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AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says

29.08.2025 20:16

GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers Chipmaker AMD is looking into a report from the GMP project about two Ryzen processors that failed during testing. Could too much math be to blame...

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

29.08.2025 19:45

But the cure may ruin the web.... With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much t...

AWS catches Russia's Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials

29.08.2025 19:17

Look who's visiting the watering hole these days Amazon today said it disrupted an intel-gathering attempt by Russia's APT29 to trick Microsoft users into unwittingly granting the Kremlin-backed cyber...

GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot

29.08.2025 18:45

Platform's staffer complains security review was 'rushed' Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk's xAI, bringing early access to the company's Grok C...

Pentagon ends Microsoft's use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud

29.08.2025 18:16

'It blows my mind,' says SecDef The Pentagon has formally kiboshed Microsoft's use of China-based employees to support Azure cloud services deployed by US government agencies, and it's demanding Micro...

Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs

29.08.2025 17:55

The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says Intel's agreement with the US government incudes a clause that would allow the feds to take an additional five percent stake in the chipmaker if it ceases to have...

FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam

29.08.2025 17:26

Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QED The Trump administration has accused Google of discriminating against Republicans' emails and warned that the tech giant could be in lin...

RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house

29.08.2025 16:44

A remarkable mixture of different components, but it works RefreshOS is a Debian and KDE-based distro with a difference: it casts its net a lot wider for tools and components.…

30 years later, Doom returns to SNES with Raspberry Pi RP2350 muscle

29.08.2025 15:44

Limited Run Games swaps in silicon to emulate Super FX chip and hit 20 fps Forget Windows 95, it's 30 years since Doom was released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. And thanks to the Raspbe...

Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug

29.08.2025 15:13

Up to 29,000 organizations and potentially 370,000 security and IT pros affected Australian development house Click Studios has warned users of its Passwordstate enterprise password management platfor...

HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11

29.08.2025 14:34

Nobody knows why they need one, but folk seem to be buying them HP says AI PCs now make up a quarter of its sales, boosting revenue thanks to their higher price tags and the Windows 11 refresh.…...

UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout

29.08.2025 13:45

Senior officials summoned to science and tech committee to explain further Senior officials are being summoned to the UK's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to explain why the government ha...

Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026

29.08.2025 13:05

Microsoft shifts cellular management to Settings and the web Microsoft is to permanently hang up on its Mobile Plans app, directing users to the web and the Windows Settings app in the future.…...

UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds

29.08.2025 12:08

Hang on, what happened to gov.UK's bitbarn-favoring Industrial Strategy? Datacenter developers in the UK are turning to gas for power generation amid lengthy wait times for a connection to the electri...

How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away

29.08.2025 11:33

The once mighty Wintel supercontinent is cracking in more ways than you might think Opinion Say what you like about its role in the destruction of civilization, the net is still good for a few party g...

Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible

29.08.2025 10:36

Maybe someday we'll just call it 'data processing' again Feature In IT, terms and categories come and go. Distinctions disappear as computing evolves and as something that was shiny and new simply bec...

Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

29.08.2025 09:30

Network Time Protocol sometimes needs help from a temporal cops On Call Why, look at the time! 7:30 AM on Friday morning, the moment at which The Register regularly runs a fresh instalment of On Call,...

China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build

29.08.2025 08:30

700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles More than a decade after construction began, China has commenced operation of what it claims is the worl...

China’s KylinOS Linux takes a great leap forward to v11 and kernel 6.6

29.08.2025 06:26

Supports several Chinese chips and GPUs – and of course it has AI inside China’s KylinSoft has delivered a major update to its flagship Linux, which Beijing hailed as a great leap forward for the ...

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

29.08.2025 01:59

Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrus...

Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

29.08.2025 01:31

They use AI more but also check it more For those who thought AI vibe coding was just for the youngsters, newly published research shows that developers with over 10 years of experience are more than ...

Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations

29.08.2025 00:42

Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman's brainbox behemoth is alive and well Microsoft has introduced two home-grown machine learning models, potentially complicating negotiations wit...

Five years – that's how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out

28.08.2025 23:31

My brain hurts a lot Claude creator Anthropic has given customers using its Free, Pro, and Max plans one month to prevent the engine from storing their chats for five years by default and using them f...

DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix

28.08.2025 23:00

But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has made it harder to do business with the US federal government, according to private cloud ...

vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list

28.08.2025 22:33

Nor is its Arm port When VMware delivered its Cloud Foundation 9 suite in June, it marked the end of a two-year push to integrate its compute, storage, and networking products. What’s next for the B...

DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America

28.08.2025 22:05

Our drones are OK, but those other drones? The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones. …...

Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban

28.08.2025 21:33

Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry's efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models ...

FBI, Dutch cops seize fake ID marketplace that sold identity docs for $9

28.08.2025 21:10

$6.4M VerifTools marketplace offline The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity documents ...

