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Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack

17.11.2025 13:44

Regulator reports suggest telco was extorted, but company remains coy as to whether it paid French telco Eurofiber says cybercriminals swiped company data during an attack last week that also affected...

Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform

17.11.2025 13:22

Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage Palantir is working with "AI upskilling platform" Multiverse to provide an apprenticeship program specific to its Fede...

UK prosecutors seize Â£4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit

17.11.2025 12:56

Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe's illicit gains while he serves US sentence British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth Â£4.11 million ($5.39 millio...

Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some

17.11.2025 12:25

Expect Sloppy Updates? On the eve of its Ignite conference, Microsoft has managed to break the first Extended Security Update (ESU) for many commercial Windows 10 customers.â¦

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

17.11.2025 09:38

Top of the slops signposts the undiscovered country for an industry Opinion Remember when the hottest news in the schoolyard was which band was the hottest this week? Those days are back, baby. An AI-...

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

17.11.2025 07:28

Yes, he knows the 40x increase could have been avoided with some pretty simple automation Who, Me? Welcome to another week of work, a moment The Register celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? ...

Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives

17.11.2025 06:45

It’s time to think about a replacement, says Gartner The market for server virtualization tools is about to fragment, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting

17.11.2025 02:41

PLUS: Active noise cancellation for entire rooms; More trouble for Korea Telecom; The Wiggles apologize for bad batteries; and more Asia In Brief India’s Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar Land Rover, has...

Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack

17.11.2025 00:05

PLUS: CISA still sitting on telecoms security report; DoorDash phished again; Lumma stealer returns; and more INFOSEC IN BRIEF The US Senate passed a resolution in July to force the US Cybersecurity a...

Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab

16.11.2025 19:00

Who needs 600 kilowatt racks when a single computer can span entire datacenters? Exclusive Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs announced a new collaboration with Global Unichip Corp (GUC) on Sun...

Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems

15.11.2025 15:21

Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp weights impact of densification on the datacenter and the rise of the AI factory Interview In the datacenter biz, power is the product. You either have it or you don't, ...

Apple’s new 15% mini-app deal finally gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in

15.11.2025 10:11

When is an app not an app? When it’s a mini app inside another app Apple has cut its take to 15 percent on purchases inside mini apps running within other iOS apps, and reached a parallel agreement ...

Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60%

14.11.2025 23:04

Leaving buyers to cry, AI AI AI If you haven't noticed, DRAM memory has gotten a lot more expensive in recent weeks. …

Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee

14.11.2025 22:19

Who guards the guardrails? Often the same shoddy security as the rest of the AI stack Large language models frequently ship with "guardrails" designed to catch malicious input and harmful output. But ...

Fortinet finally cops to critical make-me-admin bug under active exploitation

14.11.2025 21:39

More than a month after PoC made public Fortinet finally published a security advisory on Friday for a critical FortiWeb path traversal vulnerability under active exploitation – but it appears digit...

Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay

14.11.2025 20:36

Enterprise Linux vendors keep jostling to see who can prop up geriatric distros the longest Last year, Canonical increased its paid extended support lifespan to 12 years. Now, it's increasing it again...

Crims poison 150K+ npm packages with token-farming malware

14.11.2025 19:22

Amazon spilled the TEA Yet another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as "one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history" - but with a...

Now you can share your AI delusions with Group ChatGPT

14.11.2025 18:28

Just when you thought virtual collaboration couldn’t get worse, OpenAI stuffs a bot into your group conversations Feel like your team's group chat is a bit lifeless? Remote coworkers not really coll...

AMD grabs more x86 share as Intel stumbles in entry-level chips

14.11.2025 18:11

Mercury Research blames stockpiling and low-end shortages for unusually flat CPU market AMD continues to claw market share away from Intel in CPU shipments, growing faster than its rival in most segme...

Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit

14.11.2025 18:05

Starlink challenger drops the codename, but full-blown service still years out Amazon has rebranded its satellite broadband plan from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo. And no, Leo doesn't stand for "Late ...

FBI flags scam targeting Chinese speakers with bogus surgery bills

14.11.2025 17:16

Crooks spoof US insurers, threaten bogus extradition to pry loose personal data and cash Chinese speakers in the US are being targeted as part of an aggressive health insurance scam campaign, the FBI ...

GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast

14.11.2025 17:00

VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash The supercomputing landscape is fracturing. What once was a relatively unified world of ...

CISA flags imminent threat as Akira ransomware starts hitting Nutanix AHV

14.11.2025 16:02

Advisory updated as leading cybercrime crew opens up its target pool The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued new guidance to organizations on the Akira ransomware ope...

Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica

14.11.2025 15:41

Company behind THESPECTRUM brings the holiday season early for retro computing fans Retro Games Ltd (RGL), the company behind THESPECTRUM and THEA500 Mini, has started accepting pre-orders for its ful...

Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike

14.11.2025 15:27

Original spacecraft deemed unsafe after cracks spotted in window The Shenzhou-20 astronauts have returned to Earth on the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft after engineers deemed the Shenzhou-20 vehicle unsafe f...

