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Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:58:09 GMT)Infosec is a team sport … unless you're in the White HouseOpinion Just when it seems they couldn't be that careless, US officials tasked with defending the nation go and do something else that puts American critical infrastructure, national security, and troops' lives in danger.… |
Amid CVE funding fumble, 'we were mushrooms, kept in the dark,' says board member - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:19:09 GMT)What next for US-bankrolled vulnerability tracker? It's edging closer to a more independent, global futureKent Landfield, a founding member of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and member of the board, learned through social media that the system he helped create was just hours away from losing funding.… |
More Ivanti attacks may be on horizon, say experts who are seeing 9x surge in endpoint scans - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:00:12 GMT)GreyNoise says it is the kind of activity that typically precedes new vulnerability disclosuresIvanti VPN users should stay alert as IP scanning for the vendor's Connect Secure and Pulse Secure systems surged by 800 percent last week, according to threat intel biz GreyNoise.… |
Oh, cool. Microsoft melts bug that froze Server 2025 Remote Desktop sessions - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:00:08 GMT)Where have we heard this before? Feb security update needs its own fixMore than one month after complaints starting flying, Microsoft has fixed a Windows bug that caused some Remote Desktop sessions to freeze.… |
Hydrotreated vegetable oil is not an emission-free swap for diesel in datacenters - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:27:11 GMT)Biofuel lowers pollutants, but won't eliminate 'em, and could mean DCs compete for suppliesDatacenter operators are being encouraged to adopt hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as a replacement for diesel in generators, however, analysts say the sustainable stand-in is not emission-free and has its own drawbacks.… |
M&S stops online orders as 'cyber incident' issues worsen - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:13:39 GMT)One step forward and one step back as earlier hopes of progress dashed by latest updateMarks & Spencer has paused online orders for customers via its website and app as the UK retailer continues to wrestle with an ongoing "cyber incident."… |
Emergency patch for potential SAP zero-day that could grant full system control - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:31:11 GMT)German software giant paywalls details, but experts piece together the cluesSAP's latest out-of-band patch is for a perfect 10/10 bug in NetWeaver that experts suspect could have already been exploited as a zero-day.… |
Hubble Space Telescope is still producing science at 35 - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:29:10 GMT)Remember when NASA was laser focused on that?It was 35 years ago when the Hubble Space Telescope deployed into orbit, sent by a space agency facing an existential crisis. Thirty-five years on, not much seems to have changed.… |
Google admits depreciation costs are soaring amid furious bit barn build - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:24:15 GMT)Still plans to invest $75B in CapEx this year as unable to meet capacity demandGoogle says the mega capital splurge on datacenters in recent years is putting more strain on its balance sheet due to rising depreciation costs, yet it still plans to splash $75 billion on bit barns in 2025.… |
Virgin Atlantic is piloting an OpenAI agent in to help with the 'customer journey' - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:27:06 GMT)Hello, operator? Book me to Memphis, TennesseeInterview For all the talk of the "agentic era" from AI vendors like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and just about everyone else in the space, corporate use of the technology is still tentative. Virgin Atlantic has been conducting flight tests of its website with an AI agent called Operator, and early results are promising, pointing the way toward how agents might actually be used to help customers book flights.… |
Europe fires up beefier booster for Ariane 6 and Vega-C - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:33:13 GMT)Successful qualification run for P160C solid-fuel motor in South American spaceportA qualification version of the P160C solid-fuel motor was successfully tested at the European Spaceport in French Guiana on April 24, paving the way for heftier payloads on the Ariane 6 and Vega rockets.… |
£136M government grant saves troubled Post Office from suboptimal IT - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:36:14 GMT)Taxpayers foot bill to get to new platform as Fujitsu package balloons to £2.44 billionThe UK's Post Office would have to cope with suboptimal IT, increased risks and costs, and reduced reporting accuracy if it didn't receive £136 million ($180 million) in government aid to keep its disastrous Horizon system running and replace it with a more modern platform.… |
