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Critical flaws in Mongoose library expose MongoDB to data thieves, code execution

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Bugs fixed, updating to the latest version is advisable Security sleuths found two critical vulnerabilities in a third-party library that MongoDB relies on, which means bad guys can potentially steal data and run code.…

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Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

It's probably fine As the risk corridor narrows for asteroid 2024 YR4, the possibility of a collision with Earth in 2032 has increased.…

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Insiders say IBM's broader return-to-office plan hits older, more expensive staff hard

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

IT giant doing whatever it takes to reach $300 a share IBM is looking to reduce expenses through what's described as a co-location program that, according to current and former employees who spoke with The Register, appears to be designed to drive o…

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UK tax authority eyes £880M overhaul for Northern Ireland trade services

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Cost of post-Brexit arrangements revealed as HMRC looks at options following Fujitsu contract The UK's tax collector is looking for a tech supplier to take on a £370 million, seven-year contract to support a digital platform and call center to handl…

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Two arrested after pensioner scammed out of six-figure crypto nest egg

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

The latest in a long line of fraud stings worth billions each year Two men are in police custody after being arrested in connection with a July cryptocurrency fraud involving a man in his seventies.…

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Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

It's probably fine As the risk corridor narrows for asteroid 2024 YR4, the possibility of a collision with Earth in 2032 have increased.…

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Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot Using apps and websites in dark mode can actually use more energy than standard mode, according to researchers, as it causes people to crank up the brightness.…

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DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Systems integrator secured 'variation' just before mega SAP migration put on hold Systems integrator DXC accrued over 50 percent more than its original contract value for completing less than half the scheduled contract term during a disastrous proj…

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Ghost ransomware crew continues to haunt IT depts with scarily bad infosec

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

FBI and CISA issue reminder - deep sigh - about the importance of patching and backups The operators of Ghost ransomware continue to claim victims and score payments, but keeping the crooks at bay is possible by patching known vulnerabilities and so…

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Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

2.3 TB held to ransom as biz formerly known as Virgin Care tells us it's probing IT 'security incident' Exclusive  HCRG Care Group, a private health and social services provider, has seemingly fallen victim to the Medusa ransomware gang, which is th…

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A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid Big Tech’s plans to spend hundreds of billions on infrastructure during 2025 are often considered to demonstrate near-endless demand for artificial intellig…

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France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance France’s Commissariat à L'énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Tuesday claimed it’s topped China’s recently-established for record maintaining fusion plasma in a tokamak, and theref…

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US Army soldier linked to Snowflake extortion rampage admits breaking the law

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

That's the way the cookie melts A US Army soldier suspected of hacking AT&T and Verizon has admitted leaking online people's private call records.…

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Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk Comment  US President Donald Trump has made it plain he’s not a fan of the $53 billion CHIPS and Science Act that funds semiconductor manufacturing and research on Ame…

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KDE Plasma 6.3 released – and 6.3.1 is already here

donderdag 20 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

A year on from the big overhaul of Plasma 6, more functionality appears KDE Plasma 6.3 is here, closely followed by a point release, alongside new versions of the KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear apps collection.…

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Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it

woensdag 19 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk Comment  US President Donald Trump has made it plain he’s not a fan of the $53 billion CHIPS and Science Act that funds semiconductor manufacturing and research on Ame…

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Palo Alto firewalls under attack as miscreants chain flaws for root access

woensdag 19 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

If you want to avoid urgent patches, stop exposing management consoles to the public internet A flaw patched last week by Palo Alto Networks is now under active attack and, when chained with two older vulnerabilities, allows attackers to gain root a…

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Einstein Probe finds two stars that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other

woensdag 19 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Odd X-ray flashes gave the game away, just few weeks after China-led mission launched The Einstein Probe space telescope has spotted evidence of one star consuming matter from another.…

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Loken: An easy interactive way to better looking websites

woensdag 19 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

A 'synthesizer for websites' lets you experiment and improvize your way to CSS Interview  Loken is a new type of tool which aims to let website designers feel their way towards a design in the same sort of way as musicians do with a software synthes…

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Microsoft boffins promise entire game worlds made from AI slop

woensdag 19 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

WHAM, bam, no thank you, ma'am? Eggheads at Microsoft have produced a generative AI tool they say can create a three-dimensional game world to help developers design and tweak gameplay.…

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Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight

woensdag 19 februari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too Microsoft says it has developed a quantum-computing chip made with novel materials that is expected to enable the development of quantum computers for meaningful, real-world applicatio…

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