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Denizens of DEF CON are 'fed up with government' - (pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:11:10 GMT)Jake Braun thinks hackers need to create a 'Digital arsenal of democracy' to defend us allInterview Hackers – especially Jake Braun – are "fed up with government."… |
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull - (pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:22:11 GMT)Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networksOpinion I'm at the Linux Foundation Members Summit, and Sonatype's CTO Brian Fox introduced me to a new open source problem. I wouldn't have thought that was possible, but here I am.… |
Double whammy: Steaelite RAT bundles data theft, ransomware in one evil tool - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:59:15 GMT)Credential and cryptocurrency theft, live surveillance, ransomware - an attacker's Swiss Army knifeA new remote access trojan (RAT) being sold on cybercrime networks enables double extortion attacks on Windows machines by bundling ransomware and data theft, along with credential and cryptocurrency stealers, live surveillance, and a whole host of other illicit capabilities, all controllable from a centralized dashboard.… |
Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:39:31 GMT)Without a single 'You're Fired' jokeupdated President Trump has escalated Anthropic's dispute with the Defense Department with a social media post ordering the entire federal government purge the company's software from its systems. … |
PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:03:19 GMT)'This is perhaps the biggest challenge the industry has faced since its inception'The next wave of smartphones and PCs will have less memory and fewer capabilities, yet are likely to cost consumers 14 percent more as AI ambitions eat all available memory supplies, according to researchers at IDC.… |
Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:08:11 GMT)ChatGPT maker announces $110B in new investment amid flurry of self-serving dealsThe headlines say OpenAI on Friday announced $110 billion in new investment from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, though terms and conditions apply.… |
Suspected Nork digital intruders caught breaking into US healthcare, education orgs - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:59:20 GMT)Who is knocking at the Dohdoor?Digital intruders with possible links to North Korea have been infecting US education and healthcare sectors with a never-before-seen backdoor since at least December, according to security researchers.… |
Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:56:06 GMT)Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US gridOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hoping to turn its technical expertise to the problem of growing electricity demand from AI datacenters.… |
Microsoft HoloLens finds second home in the military after failing battlefield tests - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:07:53 GMT)Let’s hope air cargo checks don’t trigger the same headachesThe US Army's attempt to turn Microsoft HoloLens headsets into battlefield kit may have failed, but the AR goggles aren't going into the garbage. Instead, they're being repurposed for remote cargo inspection support.… |
Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:50:11 GMT)Are they shoe-ins for an award? Hard to sayIt is a sound evocative of high school: the characteristic squeak of sneakers on a basketball court. UK readers may, however, be familiar with the same sound from their trainers while playing badminton.… |
Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:36:01 GMT)Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings?Vibe-coding platform Lovable has been accused of hosting apps riddled with vulnerabilities after saying users are responsible for addressing security issues flagged before publishing.… |
Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but attacks surged to record highs - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:15:08 GMT)Smaller crews piled in as old names splintered and rebrandedRansomware payments cratered in 2025, but it seems like the cybercrooks launching the attacks didn't get the memo.… |
French DIY etailer ManoMano admits customer data stolen - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:15:07 GMT)Crooks claim they helped themselves to over 37M accounts during January hit on subcontractorFrench online marketplace ManoMano is warning customers their personal data was siphoned off after a cyberattack hit one of its customer support subcontractors – and criminals are already claiming the haul is far larger than the company's carefully worded notice suggests.… |
Japan's Rapidus lands $1.7B to chase 2nm chip production by 2027 - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:30:15 GMT)Government and 32 private-sector backers fund push to take on TSMC and Samsung at leading-edge nodesJapan's fledgling foundry biz Rapidus has secured funding of $1.7 billion to help it progress to mass production of 2nm semiconductors by 2027, making it a potential rival for Taiwan's TSMC.… |
Cops back Dutch telco Odido after second wave of ShinyHunters leaks - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:54:12 GMT)Company refuses to pay ransom as attackers threaten larger daily dumpsThe Netherlands' national police is backing Odido's refusal to pay a ransom after ShinyHunters leaked a second round of records belonging to the telco.… |
50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:13:14 GMT)To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this yearAbout 140 datacenters are in the queue to be connected to Britain's power grid, and their combined energy requirements are estimated to be more than the current peak electricity use for the entire country.… |
