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NATO taps Google for air-gapped sovereign cloud

Mon, 2025-11-24 13:37
Chocolate Factory wins contract to build fully disconnected systems for training and operational support

NATO has hired Google to provide "air-gapped" sovereign cloud services and AI in "completely disconnected, highly secure environments."…

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FCC guts post-Salt Typhoon telco rules despite ongoing espionage risk

Mon, 2025-11-24 13:14
Months after China-linked spies burrowed into US networks, regulator tears up its own response

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has scrapped a set of telecom cybersecurity rules introduced after the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, reversing course on measures designed to stop state-backed snoops from slipping back into America's networks.…

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6G isn't even here yet but mobile industry wants triple the spectrum

Mon, 2025-11-24 12:29
Report warns of 2030s capacity crunch without expanding mid-band airwaves

The GSMA says 6G networks will need up to three times the spectrum currently allocated to mobile operators to meet anticipated demands for data.…

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CISA orders feds to patch Oracle Identity Manager zero-day after signs of abuse

Mon, 2025-11-24 11:45
Agencies have until December 12 to mitigate flaw that was likely exploited before Big Red released fix

CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch against an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) flaw within three weeks – a scramble made more urgent by evidence that attackers may have been abusing the bug months before a fix was released.…

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DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping trials

Mon, 2025-11-24 11:05
Costs a tenner a shot instead of £1M per anti-aircraft missile

Britain's Royal Navy ships will be fitted with the DragonFire laser weapon by 2027 – five years earlier than planned – following recent successful trials involving fast-moving drones.…

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This Thanksgiving, top your turkey with Cranberry sOSS to fund open source

Mon, 2025-11-24 10:07
Unusual holiday drive raises cash for the people keeping critical code alive

The Open Source Pledge organization is working to combat the problems of FOSS maintainers not getting paid, and the closely related issue of developer burnout, with a Thanksgiving-themed campaign.…

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Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Mon, 2025-11-24 09:16
Coding purists once considered BASIC harmful. AI can't even manage that

Opinion It is a truth universally acknowledged that a singular project possessed of prospects is in want of a team. That team has to be built from good developers with experience, judgement, analytic and logic skills, and strong interpersonal communication. Where AI coding fits in remains strongly contentious. Opinion on vibe coding in corporate IT is more clearly stated: you're either selling the stuff or steering well clear.…

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UK Covid-19 Inquiry finds early pandemic surveillance was weeks out of date

Mon, 2025-11-24 08:31
Lack of effective data flows and reduced scientific investment hampered response

During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, it took up to three weeks for confirmed cases to be recorded on the health database used at the time.…

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Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people

Mon, 2025-11-24 06:34
Customer signed off and a remaining staffer triggered the mess

Who, Me? Welcome to Monday morning and therefore to a new instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's weekly column that shares your tales of workplace errors and absolution.…

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Cryptology boffins’ association to re-run election after losing encryption key needed to count votes

Mon, 2025-11-24 05:43
The shoemaker’s children have new friends

The International Association for Cryptologic Research will run a second election for new board members and other officers, after it was unable to complete its first poll due to a lost encryption key.…

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OVH CEO predicts some cloud prices to rise 5-10 percent by mid-2026

Mon, 2025-11-24 04:40
Or maybe even sooner, warns Octave Klaba, as AI sends storage costs soaring

The price of some cloud services will have to rise by five to ten percent by mid-2026, maybe sooner, according to Octave Klaba, CEO of French cloud OVH.…

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70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

Mon, 2025-11-24 01:16
PLUS: Manga publishers win Cloudflare copyright case; India, EU to link payment systems; Storm over Australia’s weather website; And more!

Asia In Brief Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has suggested Indian citizens should work even longer, suggesting his previous target of 70-hour weeks could climb to 72.…

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Weaponized file name flaw makes updating glob an urgent job

Sun, 2025-11-23 22:46
PLUS: CISA issues drone warning; China-linked DNS-hijacking malware; Prison for BTC Samourai; And more

Infosec In Brief Researchers have urged users of the glob file pattern matching library to update their installations, after discovery of a years-old remote code execution flaw in the tool's CLI.…

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Bossware booms as bots determine whether you're doing a good job

Sun, 2025-11-23 09:30
A lot of companies are turning to employee monitoring tools to make sure workers aren't slacking off

The COVID-19 lockdown meant a surge in remote work, and the trend toward remote and hybrid workplaces has persisted long after the pandemic receded. That has changed the nature of workplace management as well. Bosses can't check for butts in seats or look over their employees' shoulders in the office to make sure they're working instead of having a LAN party. So they've turned to software tools to fill the gap.…

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It's TEE time for Brave's AI assistant Leo

Sat, 2025-11-22 11:45
Browser maker wraps cloud AI data processing in confidential computing

Brave Software has joined the rush to make using cloud-based AI services more private.…

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Copackaged optics have officially found their killer app - of course it's AI

Sat, 2025-11-22 09:31
With power in such short supply, every watt counts

SC25 Power is becoming a major headache for datacenter operators as they grapple with how to support ever larger deployments of GPU servers - so much so that the AI boom is now driving the adoption of a technology once thought too immature and failure-prone to merit the risk.…

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Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away

Fri, 2025-11-21 22:09
Catch: you have to plug it into a computer first

If you’ve ever watched Mission Impossible, where Jim Phelps gets instructions from an audio tape that catches fire after five seconds, TeamGroup has an external SSD with your name on it. The T-Create Expert P35S is a portable USB-powered SSD that comes with a self-destruct button, which wipes all your data and physically renders the device useless.…

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Researchers get inside the mind of bots, find out what texts they trained on

Fri, 2025-11-21 21:10
RECAP agent overcomes model alignment efforts to hide memorized proprietary content

If you've ever wondered whether that chatbot you're using knows the entire text of a particular book, answers are on the way. Computer scientists have developed a more effective way to coax memorized content from large language models, a development that may address regulatory concerns while helping to clarify copyright infringement claims arising from AI model training and inference.…

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ShinyHunters 'does not like Salesforce at all,' claims the crew accessed Gainsight 3 months ago

Fri, 2025-11-21 19:25
Shiny talks to The Reg

EXCLUSIVE ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the Gainsight breach that allowed the data thieves to snarf data from hundreds more Salesforce customers.…

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Makers slam Qualcomm for tightening the clamps on Arduino

Fri, 2025-11-21 19:09
But the Wiring folks were disenchanted even before Qualcomm swallowed Arduino

Qualcomm quietly rewrote the terms of service for its newest acquisition, programmable microcontroller and SBC maker Arduino, drawing intense fire from the maker community for grabbing additional rights to user-generated content on its platform and prohibiting reverse-engineering of what was once very open software.…

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