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As agents run amok, CrowdStrike's $740M SGNL deal aims to help get a grip on identity security - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:09:23 GMT)Authentication is basically solved. Authorization is another thing entirely...CrowdStrike has signed a $740 million deal to buy identity security startup SGNL. The move underscores the growing threat of identity-based attacks as companies struggle to secure skyrocketing numbers of non-human identities, including AI agents.… |
ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:20:09 GMT)It's for less consequential health-related matters, where being wrong won't kill customersCould a bot take the place of your doctor? According to OpenAI, which launched ChatGPT Health this week, an LLM should be available to answer your questions and even examine your health records. But it should stop short of diagnosis or treatment.… |
Pay and pray: Nvidia reportedly wants money up front for Chinese H200 orders - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:24:22 GMT)Beijing could green-light sales to select customers as soon as this quarterNvidia's H200 GPUs could begin trickling into China as soon as this quarter, but there's a catch. Due to all the geopolitical turmoil that's ravaged US-China trade relations over the past year, buyers may need to pay up front for the coveted AI accelerators. And they won't get a refund if China decides to block the imports!… |
Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:59:07 GMT)Love Google AI Overviews? Now they're in your inboxWe hope you like more AI in your Gmail inbox, because Google is "bringing Gmail into the Gemini era." It'll be on by default, but the good news is that you can disable it. … |
Patch Cisco ISE bug now before attackers abuse proof-of-concept exploit - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:43:02 GMT)No reports of active exploitation … yetCisco patched a bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) products that allows remote attackers with admin-level privileges to access sensitive information - and warned that a public, proof-of-concept exploit for the flaw exists online.… |
Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:28:41 GMT)'Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such'Today, it is hard to escape LLM bots and the endless slop they emit, but the Linux kernel might be largely safe … for now.… |
Why colos are city slickers and hyperscalers are country bumpkins - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:38:37 GMT)One wants customers next door, the other wants cheap powerDatacenter building decisions tend to fall into two camps with colocation providers plumping for urban areas while hyperscalers seek sites where electricity, land, and construction costs come cheaper.… |
ISS spacewalk postponed over mystery astronaut malady - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:48:50 GMT)NASA mulling options, including an early trip homeNASA has postponed today's spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) due to an undisclosed "medical concern" with a crew member.… |
Ransomware attacks kept climbing in 2025 as gangs refused to stay dead - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:47:25 GMT)Cop wins hit crime infrastructure, not the people behind itIf 2025 was meant to be the year ransomware started dying, nobody appears to have told the attackers.… |
Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:34:12 GMT)Just refreshed to avoid 5G interference? Do it again, FAA tells industry, as Upper C-band auction loomsAirlines operating in the US may have to upgrade their aircraft radio altimeters again at a cost of billions of dollars, to avoid potential interference with cell networks following the Trump administration's decision last year to auction off additional spectrum to bidders.… |
CISA flags actively exploited Office relic alongside fresh HPE flaw - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:44:34 GMT)Max-severity OneView hole joins a PowerPoint bug that should've been retired years agoCISA has added a pair of security holes to its actively exploited list, warning that attackers are now abusing a maximum-severity bug in HPE's OneView management software and a years-old flaw in Microsoft Office.… |
AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:57:02 GMT)Two a year is for your own good, Mountain View insistsGoogle has confirmed there will be two code dumps to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) per year, down from the four developers have become accustomed to.… |
UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:40:27 GMT)Lawyers say Musk's platform may face punishment under Online Safety Act priority offensesElon Musk's X platform is under fire as UK regulators close in on mounting reports that the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, is generating sexual imagery without users' consent.… |
Maximum-severity n8n flaw lets randos run your automation server - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:40:15 GMT)Unauthenticated RCE means anyone on the network can seize full controlA maximum-severity bug in the popular automation platform n8n has left an estimated 100,000 servers wide open to complete takeover, courtesy of a flaw so bad it doesn't even require logging in.… |
OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:01:28 GMT)Happy Groundhog Day!Security researchers at Radware say they've identified several vulnerabilities in OpenAI's ChatGPT service that allow the exfiltration of personal information.… |
Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:00:11 GMT)They also hallucinate when writing ransomware codeInterview With everyone from would-be developers to six-year-old kids jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon, it shouldn't be surprising that criminals like automated coding tools too.… |
Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:14:15 GMT)Synthetic cephalopod skin could be used in architecture and computer displays as well as background-matching subterfugeScientists have developed a synthetic skin capable of mimicking some of the best camouflage skills in nature that could also have applications in soft robotics and advanced displays.… |
Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:30:12 GMT)Company says it dropped the ball, apologizes for wasting people's timeLogitech says an expired developer certificate is to blame after swaths of customers were left infuriated when their mice malfunctioned.… |
Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory - (pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:00:20 GMT)Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic actionCloudflare has poured cold water on a theory that the USA’s incursion into Venezuela coincided with a cyberattack on telecoms infrastructure.… |
AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:06:16 GMT)AMD boasts 1000x higher AI perf by 2027 and pulls the lid off Helios compute tray ahead of 2H 2026 launchAMD teased its next-generation of AI accelerators at CES 2026, with CEO Lisa Su boasting the the MI500-series will deliver a 1,000x uplift in performance over its two-year-old MI300X GPUs.… |
IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:04:16 GMT)Prompt injection lets risky commands slip past guardrailsIBM describes its coding agent thus: "Bob is your AI software development partner that understands your intent, repo, and security standards." Unfortunately, Bob doesn't always follow those security standards.… |
New carbon capture tech could save us from datacenter doom - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:04:40 GMT)Maybe our AI overlords, hell-bent on securing power any way they can, should invest in getting this to marketResearchers in Finland have found a new way to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air that they say is more efficient than existing methods, cheap to produce, reusable, and allows for easy recycling of captured CO₂. … |
British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:33:57 GMT)Let the co-opetition commenceAccenture plans to buy UK-based AI firm Faculty, a Palantir competitor, and onboard the company’s CEO as Accenture’s new chief technology officer. The move suggests the two companies, while partners today, could start taking each others' business.… |
SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:45:47 GMT)NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus bannerWD Black and Blue SSDs are some of the most widely recognized client drives on the market, but their branding is about to disappear. Following Western Digital's flash-business spinoff, SanDisk announced it was retiring the beloved names and rebranding its NVMe lineup under the SANDISK Optimus banner.… |
ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:02:35 GMT)Two weeks, two major data leaks … not a good look for the European Space Agencyexclusive The European Space Agency on Wednesday confirmed yet another massive security breach, and told The Register that the data thieves responsible will be subject to a criminal investigation. And this could be a biggie.… |
Stalkerware slinger pleads guilty for selling snooper software to suspicious spouses - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:32:10 GMT)pcTattletale boss Bryan Fleming faces up to 15 years in prison when sentenced later this yearThe US government has secured a guilty plea from a stalkerware maker in federal court, marking just the second time in more than a decade that the US has managed to prosecute a consumer spyware vendor successfully. … |
FAA signs radar deals to drag US air traffic control out of the 1980s - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:24:58 GMT)RTX and Indra land contracts as long-delayed overhaul moves aheadThe US government has announced contracts for new radar infrastructure as part of its long-running effort to replace the country's aging air traffic control system.… |
Historic NASA test towers face their final countdown - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:55:48 GMT)Apollo-era Saturn V and Shuttle stands set for controlled demolition as Artemis ramps upWith less than a month to go until NASA attempts to send astronauts around the Moon, the agency is demolishing facilities that got it there the first time around.… |
Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:21:15 GMT)Who can lift a 77-pound box into the overhead?Fancy having an AI system packed with Nvidia H200 GPUs that you can take with you from place to place? According to hardware maker Odinn, now you can, so long as you don't mind carrying a 77-pound (35 kg) box around.… |
Microsoft scraps Exchange Online spam clamp after customers cry foul - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:25:50 GMT)Negative feedback sinks Redmond's plan to cap outbound email recipientsMicrosoft has backed away from planned changes to Exchange Online after customers objected to limits designed to curb outbound email abuse.… |
Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025 - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:59:00 GMT)Trillion-dollar internet giants don't need freebies, watchdog warns, as giveaways double in a yearThe US state of Virginia forfeited $1.6 billion in tax revenue through datacenter exemptions in fiscal 2025 – up 118 percent on the prior year – as the AI-driven construction boom accelerates.… |
GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:40:12 GMT)Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism'Opinion Ever since Linux got a graphical desktop, you could middle-click to paste – but if GNOME gets its way, that's going away soon, and from Firefox too.… |
Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:15:02 GMT)Committee told shifting timelines could alter automatic reversals in UK's historic Fujitsu computing scandalThe Post Office's Horizon computer system may have been deployed earlier than thought, potentially affecting which convictions get automatically quashed under legislation introduced to speed up justice in one of the biggest scandals in recent British history, MPs heard yesterday.… |
Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:28:43 GMT)High-risk system compromised long before intrusion was finally spottedUpdated The UK's Ministry of Justice spent £50 million ($67 million) on cybersecurity improvements at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) before the high-profile cyberattack it disclosed last year.… |
Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:50:46 GMT)Production halts and supply-chain disruption left luxury automaker reeling in fiscal Q3Brit luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover has reported devastating preliminary Q3 results that lay bare the cascading consequences of a crippling cyberattack, revealing wholesale volumes collapsed more than two-fifths year-on-year.… |
