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Monday July 21, 2025. 03:04 PM
Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) set to shut down a key satellite data stream used in US hurricane forecasting, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts has stepped...
Persians added snooping capabilities to DCHSpy after Israeli bombs fell Four new samples of Android spyware linked to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) that collects WhatsApp data, records audio and video, and hunts for files by name, surfaced shortly...
Peter Connelly inflated turnover and claimed second payment when only entitled to one Sad news for the three people who fondly remember the soundtracks to turn-of-the-millennium Tomb Raider – their composer, Peter Connelly, has been sentenced to 16 months behind bars for...
But an emergency fix for SharePoint Server 2016 is still MIA Microsoft is releasing out-of-band security updates for SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, following a warning that vulnerable versions were now under attack.…
Getting carded is one thing. A full strip search? Welcome to Britain Opinion On June 10, social network Bluesky announced that in 15 days it would introduce age verification for UK users, to comply with the UK Online Safety Act. As this law threatens non-compliant content...
'This, many considered, was bad' Who, Me? Welcome again to 'Who, Me?' – The Register's Monday column in which readers admit to making mistakes and explain how they managed to keep their careers going afterwards.…
Now flying again, but not saying what went wrong UPDATED US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet due to an unspecified IT issue.…
PLUS: Perplexity AI scores 360-million-customer win in India; Australian billionaire’s political party suffers data breach, won’t contact victims; and more Asia In Brief Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory last week announced the discovery of a small body with an ...
AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code...
PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more Infosec In Brief Microsoft has warned users of SharePoint Server that three on-prem versions of the product include a zero-day flaw that is under attack – and that its own failure ...
Sunday July 20, 2025. 04:00 PM
Foreign worker program represents betrayal of US computer science students, advocacy group argues The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) intend to reevaluate how H-1B visas are issued, according to a regulatory...
Fancy Bear can't keep its claws out of Outlook inboxes The UK government is warning that Russia's APT28 (also known as Fancy Bear or Forest Blizzard) has been deploying previously unknown malware to harvest Microsoft email credentials and steal access to compromised...
Saturday July 19, 2025. 10:02 AM
Keep It Simple, Stupid Interview Scattered Spider and Iranian government-backed cyber units have more in common than a recent uptick in hacking activity, according to Ariel Parnes, a former colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces' cyber unit 8200.…
Moolenaar demands answers from Commerce Secretary The Republican chair of the US House Select Committee on China has protested the Trump administration's decision this week to lift restrictions on the sale of Nvidia H20 GPUs and similar processors, warning the chips could be ...
GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges Two weeks before the EU AI Act takes effect, the European Commission issued voluntary guidelines for providers of general-purpose AI models. However, Meta refused to sign, arguing that the extra measures...
Friday July 18, 2025. 09:24 PM
That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else Japanese foundry upstart Rapidus says it's on track to begin volume production of 2nm process tech after achieving a major milestone this week.…
And we’re the ones building it Comment A tech executive's alleged affair exposed on a stadium jumbotron is ripe fodder for the gossip rags, but it exhibits something else: proof that we need not wait for an AI-fueled dystopian surveillance state to descend on us - we're...
Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device Apple has sued tech YouTuber Jon Prosser for allegedly leaking iOS 26 information to the public ahead of its reveal at WWDC in June.…
Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters Oracle began incentivizing perpetual licenses in favor of subscription deals as it introduced its database systems via rival cloud vendors, say licensing experts.…
WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably Analysis WeTransfer this week denied claims it uses files uploaded to its ubiquitous cloud storage service to train AI, and rolled back changes it had introduced to its Terms of...
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