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Once-great platform tanks another major political livestream, bigly Elon Musk has blamed a "DDoS" attack for a forty-minute delay in the start of his live-streamed interview, hosted on X, with presidential candidate Donald Trump....

Kernel mode not good enough for you? Maybe you'll like SMM of this Some AMD processors dating back to 2006 have a security vulnerability that's a boon for particularly underhand malware and rogue insiders, though the chip designer is only patching models made since 2020....

Tech industry told to clean up its act - and help others to do likewise - in pursuit of 2035 'Beautiful China' goal China's digital infrastructure providers have been told they need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption, plus consider ending use of smaller facilities, under a sweeping "comprehensive green transition" plan announced yesterday....

You don't get to be the biggest business in the world by being nice Patreon today said Apple will soon take a 30 percent cut of new subscriptions bought via its iOS app....

SpaceX 'WasteX' Starlink said to make up 60% of sats circling Earth The US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), a federation of public interest advocacy groups, has asked the FCC to halt low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite launches until the environmental consequences of space pollution can be better managed....

All those BIOS options that promise better performance? Enabling them might kill your processor Owners of Intel's 13th and 14th Gen Core processors may need to stick to the chip giant's official power limits in order to safely use their CPUs....

Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included Def Con With an average of 30,000 attendees per year at the DEF CON security conference in Las Vegas, it's safe to assume at least one or two hackers attending have some necessary insights to secure critical infrastructure. Now a new initiative dubbed "Franklin" hopes to capture some of that infosec pro expertise in a policy-friendly format....

Cuts reportedly to come as soon as Wednesday's earnings release Networking goliath Cisco will reportedly slash thousands of jobs as it focuses on growing its cybersecurity business and capitalizing on AI demand....

Basic Auth among web traffic? Possible flaw in a well-known commercial VPN product? 'Security has to watch its own things' Black Hat The large network that materializes along with legions of infosec professionals at Black Hat every year presents the perfect opportunity to see how well the security community practices what it preaches....

Nearly 50 different data points were accessed by cybercrim An Arizona tech school will send letters to 208,717 current and former students, staff, and parents whose data was exposed during a January break-in that allowed an attacker to steal nearly 50 types of personal info....

Unloved multi dimensional doodler set for axe as its predecessor gets an AI update Microsoft has hammered home a final nail in the coffin of its Mixed Reality adventures with confirmation that Paint 3D is to be ditched once and for all in the not-too-distant-future....

It also attracts exactly the type of unempathetic people you would think it does Black Hat Recently published interviews with known doxxers reveal the incredible finances behind the practice and how their extortion tactics are becoming increasingly violent....

Seeks $23 million in damages over Musk's alleged reluctance to pay his bills Elon Musk's Twitter X is being sued by its former chairman for damages he alleges run to more than $23 million over unpaid stock options....

43% of the time, it really, really works 45% of the time Analysis Although a lot is promised of generative AI, it has the potential to be expensive at scale, and the return on investment isn't always clear. It's understandable why some enterprises, big and small, may be hesitant to invest in the technology at this stage....

Michael Sentonas hopes trophy will remind staff that failure is unacceptable DEF CON CrowdStrike's president received commendations from DEF CON attendees after accepting the Pwnie Award for Most Epic Fail, following the recent global IT outage caused by the infamous Falcon sensor update....

'Surprising move' for Indian megacorp but less so for French seller Altice India's Bharti Enterprises has swooped in to buy the 24.5 percent stake in BT Group from Patrick Drahi's Altice, at a stroke making it the biggest shareholder in the UK telecoms giant....

Forget the woes of Starliner with an audacious NASA landing on another planet that went very very right While NASA might be struggling to get its Starliner crew home, it's worth remembering that circa 12 years ago, the agency was celebrating the successful deployment of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars....

Automatic for the people? Don't mind if we do Opinion Rust changes worlds. The iron ore we mine to feed the industrial age started out as iron atoms dissolved in oceans two billion years ago. Then photosynthesis happened, pouring out oxygen that rusted that iron out of the water into the solid minerals we've found so useful today. Much the same is happening with Rust the programming language, as it becomes the mechanism of choice for turning prehistoric C code into secure, performant material fit for the future....

A fake hacker trying to take credit didn't help much, either who, me? Welcome denizens of The Reg to another Monday morn, which means an instalment of Who, Me? - the column in which readers share tales of times their undoubted technical prowess fell just a little short....

A career and life so classically Silicon Valley Susan Wojcicki, the architect of YouTube's spectacular rise and one of Silicon Valley's most influential figures, has passed away at age 56 after a two-year battle with cancer....

Dots have been joined, but hard evidence is not apparent Former US president Donald Trump's re-election campaign has claimed it's been the victim of a cyber attack....

Built its own replacement - Canal Mesh - that it says leaves Google's Istio and Ambient eating dust SIGCOMM 2024 Alibaba Cloud has claimed its home-grown service mesh for Kubernetes - Canal Mesh - significantly outperforms Google's Istio and other rival tools....

Also: British nuke subs get code from Russia; and BlackSuit begs for $500M Infosec in brief The United Nations often reaches consensus rather than complete agreement, but last week a proposal from Russia to cut down on cyber crime was unanimously approved....

Plus: Vietnam's PM leads chips push; Tesla backs out of Thailand; Drones fly trash off Everest; and more Asia In Brief US Space Command last Friday warned that a Chinese Long March 6a rocket launched on August 6 broke up in orbit and created at least 300 pieces of debris....

Utility tapped out? Why not build your own? Proximity to natural gas lines could become just as desirable for datacenter operators as high-speed fiber-optic networks as they scramble to satiate AI's ever growing thirst for power....

