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MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users
AI models with memory aim to enhance user interactions by recalling past engagements. However, this feature opens the door to manipulation.…
IBM dodges BMC's $1.6B bullet in US as London court slaps down LzLabs
IBM scored a pair of legal wins this week: The US Supreme Court declined to reinstate a $1.6 billion judgment previously awarded to BMC Software, and the High Court in London, England, ruled in favor of Big Blue in a lawsuit against LzLabs, which was accused of misappropriating IBM's mainframe technology.…
Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats
Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking due to climate change and one of the possible negative impacts is that space junk will stay in orbit for longer, bonk into other bits of space junk, and make so much mess that low Earth orbits become less useful.…
Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build
Oracle on Monday announced customers committed to $48 billion of future cloud services consumption – just $5 billion less that its annual revenue for FY 2024 – but investors aren’t impressed.…
Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder
A judge has found Meta must answer a claim it allegedly removed so-called copyright management information from material used to train its AI models.…
No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more
Domain registrar, website host, and email provider Gandi.net suffered a major outage over the weekend. The latest update from the French biz, some 14 hours ago, stated it was "still working on resolving all the issues," which we understand to mean it has largely fixed itself by now.…
Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it
New York State has sued Allstate Insurance for operating websites so badly designed they would deliver personal information in plain-text to anyone that went looking for it.…
Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset
Google's second-generation Chromecast and its Chromecast Audio are suffering a major ongoing outage, with devices failing to cast due to an expired security certificate. The web giant is aware of the breakdown and says a fix is in the works.…
Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball
If Google had hoped a bit of cosying up to President Trump would soften the US government's breakup demands in the wake of its search antitrust conviction, then is was seemingly mistaken.…
Sidewinder goes nuclear, charts course for maritime mayhem in tactics shift
Researchers say the Sidewinder offensive cyber crew is starting to target maritime and nuclear organizations.…
ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China
Chipmaking tool biz ASML plans to open a new facility in China this year amid rising trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.…
Rhysida pwns two US healthcare orgs, extracts over 300K patients' data
Break-ins to systems hosting the data of two US healthcare organizations led to thieves making off with the personal and medical data of more than 300,000 patients.…
Consumer Reports calls out slapdash AI voice-cloning safeguards
Four out of six companies offering AI voice cloning software fail to provide meaningful safeguards against the misuse of their products, according to research conducted by Consumer Reports.…
How NOT to f-up your security incident response
Feature Experiencing a ransomware infection or other security breach ranks among the worst days of anyone's life — but it can still get worse.…
Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses
Exclusive Vodafone is warning staff in the UK to work onsite at least eight days a month or be subject to disciplinary action from April.…
The NHS security culture problem is a crisis years in the making
Analysis Walk into any hospital and ask the same question – "Which security system should we invest in?" – to both a doctor and a board member, and you may get different answers. The doctor chooses the system that leads to the most positive patient outcomes, while the board member chooses whichever solution is best for their increasingly stretched budget.…
The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?
Comment Administrators tend to be a conservative lot, which is bad news for tech vendors such as Microsoft that are seeking to pump their latest and greatest products into enterprises customers via subscriptions.…
Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories
Opinion High energy neutrinos are the coolest particles in astrophysics. Born in distant cosmic cataclysms, they speed through the universe almost as if it wasn't there. With no charge and a truly tiny rest mass – perhaps a million times lighter than an electron, but who knows – they interact with virtually nothing.…
Junior techie rushed off for fun weekend after making a terminal mistake that crashed a client
Who, Me? Shifting focus from weekend fun to the reality of a return to work can be hard, so The Register tries to ease the transition with a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?", our reader-contributed column that tells your stories of making mistakes and making it out alive afterwards.…
Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel
Rust is alive and well in the Linux kernel and is expected to translate into noticeable benefits shortly, though its integration with the largely C-oriented codebase still looks uneasy.…