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Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren’t buying it – yet 2025-02-06 at 14:04 By Paul Kunert 57% higher price point and app compatibility issues aren’t helping There remains little love for notebooks containing AI-capable processors and even less for Microsoft’s Copilot+ models, with premium pricing, software compatibility, and opaque benefits cited as the reasons.… This article […]

Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd 2025-02-06 at 13:26 By Liam Proven Lennart Poettering gave packed-out keynote talk. Jack Dorsey … didn’t FOSDEM 2025  FOSDEM returned to Brussels for the first weekend in February – not without some controversial people.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Top 3 Ransomware Threats Active in 2025 2025-02-06 at 13:03 By You arrive at the office, power up your system, and panic sets in. Every file is locked, and every system is frozen. A ransom demand flashes on your screen: “Pay $2 million in Bitcoin within 48 hours or lose everything.” And the worst part

Robot dogs learn bomb disposal tricks in trials 2025-02-06 at 12:20 By Dan Robinson ‘Fetch’ just got a lot more interesting You can teach a robotic dog new tricks, it seems, with mechanic canines now being deployed in tests to detect and defuse bomb threats.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Openreach tests 50 Gbps broadband – don’t expect it anytime soon 2025-02-06 at 11:35 By Dan Robinson Download speeds of 41.9 Gbps and upload speeds of 20.6 Gbps achieved, claims BT division Network builder and maintainer Openreach says it has tested a 50 Gbps fiber broadband connection in the UK, as a first step towards

Cisco Patches Critical ISE Vulnerabilities Enabling Root CmdExec and PrivEsc 2025-02-06 at 11:15 By Cisco has released updates to address two critical security flaws Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands and elevate privileges on susceptible devices. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2025-20124 (CVSS score: 9.9) – An

Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers 2025-02-06 at 10:33 By Thomas Claburn Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors’ off-topic posts, legal eagle argues Analysis  Individuals who run their own website could be held liable for, weirdly enough, off-topic visitor-posted comments that break the UK’s Online Safety Act.… This

Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why 2025-02-06 at 09:23 By Brandon Vigliarolo Somewhat stale range of Muskmobiles, competition from China, Elon being Elon, or all of the above? Registration of new Tesla cars slumped across Europe in January, as Chinese electric-vehicle makers racked up enormous growth.… This article is an

Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm’s vital chip license 2025-02-06 at 08:33 By Simon Sharwood The British are coming, the British are coming … to terms with their loss Arm has given up on terminating one of its key licenses with Qualcomm, leaving the latter free to continue producing homegrown Arm-compatible chips for PCs,

Managing risks in an evolving cybersecurity environment 2025-02-06 at 07:24 By An evolving mobile device threat landscape demands a multi-layered defense strategy. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

4 steps to outsourcing a GSOC 2025-02-06 at 07:24 By Outsourcing a GSOC can provide a number of benefits, but it has to be done correctly. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM’s network 2025-02-06 at 04:03 By Iain Thomson Are you trying to make this easy for China and Russia? Who bought it, who installed it, and what’s happening with the data on it.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Robocallers who called the FCC pretending to be from the FCC land telco in trouble 2025-02-06 at 02:15 By Iain Thomson Don’t laugh: The $4.5m fine proposed for carrier Telnyx shows how the Trump administration will run its comms regulator In its first enforcement action of the Trump presidency, the FCC has voted to propose

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer 2025-02-06 at 01:18 By Thomas Claburn Some worry multi-lang codebase makes it harder to maintain open source uber-project, others disagree Developers trying to add Rust code to the Linux kernel continue to face opposition from kernel maintainers who believe using multiple languages is

Cisco patches two critical Identity Services Engine flaws 2025-02-06 at 00:36 By Jessica Lyons One gives root access, the other lets you steal info and reconfig nodes, in the right (or should that be wrong) circumstances Cisco has fixed two critical vulnerabilities in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could allow an authenticated remote attacker

Poland’s 2nd astronaut brings pierogi to the ISS party 2025-02-05 at 22:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Here’s hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter When Axiom Space’s fourth mission to the International Space Station arrives in orbit this spring it’ll include Poland’s second-ever astronaut, who will bring an essential

When AI Plays Both Sides of The Field 2025-02-05 at 22:30 By Adarsh Shetty Only those prepared for the game can have a shot at winning This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Amazon to release long-delayed Alexa generative AI revamp: Here’s what it will be able to do 2025-02-05 at 21:40 By Reuters The new generative AI-powered Alexa represents at once a huge opportunity for Amazon, which counts more than half a billion Alexa-enabled devices in the market, and a tremendous risk. This article is an excerpt

Musky minion granted ‘read-only’ access to federal payment systems 2025-02-05 at 21:40 By Jessica Lyons Nothing to see here, just a ‘special government employee’ doing his job The US Treasury Department has assured Congress that a “special government employee” associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has “read-only” access to vital federal government