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Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation
Around 50,000 ASUS routers have been compromised in a sophisticated attack that researchers believe may be linked to China, according to findings released today by SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team.…
Whatever your job, mentoring is your job – and the one that matters most
Opinion When I started coding for a living 43 years ago, I didn't know shit from Shinola. I'd written a lot of BASIC, some Z80 assembler, and knew my way around floppy drives and a disk operating system. I knew nothing at all about how to operate as a junior engineer in a professional environment.…
China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and ‘sites like LinkedIn’
Chinese spies are using social media and fake recruitment agents to recruit sources with access to sensitive information in the UK.…
Microsoft reveals new cloudy AI PC that’s not a Copilot+ PC
Microsoft has created a new type of AI PC – the “Windows 365 AI-enabled Cloud PC”.…
Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…
Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook
"We love moving packets," declared Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, on a stage overlooking San Francisco Bay at the networking startup's annual networking event. He continued, "This crowd probably knows this intimately, but everything in the world is packets. Regardless of what type of work you do, it is just packets all the way down."…
Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’
Microsoft has added a new Windows mode that blanks out the Blue Screen of Death on public displays after 15 seconds.…
Anthropic is at the heart of the latest billion-dollar circular AI investment bonanza
It wouldn't be a week of tech news without more circular exchanges of billions of dollars between AI firms. This time around, it's a $45 billion back-scratching session involving Microsoft, Anthropic, and Nvidia, announced during Redmond's Ignite conference.…
Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters
Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon mess
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls.…
China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew
China is preparing for an early launch of the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft to rescue the crew of Shenzou-21, who were left stranded aboard the Tiangong space station after their emergency rescue of the Shenzou-20 crew earlier this month.…
Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says
America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive – he just isn't saying when.…
Google Chrome bug exploited as an 0-day - patch now or risk full system compromise
Google pushed an emergency patch on Monday for a high-severity Chrome bug that attackers have already found and exploited in the wild.…
Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soar
Gartner warns that fossil fuel dominance in on-site power generation is not sustainable, given the rapid rise in datacenter energy consumption due to AI servers.…
Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia
A Sydney resident died after their Samsung handset failed to connect to 000, Australia's primary emergency number, triggering a stark warning from telco TPG that outdated mobile software could be a matter of life or death.…
Microsoft issues patch to tackle Windows 10 Extended Security Updates failures
Microsoft has shipped a fix for commercial customers who believed they were enrolled in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program but received error messages on the first Patch Tuesday after support ended.…
Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown
The European Commission has launched investigations into Amazon and Microsoft's cloud services, and plans to review if legislation introduced in 2022 is being applied effectively to the cloud market.…
NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data
NetApp has accused its former senior vice president and CTO of secretly building a rival cloud control platform while still on its payroll, triggering an urgent legal scramble.…
Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters
Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.…
Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold
Breaking Internet services provider Cloudflare is suffering a major outage that has knocked chunks of the web offline – including The Register.…