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Is a trivial remote-code execution hole in every version part of the training, or? The smart cookie who discovered a perfect 10-out-of-10-severity remote code execution (RCE) bug in MITRE's Caldera security training platform has urged users to "immediately pull down the latest version." As in, download it and install it....

Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio IBM plans to buy DataStax, the AI and data biz that supports and contributes to the open source Cassandra wide column database....

Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory Scientists reckon the red hue of Mars might have originated in an earlier period in the planet's past when liquid water was widespread on the surface....

More than a dozen women came forward with accusations Details about the harassment allegations leveled at DEF CON veteran Christopher Hadnagy have now been revealed after a motion for summary judgment was filed over the weekend....

Only a test at the moment, but a sign of things to come? Microsoft is quietly testing the waters with an ad-supported version of its Office suite....

Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances Council officers heading up a disastrous Oracle implementation that left Europe's largest local authority unable to manage its finances lacked an understanding of the cloud-based solution they had chosen to buy....

Sly like a PRC cyberattack A Chinese government-backed group is spoofing legitimate medical software to hijack hospital patients' computers, infecting them with backdoors, credential-swiping keyloggers, and cryptominers....

Plus: Fandroid alert - Android devices sometimes say '5G' when connecting to 4G London is bottom of the table when it comes to 5G mobile service, according to a report gauging major European cities on the overall quality of user experience. And, Europe itself lags behind other regions in 5G SA deployment....

What is it with high-powered execs and their love for U2? Ex-Apple design whiz Sir Jony Ive appeared on the BBC's long-running Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs over the weekend. Despite his storied career and close friendship with the late Steve Jobs, his picks were pedestrian even for a Brit in his late 50s....

Fuxnet and FrostyGoop were both used in the Russia-Ukraine war Two new malware variants specifically designed to disrupt critical industrial processes were set loose on operational technology networks last year, shutting off heat to more than 600 apartment buildings in one instance and jamming communications to gas, water, and sewage network sensors in the other....

Dispute settled, but not the causes A clash over different Flatpak-packaged versions of OBS Studio highlights problems with distro-maintained software repositories versus external ones....

Leaked chats and spilled secrets as AI helps decode circa 200K private talks Southern Water neither confirms nor denies offering Black Basta a $750,000 ransom payment following its ransomware attack in 2024....

Bureau of Labor Statics warns lawyers and customer service reps to brace for change, says techies will be fine Developers worried about their careers in the age of AI might be able to relax a little after the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicted employers will hire another 300,000 coders by 2033....

Blueprints shared for jail-breaking models that expose their chain-of-thought process Analysis AI models like OpenAI o1/o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking can mimic human reasoning through a process called chain of thought....

The small pool of suppliers understand their market power APRICOT 2025 The market for dielectric liquid required for immersion cooling is dominated by a small number of players that are aware of their market power....

Sunk cost fallacy? No, I just need a little more cash for this AGI thing I've been working on Comment Despite persistent worries that vast spending on AI infrastructure may not pay for itself, cloud providers, hyperscalers, and datacenter operators have continued to shovel billions of dollars into ever-larger GPU clusters....

Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet A federal magistrate judge has recommended $15,000 in sanctions be imposed on an attorney who cited non-existent court cases concocted by an AI chatbot....

Everyone knew texted OTPs were a dud back in 2016 Google has confirmed it will phase out the use of SMS text messages for multi-factor authentication in favor of more secure technologies....

Sorry, that should read: Boost US manufacturing and R&D, believe in the American people, etc etc As computer makers grapple with Trump's tariffs, Apple is doubling down on US manufacturing and research-and-development investments, announcing plans to spend $500 billion and hire 20,000 people over the next four years in America to support these efforts....

'Appropriate action will be taken,' we're told - as federal HR email sparks uproar, ax falls on CISA staff Visitors to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's headquarters in the capital got some unpleasant viewing on Monday morning after TV screens across the building began showing a deepfake video of President Trump kissing and sucking Elon Musk's toes....

OEMs blowing dust from the processor stock cupboard, beware Microsoft has published the list of CPUs supported by Windows 11 24H2 - which confirms to OEMs that if they were hoping to raid stocks of pre-11th-generation Intel CPUs, they're out of luck....

But you're probably not cool enough for Chipzilla's 288-core monster Facing stiff competition from its long-time rival AMD and the ever-present specter of custom Arm silicon in the cloud, Intel on Monday emitted another wave of Xeon 6 processors....

Chrome ad blocker stopped working? Time to look elsewhere Google's purge of Manifest v2-based extensions from its Chrome browser is underway, as many users over the past few days may have noticed....

Investment bank claims software giant ditched 'at least' 5 land parcels due to potential 'oversupply' Microsoft has reportedly cancelled leases on datacenter capacity in the US, raising questions about whether the company may have overestimated demand for AI services and the compute power it needs to drive them....

No matter how deep you are in Apple's 'ecosystem,' there are ways to stay encrypted in the UK Apple customers, privacy advocates, and security sleuths have now had the weekend to stew over the news of the iGadget maker's decision to bend to the UK government and disable its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature....

