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Another Chrome memory bug gets squashed, but not before attackers got their hands on it

BYOD claims extensive data theft as campus Wi-Fi returns, most systems remain restricted, and classes carry on

Sunset of legacy cellphone tech means forced upgrade for many millions of smart energy meter users

Post-quantum handshake and Triple Ratchet get a formal security check

Admins have until December 9 to review access settings as Anthropic processes data in the US

After years of missed deadlines, ballooning costs, and a blame game over who was responsible, Brussels has finally called in the lawyers

Force deploys an operational squadron to gain experience in uncrewed systems as part of its Hybrid Navy vision

Office 365 A1 and Student Use Benefit face retirement, leaving institutions to budget for paid replacements at renewal

Global rollout of unified portal finally happening in 2027

Enterprise security tools will offer its capabilities without handing customers the model itself

The 'first cyber offensive campaign carried out purely for the purpose of sabotage on national territory'

Wiz researchers uncovered the secret-stealing supply-chain attack

Pair of researchers chain WAF bypasses and default logins to command vehicles in Australia and the US

Leibniz lives!

Windows preview adds a 'don't ask again' option to accessibility prompts, sparing users a trip through Settings

Cut-and-shut trundlebot with spiffy new paint job meant to be headed to the Moon in 2028

A mountain of CVEs, a certificate cleanup, and yet more work for Microsoft's patching teams

UK shoppers caught up in third-party security mess, and nobody knows whether the data was flushed away

Infrastructure spending outruns measurable returns, with supplier finances key to judging when trouble arrives

Missing DMARC or wobbly SPF means your mail may be treated as suspicious

EVENT: Peers compare how they find the shares nobody closed, over dinner with The Register in London.

No reopening date as orders face delays and some customers are told to refuse deliveries to cancel purchases

Rage, rage against the dying of the right

Altman, Torvalds, Yen. One has got his head screwed on. The others could do with some grounding

Stolen sysadmin credentials enabled a follow-on attack on the campus management system

Music fan from Wales lets listeners pit AI-generated songs against human bops - including toilet operas and HR protest songs

Soaring component costs and warranties of up to three years give buyers more reason to consider pre-loved hardware

One lucky engineer scored a free dinner during the frantic fix, the rest got to explain their mistake

Fixes are arriving faster than new bug reports for one major Linux project

PLUS: Japan declares infosec emergency; Apple makes biggest school Mac sale, ever, anywhere, in the Philippines; And more!

Admits to affair after company board opens probe into alleged contact with possible Chinese asset who bought GPUs in bulk

Browser demo renders the classic shooter in ASCII, with no login required and considerable squinting encouraged

278 proposals on table, and some fear they might shift power to governments

The case for managed inference, or automatically routing queries to the right model for the right job

Team given a day's notice faced distressed callers, safeguarding decisions during project that stretched from 2 weeks to 11

Bad drivers behind the wheel or underneath the operating system - neither is ideal

If you wouldn't put it on GitHub, don't give models access to it

Technical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient

The FAA will need to come up with more money to finish the wider overhaul, though

New and revived desktops promise Cupertino polish, but our quick tests found a few seams showing

Co-design platform for quantum error correction melds IBM quantum kit with AMD CPUs and GPUs

Who'd'a thunk a giant steel box could make such a flop? Us, that's who - and probably you, too

Organization responsible for countering anyone who wishes to scupper the US's ambition for AI supremacy

Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8

Staff memo pushes return to flight into January, overshadowing third-stage and engine announcements

Botched server move left the door open, and DigiCert took months to notice someone had wandered in

Planning notice puts renewal at nearly twice the 2023 value, just as Whitehall frets about US tech dependence

Turns out throwing billions at GPUs doesn't automatically mean everyone gets more done

Cyber Security and Resilience Bill could pave way for searches, seizures, and inspections when operators lose control of automated systems

Supplier told to clear benefit claims with health chiefs, though enforcing approval could prove tricky