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CISA program gave out $20k+ payments to unqualified employees, auditor says
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) mismanaged a program designed to retain skilled security professionals so badly that auditors have concluded it left the agency "unable to adequately protect the Nation from cyber threats." …
Samsung fixes Android 0-day that may have been used to spy on WhatsApp messages
Samsung has fixed a critical flaw that affects its Android devices - but not before attackers found and exploited the bug, which could allow remote code execution on affected devices.…
Your call is very important to us – which is why we're connecting you to a human
ai-pocalypse You'll be able to talk to a human when you need help for many years to come. A new Gartner study shows that fears about AI replacing humans with bots in call centers are unfounded, at least among Fortune 500 companies.…
All your vulns are belong to us! CISA wants to maintain gov control of CVE program
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) nearly let the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program lapse earlier this year, but a new "vision" document it released this week signals that it now wants more control over the global standard for vulnerability identification.…
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart
Imagine replacing thousands of LTO-9 tapes with just one cartridge. It's possible – if a Chinese research team's experimental DNA tape storage system reaches its theoretical maximum capacity.…
Silent magnetosphere spacecraft starts talking to controllers again
After a month of receiving the silent treatment, controllers have regained contact with a TRACERS spacecraft that went offline shortly after launch.…
Fork that: Three alternative kernels show devs don't need Linux
Between Rust, new file systems, clashes between developers, systemd absorbing its functionality, and more, rumors of possible Linux forks are being muttered again. But there is another, better way.…
1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines
More than a thousand university students in the Netherlands must continue to travel to wash their clothes after their building management company failed to bring its borked smart laundry machines back online.…
Think tank warns China's polysilicon subsidies are frying Western fabs
China is moving to dominate the global market for polysilicon, a key material used in chips, by flooding the industry with cheap, subsidised product to drive producers in other countries out of business.…
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen
The US House Appropriations Committee has approved a bill that would maintain NASA's budget at the same level as last year. However, lawmakers missed an opportunity to strike out the proposed $85 million relocation of a space vehicle to Houston.…
I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version
The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.…
Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services
The UK's Ministry of Defence has signed a £400 million ($540 million) contract with Google sovereign cloud to support security and analytics workloads.…
EU regulators let Microsoft off the hook after Teams unbundling pledge
The EU has signed off on Microsoft's concessions over Teams bundling, letting Redmond dodge a monster antitrust fine in a deal that will barely rock the boat for anyone.…
Privacy activists warn digital ID won’t stop small boats – but will enable mass surveillance
A national digital ID could hand the government the tools for population-wide surveillance – and if history is anything to go by, ministers probably couldn't run it without cocking it up.…
Hack to school: Parents told to keep their little script kiddies in line
The UK's data protection watchdog says more than half of cyberattacks in schools are caused by students, and that parents should act early to prevent their offspring from falling into the wrong crowds.…
Terminators: AI-driven robot war machines on the march
Opinion I've read military science fiction since I was a kid. Besides the likes of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, and David Drake's Hammer's Slammers books, where people held the lead roles, I read novels such as Keith Laumer's Bolo series and Fred Saberhagen's Berserker space opera sf series, where machines are the protagonists and enemies. Even if you've never read war science fiction, you certainly at least know about Terminators. But what was once science fiction is now reality on the Ukrainian battlefields. It won't stop there.…
Huntress's 'hilarious' attacker surveillance splits infosec community
Security outfit Huntress has been forced onto the defensive after its latest research – described by senior staff as "hilarious" – split opinion across the cybersecurity community.…
‘IT manager’ needed tech support because they had never heard of a command line
On Call The very premise on which The Register is built is that our readers know quite a lot about information technology, and that stories featured each Friday in On Call – our weekly tales of your support experiences – therefore reflect your working lives.…
Albania’s prime minister wants to appoint an AI to his ministry
Albania’s prime minister has proposed appointing an artificial intelligence as a minister.…
Proxmox delivers datacenter manager beta that makes it a more viable VMware contender
Open source virtualization suite Proxmox has taken an important step towards becoming a stronger contender for those considering VMware alternatives by commencing beta testing for a datacenter management tool that can control multiple hardware clusters.…