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Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data

3 hours 46 min ago
Coming in cold with custom Snow malware

A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

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DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs

Fri, 2026-04-24 21:25
Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1

Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…

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Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps

Fri, 2026-04-24 17:22
New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads

Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.…

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Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

Fri, 2026-04-24 16:34
What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever?

Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems.…

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US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit

Fri, 2026-04-24 16:03
Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere

America's telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the internet.…

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ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface

Fri, 2026-04-24 15:35
Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of records

Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique email addresses all allegedly tied to one of its subsidiaries. …

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Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network

Fri, 2026-04-24 14:46
Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency

A US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither of which disclosed the agency's name.…

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More ancient Linux device support faces the chop

Fri, 2026-04-24 14:15
One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers

One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer matters if it's buggy.…

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Open Telemetry founder tools up for project graduation party

Fri, 2026-04-24 13:43
We gotta get boring to get graduated

Grafanacon The founder of the Open Telemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole to graduate.…

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Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave

Fri, 2026-04-24 13:13
Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk

Microsoft has committed to improving the quality and reliability of Windows, and a step on the path to that goal is… encouraging a chunk of its US staff to leave the company.…

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Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table

Fri, 2026-04-24 12:50
Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chips

Intel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center of compute - even as its chip manufacturing struggles persist.…

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Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores

Fri, 2026-04-24 12:00
After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse

Meta plans to deploy tens of millions of Amazon Web Services' Graviton 5 CPU cores as part of a multi-year collaboration that will make the social network among the largest-ever consumers of the cloud giant’s homegrown silicon.…

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Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages

Fri, 2026-04-24 11:47
Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives

Microsoft's update to harden Remote Desktop against phishing attacks has arrived. When users open a Remote Desktop (.rdp) file, they should now see a warning listing all requested connection settings - or they would if it was displaying correctly.…

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It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well

Fri, 2026-04-24 11:41
OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs

Black Hat Asia Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic's Mythos, according to Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO of AI-powered security startup RunSybil and OpenAI's first security hire.…

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Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami

Fri, 2026-04-24 10:45
Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add up

Donald Trump has threatened to whack the UK with a "big tariff" if it doesn't scrap its tax on large US tech firms, reviving a long-running spat over who gets to skim the proceeds from Silicon Valley's global empire.…

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Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos

Fri, 2026-04-24 09:15
Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border

Greece is taking a flexible approach to introducing the European Union's biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), after some British passport holders missed flights home following the system's implementation on 10 April.…

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UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room

Fri, 2026-04-24 08:30
Nothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed

Members of the UK government’s People’s Panel on Digital ID will spend two weekends in Birmingham and three evenings on Zoom discussing how Britain should build a national digital identity system, earning £550 plus expenses for their trouble.…

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Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists

Fri, 2026-04-24 07:45
Computer glitch spawns duplicate jackpots, disgruntled punters, and one very bad career choice

A computer glitch in a Spanish betting shop triggered a chain of events that ended with the store manager being kidnapped and held for €50,000 ($58,000) in ransom, allegedly by one of the shop's own employees.…

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To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane

Fri, 2026-04-24 07:00
Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials?

On Call Delivering excellent tech support can sometimes require heavy lifting, a feat The Register celebrates each Friday with a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of hoisting glitchy tech back to full function.…

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Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years

Fri, 2026-04-24 06:56
FAST16 could be the first cyberweapon, and its effects could be with us today

Black Hat Asia Infosec outfit SentinelOne found malware that tries to induce errors in engineering and physics simulation software and therefore represents an attempt at sabotage, and suggests it was created years before the Stuxnet worm that aimed to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges.…

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