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Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data - (pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:28:13 GMT)Coming in cold with custom Snow malwareA previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.… |
DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:25:01 GMT)Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.… |
Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:22:41 GMT)New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloadsUbuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.… |
Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:34:13 GMT)What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever?Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems.… |
US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:03:14 GMT)Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhereAmerica's telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the internet.… |
ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:35:52 GMT)Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of recordsCarnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique email addresses all allegedly tied to one of its subsidiaries. … |
Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:46:07 GMT)Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agencyA US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither of which disclosed the agency's name.… |
More ancient Linux device support faces the chop - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:15:10 GMT)One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old driversOne tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer matters if it's buggy.… |
Open Telemetry founder tools up for project graduation party - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:43:07 GMT)We gotta get boring to get graduatedGrafanacon The founder of the Open Telemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole to graduate.… |
Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:13:12 GMT)Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walkMicrosoft has committed to improving the quality and reliability of Windows, and a step on the path to that goal is… encouraging a chunk of its US staff to leave the company.… |
Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:50:36 GMT)Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chipsIntel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center of compute - even as its chip manufacturing struggles persist.… |
Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:16 GMT)After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the NeoverseMeta plans to deploy tens of millions of Amazon Web Services' Graviton 5 CPU cores as part of a multi-year collaboration that will make the social network among the largest-ever consumers of the cloud giant’s homegrown silicon.… |
Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:47:52 GMT)Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missivesMicrosoft's update to harden Remote Desktop against phishing attacks has arrived. When users open a Remote Desktop (.rdp) file, they should now see a warning listing all requested connection settings - or they would if it was displaying correctly.… |
It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:41:54 GMT)OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobsBlack Hat Asia Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic's Mythos, according to Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO of AI-powered security startup RunSybil and OpenAI's first security hire.… |
Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:45:12 GMT)Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add upDonald Trump has threatened to whack the UK with a "big tariff" if it doesn't scrap its tax on large US tech firms, reviving a long-running spat over who gets to skim the proceeds from Silicon Valley's global empire.… |
Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:15:13 GMT)Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the borderGreece is taking a flexible approach to introducing the European Union's biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), after some British passport holders missed flights home following the system's implementation on 10 April.… |
UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:30:07 GMT)Nothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowedMembers of the UK government’s People’s Panel on Digital ID will spend two weekends in Birmingham and three evenings on Zoom discussing how Britain should build a national digital identity system, earning £550 plus expenses for their trouble.… |
Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:45:15 GMT)Computer glitch spawns duplicate jackpots, disgruntled punters, and one very bad career choiceA computer glitch in a Spanish betting shop triggered a chain of events that ended with the store manager being kidnapped and held for €50,000 ($58,000) in ransom, allegedly by one of the shop's own employees.… |
To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:00:15 GMT)Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials?On Call Delivering excellent tech support can sometimes require heavy lifting, a feat The Register celebrates each Friday with a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of hoisting glitchy tech back to full function.… |
Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:56:22 GMT)FAST16 could be the first cyberweapon, and its effects could be with us todayBlack Hat Asia Infosec outfit SentinelOne found malware that tries to induce errors in engineering and physics simulation software and therefore represents an attempt at sabotage, and suggests it was created years before the Stuxnet worm that aimed to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges.… |
Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:10:33 GMT)Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhereBlack Hat Asia Developers of rented internet of things infrastructure – stuff like public EV chargers and shared e-bikes – are prioritizing user convenience over security, and leaving themselves exposed to wide-scale denial of service attacks on their services.… |
Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:26:57 GMT)System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general declineClaude users who complained about the AI service producing lower-quality responses over the past month weren’t imagining it.… |
Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: 'I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code' - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:38:27 GMT)Legit-looking website, camera-on interviews, jokes about backdoors ... it workedEXCLUSIVE It all started with a LinkedIn message, as so many employment scams do these days.… |
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:15:12 GMT)Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperateWith more capacity and faster charging, solid-state batteries could be the next big thing in energy. And good news: researchers may have pinned down one major reason these batteries still fail before they can reach widespread commercial use.… |
Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:47:49 GMT)Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothingAnthropic's release last week of Opus 4.7 came with stronger safeguards to prevent misuse. Unfortunately, these safeguards have also managed to thwart legitimate use.… |
Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:25:11 GMT)All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at onceA majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt victim organizations’ operations, according to a joint 10-country advisory.… |
