news is that a hoped-for recovery of the first stage ended in a fireball.… |
Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:04:31 GMT)Talk about enshittificationNo, this isn't a joke: Kohler's poop-scanning toilet attachment, which the company claims is … uh … end-to-end encrypted, appears to be anything butt.… |
Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:21:49 GMT)LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbitsNearly all images from some space telescopes in low Earth orbit could be affected by light from man-made satellites as the number of communication spacecraft surges, new research led by NASA has found.… |
Microsoft sharpens the blocking axe for Exchange Web Services - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:35:44 GMT)Starting in March, Frontline Worker and Kiosk–only mailboxes lose EWS accessMicrosoft is getting serious about the end of Exchange Web Services (EWS) and has announced that, starting in March 2026, it will begin blocking EWS access to mailboxes without license rights.… |
HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:14:18 GMT)IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover BarcelonaHPE is laying out its enterprise stall with enhancements to its GreenLake hybrid cloud portfolio, while converging its Aruba and Juniper networking to offer customers AIOps across both, plus high-speed connectivity for AI processing.… |
ISS hits rare full house as all eight docking ports ocupado - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:45:35 GMT)Russian vehicles will depart soon, but Baikonur launchpad damage clouds future arrivalsNASA confirmed this week that for the first time, all eight of the International Space Station's docking ports are currently occupied – four by Russian vehicles.… |
Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:33:33 GMT)Statcounter shows the gap narrowing as users cling to older hardware and familiar workflowsWindows 11 has not significantly widened its market share lead over Windows 10, despite support for many versions of the latter ending almost two months ago.… |
Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:20:13 GMT)Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M membersUpdated Pension scheme members are facing a string of errors and malfunctions as they try to log into and retrieve account details from the UK's civil service portal the government is paying Capita £239 million ($318 million) to build and run.… |
Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:42:36 GMT)Commerce Department wants equity in xLight as it backs a free-electron laser to challenge ASMLThe US Department of Commerce has signed a preliminary letter of intent to provide up to $150 million to xLight, a Palo Alto-based startup led by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, that is working on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.… |
Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:28:11 GMT)Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyveThe last new kernel release of 2025 is here, and it's looking likely this will be the new LTS kernel release.… |
Here’s your worst nightmare: E-tailer can only resume partial sales 45 days after ransomware attack - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:45:07 GMT)Japan’s Askul still can’t run all its sites, but at least the fax line held up OKJapanese e-tailer Askul has resumed online sales, 45 days after a ransomware attack.… |
China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:40:08 GMT)Think tank ASPI says Beijing is even using it to steal fish from the oceanChina has embraced AI to help it censor and surveil its citizens and is exporting its techniques to the world, according to a new report by think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).… |
Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:56:48 GMT)Extra infosec investments are taxiing towards the runwayIndia’s Civil Aviation Minister has revealed that local authorities have detected GPS spoofing and jamming at eight major airports.… |
Amazon is forging a walled garden for enterprise AI - (pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:11:15 GMT)AWS Chief Matt Garman lays out his vision bringing artificial intelligence to the enterpriseRe:Invent Amazon wants to make AI meaningful to enterprises, and it’s building yet another walled garden disguised as an easy button to do it.… |
AWS offers AI-in-a-box for enterprise datacenters - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:03:27 GMT)If sovereignty or on-prem AI matters, the new AI Factories could be for youre:invent Many businesses and government agencies require that all sensitive data stay on-premises for legal or security reasons. If those orgs want to work with AI, they can't rely on regular public clouds, but now they can let AWS build and manage AI hardware and software in their datacenters.… |
AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:46:40 GMT)Autonomous AI triages DevOps issues and pushes code to repositories, while checking securityRe:Invent Amazon is all-in on agentic AI when it comes to software development, and it sincerely hopes you are too, based on Tuesday's AWS re:Invent keynote. … |
Two Android 0-day bugs disclosed and fixed, plus 105 more to patch - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:47:48 GMT)Christmas comes early for attackers this yearTwo high-severity Android bugs were exploited as zero-days before Google issued a fix, according to its December Android security bulletin. … |
NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:05:08 GMT)Isaacman backs Texas relocation amid warnings that costs could top $150MUS President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, is "committed to move the Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston," according to the office of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX).… |
University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:50:09 GMT)Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-dayThe University of Pennsylvania has become the latest victim of Clop's smash-and-grab spree against Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) customers, with the Ivy League school now warning more than a thousand individuals that their personal data was siphoned from its systems.… |
Microsoft mops up Mesh after another metaverse misfire - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:35:15 GMT)Dreams of a virtual world linger on in TeamsAs of December 1, mixed reality collaboration platform Microsoft Mesh is no more, and Redmond has directed customers to immersive events in Teams.… |
HPE backs AMD's Helios AI rack with Juniper's scale-up switch - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:15:06 GMT)Hardware bundle ties next-gen accelerators to an Ethernet fabric arriving in 2026HPE is throwing its weight behind AMD's Helios rack-scale architecture and will offer this as part of its AI portfolio next year, including a purpose-built Juniper Networks scale-up switch.… |
Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:55:11 GMT)Amar Subramanya spent mere months at Microsoft before replacing John GiannandreaApple's failure to deliver advanced AI capabilities has triggered a changing of the guard. AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down in favor of a new leader to steady the Siri ship.… |
MongoDB talks up its AI chops by talking down PostgreSQL - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:43:09 GMT)CEO touts win from 'super-high growth' customer that couldn't scale on rival systemAt the risk of protesting too much in the shifting database landscape, NoSQL-based MongoDB has attempted to trash the competition by claiming PostgreSQL systems lack scalability to keep up with the demands of AI workloads.… |
French AI shop Mistral rolls out full suite of Apache-licensed models - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:32:15 GMT)Lineup spans 3B to 14B parameters, from edge devices to multi-GPU rigsMistral AI has released a suite of open source models under the Mistral 3 banner, aiming to scale from a mobile device or drone up to multi-GPU datacenter beasts.… |
Europol nukes Cryptomixer laundering hub, seizing €25M in Bitcoin - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:20:29 GMT)Operation Olympia pulls Swiss servers offline and scoops up 12TB of data in latest crime infrastructure crackdownLaw enforcement agencies in Germany and Switzerland have shut down cryptocurrency laundering platform Cryptomixer in Europe's latest pushback against cybercrime infrastructure.… |
AWS joins Microsoft, Google in the security AI agent race - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:02:52 GMT)Preview tool promises quicker reviews and faster flaw-finding for cloud appsRe:Invent AI agents are key to launching applications more quickly – and making them more secure from the start, Amazon says.… |
Amazon primed to fuse Nvidia's NVLink into 4th-gen Trainium accelerators - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:00:15 GMT)Meanwhile, Trainium3 makes its debut promising million-chip training clustersRe:Invent Amazon says that its next generation of homegrown silicon will deliver 6x higher performance thanks to a little help from its buddy Nvidia.… |
Kensington and Chelsea confirms IT outage was a data breach after all - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:18:01 GMT)Borough says attackers copied 'historical' info as three-council cyber woes drag onKensington and Chelsea Council has admitted that data was quietly lifted from its systems during last week's cyber meltdown, confirming that the outage was not just an IT faceplant but a bona fide data breach.… |
London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:05:41 GMT)Assembly report urges clearer planning as soaring AI power demands strain capital's networkAccess to electricity has become a major source of delay for housebuilding in London, and datacenters are inevitably tied up in this, leading to calls for greater oversight of energy and construction planning so that they keep pace with demand.… |
FTC schools edtech outfit after intruder walked off with 10M student records - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:09:37 GMT)Regulator says Illuminate ignored years of warnings, stored kids' data in plain text, and kept districts in the darkUS edtech provider Illuminate Education just got dinged by the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly failing to keep an attacker from pilfering data on 10 million students.… |
Waymo chalks up another four-legged casualty on San Francisco streets - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:47:41 GMT)Passenger recounts chaotic scene after robotaxi runs over small dogSelf-driving car company Waymo has confirmed that one of its vehicles ran over a dog in San Francisco on Sunday.… |
Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:00:15 GMT)2025 Xmas knitware nightmare could be yours if you make us smile: When was peak Microsoft?Free Wear It's that time of year again when Microsoft dispatches its latest Ugly Sweater to The Register, and we spoil a lucky reader that makes us smile by sending you the garment in time for Christmas.… |
Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:30:13 GMT)We're getting it baked into Windows whether we like it or notOpinion Making software would be the perfect job if it wasn't for those darn users. Windows head honcho Pavan Davuluri would be forgiven for feeling this of late as his happy online paean about Windows becoming an "agentic OS" was met by massive dissent in the comments. "Agentic schmentic, we want reliability, usability, and stability" was the gist.… |
UK sinks to fifth in ESA funding league behind Spain - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:45:07 GMT)Brit astro Tim Peake's much-vaunted mission to the ISS a distant memoryNearly ten years after Brit astronaut Tim Peake visited the International Space Station (ISS), the UK has slipped behind Spain in European Space Agency funding rankings.… |
Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:00:08 GMT)Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you coveredAV Linux and MX Moksha are a pair of distros tweaked for audio and music production, each using a different branch of the Enlightenment family of desktops.… |
Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11 - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:15:11 GMT)Corrected document clears up rollout timeline and confirms switch well ahead of deadlineThe UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed its £312 million Windows 10 laptop refresh was, in fact, followed by a Windows 11 upgrade after an earlier letter to Parliament misstated the department's operating system timeline.… |
Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:30:10 GMT)Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcomeOpinion There were lots of announcements about Kubernetes at KubeCon North America in Atlanta. I should know, I was there from beginning to end. But the biggest Kubernetes story of all didn't get much attention. Kubernetes is retiring its popular Ingress NGINX controller. Ingress NGINX goes to that big bit farm in the sky in March 2026. After that, "there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered."… |
Samsung reveals its first tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:00:35 GMT)Buyers get a one-time discount on screen repairs, which hardly screams ‘we nailed this three-screen thing’Samsung has revealed its first tri-fold phone, and it runs the Korean giant’s DeX desktop environment without the need for an external monitor.… |
Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:11:41 GMT)Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governanceEarly in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a proposal has emerged suggesting the same community be granted a substantial chunk of the IPv6 numberspace.… |
India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:24:20 GMT)'Sanchar Saathi' shares data to help fight fraud and protect carrier securityIndia’s government has issued a directive that requires all smartphone manufacturers to install a government app on every handset in the country and has given them 90 days to get the job done – and to ensure users can’t remove the code.… |
Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:12:29 GMT)Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eonsThe Foundation that promotes the Zig programming language has quit GitHub due to what its leadership perceives as the code sharing site's decline.… |
AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite - (pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:38:22 GMT)Drive around a virtual track in Las Vegas while watching Matt Garman speak on in-game billboardsRE:INVENT Amazon Web Services has decided to stream all five keynotes from its re:Invent conference in the hit multiplayer game Fortnite, which is more than a little bit bonkers.… |
OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI - (pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:05:33 GMT)Thrive will use the AI-maker's tech in its managed services and accounting businesessScratch my back and I'll scratch yours. OpenAI says that it has taken an undisclosed ownership stake in Thrive Holdings, the management-focused offshoot of private equity heavyweight Thrive Capital, which itself is a major investor in the ChatGPT maker.… |
Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence - (pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:45:14 GMT)Caveat coderIn what appears to be the latest example of a troubling trend of "vibe coding" software development tools behaving badly, a Reddit user is reporting that Google's Antigravity platform improperly wiped out the contents of an entire hard drive partition. … |
UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server - (pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:30:12 GMT)Predictable URLs break security through obscurity and lack of server access controls don't helpWordPress is the world's most popular content management system, but not so much with the UK government. The country's Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has blamed an inadvertent budget disclosure last week on misconfiguration of its WordPress website.… |
