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• British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted 2025-12-13
  CEO warns airlines that don’t learn to sell themselves to machines could soon be flying under the radar British Airways' chief executive has warned that the airline industry is fast heading for a future where AI agents, not humans, decide which brands get booked – and carriers that fail to adapt are at risk of […]
  Carly Page
• Microsoft RasMan DoS 0-day gets unofficial patch - and a working exploit 2025-12-12
  Exploit hasn't been picked up by any malware detection engines, CEO tells The Reg A Microsoft zero-day vulnerability that allows an unprivileged user to crash the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager (RasMan) service now has a free, unofficial patch - with no word as to when Redmond plans to release an official one - along […]
  Jessica Lyons
• New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks 2025-12-12
  And the earlier React2Shell patch is vulnerable If you're running React Server Components, you just can't catch a break. In addition to already-reported flaws, newly discovered bugs allow attackers to hang vulnerable servers and potentially leak Server Function source code, so anyone using RSC or frameworks that support it should patch quickly.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger 2025-12-12
  Executive order sidesteps Congress and sets up Litigation Task Force President Trump and his patrons in big tech have long wanted to block states from implementing their own AI regulations. After failing twice to do so in Congress, the US president has issued an executive order that would attempt to punish states that try to […]
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• Workday project at Washington University hits $266M 2025-12-12
  Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems The total cost of a Workday implementation project at Washington University in St. Louis is set to hit almost $266 million, it was revealed after the project was the subject of protests from students.…
  Lindsay Clark
• The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens 2025-12-12
  It's getting crowded up there Earth's orbit is starting to look like an LA freeway, with more and more satellites being launched each year. If you're worried about collisions and space debris making the area unusable – and you should be – scientists have proposed a new metric to contribute to your anxiety: the CRASH […]
  Richard Speed
• AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns 2025-12-12
  Bank sketches four scenarios in which monetization falters or demand swamps supply by 2030 Goldman Sachs warns that datacenter investments may fail to pay off if the industry is unable to monetize AI models, but hedges its bets by saying that demand could also overwhelm available capacity by 2030.…
  Dan Robinson
• Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program 2025-12-12
  Critical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move Microsoft is overhauling its bug bounty program to reward exploit hunters for finding vulnerabilities across all its products and services, even those without established bounty schemes.…
  Connor Jones
• Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims 2025-12-12
  Justice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements The US is suing a former senior manager at Accenture for allegedly misleading the government about the security of an Army cloud platform.…
  Connor Jones
• Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing 2025-12-12
  Competition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trial Stop us if you've heard this one before. Microsoft is in court regarding allegedly sharp software licensing practices.…
  Richard Speed
• UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout 2025-12-12
  Rights groups say digital-only record is leaking data and courting trouble Civil society groups are urging the UK's data watchdog to investigate whether the Home Office's digital-only eVisa scheme is breaching GDPR, sounding the alarm about systemic data errors and design failures that are exposing sensitive personal information while leaving migrants unable to prove their […]
  Carly Page
• Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation 2025-12-12
  Wiz says React2Shell attacks accelerating, ranging from cryptominers to state-linked crews Half of the internet-facing systems vulnerable to a fast-moving React remote code execution flaw remain unpatched, even as exploitation has exploded into more than a dozen active attack clusters ranging from bargain-basement cryptominers to state-linked intrusion tooling.…
  Carly Page
• Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability 2025-12-12
  Analysts say the shift offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure vendors keep control Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff last week came closer to answering a multibillion-dollar question when he said seat-based pricing – with some caveats – was becoming the norm for its AI agents after flirting with pricing based on consumption and per-conversation payments.…
  Lindsay Clark
• Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system 2025-12-12
  Replacement rollout plagued by bad data and missing features, says watchdog Despite completing its rollout of a new case management system, Home Office caseworkers are still referring back to data in a 25-year-old legacy system when processing asylum claims, according to a public spending watchdog.…
  Lindsay Clark
• User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't 2025-12-12
  Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up On Call  Welcome once more to On Call, the Friday column in which we share stories of tech support incidents that went pear-shaped until cunning Reg readers stepped in to save the day.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban 2025-12-12
  Forum site says it’s potentially more harmful to users who don’t log in Forum site Reddit has filed a case that seeks to exempt itself from Australia’s ban on children under 16 holding social media accounts.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust 2025-12-12
  Judge said his fraud was on 'epic, generational scale' Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon will spend 15 years in jail after pleading guilty to committing fraud.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO 2025-12-12
  Chips ’n’ code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come Silicon photonics won’t matter in the datacenter “anytime soon,” according to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan.…
  Simon Sharwood
• AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says 2025-12-11
  The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moore’s Law You want artificial general intelligence (AGI)? Current-day processors aren't powerful enough to make it happen and our ability to scale up may soon be coming to an end, argues well-known researcher Tim Dettmers.…
  Tobias Mann
• VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA 2025-12-11
  Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu Exclusive  Broadcom has recently killed off VMware vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA, the company told The Register, dealing a blow to smaller customers, one of whom told us they would likely switch […]
  O'Ryan Johnson