US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:15:06 GMT)Three vendors matched to three sitesThe US Department of the Air Force (DAF) has selected three companies for possible nuclear microreactor projects at three of its installations under a program aimed at improving energy resilience if the electricity grid goes down.… |
YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:43:14 GMT)What are you doing to solve the memory crisis?If you follow PC hardware prices, you’ll know AI demand has pushed memory prices higher as manufacturers prioritize memory for datacenters. To deal with that, you can pay through the nose, buy less memory, or ... try to build your own DRAM.… |
Google explains why its all-in-one AI stack embraces competitors - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:13:36 GMT)'Differentiated, but open'Google Cloud Next Google Cloud’s Andi Gutmans said that the company holds a structural advantage over its largest rivals in the race to win value from AI agents in the enterprise, arguing that no competitor currently combines cloud computing infrastructure, frontier AI models, and a data platform under one roof.… |
Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:20:07 GMT)Push to protect minors risks hitting everyone onlineProton's boss has waded into the age verification fight with a warning that sounds less like child safety and more like an identity checkpoint for the entire internet.… |
Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:55:14 GMT)Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... handMicrosoft is giving Copilot the power to stop suggesting edits and start making them.… |
Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:33:40 GMT)Down to you to work out the valueDatadog has added GPU monitoring to its observability stack, giving AI-hungry organizations more insight into exactly what's happening on their most expensive silicon.… |
Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70% - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:57:19 GMT)Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptionsThe supply crunch gripping the storage market has pushed Everpure – the artist formerly known as Pure Storage – to reassure customers it won't make things worse.… |
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:57:15 GMT)Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiencesNASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready for launch ahead of schedule despite repeated attempts by both Donald Trump's first and second administrations to cut funding.… |
American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:26:10 GMT)Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other thingsPalantir has won a $300 million contract from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support the National Farm Security Action Plan (NFSAP) and modernize how USDA delivers services to America's farmers.… |
AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:59:13 GMT)Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gearThe chip shortage is spreading to power and management controller silicon, threatening server shipments as vendors prioritize capacity for higher-margin AI server products.… |
Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:34:49 GMT)World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplaceUpdated Details of volunteers of UK-based Biobank, which describes itself as the custodian of the world's most comprehensive biomedical dataset, are for sale on Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba.… |
Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you’re not paying enough attention to either - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:15:12 GMT)Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versaBlack Hat Asia Israeli researchers found a series of flaws in Microsoft's Windows Admin Center (WAC) and suggest this shows hybrid cloud management tools are a two-way attack surface that users don't spend enough time worrying about.… |
Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:43:12 GMT)EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own siliconElon Musk used Tesla's latest earnings call to reveal plans to build AI chips on Intel's not-yet-finished 14A process – a bet on silicon that doesn't exist.… |
AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:15:11 GMT)Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracyRise of the Machines The ancient games of chess and Go are now mere staging posts in the journey toward robots demonstrating their superior performance to humans - the machines can now beat us fleshbags at ping-pong.… |
If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:45:11 GMT)Orgs can now buy UK cyber agency engineered commercial gadget, but details are slimGCHQ's cyber arm has entered the hardware game with its first device designed to prevent cyberattacks on display devices.… |
Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:15:07 GMT)Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turnBork!Bork!Bork! The curse of Bork is no respecter of status or class. It does not differentiate between a high-flying executive and a lowly worker. And so it was that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian came unstuck due to some all-too-familiar video-conferencing struggles.… |
Using the password 'admin123' wasn't as bad as sharing it on Slack - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:28:12 GMT)Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches laterPWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we’ll be talking about your cyber equivalent.… |
Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:45:06 GMT)Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lotAI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of UK government information by drawing on stale GOV.UK pages, according to content designers at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).… |
Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:08 GMT)NCSC passes judgment: passkeys pass muster, passwords failThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the default authentication standard, marking the first time the agency has told consumers to move away from passwords entirely.… |
Kubernetes explains the release that kills Ingress NGINX with Japanese poetry and art - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:44:41 GMT)Release team sets new standard for release notes by linking between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off KanagawaKubernetes issued a new release called “Haru” on Wednesday, and the release notes and logo might be more interesting than the software.… |
Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:34:59 GMT)Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method'Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers' environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to TeamPCP last month.… |
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:39:44 GMT)Hackpocalypse deferredAnthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows that Mythos may not be as dangerous as some would have you believe.… |
SK Hynix’s aspirations for ’Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:28:25 GMT)New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 2028SK Hynix has reportedly broken ground on a new advanced memory packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, that should boost the supply of US-made high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key component in high-end AI accelerators from the likes of Nvidia and AMD.… |
OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:56:58 GMT)Make your model smarter through self-surveillanceThose who cannot remember Microsoft Recall are condemned to repeat it. … |
