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Updated 2026-09-24 21:46
Decades-old file security flaws found in Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows
Security researchers report that Microsoft considers the side-channel leak of file events to be by design
iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink
3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance
CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle
AI-assisted bug hunting is helping pile up vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them, so Canonical is picking up the pace
AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market
Sub-$200 shipments forecast to shrink 40% by 2030 as component costs climb
Someone went shopping in ASUS's eShop – for customer data
Contact details and order records accessed, but PC maker is keeping schtum on how many customers are affected
Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public
Matt Rosoff chairs a Register roundtable with HPE and NVIDIA on data sovereignty in the AIera, off the record, in Washington
Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze
A desktop pitch and an attempt to curb LLM slop descended into very human mayhem
DoJ: Uncle Sam bought forensics software from same Russian operation supplying FSB
Russian devs alleged to have built tools for US agencies as software from same op was sold to Moscow's security services
Google to critical infra orgs: Our AI scanners won't be evil, promise
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and Wiz's Red Agent team up to protect hospitals, public transit, and tech
City council may be waking from its Oracle nightmare but the accounting hangover continues
Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger
Meta ads steered Polish Android users into a premium-rate billing trap
CERT Polska linked 852 promotions to 17 Google Play apps capable of sending costly texts or starting recurring subscriptions
HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app
Customers say the unannounced change also cut off web access that relied on mobile authentication
For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over
Its vector search is ready, but coding assistants keep pointing developers toward other databases, says the foundation's chairman
Experts question whether Salesforce demo breaches SAP API policy
For the German vendor, greater challenges may lie ahead, as rivals seek to control the user experience
Government contractor exposed path to immigration records
IT took a shortcut when the boss was away, and it led to danger!
Europe’s internet registry wants governance ‘correction’ because its ‘Executive Board’ is not the executive
RIPE NCC hopes members get aboard effort to tidy things up and give its CEO a vote
India’s outsourced software industry grows 9.5 percent to reach $239 billion
Software product development industry shrinks a little, but if AI has dented prospects, it's not in these numbers
OpenAI's Astra model went for a drive and no one died
First LLM to pass test did it in a parking lot at snail's pace, at considerable expense, but it still counts for something
OpenAI agents ‘infiltrated Australian government website’
Canberra is fuming after AI lab sent the news to a generic unattended email address
Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension
Jev-powered Slop Mop demonstrates another great use case for probabilistic, non-chatty AI model
Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion
Bull, the system builder behind JUPITER, takes delivery of SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea1 CPUs
Someone's attacking a critical 0-day RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM
Good news: there's a patch. Bad news: both CISA and F5 warn that it's under active exploitation
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology
Discord users asked to prove they're adults get less intrusive options
Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper
Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance
An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip
16 channels of DDR5, 5 GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?
Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint
New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction
Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack
Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals
Closing the observability gap for the AI-ready enterprise
SPONSORED FEATURE: Why AI-driven operations need a data-rich view of the network
The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them
Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch
Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
British regulator takes a hard look at Pornhub's Apple-powered age checks
Regulator wants to know whether parent Aylo did its homework before reopening the door to UK iPhone users
Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes
Another utility sees the light in putting existing telecoms infrastructure to work
Swedish celebs campaign for public rudeness ... to prevent cyber scams
The campaign follows a highly profitable year for crooks targeting the over-60s
Whisky merchant Master of Malt confirms customer data spilt
Attackers had four days to drink in names, addresses, emails and phone numbers
BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth
MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored
UK’s uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes
XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests
Why security belongs in the network
SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Merging security into the network makes enterprise protection more agile
Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for coders
Developers test what they can build with TypeSafe's fast, typed decision model
In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols
Kids can learn why BGP matters in a semester, but that won't leave them ready to implement it
Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
Meet superintelligence' and the globalist scheme' - probably a polite diplomatic letter - to control it
Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down
Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions
'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C2
Security firm finds naming AI agents after Seinfeld characters helps bots join the team
Not that there's anything wrong with it
ShinyHunters claims FBI hack: 'This is NOT financially motivated'
This time it's personal
ABBYY gives old-school OCR a job in the AI pipeline
FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM
NightmareEclipse's latest zero-day leaves Microsoft Defender stuck in the past
BigDiskBuster leaves Microsoft's antivirus running but unable to install updates
Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode
China's AI darling goes on the defense after engineer highlighted Grok-esque security flaws
Privacy group slams EU for changing the data rules to cater to AI
Schrems campaign raises specter of another legal challenge as legislators propose changes to GDPR
UK cops arrest 2 EvilTokens suspects, Microsoft seizes 50 phishing kit websites
Used by crims to compromise 12K+ email inboxes across 10K+ global orgs
Who signed off on that AI agent? Nobody? Thought so.
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI agents may be unpredictable. Who they are, what they can do, and who owns them shouldn't be.
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