Security researchers spent 6 days doing their Chromework, built 1B user exploit

Things got weird, but there's a lesson to be learned: Don't trust a bot to negotiate for you

Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage

Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use

The VMware exit is a protection upgrade

PARTNER CONTENT: VergeIO says an exit is also an opportunity

Security researchers spent 6 days doing their Chromework, built 1B user exploit

Xbow earned a $250K bug bounty and all the AI model got was a lousy t-shirt

It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill

New models arrive so fast, we already have more new tech than it's possible to understand in a career

Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day after researchers confirm in-the-wild attacks

Vendor promises fix for separate privilege-escalation flaw in the coming weeks

Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people

'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people

Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill

Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill

Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing

Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing

Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise

Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise

Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative

Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative

Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use

Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage

Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use

Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Reg it's a bad bet

Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking

What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Reg it's a bad bet

Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable If you thought 1.6 Tbps was fast, just wait, Cisco's USFP targets 12.8 Tbps in a single optical pluggable

Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable

If you thought 1.6 Tbps was fast, just wait, Cisco's USFP targets 12.8 Tbps in a single optical pluggable

Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops

Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing

Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops

AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'

AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready

Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'

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

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

Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again

Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text

GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again

Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care All this, and angry NeoVim users

Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care

All this, and angry NeoVim users

Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?* Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin

Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*

Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin

KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user

KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal

Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user