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Who, Me?  The Register has very few rules, but one we always observe on a Monday morning is to present a new installment of Who, Me? – the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of breaking the rules, without breaking your career in the process.…

The Register is at the world’s biggest space gabfest and just heard the world's top 6 space agency leaders speak

IAC 2025  If the USA’s space strategy succeeds, it will run a “village” on the moon in a decade, NASA administrator Sean Duffy told the International Aeronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney today.…

Alleges bias and security problems

US President Donald Trump has demanded Microsoft fire its recently appointed head of global affairs Lisa Monaco.…

PLUS: Interpol recoups $439M from crims; CISA criticizes Feds security; FIFA World Cup nets dodgy domain deluge

Infosec In Brief  Police in the Netherlands arrested two 17-year-olds last week over claims that Russian intelligence recruited them to spy on the headquarters of European law enforcement agencies.…

PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more!

Asia In Brief  Over 600 e-government services operated by South Korea’s government are offline after a datacenter fire disrupted operations.…

The proposed 1:1 chip rule means nothing but pain for US tech until he’s out of office

Comment  Ending America's reliance on foreign chip fabs remains a high priority for Uncle Sam, but the Trump administration's "my way or the highway" approach to the issue threatens to do more harm than good.…

Not to be confused with all the other reports of Chinese intruders on US networks that came to light this week

RedNovember, a Chinese state-sponsored cyberspy group, targeted government and critical private-sector networks around the globe between June 2024 and July 2025, exploiting buggy internet-facing appliances to deploy a Go-based backdoor called Pantegana and other offensive security tools, including Cobalt Strike and SparkRAT.…

Remember when AI was supposed to make us more productive, not hate each other?

ai-pocalypse  Workers are getting lazy about using AI to do their jobs for them, and the results are both costly and increasing distrust in the workplace.…

Act passed in 2015 is due to lapse unless a continuing resolution passes - and that's unlikely

Barring a last-minute deal, the US federal government would shut down on Wednesday, October 1, and the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would lapse at the same time, threatening what many consider a critical plank of US cybersecurity policy.…

Consultancy says machine learning advice is making bank

ai-pocalypse  AI is proving to be a gold mine for mega tech consultancy Accenture, but if staff can't use it, then it's time to pack up their desks.…

Oversight efforts have been rebuffed, says Democratic report, 'putting Americans' personal data at risk'

A trio of federal executive agencies targeted by DOGE cost-cutters either don't know or won't say what the group is doing inside their operations, according to a Senate investigation that concludes DOGE is acting without legal authority or oversight.…

Aptly named spacecraft might never make it to the orbital outpost after all

NASA and Sierra Space have modified the Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract, which originally called for the Dream Chaser spaceplane to be used to supply the International Space Station (ISS).…

Study finds microgrids with wind, solar, and batteries can be built years sooner and at lower cost than SMRs

Renewable energy sources could power datacenters at a lower cost than relying on nuclear generation from small modular reactors (SMRs), claims a recently revealed study.…

Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defenses

The long-running XCSSET malware strain has evolved again, with Microsoft warning of a new macOS variant that expands its bag of tricks while continuing to target developers.…

Move comes as Snowflake and Databricks chase the same all-in-one analytics dream

Google is promising a single notebook environment for machine learning and data analytics, integrating SQL, Python, and Apache Spark in one place.…

Researchers say tens of thousands of instances remain publicly reachable

Security researchers have confirmed that threat actors have exploited the maximum-severity vulnerability affecting Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT), and chastised the vendor for a lack of transparency.…

Operation Cronos didn’t kill LockBit – it just came back meaner

Trend Micro has sounded the alarm over the new LockBit 5.0 ransomware strain, which it warns is "significantly more dangerous" than past versions due to its newfound ability to simultaneously target Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments. …

As exorcist convention decries AI's potential for 'necromancy'

The CEO of a software testing company told a panel at Catholic University of America that AI will not create mass unemployment – though it could make people more stupid.…

More fun with AI agents and their security holes

A now-fixed flaw in Salesforce’s Agentforce could have allowed external attackers to steal sensitive customer data via prompt injection, according to security researchers who published a proof-of-concept attack on Thursday. They were aided by an expired trusted domain that they were able to buy for a measly five bucks.…

The downstream consequences of Miljödata’s ransomware attack continue to affect major organizations

Volvo North America is the latest large organization to announce attackers accessed employee data after a ransomware attack struck its HR system provider.…