Half of German-speaking SAP users set to blow past 2027 ECC support deadline - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:14:11 GMT)Most DSAG members willing to pay a premium to stay on legacy platform until 2030About half of German-speaking SAP users on its legacy ECC ERP system are set to ignore the 2027 support deadline, according to a survey of users in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.… |
Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:45:13 GMT)French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rulesSopra Steria is suing the UK government, alleging it accepted a bid from rival Capita for an outsourcing contract worth up to £958.7 million that it failed to recognize as too low to comply with procurement rules.… |
Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:15:09 GMT)Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANAIn the middle of a mammoth migration off SAP's legacy ERP systems, global snack giant Mondelēz has found an alternative to the German vendor's tech as the main platform for understanding its complex, fragmented business processes.… |
UK copper fired after faking keyboard taps using photo frame - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:30:09 GMT)Typing 8x more than your peers? You better have the work to show for itAvon and Somerset Police this week confirmed a former officer was dismissed after she was found weighing her laptop keyboard down with photo frames to simulate activity.… |
Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:30:07 GMT)'I was no longer field support. I was collateral'On Call Friday has arrived, bringing a promise of fleeting freedom – and a new instalment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that retells your tales of tech support incidents that became memorable for all the wrong reasons.… |
NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:53:12 GMT)Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link funMicrosoft has found some friends to make desktop devices that boot into its Windows 365 cloud PCs.… |
China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:10:06 GMT)Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world dominationThe Chinese agency that has accused the USA of cyberattacks on its own infrastructure to make Beijing look bad is back with another theory: Washington’s actions against cryptocurrency crooks are just attempts to dominate the global financial system.… |
Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:33:48 GMT)AI upstart won’t remove Claude’s guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of WarAnthropic has fired back at the US Department of War, arguing that it can’t agree to Uncle Sam’s contract demand to remove guardrails on its AI in part because the tech can’t be trusted not to harm American civilians and warfighters.… |
Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:33:20 GMT)One massive round of firings is apparently better for morale than a drip-drip-drip of deathTwitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s financial services company Block has announced it will fire 40 percent of staff – around 4,000 people – because new "intelligence tools" the company is implementing “can do more and do it better.”… |
New endowment hopes to raise a big pile of money for open source projects - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:29:52 GMT)Grants for critical, unappreciated projectsOpen source projects, ever short of funding, have a potential new source of revenue in the form of the Open Source Endowment (OSE).… |
Fujitsu taps Broadcom's 3D chip tech for 144-core Monaka CPU - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:03:17 GMT)Processor is one of roughly half a dozen designs based on Broadcom's XDSiP platformFujitsu’s 144-core Monaka CPU will be built using 3D-chip stacking tech from Broadcom, the merchant silicon slinger revealed on Thursday.… |
ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:22:09 GMT)When it gets stuck, the bot will escalate rather than hallucinateServiceNow claims it has created an AI agent that is currently solving 90 percent of the inbound IT tickets to the company's own employee help desk.… |
Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:57:46 GMT)Because nothing says hospitality like a bot counting your pleasesThe bot’s nagging will continue until morale improves. Burger King is rolling out a new employee-facing AI that, among other things, will listen to employees’ customer interactions to ensure they’re being friendly enough - as if working in fast food weren’t hard enough already.… |
AI models suck slightly less at math than they did last year - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:42:33 GMT)Latest ORCA test results outexclusive Current-day LLMs are prediction engines and, as such, they can only find the most likely solution to problems, which is not necessarily the correct one. Though popular models have mostly become better at math, even top performer Gemini 3 Flash would receive a C if assessed with a letter grade.… |
Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:26:33 GMT)Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerfulAs with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After “retirement” interviews, Claude Opus 3 said it wanted to keep sharing its “musings,” so Anthropic suggested a blog.… |
Rapid AI-driven development makes security unattainable, warns Veracode - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:26:07 GMT)Report claims more vulnerabilities created than fixed as remediation gap widensVeracode has posted its annual State of Software Security report, based on data from 1.6 million applications tested on its cloud platform, finding that more vulnerabilities are being created than are being fixed, and that high-velocity development with AI is making comprehensive security unattainable.… |
