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Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark

China cut itself off from much of the global internet for just over an hour on Wednesday.…

Redmond doesn't bother informing customers about some security fixes

UPDATED  Microsoft has chosen not to tell customers about a recently patched vulnerability in M365 Copilot.…

Digitally enabled omniscience is neat, if you can bear the cost of being constantly monitored by an AI agent

The headline-making Harvard duo who turned a pair of Meta smart glasses into a privacy violation machine last year now have their own pair of smart specs to sell, which they tell The Register will make people "super intelligent" by listening in on their conversations 24/7 and offering unsolicited feedback. …

Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched

updated  To the surprise of no one in the security industry, processing untrusted, unvalidated input is a bad idea.…

At 3% US market share, we don't think Cook & Co are sweating

Video  In a celebrity-studded launch event on Wednesday, Google showed off its Pixel 10 hardware, including four smartphones, an updated smartwatch, and earbuds. Unsurprisingly, every gadget comes with a heavy dose of AI.…

Move along, nothing to see here

Amazon has quietly fixed a couple of security issues in its coding agent: Amazon Q Developer VS Code extension. Attackers could use these vulns to leak secrets, including API keys from a developer's machine, and run arbitrary code.…

Have a complaint? Need a benefit? Agentforce now has a bot for that

American citizens seeking help from the federal government may soon find themselves being assisted by an AI agent, if Salesforce's new public sector offering is a success.…

Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better

A pair of networking researchers have proposed that the Internet Engineering Task Force define support for IPv6 as a best practice for operators of DNS resolvers – the servers that translate URLs into IP addresses – and one of them hopes adoption of the idea will accelerate the demise of IPv4.…

Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans

CachyOS bills itself as a Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution and that seems to be winning it friends. In the last month, it's the number one distro on the popularity chart on the widely-used DistroWatch comparison site.…

Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure

The FBI and security researchers today warned that Russian government spies exploited a seven-year-old bug in end-of-life Cisco networking devices to snoop around in American critical infrastructure networks and collect information on industrial systems.…

iiNet breach blamed on single stolen login, with emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed

Aussie telco giant TPG Telecom has opened an investigation after confirming a cyberattack at subsidiary iiNet.…

Amazon giant blames pricing bug after updated plans way more expensive than initially suggested

Updated  AWS has introduced new pricing for Kiro, its AI-driven coding tool, but unlike the pricing originally announced, the latest plans are "a wallet-wrecking tragedy," according to many of its users.…

No word yet on when any homegrown hardware production begins

Texas fabless chip firm Cirrus Logic has announced a new partnership with GlobalFoundries on next-generation bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) and gallium nitride (GaN) parts.…

LLMs flop at selling Fair Trade – unless you're a true believer

Interview  Large language models stumble when trying to sway buyers with moral arguments, according to research from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Sakarya Business School.…

Epic boss brands the changes 'malicious compliance'

Google has announced changes to its Play Store rules in an effort to appease the European Commission and dodge Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines.…

Hmmm, state ownership of private corps... what does that remind us of?

The US government is considering taking a stake in Intel and other semiconductor companies that benefit from CHIPS Act funding, according to officials from the Trump administration. The move follows SoftBank's $2 billion investment in the faltering chip giant.…

Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is set to join the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) in an effort to "cut red tape" and, presumably, save some cash.…

Redmond scrambles to undo damage after tools borked by August patch

Microsoft has moved swiftly to remove the bullet it fired into its own foot with the August 2025 Security Update reset and recovery bug.…

Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped

A white-hat hacker has discovered a series of critical flaws in McDonald's staff and partner portals that allowed anyone to order free food online, get admin rights to the burger slinger's marketing materials, and could allow an attacker to get a corporate email account with which to conduct a little filet-o-phishing.…

Rotten is as Rotten does

Opinion  It's 1976, and in the country of the Beatles, another guitar band is giving it some. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols isn't so keen on love and blackbirds. Instead, he sings lustily that he wants to be an anarchist, destroying passers-by and in general promoting anarchy in the UK.…