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Hasn't released it to the public, because it would break the internet - in a bad way For years, the infosec community's biggest existential worry has been quantum computers blowing away all classical encryption and revealing the world's secrets. Now they have a new Big Bad: an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities....

Your PLCs aren't internet-connected, right? Right?! Iranian-affiliated actors have escalated intrusions targeting critical US water and energy facilities, in some cases disrupting operations, the FBI and American cyber defense agencies said on Tuesday....

Also asserts it can beat Cisco's homebrew hypervisor for calling apps .NEXT Nutanix has teamed with Microsoft to bring cloudy desktops on-prem, using its extensive desktop virtualization (VDI) experience to make it work....

Pair backs scraper blocking and standards to separate trusted agents from bad bots Citing the need to adapt to an internet increasingly serving the needs of AI agents without considering the needs of site owners, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering on efforts to control how AIs crawl the web and interact with web content....

Matt Garman sounds the alarm but plays down the SaaS-pocalypse at Human[X] Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the Human[X] conference, welcomed attendees to the AI-focused bitshow in San Francisco with the promise that they would receive no certainty and no playbook....

Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens? Hundreds of organizations have been compromised daily by a Microsoft device-code phishing campaign that uses AI and automation at nearly every stage of the attack chain to ultimately snoop through corporate email inboxes and steal financial data....

Space is just the next stop on the AI hype train, right after AGI In the realm of his other unrealistic plans and potentially broken promises, Elon Musk's Terafab stands out as one of the biggest pipedreams, promising to boost semiconductor production by 50x for the benefit of orbital datacenters. But hey, this idea must have legs, because now Intel has announced it is joining the aspiring Bond villain's initiative....

Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now .NEXT Nutanix exists to abstract hardware into a pool of logical resources, leaving servers and storage forgotten by all but a few datacenter hardheads. But the company's annual .NEXT conference, which kicked off in Chicago on Tuesday, put hardware at the top of the agenda....

Bots are now firmly in the toolbox, helping crooks scale old scams Crims are taking advantage of AI to sharpen old scams. The FBI reported Monday that cybercrime losses hit a record $20.87 billion in 2025, with help from bots....

200 orgs and 5,000 devices compromised so far in Vlad's latest intelligence grab, Microsoft reckons The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a fresh warning about Russia's ongoing targeting of routers to steal passwords and other secrets....

Fabled Q&A site for devs struggles with its future as AI takes over its original purpose Stack Overflow, the once-popular dev community, has abandoned a planned redesign that was meant to refocus the site more on discussions than the question-and-answer format that built its reputation....

Turns out deep space still looks better without AI helping The Artemis II mission has produced some stunning imagery as the spacecraft loops around the Moon on its journey from Earth and back....

Motorola and Google top PIRG's latest scorecard Samsung and Apple phones are more difficult to repair than those from other makers, according to a report ranking devices by how easy to fix they are....

ITSM the area most likely to offer wins, according to Gartner research Tech leaders hoping AI might help save money and improve efficiency in IT infrastructure should know that only 28 percent of use cases fully succeed and offer return on investment (ROI)....

'Proposal resurrects an existential threat to US leadership in space science and exploration' First, the good news: the Artemis II crew has successfully swung around the far side of the Moon and surpassed Apollo 13's record for the farthest distance traveled by humans in space. Now the bad news: the White House is sharpening the budget blade once again....

UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphorically The UALink Consortium, a group of tech giants working on GPU networking standards to provide an alternative to Nvidia's NVLink and NVSwitch, has released new specs, but is still months away from shipping silicon....

Quite literally, from a gun, into the front door of a councilor who supports plan Datacenter protests have taken an ugly turn in the US, with gunshots fired at the home of an Indianapolis councilor who recently lent his support to plans for a server farm in the area....

Geopolitics enter the room as Thierry Carrez shows that there's more to Kubecon than AI Kubecon Sovereignty was a big topic was at last week's Kubecon, and Thierry Carrez, the General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, shared strong feelings around it that included raising the idea that tech companies might be forced by their countries' governments to deploy "kill switches."...

