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Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast Don't panic. Yes, there were a bunch of CVEs affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of users found in rsync in early December – and made public on Tuesday – but a fixed version cam…

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Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 Hundreds of AMD APUs fired up on Thursday as Germany's High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart announced the completion of its late…

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Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved' Apple has released a new beta of iOS 18.3 and tacitly admitted that, yes, its AI-generated notification summaries need a bit more work.…

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Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Many users less than impressed by unexpected arrival of AI assistant in Word Copilot is coming to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family, and Vulture Central has had some hands-on experience with the generative AI assistant's attempts to be helpful.…

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Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved' Apple has released a new beta of iOS 18.3 and tacitly admitted that, yes, its AI-generated notification summaries need a bit more work.…

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IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B IBM has secured a deal with the UK Home Office to supply user services for the troubled Emergency Service Network (ESN) upgrade, providing voice and data communications after…

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Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK's Gateshead Council

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Pastes allegedly stolen documents on leak site with £600K demand Another year and yet another UK local authority has been pwned by a ransomware crew. This time it's Gateshead Council in North East England at the hands of the Medusa group.…

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Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions supplier in hands of FRP Advisory A self-described specialist supplier of "transformational data and AI solutions" to the UK government has called in the administrative receivers.…

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Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device On Call  When the weekend rolls around, nobody needs permission to do whatever they desire. Unless, of course, they're required to be available to support t…

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SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch SpaceX has again lost a Starship, after the seventh test flight of the spacecraft ended with a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”, but is nonetheless celebrating the mission as …

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Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever Microsoft brainiacs who probed the security of more than 100 of the software giant's own generative AI products came away with a sobering message: The models…

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AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats Amazon Web Services has flicked the switch on a pair of workstation-grade cloud desktops that, ironically, highlight a problem with the tech.…

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SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Crashed’ counter to zero

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch SpaceX has again lost a Starship, after the seventh test flight of the spacecraft ended with a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”, but is nonetheless celebrating the mission as …

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Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in Cisco and Nvidia have both recognized that as useful as today's AI may be, the technology can be equally unsafe and/or unreliable – and have delivered tools in a…

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GoDaddy slapped with wet lettuce for years of lax security and 'several major breaches'

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Watchdog alleged it had no SIEM or MFA, orders rapid adoption of basic infosec tools GoDaddy has failed to protect its web-hosting platform with even basic infosec tools and practices since 2018, according to the FTC, but the internet giant won’t fa…

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GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC General Motors on Thursday said that it has reached a settlement with the FTC "to address privacy concerns about our now-discontinued Smart Driver program."…

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GM parks claims that driver location data was shared to insurers, pushed up premiums

vrijdag 17 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC General Motors on Thursday said that it has reached a settlement with the FTC "to address privacy concerns about our now-discontinued Smart Driver program."…

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In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy

donderdag 16 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows US President Joe Biden gave his final address to the nation on Wednesday, and said America was visibly sliding into an oligopoly aided by a flood of online disinformation.…

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Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud, but will manage from it

donderdag 16 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Azure Local is about hybrid management, not hybrid resource pools, and is catching up with virtual rivals Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure offering is more about unified management than hybrid cloud as an enabler of elasticity or flexible resource p…

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In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy

donderdag 16 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows US President Joe Biden gave his final address to the nation on Wednesday, and said America was visibly sliding into an oligopoly aided by technology and a flood of online di…

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In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex and disinfo dismantling democracy

donderdag 16 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows US President Joe Biden gave his final address to the nation on Wednesday, and said America was visibly sliding into a technology-heavy oligopoly aided by a flood of online d…

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