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Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:53:36 GMT)Systems from Nvidia, Dell, and others available starting Oct. 15Nvidia's tiniest Grace-Blackwell workstation is finally making its way to store shelves this week, the better part of a year after the GPU giant first teased the AI mini PC, then called Project Digits, at CES.… |
Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:48:48 GMT)Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more!Microsoft's OneDrive is increasing the creepiness quotient by using AI to spot faces in photos and group images accordingly. Don't worry, it can be turned off – three times a year.… |
Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:18:06 GMT)Cloud support to be ditched on older hardware, customers left with pricey paperweightsAudio equipment biz Bose is discontinuing cloud support for its SoundTouch product line, effectively reducing the premium devices to basic speakers with limited functionality.… |
Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:49:36 GMT)Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status pageVodafone fell over in the UK this afternoon, with Register readers reporting that many services including mobile coverage, internet services, and even the company's own status page went down.… |
Broadcom cozies up to OpenAI for 10 GW custom chip love-in - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:29:26 GMT)Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creatorBroadcom has cuddled up with OpenAI as the ChatGPT outfit looks for ever more help building out the vast infrastructure it needs to deliver on its dreams of advanced intelligence – and possibly even a profit some day.… |
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters rage-quit the internet (again), promise to return next year - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:17:51 GMT)'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a monthThe Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site.… |
Bun 1.3 stuffs everything and kitchen sink into JS runtime - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:17:28 GMT)All-in-one toolkit or over-ambitious feature creep? You decideVersion 1.3 of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit has landed, pushing forward the project's goal to consolidate fragmented JavaScript toolchains into a single solution. Yet the rapid expansion has some developers questioning whether Bun is trying to do too much, too fast.… |
Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:36:36 GMT)Salesforce CEO praises Trump before walking back criticism of city's policingSan Francisco’s political establishment rounded on Marc Benioff over the weekend after the Salesforce founder backed the idea of sending in the National Guard to clean up the city’s streets.… |
Android 'Pixnapping' attack can capture app data like 2FA codes - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:00:13 GMT)GPU-based timing attack inspired by decade-old iframe techniqueSecurity researchers have resurrected a 12-year-old data-stealing attack on web browsers to pilfer sensitive info from Android devices.… |
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:38:03 GMT)Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPRAn Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data.… |
SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:31:13 GMT)Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion awaitSpaceX is counting down to today's 11th flight test of its monster Starship rocket, with weather looking suitable for the opening of the launch window at 18:15 CT (or around 17:00 CT, if the company's billionaire boss is to be believed).… |
Datacenter water use? California governor says don't ask, don't tell - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:07:03 GMT)Bid for transparency on consumption evaporates with Newsom vetoCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation requiring data centers to disclose their water consumption, even as he champions efforts to address the state's water scarcity challenges.… |
China probes Qualcomm's Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:21:11 GMT)Beijing insists it's business as usual – Washington might see it differentlyChina's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing.… |
End of Windows 10 support is the perfect time for the Windows 11 installer to fail - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:13:25 GMT)Microsoft admits its media creation tool 'might not work as expected'Microsoft has broken its own Windows 11 media creation tool just as millions of users face a deadline to abandon Windows 10 — and with less than 24 hours until support officially ends.… |
Fujitsu pumps £280M into UK arm to keep lights on after Horizon scandal - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:32:39 GMT)Parent firm's cash keeps division afloat as Post Office inquiry nears final reportFujitsu's UK business has received £280 million ($374 million) in equity from its Japanese owner in the last two years to meet ongoing funding and capital requirements.… |
Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:10:46 GMT)Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperworkOfcom, the UK's Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan £20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content.… |
Dutch government puts Nexperia on a short leash over chip security fears - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:01:02 GMT)Minister invokes powers to stop firm shifting knowledge to China, citing governance shortcomingsThe Dutch government has placed Nexperia - a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain's Newport Wafer Fab — under special administrative measures, citing serious governance failures that threaten European tech security.… |
