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Monday October 6, 2025. 11:40 AM
Big Red rushes out patch for 9.8-rated flaw after crooks exploit it for data theft and extortion Oracle rushed out an emergency fix over the weekend for a zero-day vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (EBS) that criminal crew Clop has already abused for data theft and...
OpenSSH 10.1 has been released. Along with 'a minor security fix' and some other bug fixes, this release disallows control characters in user names passed via the command line, adds better logging around certificate refusals, and a new RefuseConnection server configuration...
Google’s recent whitepaper, “Welcome to the Era of Experience,” signals a shift in the way AI agents are trained. Google’s paper hypothesizes that allowing AI agents to learn from the experience of agents rather than solely from human-generated training data will...
Your biggest risk in AI isn’t prompt injection or data poisoning: it’s people—specifically, a shortage of talented people. If your organization can’t field enough staff who know how to apply AI to your actual business, you will spend a lot of money on tech that will...
APIs, or application programming interfaces, started out as a mechanism to let computers talk to other computers, but somewhere along the way, they’ve evolved into an ecosystem all their own. For virtually any development need, there is likely an API ready and waiting to...
Plus, PAN under attack, IT whistleblowers get a payout, and China kills online scammers Infosec in brief On August 29, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency fired its CISO, CIO, and 22 other staff for incompetence but insisted it wasn't in response to an online attack....
Why human developers are crucial for software projects This week, we are probing the secondary impacts of the age of AI, what it means for skilled human practitioners, and the infrastructure needed to support AI projects. Vibe coding is the next evolutionary step in the ...
Microsoft's Copilot is helping workers perfect the ancient art of doing sweet f all Opinion It has been less than three years since ChatGPT lit the fuse of the current explosion of AI everywhere. AI years move even faster than internet years, so there's been time not only...
A ruling by a Dutch court could ultimately force Meta to make sweeping changes to timeline appearance in the likes of Facebook and Instagram. While it is possible to switch form an algorithm-controlled timeline to a chronological one, the court says that this should be made...
Steve Jobs died 14 years ago. But the blog Cult of Mac remembers that 'Jobs himself was not sentimental.' When he left Apple in the mid-1980s, he didn't even clear out his office. That meant personal mementos like his first Apple stock certificate, which had hung on his...
Oracle has released an emergency patch and an urgent security warning about a 0-day vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite. Tracked as CVE-2025-61882, the security flaw has a severity rating of 9.8 and is described as an “easily exploitable vulnerability”. Oracle warns ...
Consumer group Which? says owners of Apple and Samsung devices overcharged by £480M Qualcomm is facing a UK trial over allegations that it abused its dominant position in the smartphone chipset market to charge inflated license fees, ultimately driving up device prices for...
Big Blue turned the air blue Who, Me? Oh, bother, it's Monday. But rather than curse about another working week rolling around, The Register welcomes it with another instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace whoopsies and...
The director of a tour operation remembers two tourists arriving in a rural town in Peru determined to hike alone in the mountains to a sacred canyon recommended by their AI chatbot. But the canyon didn't exists — and a high-altitude hike could be dangerous (especially where ...
If we could remove the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit, there'd be a 50% reduction in the overall debris-generating potential, reports Ars Technica. That's according to Darren McKnight, lead author of a paper presented Friday at the International ...
'Recent attacks show that hackers keep using the same tricks to sneak bad code into popular software registries,' writes long-time Slashdot reader selinux geek, suggesting that 'the real problem is how these registries are built, making these attacks likely to keep...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Linux Kamarada 15.6 News: F-Droid warns of impact to open source repositories on Android-based operating systems, Alpine moves forward with plans for a merged /usr,...
A computer-generated actress appearing in Instagram shorts now has a talent agent, reports the Los Angeles Times. The massive screen actors union SAG-AFTRA 'weighed in with a withering response.' SAG-AFTRA believes creativity is, and should remain, human-centered. The union...
'A group of researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have developed a way to use the sensors in high-quality optical mice to capture subtle vibrations and convert them into audible data,' reports Tom's Hardware: [T]he high polling rate and sensitivity of...
Sunday October 5, 2025. 11:55 PM
'More than 800,000 drivers for ride-hailing companies in California will soon be able to join a union,' reports the Associated Press, 'and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits under a measure signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.' Supporters said the new law will ...
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