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Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite - (pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:02:22 GMT)PLUS: Drugs found in ink cartridges; Chinse censorship fighters criticize Vultr; Coupang CEO resigns; And more!Asia In Brief A SpaceX executive has claimed that a Chinese satellite launch came within 200 meters of hitting a Starlink satellite.… |
Honeypots can help defenders, or damn them if implemented badly - (pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:26:27 GMT)PLUS: Crims could burn your AI budgets thanks to weak defaults; CISA's top 25 vulns for 2025; And moreInfosec In Brief The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has found that cyber-deception tactics such as honeypots and decoy accounts designed to fool attackers can be useful if implemented very carefully.… |
The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years - (pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:00:15 GMT)SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystalcold storage tech closer to deployment in data centersAfter decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.… |
British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted - (pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:00:15 GMT)CEO warns airlines that don’t learn to sell themselves to machines could soon be flying under the radarBritish Airways' chief executive has warned that the airline industry is fast heading for a future where AI agents, not humans, decide which brands get booked – and carriers that fail to adapt are at risk of quietly disappearing from the digital shop window.… |
Microsoft RasMan DoS 0-day gets unofficial patch - and a working exploit - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:29:33 GMT)Exploit hasn't been picked up by any malware detection engines, CEO tells The RegA Microsoft zero-day vulnerability that allows an unprivileged user to crash the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager (RasMan) service now has a free, unofficial patch - with no word as to when Redmond plans to release an official one - along with a working exploit circulating online.… |
New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:23:30 GMT)And the earlier React2Shell patch is vulnerableIf you're running React Server Components, you just can't catch a break. In addition to already-reported flaws, newly discovered bugs allow attackers to hang vulnerable servers and potentially leak Server Function source code, so anyone using RSC or frameworks that support it should patch quickly.… |
Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:41:49 GMT)Executive order sidesteps Congress and sets up Litigation Task ForcePresident Trump and his patrons in big tech have long wanted to block states from implementing their own AI regulations. After failing twice to do so in Congress, the US president has issued an executive order that would attempt to punish states that try to restrain the bot business.… |
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:17:08 GMT)Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systemsThe total cost of a Workday implementation project at Washington University in St. Louis is set to hit almost $266 million, it was revealed after the project was the subject of protests from students.… |
The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:28:43 GMT)It's getting crowded up thereEarth's orbit is starting to look like an LA freeway, with more and more satellites being launched each year. If you're worried about collisions and space debris making the area unusable – and you should be – scientists have proposed a new metric to contribute to your anxiety: the CRASH Clock.… |
AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:24:50 GMT)Bank sketches four scenarios in which monetization falters or demand swamps supply by 2030Goldman Sachs warns that datacenter investments may fail to pay off if the industry is unable to monetize AI models, but hedges its bets by saying that demand could also overwhelm available capacity by 2030.… |
Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:35:12 GMT)Critical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' moveMicrosoft is overhauling its bug bounty program to reward exploit hunters for finding vulnerabilities across all its products and services, even those without established bounty schemes.… |
Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:25:09 GMT)Justice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirementsThe US is suing a former senior manager at Accenture for allegedly misleading the government about the security of an Army cloud platform.… |
Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:07:09 GMT)Competition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trialStop us if you've heard this one before. Microsoft is in court regarding allegedly sharp software licensing practices.… |
UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:36:34 GMT)Rights groups say digital-only record is leaking data and courting troubleCivil society groups are urging the UK's data watchdog to investigate whether the Home Office's digital-only eVisa scheme is breaching GDPR, sounding the alarm about systemic data errors and design failures that are exposing sensitive personal information while leaving migrants unable to prove their lawful status.… |
Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:31:09 GMT)Wiz says React2Shell attacks accelerating, ranging from cryptominers to state-linked crewsHalf of the internet-facing systems vulnerable to a fast-moving React remote code execution flaw remain unpatched, even as exploitation has exploded into more than a dozen active attack clusters ranging from bargain-basement cryptominers to state-linked intrusion tooling.… |
Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:15:14 GMT)Analysts say the shift offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure vendors keep controlSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff last week came closer to answering a multibillion-dollar question when he said seat-based pricing – with some caveats – was becoming the norm for its AI agents after flirting with pricing based on consumption and per-conversation payments.… |
Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:30:10 GMT)Replacement rollout plagued by bad data and missing features, says watchdogDespite completing its rollout of a new case management system, Home Office caseworkers are still referring back to data in a 25-year-old legacy system when processing asylum claims, according to a public spending watchdog.… |
User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:30:07 GMT)Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave upOn Call Welcome once more to On Call, the Friday column in which we share stories of tech support incidents that went pear-shaped until cunning Reg readers stepped in to save the day.… |
Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:26:57 GMT)Forum site says it’s potentially more harmful to users who don’t log inForum site Reddit has filed a case that seeks to exempt itself from Australia’s ban on children under 16 holding social media accounts.… |
Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:53:15 GMT)Judge said his fraud was on 'epic, generational scale'Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon will spend 15 years in jail after pleading guilty to committing fraud.… |
Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO - (pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:48:28 GMT)Chips ’n’ code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to comeSilicon photonics won’t matter in the datacenter “anytime soon,” according to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan.… |
AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:44:50 GMT)The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moore’s LawYou want artificial general intelligence (AGI)? Current-day processors aren't powerful enough to make it happen and our ability to scale up may soon be coming to an end, argues well-known researcher Tim Dettmers.… |
VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:06:08 GMT)Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menuExclusive Broadcom has recently killed off VMware vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA, the company told The Register, dealing a blow to smaller customers, one of whom told us they would likely switch to a rival hypervisor as a result.… |
Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:03:21 GMT)Begun, these AI wars haveAmid controversy over its ability to generate content with copyrighted characters, OpenAI has struck a three-year deal with Disney to license more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters for use in Sora videos and ChatGPT Images.… |
Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:56:37 GMT)Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data backCyberVolk, a pro-Russian hacktivist crew, is back after months of silence with a new ransomware service. There's some bad news and some good news here.… |
European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger - (pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:15:21 GMT)Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known betterA trade group of European cloud providers has laid into the European Commission’s decision to allow the VMware-Broadcom merger to go ahead, alleging that it failed to assess the infrastructure and semiconductor company’s incentives to massively raise prices on customers.… |
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 watchTowrUpdated Security researchers have revealed a .NET security flaw thought to affect a host of enterprise-grade products that they say Microsoft refuses to fix.… |
