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Boffins build 'AI Kill Switch' to thwart unwanted agents

Fri, 2025-11-21 07:01
AutoGuard uses injection text for good

Computer scientists based in South Korea have devised what they describe as an "AI Kill Switch" to prevent AI agents from carrying out malicious data scraping.…

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Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move

Fri, 2025-11-21 06:44
Somewhat daft scheme worked until it didn’t

On Call The working week can be burdensome, so each Friday morning The Register tries to lighten the load by bringing you a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which you let go of tech support stories that weigh on your memory.…

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Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters

Fri, 2025-11-21 05:25
It’s an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum

The Open Compute Project (OCP) has commenced a workstream to learn how to deploy quantum computers alongside classical high performance computers in the same datacenter.…

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Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help

Fri, 2025-11-21 03:55
Relies on very loose permissions, but don’t worry – Google wrote it in Rust

Google has linked Android’s wireless peer-to-peer file sharing tool Quick Share to Apple’s equivalent AirDrop.…

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Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor

Fri, 2025-11-21 02:38
Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too

Backup software vendor Veeam has thrown its weight behind more alternatives to VMware.…

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SEC drops SolarWinds lawsuit that painted a target on CISOs everywhere

Thu, 2025-11-20 23:20
Company 'clearly delighted' with the outcome

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has abandoned the lawsuit it pursued against SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer for misleading investors about security practices that led to the 2020 SUNBURST attack.…

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SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions

Thu, 2025-11-20 21:38
Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference

SC25 Hydrogen-fueled gas turbines, backup generators, and air handlers probably aren't the kinds of equipment you'd expect on the show floor of a supercomputing conference. But your expectations would be wrong.…

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Gemini tries to sniff out AI slop images while also making them easier to create

Thu, 2025-11-20 21:27
Featuring an image of a man creating an image of a man creating an image...

hands on Google Gemini users can now use the AI's app and website to figure out whether an image is AI-generated, though with some considerable limitations.…

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PHP 8.5 lays down long-awaited pipe operator, adds new URI tools

Thu, 2025-11-20 21:03
Unfashionable web workhorse refreshed for its ongoing run

PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a new standards-compliant URI parser, marking one of the scripting language's more substantial updates.…

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Another Salesforce-linked data breach has ShinyHunters’ fingerprints all over it

Thu, 2025-11-20 20:30
They keep coming back for more

Salesforce has disclosed another third-party breach in which criminals - likely ShinyHunters (again) - may have accessed its customers' data.…

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LLM-generated malware is improving, but don't expect autonomous attacks tomorrow

Thu, 2025-11-20 19:12
Researchers tried to get ChatGPT to do evil, but it didn't do a good job

LLMs are getting better at writing malware - but they're still not ready for prime time.…

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