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ShinyHunters claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool

ShinyHunters is back, this time pinning Rockstar Games to its leak site and claiming it didn't so much hack its way in as walk through a door someone else left wide open.…

GG noob, who cleared you to land?

The Federal Aviation Administration continues to face an air traffic controller shortage, and it's hoping that a new demographic of potential applicants can fill the ranks: Video gamers. …

Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUs

Linus Torvalds has released version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…

MoD plans rapid procurement of Cambridge Aerospace's Skyhammer system at home and abroad

Britain is set to buy interceptors from a homegrown startup to counter Iranian Shahed-style attack drones, equipping both its own armed forces and allies in the Persian Gulf region.…

Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they’re coming back!

In a world wracked by wars, beset by difficult economic conditions, and struggling with exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.…

AI gubbins still there, just tucked under 'Writing Tools'

Copilot is on its way out of Notepad, but a return to the basic text editor is not on the cards.…

Travel giant says names, contact details, dates, and hotel messages potentially exposed

Booking.com is warning customers that their reservation details may have been exposed to unknown attackers, in the latest reminder that the travel giant still can't quite keep a lid on the data flowing through its platform.…

Controlled Feature Rollouts headed for the trash among other changes

Microsoft is giving the Windows Insider program another makeover in the hope of making it less baffling.…

Department putting systems in place to manage 'restrictive licensing practices'

A federal spending watchdog has found the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) faced "challenges" in understanding the correct number of licenses it should hold for the top five vendors in its $985 million annual software expenditure.…

With access to great data comes great responsibility

Snowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn't the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflake’s director of product management James Rowland-Jones told The Register.…

Reader and Acrobat flaw let booby-trapped documents profile targets and hijack machines

Adobe has released a fix for an Acrobat and Reader zero-day that attackers had been exploiting for months.…

Names, addresses, dates of birth, and bank details accessed, though not passwords

Basic-Fit, Europe's largest gym chain, has confirmed data including the bank details of around a million customers was stolen from its systems.…

Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies

Opinion  You want to know who's even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? European governments and companies who are realizing that putting all their eggs in one US basket was a stupid move.…

Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement

NHS England is spending £46,000 on "benchmarking" as it gears up for what looks like the next round of negotiations behind one of the UK public sector's biggest software deals.…

Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware

France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead.…

Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible

Who, Me?  The best part of the working day is lunchtime, but The Register tries to start Mondays in a pleasant fashion by bringing you a new installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your mistakes and detail your escapes.…

PLUS: Toyota wheels out basketball bot; Arm scores AI server win with SK Telecom; India ponders payment pauses to foil fraudsters; And more!

Asia In Brief  China’s National Data Administration last Friday published its action plan for AI in education which calls for upskilling of the nation’s citizens to ensure they can put the technology to work.…

Most customers don't need the biggest baddest models, just ones that work, are cheap, and won't pirate their proprietary data

FEATURE  Spring has sprung and that means another wave of open weights AI models from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Nvidia. But this time feels a bit different.…

Or it's a bunch of pre-IPO hype. Either way, we're giving it the once-over on this week's episode

Kettle  Anthropic dropped a doozy on us this week with the launch of Mythos, an AI model it says is able to find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with a shocking level of ability. …

Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing

Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…