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Deepfake-enabled attacks against Android and iPhone users are netting criminals serious cash

Cybercriminals are targeting iOS users with malware that steals face scans from the users of Apple devices to break into and pilfer money from bank accounts – thought to be a world first.…

$800M charge facing network giant as customers work way through existing inventory

Networking goliath Cisco has finally confirmed talk from earlier in the week that it is laying off thousands of staff, reflecting the cautious outlook that management are seeing in customers' spending projections.…

Set up a register and strike them off for bad behavior

Creating a register of licensed AI professionals to uphold ethical standards and securing whistleblowing channels to call out bad management are two policies that could prevent a Post Office-style scandal.…

'This is an excellent way to piss off thousands of developers'

End of life for the Authy Desktop authentication app is scheduled for March 19, rather than the August 2024 date previously announced.…

Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely

The UK's Cabinet Office has paused its migration away from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, after ditching the current contract it signed with the Redmond headquartered biz last spring.…

Reg metrics show Enrique Lores is worth a lot of ink

The Reg family would like to extend our condolences to HP CEO Enrique Lores after his headline financial compensation package for 2023 declined more than 7 percent year-on-year to $19.46 million.…

Now that's what you call dual-use tech

Cyber baddies have turned to ad networks to measure malware deployment and to avoid detection, according to HP Wolf Security.…

Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights – a decision that may derail European data surveillance legislation known as Chat Control.…

The curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover

NASA's Perseverance is having trouble with one of its instruments – which could mean the rover will no longer be able to zap rocks with its laser.…

Splunk deal may close early, but AI is a way off turning into a money fountain. Meanwhile, Cisco waits for you to finish projects

Cisco has delivered mixed news to investors after its customers yet again struggled to deploy products they've already acquired.…

$5k a month for the site. $3k for tech support. Infection with malware and funding a despot? Priceless

North Korea's latest money-making venture is the production and sale of gambling websites that come pre-infected with malware, according to South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS).…

Zuck needs silicon smarts – and the energy experience of a former Enron exec

Social networking company Meta has appointed Broadcom CEO Hock Tan to its board and added energy entrepreneur John Arnold too.…

Anti-abortion group said to have used that monitoring to push ad campaign

A pro-life group was able to specifically target visitors to nearly 600 Planned Parenthood facilities in 48 states in America with anti-abortion ads using location data from a broker called Near Intelligence, according to US Senator Ron Wyden.…

Summarizes threads you just can't keep up with and beefs up search

After nearly a year of testing, Salesforce-owned Slack has launched some generative AI features that may help enterprise users search, summarize, and ask questions about information in their conversations.…

Claims what took weeks to do by hand, machine learning can do in hours

On Tuesday AI startup Quilter picked up $10 million in series-A funding to use a combination of machine learning and high-performance computing (HPC) to make designing printed circuit boards a less grueling and manual experience.…

You don't need us to craft phishing emails or write malware, super-lab sniffs

OpenAI has shut down five accounts it asserts were used by government agents to generate phishing emails and malicious software scripts as well as research ways to evade malware detection.…

Lina Khan may not even be in charge of watchdog by time case gets to trial, if it even goes that far

The FTC's antitrust case against Amazon is headed to trial, though not anytime soon, with a federal judge scheduling it to begin on October 13, 2026. …

Jeez, not now, Xi. Can't you see we've got an election and Ukraine and Gaza and cost of living and layoffs and ...

The Chinese government's Volt Typhoon spy team has apparently already compromised a large US city's emergency services network and has been spotted snooping around America's telecommunications' providers as well.…

MIT economist argues ML can moderate the inequalities of the Information Age

The future described in OpenAI's mission statement, in which autonomous systems "outperform humans at most economically valuable work," sounds like a hellscape to MIT economics professor David Autor.…

New Start Menu is a 'game changer' claims relentlessly cheerful vid

Microsoft is again releasing a video to entice more Windows 10 users to make the leap to the brave new world of Windows 11, with market share figures indicating the majority of customers are still reluctant to do so.…