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Google declares AI bug hunting season open, sets a $30K max reward - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:19:47 GMT)Jailbreaks, direct prompt injection not allowedGoogle on Monday rolled out a new AI Vulnerability Reward Program to encourage researchers to find and report flaws in its AI systems, with rewards of up to $30,000 for a single qualifying report.… |
China is building a thriving semi industry off US leftovers, export controls be damned - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:43:06 GMT)House Committee on China wants more comprehensive ban on chipmaking equipment exports to Middle KingdomUS export controls have had mixed results in stemming the flow of chipmaking equipment into China, according to a congressional investigation, which found US and allied companies sold $38 billion worth of semiconductor tools in 2024 alone.… |
Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:18:05 GMT)Microsoft Copilot, not so muchEmployees could be opening up to OpenAI in ways that put sensitive data at risk. According to a study by security biz LayerX, a large number of corporate users paste Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or Payment Card Industry (PCI) numbers right into ChatGPT, even if they're using the bot without permission.… |
FCC kicks off 'Space Month' with vow to fast-track satellite licensing - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:34:27 GMT)Agency aims to replace its default 'no' with default 'yes' while overhauling rules for operatorsThe US Federal Communications Commission has launched "Space Month," with Chairman Brendan Carr saying that "we'll replace a default to no at the agency to a default to yes" for satellite licensing requests.… |
Nearly a year after attack, US medical scanning biz gets clear image of stolen patient data - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:15:06 GMT)No fraud monitoring and no apology after miscreants make off with medical, financial dataFlorida-based Doctors Imaging Group has admitted that the sensitive medical and financial data of 171,862 patients was stolen during the course of a November 2024 cyberattack.… |
Police and military radio maker BK Technologies cops to cyber break-in - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:55:54 GMT)Florida comms outfit serving cops, firefighters, and the military says hackers pinched some employee data but insists its systems stayed onlineBK Technologies, the Florida-based maker of mission-critical radios for US police, fire, and defense customers, has confessed to a cyber intrusion that briefly rattled its IT systems last month.… |
OpenAI bans suspected Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to plan surveillance - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:36:06 GMT)It also banned some suspected Russian accounts trying to create influence campaigns and malwareOpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts believed to be linked to Chinese government entities attempting to use AI models to surveil individuals and social media accounts.… |
Trio who made foundational quantum computing discovery bag Nobel physics prize - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:15:14 GMT)Studies at UC Berkeley in the 1980s paved the way for quantum computing and cryptographyThree researchers in sub-atomic physics have been awarded a Nobel prize for work which helped lay the foundations for quantum computing.… |
JetBrains backs open AI coding standard that could gnaw at VS Code dominance - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:58:07 GMT)Google and Zed have already adopted ACP – will Microsoft now follow?JetBrains has joined Google and Zed Industries in adopting the fledgling Agent Client Protocol (ACP), a standard for how AI agents interact with code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs).… |
Clop raid on Oracle E-Business Suite started months ago, researchers warn - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:10:08 GMT)Strap in, admins. Exploits began in August and now the code is out thereSecurity boffins say the Clop cybercriminal gang has been rummaging through Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) for months – and now the exploit code's out there for anyone to grab.… |
Qualcomm solders Arduino to its edge AI ambitions, debuts Raspberry Pi rival - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:35:15 GMT)Cali chip giant insists single-board computer house will remain independentQualcomm has acquired Arduino, maker of microcontrollers (and now single-board computers), in a move designed to boost its presence in edge computing, as evidenced by a new Arduino product based on one of its Dragonwing chips.… |
How your mouse could eavesdrop on you and rat you out - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:03:10 GMT)Mic-E-Mouse can roar by literally vibe hacking speechThe mouse sitting next to you can be turned into a microphone thanks to some cunning use of its sensors to pick up vibrations from your voice in an attack dubbed Mic-E-Mouse.… |
Red Hat breach escalates as criminals collaborate on 'multi-terabyte' extortion plot - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:58:04 GMT)Bad guys promise not to attack customers if they get paidRed Hat's breach nightmare just got worse, as the Crimson Collective crew that claims to have ransacked its GitLab repos has joined forces with the ShinyHunters-linked "Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters" gang to turn the screw with a full-blown extortion campaign.… |
London cops unplug iPhone crime ring said to nick 40% of city's mobiles - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:03:10 GMT)Met's year-long Operation Echosteep nets thousands of stolen devices and several arrestsLondon's Metropolitan Police says it dismantled an iPhone-robbing gang responsible for what's thought to be nearly half of all phone thefts in England's capital.… |
No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:58:14 GMT)Workaround sent to the big OOBE in the sky with latest Insider buildsMicrosoft is closing a popular loophole that allowed users to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account.… |
Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:13:07 GMT)Space sensors and UAVs at sea top MoD's list in new wave of cutting-edge projectsThe UK is pressing ahead with cutting-edge defense projects, the latest including research to protect satellites from laser attack and a technology demonstrator for a jet-powered drone to operate from Royal Navy carriers.… |
UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:30:11 GMT)Department eyes new app to tap national ANPR data for live alerts, searches, and integrationsThe UK's Home Office is inviting tech suppliers to take part in a £60 million "market engagement" for an application that uses data from automated number plate recognition (ANPR) systems.… |
Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:03:13 GMT)CodeMender has been generating fixes for vulnerabilities in open source projectsGoogle says its AI-powered security repair tool CodeMender has been helping secure open source projects through automated patch creation, subject to human approval.… |
Cerebras CEO insists dinner-plate-sized chip startup will still go public - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:30:09 GMT)Inference service launched a month before IPO filing turns out to have been a much bigger business than initially thoughtJust days after announcing a $1.1 billion Series G funding round, AI chip startup Cerebras Systems pulled its S-1 IPO filing without so much as an explanation. … |
Microsoft blames Medusa ransomware affiliates for GoAnywhere exploits while Fortra keeps head buried - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:13:09 GMT)You can't find anything bad if you don't look, right?Medusa ransomware affiliates are among those exploiting a maximum-severity bug in Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) product, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.… |
Amazon turns James Bond into the Man Without the Golden Gun - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:47:15 GMT)Prime Video bowdlerized Bond just in time for 007's special dayIn more than 60 years of adventures, James Bond has faced off against villains ranging from Blofeld to Le Chiffre. But none of them has managed to do what Jeff Bezos and his henchmen did to the international superspy: take his weapons away.… |
Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:27:04 GMT)Bernie Sanders calls for a robot tax and a 32-hour work week in responseai-pocalypse A US Senate committee led by Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has produced a report claiming that about 97 million US jobs could be lost to AI and automation over the next decade. There's just one problem: it got those figures from ChatGPT.… |
Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:43:42 GMT)Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowellIf you had to guess how many Starlink satellites burn up in Earth's atmosphere on an average day, how many would you pick? This isn't a trick question - SpaceX is deorbiting about one or two satellites daily, and that number is only going to grow. … |
Stargate is nowhere near big enough to make OpenAI's tie-ups with AMD and Nvidia work - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:05:22 GMT)Since revealing Stargate in January, Altman and friends have brought about 200 MW online - they'll need at least 16 GW to claim their red and green prizeComment AMD has issued OpenAI a warrant for roughly 10 percent of its stock. In exchange, the AI model giant will work with its partners (such as Oracle) to deploy up to 6 gigawatts' worth of AMD GPUs.… |
OpenAI tells developers ChatGPT is ready to be their gatekeeper - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:36:44 GMT)Integrate your apps via their Apps SDK and maybe they'll send you some businessOpenAI on Monday pitched its coding tools to software developers in the hope of generating the usage and revenue necessary to recoup the vast sums it spends to create and run its AI services.… |
Level-10 vuln lurking in Redis source code for 13 years could allow remote code execution - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:29:08 GMT)No evidence of exploitation … yetA 13-year-old critical flaw in Redis servers, rated a perfect 10 out of 10 in severity, can let an authenticated user trigger remote code execution.… |
OpenAI IP promises ring hollow to Sora losers - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:56:38 GMT)Altman promises copyright holders a cut of video revenue, if he ever figures out how to make some.analysis OpenAI's new Sora 2 video generator has become the most popular free app in Apple's App Store since launching last week. It has also drawn ire from Hollywood studios and anyone whose characters and storylines appear in the user-generated content without their explicit permission. Now CEO Sam Altman says rightsholders will be getting greater control over how their properties are used - and may even be paid. … |
Lowercase leaving you cold? Introducing Retrocide - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:02:54 GMT)Dropping descenders to achieve a perfect baselineNostalgia fans rejoice – a new monospaced display font has made its debut, and this time every glyph shares the same baseline height with no descenders to interfere with the character flow.… |
Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:55:09 GMT)Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbotDeloitte has agreed to refund part of an Australian government contract after admitting it used generative AI to produce a report riddled with fake citations, phantom footnotes, and even a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgment.… |
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to 'endlessly harass' execs - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:41:58 GMT)Crime group claims to have already doled out $1K to those in it 'for money and for the love of the game'Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has launched an unusual crowdsourced extortion scheme, offering $10 in Bitcoin to anyone willing to help pressure their alleged victims into paying ransoms.… |
OpenAI and AMD link arms for AI buildout: It's a power-for-equity swap - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:09:33 GMT)6GW chip pact sends AMD stock soaring, Nvidia has a rival for Altman biz loveAMD and OpenAI have forged a 6 gigawatt agreement to power OpenAI’s AI infrastructure across multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs.… |
EchoStar secures rights to spectrum it plans to sell to SpaceX - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:35:24 GMT)Musk space biz: 'Anyone else that wants to use the spectrum must coordinate with us first'EchoStar says it has met the regulatory conditions to maintain the spectrum it is selling to Musk's rocketeers.… |
Radiant Group won't touch kids' data now, but apparently hospitals are fair game - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:20:49 GMT)Ransomware crooks utterly fail to find moral compassFirst they targeted a preschool network, now new kids on the ransomware block Radiant Group say they've hit a hospital in the US, continuing their deplorable early cybercrime careers.… |
