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Belgium's tax agency confirms cyberattack, pulls services offline

Theregister • October 29, 2026

Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030

Built to bend: Postgres’s inventor and a steward on what AI really needs

PARTNER CONTENT: Michael Stonebraker and Bruce Momjian on why enterprise AI needs a database that no one controls, and what PostgreSQL 19 says the road ahead

HPE puts storage to work on AI’s expensive memory problem

PARTNER CONTENT: HPE Alletra MP X10000 cache offload delivers up to 20× faster time to first token in testing validated by Kamiwaza. Apparently, remembering things beats calculating them again.

Belgium's tax agency confirms cyberattack, pulls services offline

Officials confirm this week’s tax deadlines extended to November as a result

PHP2Shell is a warning shot for vulnerability disclosure

Keeping secrets is difficult in an open world, but we've done it before and must do it again

Critical launch for Vulcan as ULA targets Friday the 13th

Hopefully without disintegrating SRB nozzles

Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute

Indian certification authority eMudhra’s private keys compromised – one of them was the number ‘4’

OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month

PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk

PHP2Shell exploit bypasses protections designed to stop remote code execution

There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix

Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030

Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat

Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030

GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse

GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down

Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse

Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the company promised to become carbon-negative by 2030

Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious its plans to tackle emissions

Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the company promised to become carbon-negative by 2030

UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions AI Growth Zones

UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups

Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions AI Growth Zones

Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all

Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists

It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all

Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks

PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more

Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack

PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more

Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included

Black Hat and DEF CON

DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure

Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included

Security EQT buys majority in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified

EQT buys majority in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis

Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified

Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

Systemd adds support for Rust What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!

Systemd adds support for Rust

What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!

FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions

FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases

Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions

SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux

SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive

Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux

Red Hat helps teach tech writing But learns tough lessons AI in the process

Red Hat helps teach tech writing

But learns tough lessons AI in the process

NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations

NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS

Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations

OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious

OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties

Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious

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This article is one source in a clustered incident — the cluster page carries the summary, timeline and every other outlet covering it.

Supply Chain Attack Targets 61 Public GitHub Repositories On October 29, 2026, attackers executed a supply chain campaign targeting 61 public repositories on GitHub. The attackers exploited GitHub issues to inject malicious code, affecting various projects and potentially compromising user data. The attack was executed in less than an hour, indicating a high level of coordination and sophistication. GitHub has since initiated measures to mitigate the impact and secure its platform. No specific CVEs were reported in relation to this incident, but the rapid execution raises concerns about supply chain vulnerabilities in open-source software. The full scope of the impact is still being assessed, with affected organizations urged to review their repositories for unauthorized changes. 2 sources 53

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Belgium's tax agency confirms cyberattack, pulls services offline

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