PLUS: CISA layoffs continue; Lawmakers criticize camera security; China to execute scammers; And more Infosec in brief There's no indication that the brazen bandits who stole jewels from the Louvre attacked the famed French museum's systems, but ha…
Lees meerTwo different groups want this valuable spectrum, but can they share? A row is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz part of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be licensed for use by cellular networks and others that want it reser…
Lees meerMisdirection is the new resolution at major video game house The CEO of the company behind note-taking app Obsidian says the well-known video game house of the same name has sent one of its customer queries to his own team – claiming that "off-the-s…
Lees meerEsra'a Al Shafei spoke with The Reg about the spy tech 'global trade' interview Digital rights activist Esra'a Al Shafei found FinFisher spyware on her device more than a decade ago. Now she's made it her mission to surveil the companies providing …
Lees meerAt one point, Microsoft's QC was legendary. Now, it's the wrong kind of legend OPINION I have a habit of ironically referring to Microsoft's various self-induced whoopsies as examples of the company's "legendary approach to quality control." While …
Lees meerAll three acquitted a teen in a mock trial based on a case where a judge ruled guilty Law students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law last month held a mock trial to see how AI models administer justice.…
Lees meerThe Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off Meta on Friday floated plans to invest $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs by 2028 as part of a massive datacenter expansion.…
Lees meerLost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes … On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register’s Friday reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.…
Lees meerStudy finds many tests don't measure the right things AI companies regularly tout their models' performance on benchmark tests as a sign of technological and intellectual superiority. But those results, widely used in marketing, may not be meaningfu…
Lees meer'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed A previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL exploited a zero-day in Samsung Galaxy devices for nearly a year, installing surveillance code capable of recording cal…
Lees meerXi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to Nvidia's latest generation of Blackwell accelerators won't be available in China anytime soon, according to CEO Jensen Huang, who said there were no "active discussions" …
Lees meerRespecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions. Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has waded into the argument over where Microsoft has gone wrong with Windows, suggesting that perhaps the OS needs a hardcore mode t…
Lees meerNetherlands court still overseeing governance at the chipmaker Tensions between China and the Netherlands over the state of chipmaker Nexperia have begun to ease, but the battle for company control doesn't appear to be entirely resolved yet. …
Lees meerIt might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece o…
Lees meerEven with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise Google's Gemini Deep Research tool can now reach deep into Gmail, Drive, and Chat to obtain data that might be useful for answering research questions.…
Lees meerMIT researchers offer cure for illegible software A pair of MIT researchers have detailed a proposed new model for software that would help both humans and AI code generators alike create better and more transparent applications. No more vibing!…
Lees meerMulti-year wait for destruction comes to an end for mystery attackers Security experts have helped remove malicious NuGet packages planted in 2023 that were designed to destroy systems years in advance, with some payloads not due to hit until the la…
Lees meerRespecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions. Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has waded into the argument over where Microsoft has gone wrong with Windows, suggesting that perhaps the OS needs a hardcore mode t…
Lees meerBehold the one trillion dollar man Tesla is awarding its CEO Elon Musk a package worth a possible $1 trillion, however, it relies in part on a dramatic increase in the value of the electric vehicle manufacturer.…
Lees meerUnder shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU Microsoft is again banging the data sovereignty drum in Europe, months after admitting in a French court it couldn't guarantee that data will not be transmit…
Lees meerAll good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30 Anyone turning 25 this week has never known a time when humans weren't living in space. The same might not be true when they're 30.…
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