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'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second
Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…
Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says
Loose lips sink ships, the classic line goes. Information proliferation in the internet age has government auditors reiterating that loose tweets can sink fleets, and they're concerned that the Defense Department isn't doing enough to stop sensitive info from getting out there. …
AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows
In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much better at math.…
Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach disclosure timeline
A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months before it disclosed the data theft.…
Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run
SC25 Europe has officially entered exascale orbit. On Monday, EuroHPC's Jupiter supercomputer became the fourth such machine on the Top500 list of publicly known systems to exceed a million-trillion floating point operations a second in the time-honored High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark.…
Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository?
Google has previewed Code Wiki, an AI project that aims to document code in a repository and keep it up to date by regenerating the content after every code change.…
Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints
SC25 Dell continues to push itself as a one-stop shop for enterprise AI infrastructure with a wave of products and services, including updates to servers, storage, and software to expand its offerings.…
Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn't a sustainable side hustle
It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US Department of Justice promises to catch up with you eventually.…
Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep
Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 pushing violent right-wing extremist or terrorist propaganda, and 105 tied to racist or xenophobic groups.…
Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability
Rather than enjoying some downtime at the weekend, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri made the classic mistake of reading the replies to his post about the operating system's "agentic" future.…
Jeff Bezos gives CEO another go at $6.2B AI startup Prometheus
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is returning to the CEO seat – though not at his best-known creation.…
Overconfidence is the new zero-day as teams stumble through cyber simulations
Teams that think they're ready for a major cyber incident are scoring barely 22 percent accuracy and taking more than a day to contain simulated attacks, according to new data out Monday.…
SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness
SAP has apologized for the recent outage of its SAP for Me portal, a cloud-based tool that gives users a view of their SAP functions, metrics, and service. But the downtime has opened up some reliability questions.…
Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack
French telco Eurofiber says cybercriminals swiped company data during an attack last week that also affected some internal systems.…
Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform
Palantir is working with "AI upskilling platform" Multiverse to provide an apprenticeship program specific to its Federated Data Platform (FDP), the NHS analytics system being run under a controversial contract.…
UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit
British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O'Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to solicit digital currency and threaten high-profile individuals.…
Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some
On the eve of its Ignite conference, Microsoft has managed to break the first Extended Security Update (ESU) for many commercial Windows 10 customers.…
AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory
Opinion Remember when the hottest news in the schoolyard was which band was the hottest this week? Those days are back, baby. An AI-generated band called Breaking Rust has just hit the top of the Billboard Country chart in the US with a song called Walk My Walk. Some questions will never be answered – could it ever release a sea shanty, and will all the albums be compilations? What this means for the future of the music industry, the AI industry, and music itself, is less funny.…
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
Who, Me? Welcome to another week of work, a moment The Register celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you 'fess up to follies, false moves, and faux pas – and explain how you escaped.…
Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives
The market for server virtualization tools is about to fragment, according to analyst firm Gartner.…