Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there When independent security researcher Neil Smith reported a vulnerability in a comms standard used by trains to the US government in…
Lees meerDelivers specs in the form of user stories Amazon Web Services has created what it's calling an "agentic IDE" that it claims avoids the pitfalls of vibe coding.…
Lees meerMechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out Opinion So, on the 4th of July, a big deal to those on my side of the pond, Elon Musk announced, "We have improved @Grok significantly." On Tuesday, July 8th, the results of those changes appeared.…
Lees meerThick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don't have any phony resumes or imposters in your interview …
Lees meerMechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out Opinion So, on the 4th of July, a big deal to those on my side of the pond, Elon Musk announced, "We have improved @Grok significantly." On Tuesday, July 8th, the results of those changes appeared.…
Lees meerTell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak? We have protocols and standards for just about everything. It's generally helpful when we can all agree on how technologies should talk to one another. So, it was only a matter of…
Lees meerJust because a student reads a book doesn't mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney A research paper commissioned by the European Parliament has called for an EU law to pay writers, musicians, and artists whose work has been used to train GenAI models.…
Lees meerFirst US-Soviet joint mission showed détente in action, but astronauts had a close call on return home It is 50 years since the last hurrah of the Apollo program, with a mission that saw the final launch of an Apollo vehicle, and a subsequent dockin…
Lees meerPLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more Asia In Brief Indonesia’s government is investigating possible corruption during a $600 million program that saw around a quarter of a million Ch…
Lees meerCross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats Britain and France are to work more closely on technology to back up the familiar Global Positioning System (GPS), which is increasingly …
Lees meerWe need more paranoid Androids. And, well, everything else Opinion The 21st century is turning out weirder than we thought. For the entire history of art, for example, tools could be used and abused and would work more or less well, but generally h…
Lees meerReport on serious organized crime fails to account for differences, agency says The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has hit back at a think tank after it assessed its US counterpart, the FBI, to be nearly three times more effective.…
Lees meerFor the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage Who, Me? Alas, the weekend is over, but The Register tries to make your entry to the working week a little more enjoyable by bringing you a fresh installment of Who,…
Lees meerWarned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.…
Lees meerDespite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST’s definition of cloud computing The Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITOI), the government body that develops and implements IT services for the country, is looking for suppli…
Lees meerPLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more Asia In Brief Indonesia’s government is investigating possible corruption during a $600 million program that saw around a quarter of a million Ch…
Lees meerPLUS: Bluetooth mess leaves cars exposed; Bitcoin ATMs attacked; Deepfakers imitate US secretary of state Marco Rubio; and more Infosec In Brief Nvidia last week advised customers to ensure they employ mitigations against Rowhammer attacks, after r…
Lees meerThick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don't have any phony resumes or imposters in your interview …
Lees meerIntruders looked up how to use curl mid-attack - rookie errors kept damage minimal Huntress security researchers observed exploitation of the CVSS 10.0 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Wing FTP Server on July 1, just one day after its public disc…
Lees meerIt could have the same headcount as 1960 by the end of the month NASA senior staff are being offered the opportunity to leave voluntarily before the axes start swinging, and it seems likely that thousands will take the escape hatch.…
Lees meerA controversial and polarizing figure, but also widely hailed obituary Matt Trout will be missed by many, even though he was a divisive figure who featured several times on The Register.…
Lees meer