AI code assistants make developers more efficient at creating security problems Fixes typos, creates timebombs AI coding assistants allow developers to move fast and break things, which may not be ideal.… #theregister #IT
Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators Broadcom has impressed investors by posting record revenues but admitted it has sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers.… #theregister #IT
Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb Uber’s Indian arm has started using its app to offer rideshare and delivery drivers the chance to make a Rupee by classifying data used by AI systems.… #theregister #IT
Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info Because nobody's going to spend billions to retrain a model built on dubiously legal content Researchers have found promising new ways to have AI models ignore copyrighted content, suggesting it may be possible to satisfy legal requirements without going through the lengthy and costly process of retraining… #theregister #IT
Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch Unknown miscreants are exploiting a configuration vulnerability in multiple Sitecore products to achieve remote code execution via a publicly exposed key and deploy snooping malware on infected machines.… #theregister #IT
Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps AI models get slammed for producing sloppy bug reports and burdening open source maintainers with hallucinated issues, but they also have the potential to transform application security through automation.… #theregister #IT
Gigs in space: Amazon breaks bandwidth barrier with Kuiper's satellite broadband Signs up JetBlue for in-flight connection, but not until 2027 Amazon showed off download speeds peaking at 1.28 Gbps from its nascent Project Kuiper internet satellite service and announced an airline deal with US commercial airline JetBlue to provide Wi-Fi in the sky.… #theregister #IT
China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results Defrauding search with custom malware, Potato-family exploits A new China-aligned cybercrime crew named GhostRedirector has compromised at least 65 Windows servers worldwide - spotted in a June internet scan - using previously undocumented malware to juice gambling sites' rankings in Google search,… #theregister #IT
Sky-high budget gap: FAA launches air traffic overhaul, lacks cash to finish it Agency wants a single private integrator to herd 74K bits of kit with only 40% of the funding so far Get ready to start flying American skies with a renewed sense of confidence, at least eventually, as the Federal Aviation Administration has finally decided to start soliciting ideas for an overhaul of th… #theregister #IT
No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others We’ve got hungry American datacenters to feed, argued the lawmaker - a revival Nvidia dubs ‘doomer science fiction’ +Comment  US lawmakers are looking to apply Trump's America-First agenda to advanced semiconductors by giving US buyers first dibs while restricting the sale of most hi… #theregister #IT