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The heap overflow zero-day in the memory unsafe code by Miss Creant

Broadcom today pushed out patches for three VMware hypervisor-hijacking bugs, including one rated critical, that have already been found and exploited by criminals.…

Eggheads claim breakthrough in step toward making ancient beasts 'de-extinct'

US scientists have created a "woolly" mouse by expressing genetic information gathered from woolly mammoths and elephants, which they see as a step toward bringing the extinct species back to life.…

Mixed messages from Pentagon, CISA as Trump gets pally with Putin and Kremlin strikes US critical networks

Comment  America's cybersecurity chiefs in recent days have been sending mixed messages about the threat posed by Russia in the digital world.…

Vertical tabs, native Arm64 Linux version, and AMD GPU-accelerated video playback

Mozilla's Firefox 136 is out today. Despite recent Mozilla moves, it's still a better choice for the privacy-conscious than Chrome.…

But factor in the price increase, and it might be worth sitting this one out

Apple has launched a new budget iPhone. Rather than discussing specifications or the price hike, the real question is whether the company's latest and cheapest can be repaired.…

Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing

March 3 was a tough day for SpaceX. The company was forced to scrub flight test 8 of its monster Starship rocket and also lost a Falcon 9 first stage, which landed then caught fire and tipped over.…

But what will the parabola specialist do when spares for Boeing's classic run dry?

interview  Zero-G currently flies researchers and consumers in simulated lunar and zero gravity. And now a trip to Europe and beyond, as well as new aircraft are on the cards for the parabola specialist.…

GPU farm discloses 77% of revenue tied to just two customers, putting Redmond giant front and center

GPU cloud provider CoreWeave has filed for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) in the US, aiming to ride the AI wave and capitalize on the huge growth it has experienced recently.…

Presumably hosted by AWS?

Microsoft has launched Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus, a service designed to rapidly bring Cloud PCs back online in the event of an outage.…

The fate of Skype is sad, but the clock is ticking for enterprises

Microsoft SQL Server 2019 quietly slipped out of mainstream support last week, accompanied by fellow retiree SQL Server Big Data Clusters.…

Some may have second thoughts about going all-in with an American vendor, no matter where their data is stored

Microsoft has completed its EU data boundary, however, analysts and some regional cloud players are voicing concerns over dependencies on a US entity, even with the guarantees in place.…

Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly

High-profile deepfake scams that were reported here at The Register and elsewhere last year may just be the tip of the iceberg. Attacks relying on spoofed faces in online meetings surged by 300 percent in 2024, it is claimed.…

Five flaws found in Paragon Partition Manager's kernel-level .sys

Ransomware crooks are exploiting a third-party Windows kernel-level driver used and provided by disk management tool Paragon Partition Manager.…

Pricing, licensing changes won't feel so bad once you take this private cloud stack for a spin, apparently

Exclusive  Broadcom has quietly started a closed beta of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9, a major release that fully expresses the tech giant's vision for what a private cloud should be.…

Judge slams 'significant chaos' that's become Uncle Sam's standard operating procedure

The US government's National Science Foundation has reinstated most of its cadre of probationary employees after laying them off en masse last month. …

With friends like these...

US stock markets have dipped after President Donald Trump confirmed the imposition of a 25 percent tariff on most goods coming into America from Canada and Mexico, and an extra ten percent tariff on China.…

Shareholders urged to press CTRL-Z on loyal Gelsinger's 'retirement'

Comment  Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett has a simple solution to the x86 giant's woes.…

Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant

The Opera web browser now boasts "agentic AI," meaning users can ask an onboard AI model to perform tasks that require a series of in-browser actions.…

Bjarne Stroustrup wants standards body to respond to memory-safety push as Rust monsters lurk at the door

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings.…

And Monday's not looking that steady, either

This weekend's Microsoft 365 outage, which left unlucky subscribers unable to login and use its Outlook email service as expected, has been blamed on a "problematic code change" by the Windows giant.…