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AI skills shortage more than doubles for UK tech leaders
Highest recorded jump in skills gap for more than a decade, recruiter finds
Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'
Interview
Plus, Co-op tells The Reg: 'we took early and decisive action' to block the crooks
Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you! – to apply for this fake consulting gig
Phony LinkedIn recruitment ads? Groundbreaking
Foxconn chair predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor
Computex Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutwork
AI + ML20 May 2025 |
Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn
Fine-print is vague and broad, could easily be abused to blunt protected speech
Personal Tech20 May 2025 | 9
CISA has a new No. 2 ... but still no official top dog
Brain drain, budget cuts, constant cyberthreats - who wouldn't want this job?
Security19 May 2025 | 3
Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts
Police took Big Easy attitude to the rules, says WaPo
Legal19 May 2025 |
Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet
Never mind the chatbot's recent erratic behavior
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 7
SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars
Proving yet again that crims are bad at search hygiene
Cyber-crime19 May 2025 | 16
Aussie rocket foiled by premature fairing pop
A fair dinkum disaster
Science19 May 2025 | 13
European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent
DownDetector reported problems for about 6 hours
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2025 | 5
DARPA zaps popcorn with laser power beamed 5.3 miles through air
800-watt demo breaks distance record for optical energy transmission
Science19 May 2025 | 11
Nvidia builds a server to run x86 workloads alongside agentic AI
Computex Wants to be the 'HR department for agents'
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 |
Microsoft open sources Windows Subsystem for Linux – well, most of it
Time to stand on its own two webbed feet?
OSes19 May 2025 | 9
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GitHub Copilot angles for promotion from assistant to agent
Build Agent mode arrives, for better or worse
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 1
When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans
Large-scale disinfo campaigns could use this in machines that adapt 'to individual targets.' Are we having fun yet?
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 10
LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop
Another distro for Windows users – presumably ones who love bling
OSes19 May 2025 | 14
Nvidia sets up shop in Taiwan with AI supers and a factory full of ambition
Computex Researchers and TSMC to benefit from expanded infrastructure
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 3
MCP will be built into Windows to make an “agentic OS” but security will be a key concern
Interview: chief maintainer of Qt project on language independence, KDE, and the pain of Qt 5 to Qt 6
Mozilla quietly makes Microsoft’s GitHub the authoritative home for Firefox code
Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers
Cyber fiends battering UK retailers now turn to US stores
Interview DragonForce-riding ransomware ring also has 'shiny object syndrome' so will likely move on to another sector soon
Latest patch leaves some Windows 10 machines stuck in recovery loops
Veteran OS might be almost out of support, but there's still time for Microsoft to break it
OSes19 May 2025 | 13
Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years
Cybercriminals lifted info including addresses, ID numbers, and financial records from agency systems
Cyber-crime19 May 2025 | 28
AI skills shortage more than doubles for UK tech leaders
Highest recorded jump in skills gap for more than a decade, recruiter finds
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 22
IT chiefs of UK's massive health service urge vendors to make public security pledge
Enormous org has been hit by ransomware again and again, on multiple fronts, over the past year
Cyber-crime19 May 2025 | 22
Qualcomm confirms it's dipping into datacenter world again, probably for AI
Computex CEO Cristiano Amon teases plans for high-speed-low-power inferencing products
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 2
Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload
Who, Me? Yard of Eden just doesn't have the right ring to it
Software19 May 2025 | 245
Nvidia opens up speedy NVLink interconnect to custom CPUs, ASICs
Computex One of the two just needs to be made by Nv
AI + ML19 May 2025 |
Eeek! p0wned Alabama hit by unspecified 'cybersecurity event'
Infosec In Brief PLUS: Euro-cops take down investment scammers; Fancy Bear returns to Ukraine; and more
Security19 May 2025 | 6
China launches an AI cloud into orbit. 12 sats for now, 2,800 in coming years
Asia In Brief PLUS: South Korea signs for massive supercomputer; HCL gets into chipmaking; US tariffs slow APAC tech buying; and more
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 14
Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'
INTERVIEW Plus, Co-op tells The Reg: 'we took early and decisive action' to block the crooks
CSO18 May 2025 | 49
To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator
Systems Approach It'll even help you develop technical skills
CxO18 May 2025 | 28
GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help
Comment More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundant
Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025
Global Accessibility Awareness Day It matters for everyone, because we'll all be disabled one day
Personal Tech18 May 2025 | 28
Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away
ZKLP system allows apps to confirm user presence in a region without exposing exactly where
Security17 May 2025 | 55
No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon
Feature As long as you're quiet about it
Science17 May 2025 | 71
From hype to harm: 78% of CISOs see AI attacks already
AI attacks are keeping most practitioners up at night, says Darktrace, and with good reason
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Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app
Search giant to restore critical Android permission after user outcry
Applications17 May 2025 | 25
Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you! – to apply for this fake consulting gig
Phony LinkedIn recruitment ads? Groundbreaking
Public Sector16 May 2025 | 23
America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown
Crooks must be licking their lips at the possibilities
Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 9
Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'
Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss?
