Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack
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.…
Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab
Exclusive Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs announced a new collaboration with Global Unichip Corp (GUC) on Sunday to integrate its optical I/O chiplets into the Taiwanese semiconductor design services provider's XPU reference designs.…
Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems
Interview In the datacenter biz, power is the product. You either have it or you don't, Chris Sharp tells El Reg.…
Apple’s new 15% mini-app deal finally gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in
Apple has cut its take to 15 percent on purchases inside mini apps running within other iOS apps, and reached a parallel agreement with Tencent that brings WeChat's vast mini-program ecosystem into its revenue net.…
Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time
Feature Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way software gets built, tested, and maintained — but not in the simplistic, headline-grabbing sense of "AI replacing developers."…
Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60%
If you haven't noticed, DRAM memory has gotten a lot more expensive in recent weeks. …
Fortinet finally cops to critical make-me-admin bug under active exploitation
Fortinet finally published a security advisory on Friday for a critical FortiWeb path traversal vulnerability under active exploitation – but it appears digital intruders got a month's head start.…
Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee
Large language models frequently ship with "guardrails" designed to catch malicious input and harmful output. But if you use the right word or phrase in your prompt, you can defeat these restrictions.…
Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay
Last year, Canonical increased its paid extended support lifespan to 12 years. Now, it's increasing it again, to 15 years ... for a price.…
Crims poison 150K+ npm packages with token-farming malware
Yet another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as "one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history" - but with a twist. Instead of injecting credential-stealing code or ransomware into the packages, this one is a token farming campaign.…
Now you can share your AI delusions with Group ChatGPT
Feel like your team's group chat is a bit lifeless? Remote coworkers not really collaborating as well as they should be? There's a new way to stir the pot now that OpenAI has piloted ChatGPT group chats: cram a chatbot into the conversation and let it chime in whenever it thinks it should.…
Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout
Opinion At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas, more than 75 percent of voting shares backed a compensation deal for CEO Elon Musk that would make him history's first trillionaire.…
AMD grabs more x86 share as Intel stumbles in entry-level chips
AMD continues to claw market share away from Intel in CPU shipments, growing faster than its rival in most segments. Meanwhile business in the x86 processor arena is unusually flat overall, likely due to stockpiling over tariff fears.…
Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit
Amazon has rebranded its satellite broadband plan from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo. And no, Leo doesn't stand for "Late Entrants Only," even though the project is years behind Starlink and still not ready for anyone to use.…
FBI flags scam targeting Chinese speakers with bogus surgery bills
Chinese speakers in the US are being targeted as part of an aggressive health insurance scam campaign, the FBI warns.…
GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast
The supercomputing landscape is fracturing. What once was a relatively unified world of massive multi-processor x86 systems has splintered into competing architectures, each racing to serve radically different masters: traditional academic workloads, extreme-scale physics simulations, and the voracious appetite of AI training runs.…
CISA flags imminent threat as Akira ransomware starts hitting Nutanix AHV
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued new guidance to organizations on the Akira ransomware operation, which poses an imminent threat to critical sectors.…
Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica
Retro Games Ltd (RGL), the company behind THESPECTRUM and THEA500 Mini, has started accepting pre-orders for its full-size Amiga 1200 replica, THEA1200.…
Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike
The Shenzhou-20 astronauts have returned to Earth on the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft after engineers deemed the Shenzhou-20 vehicle unsafe following a debris strike while it was docked to the Tiangong space station.…
The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta
The holiday season is almost upon us, but the new gear on gamers' wish lists won't arrive until next year.…
