'Luminous phenomena' on the cards, but half a ton of debris could survive A pallet of used batteries from the International Space Station (ISS) is due to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere at some point in the next day, and some parts of the 2.6 metric…
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Lees meerStill "no evidence" of any compromised customer-facing systems, we're told Microsoft has now confirmed that the Russian cyberspies who broke into its executives' email accounts stole source code and gained access to internal systems. The Redmond gia…
Lees meerPreview's promise ends in digital dust Microsoft has abruptly pulled a feature from OneDrive that allows users to upload files to the cloud storage service directly from a URL.…
Lees meerUS spy-tech firm at center of UK health data systems applies its technology to altogether different ends Palantir has won a US Army contract worth $178.4 million to house a battlefield intelligence system inside a big truck.…
Lees meerRemaining services are expected to return in the coming weeks after $22M ALPHV ransom Change Healthcare has taken the first steps toward a full recovery from the ransomware attack in February by bringing its electronic prescription services back onl…
Lees meerWorkforce aging, systems still mission-critical ... plus Big Blue looking out for its bread and butter IBM is pinning its hopes on some fresh initiatives – the Mainframe Skills Council and the IBM Z Mainframe Skills Depot – to address a shortage of …
Lees meerClassified docs, readable passwords, and thousands of personal information nabbed in Xplain breach The Swiss government had around 65,000 files related to it stolen by the Play ransomware gang during an attack on an IT supplier, its National Cyber S…
Lees meerCourt of Justice of the European Union says consent identifers are personal info, subject to GDPR Online popup solicitations that seek consent for targeted ads in Europe represent personal information, according to the Court of Justice of the Europe…
Lees meerIf any mods are considering an anti-IPO blackout, you could be replaced by a bot Reddit is upping its AI game again, this time with the implementation of an LLM-powered harassment filter for the benefit of its army of volunteer moderators.…
Lees meerA secret message or just random characters on a license plate? Microsoft veteran Dave Plummer has shared a photo of the Corvette bought by Zip folder support work in Windows and reminded us that, 30 years later, some of the code is probably still ru…
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Lees meerThe Register speaks to the folks behind the AI Incident Database Interview False images of Donald Trump supported by made-up Black voters, middle-schoolers creating pornographic deepfakes of their female classmates, and Google's Gemini chatbot fail…
Lees meerRedmond hasn't budged on deals that make its wares cheaper on Azure, and regulators are circling A group of cloud infrastructure providers in Europe has delivered an ultimatum to Microsoft: End the "unjustified feature and pricing discriminations ag…
Lees meerNetworking silicon surges, Carbon Black to be kept in the fold Broadcom has told investors its strategy of forcing VMware customers to buy only big bundles of software will see revenue increase by "double-digit percentage sequentially, quarter over …
Lees meerNetworking silicon surges, Carbon Black to be kept in the fold Broadcom has told investors its strategy of forcing VMware customers to buy only big bundles of software will see revenue increase by “double-digit percentage sequentially, quarter over …
Lees meerWho knew that unzipping a font archive could unleash a malicious file Online graphic design platform Canva went looking for security problems in fonts, and found three – in "strange places."…
Lees meerPuts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help India's government has approved a ₹10,300 Crore ($1.24 billion) funding package to bolster the nation's AI infrastructure.…
Lees meerPuts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help India’s government has approved a ₹10,300 Crore ($1.24 billion) funding package to bolster the nation’s AI infrastructure.…
Lees meerCISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up The US government and some of the largest open source foundations and package repositories have announced a series of initiatives intended to improve software supply-chain security, while …
Lees meerUnder New Management is an early-warning system for potential poisoning of add-ons with malware Millions of Chrome users now have a way to guard against the threat of extension subversion, that is, if they don't mind installing yet another browser e…
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