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The attack first affected an upstream provider of bespoke software

Exclusive  A leading UK provider of criminal record checks for employers is handling a data breach stemming from a third-party development company.…

Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan

The UK's Plessey Semiconductors has been acquired by Haylo Labs, using funding supplied by a Chinese company, Goertek Inc. The move was cleared by the British government.…

ClickFix tricks

Microsoft's security team has published an in-depth report into ClickFix, the social engineering attack which tricks users into executing malicious commands in the guise of proving their humanity.…

Update finally gives coders control over when – and if – AI butts in

Good news for developers growing tired of Copilot's helpful suggestions. Microsoft has announced that it is now possible to make the programming assistant a little less irritating.…

Also fired another AI - GitHub Copilot - after it produced ‘mixed results in utilization and efficacy’

Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has decided not to fire 45 workers it planned to replace with an AI chatbot.…

Graphics API, crash reporting and more: Making low-level code cross-platform for Windows is a challenge

Zed co-founder Max Brunsfeld has explained why the Windows port of the Rust-based editor is taking so long – illustrating the friction facing developers of cross-platform applications when including Microsoft's operating system.…

Coweta County stalls bit barn vote as residents revolt

A county in the US state of Georgia is facing opposition to the construction of a massive hyperscale datacenter campus, reflecting the growing concerns of communities in America and elsewhere over the rush to build more cloud and AI infrastructure.…

Project scrambles for mitigation as AUR, forums, and main site feel the strain

Some joyless ne'er-do-well has loosed a botnet on the community-driven Arch Linux distro, with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack now in its second week of sustained disruption.…

Worried about your data? No probs, says firm, we'll check the dark web crims' list for you! Yes really

A week after its services were disrupted by a cyberattack, UK telco Colt Technology Services has gone back on its initial statement to confirm that data has indeed been stolen.…

Open source Surya system promises early alerts for space weather that can fry satellites and grids

Boffins at IBM and NASA have concocted an AI model to help predict the weather, but this time it is taking on space weather that might disrupt satellites and spacecraft, possibly even terrestrial power grids and the internet.…

Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean

Dwarf planet Ceres, the unpleasant lump of icy rock orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, once had an environment in which microbes might have thrived.…

Escort's forgotten cap left techie facing rifles and a debrief

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that tells tales of your tech support misadventures.…

FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in

The head of America's consumer watchdog has issued a stark warning to some of the biggest names in the tech sphere – don't backdoor encryption or censor content at the behest of foreign governments, or there may be consequences.…

Fujitsu doesn’t have the project all to itself any more

Japanese research institution RIKEN has decided it needs GPUs for its next generation “FugakuNEXT” supercomputer and has signed Nvidia to supply them and design the systems needed to get them working.…

One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute

Updated  Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open web, slurping up sites at a rate that accounts for 80 percent of all AI bot traffic, with the remaining 20 percent used by AI fetchers. Bots and fetchers can hit websites hard, demanding data from a single site in thousands of requests per minute.…

Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon

Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an update to its flagship large language model that the company claims is already optimized for use with a new generation of homegrown silicon.…

Pro tip: When taking revenge, don't use your real name

A US court sentenced a former developer at power management biz Eaton to four years in prison after he installed malware on the company’s servers.…

Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right?

Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear weapons.…

Better late than never after SharePoint assault?

Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month's SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak in Redmond's early-bug-notification program.…

Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection

Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge for machine learning systems.…