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Updated 2026-11-10 20:17
Barracuda’s email security gateways bitten by make-me-root vulns
Someone's fishing for exposed devices
14-year-old creates tool for AI agents to band together like a team
Autark can act without constant prompting, but leaves users to enforce their own security boundaries
Mozilla Thunderbird email service edges closer to launch with early access
Some waitlist members get a first look at Thundermail, a paid alternative to Gmail
AMD winds up Zen 6 cores for faster clock speeds
Chips boast up to 256 cores, clocks up to 5.3 GHz, and IPC gains of 20 to 31 percent, just not all on the same SKU
AMD's Epyc X-chips are back after a three-year hiatus
Venice-X promises big speedup for EDA and HPC workloads
A closer look at Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin
Cores, clocks, memory, and interconnects all perfectly balanced for a singular mission: keeping instinct fed.
Trump taps Palantir security chief to run battered US cyber defense agency
Michael LoSapio could inherit a depleted workforce and a political headache or two, courtesy of his current employer
Fireworks AI gets burned twice as customer data exposure widens
Inference biz pins latest breach on cloud provider and LLMJacking miscreants
Another contract extension for Fujitsu on the Post Office's Horizon
Just a few more months until Accenture takes over running scandal-hit Horizon system
Stanford's century-long AI study admits it's already out of date
Five-year review charts upheaval in work, science, and public life - with little consensus on who's in control
Chrome zero-day whack-a-mole continues as 2026 tally hits 8
Another Chrome memory bug gets squashed, but not before attackers got their hands on it
Ransomware threat blares from Vanderbilt University computers during cyberattack
BYOD claims extensive data theft as campus Wi-Fi returns, most systems remain restricted, and classes carry on
Smart meters to cost the UK billions: 2G switch-off means replacing 12-13 million
Sunset of legacy cellphone tech means forced upgrade for many millions of smart energy meter users
Google DeepMind melds humans and AI agents to vet Signal's secure messaging techniques
Post-quantum handshake and Triple Ratchet get a formal security check
Microsoft is giving Claude the keys to UK Copilot tenants by default
Admins have until December 9 to review access settings as Anthropic processes data in the US
EU's €212M border IT project lands IBM and Atos in legal water
After years of missed deadlines, ballooning costs, and a blame game over who was responsible, Brussels has finally called in the lawyers
Royal Navy stands up first autonomous boat squadron
Force deploys an operational squadron to gain experience in uncrewed systems as part of its Hybrid Navy vision
Microsoft teaches schools that free email was just a phase
Office 365 A1 and Student Use Benefit face retirement, leaving institutions to budget for paid replacements at renewal
Cisco to link all future products to its SaaS-y Cloud Control management tool
Global rollout of unified portal finally happening in 2027
Anthropic's super bug-finding Mythos model is going into Cisco and IBM products
Enterprise security tools will offer its capabilities without handing customers the model itself
France blames Iran for supermarket hack meltdowns
The 'first cyber offensive campaign carried out purely for the purpose of sabotage on national territory'
Attackers backdoor trusted AWS integrations to steal secrets
Wiz researchers uncovered the secret-stealing supply-chain attack
Researchers pwn automakers’ Android apps to remotely unlock cars, honk horns
Pair of researchers chain WAF bypasses and default logins to command vehicles in Australia and the US
Insight about how 'nature makes no leaps' promises better robot predictions
Leibniz lives!
Microsoft takes three decades to make Sticky Keys less sticky
Windows preview adds a 'don't ask again' option to accessibility prompts, sparing users a trip through Settings
NASA keeps its PROMISE to raid Mars testbeds for parts
Cut-and-shut trundlebot with spiffy new paint job meant to be headed to the Moon in 2028
Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session
A mountain of CVEs, a certificate cleanup, and yet more work for Microsoft's patching teams
Who Gives A Crap? Hackers, apparently, after toilet paper maker's customer data exposed
UK shoppers caught up in third-party security mess, and nobody knows whether the data was flushed away
The AI bubble can wait, but your exit plan can't
Infrastructure spending outruns measurable returns, with supplier finances key to judging when trouble arrives
Outlook.com bounces legit emails as Microsoft's authentication crackdown goes sideways
Missing DMARC or wobbly SPF means your mail may be treated as suspicious
Who can still open your files after they've left?
EVENT: Peers compare how they find the shares nobody closed, over dinner with The Register in London.
Japanese homeware giant pulls online store after cloud breach puts 7.7M records at risk
No reopening date as orders face delays and some customers are told to refuse deliveries to cancel purchases
Datacenters, Elon Musk, and AI are all on the chopping block once Congress changes hands in 2027
Rage, rage against the dying of the right
AI echo chambers and sanity in tech leadership: Three case studies
Altman, Torvalds, Yen. One has got his head screwed on. The others could do with some grounding
Portal breach at Germany's top university exposes every registered user's password
Stolen sysadmin credentials enabled a follow-on attack on the campus management system
AI Slop FM radio experiment puts machines on trial, one dodgy tune at a time
Music fan from Wales lets listeners pit AI-generated songs against human bops - including toilet operas and HR protest songs
Memory crunch makes refurbished kit look a lot less secondhand
Soaring component costs and warranties of up to three years give buyers more reason to consider pre-loved hardware
Dev error bricked 600 PCs, caused $1M CD-ROM write-off
One lucky engineer scored a free dinner during the frantic fix, the rest got to explain their mistake
Linus Torvalds sees signs AI-prompted patch flood has peaked
Fixes are arriving faster than new bug reports for one major Linux project
Huawei says it’s made a 100 percent Chinese PC
PLUS: Japan declares infosec emergency; Apple makes biggest school Mac sale, ever, anywhere, in the Philippines; And more!
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang starring in possible remake of The Spy Who Shagged Me
Admits to affair after company board opens probe into alleged contact with possible Chinese asset who bought GPUs in bulk
Doom delivers five minutes of terminal violence on an IBM mainframe
Browser demo renders the classic shooter in ASCII, with no login required and considerable squinting encouraged
Internet governance about to get its quadrennial stress test at ITU meeting
278 proposals on table, and some fear they might shift power to governments
Fireworks says you’re wasting money on AI unless you’re using all the models
The case for managed inference, or automatically routing queries to the right model for the right job
NHS breach helpline left staff carrying a 'significant emotional burden'
Team given a day's notice faced distressed callers, safeguarding decisions during project that stretched from 2 weeks to 11
Windows takes a break at UK motorway services
Bad drivers behind the wheel or underneath the operating system - neither is ideal
Agents reveal secrets when offered to team up with each other
If you wouldn't put it on GitHub, don't give models access to it
PyTorch 2.15 tackles the 'one bad GPU' problem
Technical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient
US air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy disks
The FAA will need to come up with more money to finish the wider overhaul, though
Mac lookalikes multiply as Linux raids Apple's wardrobe
New and revived desktops promise Cupertino polish, but our quick tests found a few seams showing
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