We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:45:08 GMT)Even if you never use it, you'll be paying for it thanks to datacenters' never-ending hunger for electricityOpinion When I was a wet-behind-the-ears developer running my programs on an IBM 360, a mainframe that was slower than a Raspberry Pi Zero W, my machine used about 50 kilowatts (kW). I thought that was a lot of power. Little did I know what was coming.… |
Senators try to save cyber threat sharing law, sans government funding - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:20:09 GMT)Also, DraftKings gets stuffed, Zimbra collab software exploited again, and Apple bug bounties balloonin brief A bipartisan Senate duo has introduced a bill to revive and extend America's cyber threat-sharing law for another ten years after its authorization lapsed during the government shutdown.… |
Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:00:14 GMT)Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-offThe government-owned company that runs the UK's most important nuclear site is weighing up whether to keep its legacy SAP software running beyond the vendor's extended support deadline.… |
Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:15:05 GMT)Getting swallowed by a whale is a life-changing event no matter what the whale saysOpinion The successful, sector-defining, open source Italian embedded platform provider Arduino had a little bash in Turin recently. It made a few announcements, including a new single-board computer (SBC) with a Qualcomm system on a chip (SoC). Oh, and that it had been bought by American dragon-themed mobile chip monster Qualcomm in a deal with total fealty (WTF).… |
UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:30:06 GMT)Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncherThe British government is putting out feelers to industry ahead of the procurement process for the country's most powerful supercomputer, set to begin next year.… |
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:30:14 GMT)Illicit colo cleanup seemed like a good way to get out of the house during CovidWho, Me? Welcome to another week of nimble newsifying from The Register, which as always kicks off the working week with a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes that almost trashed your career.… |
Inside the belly of the beast: A technical walk through Intel's 18A production facility at Fab52 - (pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:00:12 GMT)Now if Lip Bu Tan can just find a willing customerdeep dive Not long after rejoining Intel in 2021, former CEO Pat Gelsinger announced an ambitious plan to reinvent the chipmaker as a contract semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse.… |
Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual - (pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:26:13 GMT)Nuclear power is getting hot, but don't hold your breath for everlasting batteriesA venture capital fund is looking for ideas that are out of bounds for traditional investors, seeding technology that may only come to fruition decades down the line, but where researchers can show real results in the lab.… |
Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide - (pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 08:10:05 GMT)You can't always get what you wantMost corporate laptop fleets consist primarily of PCs. However, there’s always a contingent of users who beg for Macs. Deciding who gets a Mac in your organization involves balancing IT’s need for simplicity, finance’s requirement to keep costs under control, and users’ desire to work with their preferred tools.… |
Chinese phishing kit helps scammers who send fake texts impersonate TikTok, Coinbase, others - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:01:11 GMT)Researchers tracking 2,158 domains hosting YYlaiyu phishing pagesExclusive A Chinese-developed phishing kit hosted on thousands of domains and boasting 97 different brands to make criminals' scams look more believable is driving a surge in financial fraud around the globe, according to security researchers.… |
OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:20:11 GMT)AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its productOpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.… |
Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:49:20 GMT)Does it work? Inconclusive. Still, 55% of business leaders say that adopting AI is worth the impact on workersai-pocalypse Business leaders are racing to jump aboard the AI bandwagon, and a new study from the British Standards Institution suggests young college grads are being hit hardest.… |
Ransomware crims that exploited SharePoint 0-days add Velociraptor to their arsenal - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:58:05 GMT)And they’re likely still abusing the same SharePoint flaws for initial accessThe ransomware gang caught exploiting Microsoft SharePoint zero-days over the summer has added a new tool to its arsenal: Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response app not previously tied to ransomware incidents.… |
Kyndryl sued for firing non-white workers, disabled vet - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:30:41 GMT)Security team cuts allegedly targeted workers based on race, national origin, age, and whistleblowingFive former members of Kyndryl's internal IT security team have sued the IBM spinoff alleging that they were terminated as part of a campaign targeting employees based on their race, national origin, age, disability, and whistleblowing activities.… |
Senate says Nvidia chips are for America first as China tightens import controls - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:28:10 GMT)Xi to the left of me, Trump is to the right; Huang I am, stuck in the middle with GPUsThe US Senate has passed a provision that would give US firms first dibs on advanced chips, just as China tightens customs checks on Nvidia GPUs, leaving the company caught between competing policies across the Pacific.… |
