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CRM giant insists its platform wasn't breached Despite multiple arrests and talk of retirement, a crew now calling itself Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters has reemerged with a data-leak site listing about 40 companies' Salesforce environments, and is demanding $989.45 million to prevent what it claims is about 1 billion stolen records from being published online....

Devs live in terminals - now Jules does too In the beginning was the command line, and despite all the machine-learning froth, developers still live there. That is why Google has shoved its Jules coding agent into a terminal with a new tool it calls Jules Tools....

Better hope that bubble doesn't pop The Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm (aka A16z) crunched startup spending data and found young firms stuffing AI into everything, while bigger businesses remain far more restrained....

Open source giant admits intruders broke into dedicated consulting instance, but insists core products untouched What started as cyber crew bragging has now been confirmed by Red Hat: someone gained access to its consulting GitLab system and walked away with data....

Analysts at Goldman Sachs Global Institute say training is starting to hit its limits, enterprise info troves may be last hope Those spiffy AI systems that tech companies keep promising require mountains of training data, but high-quality sources may have already run out-unless enterprises can unlock the information trapped behind their firewalls, according to Goldman Sachs...

Cupertino yanks ICEBlock citing safety risks for law enforcement Apple has deep-sixed an app that tracks the movements of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - apparently bowing to government pressure....

Overnight shutdown leaves thousands stuck as Oktoberfest crowds stretch city security Munich Airport was temporarily closed last night following reports of drones buzzing around the area....

Exploding valuations and mountains of debt co-exist with a US government shutdown. How long can we stay on the hype-cycle rollercoaster? Analysis In an employee share sell-off this week, OpenAI achieved a nominal value of $500 billion. In terms of valuation, the posterchild of GenAI - which is yet to make a profit - left in its dust companies like Toyota, the world's largest automaker....

Even spy-tech biz Palantir says 'steady on' as 2.76M Brits demand it be ditched The British government has finally given more details about the proposed digital ID project, directly responding to the 2.76 million naysayers that signed an online petition calling for it to be ditched....

Researchers suggest internet-facing portals are exposing 'thousands' of orgs Oracle has finally broken its silence on those Clop-linked extortion emails, but only to tell customers what they already should have known: patch your damn systems....

Modder crams working hardware into plastic shell and fires up Tetris An enterprising nerd has taken LEGO's new Game Boy creation, performed some suitably geeky magic, and turned it into a real Game Boy....

UK Power Networks trials Thermify's HeatHub boilers, swapping gas flames for clustered compute Reusing heat from servers has gained momentum recent years, but UK Power Networks (UKPN) is taking an unusual approach: installing mini datacenters powered by Raspberry Pi hardware in customers homes to provide heating for families struggling with energy costs....

Names, numbers, and reg plates exposed in latest auto industry cyber-shunt Renault UK customers are being warned their personal data may be in criminal hands after one of its supplier was hacked....

UK Treasury called time on troubled integration scheme after 240M sunk Analysis In 2020, the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), which provides data vital to form public sector policy and allocate resources, launched a plan to integrate government data and provide "high quality analysis that reflects the diversity of economic and social experience in our country."...

Cool kids drank the aggressive micro-management Kool-Aid On Call By Friday morning, techies may need a jolt of energy to get through the final day of the working week, so we deliver it in the form of a new instalment of On-Call, the weekly reader-contributed column that shares your tales of trying to deliver speedy tech support....

No injuries, but the FAA and NTSB are investigating Amazon has grounded its drone fleet in Arizona after two of the airborne delivery vehicles crashed on Wednesday....

Agentforce Vibes is a new AI-assisted IDE for building Salesforce apps and agents Salesforce is bringing "vibe coding" to enterprise customers through a service called Agentforce Vibes - and it may not be as troubling as it sounds....

Beards, body fat, and cyber refreshers now frowned upon Cybersecurity training, beards, and body fat have something in common, according to the Pentagon. They're not helping the US military fight and win wars....

Honor among thieves - extortion is fine, but no juveniles, please A ransomware crew that posted pictures and addresses of preschool children in an effort to get a payday has now deleted the data, apparently under pressure from other criminals....

Pivot will hinge on success of next-gen Maia accelerator Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators....

Police say they found the evidence on his phone A Missouri college student has learned the hard way that admitting a vandalism spree to ChatGPT and asking whether he was likely to get caught may not be the best use of AI....

Artificial intelligence works when humans use it wisely Over the past two years, the open source curl project has been flooded with bogus bug reports generated by AI models....

