Cards Against Humanity campaigns to encourage voting, expose personal data abuse
Up to $100 for planning to vote and a public smear – how is this not illegal?
Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks
On Call
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FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused
It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week
Arrow Lake splashdown: Intel pins hopes on replacement for Raptors
New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down?
Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between
Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite?
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2024 | 3
Top-secret X-37B space plane ready for daring new orbital maneuver
The Space Force craft will attempt aerobraking for the first time
Science12 Oct 2024 | 22
Anthropic's Claude vulnerable to 'emotional manipulation'
AI model safety only goes so far
AI + ML12 Oct 2024 | 18
US and UK govts warn: Russia scanning for your unpatched vulnerabilities
in brief Also, phishing's easier over the phone, and your F5 cookies might be unencrypted, and more
Security12 Oct 2024 | 8
INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good
Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 7
US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants
Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 8
Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight
The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability
Software11 Oct 2024 | 35
Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete
When the 'cleanup' option stubbornly refuses
OSes11 Oct 2024 | 40
Meta gives Llama 3 vision, now if only it had a brain
Hands on El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do
Ukraine cyber cops collar man who hooked citizens up to Russian internet
'Self-taught hacker' facing a possible 15 years in the slammer
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 8
Energy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge
Demand for electricity to outstrip supply soon, warns Bain
On-Prem11 Oct 2024 | 20
Why send a message when you can get your Zoom digital video clone to read the script?
We're sure colleagues will find your lookalike, soundalike avatar's missive very warm and human
AI + ML11 Oct 2024 | 21
Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...
Explainer But what does that mean?
OSes11 Oct 2024 | 38
Tesla's big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly
WCGW? Plus: Automous Robovan also makes surprise appearance at Cybercab's coming out party
Personal Tech11 Oct 2024 | 179
Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig
What's harder? Convincing people to invest in a beleaguered security business or a tiny island everybody hates?
Public Sector11 Oct 2024 | 47
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CYBERSECURITY MONTH
American Water rinsed in cyber attack, turns off app
CISO It's still safe to drink, top provider tells us
Brits hate how big tech handles their data, but can't be bothered to do much about it
Privacy Managing the endless stream of cookie banners leaves little energy for anything else
Chinese cyberspies reportedly breached Verizon, AT&T, Lumen
Telcoms Salt Typhoon may have accessed court-ordered wiretaps and US internet traffic
Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds
Privacy 'You can build this in a few days – even as a very naïve developer'
Ransomware crew infects 100+ orgs monthly with new MedusaLocker variant
Exclusive Crooks 'like a sysadmin, with a malicious slant'
If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast
Desktop Tourism Despite amazing battery life and lovely speed, this one has flaws that may annoy
Is the first European on the Moon in ESA's astronaut corps?
Interview Director General on being a good partner and developing rockets
Science11 Oct 2024 | 6
BOFH: Boss's quest for AI-generated program ends where it should've begun
Episode 19 With SUM()
BOFH11 Oct 2024 | 78
Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks
On Call This is why every admin loves to hate Windows
OSes11 Oct 2024 | 131
Jupiter's Great Red Spot wobbles like Jell-o, according to Hubble snaps
Scientists undecided about possible flavor
Science11 Oct 2024 | 17
FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused
It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 30
Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models
Exclusive Tamed DB sprawl and saved cloudy resources with 'X-Stor'
Databases11 Oct 2024 | 6
Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India's Star Health
Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 1
Google’s Code Assist Enterprise can be trained on internal source code, is focused on Google services
Microsoft previews unified .NET API for AI, and delivers .NET 9 Release Candidate with go-live license
Ruby on Rails 8.0 first beta release: A big bet on SQLite in production
OpenAI previews major update to ChatGPT visual interface for writing and coding
Chinese boffins build soft robot finger that can take your pulse
It can also type, so the robo-doctor can heal you and write legibly
Science11 Oct 2024 | 22
Cards Against Humanity campaigns to encourage voting, expose personal data abuse
Up to $100 for planning to vote and a public smear – how is this not illegal?
