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Suspected Scattered Spider domains target everyone from manufacturers to Chipotle
Plus: Qantas makes contact with 'potential cyber criminal' While the aviation industry has borne the brunt of Scattered Spider's latest round of social engineering attacks, the criminals aim to catch manufacturing and medical tech companies - and even Chipotle Mexican Grill -in tjeor web, as evidenced by hundreds of domains that security researchers say look a lot like phishing websites used by the criminal crews....
Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung
They're both silent on what, if anything, has changed Epic Games has settled the case it brought against Samsung over the Korean giant's treatment of third-party app stores on its Galaxy handsets....
Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1
Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan World War Fee The Trump administration on Monday announced the tariff rates it will impose on fourteen nations starting on August 1st, and several big technology-producing nations made the list....
Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia
Investors advised to brace for massive fall from Q1 to Q2 Analysis During the AI gold rush, the next best thing to selling the shovels - that is, the GPUs -is manufacturing the silicon that makes them possible. But while TSMC and SK-Hynix continue to cash in on Nvidia's successes, Samsung hasn't been nearly so fortunate....
Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers
Using prompt injections to play a Jedi mind trick on LLMs A handful of international computer science researchers appear to be trying to influence AI reviews with a new class of prompt injection attack....
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho
Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness The new nuclear age of small modular reactors may not have materialized yet, but that's not stopping the US Department of Energy from getting to work on even smaller, more modular reactors with a couple of new commercial partners....
CitrixBleed 2 exploits are on the loose as security researchers yell and wave their hands
NetScaler vendor issued a patch but otherwise, stony silence Multiple exploits are circulating for CVE-2025-5777, a critical bug in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway dubbed CitrixBleed 2, and security analysts are warning a "significant portion" of users still haven't patched....
CoreWeave's $9B Core Scientific acquisition is a bid for more power
All the GPUs in the world aren't worth much if you don't have a place to put them CoreWeave just added 1.3 gigawatts of datacenter capacity to its rent-a-GPU scheme with the $9 billion acquisition of crypto-mining outfit Core Scientific, the companies announced Monday....
Apple tries get €500M EU fine tossed
The iMaker's fight with European regulators continues Apple is on the hook for a 500 million (US $587 million) anti-steering fine in the EU, so it's reportedly doing what any profit-driven enterprise in such a position would do: Appealing....
Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles
Lucy in the sky with calcium Astroboffins have found the first evidence of a double-detonated Type Ia supernova, which could explain why we have enough bright points of reference in the skies to plot our place in the universe....
Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges
As power concerns beset builds, this floating datacenter can plug into powership next door Japanese shipping biz Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is planning to fit out a ship as a floating datacenter that can draw energy from the shore or from an accompanying powership....
Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long
Line-judging tech flubs crucial point, leaving players and fans seeing red "You cannot be serious" was likely uttered by more than a few folk watching Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova versus Britain's Sonay Kartal at Wimbledon yesterday after the tennis tournament's AI line-calling tech dropped the ball....
'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data
Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings The US defense department satellite service that's cutting off the flow of data used for hurricane forecasting is doing so "to mitigate a significant cybersecurity risk" to government "high performance computing environments."...
Phishing platforms, infostealers blamed as identity attacks soar
Get your creds in order or risk BEC, ransomware attacks, orgs warned A rise in advanced phishing kits and info-stealing malware are to blame for a 156 percent jump in cyberattacks targeting user logins, say researchers....
Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes
Digital map of subterranean infrastructure promised in 2021 set to launch by year end Ordnance Survey, the UK's official map maker, is seeking a tech supplier to help it obtain and manage data from utilities companies for a project that aims to avoid damage to subterranean infrastructure, which costs around 2.4 billion a year....
TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions
Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't Comment Few IT leaders or staffers realize just how much automation, AI, and cloud delivery are disrupting the legal and human frameworks that underpin outsourcing - especially when it comes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, better known as TUPE....
AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game
A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor Opinion In human imagination, AIs have been good for two things: trying to take over, and loving a good game. The earliest post-war AI thinkers took it almost for granted that once computers could beat humans at chess, true artificial intelligence would have arrived. Such thinking was disproved 50 years on when IBM's Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997. Computers could be very, very good at chess while still having the IQ of a pebble....
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time
Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error Who, Me? Monday morning brings many readers a return to the world of adults, which The Register marks by bringing you a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of making mistakes for which you are somehow forgiven....
Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway
Airlines get the chance to cool their jets rather than burn fuel on the ground Airbus last week revealed it has certified a Taxibot" to transport its single-aisle planes from stand to runway....
VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks
Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust As VMware pushes its vision for private clouds built around its core virtualization technology, rival vendors are ramping their efforts to create an alternative stack....
Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill
PLUS: Lexmark's Chinese owners sell to Xerox; India, Australia, target underwater drones; JPMorgan drops custom TLDs; and more! Asia In Brief Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has migrated the four million Postgres databases that back its customers' Jira implementations to Amazon Web Services' Aurora....
Stalkerware firm gets scooped by SQL-slinging security snoop
Also, Swiss ransomware posture looks like its cheese, the CVE Program wants YOU, more sus checks and more Infosec In Brief A security researcher looking at samples of stalkerware discovered an SQL vulnerability that allowed him to steal a database of 62,000 user accounts....
Ingram Micro confirms ransomware behind multi-day outage
SafePay crew claims responsibility for intrusion at one of world's largest tech distributors Ingram Micro, one of the world's largest distributors, has confirmed it is trying to restore systems following a ransomware attack....
UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites
Got to be a 'clean space superpower' - right, Brits? Britain's space agency is looking for a supplier to build a robotic spacecraft to capture and de-orbit two defunct UK-licensed satellites from low Earth orbit....
Massive spike in use of .es domains for phishing abuse
Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds Cybersecurity experts are reporting a 19x increase in malicious campaigns being launched from .es domains, making it the third most common, behind only .com and .ru....
iFixit gives new Fairphone 6 top marks for repairability: 10/10
It's not cheap or high end, but it should last you for years to come The sixth generation of the Fairphone repairable mobile was launched at the end of June. Now spudger-flingers iFixit have got their hands on it, and liked the result....
Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister
Possibility of joining IRIS^2 remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze A UK minister has told Parliament that joining Europe's answer to Starlink - Elon Musk's satellite-based mobile internet service - would be a "stretch" given the nation's current financial challenges....
Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her
Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits The former head of the US Copyright Office has pushed back against arguments from President Donald Trump's team that her dismissal was lawful....
Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0
Venerable command line tool to depart Windows Users still clinging on to PowerShell 2.0 just received notice to quit as the command-line tool is officially leaving Windows....
Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far
It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate deep dive Amazon Web Services (AWS) is in the process of building out a massive supercomputing cluster containing "hundreds of thousands" of accelerators that promises to give its model building buddies at Anthropic a leg up in the AI arms race....
Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests
New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared New models from recent Martian probe data suggest the fourth planet from the Sun once hosted a fluctuating desert environment with intermittent oases of water....
We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10
Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks past its predecessor Windows 11 has finally overtaken the market share of its predecessor, with just three months remaining until Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 10....
14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders
Fears mount while distie remains silent and phone lines down Exclusive Widespread outages across Ingram Micro's websites and client service portals are being attributed to "technical difficulties."...
Former and current Microsofties react to the latest round of layoffs
'JFC, again?' Microsoft's latest round of layoffs has triggered an outpouring of emotion from inside and outside the company, with at least one former staffer asking: "How many billions must be burned in the AI furnace before this stops?"...
Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy
There's more to the Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia Comment Multiple other projects also use the vast linked data store that underpins ubiquitous internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia, and some of them are helping the fight for democracy....
'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress
Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not On Call Friday dawns with the promise of precious freedom, yet the world of tech support is seldom free from trouble. The Register always finds a way to celebrate anyway, by bringing you a fresh instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that tells your tales of breaking away from bad bosses and ungrateful users....
EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players
Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations' French AI business Mistral on Thursday announced an initiative called AI for Citizens," which it says offers a way to work with governments and public institutions to transform public services using AI....
Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day
Zuck backs a digital majority age' and Google open sources tech that might enforce it Google and Meta have independently taken actions to support a safer internet for kids - and given blockchain boosters a moment to celebrate....
Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork
If you come out of a coma in 2026, this is the machine you might see staring down at you Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn and Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries have revealed a jointly developed robotic nursing assistant they hope to start selling in 2026....
Microsoft leaves Pakistan but promises customers won't notice the change
Job cuts aren't big, symbolism of quitting the world's fifth-most-populous nation might be Exclusive Microsoft has decided to close its presence in Pakistan....
Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box
A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool Scientists at Johns Hopkins and Samsung have developed a nano-engineered thermoelectric material that is twice as efficient at material-level cooling as existing alternatives, paving the way for broader adoption of solid-state refrigeration technology....
US budget bill passes without controversial block on states regulating AI
And with some increases to rural broadband funds, fresh spectrum auctions, and wholesale dismantling of clean energy subsidies Lawmakers have passed President Trump's budget reconciliation but removed one of its most tech-contentious measures - the ban of state-level AI regulation - meaning the law will have little effect on the tech industry....
AI models just don't understand what they're talking about
Researchers find models' success at tests hides illusion of understanding Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term "potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that ace conceptual benchmarks but lack the true grasp needed to apply those concepts in practice....
US Air Force holds hypersonic resupply site review amid seabird concerns
Red-tailed tropicbirds stymie Johnston Atoll maneuvers The US Air Force is putting plans to use rocket landings for resupply missions on hold over environmental concerns about the effect they would have on local seabirds....
Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls
Robotaxis, humanoid robots, and fights with Trump can't hide declining EV sales Comment Tesla reported its vehicle delivery and production numbers for Q2 2025 this week, and while the figures weren't quite as low in absolute terms as Q1, they still mark a worrying downward trend as CEO Elon Musk continues to spread his attention across a huge variety of topics unrelated to making and selling electric cars....
Microsoft Windows Firewall complains about Microsoft code
Just ignore the warnings. Nothing to see here. Move along A mysterious piece of "under development" code is playing havoc with the Windows Firewall after the latest preview update for Windows 11 24H2....
Young Consulting finds even more folks affected in breach mess – now over 1 million
The insurance SaaS slinger may trade under a different name, but past continues to haunt it Young Consulting's cybersecurity woes continue after the number of affected individuals from last year's suspected ransomware raid passed the 1 million mark....
Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters
Biz needs AI infra for training ever larger models, but something's gotta give World War Fee Datacenter operators in Northern Europe say US tariffs and growing global geopolitical instability are inflating costs and causing delays to construction projects....
Gone in 40 days: US drops ban on export of chip design tools to China
Vendors have reason to celebrate as geopolitics recalibrate World War Fee The US has lifted the requirement to secure a license before exporting Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools to China, say EDA vendors....
Meta calls €200M EU fine over pay-or-consent ad model 'unlawful'
'Deserves fair compensation for the valuable and innovative services'? Which ones are those then? Meta has come out swinging following the European Commission's decision that its pay-or-consent model falls foul of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)....
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