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Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

(Security) hole-ier than thou

Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com

Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda)

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention

Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo

Git is aptly named: it isn’t easy – but there are alternatives

A humanoid robot with a stethoscope stands before glowing hexagon graphics.

ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network

AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI

Hey Claude, optimize this model for me

AI and ML

Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI

Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?

Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents

Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal

SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no

Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test

Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled

Policy targets online scammers, sextortionists, and potentially their immediate families

Woman in a light shirt raises her hand in a stop gesture.

PERSONAL TECH

LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in

Advert gets the chop, but the silent app installation mechanism remains untouched

EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?

Proposed cybersecurity legislation may force a cull of high-risk network technology, costing tens of billions

public sector

Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze

Supplier says the Horizon-era pause only stops it chasing work from new government customers

Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs

Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility

Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine

€890 million slap – just 0.25% of revenue – for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives

Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it

Sleep doesn't pay

systems

Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day

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off-prem

Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours

Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services

Security

OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be

Attack models gonna attack

Security

Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs

Gatekeeper has one job and it's not doing it for some software

SYSTEMS

AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

How do you solve a problem like Capita?

Bringing troubled contracts in-house requires skills Whitehall is already struggling to recruit

Lindsay Clark

Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling

Time for the Clone Wars remake

Rupert Goodwins

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It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand

Simon Travaglia

Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids

Bruce Davie

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

Rupert Goodwins

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head

Rupert Goodwins

Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest

Rupert Goodwins

OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will

ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap

AI and ML

Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS

AI no longer welcome in human-focused community

Systems

AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's

Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper

Patches

Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email

Phishing for dummies

DEVOPS

Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past

Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog

security

Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth

Aftermarket dealer-installed KARR/SWDS security systems all use the same secure key, say UCSD researchers

Security

Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal

Experts say the era of AI bug hunting is here, so defenders will simply have to adapt to busier workloads

DevOps

GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team

Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters

SECURITY

Iran-linked crews are probing more flavors of US industrial kit

CISA widens alert beyond Rockwell controllers as intruders target internet-facing devices across critical infrastructure

Offbeat

Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots

Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat

Security

One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company

Researchers say OpenAI flaw let phishing bait create an autonomous corporate mole armed with employee access

Security

Swiss train maker tells ransomware crooks to get off at the next stop

Stadler refuses $12.3M demand after thieves swipe technical data through supplier platform

software

IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them

Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets

SOFTWARE

Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything

Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job

PUBLIC SECTOR

Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims

Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect

ai and ml

Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional

AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it

offbeat

UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet

Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal

ON-PREM

Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions

Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast

SECURITY

Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files

Who needs a working security badge when you know how to talk your way into the records room?

aI AND ML

Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic

And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack

AI AND ML

Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence

Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle high demand for the G-Cloud

AI and ML

OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning

Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused

PAAS AND IAAS

Google Cloud is killing it

It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit

offbeat

Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display

ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste

AI AND ML

Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow

As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner

AI and ML

Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool

Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?

security

Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days

Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports

SCIENCE

Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter

Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy

OFFBEAT

Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor

A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted

AI AND ML

Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own

xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models – for a price

AI and ML

OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents

As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing

Security

Sneaky Windows stealer targets 300+ apps, gives crims an AI profiler to maximize profits

Move over Flipper. There's a new Dophin X in town

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PUBLIC SECTOR

Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions

Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals

Security

Greedy ransomware crews return for seconds after victims cough up first extortion payments

Some never saw their files again either, infosec biz Proofpoint finds

SOFTWARE

GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions

New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way

SOFTWARE

Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products

Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other

PERSONAL TECH

Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2

More screen, more pixels, and a Pi 5 required to drive the lot

SECURITY

Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree

Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for breach of Computer Misuse Act

off-prem

Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five

‘Digital transformation’ is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn

Networks

China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol

IPv6+ could make it easier to censor netizens or block traffic, and Beijing is already exporting it

AI AND ML

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Sandboxed experiment found itself a zero day, escaped onto the open internet and validated scary predictions about rogue agents

AI + ML

The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now

Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3

Security

Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI

Don't call them chatbots

AI and ML

AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep

Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult

Features

A glowing microchip with EU stars sits on a circuit board in a dark technological scene.

Systems

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies

Security

Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data

Other than Instructure execs - maybe?

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits

Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement

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offbeat

US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns

Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too

off-prem

Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again

AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud

AI AND ML

Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises

Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI

Security

Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement

Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain

SYSTEMS

Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing

If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?

os platforms

Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA

Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar

security

AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert

Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time

Security

Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet

Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon

PERSONAL TECH

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for

Whitehall street sign mounted on a stone building wall in London.

