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Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC

Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates rules from diverse Security Information and Event Managements (SIEMs) so they’re easier to consume across multiple systems.…

The Iran war has been great for business

The Iran war has been great for business

The Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months.…

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will likely misbehave and amplifies organizations’ existing frailties, and therefore recommend slow and careful adoption of the tech.…

The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer

The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer

The Mac Mini is the latest victim of the AI-fueled RAM-pocalypse. Last week, Apple discontinued the 256 GB version of the system, which cost $599. To get in now, you'll need to drop at least $799 on a 512 GB version.…

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default

Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice after user complaints that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code.…

46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software.…

Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?

kettle  When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. …

The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino

FEATURE  In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.…

Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space

Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space

We've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal handy to tap into the MU/TH/UR AI to check ship systems. Lucky for you, one enterprising maker has created just the machine for the job.…

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor recently was ported to macOS by a third party. However, developer Don Ho wants to be perfectly clear that, no matter how convincing the new project might look, it's not official. …

The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino

'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'

'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'

When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides a complete inventory of all the components in the environment. Enter AI-BOMs.…

Why no cloud storage architecture was designed for what agentic AI is about to demand