Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet
Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023.…
UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway
UK broadband and TV provider TalkTalk says it's currently investigating claims made on cybercrime forums alleging data from the company was up for grabs.…
FortiGate config leaks: Victims' email addresses published online
Thousands of email addresses included in the Belsen Group's dump of FortiGate configs last week are now available online, revealing which organizations may have been impacted by the 2022 zero-day exploits.…
The state of Right to Repair: Progress made, but key barriers remain
The US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has released a report on the state of Right to Repair. The good news is that things seem to be going in the right direction for some gadgets. The bad news is that progress is not equal, and there has been no improvement for some gizmos.…
OpenZFS 2.3 is here, with RAID expansion and faster dedup
The latest version of OpenZFS offers RAID expansion, plus faster data deduplication donated by iXsystems. The code will be available very soon in the beta of TrueNAS SCALE 25.04.…
Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans on Friday to blow through as much as $60 to 65 billion in 2025 on plenty more AI resources for his social media mega-corp – and signaled his intention to continue the spending spree for years to come.…
AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud
The co-founder and former CEO of AI startup GameOn is in a pickle. After exiting the top job last year under a cloud, he's now in court – along with his wife – for allegedly bilking his company and its investors out of more than $60 million.…
Fitbit pays Uncle Sam $12M to sprint away from claims of burning-hot smartwatches
Years after recalling one of its smartwatches over overheating batteries that burned people, Fitbit has agreed to pay a $12.25 million civil penalty to the US government to settle allegations it knew about the risk but failed to immediately report it as required by law.…
North Korean dev who renamed himself 'Bane' accused of IT worker fraud caper
The US is indicting yet another five suspects it believes were involved in North Korea's long-running, fraudulent remote IT worker scheme – including one who changed their last name to "Bane" and scored a gig at a tech biz in San Francisco.…
Qualcomm big cheese Cristiano Amon's pay award jumps 10%
Qualcomm's top dog Cristian Amon enjoyed a ten percent year-on-year bump in total financial compensation for fiscal 2024 that amounted to $25.91 million.…
Exchange update refusenik? Consider yourself warned by Microsoft
Exchange Server administrators lagging on their cumulative and security updates be warned: Microsoft has stated that the Exchange Emergency Mitigation Service (EEMS) might stop working on "significantly out of date" versions of the software.…
Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course
Boeing is warning of another hit to its bottom line, at least partly at the hands of the company's Calamity Capsule, the CST-100 Starliner.…
Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?
The UK and EU must decide whether to coordinate a response to Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on stuff imported into the United States, or cut separate deals with the new president, the House of Lords heard this week.…
Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now
A now-fixed command-injection bug in Kubernetes can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints in a cluster, and thus fully take over those systems, according to Akamai researcher Tomer Peled.…
Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest
Updated Microsoft is forking out for even more carbon credits to offset spiralling AI-fuelled carbon dioxide emissions from its datacenters.…
Mega UK datacenter greenlit, but we still don't know who's moving in
Approval was last night granted for a mega datacenter in Hertfordshire, close to London's M25 orbital motorway, clearing the way for construction to begin. The identity of the eventual occupier, said to be a hyperscale operator, has yet to be disclosed.…
WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference
After 32 years of maturation, even now, WINE is Not an Emulator, but it can work alongside them to run Windows apps on Arm Linux.…
First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works
India's ambition to become a semiconductor manufacturing player will bear fruit later this year with the debut of the first silicon designed and built in the nation.…
User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?
On Call Friday brings the prospect of spending time with loved ones. But before we get there, The Register offers another instalment of On Call, the column that chronicles experiences from the global family of readers who have traumatic tech support tales to tell.…
China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps
A group established by six Asian nations to fight criminal cyber-scam slave camps that infest the region claims it’s made good progress dismantling the operations.…
