Feds arrest DoD techie, claim he dumped top secret files in park for foreign spies to find 28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents
ConnectWise customers get mysterious warning about 'sophisticated' nation-state hack Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me
Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table
8,000+ Asus routers popped in 'advanced' mystery botnet plot No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect
Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump exclusive 'It's a high-stakes intelligence war' he told El Reg Cyber-crime31 May 2025 | 12
Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims Move should help government track infections and plan new legislation Public Sector31 May 2025 | 7
American science put on starvation diet National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60% Science30 May 2025 | 44
Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo Video Its driverless cars are already testing in Austin - good luck Software30 May 2025 | 75
Nvidia scores its first DOE win since 2022 with Doudna supercomputer System promises a 10x increase in 'scientific output' - not necessarily performance Systems30 May 2025 | 2
Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents Generate modest interactive apps, spiffy charts, and bland screenplays as needed AI + ML30 May 2025 | 3
ConnectWise customers get mysterious warning about 'sophisticated' nation-state hack Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me Cyber-crime30 May 2025 | 4
Feds arrest DoD techie, claim he dumped top secret files in park for foreign spies to find 28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents Security30 May 2025 | 10
US medical org pays $50M+ to settle case after crims raided data and threatened to swat cancer patients Cash splashed on damages, infrastructure improvements, and fraud monitoring Cyber-crime30 May 2025 | 1
Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them Public Sector30 May 2025 | 8
Tariff woes equal US smartphone price hikes, shrinking sales World War Fee Liberation Day not freeing consumers or businesses of their hard earned disposable income Personal Tech30 May 2025 | 28
Infosecurity Europe 2025 drives cybersecurity priorities amid growing global risks 30-year anniversary event adds classes and sessions to address new risks Partner content
Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft High-profile logo win for AI? Weeks ahead of year-end and with investors twitchy about returns? Impeccable timing AI + ML30 May 2025 | 22
Dell has $14BN AI server backlog, warns projects are 'nonlinear' Can't build a datacenter overnight, argues tech giant On-Prem30 May 2025 | 4
UK's answer to Darpa invests £23.3M in touchy-feely robots Latest project gets the green light although Brexit-era brainchild faces spending review Public Sector30 May 2025 | 2
Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware Take care when downloading AI freebies, researcher tells The Register Cyber-crime30 May 2025 | 5
JetBrains previews official VS Code language server for Kotlin, unveils fresh language features at KotlinConf
AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics Column Being human and working on a team is the job, not writing code
Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL Storage30 May 2025 | 15
The UK wants you to sign up for £1B cyber defense force War in Ukraine causes major rethink in policy and spending Security30 May 2025 | 36
Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor On Call After three service calls, user reflected on their utter stupidity On-Prem30 May 2025 | 143
The House of Zen joins the co-packaged optics race with Enosemi buy Analysis Light is faster than copper, which is important with rack scale architecture Systems30 May 2025 | 2
Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery Science30 May 2025 | 21
Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war Cadence Systems, Synopsys, and Siemens among those subject to export licenses targeting Middle Kingdom Systems30 May 2025 | 22
Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look Security30 May 2025 | 2
Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams Security30 May 2025 | 12
Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud Yet more juicy data for the all-seeing eye AI + ML29 May 2025 | 28
Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs 'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message Patches29 May 2025 | 16
Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table AI + ML29 May 2025 | 67
Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy Opinion There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on it
Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley Cyber-crime29 May 2025 | 43
Elon Musk bragged this group had been 'deleted' when DOGE shut it down - now they're appealing 18F says the whole thing was political Public Sector29 May 2025 | 30
Nvidia is cozying up to China with Shanghai R&D lab plans, Senators cry Banks and Warren accuse chip maker of habitual 'disregard for US national security and support for autocratic regimes' Systems29 May 2025 | 14
Empowering digital transformation with a strategic partnership How Telstra and Equinix support hyperconnected digital infrastructure Partner content
Economists blame Trump tariffs, AI explosion for threatening global economy Businesses need to adopt AI, says WEF, but uncertainty is a blocker AI + ML29 May 2025 | 12
8,000+ Asus routers popped in 'advanced' mystery botnet plot No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect Research29 May 2025 | 7
Thunderbird is go: 139 follows closely on Firefox's heels One of the new smaller monthly releases – and how to tweak it Software29 May 2025 | 37
Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff No, that's not someone on your team who doesn't pull their weight Applications29 May 2025 | 3
US to deny visas to foreign officials it says 'censor' social media Against backdrop of EU rules on spread of misinfo plus UK probing role of online hate in far right riots Personal Tech29 May 2025 | 112
Billions of cookies up for grabs as experts warn over session security Law enforcement crackdowns are gathering pace but online marketplaces still teeming with valuable tokens Security29 May 2025 | 22
