Microsoft teases agents that become ‘independent users within the workforce’ (2025/11/10) Licensing expert worries they’ll be out of control on day one
Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list (2025/11/10) Asia In Brief PLUS: India’s tech services exports growing fast; South Korea puts the bite on TXT spam; NTT gets into autonomous vehicles; and more!
Louvre's pathetic passwords belong in a museum, just not that one (2025/11/09) Infosec in brief PLUS: CISA layoffs continue; Lawmakers criticize camera security; China to execute scammers; And more
Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks (2025/11/09) Two different groups want this valuable spectrum, but can they share?
Here's one way to cut support ticket volume… send them to another company entirely (2025/11/09) Misdirection is the new resolution at major video game house
Who's watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map (2025/11/08) interview Esra'a Al Shafei spoke with The Reg about the spy tech 'global trade'
Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control (2025/11/08) OPINION At one point, Microsoft's QC was legendary. Now, it's the wrong kind of legend
Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump (2025/11/08) The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok make very squishy jury members (2025/11/08) All three acquitted a teen in a mock trial based on a case where a judge ruled guilty
Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones (2025/11/07) 'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed
AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing (2025/11/07) Study finds many tests don't measure the right things
Blackwell a no-sell in China as trade deal fails to materialize (2025/11/07) Xi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to
52-year-old data tape could contain only known copy of UNIX V4 (2025/11/07) It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
China warns Dutch away from Nexperia as it lets chip exports resume (2025/11/07) Netherlands court still overseeing governance at the chipmaker
Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive (2025/11/07) Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise
Cybercrims plant destructive time bomb malware in industrial .NET extensions (2025/11/07) Multi-year wait for destruction comes to an end for mystery attackers
Researchers want to kill the vibe, propose better model for AI coding (2025/11/07) MIT researchers offer cure for illegible software
Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached (2025/11/07) Behold the one trillion dollar man
'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it (2025/11/07) Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.
25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS (2025/11/07) All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30