☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure
Credential and cryptocurrency theft, live surveillance, ransomware - an attacker's Swiss Army knife A new remote access trojan (RAT) being sold on cybercrime networks enables double extortion attacks ...
Without a single 'You're Fired' joke 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 s...
'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 1...
ChatGPT maker announces $110B in new investment amid flurry of self-serving deals The headlines say OpenAI on Friday announced $110 billion in new investment from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank at a $73...
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, ...
Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hoping to turn its technical expertise to the problem of growing electric...
Let’s hope air cargo checks don’t trigger the same headaches The US Army's attempt to turn Microsoft HoloLens headsets into battlefield kit may have failed, but the AR goggles aren't going into the ga...
Are they shoe-ins for an award? Hard to say It 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 soun...
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 respo...
Smaller crews piled in as old names splintered and rebranded Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but it seems like the cybercrooks launching the attacks didn't get the memo.…
Crooks claim they helped themselves to over 37M accounts during January hit on subcontractor French online marketplace ManoMano is warning customers their personal data was siphoned off after a cybera...
Government and 32 private-sector backers fund push to take on TSMC and Samsung at leading-edge nodes Japan's fledgling foundry biz Rapidus has secured funding of $1.7 billion to help it progress to ma...
Company refuses to pay ransom as attackers threaten larger daily dumps The Netherlands' national police is backing Odido's refusal to pay a ransom after ShinyHunters leaked a second round of records b...
To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this year About 140 datacenters are in the queue to be connected to Britain's power grid, and their combined energy requ...
Most DSAG members willing to pay a premium to stay on legacy platform until 2030 About half of German-speaking SAP users on its legacy ECC ERP system are set to ignore the 2027 support deadline, accor...
French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rules Sopra Steria is suing the UK government, alleging it accepted a bid from rival Ca...
Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANA In the middle of a mammoth migration off SAP's legacy ERP systems, global snack giant Mondelēz has found an alternat...
Typing 8x more than your peers? You better have the work to show for it Avon and Somerset Police this week confirmed a former officer was dismissed after she was found weighing her laptop keyboard dow...
'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 re...
Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link fun Microsoft has found some friends to make desktop devices that boot into its Windows 365 cloud PCs.…
Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination The Chinese agency that has accused the USA of cyberattacks on its own infrastructure to ma...
AI upstart won’t remove Claude’s guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of War Anthropic has fired back at the US Department of War, arguing that it can’t agree to Uncle Sam’s contract demand to remove ...
One massive round of firings is apparently better for morale than a drip-drip-drip of death Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s financial services company Block has announced it will fire 40 percent of s...
Grants for critical, unappreciated projects Open source projects, ever short of funding, have a potential new source of revenue in the form of the Open Source Endowment (OSE).…
Processor is one of roughly half a dozen designs based on Broadcom's XDSiP platform Fujitsu’s 144-core Monaka CPU will be built using 3D-chip stacking tech from Broadcom, the merchant silicon slinger ...
When it gets stuck, the bot will escalate rather than hallucinate ServiceNow claims it has created an AI agent that is currently solving 90 percent of the inbound IT tickets to the company's own emplo...
Because nothing says hospitality like a bot counting your pleases The bot’s nagging will continue until morale improves. Burger King is rolling out a new employee-facing AI that, among other things, w...
Latest ORCA test results out exclusive 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 p...
Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that ...
That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.
Report claims more vulnerabilities created than fixed as remediation gap widens Veracode has posted its annual State of Software Security report, based on data from 1.6 million applications tested on ...
TrendForce says eight hyperscalers are set to pour $710B into servers and infrastructure The big cloud operators are ramping up investment in AI servers and infrastructure to meet demand for AI develo...
Whac-A-Mole season continues as Redmond finds yet another corner to stuff its 21st century Clippy Microsoft has announced that its Edge browser will automatically open the Copilot side pane when users...
Telegram posts promise up to $1,000 per call as gang refines IT helpdesk ruse Prolific cybercrime crew Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) is reportedly recruiting women in the hope of improving its soci...
Report highlights too many firsts in Artemis III mission The latest report from NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) raises questions about the mission objectives for Artemis III.…
A rare joint alert from all five spy agencies means serious business The Five Eyes intelligence alliance is urgently warning defenders to patch two Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities used in attack...
Analyst warns soaring DRAM and NAND costs could push entry-level devices out of reach Ballooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this y...
Many dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chop Version 2 of the widely used Gtk toolkit will be dropped from the next Debian release. The problem is that many things still need i...
So say Oxford boffins who found 'bias' related to Apollo rock samples created false impression Scientists at the University of Oxford say they may have cracked the puzzle of the Moon's magnetic field ...
No pressure GCHQ 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...
Ministry of Justice wowed by Ontario's paperless system, announces £12M for AI unit The British government will expand the use of AI in courts in England and Wales as part of plans to make them work f...
Cloudy stack vendor says VMware refugees have started to arrive in large numbers, just in time to collide with supply chain woes AMD has struck another chips 'n' stock deal, this time with software-de...
It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play – along with a cute little monster Microsoft is "fully cooperating" with a probe by Japan's Fair Trade Commission, whi...
Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do Even by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.…
GPU giant sees yet more growth coming soon, most of it in the datacenter Nearly three months after the Trump administration allowed Nvidia to sell its H200 accelerator in China, the GPU giant is still...
Anthropic fixed the flaws – but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remain Security vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API key...
You'll find these days that there's no hiding place Add privacy to the list of potential casualties caused by the proliferation of AI, because researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) ...
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the same Today's hottest bots have yet to learn that, when it comes to global thermonuclear war, ...
UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcos A China-linked crew found a unique formula for attacking telcos and government orgs across the Americas, Asia, and Africa in its latest round of int...
Academic urges users not to harass those suspected of snooping with (sp)eyewear Worried that someone wearing Meta's snooping spyware goggles could be creeping up on you? Android users now have access ...