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In AI agent push, Microsoft re-orgs to create 'CoreAI – Platform and Tools' team

Mon, 2025-01-13 23:43
Nad lad says 30 years of change happening in 3 years ... we're certainly feeling the compression of time

Microsoft has revealed it’s created an engineering team that CEO Satya Nadella feels is needed to cope with a potential huge change to software development processes and applications unleashed by AI.…

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Cryptojacking, backdoors abound as fiends abuse Aviatrix Controller bug

Mon, 2025-01-13 21:00
This is what happens when you publish PoCs immediately, hm?

"Several cloud deployments" are already compromised following the disclosure of the maximum-severity vulnerability in Aviatrix Controller, researchers say.…

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CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet

Mon, 2025-01-13 20:30
Rent-a-GPU outfit's latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s

As the UK government reaffirms its aspirations to become an AI superpower, CoreWeave says two new GPU bit barns packed to the brim with Nvidia accelerators are ready for business.…

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Microsoft sues 'foreign-based' cyber-crooks, seizes sites used to abuse AI

Mon, 2025-01-13 19:00
Scumbags stole API keys, then started a hacking-as-a-service biz, it is claimed

Microsoft has sued a group of unnamed cybercriminals who developed tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI tools. The tools were used to create harmful content, and access to the tools were sold as a service to other miscreants.…

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Azure and M365 MFA outage locks out users across regions

Mon, 2025-01-13 17:55
It's sorted out (mostly), but European users had a manic Monday

Microsoft's multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Azure and Microsoft 365 (M365) was offline for four hours during Monday's busy start for European subscribers.…

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NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack

Mon, 2025-01-13 16:47
'Sweden has changed,' PM warns as trio of warships join defense efforts

Sweden has committed to sending naval forces into the Baltic Sea following yet another suspected Russian attack on underwater cables in the region.…

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Pastor's divine 'dream' crypto scheme indicted by Uncle Sam

Mon, 2025-01-13 15:45
Plus: Man who tossed Bitcoin drive worth millions barred from digging in dump

A man of God is in the sin bin with Uncle Sam's prosecutors over a cryptocurrency investment business that he claims came to him in a dream.…

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Nvidia snaps back at Biden's 'innovation-killing' AI chip export restrictions

Mon, 2025-01-13 15:02
'New rule threatens to squander America's hard-won technological advantage' says GPU supremo

Nvidia has hit back at the outgoing Biden administration's AI chip tech export restrictions designed to tighten America's stranglehold on supply chains and maintain market dominance.…

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Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption, sets data-destruct timer for 7 days

Mon, 2025-01-13 14:00
'Codefinger' crims on the hunt for compromised keys

A new ransomware crew dubbed Codefinger targets AWS S3 buckets and uses the cloud giant's own server-side encryption with customer provided keys (SSE-C) to lock up victims' data before demanding a ransom payment for the symmetric AES-256 keys required to decrypt it.…

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Tesla recalls 239,382 vehicles over rearview camera problems

Mon, 2025-01-13 13:46
Software snafu can fry computer components for owners of Musk's electric buggies

Days after the US's Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) began an investigation into the company's Actually Smart Summon technology, Tesla is is now recalling almost a quarter of a million vehicles over a separate issue – glitches with rearview cameras on some models.…

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UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation

Mon, 2025-01-13 13:36
Government adopts all 50 venture capitalist recommendations but leaves datacenter energy puzzle unsolved

Britain's government is adopting all 50 recommendations made by a venture capitalist to use AI to drive economic recovery, without even acknowledging the resulting energy challenge this strategy likely poses.…

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Blue Origin gives up on New Glenn lift-off, 2 hours into launch window

Mon, 2025-01-13 12:04
Vehicle subsystem concerns blamed for scrub

Blue Origin has given up on today's lift-off attempt for its New Glenn rocket, confirming that it was standing down a little more than two hours into the vehicle's launch window.…

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Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025

Mon, 2025-01-13 11:15
Think you're good at spotting trends? Try these on for size

Opinion This column may be out of date two days after publication. That's when the US Supreme Court decides whether the Constitutional right to free speech overrides the laws against online porn adopted by many southern states.…

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Nominet probes network intrusion linked to Ivanti zero-day exploit

Mon, 2025-01-13 10:29
Unauthorized activity detected, but no backdoors found

UK domain registrar Nominet is investigating a potential intrusion into its network related to the latest Ivanti zero-day exploits.…

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UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters

Mon, 2025-01-13 09:29
Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project designation could tear down more restrictions

Britain's planning system is still seen as a significant barrier to the development of datacenters.…

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Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist

Mon, 2025-01-13 08:31
Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous

Who, Me? Rise and shine, dear readers, it's Monday and therefore time to sink your teeth into a new week of work, a fact The Register celebrates with a new edition of Who, Me? This is the column in which you share stories of when you bit off more than you can chew, but fumbled through.…

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Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform

Mon, 2025-01-13 07:32
Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy make migration a mission

Exclusive Broadcom has lost another large customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs, some of them rented by major European businesses, to an open-source system based on the KVM hypervisor.…

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Europe coughs up €400 to punter after breaking its own GDPR data protection rules

Mon, 2025-01-13 05:27
PLUS: Data broker leak reveals extent of info trading; Hot new ransomware gang might be all AI, no bark; and more

Infosec in brief Gravy Analytics, a vendor of location intelligence info for marketers which reached a settlement with US authorities last year over its alleged unlawful sale of location, has reportedly been hacked – potentially exposing millions of smartphone users.…

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Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer

Mon, 2025-01-13 03:28
‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7

Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has offered to hand-build a guitar effects pedal for one lucky kernel contributor.…

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Microsoft testing 45 percent M365 price hikes in Asia to make sure you can enjoy AI

Mon, 2025-01-13 00:27
Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger

Microsoft has advised users of its M365 suite in six Asian nations that they face big price rises when they renew subscriptions, and says the hikes are needed to “ensure Microsoft customers are among the first to access powerful AI features in our apps”.…

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