Now flying again, but not saying what went wrong UPDATED US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet due to an unspecified IT issue.…
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Lees meerDare we suggest Scattered Spider has poisoned another carrier? US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet due to an unspecified IT issue.…
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Lees meerPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more Infosec In Brief Microsoft has warned users of SharePoint Server that three on-prem versions of the product include a zero-day flaw that is under attack –…
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Lees meerInsiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy's predictions that automation would cost jobs at the company have proven accurate at Amazon Web Services.…
Lees meerComputer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016.…
Lees meerOpenAI delayed its promised open-weights model since GPT-2, leaving the Middle Kingdom clearly in the lead Comment OpenAI was supposed to make good on its name and release its first open-weights model since GPT-2 this week.…
Lees meerKeep It Simple, Stupid Interview Scattered Spider and Iranian government-backed cyber units have more in common than a recent uptick in hacking activity, according to Ariel Parnes, a former colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces' cyber unit 8200.…
Lees meerMoolenaar demands answers from Commerce Secretary The Republican chair of the US House Select Committee on China has protested the Trump administration's decision this week to lift restrictions on the sale of Nvidia H20 GPUs and similar processors, …
Lees meerGPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges Two weeks before the EU AI Act takes effect, the European Commission issued voluntary guidelines for providers of general-purpose AI models. However, Meta refused to sign, arguing that t…
Lees meerThree perfect 10s in the last month - ISE, ISE, baby Updated Cisco has issued a patch for a critical 10 out of 10 severity bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could allow an unauthenticated, r…
Lees meerThat's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else Japanese foundry upstart Rapidus says it's on track to begin volume production of 2nm process tech after achieving a major milestone this week.…
Lees meerAnalysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation VMware on Wednesday announced it has extended the time between major releases from two years to three and extended support for those releases to six years.…
Lees meerAnd we’re the ones building it Comment A tech executive's alleged affair exposed on a stadium jumbotron is ripe fodder for the gossip rags, but it exhibits something else: proof that we need not wait for an AI-fueled dystopian surveillance state to…
Lees meerJon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device Apple has sued tech YouTuber Jon Prosser for allegedly leaking iOS 26 information to the public ahead of its reveal at WWDC in June.…
Lees meerBig Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters Oracle began incentivizing perpetual licenses in favor of subscription deals as it introduced its database systems via rival cloud vendors, say lic…
Lees meerWe spoke to the smoot's namesake Interview On a chilly October evening in 1958, a group of MIT students shuffled onto the Harvard Bridge, which separates the university town of Cambridge from Boston proper. The shortest among them lay down on the s…
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