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Crims poison 150K+ npm packages with token-farming malware

Fri, 2025-11-14 18:22
Amazon spilled the TEA

Yet another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as "one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history" - but with a twist. Instead of injecting credential-stealing code or ransomware into the packages, this one is a token farming campaign.…

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Now you can share your AI delusions with Group ChatGPT

Fri, 2025-11-14 17:28
Just when you thought virtual collaboration couldn’t get worse, OpenAI stuffs a bot into your group conversations

Feel like your team's group chat is a bit lifeless? Remote coworkers not really collaborating as well as they should be? There's a new way to stir the pot now that OpenAI has piloted ChatGPT group chats: cram a chatbot into the conversation and let it chime in whenever it thinks it should.…

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AMD grabs more x86 share as Intel stumbles in entry-level chips

Fri, 2025-11-14 17:11
Mercury Research blames stockpiling and low-end shortages for unusually flat CPU market

AMD continues to claw market share away from Intel in CPU shipments, growing faster than its rival in most segments. Meanwhile business in the x86 processor arena is unusually flat overall, likely due to stockpiling over tariff fears.…

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Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit

Fri, 2025-11-14 17:05
Starlink challenger drops the codename, but full-blown service still years out

Amazon has rebranded its satellite broadband plan from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo. And no, Leo doesn't stand for "Late Entrants Only," even though the project is years behind Starlink and still not ready for anyone to use.…

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FBI flags scam targeting Chinese speakers with bogus surgery bills

Fri, 2025-11-14 16:16
Crooks spoof US insurers, threaten bogus extradition to pry loose personal data and cash

Chinese speakers in the US are being targeted as part of an aggressive health insurance scam campaign, the FBI warns.…

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GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast

Fri, 2025-11-14 16:00
VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash

The supercomputing landscape is fracturing. What once was a relatively unified world of massive multi-processor x86 systems has splintered into competing architectures, each racing to serve radically different masters: traditional academic workloads, extreme-scale physics simulations, and the voracious appetite of AI training runs.…

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CISA flags imminent threat as Akira ransomware starts hitting Nutanix AHV

Fri, 2025-11-14 15:02
Advisory updated as leading cybercrime crew opens up its target pool

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued new guidance to organizations on the Akira ransomware operation, which poses an imminent threat to critical sectors.…

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Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica

Fri, 2025-11-14 14:41
Company behind THESPECTRUM brings the holiday season early for retro computing fans

Retro Games Ltd (RGL), the company behind THESPECTRUM and THEA500 Mini, has started accepting pre-orders for its full-size Amiga 1200 replica, THEA1200.…

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Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike

Fri, 2025-11-14 14:27
Original spacecraft deemed unsafe after cracks spotted in window

The Shenzhou-20 astronauts have returned to Earth on the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft after engineers deemed the Shenzhou-20 vehicle unsafe following a debris strike while it was docked to the Tiangong space station.…

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The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta

Fri, 2025-11-14 14:12
Linux-powered PC, Arm VR headset, and refreshed controller all land on pre-order for next year

The holiday season is almost upon us, but the new gear on gamers' wish lists won't arrive until next year.…

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Google pitches EU on adtech fixes to dodge breakup after €2.95B slap

Fri, 2025-11-14 14:02
Brussels reviewing proposal as Mountain View insists it will appeal antitrust ruling

Google has proposed a plan to the European Commission aimed at addressing antitrust concerns following a €2.95 billion fine imposed on the company for its online advertising practices.…

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Europe's IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold

Fri, 2025-11-14 13:33
AI, cybersecurity, and geopolitical jitters forecast to push market to $1.4T next year

IT spending in Europe will grow 11 percent next year to hit $1.4 trillion amid a desire for cloud sovereignty, according to Gartner.…

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Tales from the pit: AI and the software engineer

Fri, 2025-11-14 13:15
Exploring the evolving relationship between human engineers and their algorithmic assistants

Feature Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way software gets built, tested, and maintained — but not in the simplistic, headline-grabbing sense of "AI replacing developers."…

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Report blasts UK Ministry of Defence over Afghan data-handling failures

Fri, 2025-11-14 12:40
Public Accounts Committee tears into department responsible for the most dangerous breach in British history

The UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed to appropriately improve its data protection mechanisms, three years after the infamous 2022 Afghan data breach.…

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Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares

Fri, 2025-11-14 12:30
Why Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Opinion At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas, more than 75 percent of voting shares backed a compensation deal for CEO Elon Musk that would make him history's first trillionaire.…

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UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK

Fri, 2025-11-14 11:45
Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal

Microsoft's attempt to claim that its software can't be resold has hit a wall at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, which decided that Office having clipart does not mean customers can't sell their licenses on.…

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Digital overhaul at UK's NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late

Fri, 2025-11-14 10:15
Watchdog says program buckled under procurement failures and technical complexity

The UK's state-owned savings bank has blown past its budget by £1.3 billion on a digital transformation program beset by delays, according to the National Audit Office.…

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Clop claims it hacked 'the NHS.' Which bit? Your guess is as good as theirs

Fri, 2025-11-14 09:30
Cybercrime crew has ravaged multiple private organizations using Oracle EBS zero-day for months

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is investigating claims of a cyberattack by extortion crew Clop.…

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Execs make rules that control AI usage, then break them for their own work

Fri, 2025-11-14 08:28
FOMO trumps corporate governance when it comes to AI

More than two-thirds of corporate executives say they've violated their own AI usage policies in the past three months, and over half of the leaders also ranked security and compliance as the greatest AI implementation challenge.…

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Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight

Fri, 2025-11-14 07:29
Org chart games were more important than speed and accuracy

On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of tech support troubles and other workplace woes.…

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