Senate dishes out second helping of SAMOSA to kill costly software licenses
Sloppy government software licensing practices are back on the menu in the US Senate. …
Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles
Broadcom’s takeover of VMware continues to deliver strong revenue and margin growth, and the company expects demand for AI hardware will do likewise in coming years.…
Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on RedLine dev and Russia-backed cronies
The US government is offering up to $10 million for information on foreign government-backed threat actors linked to the RedLine malware, including its suspected developer, Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov.…
Trump’s cyber czar pick grilled over CISA cuts: ‘If we have a cyber 9/11, you’re the guy’
Sean Cairncross, President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as national cyber director, doubled down on taking offensive cyber actions against foreign adversaries during a Senate homeland security committee nomination hearing on Thursday, and refused to condemn the president's proposed cuts to the main US cyber defense agency.…
Trump official warns they're putting the squeeze on CHIPS Act winners
Chipmakers waiting on billions of dollars of CHIPS Act funding should be prepared to return to the negotiating table, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested during a Senate hearing this week.…
Cellebrite buys Corellium to help cops bust phone encryption
Cellebrite has announced a $170 million deal to buy Corellium, bringing together two companies that have made names for themselves by helping law enforcement break into encrypted devices.…
Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week speculated that “most people” would have assumed Artificial General Intelligence had arrived if they'd they seen ChatGPT in action before its arrival in 2020.…
BidenCash busted as Feds nuke stolen credit card bazaar
Uncle Sam has seized 145 domains tied to BidenCash, the notorious dark web market that trafficked in more than 15 million stolen credit cards.…
AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did, says Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi, a company started with the aim of democratizing computing and recreating the programming frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s, is warning that "vibe coding" cannot replace the skills picked up during the process of learning to code.…
HMRC: Crooks broke into 100k accounts, stole £43M from British taxpayer in late 2024
The UK's tax collections agency says cyberbaddies defrauded it of £47 million ($63 million) late last year, but insists the criminal case was not a cyberattack.…
More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user
Sophos thinks a single person or group called "ischhfd83" is behind more than a hundred backdoored malware variants targeting novice cybercriminals and video game cheaters looking to get their hands on malicious code.…
LinkedIn CEO takes on second gig to lead Microsoft Office and M365 Copilot
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky is to lead the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Copilot teams in the latest Redmond reshuffle.…
Datacenters have a public image problem, industry confesses to The Reg
The current craze for AI has helped drive a wave of datacenter building, but the industry has run into opposition from local communities in many areas, something it is understandably keen to address.…
Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture
It's been a year since Databricks bought Tabular for $1 billion, livening up the sleepy world of table formats.…
UK tech job openings climb 21% to pre-pandemic highs
UK tech vacancies are up by 21 percent to hit their highest levels since before the pandemic, according to research from Accenture.…
HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBM
HashiCorp is now an IBM company, with one staffer remarking: "We're actually quite happy for it, most of us sitting in this room at least."…
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire
US Coast Guard and civilian vessels have rescued 22 sailors off the coast of Alaska after some of the electric cars they were transporting caught fire.…
AI kept 15-year-old zombie vuln alive, but its time is drawing near
A security bug that surfaced fifteen years ago in a public post on GitHub has survived developers' attempts on its life.…
Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia
Ukrainian telcos and ISPs have leased their IPv4 holdings to stay afloat during the nation’s war with Russia.…
IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn't saying why
IBM isn’t having its best week after the company experienced another cloudy outage and a critical-rated vulnerability.…