Offbeat10 Oct 2024 | 89
Crooks stole personal info of 77k Fidelity Investments customers
But hey, no worries, the firm claims no evidence of data misuse
Cyber-crime10 Oct 2024 | 2
GSA plows ahead with face matching tech despite its own reliability concerns
A week after saying remote ID verification tech is unreliable, the GSA is expanding access to other agencies
Software10 Oct 2024 | 3
How HPC is cooler, literally
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Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact 'mitigated'
Users just need to 'refresh/restart' their sessions
Software10 Oct 2024 | 56
BBC weather glitch shows 13k mph winds in London, 404℃ in Nottingham
We'd know if it were true, and our reporters are just fine
Science10 Oct 2024 | 58
AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut
Just not on the same chip, of course
Systems10 Oct 2024 | 14
AMD targets Nvidia H200 with 256GB MI325X AI chips, zippier MI355X due in H2 2025
Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper
Systems10 Oct 2024 | 5
AMD aims latest processors at AI whether you need it or not
Ryzen AI PRO 300 series leans heavily on Microsoft's Copilot+ PC requirements
AI + ML10 Oct 2024 | 6
The .io domain isn't going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty
UK-Mauritius handshake holds but Chagos Islands shift could eventually phase out the ccTLD
Off-Prem10 Oct 2024 | 44
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WINDOWS 11 24H2
Saying goodbye to the tech dreams Microsoft abandoned with Windows 11 24H2
Viewpoint Is that a Mixed Reality headset, or just a complicated paperweight? Oh and farewell WordPad
Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI
News Complete with Copilot Vision – but sessions won't be stored, insists Redmond
Why Win11 24H2 is a big yawn for developers
API If they Build it, we may or may not come
W11 user hurt by the KB5043145 update? Microsoft offers a way out
Patches Might be best to give it a miss for now
Windows users still living in the past face forced update, like it or not
And also 22H2 and 21H2 holdouts about to be dragged to 23H2
SAP promises developer 'fusion teams' in cloud low-code environment
TechEd But projects must be completed in old desktop IDE
Arrow Lake splashdown: Intel pins hopes on replacement for Raptors
New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down?
Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway
Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database
CISA adds fresh Ivanti vuln, critical Fortinet bug to hall of shame
Usual three-week window to address significant risks to federal agencies applies
PC shipments stuck in neutral despite AI buzz
Analysts can't agree whether market is marginally up or down
Mozilla patches critical Firefox vuln that attackers are already exploiting
Firefixed: It's maintenance time for low-complexity, high-impact security flaw
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Version 7.6 – the 'OpenBSD of Theseus' – released
Ideal for black-clad ultra-minimalist types. You probably wouldn't like it
OSes10 Oct 2024 | 31
Advania UK gobbles up IT services rival CCS Media
Exclusive Acquisition signals consolidation in the market
Public Sector10 Oct 2024 |
Post Office CEO tells inquiry: Leadership was in 'dream world' over Horizon scandal
Hired in 2019, he claims the recruitment failed to mention ongoing litigation
Public Sector10 Oct 2024 | 49
Hold my Pimms! Wimbledon turns to tech for line-ball calls
Humans dumped by famously fusty tennis tournament
Personal Tech10 Oct 2024 | 27
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Starlink was offered for free to those hit by Hurricane Helene. It is not entirely free
Updated And now SpaceX clarifies special promotion
Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice
Linux contributors told to sort out their grammar lest they be actively corrected
Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...
Explainer But what does that mean?
Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good
EuroBSDcon 2024 Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where's the fun in that?
Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks
On Call This is why every admin loves to hate Windows
You're right not to rush into running AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs
Opinion They put more risk in a single box than most of us are equipped to handle
National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected
One-man-band faces a mountain of lawsuits but has few assets
Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete
When the 'cleanup' option stubbornly refuses
If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast
Desktop Tourism Despite amazing battery life and lovely speed, this one has flaws that may annoy
Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS
31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there
STORIES
Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market'
Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 15
You have issues with 'Issues' always being called 'Issues' in Jira, so Atlassian now allows them to be called ‘Tasks’
Developers get auto-coding ideas drawn from bug reports, and more AI besides
Devops10 Oct 2024 | 20
OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff
Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 3
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Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS
31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 22
Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware
USB sticks help, but it's unclear how tools that suck malware from them are delivered
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 21
Deno 2.0 looks to backward compatibility to move forward
Modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript plays nicer with Node.js
Devops09 Oct 2024 | 3
Smart TVs are spying on everyone
Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 116
Marriott settles for a piddly $52M after series of breaches affecting millions
Intruders stayed for free on the network between 2014 and 2020
Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 9
Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications
On the bright side, auroras may dazzle skies as far south as mid-latitudes
Science09 Oct 2024 | 48
National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected
One-man-band faces a mountain of lawsuits but has few assets
Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 64
Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to AlphaFold, Rosetta creators - another win for AI
Let’s just hope they don’t give the literature award to a bot, too
Science09 Oct 2024 | 5
US DoJ wades into Realtek lawsuit that accuses MediaTek of patent abuse
Fabless chip shop alleged to be hiring 'litigation hit men' to kneecap rival
Legal09 Oct 2024 | 5
Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect
'If I was Satoshi I would have destroyed my ability to prove I'm Satoshi'
Offbeat09 Oct 2024 | 47
CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag
Backs RHEL-compatible distro with indemnification and update guarantees
OSes09 Oct 2024 | 21
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