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Uncle Sam speedruns AI chatbot adoption for federal workers - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:01:07 GMT)The GSA is letting AI chatbot makers jump the FedRAMP queueThe US government wants more AI chatbots in fed employees' hands, and its push to do so means that tech companies keen to provide other services will have to get in line behind the LLM makers.… |
Microsoft tweaks Windows Out of Box Experience for enterprises to adjust control freakery - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:37:08 GMT)Administrators can get patches installed via Intune before the first loginFrom next month, Windows administrators will be able to inflict Microsoft's quality updates on users via the Out of Box Experience (OOBE) by default.… |
Citrix patches trio of NetScaler bugs – after attackers beat them to it - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:40:06 GMT)Criminals already abusing its latest zero-daysCitrix has pushed out fixes for three fresh NetScaler holes – and yes, they've already been used in the wild before the vendor got around to patching.… |
ESA engineers trace anomaly in silent Juice spacecraft to a bug in the code - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:18:11 GMT)Timer fail blamed for probe going quiet as Venus loomsThe European Space Agency (ESA) is breathing easier after communications with Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) were restored – the spacecraft is currently barreling toward Venus for a gravity-assist flyby on August 31.… |
Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:40:10 GMT)Sideloaders face ID checks, fees, and paperwork as Chocolate Factory tightens gatesGoogle will extend developer verification to all Android apps, not just those installed from the Play Store, beginning with Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand in September 2026, and followed by global rollout in 2027 and beyond.… |
Asahi, Nikkei sue AI search outfit Perplexity for copyright infringement - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:10:12 GMT)Tokyo filing adds to mounting actions against startupAI search outfit Perplexity has been hit with yet another copyright lawsuit, this time courtesy of Japan's Nikkei and Asahi media companies.… |
Crypto thief earns additional prison time for assaulting witness - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:47:07 GMT)Remy Ra St Felix led a vicious international crime ringA violent home invader and gunpoint cryptocurrency thief will now spend more than 50 years behind bars after being found guilty of assaulting a witness.… |
Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX? - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:02:11 GMT)We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds!Elon Musk's monster rocket, Starship, remains firmly on the launchpad after two scrubs in a row, first due to an oxygen leak and then some clouds.… |
Docker Desktop bug let containers hop the fence with barely a nudge - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:15:13 GMT)Isolation? We've heard of itDocker has patched a critical hole in Docker Desktop that let a container break out and take control of the host machine with laughable ease.… |
Farmers Insurance harvests bad news: 1.1M customers snared in data breach - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:26:13 GMT)Crims raided third-party systems and lifted personal data, including license numbers and partial SSNsUS insurance giant Farmers Insurance says more than a million customers had personal data nicked after a third-party vendor was compromised.… |
Silver State goes dark as cyberattack knocks Nevada websites offline - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:50:12 GMT)Phone lines also down as officials rely on social media to issue updatesThe state of Nevada is now two days into a cyberattack that has brought down many of its digital services.… |
One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:34:07 GMT)Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers findSecurity researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's quite simple.… |
Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:31:12 GMT)Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures usCloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded more than 19 million instances of malware-laden apps that evaded the web giant’s security scans.… |
Two wrongs don’t make a copyright - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:23:08 GMT)What the Dickens is going on in Germany?Opinion Let’s talk law and let’s talk donkey. Or. in the British vernacular, ass. In particular, let’s go back to Charles Dickens, a pungent critic of the law, who had one of his characters in Oliver Twist say of a legal assumption that “If the law supposes that, the law is a ass - a idiot.”… |
Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:29:10 GMT)Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions+COMMENT US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose extra tariffs on imports from any nation that dares to regulate American technology companies.… |
VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps - (pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:46:15 GMT)Because AI, like everything else this yearEXCLUSIVE VMware will port its flagship hypervisor and Cloud Foundation suite to the Arm processor architecture.… |
Nvidia touts Jetson Thor kit for real-time robot reasoning - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:47:07 GMT)GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latencyNvidia has released a new brain for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor that promises more compute power and more memory than its predecessor.… |
Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:28:48 GMT)10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tapeComment We know US President Donald Trump isn't a fan of the US Chips Act. But, turn a government handout into a tit-for-tat transaction and the self described "master dealmaker" is singing a different tune.… |
VMware before Broadcom was ‘A unicorn in fluffy cloudland’ - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:05:24 GMT)The CEO of VMware’s most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what’s gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do betterIn the 20 months since Broadcom took over VMware, Yves Sandfort has become the most ardent and prolific commentator on the acquisition. The CEO of Germany-headquartered VMware partner Comdivision Consulting has created almost 300 videos and still has plenty to say about where VMware went wrong, and where Broadcom needs to improve.… |
Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:20:55 GMT)PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT licenseThe Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document database's permissive MIT license as if it were an "Open for Business" sign.… |
xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:02:52 GMT)Lawsuit 'consistent with Mr Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment' says Altman's crewElon Musk's xAI and X businesses have shown a bad case of the Mondays by launching an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI that claims the duo are trying to stifle competition in the mobile machine-intelligence world.… |
Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:55:19 GMT)Okay, who has the gold leaf, paint, and #FFD700?US government websites are getting an aesthetic and functional overhaul under a Trump executive order and a new "America by Design" initiative headed by a Silicon Valley veteran and DOGE insider. … |
The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:19:39 GMT)Are tech giants getting nervous? They should beOpinion There tend to be three AI camps. 1) AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world. 2) AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilization as we know it. And 3) "Write an A-Level paper on the themes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet."… |
Getting touchy-feely with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:36:13 GMT)Ideal for that one weird project you've been thinking aboutHANDS ON A $40, 5-inch touchscreen has landed for the Raspberry Pi, offering a smaller sibling for the existing 7-inch model.… |
Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:29:06 GMT)It was a simpler timeIt's 2025 and the latest mega-album has just been released – on cassette tape. Taylor Swift dropped Life of a Showgirl on digital, vinyl, and the old jewel-cased pencil spinners. They're still with us, complete with tape tangling and endless rewinding to find that specific track you love.… |
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:39:10 GMT)Firewall pro enjoyed European travel to fix the falloutWho, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your missives about massive mistakes, and how you managed to move on after them.… |
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:27:10 GMT)Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternativeThe US military’s Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane is in space again for its eighth mission.… |
Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 03:55:15 GMT)PLUS: India bans ‘money’ games; SK Hynix cranks out 321-layer SSDs; Fastly re-thinking CDNs for Asia; and more!Asia In Brief Australia’s University of Melbourne last year used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors.… |
AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp - (pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:57:11 GMT)Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionageInfosec in brief PLUS… |
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp - (pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 11:11:11 GMT)Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PCHands on Training large language models (LLMs) may require millions or even billion of dollars of infrastructure, but the fruits of that labor are often more accessible than you might think. Many recent releases, including Alibaba's Qwen 3 and OpenAI's gpt-oss, can run on even modest PC hardware.… |
Bug bounties: The good, the bad, and the frankly ridiculous ways to do it - (pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:28:13 GMT)For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing itfeature Thirty years ago, Netscape kicked off the first commercial bug bounty program. Since then, companies large and small have bought into the idea, with mixed results.… |
Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests - (pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:32:06 GMT)Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really areResearchers with Scale AI have found that search-based AI models may cheat on benchmark tests by fetching the answers directly from online sources rather than deriving those answers through a "reasoning" process.… |
VirtualBox 7.2 fixes flaky 3D guests and adds Arm-on-Arm support - (pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:01:14 GMT)Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMwarehands on VirtualBox 7.2 is here, bringing improved Arm-on-Arm virtualization features and better 3D acceleration support.… |
The Unix Epochalypse might be sooner than you think - (pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:23:07 GMT)Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the "Year 2038 problem," has come from the past, as National Museum Of Computing system restorers have discovered an unsetting issue while working on ancient systems.… |
