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Tuesday April 22, 2025. 10:30 AM
I was into Adversarial Noise before they were famous Opinion 6:56 PM. April 11, 2025. Write it down. That's the precise moment the tech-bro-niverse imploded due to the gravitational force of irony at its core. That was the moment Jack Dorsey posted 'Delete all IP law' on X....
PLUS: Malware developers adopt Node.js; US disinformation warriors disbanded; Gig worker accounts for sale; and more Infosec In Brief Email security outfit EasyDMARC recently spotted a phishing campaign that successfully spoofed Google with a sophisticated attack.…
Which is one reason US regulators just sued the rideshare and delivery giant The USA’s Federal Trade Commission on Monday launched a lawsuit against Uber, alleging the rideshare giant ripped off customers by enrolling them in its “Uber One” membership scheme without...
Receiver warns of ‘potential interferences’ and appoints senior British lawyers to oversee candidate nomination process The African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) will hold elections on June 23rd, perhaps giving the regional internet registry the chance to convene...
10 other certificates 'were mis-issued and have now been revoked' Certificate issuer SSL.com’s domain validation system had an unfortunate bug that was exploited by miscreants to obtain, without authorization, digital certs for legit websites.…
Sam says it's Son's money well spent Conventional wisdom holds that being polite to AI chatbots makes them respond better, but no one stops to think how much energy that politeness is wasting. …
Monday April 21, 2025. 11:17 PM
No one should be excluded – unless you have certain views on the Mid-East crisis In line with Trump administration directives, the US government's National Science Foundation has started canceling grants for studies into workplace diversity and the spread of...
Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours The time from vulnerability disclosure to proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code can now be as short as a few hours, thanks to generative AI models.…
Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has an urgent need for a new software system to help implement the Trump administration's deportation plans, and it's turning to longtime ICE supplier Palantir for a rush ...
It's now hitting govt, enterprise targets On March 11 - Patch Tuesday - Microsoft rolled out its usual buffet of bug fixes. Just eight days later, miscreants had weaponized one of the vulnerabilities, using it against government and private sector targets in Poland and...
Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows Hands On Getting large language models to actually do something useful usually means wiring them up to external data, tools, or APIs. The trouble is, there's no standard way to do that - ...
Fiddling with the production database – what could possibly go wrong? Who, Me? Monday mornings are a nasty time of week that can be redeemed by two things: bantering about weekend sporting results, and reading another edition of 'Who, Me?' – The Register's weekly column...
Sunday April 20, 2025. 11:43 PM
On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts Comment Elon Musk's Trump-blessed DOGE unit has made a lot of noise and a lot of headlines for its heavy-handed hatchet tactics within supposedly bloated governmental organizations.…
Saturday April 19, 2025. 05:02 PM
When it comes to sales and rebates, PC giant takes 'Keep Reinventing' seriously HP Inc has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in the US that alleged it used deceptive pricing tactics on its website, including fake discounts and misleading limited-time...
AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done Video Crosswalk buttons in various US cities were hijacked over the past week or so to – rather than robotically tell people it's safe to walk or wait – instead emit...
Oh. You expected serious suggestions? It isn't just devices unable to upgrade to Windows 11 that are headed to digital landfill this year. The first version of Microsoft's Surface Hub is also destined for the tech trashcan as Windows 10 support ends. So, what do you do with...
Just us or is AI increasingly appearing like an unwanted party guest? Microsoft customers are claiming the Windows giant's Copilot AI service sometimes ignores commands to disable the thing, and thus turns itself back on like a zombie risen from the dead.…
Friday April 18, 2025. 09:48 PM
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void)... In a fitting bit of irony, users of Cursor AI experienced the limitations of AI firsthand when the programming tool's own AI support bot...
Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes Updated A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use of AI to help figure out where to slash,...
Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified CISA – the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – has issued an alert for those who missed Oracle grudgingly admitting some customer data was stolen from the database giant's...
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