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Friday November 21, 2025
14:47Google's AI is eating your email by default. Here's how to shut its...
Want out of those new 'smart features'? We’ve got you covered Google's 'don't be evil' ethos is so 2015. These days, the Chocolate Factory is all about integrating users with bots, whether they like it or not. Now, it's rolling out Workspace 'smart features' that process personal content with AI, and many users are finding the settings enabled by default.…
13:49SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap
Redesigned booster ruptures during early checks, delaying latest Starship iteration SpaceX has responded to Blue Origin's announcement of a heftier version of its New Glenn rocket in the only way it knows how – by accidentally destroying a Starship booster.…
12:58Four charged over alleged plot to smuggle Nvidia AI chips into China
Prosecutors say front companies, falsified paperwork, and overseas drop points used to dodge US export rules Four people have been charged in the US with plotting to funnel restricted Nvidia AI chips into China, allegedly relying on shell firms, fake invoices, and covert routing to slip cutting-edge GPUs past American export controls.…
12:54You are likely to be eaten by the MIT license: Microsoft frees Zork...
Redmond dusts off Infocom's classic text adventures and puts the originals into public hands Microsoft developer boss Scott Hanselman saved the company's Ignite shindig this week by unveiling the source code for Zork I-III, all available under the MIT license.…
12:44Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant
Storing credentials safely and securely is the real trick It's important to have your login in hand, literally. Zi Teng Wang, a UK magician who implanted an RFID chip in his appendage, has admitted losing access to it because he forgot the password.…
12:15Russia-linked crooks bought a bank for Christmas to launder cyber loot
UK cops trace street-level crime to sanctions-busting networks tied to Moscow's war economy On Christmas Day 2024, a Russian-linked laundering network bought itself a very special present: a controlling stake in a Kyrgyzstan bank, later used to wash cybercrime profits and funnel money into Moscow's war machine, according to the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).…
11:31Lawsuit seeks to probe Uncle Sam's role in ICE-tracking app takedowns
EFF wants to know if citizens had their First Amendment rights violated The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing two government departments to understand how they compelled tech companies to remove ICE-tracking apps and websites from their platforms.…
10:45Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes...
Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt SC25 There's a new efficiency champ at the top of the Green500 ranking of the world's most sustainable supercomputers.…
10:00AI nudification site fined £55K for skipping age checks
Decision marks second penalty issued under the UK's Online Safety Act The UK's online regulator has lobbed a £50,000 fine at an AI nudification website for failing to implement mandatory age checks, potentially allowing under-18s to waltz past the virtual velvet rope.…
09:00UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme
Committee hears departments may have to stump up cash before savings materialize A UK tech minister has declined to put a figure on the cost of the government's digital ID plans as MPs question the contributions expected from central departments.…
08:20Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'
The tech is impressive. Shoehorning it into absolutely everything is not Opinion In a tweet lamenting all the 'cynics' unmoved by AI, Microsoft AI boss Mustafa Suleyman demonstrated that Redmond's Reality Distortion Field is running at full power.…
06:01Boffins build 'AI Kill Switch' to thwart unwanted agents
AutoGuard uses injection text for good Computer scientists based in South Korea have devised what they describe as an 'AI Kill Switch' to prevent AI agents from carrying out malicious data scraping.…
05:44Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during...
Somewhat daft scheme worked until it didn’t On Call The working week can be burdensome, so each Friday morning The Register tries to lighten the load by bringing you a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which you let go of tech support stories that weigh on your memory.…
04:25Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into...
It’s an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum The Open Compute Project (OCP) has commenced a workstream to learn how to deploy quantum computers alongside classical high performance computers in the same datacenter.…
02:55Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without...
Relies on very loose permissions, but don’t worry – Google wrote it in Rust Google has linked Android’s wireless peer-to-peer file sharing tool Quick Share to Apple’s equivalent AirDrop.…
01:38Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s...
Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too Backup software vendor Veeam has thrown its weight behind more alternatives to VMware.…
Thursday November 20, 2025
22:20SEC drops SolarWinds lawsuit that painted a target on CISOs everywhere
Company 'clearly delighted' with the outcome The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has abandoned the lawsuit it pursued against SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer for misleading investors about security practices that led to the 2020 SUNBURST attack.…
20:38SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions
Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference SC25 Hydrogen-fueled gas turbines, backup generators, and air handlers probably aren't the kinds of equipment you'd expect on the show floor of a supercomputing conference. But your expectations would be wrong.…
20:27Gemini tries to sniff out AI slop images while also making them easier ...
Featuring an image of a man creating an image of a man creating an image... hands on Google Gemini users can now use the AI's app and website to figure out whether an image is AI-generated, though with some considerable limitations.…
20:03PHP 8.5 lays down long-awaited pipe operator, adds new URI tools
Unfashionable web workhorse refreshed for its ongoing run PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a new standards-compliant URI parser, marking one of the scripting language's more substantial updates.…
19:30Salesforce-linked data breach claims 200+ victims, has ShinyHunters’...