Walled gardens make more sense when it's an AI-lligator infested swamp outside Opinion When the first M1 Apple Silicon systems sprouted at the end of 2020, we loved the tech but not the walled garden it grew in. Apple had complete control over all its platforms and could set its own rules, but only to become more Apple-y. There was a whole world outside that area where Apple Silicon would never tread, even if Cupertino could iterate fast enough to keep up. Plus, Apple's appliance sensibility limited its expansion options, especially with performance dependent on its own silicon....

Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life grows British adults are now less active on social media, according to Ofcom, with just half of users actively posting, and fewer now believe the benefits outweigh the risks of being online....

Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack LY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack - and making massive consolidations along the way....

Broadcom's building the silicon and is chuffed about that, but also notes Anthropic remains a risk Broadcom has announced that Google has asked it to build next-generation AI and datacenter networking chips, and that Anthropic plans to consume 3.5GW worth of the accelerators it delivers to the ads and search giant....

CUPS server shown spilling out remote code execution and root access In the latest chapter on leaky CUPS, a security researcher and his band of bug-hunting agents have found two flaws that can be chained to allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code and achieve root file overwrite on the network....

Once AI bug reports become plausible, someone still has to verify them If AI does more of the work but humans still have to check it, you need more reviewers. Now that AI models have gotten better at writing and evaluating code, open-source projects find themselves overwhelmed with the too-good-to-ignore output....

'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticket If you've noticed Claude Code's performance degrading to the point where you find you don't trust it to handle complicated tasks anymore, you're not alone....

The company is having trouble meeting user demand OpenClaw is popular, but not with the people responsible for keeping Anthropic's services online. The company has disallowed subscription-based pricing for users who use the open-source agentic tool with Claude to try to keep things moving....

CISA added the flaw to KEV after Fortinet confirmed exploitation in the wild Fortinet released an emergency patch over the weekend for a critical FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) bug believed to be under attack since at least March 31....

After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year....

Glue and paper wouldn't have cared about discoverability Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's entry in the pantheon of public whoopsies is not so much Windows falling over as someone sticking a network connection where it possibly doesn't belong....

It's not just machines that need proper HVAC Who, Me? The world is rapidly becoming a more uncertain place, but The Register tries to offer readers one small point of certainty by always delivering a fresh Monday morning instalment of "Who, Me?" - the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your errors and elucidate your escapes....

Pay no attention to that code behind the curtain, says Anthropic as it scrambles to defend its IPO Kettle When it comes to circling up for this week's Kettle, what is there to discuss but Anthropic's accidental release of Claude Code's source code?...

True-crime tales of criminals making fools of themselves interview Cybercrime crews have become almost mystical entities, with security vendors assigning them names like Wizard Spider and Velvet Tempest....

Vendors tout the potential, but responsibility remains unclear "You can't blame it on the box," says the boss of a UK financial regulator. What about the people who sold you the box? Good luck with that, says a global tech analyst....

The GPU king's move to optical scale-up was inevitable If you thought Nvidia's GB200 rack systems were big, CEO Jensen Huang is just getting started. At GTC last month, the world's most valuable company revealed plans to use photonic interconnects to pack more than a thousand GPUs into a single mammoth system by 2028....

Agents to check the work of the agents All Things AI AI is easy to use, but not quite as easy as just barking "Alexa! Make me an e-commerce site." And, no, adding "DON'T HALLUCINATE" to the instruction loop won't help....

The cloud service's woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI - under-investment in people In 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators reportedly dismissed Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) as garbage, although they used a more colorful term. To understand why, it helps to consider the history of the underlying Azure infrastructure....

Bonasi 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient PrismML, an AI venture out of Caltech, has released a 1-bit large language model that outperforms weightier models, with the expectation that it will improve AI efficiency and viability on mobile devices, among other applications....

Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk' The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027....

Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi....

Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns....

This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food Bork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence....

Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine On Call Y2k Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call - the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories....

Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI)....

Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises....

About that partnership... Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation....

Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools....

Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware....

Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong A recent surge of interest in Microsoft's Terms of Use for Copilot is a reminder that AI helpers are really just a bit of fun....

Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue's access to power-efficient compute IBM and Arm are working together on getting software developed for Arm chips to run on Big Blue's enterprise systems, with an eye on future AI and data-intensive workloads....

Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners' European outfits Ionos and Nextcloud have launched Euro-Office, a fork of the OnlyOffice cloud-based productivity suite aimed at orgs with qualms around sovereignty, provoking an angry response from the original developer....