Claims assistance firm fined for cold-calling people who put themselves on opt-out list - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:29:05 GMT)Third-party data supplier also in hot water with Brit regulator over consent issuesBritain's data privacy watchdog has slapped a fine of £90k ($120k) on a business that targeted people with intrusive marketing phone calls, despite them being registered with the official "Do Not Call" opt-out service.… |
Techie diagnosed hardware fault by checking customer's coffee - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:30:08 GMT)Volts make joltsOn Call By the time Friday morning rolls around, starting the day with a stimulating beverage feels like a fine idea. And so does delivering a freshly brewed installment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column in which you share tales of tech support triumph and torture.… |
Darcula adds AI to its DIY phishing kits to help would-be vampires bleed victims dry - (pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:18:14 GMT)Because coding phishing sites from scratch is a real pain in the neckDarcula, a cybercrime outfit that offers a phishing-as-a-service kit to other criminals, this week added AI capabilities to its kit that help would-be vampires spin up phishing sites in multiple languages more efficiently.… |
New Intel boss is all about ‘de-laborating’ the x86 giant – aka job cuts - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:59:29 GMT)Thousands face ax, more given RTO orders in quest to suck lessIntel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan is swinging the ax again, with another round of layoffs incoming as Chipzilla tries to reboot its core.… |
Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:10:03 GMT)Cursor, Codium makers lose access as add-on goes exclusiveMicrosoft's C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) no longer works with derivative products such as VS Codium and Cursor – and some developers are crying foul.… |
SSNs and more on 5.5M+ patients feared stolen from Yale Health - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:32:57 GMT)At least it wasn't HarvardYale New Haven Health has notified more than 5.5 million people that their private details were likely stolen by miscreants who broke into the healthcare system's network last month.… |
Fedora 42 has the Answer, but Ubuntu's Plucky Puffin isn't far behind - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:04:10 GMT)Watch your partitions – GPT and dual-boot don't always mixWhile The Reg FOSS desk was on spring break, both the latest interim Ubuntu and latest Fedora debuted.… |
Microsoft mystery folder fix might need a fix of its own - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:01:06 GMT)This one weird trick can stop Windows updates dead in their tracksTurns out Microsoft's latest patch job might need a patch of its own, again. This time, the culprit is a mysterious inetpub folder quietly deployed by Redmond, now hijacked by a security researcher to break Windows updates.… |
AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:12:11 GMT)UK org backing it promises 'legal certainty' for devs, money for creators... but is it too late?Updated A UK non-profit is planning to introduce a new licensing model which will allow developers of large language models to use copyrighted training data while paying the publishers it represents.… |
Assassin's Creed maker faces GDPR complaint for forcing single-player gamers online - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:59:07 GMT)Collecting data from solo players is a Far Cry from being necessary, says noybFor anyone who's ever been frustrated by the need to go online to play a single-player video game, the European privacy specialists at noyb have heard you, and they've filed a complaint against Ubisoft in Austria dealing specifically with the issue. … |
US biz stockpilers boost SK Hynix top line as memory market undergoes structural change - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:02:11 GMT)'Inventory accumulation' as vendors hoard HBM amid tariff and other pressuresSouth Korean memory maker SK Hynix is reporting a sales bounce due to the demand for AI systems, helped by US businesses stockpiling HBM supplies amid tariff uncertainty.… |
Decades-old bug in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas finally shows itself - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:00:07 GMT)Something broke on Windows 11 24H2, but dev who discovered it tells El Reg this time Microsoft's not to blameMicrosoft's Windows 11 24H2 update is frustrating some users, but it isn't the operating system at fault this time. Instead, it's down to a 20-year-old error in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.… |
Qualcomm says license fight was because Arm wants to make its own server chips - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:11:06 GMT)Alleges semi designer tried to obstruct Qualy's build of Arm-compatible custom coresQualcomm has amended its complaint against Arm in a 2024 lawsuit, adding more allegations about Arm's purported breach of license agreements and accusing it of "misrepresenting" their relationship by intending to make its own rival chips.… |
