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The alleged perpetrators remain at large

The US Department of Justice is trying to recoup around $1 million that three IT specialists secretly working for the North Korean government allegedly stole from a New York company.…

The bad news? The machines, and their operators, are coming on fast

Black Hat/DEF CON  At the opening of Black Hat, the largest security shindig in the Hacker Summer Camp week ahead of DEF CON and BSides, the opening keynote speaker suggested the current state of AI slightly favors defenders over attackers, but he warned that was not a given for much longer.…

But it can contest if it lands up in 'Category 1,' and the move hurts operations, says judge

Wikipedia today lost a legal battle against the UK's tech secretary to tighten the criteria around the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), as it seeks to exclude itself from the strictest regulations.…

By video, picture, and voice – the fakers are coming for your money

DEF CON  While AI was on everyone's lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in Sin City – BSides, Black Hat, AND DEF CON – there were a lot of people using the F-word too: fraud.…

Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update

Viennese virtualization veteran Proxmox has updated its hypervisor and its storage offering to new, Debian 13 versions.…

A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms!

From the department of "Want to feel old?" comes news that AOL is finally pulling the plug on dial-up Internet access.…

Tech biz tweaks GPT-5, brings back 4 and others as options after customer backlash

OpenAI has brought back GPT-4o after a weekend of user protests - mostly about removal of model choice - following the rollout of GPT-5.…

Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors

Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move comes as Intel's former CEO Craig Barrett weighs in on the troubled chipmaker's future.…

Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97

Obit  Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.…

Many core offerings now back in action, says retailer

British retailer Marks and Spencer updated its website today, confirming its Click & Collect service is once again available to customers.…

It turns out no one was clean on OPSEC

DEF CON  On Saturday at DEF CON, security boffin Micah Lee explained just how he published data from TeleMessage, the supposedly secure messaging app used by White House officials, which in turn led to a massive database dump of their communications.…

Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins

In space, no one can hear you sneeze – but that hasn't stopped a team of boffins researching exactly what happens when an astronaut gets a case of the sniffles, and why. The key takeaway, should you find yourself on board a space station and in need of a tissue: maybe skip the spacewalk.…

AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey

Feature  Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV charger locations have all become part of its portfolio, alongside the paper-based maps beloved by the nation's legion of cagoule-clad outdoor types.…

And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers

The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's best to think of this as dealing with a buggy lump of undocumented code, because frankly that's what is between you and your next job.…

Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters

Opinion  Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that’s a good thing. Meanwhile, real life AI coding tools make coders less productive while spreading the hallucination that they’re more so.…

Yes, 2024 – the prizes in the 40th anniversary edition prizes were just awarded

The IOCCC, as it's familiarly known, is back after a four-year gap, giving the entrants more time to come up with some remarkably devious code.…

Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes

Who, Me?  Welcome once more to Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries.…

Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030

China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna - and leaving it again afterwards.…

Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots

Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem and plans to fix it.…

Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU

Nvidia and AMD will reportedly be allowed to resume sales in China if they cough a license fee amounting to 15 percent of sales.…