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Russia-linked crooks bought a bank for Christmas to launder cyber loot
Russia-linked crooks bought a bank for Christmas to launder cyber loot
UK cops trace street-level crime to sanctions-busting networks tied to Moscow's war economy
On Christmas Day 2024, a Russian-linked laundering network bought itself a very special present: a controlling stake in a Kyrgyzstan bank, later used to wash cybercrime profits and funnel money into Moscow's war machine, according to the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Russia-linked crooks bought a bank for Christmas to launder cyber loot
Lawsuit seeks to probe Uncle Sam's role in ICE-tracking app takedowns
Lawsuit seeks to probe Uncle Sam's role in ICE-tracking app takedowns
EFF wants to know if citizens had their First Amendment rights violated
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing two government departments to understand how they compelled tech companies to remove ICE-tracking apps and websites from their platforms.…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Lawsuit seeks to probe Uncle Sam's role in ICE-tracking app takedowns
Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title
Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title
Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt
SC25 There's a new efficiency champ at the top of the Green500 ranking of the world's most sustainable supercomputers.…
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November 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title
AI nudification site fined £55K for skipping age checks
AI nudification site fined £55K for skipping age checks
Decision marks second penalty issued under the UK's Online Safety Act
The UK's online regulator has lobbed a £50,000 fine at an AI nudification website for failing to implement mandatory age checks, potentially allowing under-18s to waltz past the virtual velvet rope.…
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November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
AI nudification site fined £55K for skipping age checks
UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme
UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme
Committee hears departments may have to stump up cash before savings materialize
A UK tech minister has declined to put a figure on the cost of the government's digital ID plans as MPs question the contributions expected from central departments.…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme
Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'
Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'
The tech is impressive. Shoehorning it into absolutely everything is not
Opinion In a tweet lamenting all the "cynics" unmoved by AI, Microsoft AI boss Mustafa Suleyman demonstrated that Redmond's Reality Distortion Field is running at full power.…
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November 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'
Boffins build 'AI Kill Switch' to thwart unwanted agents
Boffins build 'AI Kill Switch' to thwart unwanted agents
AutoGuard uses injection text for good
Computer scientists based in South Korea have devised what they describe as an "AI Kill Switch" to prevent AI agents from carrying out malicious data scraping.…
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November 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Boffins build 'AI Kill Switch' to thwart unwanted agents
Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move
Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move
Somewhat daft scheme worked until it didn’t
On Call The working week can be burdensome, so each Friday morning The Register tries to lighten the load by bringing you a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which you let go of tech support stories that weigh on your memory.…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move
Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters
Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters
It’s an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum
The Open Compute Project (OCP) has commenced a workstream to learn how to deploy quantum computers alongside classical high performance computers in the same datacenter.…
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November 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters
Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help
Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help
Relies on very loose permissions, but don’t worry – Google wrote it in Rust
Google has linked Android’s wireless peer-to-peer file sharing tool Quick Share to Apple’s equivalent AirDrop.…
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November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help
Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor
Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor
Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too
Backup software vendor Veeam has thrown its weight behind more alternatives to VMware.…
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November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor
SEC drops SolarWinds lawsuit that painted a target on CISOs everywhere
SEC drops SolarWinds lawsuit that painted a target on CISOs everywhere
Company 'clearly delighted' with the outcome
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has abandoned the lawsuit it pursued against SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer for misleading investors about security practices that led to the 2020 SUNBURST attack.…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
SEC drops SolarWinds lawsuit that painted a target on CISOs everywhere
SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions
SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions
Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference
SC25 Hydrogen-fueled gas turbines, backup generators, and air handlers probably aren't the kinds of equipment you'd expect on the show floor of a supercomputing conference. But your expectations would be wrong.…
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November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions
Gemini tries to sniff out AI slop images while also making them easier to create
Gemini tries to sniff out AI slop images while also making them easier to create
Featuring an image of a man creating an image of a man creating an image...
