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Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission

Comment  The US space agency, NASA, is famous for looking to the future. However, the fiasco of the last few days has cast doubt on the present, let alone what the coming weeks, months, or years might hold.…

Bugs fixed, updating to the latest version is advisable

Security sleuths found two critical vulnerabilities in a third-party library that MongoDB relies on, which means bad guys can potentially steal data and run code.…

Chipzilla's design and manufacturing limbs said to be on the table

Venture capitalists are circling Intel amid talk that the beleaguered chip giant may be carved up between Broadcom and TSMC, with one taking the design biz and the other the manufacturing fabs.…

IT giant doing whatever it takes to reach $300 a share

IBM is looking to reduce expenses through what's described as a co-location program that, according to current and former employees who spoke with The Register, appears to be designed to drive out older, more expensive workers.…

It's probably fine

As the risk corridor narrows for asteroid 2024 YR4, the possibility of a collision with Earth in 2032 has increased.…

Cost of post-Brexit arrangements revealed as HMRC looks at options following Fujitsu contract

The UK's tax collector is looking for a tech supplier to take on a £370 million, seven-year contract to support a digital platform and call center to handle trading arrangements over the Northern Ireland border.…

The latest in a long line of fraud stings worth billions each year

Two men are in police custody after being arrested in connection with a July cryptocurrency fraud involving a man in his seventies.…

Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot

Using apps and websites in dark mode can actually use more energy than standard mode, according to researchers, as it causes people to crank up the brightness.…

FBI and CISA issue reminder - deep sigh - about the importance of patching and backups

The operators of Ghost ransomware continue to claim victims and score payments, but keeping the crooks at bay is possible by patching known vulnerabilities and some basic infosec actions, according to a joint advisory issued Wednesday by the FBI and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.…

2.3 TB held to ransom as biz formerly known as Virgin Care tells us it's probing IT 'security incident'

Exclusive  HCRG Care Group, a private health and social services provider, has seemingly fallen victim to the Medusa ransomware gang, which is threatening to leak what's claimed to be stolen internal records unless a substantial ransom is paid.…

Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid

Big Tech’s plans to spend hundreds of billions on infrastructure during 2025 are often considered to demonstrate near-endless demand for artificial intelligence, but networking vendor Arista has just revealed a large AI build has “stalled” due to lack of funds and hardware.…

Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance

France’s Commissariat à L'énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Tuesday claimed it’s topped China’s recently-established for record maintaining fusion plasma in a tokamak, and therefore taken another step towards building a fusion reactor capable of producing cheap energy.…

That's the way the cookie melts

A US Army soldier suspected of hacking AT&T and Verizon has admitted leaking online people's private call records.…

Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk

Comment  US President Donald Trump has made it plain he’s not a fan of the $53 billion CHIPS and Science Act that funds semiconductor manufacturing and research on American soil – and now it appears he’s decided to make substantial staff cuts at the agencies that administer it.…

If you want to avoid urgent patches, stop exposing management consoles to the public internet

A flaw patched last week by Palo Alto Networks is now under active attack and, when chained with two older vulnerabilities, allows attackers to gain root access to affected systems.…

Odd X-ray flashes gave the game away, just few weeks after China-led mission launched

The Einstein Probe space telescope has spotted evidence of one star consuming matter from another.…

Hey, at least Katie Arrington brings a solid resume

Donald Trump's nominee for a critical DoD cybersecurity role sports a resume that outshines many of his past picks, despite previously suspended security clearance.…

WHAM, bam, no thank you, ma'am?

Eggheads at Microsoft have produced a generative AI tool they say can create a three-dimensional game world to help developers design and tweak gameplay.…

A 'synthesizer for websites' lets you experiment and improvize your way to CSS

Interview  Loken is a new type of tool which aims to let website designers feel their way towards a design in the same sort of way as musicians do with a software synthesizer.…

EnCharge claims 150 TOPS/watt, a 20x performance-per-watt edge

Interview  AI chip startup EnCharge claims its analog artificial intelligence accelerators could rival desktop GPUs while using just a fraction of the power. Impressive — on paper, at least. Now comes the hard part: Proving it in the real world.…