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ConnectWise customers get mysterious warning about 'sophisticated' nation-state hack
ConnectWise has brought in the big guns to investigate a "sophisticated nation state actor" that broke into its IT environment and then breached some of its customers.…
Feds arrest DoD techie, claim he dumped top secret files in park for foreign spies to find
A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist is scheduled to appear in court today after being caught by the FBI trying to surreptitiously drop top secret information to a foreign government in a public park.…
US medical org pays $50M+ to settle case after crims raided data and threatened to swat cancer patients
A Seattle cancer facility has agreed to fork out around $52.5 million as part of a class action settlement linked to a Thanksgiving 2023 cyberattack where criminals directly threatened cancer patients with swat attacks.…
Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor
Meta has partnered with Anduril Industries to build augmented and virtual reality devices for the military, eight years after it fired the defense firm's founder, Palmer Luckey.…
Tariff woes equal US smartphone price hikes, shrinking sales
World War Fee Trump's tariffs may have been ruled unlawful, but they are still in place and continue to affect the market, with the threat of price hikes on smartphones causing prospective buyers to hold off until the situation becomes less volatile.…
Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft
Microsoft yesterday used a town hall meeting to leak details tell staff about a 100,000 license contract signed with Barclays to use Copilot.…
Dell has $14BN AI server backlog, warns projects are 'nonlinear'
Dell has confirmed an order backlog of $14.4 billion for AI optimized servers, yet it is tempering investors' expectations for future sales by talking about demand being lumpy and dependencies in the pipeline.…
UK's answer to Darpa invests £23.3M in touchy-feely robots
The UK's version of Darpa — a US government blue-sky research body — has invested £23.3 million (c $32 million) into nine teams working to transform "robotic dexterity."…
Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware
Criminals are using installers for fake AI software to distribute ransomware and other destructive malware.…
Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage
The UK’s data watchdog has reprimanded Greater Manchester Police (GMP) force for losing CCTV footage the cop shop was later requested to retain.…
The UK wants you to sign up for £1B cyber defense force
The UK is spending more than £1 billion ($1.35 billion) setting up a new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command and is recruiting a few good men and women to join up and staff it.…
Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor
On Call As the door closes on another working week, The Register brings you another edition of On Call, our reader-contributed column that recounts your amazing stories from the frontlines of tech support.…
The House of Zen joins the co-packaged optics race with Enosemi buy
Analysis AMD officially entered the co-packaged optics race with the acquisition of photonic chip startup Enosemi, announced this week.…
Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud
A trio of scientists have published a paper that explains how they found a dwarf planet in a database.…
Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war
In the latest assault on China's burgeoning semiconductor industry, the Trump administration has erected new curbs on the sale of chip design software in the region.…
Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage
Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday.…
Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans
The US Treasury has sanctioned a Philippine company and its administrator after linking them to the infrastructure behind the majority of so-called "pig butchering" scams reported to the FBI.…
Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud
Trump administration darling Palantir has scored another data-guzzling win by partnering with Fannie Mae to detect mortgage fraud using AI. …
Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs
Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update is failing to install on some Windows 11 machines, mostly virtual ones, and dumping them into recovery mode with a boot error. Its only recommendation to avoid the problem for now is to dodge the update.…
Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white collar jobs in five years.…