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• 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 Google's Gemini Deep Research tool can now reach deep into Gmail, Drive, and Chat to obtain data that might be useful for answering research questions.…
  Thomas Claburn
• 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 Security experts have helped remove malicious NuGet packages planted in 2023 that were designed to destroy systems years in advance, with some payloads not due to hit until the latter part of this decade.…
  Connor Jones
• Researchers want to kill the vibe, propose better model for AI coding 2025-11-07
  MIT researchers offer cure for illegible software A pair of MIT researchers have detailed a proposed new model for software that would help both humans and AI code generators alike create better and more transparent applications. No more vibing!…
  Joe Fay
• Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached 2025-11-07
  Behold the one trillion dollar man Tesla is awarding its CEO Elon Musk a package worth a possible $1 trillion, however, it relies in part on a dramatic increase in the value of the electric vehicle manufacturer.…
  Richard Speed
• '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. Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has waded into the argument over where Microsoft has gone wrong with Windows, suggesting that perhaps the OS needs a hardcore mode to offset some of its fluffier edges.…
  Richard Speed
• 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 Anyone turning 25 this week has never known a time when humans weren't living in space. The same might not be true when they're 30.…
  Richard Speed
• Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty! 2025-11-07
  Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU Microsoft is again banging the data sovereignty drum in Europe, months after admitting in a French court it couldn't guarantee that data will not be transmitted to the US government when it is legally required to do so.…
  Richard Speed
• Bank of England says JLR's cyberattack contributed to UK's unexpectedly slower GDP growth 2025-11-07
  This kind of material economic impact from online crooks thought to be a UK-first The Bank of England (BoE) has cited the cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as one of the reasons for the country's slower-than-expected GDP growth in its latest rates decision.…
  Connor Jones
• UK tax collector falls short on digital efficiency, watchdog says 2025-11-07
  Treasury found £1.6 billion for extra tech investment expecting 15 percent efficiency saving. So far HMRC has underwhelmed The UK’s tax collector is yet to reach the levels of efficiency its investment in digital services has led auditors to expect, according to a new report.…
  Lindsay Clark
• ISP help desk manager fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke 2025-11-07
  Lost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes … On Call  Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register’s Friday reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Foxconn hires humanoid robots to make servers at Nvidia's Texas factory 2025-11-07
  We're months away from AI building AI Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn has confirmed it will use humanoid robots to make Nvidia servers in America.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million 2025-11-07
  Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn’t make that easy Singaporean super-app company Grab has dumped 200 cloudy Mac Minis and replaced them with physical machines, a move it expects will save $2.4 million over three years.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Microsoft will force its 'superintelligence' to be a 'humanist' and play nice with people 2025-11-06
  Redmond's new AI boss is willing to sacrifice performance for the future of our species Microsoft has joined the ranks of tech giants chasing superintelligent artificial intelligence, but the company's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman’s vision is markedly different from that articulated by other industry leaders…
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• Gootloader malware back for the attack, serves up ransomware 2025-11-06
  Move fast - miscreants compromised a domain controller in 17 hours Gootloader JavaScript malware, commonly used to deliver ransomware, is back in action after a period of reduced activity.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Google’s Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe 2025-11-06
  Chocolate Factory's homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale Look out, Jensen! With its TPUs, Google has shown time and time again that it's not the size of your accelerators that matters but how efficiently you can scale them in production.…
  Tobias Mann
• OpenAI's Altman and Friar walk back remarks about federal loan guarantees 2025-11-06
  Money-losing biz says it does not need help to meet massive infrastructure commitments updated  After this story was published, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took a turn at damage control, following remarks from CFO Sarah Friar suggesting that the company was seeking federal loan guarantees – lanugage she later walked back.…
  Thomas Claburn
• Cisco warns of 'new attack variant' battering firewalls under exploit for 6 months 2025-11-06
  Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now Cisco warned customers about another wave of attacks against its firewalls, which have been battered by intruders for at least six months. It also patched two critical bugs in its Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software that aren't under active exploitation - yet.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October 2025-11-06
  Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation. ai-pocalypse  A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs data suggests AI is driving the largest wave of layoffs headed into […]
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• Union brands Rockstar’s leak claim “a distraction” as protests hit Take-Two London 2025-11-06
  Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting Rockstar Games denies claims that it fired several employees over their union activity, insisting that it sacked the team members for leaking confidential information.…
  Carly Page
• FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute 2025-11-06
  Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules A convicted identity thief has lost his appeal against Uncle Sam after claiming federal agents destroyed a seized hard drive containing cryptocurrency worth more than $345 million.…
  Connor Jones