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Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash
comment The first release candidate of Linux 6.17 is out, without any bcachefs changes… but not for any technical reasons. This is bad.…
Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center now not-so secure, springs a CVSS 10 RCE hole
Cisco has issued a patch for a maximum-severity bug in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands on vulnerable systems.…
Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon?
NASA's plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon have moved on – the agency has now put out a Request For Information (RFI) to gauge industry interest in the project.…
Boy riding bubble realizes what he's on, asks for more air
Sam Altman admitted we're in the midst of an AI bubble Thursday, but don't let that fool you: He still intends to rule over whatever's left after it bursts. …
Asmi Linux 13 Debian Edition debuts: Xfce desktop never looked so good
Teejeetech turns its attention from Ubuntu to its progenitor. The result is a refined and attractive spin of Debian with Xfce.…
Microsoft kills volume rebates in name of 'transparency'
Microsoft is updating its pricing approach for Online Services in Enterprise Agreements in the name of consistency and transparency, but could leave some customers paying more.…
Little LLM on the RAM: Google's Gemma 270M hits the scene
Google has unveiled a pint-sized new addition to its "open" large language model lineup: Gemma 3 270M.…
Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline
The lingering effects of a cyberattack on the Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands are preventing it from reactivating speed cameras across the country.…
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?
Bosses throughout the world love the idea of using AI to replace employees. They can talk all they want about how much more efficient everyone will be with AI, but the truth is if they can fire staffers, their bottom line looks better, their stock price goes up, and the CEO makes a ton more money.…
Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline
Multinational telco Colt Technology Services says a "cyber incident" is to blame for its customer portal and other services being down for a number of days.…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL
Feature The UK government has gone all-in on AI. More than 50 years after Harold Wilson gave his famous "White heat of technology" speech, this is the hot new thing. An AI Strategy has been released. Datacenters are planned. Steps to strengthen AI supply chains are being formulated. And of course, the public sector will lead by example in AI usage.…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins
A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious agents to autonomously harvest users’ personal data, even by attackers with "minimal technical expertise”, thanks to "system prompt" customization tools from OpenAI and others.…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable
On Call Few make it to Friday without some end-of-week blues, which The Register always treats with a fresh dose of On Call – the reader-contributed column that recounts your stories of tech support contusions.…
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide
Register debate series It's a lot of money, £9 billion ($12 billion). Especially for a government which finds itself — for whatever reason — in a fiscal dead end.…
Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost
Manufacturer to the stars Foxconn is building so many AI servers that they’re now bringing in more cash than consumer electronics – even counting the colossal quantity of iPhones it creates for Apple.…
Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs
Chinese web giant Tencent doesn’t mind if Washington doesn’t let it buy more American GPUs, because it already has all the chips it needs.…
Breathe easy: Apple Watch can read your oxygen levels again
Apple will deliver a software update for recent US Apple Watch models to reimplement the ability to measure blood oxygen levels, a process known as pulse oximetry.…
Ransomware crews don't care about your endpoint security – they've already killed it
At least a dozen ransomware gangs have incorporated kernel-level EDR killers into their malware arsenal, allowing them to bypass almost every major endpoint security tool on the market, escalate privileges, and ultimately steal and encrypt data before extorting victims into paying a ransom.…
Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek's next-gen R2 model
Unhelpful Huawei AI chips are reportedly why Chinese model dev DeepSeek's next-gen LLMs are taking so long.…
DARPA’s <s>Cylon raider</s> autonomous fighter jet advances to next phase
That autonomous fighter jet from DARPA is so 2023 that the agency is already well into a bid to give future combat jets autonomy for multi-ship missions over the horizon.…