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Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence
In what appears to be the latest example of a troubling trend of "vibe coding" software development tools behaving badly, a Reddit user is reporting that Google's Antigravity platform improperly wiped out the contents of an entire hard drive partition. …
UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server
WordPress is the world's most popular content management system, but not so much with the UK government. The country's Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has blamed an inadvertent budget disclosure last week on misconfiguration of its WordPress website.…
Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers
As part of its effort to spread GPUs everywhere, Nvidia is investing $2 billion into simulation giant Synopsys. …
Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware
A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than 4 million installs are still live in the Edge marketplace.…
Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension
ChatGPT's public debut on November 30, 2022, is widely seen by critics as the start of the AI-slop era online. Those yearning for a more human-written web can get some relief from a browser extension that filters Google searches to pre-ChatGPT results.…
Four arrested in South Korea over massive IP camera snooping spree
Cybercrime suspects and offenders across three continents have been rounded up this week, with cases spanning hacked IP cameras in South Korea, evil twin Wi-Fi traps in Australia, and a dark web drug empire in rural England.…
HSBC partners with Mistral AI as banking giants spend billions looking for LLM boost
Global bank HSBC and Mistral AI have announced a deal they say will spread the use of generative AI across the financial institution, saving employees time and improving processes.…
HPE pumps AI cloud lineup with extra Nvidia capabilities
HPE is upgrading its Private Cloud AI stack with Nvidia technology and preparing a France-based AI Factory Lab where customers will be able to test out workloads.…
Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer
The Windows operating system is buckling under AI features that seem designed more for shareholders than users, and retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer says it's time to hit pause.…
Dutch study finds teen cybercrime is mostly just a phase
Young threat actors may be rebels without a cause. These cybercriminals typically grow out of their offending ways by the time they turn 20, according to data published by the Dutch government.…
AWS and Google build a fix for multi-cloud barriers they said didn't exist
Re:invent AWS and Google Cloud are promoting a jointly developed multi-cloud connectivity service, despite recently assuring competition authorities that no technical barriers existed for customers wanting to operate across multiple clouds.…
South Korea's answer to Amazon admits breach exposed 33.7M customers
South Korean retail behemoth Coupang has admitted to a data breach that exposed the personal details of 33.7 million customers, turning the company's famed "Rocket Delivery" logistics empire into an express shipment for personal information.…
Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival
Asda's delayed tech divorce from Walmart, which involved a complete SAP ERP upgrade, has caused "severe disruption" hitting the UK retailer's quarterly revenue.…
Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof
Raspberry Pi has raised prices across much of its latest lineup while launching a new $45 Raspberry Pi 5 with 1GB of RAM, it's first sub-$50 model in the series.…
French Football Federation faces own-goal after club software data breach
The French Football Federation (FFF) has conceded that attackers broke into its member management software using a compromised account, scoring a match sheet's worth of player data in the process.…
Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul
Southwest England's Dorset Council is preparing to swap its legacy SAP ERP for an Oracle-built replacement in a project set to cost £14.2 million over three years.…
Speccy clone storms back for Christmas without a shred of Sinclair code
The Spectrum is an inexpensive home entertainment gadget from Retro Games Ltd (RGL) that's hauntingly similar to a totally unrelated 1980s home entertainment device that was loved by millions.…
Landlord quirks leave thousands of flats stuck in the broadband slow lane
Brits living in blocks of flats or apartments risk missing out on high-speed fiber broadband due to quirks in domestic regulations that can hinder access for telco engineers.…
Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam
Microsoft appears to have moved on from two of its most loyal and enthusiastic "customers".…
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books
Who, Me? Thank you, dear reader, for tearing yourself away from Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales long enough to visit The Register, just in time for this fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of unforced errors, and how you bounced back afterwards.…