Adversarial AI: The new frontier in financial cybersecurity The financial sector is adept at balancing risk and opportunity. Adversarial AI is its next big challenge Sponsored Post
Apple has only 30 days to comply with EU DMA rules Users leaving App Store to make a third party payment must be free of charge, says Euro Commish Applications29 May 2025 | 11
OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims AI + ML29 May 2025 | 49
European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up CxO29 May 2025 | 24
Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users Updated Wiggles tiny price for FishOS Ceph-based wares as deprecation of Ceph continues Storage29 May 2025 | 7
China to visit Earth’s ‘quasi-moon’ and bring a chunk of it back home Tianwen 2 probe launched Thursday and will also get up close with a comet Science29 May 2025 | 12
HP Inc. hastens China exit as tariffs kick a hole in its profits Hiked prices and thinks that will make buyers nervous Personal Tech29 May 2025 | 20
India none-too-subtly reminds Big Tech that local laws prohibit dark patterns ‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber Legal29 May 2025 | 9
Trump tariffs ruled illegal within minutes of Musk announcing end of government role World War Fee Hardware biz gets a reprieve but administration’s plans are unchanged Public Sector29 May 2025 | 145
Trump trade policy to cost Nvidia $10.5B in lost H20 GPU revenues But don't worry, sales are still up 69 percent Systems29 May 2025 | 1
Victoria's Secret website laid bare for three days after 'security incident' Knickers outlet knackered Security29 May 2025 | 38
Elon Musk's xAI pays $300M to born-in-Russia messaging app Telegram to push Grok Telegram to get 50% cut of xAI subscriptions too AI + ML28 May 2025 | 6
Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps Also in preview: a settings backup feature to support OS upgrades OSes28 May 2025 | 39
AI and virtualization are two major headaches for CIOs. Can storage help solve them both? It's about evolution not revolution, says Lenovo
From hype to harm: 78% of CISOs see AI attacks already AI attacks are keeping most practitioners up at night, says Darktrace, and with good reason
How homegrown AI cuts through the hype to deliver real results Nutanix leverages customer interactions to develop GenAI infra solution and the AI tools to support it
Why rapid proliferation of cloud native apps requires faster, more efficient toolsets Kubernetes enables easy, rapid AI app development, making it the industry standard for AI workloads
Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick Systems28 May 2025 | 11
Ex-CISA employee: 'This culture of fear started permeating the agency' Interview 'Everyone's holding their breath' Public Sector28 May 2025 | 10
MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2 Prototype packs triple the energy density of lithium-ion, they claim Science28 May 2025 | 47
Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you' AI + ML28 May 2025 | 58
Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
Feds arrest DoD techie, claim he dumped top secret files in park for foreign spies to find 28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents
The UK wants you to sign up for £1B cyber defense force War in Ukraine causes major rethink in policy and spending
Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware Take care when downloading AI freebies, researcher tells The Register
Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL
ConnectWise customers get mysterious warning about 'sophisticated' nation-state hack Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me
Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo Video Its driverless cars are already testing in Austin - good luck
Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump exclusive 'It's a high-stakes intelligence war' he told El Reg
Tariff woes equal US smartphone price hikes, shrinking sales World War Fee Liberation Day not freeing consumers or businesses of their hard earned disposable income
Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft High-profile logo win for AI? Weeks ahead of year-end and with investors twitchy about returns? Impeccable timing
Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k + Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself Cyber-crime28 May 2025 | 2
DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more Databases28 May 2025 |
Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though Software28 May 2025 | 30
Data catalogs for unstructured data offer a new twist on an old theme Starfish helps companies tap the data value buried in their file systems Partner content
Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds IT leaders in region eyeing American hyperscalers escape hatch PaaS + IaaS28 May 2025 | 9
Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine The latest in a long line of techies to face Putin’s wrath Security28 May 2025 | 41
AI won't replace radiologists anytime soon Researchers find AI models weak for medical reasoning when it comes to X-rays and CT scans AI + ML28 May 2025 | 14
Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box hands on Easy, medium, and the sledgehammer approach – or any combination you fancy OSes28 May 2025 | 118
Eviden unveils satellite monitoring tool, as Starlink asks UK for E band access Space broadband and space-linked phones all very well, but someone's got to track them Networks28 May 2025 | 2
German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal More cases about 2015 software swindle stuck in legal traffic jam Legal28 May 2025 | 49
DragonForce double-whammy: First hit an MSP, then use RMM software to push ransomware Updated SimpleHelp was the vector for the attack Security28 May 2025 |
The cost of compromise: Why password attacks are still winning in 2025 Poor password management is responsible for thousands of data breaches, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Sponsored feature
SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again Musk’s rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either Science28 May 2025 | 78
ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it Computex Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements Personal Tech28 May 2025 | 21
Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool Millions may fall for it - and end up with malware instead Cyber-crime27 May 2025 | 6