Top cloud providers to outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026 - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:55:15 GMT)TrendForce says eight hyperscalers are set to pour $710B into servers and infrastructureThe big cloud operators are ramping up investment in AI servers and infrastructure to meet demand for AI development and deployment, exacerbating the memory shortage caused by their insatiable growth.… |
Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:28:50 GMT)Whac-A-Mole season continues as Redmond finds yet another corner to stuff its 21st century ClippyMicrosoft has announced that its Edge browser will automatically open the Copilot side pane when users open links from Outlook.… |
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters auditioning female voices to sharpen social engineering - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:35:21 GMT)Telegram posts promise up to $1,000 per call as gang refines IT helpdesk ruseProlific cybercrime crew Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) is reportedly recruiting women in the hope of improving its social engineering success.… |
NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:25:56 GMT)Report highlights too many firsts in Artemis III missionThe latest report from NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) raises questions about the mission objectives for Artemis III.… |
Five Eyes warn: Patch your Cisco SD-WAN or risk root takeover - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:39:55 GMT)A rare joint alert from all five spy agencies means serious businessThe Five Eyes intelligence alliance is urgently warning defenders to patch two Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities used in attacks.… |
Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:25:27 GMT)Analyst warns soaring DRAM and NAND costs could push entry-level devices out of reachBallooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year - and a similar effect is going to hit smartphones.… |
Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:11:13 GMT)Many dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chopVersion 2 of the widely used Gtk toolkit will be dropped from the next Debian release. The problem is that many things still need it, including FreePascal and its Lazarus IDE.… |
Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:37:11 GMT)So say Oxford boffins who found 'bias' related to Apollo rock samples created false impressionScientists at the University of Oxford say they may have cracked the puzzle of the Moon's magnetic field and settled a debate that has raged since the Apollo missions returned with rock samples.… |
GCHQ dangles up to £130K for a CISO to fight the world's most capable adversaries - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:13:59 GMT)No pressureGCHQ is looking to recruit a chief information security officer (CISO), a job it describes as "one of the most influential cybersecurity leadership roles in the UK," at a salary of £96,981 to £130,000.… |
Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:30:11 GMT)Ministry of Justice wowed by Ontario's paperless system, announces £12M for AI unitThe British government will expand the use of AI in courts in England and Wales as part of plans to make them work faster, justice minister David Lammy has told a Microsoft AI event.… |
AMD puts $250M into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:55:54 GMT)Cloudy stack vendor says VMware refugees have started to arrive in large numbers, just in time to collide with supply chain woesAMD has struck another chips 'n' stock deal, this time with software-defined datacenter player Nutanix.… |
Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:27:45 GMT)It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play – along with a cute little monsterMicrosoft is "fully cooperating" with a probe by Japan's Fair Trade Commission, which wants to know if the software giant has violated the nation's anti-monopoly laws.… |
Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:22:05 GMT)Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they doEven by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.… |
Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately – and might not need to given $120B profit - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:28:47 GMT)GPU giant sees yet more growth coming soon, most of it in the datacenterNearly three months after the Trump administration allowed Nvidia to sell its H200 accelerator in China, the GPU giant is still waiting for Beijing to allow them in and for any revenue to materialize.… |
Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:33:20 GMT)Anthropic fixed the flaws – but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remainSecurity vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project.… |
LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:14:15 GMT)You'll find these days that there's no hiding placeAdd privacy to the list of potential casualties caused by the proliferation of AI, because researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) can be used to deanonymize internet users – even those who use pseudonyms – more efficiently than human sleuths.… |
AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:59:43 GMT)Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the sameToday's hottest bots have yet to learn that, when it comes to global thermonuclear war, the only way to win is not to play. So please don't hand them the codes. … |
Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents - (pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:41:03 GMT)UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcosA China-linked crew found a unique formula for attacking telcos and government orgs across the Americas, Asia, and Africa in its latest round of intrusions. Google's threat intelligence, along with unnamed industry partners, disrupted the gang, which used the Chocolate Factory's own spreadsheet tools as part of its exploits.… |