Recline of the machines: Terminator felled by dodgy battery - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:00:09 GMT)The rise will be postponed until you hit F1 to continueBork!Bork!Bork! The baddest of AI bad guys, the Terminator, has confirmed what the vast majority of IT professionals already know. The machines are not about to rise, not until they can deal with that pesky battery voltage.… |
HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:13:11 GMT)Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-DroidSome HSBC mobile banking customers in the UK report being locked out of the bank's app after installing the Bitwarden password manager via an open source app catalog.… |
UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:30:11 GMT)Department for Work and Pensions lines up bot bouncers for one of Europe's largest call-handling systemsThe UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to introduce a conversational AI platform it hopes will steer calls from citizens with queries about their benefits. The contract is worth up to £23 million.… |
Lenovo shows off new laptops that twist and roll - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:02:13 GMT)The company has also redesigned the X1 Carbon’s internals for easier repairsIf there was a kingdom of laptop screen flexibility, Lenovo would take the crown. Last year, the company released the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, with a mechanical screen that could roll out to increase its size from 14 to 16.7 inches. Now, it’s back with the ThinkPad Rollable XD concept laptop that expands from 13.3 to 16 inches at the touch of a button or a swipe, along with the ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist, which uses a motor to rotate its screen and follow you around the room.… |
Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:00:56 GMT)Amazon's community surveillance biz bets on AI to recognize dangerA year after a series of fires obliterated communities in Los Angeles, Amazon's Ring security service has announced a feature called Fire Watch intended to mitigate future wildfire risk.… |
HackerOne 'ghosted' me for months over $8,500 bug bounty, says researcher - (pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:17:19 GMT)Long after CVEs issued and open source flaws fixedLast fall, Jakub Ciolek reported two denial-of-service bugs in Argo CD, a popular Kubernetes controller, via HackerOne's Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program. Both were assigned CVEs and have since been fixed. But instead of receiving an $8,500 reward for the two flaws, Ciolek says, HackerOne ghosted him for months.… |
Snowflake gets frosty with Google Gemini - (pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:54:56 GMT)Munge that corporate data using the LLM of your choiceThe data platform Snowflake is putting Google's Gemini to work inside its Cortex AI, aiming to give customers access to a foundational model within the boundaries of their data environment across supported clouds, the company told The Register.… |
Brave refurbishes Rust adblocking engine for reduced memory footprint - (pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:24:41 GMT)Have your privacy cake and consume the web tooBrave Software has reworked its browser's Rust-based adblock engine to make it significantly more memory efficient and perhaps more secure. So you get fewer ads now with fewer MB of RAM.… |
Optimus Schmoptimus - Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot is already in mass production - (pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:42:29 GMT)Atlas will be deployed to Hyundai and Google facilities this yearCES 2026 Remember when Elon Musk predicted that there would be thousands of Optimus robots at Tesla factories by the end of 2025? Well, that didn't happen, but competitor Boston Dynamics has just announced that its humanoid robot, Atlas, is going to the big time.… |
Brightspeed investigates breach as crims post stolen data for sale - (pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:54:45 GMT)Crimson Collective claims 'sophisticated attack'Internet service provider Brightspeed confirmed that it's investigating criminals' claims that they stole more than a million customers' records and have listed them for sale for three bitcoin, or about $276,370. … |
Lego crams an ASIC in a brick to keep kids interested - (pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:39:26 GMT)Neat idea, but with no mention of a dev kit it's another sign of Lego's descent into designing nothing but fun on railsNot even Legos are safe from the inexorable march of smart technology, as the Danish construction toy stalwart introduced a new tech-in-a-brick Smart Play system at CES this week. … |
What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32 - (pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:17:18 GMT)It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just workWhat if, rather than make a Linux distro that can run Windows apps, you built the whole distro around Windows binaries instead?… |
StockHistory function becomes StockMystery as Microsoft Excel bugs out - (pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:02:23 GMT)New Year glitch leaves users staring at connection errors instead of market dataFor many, the start of a new year is a time to take stock. For Microsoft, it was a time to stop giving it as the company kicked off 2026 with a bug that broke Excel's StockHistory function.… |
No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric - (pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:01:10 GMT)AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-houseMicrosoft has bought Osmos, an AI-assisted data engineering platform, in a bid to enrich its Fabric data platform, encroaching on so-called partners' markets.… |
Mem-ageddon: AI chip frenzy to wallop DRAM prices with 70% hike - (pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:40:12 GMT)Samsung and SK hynix readying another gouge as server silicon squeeze leaves PCs and phones out in the coldMemory prices are set to spike again as chipmakers prioritize AI server production over consumer devices, with analysts warning of a high double-digit jump in Q1 2026 alone as demand outpaces supply.… |
