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Staff warned that for Q1, non-compliance = 'Disciplinary action'

Exclusive  Vodafone is warning staff in the UK to work onsite at least eight days a month or be subject to disciplinary action from April.…

Study finds 4 out of 6 providers don't do enough to stop impersonation

Four out of six companies offering AI voice cloning software fail to provide meaningful safeguards against the misuse of their products, according to research conducted by Consumer Reports.…

Experts say that the way you handle things after the criminals break in can make things better or much, much worse

Feature  Experiencing a ransomware infection or other security breach ranks among the worst days of anyone's life — but it can still get worse.…

iPhone giant compartmentalizes OS for the sake of security

Apple has been working to harden the XNU kernel that powers its various operating systems, including iOS and macOS, with a feature called "exclaves."…

Phishing and ancient vulns still do the trick for one of the most prolific groups around

Researchers say the Sidewinder offensive cyber crew is starting to target maritime and nuclear organizations.…

Terabytes of sensitive info remain available for download

Break-ins to systems hosting the data of two US healthcare organizations led to thieves making off with the personal and medical data of more than 300,000 patients.…

Insiders say board members must be held accountable and drive positive change from the top down

Analysis  Walk into any hospital and ask the same question – "Which security system should we invest in?" – to both a doctor and a board member, and you may get different answers. The doctor chooses the system that leads to the most positive patient outcomes, while the board member chooses whichever solution is best for their increasingly stretched budget.…

Prompts see it scour the web for info and turn it into decent documents at reasonable speed

Chinese researchers’ AI prowess is again a hot topic after a startup called Monica.im last week revealed “Manus”, a service it bills as a “general agent” that might improve on tools offered by Western companies.…

Mission-critical app migration, 'if it ain't broke...' and more. All that glitters isn't gold when it comes to biz needs

Comment  Administrators tend to be a conservative lot, which is bad news for tech vendors such as Microsoft that are seeking to pump their latest and greatest products into enterprises customers via subscriptions.…

Space is the place? Not if you're nuts about neutrinos

Opinion  High energy neutrinos are the coolest particles in astrophysics. Born in distant cosmic cataclysms, they speed through the universe almost as if it wasn't there. With no charge and a truly tiny rest mass – perhaps a million times lighter than an electron, but who knows – they interact with virtually nothing.…

Using one green screen to manage multiple machines needs more than a Friday afternoon brain

Who, Me?  Shifting focus from weekend fun to the reality of a return to work can be hard, so The Register tries to ease the transition with a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?", our reader-contributed column that tells your stories of making mistakes and making it out alive afterwards.…

Likening memory safety bugs to smallpox may not soothe sensitive C coders

Rust is alive and well in the Linux kernel and is expected to translate into noticeable benefits shortly, though its integration with the largely C-oriented codebase still looks uneasy.…

Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI

Meta says it has managed to reduce the CPU cycles of its top services by 20 percent through its Strobelight profiling orchestration suite, which relies on the open source eBPF project.…

Also, phone cleaner apps are a data-sucking scam, Singapore considering the literal rod for scammers, and more

Infosec in Brief  Microsoft has spotted a malvertising campaign that downloaded nastyware hosted on GitHub and exposed nearly a million devices to information thieves.…

PLUS: Malaysia teams with Arm for local chip designs; NTT warns of possible breach; Samsung strikers settle; and more

Asia in Brief  India’s government has proposed giving its tax authorities sweeping powers to access private email systems and applications.…

Researchers find AI isn't ready to help with moral decision making

Is AI an appropriate source of moral guidance about which patients should be given kidney transplants?…

Mozilla sells ads, Google limits blocking them – it's time for stricter measures

A new, lightweight version of Pi-Hole is here. Just how easy is it to block advertising on your home network?…

You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them!

Updated  Brother is the latest printer manufacturer to come under fire over alleged sharp practices around the use of third-party consumables versus its own ink supplies.…

IsDavisLuEnabledInActiveDirectory? Not any more. IsDavisLuGuilty? Yes. IsDavisLuFacingJail? Also yes

A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his employer's systems – and he's now facing a potential ten years behind bars.…

Second time unlucky for Intuitive Machines, but hey, at least we got 250MB of data from it

The Athena lander, which touched down on the Moon on Thursday and promptly fell over, has been declared dead by its operators.…