Kicked from RubyGems, maintainers forge new home at Gem Cooperative - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:00:19 GMT)gem.coop server promises continuity after Ruby Central’s takeover of key reposA team including maintainers removed without notice from the RubyGems.org project has formed the Gem Cooperative and created a new gem server called gem.coop, compatible with RubyGems.… |
An idea that won't sink: China planning underwater datacenter deployment - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:44:37 GMT)Under the sea, under the sea... bit barnacle's better, down where it's wetter, take it from meChina is persevering with underwater datacenters - a deployment off the coast near Shanghai is expected to save on the energy costs of cooling compute infrastructure thanks to ocean currents.… |
Thieves steal IDs and payment info after data leaks from Discord support vendor - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:18:03 GMT)Outsourcing your helpdesk always seems like a good idea – until someone else's breach becomes your problemDiscord has confirmed customers' data was stolen – but says the culprit wasn't its own servers, just a compromised support vendor.… |
Jaguar Land Rover engines ready to roar again after weeks-long cyber stall - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:28:05 GMT)No confirmed date but workers expected to return in the coming daysJaguar Land Rover is readying staff to resume manufacturing in the coming days, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Reg.… |
Clop crew hits Oracle E-Business Suite users with fresh zero-day - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:40:46 GMT)Big Red rushes out patch for 9.8-rated flaw after crooks exploit it for data theft and extortionOracle rushed out an emergency fix over the weekend for a zero-day vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (EBS) that criminal crew Clop has already abused for data theft and extortion.… |
Leak suggests US government is fibbing over FEMA security failings - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:55:50 GMT)Plus, PAN under attack, IT whistleblowers get a payout, and China kills online scammersInfosec in brief On August 29, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency fired its CISO, CIO, and 22 other staff for incompetence but insisted it wasn't in response to an online attack. New material suggests FEMA's claim may be false.… |
AI: The ultimate slacker's dream come true - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:00:15 GMT)Microsoft's Copilot is helping workers perfect the ancient art of doing sweet f allOpinion It has been less than three years since ChatGPT lit the fuse of the current explosion of AI everywhere. AI years move even faster than internet years, so there's been time not only for the forcible injection of AI into the workplace courtesy of Microsoft, but the first scientific studies of the effect. Productivity may not have gone up, but anxiety, confusion and annoyance most certainly have.… |
Qualcomm in the dock over 'patent tax' on smartphones - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:15:11 GMT)Consumer group Which? says owners of Apple and Samsung devices overcharged by £480MQualcomm is facing a UK trial over allegations that it abused its dominant position in the smartphone chipset market to charge inflated license fees, ultimately driving up device prices for Brit consumers.… |
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:30:14 GMT)Big Blue turned the air blueWho, Me? Oh, bother, it's Monday. But rather than curse about another working week rolling around, The Register welcomes it with another instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace whoopsies and reveal how you survived them.… |
AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds - (pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:38:14 GMT)Top AI models keep saying you’re right, and that’s the problemState-of-the-art AI models tend to flatter users, and that praise makes people more convinced that they're right and less willing to resolve conflicts, recent research suggests.… |
Hacking contest kerfuffle over copied rules pits Wiz against ZDI - (pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:32:09 GMT)'Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it'A new hacking contest has caused a social media kerfuffle over allegations of rule copying and plagiarism.… |
Hacked Ford screens put anti-RTO slogan above CEO’s face - (pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 11:20:08 GMT)Carmaker confirms screen hijack, says probe underwayConference-room screens at Ford's Dearborn HQ were briefly hijacked on Thursday to display a protest image in an apparent swipe at the carmaker's return-to-office policy.… |
India's tech talent pipeline is sputtering - (pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:00:10 GMT)AI and new wave of offshoring mean graduates can't get gigsFeature Shubh Kumar graduated from IIT Patna, one of India's famed Institutes of Technology – universities that attract millions of applicants but admit only 18,000 undergraduates.… |
ICE plans to scour Facebook, TikTok, X, and even defunct Google+ for illegal immigration leads - (pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:44:20 GMT)Draft solicitation calls for nearly 30 contractors to mine social media and other open-source dataUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking contractors to trawl social media and other open-source data for potential immigration enforcement leads, assuming public posts can yield actionable intelligence.… |
Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally - (pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:58:33 GMT)Aspiring Bond villain believes the best place to train our AI overlords is in orbitAmazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos says that, within two decades, gigawatt-scale datacenters powered by a continuous stream of photons from the sun will fill Earth's orbit.… |
No suds for you! Asahi brewery attack leaves Japanese drinkers dry - (pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:35:51 GMT)One week after the blitz, beer biz is still stymiedRansomware has left Japan's biggest brewer struggling to ship beer, with Asahi warning domestic customers to brace for patchy supplies while its core systems stay offline.… |
'Retired' cybercrime group demands ransom not to leak 1B Salesforce records - (pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:53:12 GMT)CRM giant insists its platform wasn’t breachedDespite multiple arrests and talk of retirement, a crew now calling itself Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters has reemerged with a data-leak site listing about 40 companies’ Salesforce environments, and is demanding an extortion payment (amount unknown) to prevent what it claims is about 1 billion stolen records from being published online.… |
