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Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware hands on VirtualBox 7.2 is here, bringing improved Arm-on-Arm virtualization features and better 3D acceleration support....

Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037 A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the "Year 2038 problem," has come from the past, as National Museum Of Computing system restorers have discovered an unsetting issue while working on ancient systems....

The funds were already allocated under the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave program Congratulations America, your government now owns 10 percent of troubled domestic chipmaker Intel....

Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges AI's drinking habit has been grossly overstated, according to a newly published report from Google, which claims that software advancements have cut Gemini's water consumption per prompt to roughly five drops of water - substantially less than prior estimates....

Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among major customers Data I/O, a major electronics manufacturer whose customers include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, notified federal regulators that it fell victim to a ransomware infection on August 16 that continues to disrupt its business operations....

Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes Researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding ways to normalize power demand during AI training....

Bug fixes, message links, and hints of Exchange support in the pipeline Mozilla-owned subsidiary MZLA has released a new version of the Thunderbird messaging client and shared details on the forthcoming paid Thunderbird Pro service....

But it's just a test, as NYC still doesn't allow driverless for-hire cars Waymo robotaxis are set to return to the streets of New York City after a four-year absence. But with a list of caveats longer than a Midtown bagel shop brunch line, Waymo's return isn't something for pedestrians to get nervous about yet....

Health details, tax ID numbers, even images of checks were stolen, reportedly by the Interlock gang Ransomware scum breached kidney dialysis firm Davita's labs database in April and stole about 2.4 million people's personal and health-related information....

Just over 50 days until Microsoft pulls the plug OneNote for Windows 10 is on the way out. On October 14, it will reach the end of the road support-wise, and anything left in it will become read-only....

Latest ad for the T1 looks suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in a Spigen case President Trump's personally branded wireless provider was supposed to have a "premium" Android smartphone - gold, of course - on the market by September, but it appears the mobile virtual network operator has yet to even settle on a design to steal....

Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings It's been 50 years since NASA sent Viking 1 on a mission to Mars....

CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devs Good news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla's browser now makes even more extensive use of AI, providing summaries of linked content and offering developers the ability to add LLM support to extensions....

LibDem leader Sir Ed Davey calls Elon Musk a threat to national security The leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat party is opposing a Tesla subsidiary being granted a license to supply electricity in Britain, calling Elon Musk a threat to national security. ...

Hmm, six, well, that's going to make Russia worry ... Britain's threadbare defenses are getting a small boost. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) just announced that it's purchasing six new Land Ceptoranti-aircraft missile systems....

Users told to switch protocols or delay installation while Redmond investigates Microsoft has admitted to yet another issue in the Windows 11 August 2025 Security Update: streaming apps might be disrupted by the changes....

The attack first affected an upstream provider of bespoke software Exclusive A leading UK provider of criminal record checks for employers is handling a data breach stemming from a third-party development company....

ClickFix tricks Microsoft's security team has published an in-depth report into ClickFix, the social engineering attack which tricks users into executing malicious commands in the guise of proving their humanity....

Update finally gives coders control over when - and if - AI butts in Good news for developers growing tired of Copilot's helpful suggestions. Microsoft has announced that it is now possible to make the programming assistant a little less irritating....

Crypto mines, BEC scams, fake passports, and a $300M fraud empire allegedly brought down during Serengeti 2.0 Interpol's latest clampdown on cybercrime resulted in 1,209 arrests across the African continent, from ransomware crooks to business email compromise (BEC) scammers, the agency says....

Windows giant takes aim at spammers exploiting new 365 tenants Microsoft has issued a warning to companies using the onmicrosoft.com domain for emails: get your domain sorted out or face throttling....

Coweta County stalls bit barn vote as residents revolt A county in the US state of Georgia is facing opposition to the construction of a massive hyperscale datacenter campus, reflecting the growing concerns of communities in America and elsewhere over the rush to build more cloud and AI infrastructure....

Project scrambles for mitigation as AUR, forums, and main site feel the strain Some joyless ne'er-do-well has loosed a botnet on the community-driven Arch Linux distro, with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack now in its second week of sustained disruption....

Graphics API, crash reporting and more: Making low-level code cross-platform for Windows is a challenge Zed co-founder Max Brunsfeld has explained why the Windows port of the Rust-based editor is taking so long - illustrating the friction facing developers of cross-platform applications when including Microsoft's operating system....

Open source Surya system promises early alerts for space weather that can fry satellites and grids Boffins at IBM and NASA have concocted an AI model to help predict the weather, but this time it is taking on space weather that might disrupt satellites and spacecraft, possibly even terrestrial power grids and the internet....