How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out

28.08.2025 20:40

'The homeland is no longer secure,' says Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency leader The Pentagon outfit responsible for preventing foriegn agents from infiltrating defense agencies says th...

Dialing Earth: Skylo set to leapfrog T-Mobile and offer voice calls via satellite

28.08.2025 20:13

Only a few Android phones will be able to support the service Users of Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones could soon find themselves able to make voice calls via a satellite connection, if Skylo T...

Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly

28.08.2025 19:29

Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos auto...

AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas

28.08.2025 19:03

Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200 The new native 68K AmigaOS web browser leans on the machines' underlying emulation system to offer modern facilities on a retro OS.… ...

'It isn't designed to solve privacy concerns,' Grafana CTO says of Bring Your Own Cloud

28.08.2025 18:18

Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point INTERVIEW Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is a concept gaining traction as companies seek ways to resolve sov...

Google and Zed push protocol to pry AI agents out of VS Code's clutches

28.08.2025 17:34

Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden Google and code editor company Zed Industries have introduced the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) as a standard way for AI agents to in...

SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot

28.08.2025 16:53

Regulator points to lack of 'basic access controls' between internet-facing systems, internal network South Korea's privacy watchdog has slapped SK Telecom with a record ₩134.5 billion ($97 million)...

Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart

28.08.2025 16:41

Company cleared to launch again after April failure Firefly Aerospace has been given the green light to resume launches after its April failure.…

TransUnion admits 4.5M affected after third-party support app breached

28.08.2025 15:54

Credit agency offers own services as compensation Credit scoring and monitoring biz TransUnion says that it recently suffered a breach affecting nearly 4.5 million individuals.…

Thousands of Citrix NetScaler boxes still sitting ducks despite patches

28.08.2025 15:17

Shadowserver counts more than 13,000 appliances still wide open – including thousands in US, Germany, and UK Thousands of Citrix NetScaler appliances remain exposed to a trio of security flaws that ...

Ransomware crooks knock Swedish municipalities offline for measly sum of $168K

28.08.2025 14:39

Miljödata meltdown leaves 200 local authorities scrambling over 1.5 BTC Sweden's municipal governments have been knocked offline after ransomware crooks hit IT supplier Miljödata, reportedly demandi...

Good morning, Brit Xbox fans – ready to prove your age?

28.08.2025 14:17

Microsoft blames incoming UK Online Safety Act, says you have until 2026 Microsoft has begun emailing users of its Xbox gaming platform with likely unwelcome news: users will need to verify their age ...

Euro banks block billions in rogue PayPal direct debits after fraud glitch

28.08.2025 13:41

US payments platform back in action, says it's informing affected customers Shoppers and merchants in Germany found themselves dealing with billions of euros in frozen transactions this week, thanks t...

Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details

28.08.2025 13:02

Apology issued after names tied to redress scheme revealed in mass mailing A London law firm leaked the details of nearly 200 people who requested to receive updates about the redress scheme set up fo...

UK unions want 'worker first' plan for AI as people fear for their jobs

28.08.2025 12:20

Labor group says new technologies could increase inequality if we're not careful AI-Pocalypse Over half of the British public are worried about the impact of AI on their jobs, according to employment ...

Wastewater monitoring project could catch next pandemic early, says health agency

28.08.2025 11:33

UK starts early warning system combing through stuff that folks flush away The UK Health Security Agency is looking to set up an early warning system ahead of future pandemics, launching a £1.3 milli...

Solo.io boss: I was wrong, I made mistakes – and that made me a better CEO

28.08.2025 10:21

Idit Levine on going from startup to a billion-dollar valuation Interview "I feel that a founder always needs to be a little bit stupidly optimistic." Solo.io CEO Idit Levine has been on an interestin...

If you thought China's Salt Typhoon was booted off critical networks, think again

28.08.2025 09:32

13 governments sound the alarm about ongoing unpleasantness China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies continue their years-long hacking campaign targeting critical industries around the world, according to a jo...

Online property ad reveals looted Nazi war art, triggers police raid

28.08.2025 08:26

Stolen painting still missing, sadly Police in Argentina reportedly raided a home in a coastal town on Monday after someone spotted a real estate ad that included images of art the Nazis looted in the...

Japan exploring whether AI could help inspect its nuclear power plants

28.08.2025 05:00

If regulators heed the lessons of Fukushima, testing will have to jump Godzilla-sized hurdles Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has requested extra funds to experiment with AI-powered nuclear pla...

ChatGPT hates LA Chargers fans

28.08.2025 01:59

Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed b...

AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war

28.08.2025 01:23

China would be a $50 billion a year market for Nvidia if Uncle Sam would let us sell competitive products, says Jensen Huang Nvidia's top brass urged Washington to approve the sale of Blackwell accele...