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Friday August 22, 2025. 05:08 PM
Update finally gives coders control over when – and if – AI butts in Good news for developers growing tired of Copilot's helpful suggestions. Microsoft has announced that it is now possible to make the programming assistant a little less irritating.…
Crypto mines, BEC scams, fake passports, and a $300M fraud empire allegedly brought down during Serengeti 2.0 Interpol's latest clampdown on cybercrime resulted in 1,209 arrests across the African continent, from ransomware crooks to business email compromise (BEC) scammers, ...
Windows giant takes aim at spammers exploiting new 365 tenants Microsoft has issued a warning to companies using the onmicrosoft.com domain for emails: get your domain sorted out or face throttling.…
Coweta County stalls bit barn vote as residents revolt A county in the US state of Georgia is facing opposition to the construction of a massive hyperscale datacenter campus, reflecting the growing concerns of communities in America and elsewhere over the rush to build more...
Project scrambles for mitigation as AUR, forums, and main site feel the strain Some joyless ne'er-do-well has loosed a botnet on the community-driven Arch Linux distro, with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack now in its second week of sustained disruption.…
Graphics API, crash reporting and more: Making low-level code cross-platform for Windows is a challenge Zed co-founder Max Brunsfeld has explained why the Windows port of the Rust-based editor is taking so long – illustrating the friction facing developers of...
Open source Surya system promises early alerts for space weather that can fry satellites and grids Boffins at IBM and NASA have concocted an AI model to help predict the weather, but this time it is taking on space weather that might disrupt satellites and spacecraft,...
Escort's forgotten cap left techie facing rifles and a debrief On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that tells tales of your tech support misadventures.…
FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in The head of America's consumer watchdog has issued a stark warning to some of the biggest names in the tech sphere – don't backdoor encryption or censor content at the behest of foreign governments, or there may...
Fujitsu doesn’t have the project all to itself any more Japanese research institution RIKEN has decided it needs GPUs for its next generation “FugakuNEXT” supercomputer and has signed Nvidia to supply them and design the systems needed to get them working.…
Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean Dwarf planet Ceres, the unpleasant lump of icy rock orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, once had an environment in which microbes might have thrived.…
Also fired another AI - GitHub Copilot - after it produced ‘mixed results in utilization and efficacy’ Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has decided not to fire 45 workers it planned to replace with an AI chatbot.…
Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an update to its flagship large language model that the company claims is already optimized for use with a new generation of homegrown silicon.…
Pro tip: When taking revenge, don't use your real name A US court sentenced a former developer at power management biz Eaton to four years in prison after he installed malware on the company’s servers.…
Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right? Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear weapons.…
Better late than never after SharePoint assault? Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month's SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak in...
Underground forums now recruiting English-speaking social engineers English speakers adept at social engineering are a hot commodity in the cybercrime job market.…
Thursday August 21, 2025. 11:24 PM
Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge for machine...
Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas It's been more than 200 years since the United States issued a letter of marque allowing privateers to attack the vessels of foreign nations, but those...
If anyone’s gonna lock in Uncle Sam’s business, it'd better be us! It's now safe to say the gang's all here when it comes to big generative AI model makers signing dollar discount deals with Uncle Sam. Google has joined Anthropic and OpenAI, inking questionable...
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