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AI going critical: Hyundai to help build nuclear-powered datacenter in Texas

Mon, 2025-08-04 19:26
Fermi America will also have 4GW of gas generators for the Amarillo 'HyperGrid'

Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power.…

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Python-powered malware snags hundreds of credit cards, 200K passwords, and 4M cookies

Mon, 2025-08-04 18:33
PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome

More than 4,000 victims across 62 countries have been infected by stealthy infostealers pilfering people's passwords, credit card numbers, and browser cookies, which are then sold to other criminals on Telegram-based marketplaces.…

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IT firing spree: Shrinking job market looks even worse after BLS revisions

Mon, 2025-08-04 16:42
The payroll growth we thought we experienced in May and June? Gone, like tears in the rain

The US IT jobs market hasn't exactly been robust thus far in 2025, and downward revisions to May and June's Bureau of Labor Statistics data mean IT jobs lost in July are part of an even deeper sector slowdown than previously believed.…

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Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar

Mon, 2025-08-04 15:31
Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors

NASA's Europa Clipper probe checked out its radar as the spacecraft hurtled past Mars on the way to Jupiter's moon Europa.…

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Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons

Mon, 2025-08-04 14:28
Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts

Mozilla is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting developers of Firefox add-ons.…

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Study finds radical nutjobs targeting gamers via Discord, Twitch, Steam

Mon, 2025-08-04 13:43
'Hyper-masculine' first-person shooter fandoms are prime targets

Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University have sounded the alarm on "gaming-adjacent platforms" including Discord, Twitch, and Steam being used as "digital playgrounds" to funnel new recruits into far-right and other extremist ideologies – with a focus on those showing interest in "hyper-masculine gaming titles."…

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Windows 11 leads as October looms, but millions still cling to Windows 10

Mon, 2025-08-04 13:00
With just over two months left, enterprises look to Extended Security Updates as a stay of execution

Windows 11 is maintaining its lead over Windows 10, but millions of PCs are still running Microsoft's legacy operating system with less than three months until support ends.…

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Tony Blair Institute: UK needs bit barns to lead in AI deployment, not training

Mon, 2025-08-04 12:20
Let US and China compete in the AI development arms race, says former Brit PM's non-profit org

Britain should not try to compete with America and China in the race to build cutting-edge AI models and focus instead on widespread AI adoption, but even this will require a boost local compute capacity.…

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Project Banana ripens into a pre-alpha for KDE Linux, and you can test it

Mon, 2025-08-04 11:45
Desktop project's in-house distro is impressively ambitious, but nowhere near ready

The former "Project Banana" now has a more sober name, albeit one a bit trickier to search for.…

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Untangling the Jeff Bezos web: Who pays for the billionaire's space lust?

Mon, 2025-08-04 11:15
Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart

In the beginning there was Jeff Bezos. He created Amazon in 1994 and became filthy rich in the decades that followed, reaching a net worth exceeding $241 billion in 2025.…

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German phone repair biz collapses following 2023 ransomware attack

Mon, 2025-08-04 10:45
Founder miffed over prosecutors holding onto its Bitcoin

The founder of a German mobile phone repair and insurance biz has begun insolvency proceedings for some operations in his company after struggling financially following a costly ransomware attack in 2023.…

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When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead

Mon, 2025-08-04 10:00
If it’s not on-prem, it’s on the menu

Opinion The details of cloud data regionalization are rarely the stuff of great drama. When they’ve reached the level of an exe admitting to the Senate that a foreign power can help itself to that nations data, no matter where it lives, things get interesting.…

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Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safey Act gets rolling

Mon, 2025-08-04 09:15
But its ok claims Brit government, no personal data stored 'unless absolutely necessary'

The UK government has reported that an additional five million age checks are being made daily as UK-based internet users seek to access age-restricted sites following the implementation of the Online Safety Act."…

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Legendary OpenPrinting architect looking for new role

Mon, 2025-08-04 08:30
Canonical lays off one of its old hands – a longstanding FOSS developer – after nearly two decades

Till Kamppeter, the lead developer of the OpenPrinting subsystem for Linux, has been laid off by Canonical after 19 years.…

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Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady

Mon, 2025-08-04 07:27
Startups aren't good at testing software, or respecting contracts

Who, Me? Welcome to the opening day of another working week, an occasion The Register always celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the Monday column that revisits readers' worst moments at work, and celebrates your ability to rebound and reinvent in their wake.…

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China’s botched Great Firewall upgrade invites attacks on its censorship infrastructure

Mon, 2025-08-04 06:33
Attempts to censor QUIC traffic create chance to block access to offshore DNS resolvers

China’s attempts to censor traffic carried using Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) are imperfect and have left the country at risk of attacks that degrade its censorship apparatus, or even cut access to offshore DNS resolvers.…

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Microsoft briefly turned off Indian company’s cloud due to EU sanctions on Russia

Mon, 2025-08-04 04:35
Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves

Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy from its cloudy resources last week, before restoring access ahead of a court clash.…

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China's IPv6 adoption takes a decent leap forward, especially on fixed networks

Mon, 2025-08-04 02:15
PLUS: Nightmare insect found in Australia; Arista makes more stuff in India; Atlassian job cuts; And more!

Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration last week reported increased uptake of IPv6.…

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Lazarus Group rises again, this time with malware-laden fake FOSS

Mon, 2025-08-04 00:01
PLUS: Slow MFA rollout costs Canucks $5m; Lawmakers ponder Stingray ban; MSFT tightens Teams; And more!

Infosec In Brief North Korea’s Lazarus Group has changed tactics and is now creating malware-laden open source software.…

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Silent Push CEO on cybercrime takedowns: 'It's an ongoing cat-and-mouse game'

Sun, 2025-08-03 11:20
Plus: why takedowns aren't in threat-intel analysts' best interest

interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and account information, thus allowing them to drain their accounts.…

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