They keep coming back for more Salesforce has disclosed another third-party breach in which criminals - likely ShinyHunters (again) - may have accessed hundreds of its customers' data.…
18:12LLM-generated malware is improving, but don't expect autonomous...
Researchers tried to get ChatGPT to do evil, but it didn't do a good job LLMs are getting better at writing malware - but they're still not ready for prime time.…
17:35Don't spill your guts to your chatbot friend - it'll hoover up that...
LLM makers may be training on user chat with few privacy safeguards, lawmakers hear The US House of Representatives has heard that LLM builders can exploit users’ conversations for further training and commercial benefit with little oversight or concern for privacy risks.…
17:02Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI
If at first you don’t succeed, swing again - Big Tech certainly isn’t complaining The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are trying again to eliminate state-level AI regulations in favor of a federal standard. The plan faces opposition from many state governments and civil-society organizations, while AI vendors have welcomed it.…
16:08Thunderbird 145 finally adds ‘native’ Exchange support
EWS-powered email only for now, with calendars and contacts still on the to-do list It's easy to forget in the FOSS world, but Exchange still runs most corporate email – and the new version of Thunderbird can talk to it directly.…
15:44Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage
PowerShell script locked thousands of workers out of their accounts An Ohio IT contractor has pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's systems and causing nearly $1 million worth of damage after being fired.…
15:33Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming...
Quick and dirty driver aims to undo slowdown introduced in OS patch The Windows 11 October 2025 Update is still causing headaches for users of Microsoft's flagship operating system.…
15:15AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market
Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base The big three cloud companies are all growing thanks to an expanding market, but Amazon is under increasing pressure from Microsoft and Google, while newcomers are on the rise.…
15:03TP-Link accuses rival Netgear of 'smear campaign' over alleged China...
Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US TP-Link is suing rival networking vendor Netgear, alleging that the rival and its CEO carried out a smear campaign by falsely suggesting, it says, that the biz had been infiltrated by the Chinese government.…
13:46Education boards left gates wide open for PowerSchool mega-breach, say ...
Privacy cops say attack wasn't just bad luck but a result of sloppy homework Canadian privacy watchdogs say that school boards must shoulder part of the blame for the PowerSchool mega-breach, not just the ed-tech giant that lost control of millions of student and staff records.…
13:26Google and Westinghouse lean on AI to speed US nuclear plant builds
Pair say digital twin-powered scheduling will cut costs, shrink timelines for 10 planned reactors Google and atomic power biz Westinghouse Electric claim that AI will speed construction and cut the cost of building the new US power plants it is planning in response to rising demands for energy to fuel AI.…
10:38Palo Alto kit sees massive surge in malicious activity amid mystery...
GlobalProtect login endpoints targeted, sparking concern that something bigger may be brewing Malicious traffic targeting Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect portals surged almost 40-fold in the space of 24 hours, hitting a 90-day high and putting defenders on alert for whatever comes next.…
09:31Systemd 259 release candidate flexes musl support – with long list of...
PostmarketOS pushed for the change, but devs warn it may not last Along with new functionality, systemd is broadening its distro support even further, which will surely delight members of the wider Linux community.…
08:01Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform
Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has again put off its adoption of an NHS data platform prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir until there is more evidence that it will be in the 'best interests' of the city's population.…
05:10Eleven years after Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server biz, profits are...
PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet Lenovo has again said its enterprise hardware business is on the cusp of becoming consistently profitable, despite the division again posting a loss after massive revenue growth.…
03:27Palo Alto CEO tips nation-states to weaponize quantum computing by 2029
Company thinks you’ll contemplate replacing most security kit in the next few years to stay safe Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has suggested hostile nation-states will possess quantum computers in 2029, or even a little earlier, at which point most security appliances will need to be replaced.…
00:30US, UK, Australia sanction Lockbit gang’s hosting provider
‘Bulletproof’ hosts partly dodged the last attack of this sort Cybercrime fighters in the US, UK, and Australia have imposed sanctions on several Russia-linked entities they claim provide hosting services to ransomware gangs Lockbit, BlackSuit, and Play.…
Wednesday November 19, 2025
22:56It's a good time to be the arms dealer for the AI boom
Bubble? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn't see one Nvidia kicked the can labeled 'AI bubble' down the road on Wednesday.…
22:07Fortinet 'fesses up to second 0-day within a week
Attackers may be joining the dots to enable unauthenticated RCE Fortinet has confirmed that another flaw in its FortiWeb web application firewall has been exploited as a zero-day and issued a patch, just days after disclosing a critical bug in the same product that attackers had found and abused a month earlier.…
20:48Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats
The force-feeding will continue until morale improves Some software developers complain that they're being required to use AI tools to the detriment of code quality and their own skills.…
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