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In the Agentic Enterprise, 'AI doesn't replace people, it elevates them' Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff heralded the arrival of the agentic era during his keynote at the CRM giant's annual Dreamforce conference....

Plus: Adobe, SAP, Ivanti offer treats, not tricks Spooky season is in full swing, and this extends to Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday with security updates for a frightful 175 Microsoft vulnerabilities, plus an additional 21 non-Microsoft CVEs. And even scarier than the sheer number of bugs: three are listed as under attack, with three others publicly known, and 17 deemed critical security holes....

America's main cybersecurity agency has lost almost 1,000 people this year The Trump administration has continued to cut staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and is reportedly reassigning others, further imperiling the US' cybersecurity posture....

Laptop maker's apolitical endorsement of politically contentious projects meets resistance Six days ago, upgradeable laptop maker Framework tried to convince its fractious user community to live in a "big tent" after a Debian developer objected to the company's sponsorship of Hyprland and its social media promotion of Omarchy, with both projects associated with politically polarizing viewpoints....

New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs Oracle on Tuesday revealed it would field more than 18 zettaFLOPS worth of AI infrastructure from Nvidia and AMD by the second half of next year....

Maybe this will bring in some actual profit? OpenAI has mitigated ChatGPT behavior that might exacerbate users' mental health issues, claims CEO Sam Altman, so the natural next step is to make ChatGPT act more human again - complete with the ability to generate "erotica for verified adults."...

To the slop trough, kiddos! Not content to shove Copilot into every corner of the enterprise it can think of, Microsoft has announced plans to force feed AI to students across its home state of Washington....

Crims turned trusted mapping software into a hideout - no traditional malware required A Chinese state-backed cybergang known as Flax Typhoon spent more than a year burrowing inside an ArcGIS server, quietly turning the trusted mapping software into a covert backdoor....

This relatively affordable AI workstation isn't about going fast; it's about doing everything well enough hands on Nvidia bills its long-anticipated DGX Spark as the "world's smallest AI supercomputer," and, at $3,000 to $4,000 (depending on config and OEM), you might be expecting the Arm-based mini-PC to outperform its less-expensive siblings....

University team picks up voice calls, texts, and corporate data from orbit with off-the-shelf kit Geostationary satellites are broadcasting large volumes of unencrypted data to Earth, including private voice calls and text messages as well as consumer internet traffic, researchers have discovered....

Users left wondering whether to fork it or forget it as another FOSS project bites the dust The KuzuDB embedded graph database, open source under the MIT license, has been abandoned by its creator and sponsor Kuzu Inc, leaving its community pondering whether to fork or find an alternative....

Japan's beer behemoth still mopping up after ransomware spill that disrupted deliveries and delayed results Asahi's cyber hangover just got worse, with the brewer now admitting that personal information may have been tapped in last month's attack....

Protesters slam forced obsolescence outside Microsoft's office Updated Campaigners staged a protest outside Microsoft's Brussels office yesterday over the company's decision to end support for Windows 10....

US government shutdown nothing to do with action as space veteran calls move 'an alarming time' for science The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is facing another round of layoffs, with 550 additional employees set to lose their jobs....

Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months Mozilla is working on a built-in VPN for Firefox, with beta tests opening to select users shortly....

Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data Oracle is rushing out another emergency patch for its embattled E-Business Suite as the fallout from the Clop-linked attacks continues to spread....

Bring Your Copilot To Work Day, anyone? Microsoft, the corporation that just 13 days ago implored customers to bring their Copilot to work, has now published a report warning of the dangers of Shadow AI....

Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads A fledgling file format that aims to address limitations in the widely-used Parquet is under review for adoption by an open source foundation....

Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government's cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled....

Watchdog says it sees no case to investigate discounted FTTP upgrade offer - but will keep an eye on it Ofcom has declined to intervene after smaller network providers complained that a special upgrade offer from Openreach could threaten competition in the broadband market....

Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries The UK units of some US technology companies are paying average salaries of well into six figures, with some more than matching that with share-based payments, according to annual accounts recently published by Companies House....

Canonical's Questing Quokka waddles in at 5.7 GB with AppArmor woes The latest interim release of Ubuntu is here, showcasing some significant changes. This isn't a long-term release, yet many of its differences will be in 26.04 next year....

On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing Gartner has reported that SAP customers opting for private cloud have seen price increases of 10 percent or more on renewal proposals if they fail to negotiate a renewal price cap in the original deal....

Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits The European Union's new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague's international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals manually....

Systems from Nvidia, Dell, and others available starting Oct. 15 Nvidia's tiniest Grace-Blackwell workstation is finally making its way to store shelves this week, the better part of a year after the GPU giant first teased the AI mini PC, then called Project Digits, at CES....

Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more! Microsoft's OneDrive is increasing the creepiness quotient by using AI to spot faces in photos and group images accordingly. Don't worry, it can be turned off - three times a year....

Cloud support to be ditched on older hardware, customers left with pricey paperweights Audio equipment biz Bose is discontinuing cloud support for its SoundTouch product line, effectively reducing the premium devices to basic speakers with limited functionality....

Outage knocks out phones, broadband - even telco's own status page Vodafone fell over in the UK this afternoon, with Register readers reporting that many services including mobile coverage, internet services, and even the company's own status page went down....

Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator Broadcom has cuddled up with OpenAI as the ChatGPT outfit looks for ever more help building out the vast infrastructure it needs to deliver on its dreams of advanced intelligence - and possibly even a profit some day....

'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site....

All-in-one toolkit or over-ambitious feature creep? You decide Version 1.3 of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit has landed, pushing forward the project's goal to consolidate fragmented JavaScript toolchains into a single solution. Yet the rapid expansion has some developers questioning whether Bun is trying to do too much, too fast....

Salesforce CEO praises Trump before walking back criticism of city's policing San Francisco's political establishment rounded on Marc Benioff over the weekend after the Salesforce founder backed the idea of sending in the National Guard to clean up the city's streets....

GPU-based timing attack inspired by decade-old iframe technique Security researchers have resurrected a 12-year-old data-stealing attack on web browsers to pilfer sensitive info from Android devices....

Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data....

Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await SpaceX is counting down to today's 11th flight test of its monster Starship rocket, with weather looking suitable for the opening of the launch window at 18:15 CT (or around 17:00 CT, if the company's billionaire boss is to be believed)....

Bid for transparency on consumption evaporates with Newsom veto California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation requiring data centers to disclose their water consumption, even as he champions efforts to address the state's water scarcity challenges....

Beijing insists it's business as usual - Washington might see it differently China's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing....

Microsoft admits its media creation tool 'might not work as expected' Microsoft has broken its own Windows 11 media creation tool just as millions of users face a deadline to abandon Windows 10 - and with less than 24 hours until support officially ends....

Parent firm's cash keeps division afloat as Post Office inquiry nears final report Fujitsu's UK business has received 280 million ($374 million) in equity from its Japanese owner in the last two years to meet ongoing funding and capital requirements....

Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork Ofcom, the UK's Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan 20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content....

Minister invokes powers to stop firm shifting knowledge to China, citing governance shortcomings The Dutch government has placed Nexperia - a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain's Newport Wafer Fab - under special administrative measures, citing serious governance failures that threaten European tech security....

Even if you never use it, you'll be paying for it thanks to datacenters' never-ending hunger for electricity Opinion When I was a wet-behind-the-ears developer running my programs on an IBM 360, a mainframe that was slower than a Raspberry Pi Zero W, my machine used about 50 kilowatts (kW). I thought that was a lot of power. Little did I know what was coming....

Also, DraftKings gets stuffed, Zimbra collab software exploited again, and Apple bug bounties balloon in brief A bipartisan Senate duo has introduced a bill to revive and extend America's cyber threat-sharing law for another ten years after its authorization lapsed during the government shutdown....

Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-off The government-owned company that runs the UK's most important nuclear site is weighing up whether to keep its legacy SAP software running beyond the vendor's extended support deadline....

Getting swallowed by a whale is a life-changing event no matter what the whale says Opinion The successful, sector-defining, open source Italian embedded platform provider Arduino had a little bash in Turin recently. It made a few announcements, including a new single-board computer (SBC) with a Qualcomm system on a chip (SoC). Oh, and that it had been bought by American dragon-themed mobile chip monster Qualcomm in a deal with total fealty (WTF)....

Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher The British government is putting out feelers to industry ahead of the procurement process for the country's most powerful supercomputer, set to begin next year....

Illicit colo cleanup seemed like a good way to get out of the house during Covid Who, Me? Welcome to another week of nimble newsifying from The Register, which as always kicks off the working week with a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes that almost trashed your career....

Now if Lip Bu Tan can just find a willing customer deep dive Not long after rejoining Intel in 2021, former CEO Pat Gelsinger announced an ambitious plan to reinvent the chipmaker as a contract semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse....

Nuclear power is getting hot, but don't hold your breath for everlasting batteries A venture capital fund is looking for ideas that are out of bounds for traditional investors, seeding technology that may only come to fruition decades down the line, but where researchers can show real results in the lab....

You can't always get what you want Most corporate laptop fleets consist primarily of PCs. However, there's always a contingent of users who beg for Macs. Deciding who gets a Mac in your organization involves balancing IT's need for simplicity, finance's requirement to keep costs under control, and users' desire to work with their preferred tools....