Oxygen leak blamed for a lack of deorbit burn SpaceX has published an explanation for the debris from the Falcon 9 second stage that fell over Poland last week. Because of an oxygen leak, the expected deorbit burn didn't occur....

At least they're not having to 'justify' recent work or resign Exclusive IBM Consulting wants employees to know they're not all created equally, a point it intends to reflect in a "closer alignment between pay and performance."...

When a vendor and a community stop loving each other, things can get very forked up State Of Open Multiple license changes have rocked the open source community over the last few years. For vendors concerned, the impact has ranged from business as usual to potentially catastrophic....

What is dead may never die After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again....

Humble but with a huge history, the utility's privacy pare-back points to a productive possible future Opinion Windows File Explorer doesn't get much love, poor thing. It gets sworn at if a sought file cannot be found, or if some setting is hiding that needs to be shown....

'If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived' Who, Me? Nobody starts the working week by planning to fail, but mistakes do happen and The Register likes to write about them in Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you tell us how you escaped from nasty scrapes of your own making....

Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like Is that one fibre, or nine?' APRICOT 2025 The Internet Society wants to help improve maps that depict terrestrial optic fibre networks by having regulators and carriers alike promote and adopt the Open Fibre Data Standard it helped to create....

PLUS: SEC launches new crypto crime unit; Phishing toolkit upgraded; and more Infosec in brief Apple has responded to the UK government's demand for access to its customers' data stored in iCloud by deciding to turn off its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) end-to-end encryption service for UK users....

Digital services taxes, network build levies, touted as violations of US sovereignty United States president Donald Trump last Friday issued a memorandum that suggests imposition of tariffs on nations that dare to tax big tech companies....

PLUS: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota's smart city nears opening; and more Asia In Brief PLUS: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota's smart city nears opening; and more Chinese president Xi Jinping last week staged an event at which he urged private sector leaders, including China's Big Tech companies, to help the nation speed its technological development....

Aleph Alpha's Jonas Andrulis on the challenges of building sovereign AI Interview Despite the billions of dollars spent each year training large language models (LLMs), there remains a sizable gap between building a model and actually integrating it into an application in a way that's useful....

Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising Analysis As you've likely read in many a headline-shouting article, our precious Blue Marble Earth just experienced its warmest year since reliable record-keeping began....

Beast remains as mythical as the return on AI investment Some muy importante legislation is stuck in the cogs of Californian bureaucracy - an Assembly Bill to recognize Bigfoot, aka Sasquatch, as the official state cryptid....

And really, nothing out of the ordinary for Silicon Valley After another round of mass layoffs and reports of slashed stock options for remaining employees, Meta has like clockwork opted to reward its top executives with a substantial bonus increase....

Image fetches to be capped on hourly basis for Personal, unauthenticated use, paid-for plans get unlimited access Docker has delayed its plan to limit image pulls - the downloading of container images - from Docker Hub, by one month and has altered previously published quotas....

After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics Fifteen years of big data hype, and guess what? Less than one in four of those in charge of analytics projects actually measure the value of the activity to the organization they work for....

Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have come up with a cheap and simple way for satellites to be identified from the ground using lights to blink out an ID code....

911 gets VIP treatment in 'one of the most congested and demanding environments for connectivity' T-Mobile US has signed a deal to provide telecoms for emergency services in New York City using network slicing to their ensure calls and data traffic are prioritized above other users....

Plus: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen not happy with SpaceX chief for 'lie' about 'abandoned' Starliner crew SpaceX boss Elon Musk has called for the International Space Station (ISS) to be deorbited as soon as possible, perhaps by 2027....

It's Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news Developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, ST Micro detailed a new photonic integrated circuit (PIC) on Thursday that it says will support pluggable optics capable of shuttling bits around the datacenter at up to 1.6 Tbps....

Researchers say there's dissent in the ranks. Plus: An AI tool lets you have a go yourself at analysing the data Hundreds of thousands of internal messages from the Black Basta ransomware gang were leaked by a Telegram user, prompting security researchers to bust out their best Russian translations post haste....

It woz The Reg wot won it ... or maybe just common sense prevailed among management HP Inc today abruptly ditched the mandatory 15-minute wait time that it imposed on customers dialling up its telephone-based support team due to "initial feedback."...

If you don't need to think about easy questions, will you be able to answer complex questions? Opinion I don't want to sound like an aging boomer, yet when I see junior programmers relying on AI tools like Copilot, Claude, or GPT for simple coding tasks, I wonder if they're doing themselves more harm than good....

Who knew a script could make RAM re-appear? On Call Another Friday is upon us, and The Register understands some of you would rather not retain memories of the last week. That's why we offer another instalment of On Call, our reader-contributed column that revives your happier recollections of wreaking revenge on colleagues who caused you tech support trauma....

License To Kill -9 ... For Your iPhone Only ... AI Another Day ... The name's Bezos, Jeff Bezos As part of its quest for world domination, Amazon has bought the creative rights to fictional British spy James Bond....