Ninite to win it: How to rebuild Windows without losing your mind - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:02:08 GMT)Get a new, clean (maybe suspiciously empty) install up to speed – and keep it thereWhen you install a fresh, clean copy of Windows – say, if you're switching to the LTSC edition – Ninite is here to kickstart provisioning the new OS.… |
Sustainability still not a high priority for datacenter industry - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:04:11 GMT)Extreme weather is such a problem when building bit barns... hmmm, wonder what could be causing that?When it comes to building datacenters, reducing the environmental impact of the project is still not seen as a major concern – it is lower on the list than cost of equipment and materials, skills shortages, a possible downturn in projects, and even bad weather.… |
M&S takes systems offline as 'cyber incident' lingers - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:18:42 GMT)Customers told to expect further delays as contactless payments still downUK high street retailer Marks & Spencer says contactless payments are still down following its "cyber incident" and order delays are likely to continue.… |
Your vendor may be the weakest link: Percentage of third-party breaches doubled in a year - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:28:08 GMT)Cybercriminals are targeting software shops, accountants, lawyersThe percentage of confirmed data breaches involving third-party relationships doubled last year as cybercriminals increasingly exploited weak links in supply chains and partner ecosystems.… |
Vector search is the new black for enterprise databases - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:30:09 GMT)Software slingers from Redis to Teradata are bolting on smarts to stay relevant in GenAI eraAbout two years ago, popular cache database Redis was among a wave of vendors that added vector search capabilities to their platforms, driven by the surge of interest in generative AI.… |
Booby-trapped Alpine Quest Android app geolocates Russian soldiers - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 07:24:15 GMT)Back of the nyet!Russian soldiers are being targeted with an Android app specially altered to pinpoint their location and scan their phones for files, with the ability to exfiltrate sensitive documents if instructed.… |
Hyperconverged infrastructure is so hot right now it needs liquid cooling - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:31:07 GMT)Lenovo brings its Neptune cold plates to servers packing sixth-gen Xeons to run VMware, Nutanix, and AzureStackHyperconverged infrastructure most often involves a collection of modest 2U servers powered by mid-range processors that aren’t particularly challenging to operate. But Lenovo’s new models packing Xeon 6 processors may need liquid cooling.… |
India’s services giants brace for impact as US tariffs bite their customers - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 03:58:11 GMT)Wipro was forced to pause an active SAP project due to client’s jittersIndia’s big four IT services players are all concerned that the USA’s new tariffs regime may see some of their customers spend less on tech – but later spend more to cope with whatever changes are needed to compete in a changed global trade system.… |
Ransomware scum and other crims bilked victims out of a 'staggering' $16.6B last year, says FBI - (pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:51:47 GMT)Biggest threat to America's critical infrastructure? RansomwareDigital scammers and extortionists bilked businesses and individuals in the US out of a "staggering" $16.6 billion last year, according to the FBI — the highest losses recorded since bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) started tracking them 25 years ago.… |
IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:59:29 GMT)Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cuttingIBM beat Wall Street's expectations for both revenue and income in the first quarter of 2025, but its stock price still dropped more than six percent in after-hours trading.… |
Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a new crew, including Researcher and Analyst bots - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:52:22 GMT)You. Will. Love. The. LLM.The latest update to Microsoft 365 Copilot brings AI-powered search, so-called reasoning agents, and a new Agent Store. Some users already have access to certain features, while others may have to wait through May.… |
Blue Shield says it shared health info on up to 4.7M patients with Google Ads - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:18:35 GMT)Tech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anywayUS health insurance giant Blue Shield of California handed sensitive health information belonging to as many as 4.7 million members to Google's advertising empire, likely without these individuals' knowledge or consent.… |
