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Monday April 14, 2025. 12:00 PM
For the past decade, this group of FSB hackers—including “traitor” Ukrainian intelligence officers—has used a grinding barrage of intrusion campaigns to make life hell for their former countrymen and cybersecurity defenders.
UK holds onto oversight by a whisker, but it's utterly barefaced on the other side of the pond Opinion The UK government's attempts to worm into Apple's core end-to-end encryption were set back last week when the country's Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on ...
Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion Exclusive Two of the top team behind Asda's £1 billion ($1.31 billion) tech divorce from US retail giant Walmart — which has seen a number of setbacks — are departing the...
Formula One cars, the world's fastest racecars, need to grip the track for speed and safety on the curves — leading engineers to design cars that create downforce. And racing fans are even told that 'a Formula 1 racecar generates enough downforce above a certain speed that...
If this techie had been older and slower, this never would have happened Who, Me? Returning to work on Monday often imparts a rude shock, which is why The Register opens the week with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your ...
Home labs and bare bones test rigs matter so Broadcom's back in the game VMware has resumed offering a free hypervisor.…
PLUS: Chinese robodogs include backdoor; OpenAI helps spammer; A Dutch data disaster; And more! Infosec In Brief Fortinet last week admitted that attackers have found new ways to exploit three flaws it thought it had fixed last year.…
10 years ago 'certificate authorities normally issued certificate lifetimes lasting a year or more,' remembers a new blog post Thursday by the EFF's engineering director. So in 2015 when the free cert authority Let's Encrypt first started issuing 90-day TLS certificates for...
PLUS: India's new electronics subsidies; Philippines unplugs a mobile carrier; Alibaba Cloud expands Asia In Brief Chinese officials admitted to directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure at a meeting with their American counterparts, according to The Wall Street Journal.…
During The Last of Us’ second-season premiere, Ellie gets called a homophobic slur. Craig Mazin tells WIRED it highlights what happens when humanity stops moving forward.
Late Friday news broke that U.S. President Trump's new tariffs included exemptions for smartphones, computer monitors, semiconductors, and other electronics. But Sunday morning America's commerce secretary insisted 'a special-focus type of tariff' was coming for those...
Beijing tries to find an off-ramp but also fights back with export bans World War Fee The Trump administration’s strategy to use tariffs on imports as an incentive for businesses to move their manufacturing plants to the USA took a new turn over the weekend after it...
Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 'to encourage students to not stick around college.' (College...
The blockbuster antitrust case begins Monday. Its outcome could impact how Big Tech companies grow—but the government has a long way to go to prove its case.
Remember how last weekend Meta claimed its 'Maverick' AI model (in the newly-released Llama-4 series) beat GPT-4o and Gemini Flash 2 'on all benchmarks... This thing is a beast.' And then how within a day several AI researchers pointed out that even Meta's own announcement...
Sunday April 13, 2025. 11:02 PM
'More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of infections that are resistant to antibiotics,' reports the BBC, citing a study by two leading experts in child health that used data from sources including the World Health...
Military units, government nerds appear to join the fray, with physical infra in sights Feature From triggering a water tank overflow in Texas to shutting down Russian state news services on Vladimir Putin's birthday, self-styled hacktivists have been making headlines.…
'It is somewhat remarkable that work on AmigaOS 3.X continues in 2025,' notes Tom's Hardware, 'given that Commodore International released AmigaOS 3.0 in 1992...' AmigaOS 3.1 came in 1993. And now... Work continues on AmigaOS 3.2 with the stewards of this classic Motorola...
'Can you help me take down the Texas lottery?' That's what a London banker-turned-bookmaker asked 'acquaintances' in 2023, reports the Wall Street Journal. The plan was to buy 'nearly every possible number in a coming drawing' — purchasing $1 tickets for 25.8 million...
Somewhere in Montana sits the only coal-fired power plant in America that hasn't installed modern pollution controls to limit particulate matter, according to the Environmental Protecction Agency. Mining.com notes that it has the highest emission rate of fine particulate...
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