Sysadmins, your job is safe Automating IT operations using AI may not be the best idea at the moment.... [...]

Checkbox to make chatbot conversations appear in search engines deemed a footgun OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines to prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information.... [...]

Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work Computer scientists with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, say they've developed a way to remove watermarks embedded in AI-generated images.... [...]

No screenshots for you! In an effort to protect user privacy, Brave browser 1.81 will prevent Microsoft Recall from screenshotting it by default.... [...]

Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspot Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation.... [...]

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016.... [...]

Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.... [...]

Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun The Rowhammer attack on computer memory is back, and for the first time, it's able to mess with bits in Nvidia GPUs, despite defenses designed to protect against this kind of hacking.... [...]

Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation Using AI models to generate exploits for cryptocurrency contract flaws appears to be a promising business model, though not necessarily a legal one.... [...]

You probably don't need one, but it's nice to have the option Let's Encrypt, a certificate authority (CA) known for its free TLS/SSL certificates, has begun issuing digital certificates for IP addresses.... [...]

Gotta keep 'em separated so the marketers and snoops can't come out and play Psylo, which bills itself as a new kind of private web browser, debuted last Tuesday in Apple's App Store, one day ahead of a report warning about the widespread use of browser fingerprinting for ad …

To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems Researchers based in Israel and India have developed a defense against automated call scams.... [...]

Swift-based containerization framework aims to improve performance and security Apple on Monday unveiled an open source containerization framework for creating and running Linux container images on the Mac.... [...]

Security, not model performance, is what's stalling adoption Interview Before AI becomes commonplace in enterprises, corporate leaders have to commit to an ongoing security testing regime tuned to the nuances of AI models.... [...]

Researchers have come up with a fix for a path traversal bug first spotted in 2010 A security bug that surfaced fifteen years ago in a public post on GitHub has survived developers' attempts on its life.... [...]

Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins Security researchers say Meta and Yandex used native Android apps to listen on localhost ports, allowing them to link web browsing data to user identities and bypass typical privacy protections.... [...]

Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them Meta has partnered with Anduril Industries to build augmented and virtual reality devices for the military, eight years after it fired the defense firm's founder, Palmer Luckey.... [...]

ZKLP system allows apps to confirm user presence in a region without exposing exactly where Computer scientists from universities in Germany, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom have proposed a way to provide verifiable claims about location data without surrendering privacy.... [...]

Sometimes, less information is more In its latest gambit to reduce the noise of unnecessary security alerts, Socket has acquired Coana, a startup founded in 2022 by researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark that tells users which vulnerabilities they can safely ignore.... [...]

ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have found a way around Intel's defenses against Spectre, a family of data-leaking flaws in the x86 giant's processor designs that simply won't die.... [...]

Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a push to cut memory-related security bugs and lock down core system components.... [...]

CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate' CrowdStrike – the Texas antivirus slinger famous for crashing millions of Windows machines last year – plans to cut five percent of its staff, or about 500 workers, in pursuit of "greater efficiencies," according to CEO and co-founder George Kurtz …

CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate' CrowdStrike – the Texas antivirus slinger famous for crashing millions of Windows machines last year – plans to cut five percent of its staff, or about 500 workers, in pursuit of "greater efficiencies," according to CEO and co-founder George Kurtz …

No, really? That's a shocking surprise An unidentified miscreant is said to have obtained US government communications from TeleMessage, a messaging and archiving app based on the open-source Signal app and used by ousted national security advisor Michael Waltz.... [...]

Go ahead, please do Bash static analysis Shell scripting may finally get a proper bug-checker. A group of academics has proposed static analysis techniques aimed at improving the correctness and reliability of Unix shell programs.... [...]