Zero-day in file-sharing software leads to RCE, and attacks are ongoing - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:56:11 GMT)Usually we’d say patch up… not this timeSecurity research firm Huntress is warning all users of Gladinet's CentreStack and Triofox file-sharing tools to urgently apply an available mitigation, as a zero-day is being actively exploited and there's no patch available.… |
Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:30:36 GMT)Viva Insights turns AI guzzling into a leaderboardMicrosoft is adding Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights, a tool that lets managers monitor teams to spot those that are gulping down the AI Kool-Aid fastest.… |
Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:16:02 GMT)Forescout's phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shopSecurity researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.… |
Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:44:12 GMT)High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stackUS datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand.… |
Microsoft warns of 'payroll pirate' crew looting US university salaries - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:21:46 GMT)Crooks phish campus staff, slip into HR systems, and quietly reroute paychecksMicrosoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.… |
50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:57:08 GMT)Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaosNASA's Voyager project could be facing a 26 percent budget cut while the plug is pulled on other programs, according to insiders familiar with the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.… |
Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:40:32 GMT)Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruptionMicrosoft 365 services toppled over in North America last night due to an infrastructure misconfiguration.… |
UK slaps 'strategic market status' on Google, unlocking power to pry open search - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:08:41 GMT)Competition watchdog can now meddle in how the tech giant runs the biggest wing of its organizationThe UK's competition watchdog has officially slapped Google with "strategic market status," a new legal label that gives the regulator far-reaching powers to rein in how the search giant runs its empire.… |
Former UK prime minister Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:28:36 GMT)Conservative MP told he must not lobby for corporationsRishi Sunak is ready to kick-start his career with a couple of openings in the tech industry, a year after the end of his internship as the prime minister of the world's sixth-largest economy.… |
Cops nuke BreachForums (again) amid cybercrime supergroup extortion blitz - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:19:29 GMT)US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting SalesforceUS authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office.… |
UK techies' union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:41:20 GMT)Prospect apologizes for cyber gaffe affecting up to 160K membersUK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities.… |
Microsoft hypes PCs with NPUs, still can't offer a good reason to buy one - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:28:11 GMT)AI tech not on the hardware compatibility list for now. But future Windows will need itComment Microsoft has talked up the role played by neural processing units (NPUs) in making Windows more "intelligent," even though the silicon is not currently on the hardware requirements list.… |
Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:30:04 GMT)Reputations earned over years of service can work wondersOn Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories from the frontlines of tech support.… |
RondoDox botnet fires 'exploit shotgun' at nearly every router and internet-connected home device - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:35:50 GMT)56 bugs across routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers … time to run for coverA new RondoDox botnet campaign uses an "exploit shotgun" - fire at everything, see what hits - to target 56 vulnerabilities across at least 30 different vendors' routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers, and other network devices, and then infect the buggy gear with malware.… |
It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:45:14 GMT)Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole datasetPoisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. … |
Amazon's Quick Suite is like agentic AI training wheels for enterprises - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:23:11 GMT)Slow down there Andy; you wouldn't want to bump into any hallucinationsDespite ongoing concerns over the accuracy, reliability, and trustworthiness of AI in the enterprise, Amazon believes that if it can just make building agents easier for the average worker, they'll be automating the boring parts of their job in no time.… |
Google rearranges Agentspace into Gemini Enterprise - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:52:39 GMT)A new spin on workflow automation as Chocolate Factory tries to displace Microsoft as the enterprise go-toGoogle on Thursday announced the launch of Gemini Enterprise, a platform for automating business workflows using the company's Gemini family of machine learning models.… |
Crims had 3-month head start on defenders in Oracle EBS invasion - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:26:17 GMT)The miscreants started their attack all the way back on July 10The raid on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) likely began as early as July - about three months before any public detections - with extortionists compromising "dozens" of organizations, a Google investigation has determined.… |
