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Now please subscribe to premium and let us host your 'entire financial life' It's no longer just opinion to say the platform formerly known as Twitter has declined in many ways since Elon Musk's takeover, but you wouldn't know that from the sound of all the back-patting from what's left of the company's engineering team....

Just tricks, no treats with these 3 vulns Three unpatched high-severity bugs in the NGINX ingress controller can be abused by miscreants to steal credentials and other secrets from Kubernetes clusters....

Still, it's not like it's a matter of life and death, is it? The US Department of Defense's update of its aging nuclear arsenal could cost as much as $350 billion over the next 20 years, yet oversight problems mean that some of the cash infusion could be wasted....

Researchers just scratching surface of their understanding of campaign dating back to 2020 Security researchers have uncovered a multi-year cryptojacking campaign they claim autonomously clones GitHub repositories and steals their exposed AWS credentials....

And other novelties likely next year in kernel 6.7 The merge window has opened for what will become Linux version 6.7, and below we've compiled some things that are likely to be included in the new release....

Tracing DMCA's dubious legacy over 25 tech-turbulent years It has been 25 years since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into US law by President Bill Clinton, ushering in an era of intellectual property (IP) protection for all. Or that was the hope....

Latest decision follows failure of Kioxia merger and pressure from activist investor Elliott Management Western Digital is to split into two separate entities, one formed from the NAND flash memory division and the other from the hard drive unit. The move follows the collapse of WD's proposed merger with memory chipmaker Kioxia....

Research sheds light on attitudes holding industry back Almost one in five men in IT explain why fewer females work in the profession by arguing that "women are naturally less well suited to tech roles than men."...

This marks the third criminal intrusion at the institution in as many years Stanford University has confirmed it is "investigating a cybersecurity incident" after an attack last week by the Akira ransomware group....

Regulatory red dragon keeping silent with a day left until deadline VMware and Broadcom are trying to quell investor fears that China's competition regulator could kill the proposed $61 billion merger, issuing a joint statement to say the transaction "will close soon"....

NASA: Nice rocket, but what about the dust? Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has unveiled a mockup of the cargo version of its Blue Moon lunar lander ahead of a crewed version intended for NASA's Artemis program....

Unwavering loyalty and devotion rewarded with termination Microsoft has decided to axe the Windows Insider MVP program, which is now scheduled to be discontinued at the end of the year....

Some loved it, some laughed at it, but it survived 26 years Microsoft's dedicated OS for embedded and pocketdevices, Windows CE, has reached the end of its support lifetime. People's reactions are very mixed, depending on where they're from....

Gen AI still in the pilot stage, despite government hopes to be world leader Despite the frothing hype around generative AI - and the UK government's hopes it will bring economic growth - only one in ten UK tech leaders have large scale implementations of any kind of AI, a figure that has not changed in five years....

User freedoms caught between network operators and big tech Ofcom says it is trying to strike a balance between user freedom while allowing operators to protect their networks and still offer "premium" services at a higher price, according to updated guidance on net neutrality rules....

That's what happens when you completely misread the market Opinion These are uncomfortable times for Intel and its investors. All the cool kids are talking about AI chips, an area where Intel has no real story to tell. Low power, embedded, and mobile have long been annexed by Arm. Now it looks like Arm is coming for Intel's most iconic territory - the PC....

The result is a very odd mechanical tour guide that thinks it has parents - sure, no problem Video Totally non-evil robot-maker Boston Dynamics has taught one of its "Spot" robo-dogs to talk, by using ChatGPT....

Sadly (?) that idyllic outcome didn't eventuate even after some very risky repairs Who, Me? Welcome once again, gentle readerfolk, to the safe corner of The Register we call Who, Me? in which readers much like yourselves unburden themselves with stories that have been weighing on their minds - because they recall moments when things did not go quite according to plan....

Broadcom buy set to wrap any moment now - probably As the world awaits news of whether Broadcom's acquisition of VMware will close on the target date of October 30 - an outcome thought likely unless China's State Administration for Market Regulation intervenes - the virtualization giant has made a modest change to its practices by shuttering a site used for experimental software - or "Flings" in vSpeak....

Removes references to the NSA, adds KSMBD in-kernel server SMB networking After a typically calm development process, Linus Torvalds has given the world a new cut of the Linux kernel - version 6.6 to be precise....

ALSO: CISA begs for a consistent budget, Las Vegas school breach; Nigeria arrests six cyber princes, the week's critical vulnerabilities Security In Brief Notorious ransomware gang LockBit has reportedly exfiltrated a tremendous amount of sensitive data from aerospace outfit Boeing....

PLUS: Hikvision accused of targeting minorities; Australia's 'cyber-shield'; Huawei's superchip source revealed? Asia In Brief Fujitsu has decided to conduct an "absorption-type merger" of its public cloud operation....

Must try harder, D+ AI models can manage well enough when prompted with text or images, and may even solve complex problems when not making terrible errors....

