Scattered Spider crime spree takes flight as focus turns to aviation sector Time ticking for defenders as social engineering pros weave wider web Just a few weeks after warning about Scattered Spider's tactics shifting toward the insurance industry, the same experts now say the aviation industry is now on the ransomware crew's radar.… #theregister #IT

Scattered Spider switches focus again, this time to aviation

: Time ticking for defenders as social engineering pros weave wider web

Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test video  Old Space has shown itself to be just as adept at explosive malfunctions as New Space, with Northrop Grumman encountering an anomaly during a static fire test of an updated solid rocket booster design.… #theregister #IT

Northrop Grumman rocket test ends in nozzle failure

video: NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test

Mitch Kapor finally completes MIT master's degree after 45-year detour During which he coded Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founded Mozilla and the EFF The man behind Lotus 1-2-3 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has wrapped up a master's degree at MIT Sloan, decades after dropping out to help kickstart the PC software boom.… #theregister #IT

Mitch Kapor completes MIT MBA after 45-year detour

: During which he coded Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founded Mozilla and the EFF

VMware must support crucial Dutch govt agency as it migrates off the platform, judge rules Court says State arm cannot be left without maintenance, patches and upgrades because of Broadcom's new licensing model Broadcom's VMware subsidiary must provide a Dutch government organization with continued software support for at least two years while it manages a migration to an alternative pla… #theregister #IT

VMware must support Dutch govt agency

: Court says State arm cannot be left without maintenance, patches and upgrades because of Broadcom's new licensing model

Sinaloa drug cartel hired a cybersnoop to identify and kill FBI informants Device compromises and deep-seated access to critical infrastructure exposed surveillance vulnerabilities in agency's work A major Mexican drug cartel insider grassed on his fellow drug-peddlers back in 2018, telling the FBI that a cartel "hacker" was tracking a federal official and using their deep-root… #theregister #IT

Drug lords hired cybersnoop to ID and kill FBI informants

: Device compromises and deep-seated access to critical infrastructure exposed surveillance vulnerabilities in agency's work

Microsoft's next Windows 11 update is more 'enablement' than upgrade If you didn't like 24H2, you're probably not going to like 25H2 Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 25H2 is almost here. However, the upgrade will be little more than an exercise in feature enablement since Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 share the same source code.… #theregister #IT

Microsoft readies Windows 11 users for 25H2

: If you didn't like 24H2, you're probably not going to like 25H2

Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goal Arm-based servers are rapidly gaining traction in the market with shipments tipped to jump 70 percent in 2025, however, this remains well short of the chip designer's ambitions to make up half of datacenter CPU sales worldwide by the end of the… #theregister #IT

Arm-based servers to grow 70% this year

: Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goal

Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits Test run offers hope for a rail system long past its best-before date Deutsche Bahn (DB) and Siemens Mobility have managed to get an ICE test train to 405 km/h (251 mph) on the Erfurt-Leipzig/Halle high-speed line.… #theregister #IT

Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits

: Test run offers hope for a rail system long past its best-before date

Cloud lobby warns EU: Clamp down on water rules and we'll evaporate CISPE floats reforms to avoid new costs, fragmentation, and infrastructure flight The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body has put forward recommendations for the EU's Water Resilience Strategy, perhaps mindful that datacenters are perceived as hugely wasteful of precious water resources.… #theregister #IT

CISPE warns EU against over-regulation of water

: CISPE floats reforms to avoid new costs, fragmentation, and infrastructure flight

Your browser has ad tech's fingerprints all over it, but there's a clean-up squad in town Like being hard to spot? They’d much rather you didn’t Opinion  There are few tech deceptions more successful than Chrome's Incognito Mode.… #theregister #IT

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