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Saturday January 25, 2025. 12:12 PM
out Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet
Who could be so interested in chips, manufacturing, and more, in the US, UK, Europe, Russia... Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023.…
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his UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway
Spinner says crim's claims 'very significantly overstated' UK broadband and TV provider TalkTalk says it's currently investigating claims made on cybercrime forums alleging data from the company was up for grabs.…
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its AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud
GameOn? It's looking more like game over for that biz The co-founder and former CEO of AI startup GameOn is in a pickle. After exiting the top job last year under a cloud, he's now in court – along with his wife – for allegedly bilking his company and its investors out...
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Friday January 24, 2025. 11:58 PM
key Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts
Can't keep the drama Llama out of this race Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans on Friday to blow through as much as $60 to 65 billion in 2025 on plenty more AI resources for his social media mega-corp – and signaled his intention to continue the spending spree for...
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windows Fitbit pays Uncle Sam $12M to sprint away from claims of burning-hot smartwatches
Your workout warm-up instructions didn't say anything about setting wrists on fire – allegedly! Years after recalling one of its smartwatches over overheating batteries that burned people, Fitbit has agreed to pay a $12.25 million civil penalty to the US government to...
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year Exchange update refusenik? Consider yourself warned by Microsoft
If you have a 'significantly out of date' Exchange Server, emergency mitigation might stop working Exchange Server administrators lagging on their cumulative and security updates be warned: Microsoft has stated that the Exchange Emergency Mitigation Service (EEMS) might stop ...
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years The state of Right to Repair: Progress made, but key barriers remain
Schematics, repair manuals, part numbers still out of reach for many industries The US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has released a report on the state of Right to Repair. The good news is that things seem to be going in the right direction for some gadgets. The bad...
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not Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key
But what the heck should it do? Great news, Linux fans! Support for the Copilot key is coming in the 6.14 kernel. What do you think it should do?…
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computer Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest
Meanwhile, datacenter emissions continue to soar Updated Microsoft is forking out for even more carbon credits to offset spiralling AI-fuelled carbon dioxide emissions from its datacenters.…
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geek What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?
We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course Feature Generative AI models have not only exploded in popularity over the past two years, but they've also grown at a precipitous rate, necessitating ever larger quantities of...
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news Qualcomm big cheese Cristiano Amon's pay award jumps 10%
At $25.91M, CEO is worth 261 employees Qualcomm's top dog Cristian Amon enjoyed a ten percent year-on-year bump in total financial compensation for fiscal 2024 that amounted to $25.91 million.…
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pc Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?
Could a post-Brexit romance be on the cards? The UK and EU must decide whether to coordinate a response to Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on stuff imported into the United States, or cut separate deals with the new president, the House of Lords heard this week.…
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technology Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now
SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss* A now-fixed command-injection bug in Kubernetes can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints in a cluster, and thus fully take over those systems,...
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internet Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course
Calamity Capsule continues to be calamitous for the bottom line Boeing is warning of another hit to its bottom line, at least partly at the hands of the company's Calamity Capsule, the CST-100 Starliner.…
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technologies North Korean dev who renamed himself 'Bane' accused of IT worker fraud caper
5 indicted as FBI warns North Korea dials up aggression, plus Russian devs allegedly get in on the act The US is indicting yet another five suspects it believes were involved in North Korea's long-running, fraudulent remote IT worker scheme – including one who changed...
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computers Mega UK datacenter greenlit, but we still don't know who's moving in
Hyperscaler mystery deepens as Hertfordshire braces for bit barn blitz Approval was last night granted for a mega datacenter in Hertfordshire, close to London's M25 orbital motorway, clearing the way for construction to begin. The identity of the eventual occupier, said to...
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pc news WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference
New double-digit vintage goes well with all sorts of things After 32 years of maturation, even now, WINE is Not an Emulator, but it can work alongside them to run Windows apps on Arm Linux.…
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pc news headlines First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works
28nm and fatter processes first, says minister, as semiconductor supply chain players move to cash in India's ambition to become a semiconductor manufacturing player will bear fruit later this year with the debut of the first silicon designed and built in the nation.…
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geek news User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?
Then suggested a bloke down the pub might be able to help fix it On Call Friday brings the prospect of spending time with loved ones. But before we get there, The Register offers another instalment of On Call, the column that chronicles experiences from the global family of...
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technology news China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps
Paint a target on Myanmar, pledge more info-sharing to get the job done A group established by six Asian nations to fight criminal cyber-scam slave camps that infest the region claims it’s made good progress dismantling the operations.…
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