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Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all
An Estonian e-scooter owner locked out of his own ride after the manufacturer went bust did what any determined engineer might do. He reverse-engineered it, and claims he ended up discovering the master key that unlocks every scooter the company ever sold.…
Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea
Opinion Vibe coding got a big boost when everyone's favorite open source programmer, Linux's Linus Torvalds, said he'd been using Google's Antigravity LLM on his toy program AudioNoise, which he uses to create "random digital audio effects" using his "random guitar pedal board design."…
Probably not the best security in the world: Carlsberg wristbands spill visitor pics
Exclusive The Carlsberg exhibition in Copenhagen offers a bunch of fun activities, like blending your own beer, and the Danish brewer lets you relive those memories by making images available to download after the tour is over.…
An old parking meter and a Pi make beautiful music together
An enterprising engineer has turned an old parking meter into a jukebox using a Pi Zero 2 and some open source code.…
Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue
On Call Welcome again to On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we take great delight in telling your tech support stories – mostly the ones involving bizarre behavior and heroic fixes.…
Wikimedia’s 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created
The Wikimedia Foundation, the org behind Wikipedia and other open knowledge platforms, has revealed it’s signed six more AI companies as ‘enterprise partners’, status that gives them preferential access to the content it tends.…
TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years
Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC has posted huge growth, says more is on the way as the AI boom is not abating, but also pointed to the inevitability of price rises for its output.…
OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI, having invested heavily in artificial intelligence, is placing a side bet on organic intelligence.…
Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks
Cisco finally delivered a fix for a maximum-severity bug in AsyncOS that has been under attack for at least a month.…
Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon
RISC-V champion SiFive has joined a growing number of chip companies by throwing its weight behind Nvidia's proprietary NVLink Fusion interconnect tech, a move that casts doubt on the viability of rival interconnect tech UALink.…
Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure
More than half of AI projects have been delayed or canceled within the last two years citing complexities with AI infrastructure, according to a research report commissioned by DDN, a data optimization company in partnership with Google Cloud and Cognizant.…
Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies
What policy wonk wouldn't want to click on an attachment promising to unveil US plans for Venezuela? Chinese cyberspies used just such a lure to target US government agencies and policy-related organizations in a phishing campaign that began just days after an American military operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.…
Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln
If you use virtual machines, there's reason to feel less-than-Zen about AMD's CPUs. Computer scientists affiliated with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found a vulnerability in AMD CPUs that exposes secrets in its secure virtualization environment.…
Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red
Datacenters don't come cheap. Oracle debt bond holders are suing the tech giant, because they say that the company didn't tell them it would need to borrow even more money after its original sale, making their purchases less valuable.…
Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork
Anthropic's tendency to wave off prompt-injection risks is rearing its head in the company's new Cowork productivity AI, which suffers from a Files API exfiltration attack chain first disclosed last October and acknowledged but not fixed by Anthropic.…
OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal
OpenAI says it will deploy 750 megawatts worth of Nvidia competitor Cerebras' dinner-plate sized accelerators through 2028 to bolster its inference services.…
Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown
The ongoing Grok fiasco has claimed two more unwilling participants, as campaigners demand Apple and Google boot X and its AI sidekick out of their app stores, because of the Elon Musk-owned AI's tendency to produce illicit images of real people.…
A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'
A critical misconfiguration in AWS's CodeBuild service allowed complete takeover of the cloud provider's own GitHub repositories and put every AWS environment in the world at risk, according to Wiz security researchers.…
Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise
The memory shortage is forecast to push smartphone prices higher in 2026, triggering a market decline and forcing budget phone makers to merge or disappear.…
Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year
Microsoft has kicked off 2026 with another faulty Windows update. This time, it is connection and authentication failures in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 related to the Windows App.…