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When AI is trained for treachery, it becomes the perfect agent

Mon, 2025-09-29 07:15
We’re blind to malicious AI until it hits. We can still open our eyes to stopping it

Opinion Last year, The Register reported on AI sleeper agents. A major academic study explored how to train an LLM to hide destructive behavior from its users, and how to find it before it triggered. The answers were unambiguously asymmetric — the first is easy, the second very difficult. Not what anyone wanted to hear.…

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Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe

Mon, 2025-09-29 06:30
An early career lesson in the power of documentation, and the importance of exploration

Who, Me? The Register has very few rules, but one we always observe on a Monday morning is to present a new installment of Who, Me? – the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of breaking the rules, without breaking your career in the process.…

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NASA administrator says US should have ‘village’ on Moon in a decade

Mon, 2025-09-29 06:23
The Register is at the world’s biggest space gabfest and just heard the world's top 6 space agency leaders speak

IAC 2025 If the USA’s space strategy succeeds, it will run a “village” on the moon in a decade, NASA administrator Sean Duffy told the International Aeronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney today.…

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Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs

Mon, 2025-09-29 03:24
Alleges bias and security problems

US President Donald Trump has demanded Microsoft fire its recently appointed head of global affairs Lisa Monaco.…

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Dutch teen duo arrested over alleged 'Wi-Fi sniffing' for Russia

Mon, 2025-09-29 01:09
PLUS: Interpol recoups $439M from crims; CISA criticizes Feds security; FIFA World Cup nets dodgy domain deluge

Infosec In Brief Police in the Netherlands arrested two 17-year-olds last week over claims that Russian intelligence recruited them to spy on the headquarters of European law enforcement agencies.…

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Datacenter fire takes 647 South Korean government services offline

Sun, 2025-09-28 22:59
PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more!

Asia In Brief Over 600 e-government services operated by South Korea’s government are offline after a datacenter fire disrupted operations.…

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Trump’s tariff‑shaped stick can’t beat reality on US chip fabbing

Sun, 2025-09-28 08:45
The proposed 1:1 chip rule means nothing but pain for US tech until he’s out of office

Comment Ending America's reliance on foreign chip fabs remains a high priority for Uncle Sam, but the Trump administration's "my way or the highway" approach to the issue threatens to do more harm than good.…

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Hunt for RedNovember: Beijing hacked critical orgs in year-long snooping campaign

Sat, 2025-09-27 11:06
Not to be confused with all the other reports of Chinese intruders on US networks that came to light this week

RedNovember, a Chinese state-sponsored cyberspy group, targeted government and critical private-sector networks around the globe between June 2024 and July 2025, exploiting buggy internet-facing appliances to deploy a Go-based backdoor called Pantegana and other offensive security tools, including Cobalt Strike and SparkRAT.…

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Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up

Sat, 2025-09-27 08:38
Chinese giant maps out datacenters across Europe and beyond, yet US chip curbs cast a long shadow

Analysis Alibaba this week opened an AI war chest containing tens of billions of dollars, a revamped LLM lineup, and plans for AI datacenters in Europe. But it also prompted a flurry of questions over how it will achieve all this in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape, when critical resources are in short supply.…

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Many employees are using AI to create 'workslop,' Stanford study says

Fri, 2025-09-26 23:21
Remember when AI was supposed to make us more productive, not hate each other?

ai-pocalypse Workers are getting lazy about using AI to do their jobs for them, and the results are both costly and increasing distrust in the workplace.…

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Cyber threat-sharing law set to shut down, along with US government

Fri, 2025-09-26 21:00
Act passed in 2015 is due to lapse unless a continuing resolution passes - and that's unlikely

Barring a last-minute deal, the US federal government would shut down on Wednesday, October 1, and the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would lapse at the same time, threatening what many consider a critical plank of US cybersecurity policy.…

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If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff

Fri, 2025-09-26 19:44
Consultancy says machine learning advice is making bank

ai-pocalypse AI is proving to be a gold mine for mega tech consultancy Accenture, but if staff can't use it, then it's time to pack up their desks.…

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Federal agencies DOGE questions about what cost-cutting team is doing

Fri, 2025-09-26 16:31
Oversight efforts have been rebuffed, says Democratic report, 'putting Americans' personal data at risk'

A trio of federal executive agencies targeted by DOGE cost-cutters either don't know or won't say what the group is doing inside their operations, according to a Senate investigation that concludes DOGE is acting without legal authority or oversight.…

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NASA and Sierra Space clip Dream Chaser's ISS wings

Fri, 2025-09-26 16:02
Aptly named spacecraft might never make it to the orbital outpost after all

NASA and Sierra Space have modified the Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract, which originally called for the Dream Chaser spaceplane to be used to supply the International Space Station (ISS).…

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Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

Fri, 2025-09-26 15:30
Study finds microgrids with wind, solar, and batteries can be built years sooner and at lower cost than SMRs

Renewable energy sources could power datacenters at a lower cost than relying on nuclear generation from small modular reactors (SMRs), claims a recently revealed study.…

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Microsoft spots fresh XCSSET malware strain hiding in Apple dev projects

Fri, 2025-09-26 15:23
Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defenses

The long-running XCSSET malware strain has evolved again, with Microsoft warning of a new macOS variant that expands its bag of tricks while continuing to target developers.…

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Salesforce facing multiple lawsuits after Salesloft breach

Fri, 2025-09-26 15:15
CRM giant denies security shortcomings as claims allege stolen data used for ID theft

Salesforce is facing a wave of lawsuits in the wake of a cyberattack that exposed customer data.…

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Google fuses SQL, Python, and Spark in Colab Enterprise push

Fri, 2025-09-26 15:01
Move comes as Snowflake and Databricks chase the same all-in-one analytics dream

Google is promising a single notebook environment for machine learning and data analytics, integrating SQL, Python, and Apache Spark in one place.…

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‘An attacker's playground:’ Crims exploit GoAnywhere perfect-10 bug

Fri, 2025-09-26 14:32
Researchers say tens of thousands of instances remain publicly reachable

Security researchers have confirmed that threat actors have exploited the maximum-severity vulnerability affecting Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT), and chastised the vendor for a lack of transparency.…

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LockBit's new variant is 'most dangerous yet,' hitting Windows, Linux and VMware ESXi

Fri, 2025-09-26 14:28
Operation Cronos didn’t kill LockBit – it just came back meaner

Trend Micro has sounded the alarm over the new LockBit 5.0 ransomware strain, which it warns is "significantly more dangerous" than past versions due to its newfound ability to simultaneously target Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments. …

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