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Russia's RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks
Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix.…
GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke plans to leave the company and corporate parent Microsoft will not appoint a successor.…
US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs
The US Department of Justice is trying to recoup around $1 million that three IT specialists secretly working for the North Korean government allegedly stole from a New York company.…
Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft
Many are unhappy about Microsoft's Windows 10 retirement plans, but a California man appears to be angrier than most. He's sued Redmond over the matter, and is demanding continued free Win 10 updates until the OS's popularity wanes. …
Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear
Black Hat/DEF CON At the opening of Black Hat, the largest security shindig in the Hacker Summer Camp week ahead of DEF CON and BSides, the opening keynote speaker suggested the current state of AI slightly favors defenders over attackers, but he warned that was not a given for much longer.…
Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation
Wikipedia today lost a legal battle against the UK's tech secretary to tighten the criteria around the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), as it seeks to exclude itself from the strictest regulations.…
Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4
Viennese virtualization veteran Proxmox has updated its hypervisor and its storage offering to new, Debian 13 versions.…
Hanging up: AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service after 36 years
From the department of "Want to feel old?" comes news that AOL is finally pulling the plug on dial-up Internet access.…
'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman
OpenAI has brought back GPT-4o after a weekend of user protests - mostly about removal of model choice - following the rollout of GPT-5.…
Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down
Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move comes as Intel's former CEO Craig Barrett weighs in on the troubled chipmaker's future.…
Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need
DEF CON While AI was on everyone's lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in Sin City – BSides, Black Hat, AND DEF CON – there were a lot of people using the F-word too: fraud.…
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit
Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.…
UK retail giant M&S restores Click & Collect months after cyber attack, some services still down
British retailer Marks and Spencer updated its website today, confirming its Click & Collect service is once again available to customers.…
Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'
Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer "on notice" for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which "makes the world actively a worse place to live" – in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old.…
Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study
In space, no one can hear you sneeze – but that hasn't stopped a team of boffins researching exactly what happens when an astronaut gets a case of the sniffles, and why. The key takeaway, should you find yourself on board a space station and in need of a tissue: maybe skip the spacewalk.…
The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business
Feature Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV charger locations have all become part of its portfolio, alongside the paper-based maps beloved by the nation's legion of cagoule-clad outdoor types.…
Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch
The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's best to think of this as dealing with a buggy lump of undocumented code, because frankly that's what is between you and your next job.…
AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future
Opinion Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that’s a good thing. Meanwhile, real life AI coding tools make coders less productive while spreading the hallucination that they’re more so.…
Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off
Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries.…
China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests
China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna - and leaving it again afterwards.…