History suggests Arm's place in the PC market will be anything but 'insignificant' Opinion Pat Gelsinger may not be worried about Arm-compatible PCs eating into Intel's profit margins, but, if recent history tells us anything, he probably should be....

In the name of the firewall, the server, and the home page default, amen The Pope has given his blessing to a free online learning portal aimed at encouraging children to take up software development, while he administers the spiritual kind....

Not exactly the MAC daddy Three years after Apple introduced a menu setting called Private Wi-Fi Address, a way to spoof network identifiers called MAC addresses, the privacy protection may finally work as advertised, thanks to a software fix....

I'll huff and I'll puff and Masimo will blow your sales down The Apple Watch is once again facing a possible US import ban again after the International Trade Commission determined the wearable violated patents held by Masimo for measuring blood oxygen levels....

Minimum of $15,000 per plaintiff, after lawyers' fees. Justice is done! After over seven years of legal battles, a group of former HP employees who claim the venerable firm discriminated against older staff when culling jobs has won a $18 million settlement....

Plus Linux Mint 22 to be based on Ubuntu 'Noble Numbat' The creators of Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop are experimenting with the Wayland protocol - and so is the original developer of Xfce....

Decision comes after CA revokes firm's driverless license and NHTSA signal an investigation Robotaxi operator Cruise's bad week just keeps getting worse: Now the GM-backed business has paused driverless operations across the entire fleet....

Fixes came earlier than scheduled as vulnerability became known to outsiders F5 has issued a fix for a remote code execution (RCE) bug in its BIG-IP suite carrying a near-maximum severity score....

First module of new space station to be launched in 2027 Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a project to build an Orbital Station following a meeting regarding the development of the country's space industry....

There's nothing new about HashiCorp leaving the principle behind Opinion At the Linux Foundation Members Summit in Monterrey, California, topic number one was artificial intelligence and open source. Number two was about HashiCorp dumping Terraform's Mozilla Public License (MPL) for the Business Source License (BSL) 1.1, the resulting OpenTofu fork, and how ticked off HashiCorp CEO David McJannet was about the Linux Foundation's support of OpenTofu....

Robust policies for renewables needed to increase energy mix to nearly 50% There could be ten times the number of electric cars on the road by 2030 and stronger renewable energy policies are needed not just to keep them powered, but cleanly....

Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI Amazon's cloud biz disappointed analysts with lower-than-expected sales as customers generally continue to look for ways to cut costs rather than spin up new instances....

Gang thought to be behind attack on MGM Resorts has a skillset larger than most cybercrime groups in existence Microsoft's latest report on "one of the most dangerous financial criminal groups" operating offers security pros an abundance of threat intelligence to protect themselves from its myriad tactics....

Bugfixes for Windows 10, but 11 is where the Copilot action is Microsoft has rolled out updates for Windows 10 and 11 in the form of KB5031445 and KB5031455, respectively, which fix bugs in both and turn on new features in the latter....

It's now up to Ofcom to sort out this messy legislation With the assent of King Charles, the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act has become law, one that the British government says will "make the UK the safest place in the world to be online."...

Two new pieces of research suggest center is smaller than previously thought Two new studies from a NASA Mars probe suggest the red planet's core is surrounded by a layer of molten rock, and the core is smaller than previously thought....

Sure, go ahead, make more dust while I deal with a client who doesn't care about redundancy On Call With Friday upon us, the green-thumbed among you may have some gardening planned for the weekend. Before you dig into that chore, The Register presents another instalment of On Call, our weekly reader contributed tale of being asked to get into the weeds of malfunctioning tech....

Google offers AI-specific rewards, HackerOne sees more specializations Google has expanded its bug bounty program to include its AI products, and will pay ethical hackers to find both conventional infosec flaws and bad bot behaviour....

To move parts while making less CO, so it can build more planes that make plenty Airbus has decided to commission three ships powered, in part, by the wind....

Appears to have expanded coverage to at least 30 nations Microsoft has extended its spare parts program for Surface PCs by selling components at teardown artists iFixit....

Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has called for Indian youth to voluntarily work 70-hour weeks....

Chipzilla beats revenue guidance but datacenter biz is still in the dumps Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has downplayed the threat of rival chipmakers creating processors based on the Arm architecture for PCs....

So long as you don't mind that it's soldered down Memory vendors Micron and SK Hynix this week began shipping their first LPDDR5 memory modules capable of achieving speeds up to 9,600MT/s....

Because says nothing like quality medical care like an ad for the 'magical entry into another dimension' Meta has decided that some of its Oversight Board's objections posts related to intoxicating drugs aren't worth its time, so bring on the paid advertisements for ketamine....

Kaspersky first found this software nasty on its own phones Apple pushed several security fixes on Wednesday, including one for all iPhone and iPads used before September last year that has already been exploited by cyber snoops....

After a week of incidents, Register vultures pick over the innards Kettle In this week's Kettle the topic is one that's been much in the news this week - the much-underrated insider threat issue....