Public Sector

UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years

RIP DSIT: Digital transformation duties shuffle off to reborn DCMS, with GDS along for the ride

OS PLATFORMS

Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support

Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset

SCIENCE

Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago

And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't

Systems

EXPLORE SYSTEMS

Windows Open Source FOSS Linux Virtualization Storage

SYSTEMS

Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out

Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants

SOFTWARE

Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party

SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal

PUBLIC SECTOR

Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade

Supplier stumbles and MoD staffing shortages earn the program a red delivery rating

Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods

Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China’s cheap e-commerce champs

off prem

Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes

Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming

virtualization

OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy

French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime

security

Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief

Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain

security

Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims

IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake

off-prem

AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical

An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral

AI and ML

Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid

Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy

CYBER-CRIME

Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents

Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged

APPLICATIONS

The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash

OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly

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Hand marking a wall calendar while holding a smartphone.

security

Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign

Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home

SYSTEMS

Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain

Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory

AI AND ML

EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month

Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who – or what – users are talking to

ai and Ml

Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball

On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire – literally

Hands typing on a laptop keyboard with cybersecurity graphics and code overlays.

cyber-crime

Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online

HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details

OS PLATFORMS

Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs

With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all

Public Sector

UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

One of Labour's biggest technology projects is headed for the bin as Burnham reshuffles Whitehall's priorities

public sector

Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red

Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action

columnists

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

PUBLIC SECTOR

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector

systems

High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required

Worries about ‘prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node’

software

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

Developer was hired to write VB, used C# instead, and thought he mostly made it work

* FOSS

security

Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites

Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide

Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly

Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan

Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it

Next version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server

KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives

6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not

Next Platform | HYPERSCALERS

Blocks & Files | STORAGE

DevClass | ENGINEERING

AI AND ML

AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner

Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker

AI and ML

Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check

PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!

AI and ML

Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

Connect all the things and watch what happens

AI and ML

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell

DEVOPS

Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over

OS PLATFORMS

NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD

New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code

SOFTWARE

Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly

And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close

OS PLATFORMS

Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month

22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 11

off-prem

Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates

Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug

security

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters

OS PLATFORMS

Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust

SAAS

Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room

Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 2026

Close-up of green RAM memory modules arranged in a pile

don't miss

The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components

Off-prem

Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content

You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned

security

Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order

Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts

SCIENCE

SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit

Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort

PASS and iaas

Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester

Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands

Cyber-crime

Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz

No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place

Security

Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN

A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages

PUBLIC SECTOR

Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge

Continuity support required after £336 million replacement deal delayed by more than a year

On Call

A digital billboard shows a blue Windows backup prompt with Alight Media branding below.

OFFBEAT

Backup and running? Not this digital sign

on-prem

Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year

personal tech

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC

Black-and-white portrait of a person in sunglasses with hands on their face against a plain background.

security

Security boss thought MFA would be too much security

One rule for the workers, another for execs

Personal tech

Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles

Personal Tech

This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken

Offbeat

Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes

Networks

Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner

AI Companies

AI and ML

Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing

Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored

Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die

'GhostApproval' problem highlights human-in-the-loop fails

AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top

Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models

'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes

Human did 10% of the job, AI did 90%

Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway

Left hand, meet right hand

AI startup that’s never turned a profit says it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease

Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf

Software engineers can still rake in big bucks by working for fast-growing companies

AI's impact on tech business is complicated

How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality

SPONSORED POST: Feeling stuck with your AI application projects? Gartner has the solution

personal tech

Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem

We're not Li-ion, user thought mobile phone batteries died every few days

networks

NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage

Telstra skipped a patch, didn’t record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen

AI AND ML

South Korea making its own security-centric AI model

Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos

Systems

Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief

Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom

AI and ML

OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'

Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid

ai and ml

Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project

Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel

AI and ML

Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100

Models demand trust without offering verification

SYSTEMS

TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan

Beware of fab makers bearing press releases

software

EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids

The Chocolate Factory is not amused

SOFTWARE

AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You

Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year

software

Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility

Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model.

Infosec

AI and ml

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them

CYBER-CRIME

German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks

ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option

Security

EU and UK officially blame Russian spies for cyberattack on Poland's power grid

Sweeping sanctions and condemnation follow op that could have left half a million without power in the depths of winter

Security

World Cup grudge attackers may have scored Argentine FA access via year-old infostealer infection

Footie fans? Overreacting? There's a first time for everything

Progress orders emergency ShareFile server shutdown over mystery security threat

Vendor insists there's no evidence of unauthorized access, but it's asking customers to take one of the most drastic precautions available

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security

Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package

Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool

security

Fashion mart Miinto unzips breach details, warns shoppers to watch for phisherfolk

Copenhagen company ‘sorry’ after 'perpetrator' pops order management system

Security

Scot NHS Trust probes email stuffup involving maternity patients' data

NHS Forth Valley is the latest health board to bungle basic email data protection principles

MORE INFOSEC

Smiling man in shirt and tie holding laptop and giving thumbs-up in studio.

cyber-crime

C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest

Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering

SCIENCE

NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one

Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad

OFFBEAT

Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity

Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'

PaaS and IaaS

Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push

Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'

Cyber-crime

Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack

Sentencing bookends the biggest cybercrime conviction in UK history

AI AND ML

AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding

Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure

OS PLATFORMS

Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due

One in six machines still run the old OS as migration stalls and patch deadlines creep closer

