As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again On Call 2025 has ended and a new year is upon us, but The Register will continue opening Friday mornings with a fresh installment of On Call – the reader-contr…
Lees meerNobody really needs an AI toothbrush that sends their gums to the cloud Opinion Another Consumer Electronics Show has rolled through Las Vegas, and this year vendors scrawled “AI-enabled” on all the kit they hope will find its way into your home – …
Lees meerOutages hit Russia and Ukraine, too The authors of a hypothetical manual containing procedures repressive governments can use to stay in power despite restive populations would surely devote its first chapter to turning off the internet, an action t…
Lees meerGrab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card Chinese authorities have signalled they’ll likely probe Meta’s planned acquisition of made-in-China AI platform Manus.…
Lees meerNice idea, because its own cloudy services keep wobbling Analytics outfit Snowflake is buying telemetry data platform Observe to help its customers discover and mitigate IT issues before they cause downtime. It announced the deal on the same day its…
Lees meerDark copyright evasion magic makes light work of developers' guardrails Machine learning models, particularly commercial ones, generally do not list the data developers used to train them. Yet what models contain and whether that material can be eli…
Lees meerResets 'Days Since Last Outage' counter to zero, aspires to do the same for everyone, forever Analytics outfit Snowflake is buying telemetry data platform Observe to help its customers discover and mitigate IT issues before they cause downtime. It a…
Lees meerMemory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away While end customers grapple with crushing memory prices, we imagine Samsung execs are breaking out the Champagne. This week the memory titan forecast fourth-quarter operating …
Lees meerAuthentication is basically solved. Authorization is another thing entirely... CrowdStrike has signed a $740 million deal to buy identity security startup SGNL. The move underscores the growing threat of identity-based attacks as companies struggle …
Lees meerIt's for less consequential health-related matters, where being wrong won't kill customers Could a bot take the place of your doctor? According to OpenAI, which launched ChatGPT Health this week, an LLM should be available to answer your questions a…
Lees meerBeijing could green-light sales to select customers as soon as this quarter Nvidia's H200 GPUs could begin trickling into China as soon as this quarter, but there's a catch. Due to all the geopolitical turmoil that's ravaged US-China trade relations…
Lees meerThey also hallucinate when writing ransomware code Interview With everyone from would-be developers to six-year-old kids jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon, it shouldn't be surprising that criminals like automated coding tools too.…
Lees meer'Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such' Today, it is hard to escape LLM bots and the endless slop they emit, but the Linux kernel might be largely safe … for now.…
Lees meerNo reports of active exploitation … yet Cisco patched a bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) products that allows remote attackers with admin-level privileges to access sensitive information - and wa…
Lees meerJust refreshed to avoid 5G interference? Do it again, FAA tells industry, as Upper C-band auction looms Airlines operating in the US may have to upgrade their aircraft radio altimeters again at a cost of billions of dollars, to avoid potential inter…
Lees meerOne wants customers next door, the other wants cheap power Datacenter building decisions tend to fall into two camps with colocation providers plumping for urban areas while hyperscalers seek sites where electricity, land, and construction costs com…
Lees meerThey also hallucinate when writing ransomware code Interview With everyone from would-be developers to six-year-old kids jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon, it shouldn't be surprising that criminals like automated coding tools too.…
Lees meerPrompt injection lets risky commands slip past guardrails IBM describes its coding agent thus: "Bob is your AI software development partner that understands your intent, repo, and security standards." Unfortunately, Bob doesn't always follow those s…
Lees meerpcTattletale boss Bryan Fleming faces up to 15 years in prison when sentenced later this year The US government has secured a guilty plea from a stalkerware maker in federal court, marking just the second time in more than a decade that the US has m…
Lees meerJust refreshed to avoid 5G interference? Do it again, FAA tells industry, as Upper C-band auction looms Airlines operating in the US may have to upgrade their aircraft radio altimeters again at a cost of billions of dollars, to avoid potential inter…
Lees meerCop wins hit crime infrastructure, not the people behind it If 2025 was meant to be the year ransomware started dying, nobody appears to have told the attackers.…
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