Or rather could, until the web giant was tipped off DEF CON Ten now-fixed bugs in Google's Quick Share for Windows could have been exploited to wirelessly write new files onto victims' PCs without their approval, and ultimately execute code remotely on those victims' machines by chaining together a handful of other vulnerabilities....

Mobile app analytics software said to surreptitiously snarf data Twilio, a communications service provider, was sued on Thursday based on allegations that the developer's Segment software siphons data from mobile apps without consent....

Is that a lot? Depends on the context. GHz, no. Voltage, yes Intel has divulged more details on its Raptor Lake family of 13th and 14th Gen Core processor failures and the 0x129 microcode that's supposed to prevent further damage from occurring....

Rival making its biggest inroads in server CPU segment The bad news for Intel keeps coming as rival AMD is slowly chipping away at its dominance in server, desktop and mobile processors, although the industry giant still holds onto the lion's share of the market and any other outfit has a long way to go to unseat it....

'Vendors cannot fix' this architectural failure, SquareX founder tells us DEF CON Secure Web Gateways (SWGs) are an essential part of enterprise security, which makes it shocking to learn that every single SWG in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE and SSE can reportedly be bypassed, allowing attackers to deliver malware without gateways ever catching on....

Come to 2019. The in-place upgrades to the Subscription Edition will be lovely Microsoft is getting serious about the impending end of extended support for Exchange 2016 and has published a guide on stripping the product from an environment that already has Exchange 2019 installed....

Layers of abstraction and speedy development have left engineers unable to understand what lies beneath black hat There's a rot at the heart of modern software development that's destroying innovation, and infosec legend Moxie Marlinspike believes he knows exactly what's to blame: Agile development....

Political officials, advisors targeted in cyber attacks as fake news sites deliver lefty zingers Microsoft says Iran's efforts to influence the November US presidential election have gathered pace recently and there are signs that point toward its intent to incite violence against key figures....

A mission that was supposed to last for less than a year went on for more than a decade NASA's comeback kid, the NEOWISE spacecraft, was this week shut down for the final time as its transmitter was turned off ahead of a reentry into the Earth's atmosphere later this year....

Code of Conduct violations include allegations that posts created 'atmosphere of FUD' The Python Steering Council has decided to suspend a core Python developer for three months for alleged Code of Conduct violations....

Meanwhile, UK watchdog contemplates breaking Cupertino's WebKit rule Apple this week revised its alternative contractual terms for devs selling apps in the European Union - a revision that was immediately dismissed by critics as more "malicious compliance."...

Poor cloud titans, just trying to give a helping hand to AI startups valued at billions of dollars Britain's competition regulator is embarking on a full blown deep dive into Amazon's multi-billion dollar investments in Anthropic to ascertain if the exchange equates to a stealthy "merger situation."...

Chipzilla taking some punches but could it stay down? Opinion Just like Boeing, once upon a time, Intel was the darling of the engineering world. Both companies were the premier tech companies in their day, but those days are long gone now....

I'm a Mac. I'm a PC. You're both annoying me On Call The Register knows that tech support is a vocation that induces frustration, which is why each Friday we offer a new edition of On Call - the reader-contributed column that details real-life support stories so you can at least enjoy misery in company....

We guess the House of Zen wants all you HIP kids to ROCm out with its own runtimes instead Analysis AMD's legal team appears to have clawed back control of much of the ZLUDA project's code base. The open source project, for which the House of Zen pulled support earlier this year, enabled compiled CUDA code to run natively on non-Nvidia GPUs....

Can't reach someone's private server on localhost from outside? No problem A years-old security oversight has been addressed in basically all web browsers - Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, WebKit browsers like Apple's Safari, and Mozilla's Firefox....

Amid reports that plenty of PC production will shift elsewhere, supply chain boss emphasizes agility HP Inc loves China and wants to keep making and designing products there, but also loves the idea of diversifying its operations to other countries in case geopolitics becomes a problem....

Space Launch System project overspent, under-built, and is overdue, government probe finds Boeing and NASA have come in for scathing criticism from federal investigators, who examined the next generation of Space Launch System rockets....

Multiple critical flaws found and they won't be fixed A boffin from British defence contractor BAE has found three critical flaws in Cisco's Small Business SPA300 and SPA500 IP phones - and another couple of nasties - none of which will be fixed or mitigated....

Could we please start taking this seriously? Black Hat One would hope that, after years of telling businesses to secure their systems, enterprises would have better web app security than cybercriminals do. But research presented at Black Hat this week suggests that's not the case at all....

Been injecting prompts to test the safety of large language models? Better call Saul black hat Existing US laws tackling those illegally breaking computer systems don't accommodate modern large language models (LLMs) and can open researchers up to prosecution for what ought to be sanctioned security testing, say a trio of Harvard scholars....

Airline unimpressed with 'unhelpful and untimely' phone call from CEO, Falcon maker says claims untrue Delta Air Lines has come out swinging at CrowdStrike in a letter accusing the security giant of trying to "shift the blame" for the IT meltdown caused by its software - and that CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz's offer of support was too little, too late....

Pension fund claims CEO, CFO covered up truth about money-pit foundry Over the past few weeks, Intel has found itself in a mess of legal trouble over everything from CPUs that slowly fry themselves to allegations it misled investors about the chipmaker's well-being....

American and Brit firms thought they were employing a Westerner, but not so, it's alleged The FBI today arrested a Tennessee man suspected of running a "laptop farm" that got North Koreans, posing as Westerners, IT jobs at American and British companies....

Chipzilla takes its Arc Alchemist A750, gives it some more RAM, and says it's for AI-powered jalopies Intel has finally got around to launching a new GPU - except it's a reskin of a graphics processor already on the market, and this time targeted at the automotive industry....