One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 times Police in the United Kingdom appear to be taking a cue from Homer Simpson's playbook, with officers in multiple departments accused of "key jamming" to make it look like they were working from home when they likely weren't....

And don't even get him started on AI interview The bodies responsible for securing America from cyberattacks are currently too fragmented to be successful, according to former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, the first person ever to hold that job....

Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after attackers socially engineered AWS into freezing its domain....

Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking How would you move Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Texas? The White House Office of Management and Budget asked NASA and the Smithsonian Institution and the response was to dismantle it....

Replies are slow and it's prone to gibberish - just like any other AI Never mind Doom running on a potato, or whatever - the next generation of ridiculous computing belongs to Minecraft YouTuber Sammyuri, who built a working chatbot in the perennially popular voxel building sandbox....

Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month OpenAI has persuaded two of South Korea's chip titans to fuel its bid to build the biggest AI engine yet....

Apple's bad QA or poor coding by developers? The Electron team has fixed code that caused system-wide slowdowns on the newly released macOS 26 "Tahoe."...

Consulting biz reckons ballooning costs a result of changes in licensing, vendor landscape, and product shifts Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is warning that organizations need to rethink their approach to buying software as the ongoing push of SaaS into the market gathers pace....

Zero repairability rating: iFixit teardown finds earbuds glued, unfixable, and destined for recycling Improvements in repairability might have been made elsewhere in Apple's product range, but the AirPods Pro 3 model continue to make repairs virtually impossible....

Extortion emails name-drop Big Red's E-Business Suite, though Google and Mandiant yet to find proof of any breach Criminals with potential links to the notorious Clop ransomware mob are bombarding Oracle execs with extortion emails, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from Big Red's E-Business Suite, according to researchers....

Rage, rage against the dying of the free security updates With just days remaining until Microsoft discontinues free support, Windows 10 still accounts for 40.5 percent of the Windows desktop market, At the same time, Windows 11 adoption remains at just 48.94 percent....

Experts say Commission is fanning the flames' of the continent's own Watergate An arsenal of angry European Parliament members (MEPs) is demanding answers from senior commissioners about why EU subsidies are ending up in the pockets of spyware companies....

Because 100% would just be silly BT wants to have 5G Standalone (5G SA) mobile service available to 99 percent of the local population by the end of the decade, but it isn't the only telco with lofty ambitions....

Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress Italian rocket company Avio has signed a 40 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a reusable upper stage, a project already drawing skepticism from industry watchers....

570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive documents belonging to customers....

Web host blames partner's license fee increase, but users say notice was too short and terms unfair Exclusive Hosting biz Ionos is hiking the price of its server instances, blaming an increase in Plesk license costs. Customers have a month to accept the increase or else disable Plesk on their account....

Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humanity The UK's pensions and benefits department has awarded IBM a contract that's worth up to 27 million to explore, deploy and support AI technologies to enhance its services....

Group promises sandboxing of AI money management tools with 1,000 branches remaining Lloyds Banking Group - the 18.67 billion turnover UK-based bank - has promised that it will continue to use digitization" to power a program of branch closures....

It looks like you want some horrible shoes. Would you like to win them? Microsoft has delivered its found a way to make Crocs even uglier by using some of its own software....

Stray signals are a no-no when you're trying to tune into the stars IAC 2025 Work on the datacenter that serves the Square Kilometre Array's (SKA's) site in Western Australia is all but complete, including the installation of two Faraday cages to ensure the equipment inside does not leak radio waves that could harm the operation of the giant radio telescope....

Discovers debt it didn't fully understand, leaving skilled migrants and students in limbo New Zealand's Institute of IT Professionals has discovered it is insolvent and advised members it has no alternative but to enter liquidation....

Religion, race, health and other dicey topics supposedly exempt Meta, having committed hundreds of billions to AI infrastructure and talent, says it will start using people's conversations and interactions with its AI services to create personalized content and advertising....

And it's not the first time gunfire has cut Spectrum's lines A stray bullet cut through a Spectrum fiber line on Friday, knocking an undisclosed number of Texans offline....

Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account Your job may not support BYOD, but how about BYOC? Microsoft has declared that people can bring their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions to work to access various Copilot features at companies that fail to provide an AI fix....

The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex federal CISO tells The Register The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on skeleton crews....

Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes? A 9.9 out of 10 severity bug in Red Hat's OpenShift AI service could allow a remote attacker with minimal authentication to steal data, disrupt services, and fully hijack the platform....

Other studies are finding the same thing Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people's jobs, there's very little evidence of it actually happening....

Uncle Sam can't quit Redmond Exclusive The US Air Force confirmed it's investigating a "privacy-related issue" amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable to service members....