AI + ML16 May 2025 | 113
Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard
Python, TypeScript, Azure SDK devs among those let go
Software16 May 2025 | 39
CoreWeave may have built a house of (graphics) cards
Comment An overdependence on hyperscalers and a mountain of debt could pull the rug out
AI Infrastructure Month16 May 2025 | 2
How homegrown AI cuts through the hype to deliver real results
Nutanix leverages customer interactions to develop GenAI infra solution and the AI tools to support it
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Dems are upset about DOGE's IRS hackathon, but the IRS says it never happened
Tax bods characterize it more as a brainstorming session, says Elon's unit wasn't involved
Public Sector16 May 2025 | 17
Apple slams door on Fortnite's stateside iOS comeback
Epic's latest submission blocked right after CEO offered truce with Cupertino
Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 27
Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away
Applications16 May 2025 | 27
Defamation case against DEF CON terminated with prejudice
'We hope it makes attendees feel safe reporting violations'
Security16 May 2025 | 4
Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg
Extending all the dumped devices' lives by 12 months? Like taking 2M cars off the road each year
Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 55
Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade
Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained
SaaS16 May 2025 | 6
AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge
CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacity
AI Infrastructure Month16 May 2025 | 63
Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation
We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers
On-Prem16 May 2025 | 16
How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'
Success of UK's Universal Credit has lessons for government IT projects, former minister claims
Public Sector16 May 2025 | 71
UK government overrules local council’s datacenter refusal on Green Belt land
DPM signs off 96MW bit barn, citing national policy shift
AI Infrastructure Month16 May 2025 | 37
Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'
After UK spends hundreds of millions, several say existing systems are better
Databases16 May 2025 | 29
Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working
On Call Self-taught coders who work in HR and have a doctorate in English tend to do that
Applications16 May 2025 | 174
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Nokia Event-Driven Automation platform is on a mission to remove mistakes from datacenter operations
AI revolution driving datacenter network investment surge
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Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe
Gives both platforms the ‘generative AI will freshen it up and shift it to the cloud’ treatment
Virtualization16 May 2025 | 10
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive
Fears surrendering to GenAI makes humans less competitive
AI + ML16 May 2025 | 50
Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters
Lawyers prepare to get suited and booted if 'Plan B' to address unfair competition claims is a no show
PaaS + IaaS16 May 2025 | 15
Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India
Cupertino's plan to spend $500bn stateside wasn’t enough to placate the tycoon of tariffs
Public Sector16 May 2025 | 55
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Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'
INTERVIEW Plus, Co-op tells The Reg: 'we took early and decisive action' to block the crooks
China launches an AI cloud into orbit. 12 sats for now, 2,800 in coming years
Asia In Brief PLUS: South Korea signs for massive supercomputer; HCL gets into chipmaking; US tariffs slow APAC tech buying; and more
To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator
Systems Approach It'll even help you develop technical skills
Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload
Who, Me? Yard of Eden just doesn't have the right ring to it
Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025
Global Accessibility Awareness Day It matters for everyone, because we'll all be disabled one day
Eeek! p0wned Alabama hit by unspecified 'cybersecurity event'
Infosec In Brief PLUS: Euro-cops take down investment scammers; Fancy Bear returns to Ukraine; and more
Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years
Cybercriminals lifted info including addresses, ID numbers, and financial records from agency systems
LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop
Another distro for Windows users – presumably ones who love bling
IT chiefs of UK's massive health service urge vendors to make public security pledge
Enormous org has been hit by ransomware again and again, on multiple fronts, over the past year
Nvidia opens up speedy NVLink interconnect to custom CPUs, ASICs
Computex One of the two just needs to be made by Nv
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Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI
They're smishing, they're vishing
Security16 May 2025 | 19
DoorDash scam used fake drivers, phantom deliveries to bilk $2.59M
Entire process took less than five minutes, prosecutors say
Cyber-crime15 May 2025 | 18
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
Failure could've triggered a small explosion
Science15 May 2025 | 79
Why CVSS is failing us and what we can do about it
How Adversarial Exposure Validation is changing the way we approach vulnerability management
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Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing
AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spat
Legal15 May 2025 | 30
Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress
Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you
AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 25
Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%
Surely Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has nothing to do with it
On-Prem15 May 2025 | 43
Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a SNAFU
Expert tells us: 'It is the most unique breach disclosure I've ever seen'
Cyber-crime15 May 2025 | 14
Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore
Sometimes, less information is more
Security15 May 2025 |
Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative
Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms
Software15 May 2025 | 35
Snowflake CISO on the power of 'shared destiny' and 'yes and'
interview Lessons learned from last year's security snafu
CSO15 May 2025 | 3
Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization
Aiming for the stars, but sometimes hitting the Caribbean
Science15 May 2025 | 58
Intel Xeon 6 CPUs make their name in AI, HPC
There isn’t a datacenter workload whose performance or efficiency isn’t improved by using Xeon 6 chips
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70-knot winds so far blamed for yacht disaster that killed Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch
Probe indicates it was all over for Bayesian in just 9 minutes
Software15 May 2025 | 51
Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses
MEWSIC to Brit crews' ears will see off anti-ship missiles, among other things
Offbeat15 May 2025 | 41
The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet
Linux types mobilize website to help people avoid creating more e-waste
OSes15 May 2025 | 245
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