AI AND ML

SpaceX open sources Grok Build in same week company was found beaming users' repos to the cloud

AI-and-X subsidiary now claims to offer ‘complete user privacy’ days after Elon Musk confirmed the data would be deleted

Back view of woman with umbrella facing stormy hills in heavy rain

off-prem

AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites

Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery

Security

Telegram shortlinks knocked offline over sanctioned VPN connection

t.me borked for a day until platform proved it had no ties to service favored by cybercriminals

SOFTWARE

How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Why to do it, and what to watch out for

SECURITY

Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all

Off Prem

off prem

India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business

Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed

OFF-PREM

Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk

24-hour outage in key AWS region could leave UK firms nursing massive losses, researchers claim

off prem

Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products

Previously did it twice a year, so customers now have fewer chances to surf FX waves

OFF-PREM

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it

Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts

Off-PREM

Fire burns Google Cloud India’s network, which remains slow a week later

PLUS: Japan’s space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!

Explore Off Prem

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OFF-PREM

EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow

Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source

off prem

Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs

Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream

Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack

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MORE OFF PREM

cyber-crime

Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas

It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules

legal

Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel

Regulator fines PC and printer giant for rigged tender bids and collusion

Security

Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC

The Colonel stops taking online orders and may close stores after logistics partner’s systems go down

AI AND ML

Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open

Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs

ai and ml

Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design

One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations

PaaS + IaaS

Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2

Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown

DEVOPS

Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists

Haskell adherents revisit the language's tongue-in-cheek 'avoid success at all costs' mantra

SAAS

Salesforce's Agentforce isn't winning over clients, KeyBanc analysts claim

Investment bank cites messy customer data and a product that 'just isn't there'; Salesforce counters by saying it the fastest-growing product in its history

AI and ML

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'

os platforms

Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report

Report finds regional differences, especially outside the EEA, but it's still a dark tale claiming user manipulation

An open brass padlock with a bent shackle on a dark tabletop.

Security

CISA sounds alarm over trio of exploited SharePoint flaws

Three bugs are under active attack, and two more critical holes could add to the pain

os platforms

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices

Mega hardware vendor reports problems - but Windows maker isn't yet naming affected models

Who Me?

Networks

networks

Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers

Mozilla, Proton, Tor warn ministers that targeting the tech risks creating more problems than it solves

networks

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

Networks

Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down

NETWORKS

Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint

NETWORKS

Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms

MPs fear Treasury cold feet could sink Whitehall's £1.15B shared services push

'Do as we fund, not as we do' sends 'very poor reputational signal' says damning report

Security

LegacyHive: 'Bone-shattering' zero-day from Microsoft's serial tormentor not the haymaker that was promised

Experts say it’s a useful post-compromise tool, for those with the brain cells required to put it together

on-prem

AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges

Ex-staffer accuses Amazon's Virginia datacenters of quietly guzzling H20 all year round, despite 'water positive' PR push

Personal Tech

EU lets wearables wriggle out of user-replaceable battery rules

Miniaturization means a professional's touch is needed

os platforms

A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32

New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15

databases

EU competition decision hands SAP customers more leverage in contract talks

Truce over maintenance fees is a bargaining chip for ECC holdouts – just don't expect a stampede to third-party support

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os platforms

Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5

This elevator is headed for floor Bork

OS Platforms

OpenMandriva's accused repo wrecker says it wasn't sabotage – it was a message

Ex-contributor claims he wasn't a rogue admin, hadn't left the project, and never intended to harm the distro

COLUMNISTS

The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web

personal tech

At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills

Gartner thinks we’re headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible

public sector

South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot

Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs

AI AND ML

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content

PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage

Virtualization

Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update

As VMware itself warns of critical flaw in its load balancer

WHITEPAPERS

The identity trust delusion

Join Rubrik's Mark Grant as he shares lessons from real recoveries, common mistakes, product evolution, and building long-term identity resilience.

AI and ML

OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark

Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder

security

Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs

Remember when last month's 206 CVEs seemed eye-watering? Yeah, those were the days

AI and ML

If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic

Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages

ai and ml

New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts

50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers

ai and ml

DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late

Industry, regulate thyself

Off Beat

Science

science

India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch

Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit

SCIENCE

Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though)

offbeat

Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test

Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price

Close-up of a technician typing on a laptop in red light.

science

Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space

There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of politicos

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Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it

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Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five

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OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email

Columnists

How do you solve a problem like Capita?

Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling

It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand

Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head

Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest

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OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will

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Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past

Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth

Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal

GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team

Iran-linked crews are probing more flavors of US industrial kit

Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots

One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company

Swiss train maker tells ransomware crooks to get off at the next stop

IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them

Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything

Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims

Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional

UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet

Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions

Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files

Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic

Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence

OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning

Google Cloud is killing it

Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display

Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow

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Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days

Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter

Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor

Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own

OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents

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GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions

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Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2

Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree