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Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas
These are hard times, even for the biggest brands. Facing existential crises, emergency board meetings are in full swing at multinationals Contoso, a huge marketing and sales outfit, and Fabrikam, the famous name in online fashion. Both are under threat from usurper Zava, a retailer so dazzlingly disruptive it is both a chain of DIY home improvement shops and flogger of intelligent athletic apparel.…
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
Who, Me? Opinion varies about the most efficient way to commence a working week. The Register’s contribution to that conversation is Who, Me? It’s the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of your mistakes, and subsequent escapes.…
Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner
Agentic browsers are too risky for most organizations to use, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
China’s first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew
Asia In Brief Chinese rocketry outfit LandSpace last week flew what it hoped would be the country’s first reusable rocket, only to watch it explode while attempting to land.…
Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool
Infosec in Brief The Apache Foundation last week warned of a 10.0-rated flaw in its Tika toolkit.…
Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold
Amazon last week revealed its Trainium3 UltraServer rack systems, and if your first thought was "boy that looks a lot like Nvidia's GB200 NVL72," your eyes aren't deceiving you. …
And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is...
The readers have spoken, and the era of peak Microsoft is… open to debate.…
Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA
Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to enter a second or third proof of identity. However, not all forms of MFA are created equal, and the one-time passwords orgs send to your phone have holes so big you could drive a truck through them.…
Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL
Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a California court to provide source code for its SmartCast TV software, which is allegedly based on open source code licensed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1.…
Crims using social media images, videos in 'virtual kidnapping' scams
Criminals are altering social media and other publicly available images of people to use as fake proof of life photos in "virtual kidnapping" and extortion scams, the FBI warned on Friday. …
Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it
ServiceNow’s dominant spot among IT service management (ITSM) platforms is facing its “most credible” threat to date, as longtime platform rival Salesforce has rolled out an AI agent-powered product that has won early plaudits from one of the largest credit unions in the US.…
Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG
Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).…
Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln
Amid new reports of attackers pummeling a maximum security hole (CVE-2025-55182) in the React JavaScript library, Cloudflare's technology chief said his company took down its own network, forcing a widespread outage early Friday, to patch React2Shell.…
EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception
The European Union has issued its first-ever Digital Services Act fine, slapping Elon Musk's X with a €120 million penalty for breaching the bloc's rules on ad transparency, data access for researchers, and its revamped blue-checkmark system.…
Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security
Microsoft 365 customers have gotten an early Christmas present from Santa Satya: price rises. All that AI goodness isn't going to pay for itself.…
Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist
Tech execs are adamant the AI craze is not a bubble, despite the vast sums of money being invested, overinflated valuations given to AI startups, and reports that many projects fail to make it past the pilot stage.…
Asus supplier hit by ransomware attack as gang flaunts alleged 1 TB haul
Asus has admitted that a third-party supplier was popped by cybercrims after the Everest ransomware gang claimed it had rifled through the tech titan's internal files.…
Beijing-linked hackers are hammering max-severity React bug, AWS warns
Amazon has warned that China-nexus hacking crews began hammering the critical React "React2Shell" vulnerability within hours of disclosure, turning a theoretical CVSS-10 hole into a live-fire incident almost immediately.…
Salesforce finds new AI monetization knobs to twist
Salesforce has told investors it is upping prices for AI agent platforms, claiming customers will get between three and ten times the value from investment as it introduces new AI charging models.…
Linux 6.18 crowned LTS kernel – and Alpine 3.23 wastes no time adopting it
Kernel 6.18 has already been designated the new LTS release – just as we predicted – and Alpine Linux 3.23 has arrived carrying it ahead of a flurry of other year-end distro updates.…