Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it
OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.…
Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes
A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week.…
Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses
Researchers from the UK’s National Health Service believe increasing adoption of cashless payments may be having an unexpected payoff: Fewer kids are swallowing coins and seeking medical help to remove them.…
CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw
Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA.…
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed
Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly – it may be scrubbing the web of evidence, too.…
Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems says it has cleared a key hurdle ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO), claiming it resolved concerns about its sources of funding with the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS).…
When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making
Opinion Since it is currently fashionable to make laws by whim and decree, here are three that should apply immediately across techdom. The following are banned: DoNotReply messages, updates that reset your configuration choices to default, and forced incomprehensible choices.…
Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims
A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the American-Israeli security biz claims is a huge exaggeration.…
AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday
Analysis Atomic energy is becoming the preferred solution to address the projected bump in megawatts needed to charge AI in the future, but it simply won't come soon enough in many cases.…
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare
Analysis Disrupt? It's an awful hackneyed term that some analysts, consultants and technologists like to use.…
Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal
Comment Billionaire Elon Musk's xAI is to acquire billionaire Elon Musk's X in a deal that values the former at $80 billion and the latter at $33 billion.…
Ransomware crews add 'EDR killers' to their arsenal – and some aren't even malware
interview Antivirus and endpoint security tools are falling short as ransomware crews increasingly deploy "EDR killers" to disable defenses early in the attack – a tactic Cisco Talos observed in most of the 2024 cases it handled.…
Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers
Not one but two new drivers for some Nvidia GPUs is a promising, if indirect, offshoot of the GPU maker's open-saucy moves.…
Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own
Who, Me? Wait, what? It's Monday again? That means it's time for another instalment of Who, Me? What's that, you ask? It's The Register's Monday column in which we tell your tales of technological messes and celebrate your escapes.…
Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan
Chinese tech companies created entities in Taiwan and disguised them so they had no connections to China, so they could lure top tech talent to work on significant projects.…
China cracks down on personal information collection. No, seriously
Asia In Brief China last week commenced a crackdown on inappropriate collection and subsequent use of personal information.…
Oracle Health reportedly warns of info leak from legacy server
Infosec in brief Oracle Health appears to have fallen victim to an info stealing attack that has led to patient data stored by American hospitals being plundered.…
Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship
The handy GNOME extension Dash to Panel will live on, under its present maintainer, after winning financial backing from one of the distros that uses it.…
Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing
Airbus UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the European aerospace giant, has won the £150 million contract to complete a landing system for the long-delayed ExoMars rover.…
Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore’s Law is dead and buried
Comment As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead – and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is.…
