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Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn't a sustainable side hustle
It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US Department of Justice promises to catch up with you eventually.…
Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep
Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 pushing violent right-wing extremist or terrorist propaganda, and 105 tied to racist or xenophobic groups.…
Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability
Rather than enjoying some downtime at the weekend, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri made the classic mistake of reading the replies to his post about the operating system's "agentic" future.…
Jeff Bezos gives CEO another go at $6.2B AI startup Prometheus
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is returning to the CEO seat – though not at his best-known creation.…
Overconfidence is the new zero-day as teams stumble through cyber simulations
Teams that think they're ready for a major cyber incident are scoring barely 22 percent accuracy and taking more than a day to contain simulated attacks, according to new data out Monday.…
SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness
SAP has apologized for the recent outage of its SAP for Me portal, a cloud-based tool that gives users a view of their SAP functions, metrics, and service. But the downtime has opened up some reliability questions.…
Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack
French telco Eurofiber says cybercriminals swiped company data during an attack last week that also affected some internal systems.…
Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform
Palantir is working with "AI upskilling platform" Multiverse to provide an apprenticeship program specific to its Federated Data Platform (FDP), the NHS analytics system being run under a controversial contract.…
UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit
British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O'Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to solicit digital currency and threaten high-profile individuals.…
Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some
On the eve of its Ignite conference, Microsoft has managed to break the first Extended Security Update (ESU) for many commercial Windows 10 customers.…
AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory
Opinion Remember when the hottest news in the schoolyard was which band was the hottest this week? Those days are back, baby. An AI-generated band called Breaking Rust has just hit the top of the Billboard Country chart in the US with a song called Walk My Walk. Some questions will never be answered – could it ever release a sea shanty, and will all the albums be compilations? What this means for the future of the music industry, the AI industry, and music itself, is less funny.…
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
Who, Me? Welcome to another week of work, a moment The Register celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you 'fess up to follies, false moves, and faux pas – and explain how you escaped.…
Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives
The market for server virtualization tools is about to fragment, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting
Asia In Brief India’s Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar Land Rover, has revealed the cyberattack that shut down production in the UK has so far cost it around £1.8 billion ($2.35 billion).…
Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack
INFOSEC IN BRIEF The US Senate passed a resolution in July to force the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to publish a 2022 report into poor security in the telecommunications industry but the agency has not delivered the document.…
Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab
Exclusive Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs announced a new collaboration with Global Unichip Corp (GUC) on Sunday to integrate its optical I/O chiplets into the Taiwanese semiconductor design services provider's XPU reference designs.…
Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems
Interview In the datacenter biz, power is the product. You either have it or you don't, Chris Sharp tells El Reg.…
Apple’s new 15% mini-app deal finally gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in
Apple has cut its take to 15 percent on purchases inside mini apps running within other iOS apps, and reached a parallel agreement with Tencent that brings WeChat's vast mini-program ecosystem into its revenue net.…
Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60%
If you haven't noticed, DRAM memory has gotten a lot more expensive in recent weeks. …
Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee
Large language models frequently ship with "guardrails" designed to catch malicious input and harmful output. But if you use the right word or phrase in your prompt, you can defeat these restrictions.…