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Microsoft issues out-of-band fix for Windows Server 2022 NUMA glitch 2025-01-22 at 18:21 By Richard Speed Update addresses boot failures on multi-node systems Microsoft is releasing an out-of-band patch to deal with a problem that prevented some Windows Server 2022 machines from booting.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

US experiences 47% of global utilities cyberattacks 2025-01-22 at 18:09 By A new report indicates a rise in cyberattacks against the utilities sector. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Elon Musk shades OpenAI’s Sam Altman over $500B Stargate AI project: ‘They don’t actually have the money’ 2025-01-22 at 17:44 By Thomas Barrabi Elon Musk threw shade at OpenAI’s Sam Altman on Tuesday after his rival took center stage at the White House to unveil his ambitious $500 billion “Stargate” AI infrastructure project. This article […]

Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin 2025-01-22 at 17:37 By Connor Jones Ross Ulbricht’s family are now appealing for donations to support his reintegration into society Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is now a free man after US President Donald Trump made good on his promise to issue […]

Better power management, security, and scheduling in Linux kernel 6.13 2025-01-22 at 16:48 By Liam Proven But no changes to bcachefs Linux kernel 6.13 is here, but don’t get too excited. It’s not a biggie and, given the timing, probably won’t appear in many familiar distros.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View […]

iPhones with TikTok still installed are going for thousands of dollars on eBay 2025-01-22 at 16:36 By Brooke Kato How much would you pay to get TikTok back? This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret 2025-01-22 at 16:16 By Dan Robinson Amazon doesn’t break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google As more businesses shift an ever greater number of workloads to the cloud, hyperscalers aren’t doing enough to help CIOs or tech buyers, who are already under […]

Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet 2025-01-22 at 16:15 By Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the attacks have leveraged the security […]

Infosec was literally the last item in Trump’s policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch 2025-01-22 at 15:25 By Jessica Lyons Everyone agrees defense matters. How to do it is up for debate Feature  The Trump administration came to office this week without a detailed information security policy, but analysis of cabinet […]

Windsor port authority strengthens U.S.-Canada border waterway 2025-01-22 at 15:25 By Windsor Port Authority improved waterway safety and security across its jurisdiction on the U.S.-Canada border with cameras from Axis Communications. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

UK tax collector’s phone service ‘deliberately’ bad to push users online, say MPs 2025-01-22 at 15:00 By Lindsay Clark Cut off nearly 44k peeps who had been waiting 70 minutes for advice on unavoidable chore The UK tax collector must “take responsibility for its own failings to offer sufficiently effective digital services to customers,” according […]

Former Amazon exec appointed as chair of UK’s competition watchdog 2025-01-22 at 14:19 By Richard Speed Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being ‘sufficiently focused on growth’ The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has a new chair after the sudden departure of the previous incumbent.… This article is an excerpt from […]

Discover Hidden Browsing Threats: Free Risk Assessment for GenAI, Identity, Web, and SaaS Risks 2025-01-22 at 13:04 By As GenAI tools and SaaS platforms become a staple component in the employee toolkit, the risks associated with data exposure, identity vulnerabilities, and unmonitored browsing behavior have skyrocketed. Forward-thinking security teams are looking for security controls and […]

President Trump Pardons Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison 2025-01-22 at 13:04 By U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a “full and unconditional pardon” to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous Silk Road drug marketplace, after spending 11 years behind bars. “I just called the mother of Ross William […]

Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom 2025-01-22 at 12:23 By Lindsay Clark The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner Tech analysts have forecast 9.8 percent year-over-year growth in worldwide IT spending in 2025, reaching $5.61 trillion and driven by continuing AI investments, despite “moonshot” projects seeing a high […]

Ransomware scum make it personal for Reg readers by impersonating tech support 2025-01-22 at 11:33 By Jessica Lyons That invitation to a Teams call on which IT promises to mop up a spamstorm may not be what it seems Two ransomware campaigns are abusing Microsoft Teams to infect organizations and steal data, and the crooks […]

PlushDaemon APT Targets South Korean VPN Provider in Supply Chain Attack 2025-01-22 at 11:17 By A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) provider in 2023, according to new findings from ESET. “The attackers replaced the […]

China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 2025-01-22 at 10:42 By Simon Sharwood 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that […]

Google DeepMind CEO says 2025’s the year we start popping pills AI helped invent 2025-01-22 at 09:41 By Tobias Mann Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Clinical trials of the first drugs designed with the help of artificial intelligence could commence this year, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis suggested Tuesday.… […]

Oracle Releases January 2025 Patch to Address 318 Flaws Across Major Products 2025-01-22 at 09:41 By Oracle is urging customers to apply its January 2025 Critical Patch Update (CPU) to address 318 new security vulnerabilities spanning its products and services. The most severe of the flaws is a bug in the Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle […]