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Another business takes aim at token bills as companies start to feel the pinch.
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PHP is not the story; it's the illustration. Reg columnist Rupert Goodwins on what last's week's PHP2Shell mayhem means for disclosure in the infosec world.
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Have you rigged risky hardware and gotten away with it? In this week's cautionary tale in Who Me? - The Register's reader contributed column about tech mishaps - our hero did just that.
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UK retail giant Tesco appears to have decided to replace VMware with Proxmox in its stores.
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Internet governance bodies likely to speed up work on prepping DNS for potential future where quantum computers can challenge conventional encryption.
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China proposed to restrict the export of some AI technologies but then quickly moved to allow some of its champion companies to continue shipping their wares abroad.
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Red tape, anyone? Building a UK datacenter involves three government departments: one handles datacenter policy, another telecoms, and a third energy.
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The bureacracy is real. Earlier this month, Microsoft pulled out of plans for Britain's largest AI supercomputer because of difficulties securing power for the facility.
Count Binface did not immediately return a request for comment.
The operators built a malicious loop that they called “Skynet mode” that would scan for targets, infect them, deploy miners, and reinfect hosts. In total, the humans designed the AI agent to run unattended for up to 100,000 steps.
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Have any Virgin Media customers out there been directly contacted by the company about it ditching its email service? It announced this at the start of September.
One of the most frequently asked questions of Linux folks is "what's the best lightweight distro for an old PC?" The Reg FOSS desk's current answer is Raspberry Pi Desktop.
OpenAI restricts internet access during frontier-model training as Anthropic confronts AI safety failures. Keeping AI under control is proving harder than promised.
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Stop burning $165K on AI rewrites; Jac is meant to "gobble up" your polyglot stack
PHP2Shell chaos, round three: Another PHP remote code execution flaw has surfaced.
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As OpenAI's AI agents were compromising Hugging Face systems, its own watchdog had blind spots.
Red-teamers found serious monitoring gaps and potential bypasses.
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A dozen LLMs were prompted for their most controversial take on humanity, and all took at least one swipe at our herd mentality.
Turns out the machines aren't impressed.
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Fancy a version of Arch that can you can use without installing? You can boot SparkyOS and run it on any x86-64 UEFI computer, entirely from a USB key, without touching the hard disk at all.
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Microsoft ended support for Publisher this month, but users with orphaned documents still have options.
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Musk pooh-poohs idea that circa 22 launches might be needed to support a landing by the Human Landing System variant of Starship on the Moon, claims it will take 6-8.
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