AI bigwigs urge AGs to block OpenAI's profit pivot - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:08:25 GMT)Elon’s not the only one sounding the alarm over the AI giant’s cash grabA group of AI heavyweights and ex-OpenAI staffers are urging the attorneys general of California and Delaware to block the ChatGPT shop's latest restructuring into a for-profit corporation. … |
Hey Google, if Chrome is going to be single soon, OpenAI is interested - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:15:15 GMT)ChatGPT maker to join line of suitors if Chocolate Factory forced to offload browserOpenAI's head of product for ChatGPT has flung the company's hat into the ring as a potential suitor for Google's Chrome browser should the search giant be forced to divest itself of the application.… |
As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:58:10 GMT)Now that AI is invading classrooms and homework assignment, students need to learn reasoning more than everStudents are increasingly turning to AI to help them with coursework, leaving academics scrambling to adjust their teaching practices or debating how to ban it altogether.… |
Ripple NPM supply chain attack hunts for private keys - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:28:06 GMT)A mystery thief and a critical CVE involved in crypto cash grabMany versions of the Ripple ledger (XRPL) official NPM package are compromised with malware injected to steal cryptocurrency.… |
We’re calling it now: Agentic AI will win RSAC buzzword Bingo - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:41:00 GMT)All aboard the hype trainThe security industry loves its buzzwords, and this is always on full display at the annual RSA Conference event in San Francisco. Don't believe us? Take a lap on the expo floor, and you'll be bombarded with enough acronyms and over-the-top claims to send you straight to the nearest bar, which will likely serve specialty cocktails with names like The Great CASB and Firewall Fizz.… |
Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:32:09 GMT)Officials seek assurances that bot won't be used for military applicationsElon Musk says supply chain disruption in China held up delivery of a key component for Tesla's "Optimus" robot, with authorities reportedly demanding an export license and guarantees about military applications.… |
Only 3,000 staff jump from SAP after 10,000 earmarked to be pushed - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:30:06 GMT)CFO says 'a cushion of several thousand employees we can play with' is a good thing in uncertain timesSAP says 3,000 people have left the company in its restructuring plan but that it will wait to see if more employees might be affected after US tariff policies introduced global economic uncertainty.… |
Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:44:06 GMT)Bad timing, claim industry watchers, who say rulings could seriously upset an already delicate US-EU relationshipMeta and Apple have earned the dubious honor of being the first companies fined for non-compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act, which experts say could inflame tensions between US President Donald Trump and the European bloc.… |
Nvidia rolls out NeMo microservices to help AI help you help AI - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:45:06 GMT)Smarter agents, continuous updates, and the eternal struggle to prove ROIAs Nvidia releases its NeMo microservices to embed AI agents into enterprise workflows, research has found that almost half of businesses are seeing only minor gains from their investments in AI.… |
Who needs phishing when your login's already in the wild? - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:00:07 GMT)Stolen credentials edge out email tricks for cloud break-ins because they're so easy to getCriminals used stolen credentials more frequently than email phishing to gain access into their victims' IT systems last year, marking the first time that compromised login details claimed the number two spot in Mandiant's list of most common initial infection vectors.… |
When Microsoft made the Windows as a Service pivot - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:13:12 GMT)Former Microsoft engineer calls the Windows of today 'a tool that's a bit of an adversary'Comment Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has weighed in on why Microsoft moved from paid upgrades to Windows as a Service. As ever, the old adage applies – when the product is free, the product is probably you…… |
European biz calls for Euro tech for local people - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:32:10 GMT)'Europe Stand Tall' campaign kicks off amid fear, uncertainty and doubt about Trump administrationDanish consultancy Netcompany is the latest European business to warn of dependency on US technology as unpredictability in the White House continues to eat away at trust in the country overseas.… |
Ex-NSA chief warns AI devs: Don’t repeat infosec’s early-day screwups - (pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:34:14 GMT)Bake in security now or pay later, says Mike RogersAI engineers should take a lesson from the early days of cybersecurity and bake safety and security into their models during development, rather than trying to bolt it on after the fact, according to former NSA boss Mike Rogers.… |
