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UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home
One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 times Police in the United Kingdom appear to be taking a cue from Homer Simpson's playbook, with officers in multiple departments accused of "key jamming" to make it look like they were working from home when they likely weren't....
Ex-US cyber boss slams politics getting in the way of preparedness
And don't even get him started on AI interview The bodies responsible for securing America from cyberattacks are currently too fragmented to be successful, according to former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, the first person ever to hold that job....
Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack
Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after attackers socially engineered AWS into freezing its domain....
Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told
Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking How would you move Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Texas? The White House Office of Management and Budget asked NASA and the Smithsonian Institution and the response was to dismantle it....
Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience
Replies are slow and it's prone to gibberish - just like any other AI Never mind Doom running on a potato, or whatever - the next generation of ridiculous computing belongs to Minecraft YouTuber Sammyuri, who built a working chatbot in the perennially popular voxel building sandbox....
OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject
Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month OpenAI has persuaded two of South Korea's chip titans to fuel its bid to build the biggest AI engine yet....
Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance
Apple's bad QA or poor coding by developers? The Electron team has fixed code that caused system-wide slowdowns on the newly released macOS 26 "Tahoe."...
SaaS turbo-charged software spending tough for CIOs to control, says research
Consulting biz reckons ballooning costs a result of changes in licensing, vendor landscape, and product shifts Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is warning that organizations need to rethink their approach to buying software as the ongoing push of SaaS into the market gathers pace....
Apple's AirPods Pro 3 are still chuck-and-buy-again specials
Zero repairability rating: iFixit teardown finds earbuds glued, unfixable, and destined for recycling Improvements in repairability might have been made elsewhere in Apple's product range, but the AirPods Pro 3 model continue to make repairs virtually impossible....
Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims
Extortion emails name-drop Big Red's E-Business Suite, though Google and Mandiant yet to find proof of any breach Criminals with potential links to the notorious Clop ransomware mob are bombarding Oracle execs with extortion emails, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from Big Red's E-Business Suite, according to researchers....
Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the free security updates With just days remaining until Microsoft discontinues free support, Windows 10 still accounts for 40.5 percent of the Windows desktop market, At the same time, Windows 11 adoption remains at just 48.94 percent....
EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers
Experts say Commission is fanning the flames' of the continent's own Watergate An arsenal of angry European Parliament members (MEPs) is demanding answers from senior commissioners about why EU subsidies are ending up in the pockets of spyware companies....
BT promises 5G Standalone for 99% of the UK by 2030
Because 100% would just be silly BT wants to have 5G Standalone (5G SA) mobile service available to 99 percent of the local population by the end of the decade, but it isn't the only telco with lofty ambitions....
Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath
Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress Italian rocket company Avio has signed a 40 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a reusable upper stage, a project already drawing skepticism from industry watchers....
Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files
570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive documents belonging to customers....
Ionos customers fume at mid-contract Plesk hike
Web host blames partner's license fee increase, but users say notice was too short and terms unfair Exclusive Hosting biz Ionos is hiking the price of its server instances, blaming an increase in Plesk license costs. Customers have a month to accept the increase or else disable Plesk on their account....
Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects
Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humanity The UK's pensions and benefits department has awarded IBM a contract that's worth up to 27 million to explore, deploy and support AI technologies to enhance its services....
Lloyds Banking Group says 'digitization' will power more branch closures
Group promises sandboxing of AI money management tools with 1,000 branches remaining Lloyds Banking Group - the 18.67 billion turnover UK-based bank - has promised that it will continue to use digitization" to power a program of branch closures....
Microsoft confirms it found a way to make Crocs even uglier – with Windows XP and Clippy
It looks like you want some horrible shoes. Would you like to win them? Microsoft has delivered its found a way to make Crocs even uglier by using some of its own software....
Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks
Stray signals are a no-no when you're trying to tune into the stars IAC 2025 Work on the datacenter that serves the Square Kilometre Array's (SKA's) site in Western Australia is all but complete, including the installation of two Faraday cages to ensure the equipment inside does not leak radio waves that could harm the operation of the giant radio telescope....
New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals collapses
Discovers debt it didn't fully understand, leaving skilled migrants and students in limbo New Zealand's Institute of IT Professionals has discovered it is insolvent and advised members it has no alternative but to enter liquidation....
Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads
Religion, race, health and other dicey topics supposedly exempt Meta, having committed hundreds of billions to AI infrastructure and talent, says it will start using people's conversations and interactions with its AI services to create personalized content and advertising....
Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down
And it's not the first time gunfire has cut Spectrum's lines A stray bullet cut through a Spectrum fiber line on Friday, knocking an undisclosed number of Texans offline....
Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority
Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account Your job may not support BYOD, but how about BYOC? Microsoft has declared that people can bring their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions to work to access various Copilot features at companies that fail to provide an AI fix....
US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex federal CISO tells The Register The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on skeleton crews....
'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover
Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes? A 9.9 out of 10 severity bug in Red Hat's OpenShift AI service could allow a remote attacker with minimal authentication to steal data, disrupt services, and fully hijack the platform....
AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study
Other studies are finding the same thing Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people's jobs, there's very little evidence of it actually happening....
Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach
Uncle Sam can't quit Redmond Exclusive The US Air Force confirmed it's investigating a "privacy-related issue" amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable to service members....
Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing
Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on... A lot of knobs Aurora, a relatively young distro from Austria, bills itself as "your stable, privacy-respecting and ultimate productivity OS." These are rather bold claims, though many other Linux distros make the same promise....
Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future
Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told staff on Wednesday that he's appointing Judson Althoff to a new role as CEO of the company's commercial business, so that the big boss can concentrate on Redmond's future plans and strategy....
Hundreds of orgs urge Microsoft: don’t kill off free Windows 10 updates
Petitions pile up on Satya's desk while Windows 7 mysteriously surges back from the grave With Windows 10 support set to expire on October 14, hundreds of repair shops, nonprofits, and advocacy groups are urging Microsoft to extend free and automatic security updates instead of stranding hundreds of millions of PCs....
Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out
Microsoft's Secure Future pitch lands with old bugs still in tow Windows 11 25H2 has seeped out of Redmond with just two weeks left before free support for most Windows 10 versions goes down the drain....
SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13
Once more with feeling... SpaceX has named the date when it will try for another Starship launch without anything exploding. October 13, which is both the Columbus Day / Indigenous People's Day holiday and the last day of Windows 10 support, is the current target....
OpenStack in the pink with Flamingo release that escapes ancient Python constrictions
Project boss pleased to be getting on top of technical debt OpenStack has delivered its 32nd major release, named "Flamingo."...
Taiwan gets chippy about US request it shifts manufacturing
US has threatened even higher tariffs and the possible loss of military support Taiwan has rejected US demands to shift semiconductor manufacturing so that half of America's chip needs are produced domestically, as tariff negotiations with the Trump administration intensify....
Export controls now a key factor in AI chip development – adding risk for the whole industry
The physics of transistors and politics of trading licenses are colliding on the AI frontier Analysis Few of us would have imagined that national security would play such a key role in AI hardware, even dictating its development, but here we are - in a new era of export controls....
Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory
Another thing you can blame on the hypefest: demand sends HBM costs up 120% in a year Raspberry Pi is upping the cost of some devices by double-digit percentages from today driven by what CEO Eben Upton calls "insatiable demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI applications."...
3.7M breach notification letters set to flood North America's mailboxes
Allianz Life and WestJet lead the way, along with a niche software shop A trio of companies disclosed data breaches this week affecting approximately 3.7 million customers and employees across North America....
JetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets
Dangles free product licenses in return for code-related data for its training IDE and developer tools biz JetBrains believes training AI models on public datasets is insufficient, and is offering free product licenses to organizations that are willing to share detailed code-related data....
Autonomous AI adoption stalls amid trust and governance crisis
Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years Enterprises aren't keen on letting autonomous agents take the wheel amid fears over trust and security as research once again shows that AI hype is crashing against the rocks of reality....
Judge dismisses Arm's last legal claim against Qualcomm in licensing spat
Chip designer tells The Reg it plans to appeal Qualcomm is claiming complete victory over Arm in their licensing spat, after a court in Delaware ruled it has not breached the terms of any architecture license agreement (ALA) with the chip designer....
Imgur yanks Brit access to memes as parent company faces fine
ICO investigation into platform's lack of age assurance continues The UK's data watchdog has described Imgur's move to block UK users as "a commercial decision" after signaling plans to fine parent company MediaLab....
Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told
Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead UK prime minister Keir Starmer avoided mentioning the mandatory digital ID scheme in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference amid calls for him to put meat on the bones of the plans or risk it failing fast....
Schools are swotting up on security yet still flunk recovery when cyberattacks strike
Coursework 'gone forever' as 10% report critical damage Schools and colleges hit by cyberattacks are taking longer to restore their networks - and the consequences are severe, with students' coursework being permanently lost in some cases....
UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check
Experts ask: Where will staff come from, and what about gran's flip phone? The government has announced a new "digital hospital" service in England that will provide online appointments with consultants as an alternative to visiting a National Health Service (NHS) hospital....
Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums also serve science on tap
Because sometimes you need a V2 rocket with your schnitzel Geek's Guide It's September and the German city of Munich is celebrating Oktoberfest. But away from the beer tents, schnitzel, and lederhosen lies a set of museums worth visiting for the price of a few beers....
Blockchain just became an utterly mainstream part of the global financial system
SWIFT and 30 banks promise to bake it into international payment infrastructure Blockchains are still synonymous with the wild world of cryptocurrencies, but on Monday, 30 banks and SWIFT - the world's most important cross-border payment service - made them an utterly mainstream part of the global financial system....
Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline
No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery Afghanistan has dropped off the global internet....
Beijing-backed burglars master .NET to target government web servers
Phantom Taurus' created custom malware to hunt secrets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Threat-hunters at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have decided a gang they spotted two years ago is backed by China, after seeing it sling a new variety of malware....
Salesforce users grumble after Agentforce AI replaces search on some help pages
This is one way to add a lot of AI users in a hurry, which Wall Street wants to see Salesforce developers have called for the SaaS-y CRM giant to wind back a change that saw the AI-powered Agentforce bot replace basic search functions on some online help pages....
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