- Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet
Who could be so interested in chips, manufacturing, and more, in the US, UK, Europe, Russia... Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023.…
- UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway
Spinner says crim's claims 'very significantly overstated' UK broadband and TV provider TalkTalk says it's currently investigating claims made on cybercrime forums alleging data from the company was up for grabs.…
- AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud
GameOn? It's looking more like game over for that biz The co-founder and former CEO of AI startup GameOn is in a pickle. After exiting the top job last year under a cloud, he's now in court – along with his wife – for allegedly bilking his company and its investors out of more than $60 million.…
- Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts
Can't keep the drama Llama out of this race Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans on Friday to blow through as much as $60 to 65 billion in 2025 on plenty more AI resources for his social media mega-corp – and signaled his intention to continue the spending spree for years to come.…
- Fitbit pays Uncle Sam $12M to sprint away from claims of burning-hot smartwatches
Your workout warm-up instructions didn't say anything about setting wrists on fire – allegedly! Years after recalling one of its smartwatches over overheating batteries that burned people, Fitbit has agreed to pay a $12.25 million civil penalty to the US government to settle allegations it knew about the risk but failed to immediately report it as required by law.…
- Exchange update refusenik? Consider yourself warned by Microsoft
If you have a 'significantly out of date' Exchange Server, emergency mitigation might stop working Exchange Server administrators lagging on their cumulative and security updates be warned: Microsoft has stated that the Exchange Emergency Mitigation Service (EEMS) might stop working on "significantly out of date" versions of the software.…
- The state of Right to Repair: Progress made, but key barriers remain
Schematics, repair manuals, part numbers still out of reach for many industries The US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has released a report on the state of Right to Repair. The good news is that things seem to be going in the right direction for some gadgets. The bad news is that progress is not equal, and there has been no improvement for some gizmos.…
- Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key
But what the heck should it do? Great news, Linux fans! Support for the Copilot key is coming in the 6.14 kernel. What do you think it should do?…
- What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?
We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course Feature Generative AI models have not only exploded in popularity over the past two years, but they've also grown at a precipitous rate, necessitating ever larger quantities of accelerators to keep up.…
- Qualcomm big cheese Cristiano Amon's pay award jumps 10%
At $25.91M, CEO is worth 261 employees Qualcomm's top dog Cristian Amon enjoyed a ten percent year-on-year bump in total financial compensation for fiscal 2024 that amounted to $25.91 million.…
- Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?
Could a post-Brexit romance be on the cards? The UK and EU must decide whether to coordinate a response to Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on stuff imported into the United States, or cut separate deals with the new president, the House of Lords heard this week.…
- Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now
SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss* A now-fixed command-injection bug in Kubernetes can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints in a cluster, and thus fully take over those systems, according to Akamai researcher Tomer Peled.…
- Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course
Calamity Capsule continues to be calamitous for the bottom line Boeing is warning of another hit to its bottom line, at least partly at the hands of the company's Calamity Capsule, the CST-100 Starliner.…
- North Korean dev who renamed himself 'Bane' accused of IT worker fraud caper
5 indicted as FBI warns North Korea dials up aggression, plus Russian devs allegedly get in on the act The US is indicting yet another five suspects it believes were involved in North Korea's long-running, fraudulent remote IT worker scheme – including one who changed their last name to "Bane" and scored a gig at a tech biz in San Francisco.…
- Mega UK datacenter greenlit, but we still don't know who's moving in
Hyperscaler mystery deepens as Hertfordshire braces for bit barn blitz Approval was last night granted for a mega datacenter in Hertfordshire, close to London's M25 orbital motorway, clearing the way for construction to begin. The identity of the eventual occupier, said to be a hyperscale operator, has yet to be disclosed.…
- WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference
New double-digit vintage goes well with all sorts of things After 32 years of maturation, even now, WINE is Not an Emulator, but it can work alongside them to run Windows apps on Arm Linux.…
- First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works
28nm and fatter processes first, says minister, as semiconductor supply chain players move to cash in India's ambition to become a semiconductor manufacturing player will bear fruit later this year with the debut of the first silicon designed and built in the nation.…
- User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?
Then suggested a bloke down the pub might be able to help fix it On Call Friday brings the prospect of spending time with loved ones. But before we get there, The Register offers another instalment of On Call, the column that chronicles experiences from the global family of readers who have traumatic tech support tales to tell.…
- China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps
Paint a target on Myanmar, pledge more info-sharing to get the job done A group established by six Asian nations to fight criminal cyber-scam slave camps that infest the region claims it’s made good progress dismantling the operations.…
- Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional
'Public interest alone does not justify warrantless querying' says judge It was revealed this week a court in New York made a landmark ruling that sided against the warrantless state surveillance of people's private communications in America.…
- Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths
Who guards the guardrail makers? Not the bosses who hire them, it's alleged Scale AI, which labels training data for machine-learning models, was sued this month, alongside labor platform Outlier, for allegedly failing to protect the mental health of contractors hired to protect people from harmful interactions with AI models.…
- One of Salt Typhoon's favorite flaws still wide open on 91% of at-risk Exchange Servers
But we mean, you've had nearly four years to patch One of the critical security flaws exploited by China's Salt Typhoon to breach US telecom and government networks has had a patch available for nearly four years - yet despite repeated warnings from law enforcement and private-sector security firms, nearly all public-facing Microsoft Exchange Server instances with this vulnerability remain unpatched.…
- OpenAI's Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task
Hello Operator? Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime? OpenAI on Thursday launched a human-directed AI agent called Operator that can use a web browser by itself to accomplish various online tasks, or at least try to do so.…
- Patch now: Cisco fixes critical 9.9-rated, make-me-admin bug in Meeting Management
No in-the-wild exploits … yet Cisco has pushed a patch for a critical, 9.9-rated vulnerability in its Meeting Management tool that could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges to escalate to administrator on affected devices.…
- Intel pitches modular PC designs to make repairs less painful
x86 behemoth calls the approach 'innovative' - DIY builders may disagree Intel claims a more modular approach to PC design could make systems easier to repair and reduce electronic waste – and it has some proposals for you.…
- Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back
OpenAI boss tell world's richest man money is there to fund infrastructure project Updated The world has been treated to tech bros squabbling over Stargate, the alleged $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure project led by OpenAI, while the grown-ups look on.…
- SonicWall flags critical bug likely exploited as zero-day, rolls out hotfix
Big organizations and governments are main users of these gateways SonicWall is warning customers of a critical vulnerability that was potentially already exploited as a zero-day.…
- Meta's pay-or-consent model under fire from EU consumer group
Company 'strongly disagrees' with law infringement allegations Meta has again come under fire for its pay-or-consent model in the EU.…
- ChatGPT has a Thursday lie down
Generative AI needs a break, just like the rest of us, m'kay? OUTAGE Reactivate your brain. ChatGPT has gone down.…
- FortiGate config leaks: Victims' email addresses published online
Experts warn not to take SNAFU lightly as years-long compromises could remain undetected Thousands of email addresses included in the Belsen Group's dump of FortiGate configs last week are now available online, revealing which organizations may have been impacted by the 2022 zero-day exploits.…
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