Escort's forgotten cap left techie facing rifles and a debrief On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that tells tales of your tech support misadventures....

FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in The head of America's consumer watchdog has issued a stark warning to some of the biggest names in the tech sphere - don't backdoor encryption or censor content at the behest of foreign governments, or there may be consequences....

Fujitsu doesn't have the project all to itself any more Japanese research institution RIKEN has decided it needs GPUs for its next generation FugakuNEXT" supercomputer and has signed Nvidia to supply them and design the systems needed to get them working....

Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean Dwarf planet Ceres, the unpleasant lump of icy rock orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, once had an environment in which microbes might have thrived....

Also fired another AI - GitHub Copilot - after it produced mixed results in utilisation and efficacy' Australia's Commonwealth Bank has decided not to fire 45 workers it planned to replace with an AI chatbot....

Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an update to its flagship large language model that the company claims is already optimized for use with a new generation of homegrown silicon....

Pro tip: When taking revenge, don't use your real name A US court sentenced a former developer at power management biz Eaton to four years in prison after he installed malware on the company's servers....

Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right? Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear weapons....

Better late than never after SharePoint assault? Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month's SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak in Redmond's early-bug-notification program....

Underground forums now recruiting English-speaking social engineers English speakers adept at social engineering are a hot commodity in the cybercrime job market....

Google's Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge for machine learning systems....

Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas It's been more than 200 years since the United States issued a letter of marque allowing privateers to attack the vessels of foreign nations, but those letters may return to empower cyber operators if a bill introduced in Congress actually manages to pass....

If anyone's gonna lock in Uncle Sam's business, it'd better be us! It's now safe to say the gang's all here when it comes to big generative AI model makers signing dollar discount deals with Uncle Sam. Google has joined Anthropic and OpenAI, inking questionable short-term discount terms for government agencies....

Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older Windows LibreOffice 25.8 arrives with a tagline of "smarter, faster and more reliable." That all sounds good. So what's new?...

US pulls back from Trump's threatened 100% levy but not everyone pleased at Europe's concessions World War Fee The US and European Union have fleshed out details on their sweeping trade deal, promising billions in AI chip sales, a 15 percent tariff cap on key sectors including autos and semiconductors, and a framework for digital rule-making that could reshape the transatlantic tech industry....

But the free AI Mode itself can now take your history into account The all-AI search mode Google introduced earlier this year has sprouted a one-trick AI agent - but only those willing to pay top dollar for the privilege....

Latest Windows Insider Build puts time and language options in Settings Microsoft has continued its efforts to nudge users toward the Windows Settings app from the venerable Control Panel, with language and time settings making the jump....

What testing is happening before changes hit production? Microsoft had a midweek meltdown on Wednesday as a chunk of its productivity suite fell out of the cloud....

Everything a criminal needs for targeted attacks exposed, but telco insists 'no critical data compromised' A significant data theft at Orange Belgium has opened hundreds of thousands of its customers to serious cybersecurity risks....

Feds say Mirai-spawned botnet blasted 370K attacks before AWS and pals helped yank its servers RapperBot, a botnet-for-hire blamed for hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks, has been yanked offline by the Feds, who also hauled in its alleged Oregon-based mastermind....

Another 'extremely sophisticated' exploit chewing at Cupertino's walled garden Apple has shipped emergency updates to fix an actively exploited zero-day in its ImageIO framework, warning that the flaw has already been abused in targeted attacks....

Worried about your data? No probs, says firm, we'll check the dark web crims' list for you! Yes really A week after its services were disrupted by a cyberattack, UK telco Colt Technology Services has gone back on its initial statement to confirm that data has indeed been stolen....

Researcher claims extension didn't start out by exfiltrating info... while dev says its actions are 'compliant' Security boffins at Koi Security have warned of a shift in behavior of a popular Chrome VPN extension, FreeVPN.One, which recently appears to have begun snaffling screenshots of users' page activity and transmitting them to a remote server without their knowledge - and Google has yet to take it down....

One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open web, slurping up sites at a rate that accounts for 80 percent of all AI bot traffic, with the remaining 20 percent used by AI fetchers. Bots and fetchers can hit websites hard, demanding data from a single site in thousands of requests per minute....

Compositional risk from multiple MCP Servers highlighted by report Microsoft has declared general availability for MCP (model context protocol) servers in Visual Studio, likely to be the second most popular IDE after Visual Studio Code and with wide enterprise use....