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GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens

Fri, 2025-12-19 10:00
Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responses

The UK's Government Digital Service (GDS) will add an AI chatbot to its GOV.UK app in early 2026, before rolling it out across the GOV.UK website used by most government departments and services.…

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Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

Fri, 2025-12-19 09:30
Are pasties a proxy for weight? Or a cypher for circumference?

The Reg Standards Bureau was plunged into uproar this week when a reader suggested a new unit for weight, inspired by Cornwall's revamped food recycling service.…

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User found three reasons – all of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis

Fri, 2025-12-19 07:30
Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone

On Call Welcome once more to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed Friday column in which we share your stories of tech support jobs so wrong, they're right.…

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Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths

Fri, 2025-12-19 04:39
Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concerns

Technicians working on a firewall upgrade made at least ten mistakes, contributing to two deaths, according to a report on a September incident that saw Australian telco Optus unable to route calls to emergency services.…

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China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET

Fri, 2025-12-19 02:59
Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'

Chinese authorities on Thursday certified the China Environment for Network Innovation (CENI), a vast research network that Beijing hopes will propel the country to the forefront of networking research.…

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Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs

Thu, 2025-12-18 23:39
Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail

Even Amazon isn't immune to North Korean scammers who try to score remote jobs at tech companies so they can funnel their wages to Kim Jong Un's coffers.…

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Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful

Thu, 2025-12-18 22:20
Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.

Waterfox, a popular fork of Firefox, is saying nay to AI. Considering how unpopular Mozilla's plan to botify its browser has become, this could win the alternative some converts.…

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Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide

Thu, 2025-12-18 20:54
Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.”

Snowflake pushed an update this week that caused a “major outage” worldwide, leaving many users unable to query data, experiencing failures when ingesting files, and receiving error messages for 13 hours, the company wrote in an impact statement.…

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Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin

Thu, 2025-12-18 20:13
Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date

Web browsers for desktop and mobile devices tend to receive regular security updates, but that often isn't the case for those that reside within game consoles, televisions, e-readers, cars, and other devices. These outdated, embedded browsers can leave you open to phishing and other security vulnerabilities.…

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Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins

Thu, 2025-12-18 18:53
'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational'

Your AWS account could be quietly running someone else's cryptominer. Cryptocurrency thieves are using stolen Amazon account credentials to mine for coins at the expense of AWS customers, abusing their Elastic Container Service (ECS) and their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) resources, in an ongoing operation that started on November 2.…

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Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics

Thu, 2025-12-18 18:07
NGMN warns fragmented standards leave operators guessing about power use

The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) alliance is calling for standardized ways to measure energy consumption, saying that the industry cannot deliver on its efficiency and sustainability goals without them.…

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Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon

Thu, 2025-12-18 18:02
Ambitious timelines don’t bend the laws of physics

Just when you thought 2025 couldn't get any weirder, Trump Media and Technology Group - best known for Truth Social - is jumping into the still-nascent but heavily funded nuclear fusion industry via a planned merger with TAE Technologies.…

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Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025

Thu, 2025-12-18 17:47
ByBit attack doing some seriously heavy lifting

North Korea's yearly cryptocurrency thefts have accelerated, with Kim's state-backed cybercriminals plundering just over $2 billion worth of tokens in 2025.…

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Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit

Thu, 2025-12-18 14:34
Flaw in remote-access appliance lets attackers chain bugs for root-level takeover

SonicWall has warned customers of a zero-day flaw in its SMA 1000 remote-access appliance that's being actively exploited, potentially allowing attackers to escalate privileges and take over boxes.…

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FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation

Thu, 2025-12-18 13:52
Justice Department claims unlicensed exchange funneled ransomware profits

US feds have dismantled a crypto laundering service that they say helped cybercrooks wash tens of millions of dollars in dirty digital cash, seizing its servers and unsealing charges against an alleged Russian operator.…

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Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt

Thu, 2025-12-18 13:19
Billionaire space tourist inherits troubled agency facing budget chaos, workforce cuts, and a Moon race against China

NASA has a new administrator. Billionaire and space tourist Jared Isaacman was confirmed by the US Senate by a vote of 67 to 30.…

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NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems

Thu, 2025-12-18 13:02
Around 2,000 GP practices use its products

An NHS tech supplier is investigating a cyberattack that affected its systems in the early hours of Sunday.…

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React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines

Thu, 2025-12-18 11:42
Security boffins warn flaw is now being used for ransomware attacks against live networks

Microsoft says attackers have already compromised "several hundred machines across a diverse set of organizations" via the React2Shell flaw, using the access to execute code, deploy malware, and, in some cases, deliver ransomware.…

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BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Thu, 2025-12-18 10:01
Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants

The UK government wants the BBC to help Brits understand AI and develop basic technology skills as part of the public broadcaster's next charter period.…

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DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in

Thu, 2025-12-18 09:38
18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500

The UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has appointed a new chief exec to tackle spiraling waits for practical driving tests with bots overrunning its aging booking system.…

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