‘Elite teams’ are pondering cyber-attacks to turn off energy supply or telecoms networks The head of Australia’s Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has warned that authoritarian regimes “are growing more willing to disrupt or destroy critical…
Lees meerLobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations Privacy advocates are condemning the European Commission's leaked plans to overhaul digital privacy legislation, accusing officials of bypassing proper legislative process…
Lees meerEncryption protects content, not context Updated Mischief-makers can guess the subjects being discussed with LLMs using a side-channel attack, according to Microsoft researchers. They told The Register that models from some providers, including Ant…
Lees meerKONNI espionage crew covertly abused Google’s Find My Device feature to remotely factory-reset Android phones North Korean state-backed spies have found a new way to torch evidence of their own cyber-spying – by hijacking Google's "Find Hub" service…
Lees meerDisclosure? We've heard of it The US datacenter industry is reaping huge benefits from state-level subsidies, but transparency around these incentives is limited and states that do calculate their returns find they are losing money on the deals.…
Lees meerLobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations Privacy advocates are condemning the European Commission's leaked plans to overhaul digital privacy legislation, accusing officials of bypassing proper legislative process…
Lees meerYears of development still needed but AI, 3D printing, and other alternative options on the horizon The UK Government has unveiled a roadmap to replace animal testing with AI-driven options and other alternatives, targeting the elimination of certai…
Lees meerRisk list highlights misconfigs, supply chain failures, and singles out prompt injection in AI apps The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) just published its top 10 categories of application risks for 2025, its first list since 2021…
Lees meerClop's Oracle EBS exploit spree shows no sign of slowing, claims nearly 30 more casualties in media, finance, and tech. Digital engineering outfit GlobalLogic says personal data from more than 10,000 current and former employees was exposed in the w…
Lees meerMassive increase in policy claims… and data doesn’t even cover the major attacks of 2025 The number of successful cyber insurance claims made by UK organizations shot up last year, according to the latest figures from the industry's trade associatio…
Lees meerTariffs can't stop cheaper, better Chinese tech, says Jefferies. Tesla is Amercia's great hope Battery energy storage systems (BESS) could become standard at datacenters as AI infrastructure expand, with analysts forecasting 20 GW of capacity deploy…
Lees meerNorwegian testers claim maker has remote access, while UK importer says supplier complies with the law UK governmental is working with the National Cyber Security Centre to understand and "mitigate" any risk that China-made imported electric buses c…
Lees meerContinuous track of long awaited AFV hits the ground ... and the terrain is pretty bumpy The British Army just received its first new armored fighting vehicle (AFV) for nearly three decades, but it is years late, hit by rising costs, is still report…
Lees meerYour real problem: 40kW racks, melting datacenters and rising power bills Opinion In recent discussions with industry vendor sales/marketing types, I've been hearing that HPC demand is falling off while AI system demand is continuing to increase. I…
Lees meerSachin Katti was one of new Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan's first appointments Sachin Katti, the exec Intel promoted to chief technology and AI officer in April, will leave the x86 giant to join OpenAI after just six months in the job.…
Lees meerEncryption protects content, not context Mischief-makers can guess the subjects being discussed with LLMs using a side-channel attack, according to Microsoft researchers. They told The Register that models from some providers, including Anthropic, A…
Lees meerMicrosoft has generated some buzz about generating some buzz Most phones and tablets include little motors that buzz when you perform common actions such as typing, or when apps notify users of important events. Microsoft may be about to bring simil…
Lees meerIt sounds a lot like everything else AI slop has reached a new level of ascendancy, as a country song by an AI artist has hit number one on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart.…
Lees meerSecurity biz Wiz says 65% of top AI businesses leak keys and tokens Leading AI companies turn out to be no better at keeping secrets than anyone else writing code.…
Lees meerWe can't let supply chain shortages burst the bubble boy's balloon Free money is always better than a loan! OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said he doesn't want government-backed loans to fuel his AI ambitions, but he's more than okay with the idea o…
Lees meerHere come old FlatPak, it comes grooving up slowly... opinion The tendency of Linux developers to reinvent wheels is no secret. It's not so much the elephant in the room, as the entire jet-propelled guided ark ship full of every known and unknown m…
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