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So far, Overview Energy says it has only beamed power from a moving aircraft to standard solar panels You can't generate solar power at night unless your panels are in space. A startup that wants to beam orbital sunlight straight into existing solar farms has just emerged from stealth, claiming a world-first power-beaming demo, but with a lot of critical information left unreported. …

No details, no CVE, update your browser now Google issued an emergency fix for a Chrome vulnerability already under exploitation, which marks the world's most popular browser's eighth zero-day bug of 2025.…

UK data regulator says failures were unacceptable for a company managing the world's passwords The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says LastPass must cough up £1.2 million ($1.6 million) after its two-part 2022 data breach compromised information from up to 1.6 million UK users.…

Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras Legacy Update was already extremely useful if you chose to disembark from Microsoft's upgrade railroad. Now it's even more so.…

Eight-hour EVA was also first outing for new spacesuits A pair of taikonauts ventured outside China's Tiangong space station this week to take a closer look at the cracked viewport window of the Shenzhou-20 vehicle.…

DOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia President Trump's 'Genesis Mission' is taking shape with the award of more than $320 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to advance AI in scientific research.…

Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert A security researcher specializing in tracking China threats claims two of Salt Typhoon's members were former attendees of a training scheme run by Cisco.…

Copilot – your cuddly companion for nighttime introspection Microsoft analyzed 37.5 million de-identified Copilot conversations from January to September 2025, excluding commercial and educational accounts. The findings reveal distinct usage patterns based on device, time, and day.…

Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secrets Docker Hub has quietly become a treasure trove of live cloud keys and credentials, with more than 10,000 public container images exposing sensitive secrets from over 100 companies, including a Fortune 500 firm and a major bank.…

Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms Exclusive Airbus is undertaking a major overhaul to migrate its sprawling SAP environment to S/4HANA – and potentially to the cloud – as the aerospace giant grapples with the same deadline pressures facing thousands of enterprise customers worldwide.…

Workers frustrated with security-first changes to workflows and teething issues Exclusive Seven months after a landmark cyberattack, the UK's Legal Aid Agency (LAA) says it's returning to pre-breach operations, although law firms are still wrestling with buggy and more laborious systems.…

Proposes central body to collect royalties and dole out cash to creators The government of India wants AI companies to pay for accessing content they use to train models, but only once they start producing revenue.…

‘Chute opened early and snagged on a stabilizer VIDEO An Australian parachuting club has been told to improve the software it uses to manage jumps, after an accident in which a jumper’s ‘chute hooked on an aircraft’s tailplane.…

Didn’t phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why Houston, we have a problem: NASA has lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.…

Blame changed market conditions and attitudes, not the return of Nvidia's H200 to China Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon have called off their planned merger.…

But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming Oracle expects its FY 2026 capital expenditures will be $15 billion higher that previously predicted, as the cloudy database biz invests to accommodate AI workloads.…

If you opt in to the paid service that is updated Nvidia is developing a new inventory management service that could be used by customers to verify the location of their existing GPU stockpiles.…

More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day bug in Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, and the open source project doesn't yet have a fix.…

Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, it’s a worry Alongside TikTok and Instagram, teens have added ChatGPT to the mix. Pew says about two-thirds of US teenagers have tried an AI chatbot, with nearly a third using one every day. Negative mental-health warnings be damned!…

Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting Most big AI providers scrape the open web, hoovering up content to improve their chatbots, which then compete with publishers for the attention of internet users. However, more AI orgs might have to pay up soon, because the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) spec has reached version 1. ...

Meet 'ShipOS' Palantir and the US Navy have signed a two-year deal to test whether its Foundry operational software can streamline the nation’s shipbuilding efforts and steer the Secretary of the Navy's top budget priority into port.…

California chipset giant says it’ll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel Qualcomm could soon be serving up RISC-V cores alongside its custom Arm ones following the acquisition of Ventana Micro Systems on Wednesday.…

The digital intrusion allegedly caused thousands of pounds of meat to spoil and triggered an ammonia leak in the facility A Ukrainian woman accused of hacking US public drinking water systems and a meat processing facility on behalf of Kremlin-backed cyber groups was extradited to the US earlier this year and will stand trial in early 2026.…

Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowr Security researchers have revealed a.NET security flaw thought to affect a host of enterprise-grade products that they say Microsoft refuses to fix.…

Countries subject to newly proposed rule include supposed trusted friends like the UK, France, and Germany The next time someone visits the US, customs may ask to see their passport, their Facebook feed, and all of their Instagram posts. ...

1,500 military digital defenders spent the past week cleaning up a series of cyberattacks on fictional island feature Andravia and Harbadus – two nations so often at odds with one another – were once again embroiled in conflict over the past seven days, which thoroughly tested NATO's cybersecurity experts' ability to coordinate defenses across battlefield domains.…

Recent collision data points to comparable injury rates across modern vehicle types Electric cars are no more of a danger to pedestrians than conventional vehicles, according to new research.…

They're now good enough to do things well, if you take the time to learn how to steer them Opinion For most of the last year, the phrase 'vibe coding' seemed more punchline than possibility. ...

Getting inferencing infrastructure into orbit may soon be cheaper than building it down here Space startup Aetherflux says it plans to put its first data center satellite into orbit during the first quarter of 2027.…

Signoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the ground Space outfit Rocket Lab says its Hungry Hippo is ready to go into space, a fillip for the company’s plans to fly its new Neutron launch vehicle.…

Adapts its engines to power bit barns, and lands cash to fund its takeoff roll Boom Supersonic, the company that hopes to revive faster-than-sound air travel, has diverted into the datacenter power business.…

US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own tech Half a decade of US trade policy aimed at denying China access to America's most potent semiconductor tech has only served to spur China to develop homegrown alternatives.…

Plus critical critical Notepad++, Ivanti, and Fortinet updates, and one of these patches an under-attack security hole Happy December Patch Tuesday to all who celebrate. This month's patch party includes one Microsoft flaw under exploitation, plus two others listed as publicly known – but just 57 CVEs in total from Redmond.…

Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and that’s kind of enough Australia's ban on children under 16 holding active social media accounts comes into force on Wednesday. While nobody expects this world-first policy to stop every kid using their favorite online communities, its backers take solace in the mere fact it's sparked global debate.…

Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amok The fear of AI agents running amok has thus far halted the wide deployment of these digital workhorses, Okta's president of Auth0, Shiv Ramji, told The Register.…

A win for the contractors Congress has released the final version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and critics have been quick to point out that previously proposed rules giving the US military the right to repair its equipment without having to rely on contractors have gone missing. …

An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on The Linux Foundation on Tuesday said it has formed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to provide vendor-neutral oversight for the development of AI agent infrastructure.…

Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck Hundreds of Porsches in Russia were rendered immobile last week, raising speculation of a hack, but the German carmaker tells The Register that its vehicles are secure.…

Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable build Window Maker Live 13.2 is stubbornly keeping 32-bit PCs alive on Debian 13 'Trixie,' shipping a new release that boots on i686 hardware.…

Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say More than 230 organizations across America have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the construction of datacenters, claiming the current building boom represents a huge environmental and social threat.…