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Wiz Research details flaws in Python backend that expose AI models and enable remote code execution Security researchers have lifted the lid on a chain of high-severity vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on Nvidia's Triton Inference Server....

Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment NASA has called it quits on attempts to contact its Lunar Trailblazer probe, notching up a failure in its low-cost, high-risk science program....

Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports The Trump administration wants better ways to track the location of chips, as part of attempts to prevent advanced AI accelerator hardware from getting into Chinese hands....

OneWeb constellation may be smaller, but it's suddenly looking like a safer bet for some Paris-based Eutelsat is reporting rocketing revenues in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services, driven partly by an uptick in interest from governments seeking to reduce reliance on US providers....

You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000 Before humanoid robots walk among us, they'll be operated remotely, in part to gather the training data to develop Vision-Language-Action Models for autonomous, nonlethal bipedal ambulation....

These are the conference events to keep an eye on. You can even stream a few The security industry is hitting Vegas hard this week with three conferences in Sin City that bring the world's largest collection of security pros together for the annual summer camp....

Chipmaker said it caught the unauthorized activity' early Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has launched legal proceedings against an unknown number of employees as it investigates a potential breach of trade secrets....

Developer community skeptical following 'long silent stagnation' of the framework and accompanying SDK Microsoft lead software engineer Beth Pan has stated that WinUI, the modern user interface framework for Windows, will be made "truly open source," though no date is yet set because of deep entanglements with proprietary code in the operating system....

Launch license issued for suborbital Skylark L The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has granted British rocketeer Skyrora a launch operator license....

Bot built by Airbus and IBM recognized astronaut's voice and issued instructions to camera drone Japanese space agency JAXA and Germany's DLR have conducted what they say is the first collaboration between independently developed robots on the International Space Station....

Using the Apollo vehicles that already offer autonomous rides across China Rideshare challenger Lyft and China's Baidu plan to bring robo-cabs to the UK and Europe next year....

We know this because it just won a big client - Australia - which says that's when it will start selling connections Amazon's Project Kuiper space broadband service will be ready for commercial services from the middle of 2026" according to NBN Co, the operator of Australia's National Broadband Network....

Cites low demand and overcapacity for electric cars on the same day Tesla gives Elon Musk $29 billion for similar reasons Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has sold its US electric vehicle factory and will use the land to make AI servers instead....

'Plague' malware has been around for months without tripping alarms Researchers at German infosec services company Nextron Threat have spotted malware that creates a highly-persistent Linux backdoor and say antivirus engines do not flag the code as malicious....

On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday....

Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware...sounds like something that rhymes with 'schmero-day' SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it's investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit in its VPNs....

Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives....

One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopted. They want the President to form a US "Cyber Force" too....

Fermi America will also have 4GW of gas generators for the Amarillo 'HyperGrid' Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power....

PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome More than 4,000 victims across 62 countries have been infected by stealthy infostealers pilfering people's passwords, credit card numbers, and browser cookies, which are then sold to other criminals on Telegram-based marketplaces....

The payroll growth we thought we experienced in May and June? Gone, like tears in the rain The US IT jobs market hasn't exactly been robust thus far in 2025, and downward revisions to May and June's Bureau of Labor Statistics data mean IT jobs lost in July are part of an even deeper sector slowdown than previously believed....

Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors NASA's Europa Clipper probe checked out its radar as the spacecraft hurtled past Mars on the way to Jupiter's moon Europa....

Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts Mozilla is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting developers of Firefox add-ons....

'Hyper-masculine' first-person shooter fandoms are prime targets Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University have sounded the alarm on "gaming-adjacent platforms" including Discord, Twitch, and Steam being used as "digital playgrounds" to funnel new recruits into far-right and other extremist ideologies - with a focus on those showing interest in "hyper-masculine gaming titles."...

With just over two months left, enterprises look to Extended Security Updates as a stay of execution Windows 11 is maintaining its lead over Windows 10, but millions of PCs are still running Microsoft's legacy operating system with less than three months until support ends....

Let US and China compete in the AI development arms race, says former Brit PM's non-profit org Britain should not try to compete with America and China in the race to build cutting-edge AI models and focus instead on widespread AI adoption, but even this will require a boost local compute capacity....

Desktop project's in-house distro is impressively ambitious, but nowhere near ready The former "Project Banana" now has a more sober name, albeit one a bit trickier to search for....

Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart In the beginning there was Jeff Bezos. He created Amazon in 1994 and became filthy rich in the decades that followed, reaching a net worth exceeding $241 billion in 2025....

Founder miffed over prosecutors holding onto its Bitcoin The founder of a German mobile phone repair and insurance biz has begun insolvency proceedings for some operations in his company after struggling financially following a costly ransomware attack in 2023....

If it's not on-prem, it's on the menu Opinion The details of cloud data regionalization are rarely the stuff of great drama. When they've reached the level of an exe admitting to the Senate that a foreign power can help itself to that nations data, no matter where it lives, things get interesting....

But it's OK, claims Brit government, no personal data stored 'unless absolutely necessary' The UK government has reported that an additional five million age checks are being made daily as UK-based internet users seek to access age-restricted sites following the implementation of the Online Safety Act."...

Canonical lays off one of its old hands - a longstanding FOSS developer - after nearly two decades Till Kamppeter, the lead developer of the OpenPrinting subsystem for Linux, has been laid off by Canonical after 19 years....

Startups aren't good at testing software, or respecting contracts Who, Me? Welcome to the opening day of another working week, an occasion The Register always celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the Monday column that revisits readers' worst moments at work, and celebrates your ability to rebound and reinvent in their wake....

Attempts to censor QUIC traffic create chance to block access to offshore DNS resolvers China's attempts to censor traffic carried using Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) are imperfect and have left the country at risk of attacks that degrade its censorship apparatus, or even cut access to offshore DNS resolvers....

Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy from its cloudy resources last week, before restoring access ahead of a court clash....

PLUS: Nightmare insect found in Australia; Arista makes more stuff in India; Atlassian job cuts; And more! Asia In Brief China's Cyberspace Administration last week reported increased uptake of IPv6....

PLUS: Slow MFA rollout costs Canucks $5m; Lawmakers ponder Stingray ban; MSFT tightens Teams; And more! Infosec In Brief North Korea's Lazarus Group has changed tactics and is now creating malware-laden open source software....

Plus: why takedowns aren't in threat-intel analysts' best interest interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and account information, thus allowing them to drain their accounts....

New Uptime survey flags cost, power, outages Being able to forecast future capacity requirements is a growing concern for datacenter operators as they face conflicting factors such as rising costs, power constraints, and meeting the demands of AI workloads....

We almost got more butterfly keyboards and foldable workstations Interview Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's laptop has a following of people who collect old models and celebrate each new innovation....

Community content site aims to profit from real conversation Reddit has found that trafficking in human-authored content pays well in the AI era....

Plaintext passwords, shared admin accounts, and insufficient logging rampant at mystery org CISA is using the findings from a recent probe of an unidentified critical infrastructure organization to warn about the dangers of getting cybersecurity seriously wrong....

Plaintiffs argued that the company massively oversold the assisted-driving capabilities of its cars After two weeks of testimony, a Florida jury has found Tesla partially responsible for the death of one person and causing serious injuries to another in a crash where the driver was using the company's much-touted Autopilot system....

Kodane code was either machine-generated or done by a teenager An NPM package packed with cryptocurrency-stealing malware appears to have been largely AI-generated, as evidenced by its liberal use of emojis and other telltale signs....

Checkbox to make chatbot conversations appear in search engines deemed a footgun OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines to prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information....

Crashes the multibillion-dollar DoD party alongside Boeing, Lockheed, and Raytheon There are no official criteria for what constitutes membership in the upper echelon of the US military industrial complex, but a $10 billion deal that consolidates dozens of contracts under a single blanket purchase agreement sure makes it seem like Palantir has earned entry....

Paramount Penguin Linus Torvalds still uses a 2017 graphics card As work picks up on the forthcoming Linux 6.17, many joystick-wigglers are shocked by its millionaire dev's positively ancient AMD graphics card....

Our tests have shown there are ways to get around the promised security improvements exclusive Microsoft Recall, the AI app that takes screenshots of what you do on your PC so you can search for it later, has a filter that's supposed to prevent it from screenshotting sensitive info like credit card numbers. But a The Register test shows that it still fails in many cases, creating a potential treasure trove for thieves....

Spy vs. spy China has accused US intelligence agencies of exploiting a Microsoft Exchange zero-day exploit to steal defense-related data and take over more than 50 devices belonging to a "major Chinese military enterprise" for nearly a year....

Appeals panel says Chocolate Factory abused its dominance in Android app distribution A panel of judges has dismissed Google's appeal against an antitrust verdict over its Play Store business practices....