hands on Google Gemini users can now use the AI's app and website to figure out whether an image is AI-generated, though with some considerable limitations.…
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November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Gemini tries to sniff out AI slop images while also making them easier to create
PHP 8.5 lays down long-awaited pipe operator, adds new URI tools
PHP 8.5 lays down long-awaited pipe operator, adds new URI tools
Unfashionable web workhorse refreshed for its ongoing run
PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a new standards-compliant URI parser, marking one of the scripting language's more substantial updates.…
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November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
PHP 8.5 lays down long-awaited pipe operator, adds new URI tools
Another Salesforce-linked data breach has ShinyHunters’ fingerprints all over it
Another Salesforce-linked data breach has ShinyHunters’ fingerprints all over it
They keep coming back for more
Salesforce has disclosed another third-party breach in which criminals - likely ShinyHunters (again) - may have accessed its customers' data.…
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November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Another Salesforce-linked data breach has ShinyHunters’ fingerprints all over it
LLM-generated malware is improving, but don't expect autonomous attacks tomorrow
LLM-generated malware is improving, but don't expect autonomous attacks tomorrow
Researchers tried to get ChatGPT to do evil, but it didn't do a good job
LLMs are getting better at writing malware - but they're still not ready for prime time.…
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November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
LLM-generated malware is improving, but don't expect autonomous attacks tomorrow
Don't spill your guts to your chatbot friend - it'll hoover up that info for training
Don't spill your guts to your chatbot friend - it'll hoover up that info for training
LLM makers may be training on user chat with few privacy safeguards, lawmakers hear
The US House of Representatives has heard that LLM builders can exploit users’ conversations for further training and commercial benefit with little oversight or concern for privacy risks.…
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November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Don't spill your guts to your chatbot friend - it'll hoover up that info for training
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Welcoming O'Ryan Johnson to our US reporting team as our latest vulture at @theregister.com , covering SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, AI and the assorted other grab bag of fun that makes El Reg what it is. He starts after Thanksgiving and I'm psyched to have his reporting chops aboard.
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Welcoming O'Ryan Johnson to our US reporting team as our latest vulture at @theregister.com , covering SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, AI and the assorted other grab bag of fun that makes El Reg what it is. He starts after Thanksgiving and I'm psyched to have his reporting chops aboard.
Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI
Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI
If at first you don’t succeed, swing again - Big Tech certainly isn’t complaining
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are trying again to eliminate state-level AI regulations in favor of a federal standard. The plan faces opposition from many state governments and civil-society organizations, while AI vendors have welcomed it.…
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November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI
Thunderbird 145 finally adds ‘native’ Exchange support
Thunderbird 145 finally adds ‘native’ Exchange support
EWS-powered email only for now, with calendars and contacts still on the to-do list
It's easy to forget in the FOSS world, but Exchange still runs most corporate email – and the new version of Thunderbird can talk to it directly.…
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November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Thunderbird 145 finally adds ‘native’ Exchange support
Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage
Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage
PowerShell script locked thousands of workers out of their accounts
An Ohio IT contractor has pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's systems and causing nearly $1 million worth of damage after being fired.…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage
Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance
Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance
Quick and dirty driver aims to undo slowdown introduced in OS patch
The Windows 11 October 2025 Update is still causing headaches for users of Microsoft's flagship operating system.…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance
AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market
AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market
Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base
The big three cloud companies are all growing thanks to an expanding market, but Amazon is under increasing pressure from Microsoft and Google, while newcomers are on the rise.…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market
TP-Link accuses rival Netgear of 'smear campaign' over alleged China ties
TP-Link accuses rival Netgear of 'smear campaign' over alleged China ties
Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US
TP-Link is suing rival networking vendor Netgear, alleging that the rival and its CEO carried out a smear campaign by falsely suggesting, it says, that the biz had been infiltrated by the Chinese government.…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
TP-Link accuses rival Netgear of 'smear campaign' over alleged China ties