Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products
If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach
Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero
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Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris
In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy
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Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries
The S in LLM stands for Security
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Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings
Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home
OSes18 Jan 2025 | 13
Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper
Gaia makes its final science observation
Science18 Jan 2025 | 5
How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history
Opinion With added manga and snark. What's not to like?
OSes18 Jan 2025 | 38
CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump's Homeland Sec pick: And that's none of your concern
Cyber agency too 'far off mission,' says incoming boss Kristi Noem
Public Sector18 Jan 2025 | 30
Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall
Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds
Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 20
FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it
Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping
CSO17 Jan 2025 | 24
Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it
Analysis Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there's something for everyone in the presidential directive
Public Sector17 Jan 2025 | 28
China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies
Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors
Systems17 Jan 2025 | 8
Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading
Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year
Cyber-crime17 Jan 2025 | 5
Clock ticking for TikTok as US Supreme Court upholds ban
Updated With Biden reportedly planning to skirt enforcement and kick the can to Trump, this saga might still not be over
Security17 Jan 2025 | 42
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Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling
HTH Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
EU demands a peek under the hood of X's recommendation algorithms
Commission insists the timing has nothing to do with Musk meddling in German politics ahead of election
Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 24
Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day
Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast
Patches17 Jan 2025 | 14
Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer
€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027
HPC17 Jan 2025 | 2
Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month
Many users less than impressed by unexpected arrival of AI assistant in Word
AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 63
Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI
Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved'
AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 42
IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door
With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B
Networks17 Jan 2025 | 45
Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK's Gateshead Council
Pastes allegedly stolen documents on leak site with £600K demand
Cyber-crime17 Jan 2025 | 9
Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight
On Call Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device
Storage17 Jan 2025 | 73
Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products
If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever
AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 65
AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops
Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats
Virtualization17 Jan 2025 | 6
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero
Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris
Science17 Jan 2025 | 90
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI
FYI Energy consumption set to become a key performance indicator by 2027
GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums
We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC
Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 39
In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy
Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows
Bootnotes16 Jan 2025 | 75
Feds sue Southwest for chronic delays, unrealistic schedules
Department of Transportation wants in on last-minute Biden administration action too
Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 7
Russia's Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts
updated FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says
Security16 Jan 2025 | 2
TSMC plans to have 1.6nm chips in 'volume production' by 2026
You've got to spend money – like $36 billion+ – to make, er, AI chips
Systems16 Jan 2025 | 3
Enzo Biochem settles lawsuit over 2023 ransomware attack for $7.5M
That's in addition to the $4.5M fine paid to three state AGs last year
Cyber-crime16 Jan 2025 | 1
Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory
The hyperscale plant is designed to produce tens of thousands of AVs a year
Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 25
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Raspberry Pi hands out prizes to all in the RP2350 Hacking Challenge
Power-induced glitches, lasers, and electromagnetic fields are all tools of the trade
Security16 Jan 2025 | 18
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help
Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas
AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 13
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach
Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents
On-Prem16 Jan 2025 | 69
Bun update brings Chrome debugging and controversial S3 API, PostgreSQL client coming soon
Another open source project shifts to restrictive license: Fluent Assertions following Xceed partnership
GitHub Git downtime caused by bad configuration update
Rust 1.84 released, including name change to WASI target that may break toolchains
Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog
Regulator asks people to link their credit cards, mobile accounts, or face scans for smut use to protect kids
Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 254
Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5
The eighth point-release of Bookworm – yes, you read that right – and the latest MX with new Xfce
OSes16 Jan 2025 | 32
Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery
Jeff Bezos' space company achieves milestone with payload delivered
Science16 Jan 2025 | 58
Securing AI workloads in multi-tenant K8s clusters
Discover how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes offloads critical AI tasks to BlueField-3 DPUs
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Infoseccer: Private security biz let guard down, exposed 120K+ files
Assist Security’s client list includes fashion icons, critical infrastructure orgs
Security16 Jan 2025 | 14
Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue
Free Software Foundation Europe and others urge European Commission to double down on DMA
Software16 Jan 2025 | 21
UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog
NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects
Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 64
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit
As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter
Science16 Jan 2025 | 13
GoDaddy slapped with wet lettuce for years of lax security and 'several major breaches'
Watchdog alleged it had no SIEM or MFA, orders rapid adoption of basic infosec tools
DJI loosens flight restrictions, decides to trust operators to follow FAA rules
Right after one of its drones crashed into an aircraft fighting California wildfires? Great timing
Oh, Deere! FTC sues tractor maker, alleging decades of monopolized repairs
Updated Incoming Trump-picked watchdog boss dissents, calls suit 'hasty' and 'deeply imprudent,' so will it stick?
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A rethink of parental leave policy
IT workers and programmers set to benefit as Sandvik implements HR reboot
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Why AI builds best on private clouds
AI projects under pressure to show real value in the tightest of timeframes might be worth keeping on-premises
China's Salt Typhoon spies spotted on US govt networks before telcos, CISA boss says
We are only seeing 'the tip of the iceberg,' Easterly warns
Security15 Jan 2025 | 11
IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year
Half the number of roles axed, and yes – you can keep blaming AI
CxO15 Jan 2025 | 36
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition
You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 47
Nvidia plots Quantum Day at GTC 2025 – for tech it called a distant dream
Don't believe the hype? GPU maker jumps on the bandwagon anyway
HPC15 Jan 2025 | 4
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Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission
They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file
Knee-deep in the markup
Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer
‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7
NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack
'Sweden has changed,' PM warns as trio of warships join defense efforts
Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change
'Let's not do this again please'... days before release date
Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall
Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI
Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger
Miscreants 'mass exploited' Fortinet firewalls, 'highly probable' zero-day used
Updated Ransomware 'not off the table,' Arctic Wolf threat hunter tells El Reg
Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption, sets data-destruct timer for 7 days
'Codefinger' crims on the hunt for compromised keys
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Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published
Microsoft starts 2025 as it hopefully doesn't mean to go on
Patches15 Jan 2025 | 8
'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages
Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 28
AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters
Bubble? What bubble?
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 9
Cyber protection made intuitive and affordable
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Crypto klepto North Korea stole $659M over just 5 heists last year
US, Japan, South Korea vow to intensify counter efforts
Cyber-crime15 Jan 2025 | 12
Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR
Interview She doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear, but she'll craft a polite email message as she turns you down
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 80
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home
Threat to quit still preferred to commuting on packed public transport
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 196
Four plead guilty in US government tech procurement fraud case
Scheme involving bribes, bid rigging and insider info may have cost US taxpayers $1.3M
Public Sector15 Jan 2025 | 7
SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon
Blue Ghost's first time, and second time lucky for Japanese company ispace?
Science15 Jan 2025 | 21
British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees
Collective Proceedings Order seeks £1.5B from iGiant
Applications15 Jan 2025 | 10
UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff
Rising costs blamed, although any excuse to do more with less
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 130
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds
Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences
Databases15 Jan 2025 | 10
Taming the multi-vault beast
GitGuardian takes on enterprise secrets sprawl
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Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud, but will manage from it
Azure Local is about hybrid management, not hybrid resource pools, and is catching up with virtual rivals
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 6
Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing
No such problems at Airbus, which cruised at a high level and shipped almost two planes a day last year
Offbeat15 Jan 2025 | 92
Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible
This'll be good for you, don't you worry, CFO tells venture fund while pulling back the sling
CxO15 Jan 2025 | 8
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