The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta

14.11.2025 15:12

Linux-powered PC, Arm VR headset, and refreshed controller all land on pre-order for next year The holiday season is almost upon us, but the new gear on gamers' wish lists won't arrive until next year...

Google pitches EU on adtech fixes to dodge breakup after €2.95B slap

14.11.2025 15:02

Brussels reviewing proposal as Mountain View insists it will appeal antitrust ruling Google has proposed a plan to the European Commission aimed at addressing antitrust concerns following a €2.95 bi...

Europe's IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold

14.11.2025 14:33

AI, cybersecurity, and geopolitical jitters forecast to push market to $1.4T next year IT spending in Europe will grow 11 percent next year to hit $1.4 trillion amid a desire for cloud sovereignty, ac...

Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time

14.11.2025 14:15

'Stay in control and think for yourself' Feature Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way software gets built, tested, and maintained — but not in the simplistic, headline-grabbing sense...

Report blasts UK Ministry of Defence over Afghan data-handling failures

14.11.2025 13:40

Public Accounts Committee tears into department responsible for the most dangerous breach in British history The UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has ...

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

14.11.2025 13:30

Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares Opinion At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas, more than 75 percent of voting shares backed a compensation deal for CEO Elo...

UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK

14.11.2025 12:45

Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal Microsoft's attempt to claim that its software can't be resold has hit a wall at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, which decided that Office having clipar...

Digital overhaul at UK's NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late

14.11.2025 11:15

Watchdog says program buckled under procurement failures and technical complexity Updated The UK's state-owned savings bank has blown past its budget by £1.3 billion on a digital transformation progr...

Clop claims it hacked 'the NHS.' Which bit? Your guess is as good as theirs

14.11.2025 10:30

Cybercrime crew has ravaged multiple private organizations using Oracle EBS zero-day for months The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is investigating claims of a cyberattack by extortion crew Clop.�...

Execs make rules that control AI usage, then break them for their own work

14.11.2025 09:28

FOMO trumps corporate governance when it comes to AI More than two-thirds of corporate executives say they've violated their own AI usage policies in the past three months, and over half of the leader...

Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight

14.11.2025 08:29

Org chart games were more important than speed and accuracy On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of tech support troubles and oth...

Chinese web giant Tencent can't buy all the GPUs it wants

14.11.2025 05:13

Getting by with a meager $2 billion quarterly capex – vastly less than rivals, but still cashing in on AI Chinese web giant Tencent’s capital expenditure is slowing and the company expects it will...

Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving

14.11.2025 02:12

Maintenance to end next year after ‘helpful options’ became ‘serious security flaws’ Kubernetes maintainers have decided it’s not worth trying to save Ingress NGINX and will instead stop wor...

Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded

14.11.2025 00:12

Anthropic dubs this the first AI-orchestrated cyber snooping campaign Chinese cyber spies used Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool to attempt digital break-ins at about 30 high-profile companies and gover...

Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects

13.11.2025 22:37

Consumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster Picture the scene: It's Christmas morning and your child is happily chatting with the AI-enabled teddy bear yo...

Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out

13.11.2025 22:08

Browser maker scolds AI objectors, "The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone" Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The ...

Ransomed CTO falls on sword, refuses to pay extortion demand

13.11.2025 21:02

Checkout.com will instead donate the amount to fund cybercrime research Digitial extortion is a huge business, because affected orgs keep forking over money to get their data back. However, instead of...

Baidu answers China's call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators

13.11.2025 20:15

Chinese search giant plans to bring custom silicon to the rack scale in 2026 with 256- and 512-chip systems Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled two new AI accelerators this week amid a national push t...

States that aren't nice to ICE still sharing key database full of personal info

13.11.2025 19:20

Lawmakers warn of ‘information gap’ lets immigration agents sidestep states’ data safeguards Democratic lawmakers say some states that don't want to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I...

AI pilots keep crashing, mostly because firms skip the prep, survey finds

13.11.2025 17:36

Under a third of PoCs make it past testing, but those that do often boost productivity It is the best of AI times; it is the worst of AI times, depending on whom you ask. Nearly a third of firms are s...

Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut

13.11.2025 16:45

The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump Two vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 25.10's new "sudo-rs" command have been found, disclosed, and fixed in short order.…

Avalonia brings Linux, browser support to Microsoft's MAUI cross-platform app solution

13.11.2025 16:11

Third-party framework builds alternative backend using its own renderer and WebAssembly Microsoft's MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), the official .NET solution for cross-platform desktop and mobile apps,...

ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared

13.11.2025 16:01

Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure In Barcelona this week, consultancy Gartner once again tried to answer one of the perennial questions in IT: w...

Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches

13.11.2025 15:43

Bezos booster blasted by solar emissions A blast from the Sun kept Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on the pad as the Northern Lights forced NASA to halt the launch.…

HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-gen Cray supercomputers

13.11.2025 15:00

Promised for 2027 racks, mixing Nvidia and AMD silicon in one liquid-cooled box HPE's next-gen Cray supercomputing platform will offer a choice of compute nodes with Nvidia's Vera Rubin or AMD's upcom...