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CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it
Who, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your missives about massive mistakes, and how you managed to move on after them.…
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative
The US military’s Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane is in space again for its eighth mission.…
Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors
Asia In Brief Australia’s University of Melbourne last year used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors.…
AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp
Infosec in brief PLUS…
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp
Hands on Training large language models (LLMs) may require millions or even billion of dollars of infrastructure, but the fruits of that labor are often more accessible than you might think. Many recent releases, including Alibaba's Qwen 3 and OpenAI's gpt-oss, can run on even modest PC hardware.…
Bug bounties: The good, the bad, and the frankly ridiculous ways to do it
feature Thirty years ago, Netscape kicked off the first commercial bug bounty program. Since then, companies large and small have bought into the idea, with mixed results.…
Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests
Researchers with Scale AI have found that search-based AI models may cheat on benchmark tests by fetching the answers directly from online sources rather than deriving those answers through a "reasoning" process.…