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China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS 2025-11-06 at 08:37 By Simon Sharwood Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship China has matched the European Space Agency’s feat of taking a snapshot of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from a Mars orbiter.… This article is an excerpt from The Register…

The Silent Insider Threat: When Employees Undermine Cybersecurity Messaging 2025-11-06 at 08:37 By One of the most damaging vulnerabilities often sits inside the organization: inconsistent communication from employees. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

SonicWall Confirms State-Sponsored Hackers Behind September Cloud Backup Breach 2025-11-06 at 08:04 By SonicWall has formally implicated state-sponsored threat actors as behind the September security breach that led to the unauthorized exposure of firewall configuration backup files. “The malicious activity – carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor – was isolated to the unauthorized access…

Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever 2025-11-06 at 06:32 By Simon Sharwood Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners Qualcomm and Arm have offered differing predictions regarding the market for inferencing silicon.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this…

Zohran Mamdani taps Big Tech antagonist Lina Khan as co-chair of mayoral transition team 2025-11-06 at 03:23 By Thomas Barrabi Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked former Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of his transition team. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original…

Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it ‘sees’ 2025-11-06 at 03:23 By Thomas Claburn Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent AI models are filled to the brim with bias, whether that’s showing you a certain race of person when you ask for a…

Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer 2025-11-06 at 03:23 By Avram Piltch For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store hands on  Normally, when you install an application in Windows, it comes either from a direct download or as a single choice from the Microsoft Store. But what…

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit 2025-11-06 at 02:51 By Simon Sharwood Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want Microsoft Australia has apologized to users of its M365 suite after regulators accused it of steering them towards pricey bundles…

Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks 2025-11-06 at 01:47 By Tobias Mann Some clever networking hacks open the door AI search provider Perplexity’s research wing has developed a new set of software optimizations that allows for trillion parameter or large models to run efficiently across older,…

Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames ‘thermal event’ 2025-11-06 at 01:09 By Simon Sharwood Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs Microsoft has warned of a “thermal event” impacting Azure users in its West Europe region, and perhaps elsewhere.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this…

‘Tutors’ at Musk startup xAI had to give up rights to faces, voices to train sexy AI bots: report 2025-11-06 at 00:53 By Ariel Zilber Most of those affected were so-called “AI tutors,” staff who refine the large language models that power xAI’s flagship chatbot, Grok. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News…

NYC tech workers celebrate Mamdani’s mayoral win — but their bosses are worried 2025-11-06 at 00:08 By Thomas Barrabi Zohran Mamdani won over New York City’s tech industry workers with his disruptive style on the campaign trail – but their bosses are worried about what the mayor-elect’s far-left policies will mean for their businesses. This…

Uncle Sam lets Google take Wiz for $32B 2025-11-05 at 20:54 By Brandon Vigliarolo Second time’s the charm for after Wiz rejected Google’s $23B offer last year Google’s second attempt to acquire cloud security firm Wiz is going a lot better than the first, with the Department of Justice clearing the $32 billion deal, which…

Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers 2025-11-05 at 19:48 By Dan Robinson The DoE’s planned funding runs through 2030 America’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive up to $125 million through 2030 to develop hybrid computing systems that link quantum and supercomputing technologies.… This article is an excerpt from The Register…

When Debian won’t do, Devuan 6 ‘Excalibur’ Linux makes the grade 2025-11-05 at 18:53 By Liam Proven Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build Old school enough to favor Debian, but averse to systemd? Good news: Devuan 6 “Excalibur” is here, and all you need to do is draw it from the stone master…

AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system 2025-11-05 at 18:53 By Dan Robinson CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers AMD plans to launch its Helios rack-scale architecture in 2026 as a direct challenge to Nvidia in the AI infrastructure market, pending successful integration of its…

Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP 2025-11-05 at 18:53 By Lindsay Clark S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change Around two fifths of North America’s SAP users have yet to begin migrating to S/4HANA with just two years until mainstream support ends for legacy systems.… This article is an…

Google Uncovers PROMPTFLUX Malware That Uses Gemini AI to Rewrite Its Code Hourly 2025-11-05 at 18:52 By Google on Wednesday said it discovered an unknown threat actor using an experimental Visual Basic Script (VB Script) malware dubbed PROMPTFLUX that interacts with its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model API to write its own source code for…

