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• OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias 2025-10-10
  AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.…
  Thomas Claburn
• Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI 2025-10-10
  Does it work? Inconclusive. Still, 55% of business leaders say that adopting AI is worth the impact on workers ai-pocalypse  Business leaders are racing to jump aboard the AI bandwagon, and a new study from the British Standards Institute suggests young college grads are being hit hardest.…
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• Ransomware crims that exploited SharePoint 0-days add Velociraptor to their arsenal 2025-10-10
  And they’re likely still abusing the same SharePoint flaws for initial access The ransomware gang caught exploiting Microsoft SharePoint zero-days over the summer has added a new tool to its arsenal: Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response app not previously tied to ransomware incidents.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Kyndryl sued for firing non-white workers, disabled vet 2025-10-10
  Security team cuts allegedly targeted workers based on race, national origin, age, and whistleblowing Five former members of Kyndryl's internal IT security team have sued the IBM spinoff alleging that they were terminated as part of a campaign targeting employees based on their race, national origin, age, disability, and whistleblowing activities.…
  Thomas Claburn
• Senate says Nvidia chips are for America first as China tightens import controls 2025-10-10
  Xi to the left of me, Trump is to the right; Huang I am, stuck in the middle with GPUs The US Senate has passed a provision that would give US firms first dibs on advanced chips, just as China tightens customs checks on Nvidia GPUs, leaving the company caught between competing policies across the […]
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• Zero-day in file-sharing software leads to RCE, and attacks are ongoing 2025-10-10
  Usually we’d say patch up… not this time Security research firm Huntress is warning all users of Gladinet's CentreStack and Triofox file-sharing tools to urgently apply an available mitigation, as a zero-day is being actively exploited and there's no patch available.…
  Connor Jones
• Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot 2025-10-10
  Viva Insights turns AI guzzling into a leaderboard Microsoft is adding Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights, a tool that lets managers monitor teams to spot those that are gulping down the AI Kool-Aid fastest.…
  Richard Speed
• Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap 2025-10-10
  Forescout's phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shop Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.…
  Connor Jones
• Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2025-10-10
  High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stack US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand.…
  Dan Robinson
• Microsoft warns of 'payroll pirate' crew looting US university salaries 2025-10-10
  Crooks phish campus staff, slip into HR systems, and quietly reroute paychecks Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.…
  Carly Page
• 50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity 2025-10-10
  Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos NASA's Voyager project could be facing a 26 percent budget cut while the plug is pulled on other programs, according to insiders familiar with the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.…
  Richard Speed
• Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America 2025-10-10
  Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruption Microsoft 365 services toppled over in North America last night due to an infrastructure misconfiguration.…
  Richard Speed
• UK slaps 'strategic market status' on Google, unlocking power to pry open search 2025-10-10
  Competition watchdog can now meddle in how the tech giant runs the biggest wing of its organization The UK's competition watchdog has officially slapped Google with "strategic market status," a new legal label that gives the regulator far-reaching powers to rein in how the search giant runs its empire.…
  Carly Page
• Former UK prime minister Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic 2025-10-10
  Conservative MP told he must not lobby for corporations Rishi Sunak is ready to kick-start his career with a couple of openings in the tech industry, a year after the end of his internship as the prime minister of the world's sixth-largest economy.…
  Lindsay Clark
• Cops nuke BreachForums (again) amid cybercrime supergroup extortion blitz 2025-10-10
  US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office.…
  Carly Page
• UK techies' union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details 2025-10-10
  Prospect apologizes for cyber gaffe affecting up to 160K members UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities.…
  Connor Jones
• Microsoft hypes PCs with NPUs, still can't offer a good reason to buy one 2025-10-10
  AI tech not on the hardware compatibility list for now. But future Windows will need it Comment  Microsoft has talked up the role played by neural processing units (NPUs) in making Windows more "intelligent," even though the silicon is not currently on the hardware requirements list.…
  Richard Speed
• Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings 2025-10-10
  Reputations earned over years of service can work wonders On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories from the frontlines of tech support.…
  Simon Sharwood
• RondoDox botnet fires 'exploit shotgun' at nearly every router and internet-connected home device 2025-10-09
  56 bugs across routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers … time to run for cover A new RondoDox botnet campaign uses an "exploit shotgun" - fire at everything, see what hits - to target 56 vulnerabilities across at least 30 different vendors' routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers, and other network devices, and then infect […]
  Jessica Lyons
• It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic 2025-10-09
  Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …
  Brandon Vigliarolo