AI geopolitics is shifting due to controlled frontier model access.

Medical technology giant Medtronic is notifying more than 3.8 million individuals that their personal and medical information was compromised in a recent data breach. The incident occurred in April 2026, when the infamous extortion group ShinyHunters accessed the...

Prosecutors say 19-year-old Peter Stokes was a member of Scattered Spider, the hacking group linked to more than 100 network intrusions and over $100 million in ransom payments. The post Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Extradited to US appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Gen Zers might not want to be too quick to blame AI—or their lack of AI skills—for their employment struggles. According to new research, a general shortage of job openings is the primary reason.Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis analyzed labor conditions...

The European Union's proposed environmental rating system for datacenters may be amended in response to lobbying from IT industry heavyweights, making it easier to offset greenhouse gas emissions using clean energy certificates. According to the Financial Times, the...

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Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called PamStealer that employs a series of clever tricks to infect systems and siphon sensitive data. The stealer, discovered by Jamf Threat Labs, is distributed as a compiled AppleScript (.scpt)...

When Databricks claimed to have cracked an age-old database problem, it came with a clear marketing message: "One data, zero compromises, zero copies." Inevitably, that led engineers to search for clarity. After all, the company claimed to have unified OLTP and OLAP...

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As companies gear up for annual summer vacations, there’s a new workplace trend bubbling up that leaders need to know about: “PTO-maxxing.”  It’s the strategy employees are using to take their calendar holidays and plan vacation days around them, stretching a paid...

Fireworks, BBQs, parades . . . oh my! The biggest summer holiday in America is extra special this year, as this Fourth of July marks the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. This means it is essentially a huge milestone birthday for...

NetNut rented access to millions of compromised devices, allowing cybercriminals and nation-state actors to mask their identities during attacks. The post Google, FBI Disrupt NetNut Residential Proxy Network Powered by Millions of Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.

People have been attempting to turn Kindles into more than e-readers since the first devices came out nearly two decades ago. The e-ink displays are low-power and great for displaying information that doesn’t refresh too often, and with Amazon continuing their trend...

The DuneSlide vulnerabilities enable zero-click prompt injection attacks that escape Cursor's sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system. The post Critical Cursor AI IDE Flaws Could Lead to OS-Level Remote Code Execution appeared first on...

I'm a bit annoyed by the feeling that we're kind of stuck when it comes to using LLMs for programming.I use Claude Code and Codex, but I haven't been able to enter flow state like I can when I hand write code.This is kind of ironic to me since AI should be a bicycle...

ON CALL Fronting up to work on Friday morning can feel like a mistake, but The Register tries to make it worthwhile by bringing you a new installment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories. This week, meet a reader we'll...

Most AI “strategy” right now isn’t strategy at all. It’s a leadership response to panic.  The suffocating, staring-at-the-ceiling-at-2am kind of panic that sets in when your board’s watching, your ROI dashboards haven’t budged, and your teams are fracturing under the...

Public companies in America are required by law to publish one number: the ratio between what it pays its CEO and what it pays its median worker. The rule has been in force since 2017. The number sits in every proxy statement on the exchange. Most leaders cannot tell...

There’s a version of career advice that often gets handed down: Find your passion early, specialize fast, build your personal brand. It’s tidy, and looks good on paper, but it bears almost no resemblance to how most successful careers actually unfold. Mine certainly...

The attempt by Australia’s Securities Exchange (ASX) to replace its core trading platform with a blockchain-based system has ended with an A$20.5 million fine ($14.2 million/£10.6 million), further humiliation after the project flopped. The ASX runs a platform called...

A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.

After the Nintendo 3DS saw various Nintendo 64-era titles like Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask ported to it, there was a lot of speculation that the GameCube/Wii title of Twilight Princess might soon make its way to this handheld gaming system too....

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