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Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach disclosure timeline

1 hour 6 minutes ago
Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him

A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months before it disclosed the data theft.…

Jessica Lyons

Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run

1 hour 54 minutes ago
EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year

SC25  Europe has officially entered exascale orbit. On Monday, EuroHPC's Jupiter supercomputer became the fourth such machine on the Top500 list of publicly known systems to exceed a million-trillion floating point operations a second in the time-honored High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark.…

Tobias Mann

Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep

5 hours 16 minutes ago
Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs

Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 pushing violent right-wing extremist or terrorist propaganda, and 105 tied to racist or xenophobic groups.…

Carly Page

SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness

6 hours 3 minutes ago
Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work

SAP has apologized for the recent outage of its SAP for Me portal, a cloud-based tool that gives users a view of their SAP functions, metrics, and service. But the downtime has opened up some reliability questions.…

Lindsay Clark

Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform

8 hours 31 minutes ago
Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage

Palantir is working with "AI upskilling platform" Multiverse to provide an apprenticeship program specific to its Federated Data Platform (FDP), the NHS analytics system being run under a controversial contract.…

Lindsay Clark

UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit

8 hours 57 minutes ago
Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe's illicit gains while he serves US sentence

British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O'Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to solicit digital currency and threaten high-profile individuals.…

Carly Page

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

12 hours 16 minutes ago
Top of the slops signposts the undiscovered country for an industry

Opinion  Remember when the hottest news in the schoolyard was which band was the hottest this week? Those days are back, baby. An AI-generated band called Breaking Rust has just hit the top of the Billboard Country chart in the US with a song called Walk My Walk. Some questions will never be answered – could it ever release a sea shanty, and will all the albums be compilations? What this means for the future of the music industry, the AI industry, and music itself, is less funny.…

Rupert Goodwins

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

14 hours 25 minutes ago
Yes, he knows the 40x increase could have been avoided with some pretty simple automation

Who, Me?  Welcome to another week of work, a moment The Register celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you 'fess up to follies, false moves, and faux pas – and explain how you escaped.…

Simon Sharwood

Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack

21 hours 48 minutes ago
PLUS: CISA still sitting on telecoms security report; DoorDash phished again; Lumma stealer returns; and more

INFOSEC IN BRIEF  The US Senate passed a resolution in July to force the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to publish a 2022 report into poor security in the telecommunications industry but the agency has not delivered the document.…

Brandon Vigliarolo
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