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Terminators: AI-driven robot war machines on the march
Opinion I've read military science fiction since I was a kid. Besides the likes of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, and David Drake's Hammer's Slammers books, where people held the lead roles, I read novels such as Keith Laumer's Bolo series and Fred Saberhagen's Berserker space opera sf series, where machines are the protagonists and enemies. Even if you've never read war science fiction, you certainly at least know about Terminators. But what was once science fiction is now reality on the Ukrainian battlefields. It won't stop there.…
Huntress's 'hilarious' attacker surveillance splits infosec community
Security outfit Huntress has been forced onto the defensive after its latest research – described by senior staff as "hilarious" – split opinion across the cybersecurity community.…
‘IT manager’ needed tech support because they had never heard of a command line
On Call The very premise on which The Register is built is that our readers know quite a lot about information technology, and that stories featured each Friday in On Call – our weekly tales of your support experiences – therefore reflect your working lives.…
Albania’s prime minister wants to appoint an AI to his ministry
Albania’s prime minister has proposed appointing an artificial intelligence as a minister.…
Proxmox delivers datacenter manager beta that makes it a more viable VMware contender
Open source virtualization suite Proxmox has taken an important step towards becoming a stronger contender for those considering VMware alternatives by commencing beta testing for a datacenter management tool that can control multiple hardware clusters.…
Outlook outage over North America, Microsoft scrambles to respond
Microsoft confirmed a major email service outage across North America that is stopping inboxes from filling up and may be hitting other apps when logging in.…
Intel talent bleed continues as Xeon chip architect heads for the escape hatch
The chief architect behind Intel's Xeon line of server CPUs is leaving Chipzilla for greener pastures.…
We're number 1! America now leads the world in surveillanceware investment
After years of being dominated by outsiders, the computer surveillance software industry is booming in the United States as investors rush into the ethically dodgy but highly lucrative field.…
New Really Simple Licensing spec wants AI crawlers to show a license - or a credit card
Content creation and delivery companies have introduced a digital licensing mechanism in an effort to compensate media makers when AI companies use their work.…
Hijacker helper VoidProxy boosts Google, Microsoft accounts on demand
Multiple attackers using a new phishing service dubbed VoidProxy to target organizations' Microsoft and Google accounts have successfully stolen users' credentials, multi-factor authentication codes, and session tokens in real time, according to security researchers.…
Arm wrestles away 25% share of server market thanks to Nvidia's home-grown CPUs
Nvidia isn’t the only one riding the AI boom. During the second quarter, Arm CPUs captured a quarter of the server market, according to a recent Dell’Oro Group report.…
Appeals court blocks Trump bid to ax top copyright official in AI spat
A US appeals court has thrown a wrench into the White House's attempt to oust US Copyright Office director Shira Perlmutter, ruling that the president likely has no authority to fire her.…
Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' Social Security database 'immediately'
A US Senator is demanding answers after a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who blew the whistle on Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dealings involuntarily resigned last month, citing workplace hostility in response to his concerns. …
Monty Widenius 'heartbroken' at the extent of Oracle's MySQL job cuts
Oracle has instigated "widespread layoffs" across its core MySQL development team, sparking concern about the future of one of the world's most popular open-source databases.…
AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker's dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months
Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as "Cobalt Strike's AI successor," has been downloaded about 10,000 times since its release in July.…
Microsoft drops .NET 10 RC 'go-live' with 55,000 words on why it's faster
The first release candidate of .NET 10 is out, complete with a "go-live" license, meaning that Microsoft supports production use. The company has also detailed performance improvements in this long-term support release, translating to real-world savings for users.…
Walmart's bet on AI depends on getting employees to use it
At Walmart, "everybody's using AI every day across the enterprise," according to David Glick, senior vice president of the retail behemoth's enterprise business services.…
Anti-DDoS outfit walloped by record packet flood
A DDoS mitigation provider was given a taste of the poison it tries to prevent, after being smacked by one of the largest packet-rate attacks ever recorded – a 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps) flood that briefly threatened to knock it off the internet.…
Nano11 cuts Windows 11 down to size, grabbing just 2.8 GB of disk space
How low can Windows 11 go? Storage-wise, it can take up less than 3 GB, as demonstrated by some impressive engineering from the same individual behind the Nano11 "diet" build.…
Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets
If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and Intel Coffee Lake processors by breaking virtualization boundaries.…