M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump 2025-11-05 at 17:47 By Connor Jones Retailer’s tech systems aren’t down anymore, but the same can’t be said for its rocky financials Marks & Spencer says its April cyberattack will cost around £136 million ($177.2 million) in total.… This article is an excerpt from The…

Securing the Open Android Ecosystem with Samsung Knox 2025-11-05 at 17:46 By Raise your hand if you’ve heard the myth, “Android isn’t secure.” Android phones, such as the Samsung Galaxy, unlock new ways of working. But, as an IT admin, you may worry about the security—after all, work data is critical. However, outdated concerns can…

Mysterious ‘SmudgedSerpent’ Hackers Target U.S. Policy Experts Amid Iran–Israel Tensions 2025-11-05 at 17:46 By A never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed UNK_SmudgedSerpent has been attributed as behind a set of cyber attacks targeting academics and foreign policy experts between June and August 2025, coinciding with heightened geopolitical tensions between Iran and Israel. “UNK_SmudgedSerpent leveraged domestic political…

U.S. Sanctions 10 North Korean Entities for Laundering $12.7M in Crypto and IT Fraud 2025-11-05 at 17:46 By The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions against eight individuals and two entities within North Korea’s global financial network for laundering money for various illicit schemes, including cybercrime and information technology (IT) worker fraud. “North Korean…

Why SOC Burnout Can Be Avoided: Practical Steps 2025-11-05 at 17:46 By Behind every alert is an analyst; tired eyes scanning dashboards, long nights spent on false positives, and the constant fear of missing something big. It’s no surprise that many SOCs face burnout before they face their next breach. But this doesn’t have to…

AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security 2025-11-05 at 17:01 By Connor Jones Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way AMD will issue a microcode patch for a high-severity vulnerability that could weaken cryptographic keys across Epyc and Ryzen CPUs.… This article…

Researchers Find ChatGPT Vulnerabilities That Let Attackers Trick AI Into Leaking Data 2025-11-05 at 16:04 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new set of vulnerabilities impacting OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that could be exploited by an attacker to steal personal information from users’ memories and chat histories without their knowledge. The seven vulnerabilities…

Attackers abuse Gemini AI to develop ‘Thinking Robot’ malware and data processing agent for spying purposes 2025-11-05 at 16:00 By Jessica Lyons Meanwhile, others tried to social-engineer the chatbot itself Nation-state goons and cybercrime rings are experimenting with Gemini to develop a “Thinking Robot” malware module that can rewrite its own code to avoid detection,…

Rust Foundation tries to stop maintainers corroding 2025-11-05 at 15:20 By Richard Speed Memory safety costs money: Maintainers Fund to directly pay developers for their work The Rust Foundation has launched a Maintainers Fund to support developers sustaining the language, addressing a long-standing challenge in open source software.… This article is an excerpt from The…

Inside SECURITY 500: Reinventing Security Leadership 2025-11-05 at 15:00 By In this episode of Lock It Down with SecurityMagazine, Will Bernhjelm, Mall of America Vice President of Security, and the 2025 SECURITY 500 Conference Morning Keynote Speaker, talks about his career, the security industry and the upcoming conference. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe…

Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions 2025-11-05 at 14:13 By Lindsay Clark Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI Cloud data platform vendor Snowflake has made its set of PostgreSQL extensions open source in a bid to help developers and data engineers integrate the popular open…

Bitcoin is infrastructure, not digital gold 2025-11-05 at 12:11 By Cointelegraph by Thomas Chen Bitcoin’s true potential lies in its infrastructure role as productive capital, not just a digital store of value like gold. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Are you a freelancer? North Korean spies may be using you 2025-11-05 at 12:11 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun North Korea is recruiting freelancers as identity proxies to score remote contracts and bank accounts, according to new cyber intelligence research. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… and likes what he sees 2025-11-05 at 12:11 By Liam Proven A ‘three-letter person’ experiments with the new type-safe C, and is impressed Famed mathematician, cryptographer and coder Daniel J. Bernstein has tried out the new type-safe C/C++ compiler, and he’s given it a favorable report.… This article is…

UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support 2025-11-05 at 12:11 By Carly Page After a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has spent £312 million (c…