US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B - (pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:04:42 GMT)The funds were already allocated under the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave programCongratulations America, your government now owns 10 percent of troubled domestic chipmaker Intel.… |
Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:56:57 GMT)Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to orangesAI's drinking habit has been grossly overstated, according to a newly published report from Google, which claims that software advancements have cut Gemini's water consumption per prompt to roughly five drops of water — substantially less than prior estimates.… |
Short circuit: Electronics supplier to tech giants suffers ransomware shutdown - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:07:02 GMT)Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among major customersData I/O, a major electronics manufacturer whose customers include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, notified federal regulators that it fell victim to a ransomware infection on August 16 that continues to disrupt its business operations.… |
AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:08:11 GMT)Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixesResearchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding ways to normalize power demand during AI training.… |
Thunderbird 142 lands with modest upgrades – plus talk of Pro service ahead - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:46:11 GMT)Bug fixes, message links, and hints of Exchange support in the pipelineMozilla-owned subsidiary MZLA has released a new version of the Thunderbird messaging client and shared details on the forthcoming paid Thunderbird Pro service.… |
New Yorkers will soon be able to yell 'I'm walkin here!' to Waymo robotaxis - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:06:55 GMT)But it's just a test, as NYC still doesn't allow driverless for-hire carsWaymo robotaxis are set to return to the streets of New York City after a four-year absence. But with a list of caveats longer than a Midtown bagel shop brunch line, Waymo's return isn't something for pedestrians to get nervous about yet. … |
Kidney dialysis giant DaVita tells 2.4M people they were snared in ransomware data theft nightmare - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:05:06 GMT)Health details, tax ID numbers, even images of checks were stolen, reportedly by the Interlock gangRansomware scum breached kidney dialysis firm Davita's labs database in April and stole about 2.4 million people's personal and health-related information.… |
OneNote for Windows 10 support clock counts down - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:43:09 GMT)Just over 50 days until Microsoft pulls the plugOneNote for Windows 10 is on the way out. On October 14, it will reach the end of the road support-wise, and anything left in it will become read-only.… |
Trump's gold-plated smartphone can't seem to decide which design to copy - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:16:07 GMT)Latest ad for the T1 looks suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in a Spigen casePresident Trump's personally branded wireless provider was supposed to have a "premium" Android smartphone – gold, of course – on the market by September, but it appears the mobile virtual network operator has yet to even settle on a design to steal.… |
Viking 1 at 50: NASA's first raid on the red planet - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:55:07 GMT)Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landingsIt's been 50 years since NASA sent Viking 1 on a mission to Mars.… |
Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:30:08 GMT)CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devsGood news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla's browser now makes even more extensive use of AI, providing summaries of linked content and offering developers the ability to add LLM support to extensions.… |
Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged' - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:04:06 GMT)LibDem leader Sir Ed Davey calls Elon Musk a threat to national securityThe leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat party is opposing a Tesla subsidiary being granted a license to supply electricity in Britain, calling Elon Musk a threat to national security. … |
UK patches air defense with 6 extra Land Ceptor missile launchers - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:45:09 GMT)Hmm, six, well, that's going to make Russia worry ...Britain's threadbare defenses are getting a small boost. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) just announced that it's purchasing six new Land Ceptor anti-aircraft missile systems.… |
Windows Security Update turns smooth NDI streams into jittery messes - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:13:09 GMT)Users told to switch protocols or delay installation while Redmond investigatesMicrosoft has admitted to yet another issue in the Windows 11 August 2025 Security Update: streaming apps might be disrupted by the changes.… |
Criminal background checker APCS faces data breach - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:54:12 GMT)The attack first affected an upstream provider of bespoke softwareExclusive A leading UK provider of criminal record checks for employers is handling a data breach stemming from a third-party development company.… |
Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware - (pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:32:11 GMT)ClickFix tricksMicrosoft's security team has published an in-depth report into ClickFix, the social engineering attack which tricks users into executing malicious commands in the guise of proving their humanity.… |
