FBI, Dutch cops seize fake ID marketplace that sold identity docs for $9 $6.4M VerifTools marketplace offline The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity documents for as little as $9.… #theregister #IT
How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out 'The homeland is no longer secure,' says Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency leader The Pentagon outfit responsible for preventing foriegn agents from infiltrating defense agencies says the US isn't doing a very good job of preventing state secrets from falling into Chinese … #theregister #IT
Dialing Earth: Skylo set to leapfrog T-Mobile and offer voice calls via satellite Only a few Android phones will be able to support the service Users of Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones could soon find themselves able to make voice calls via a satellite connection, if Skylo Technologies can get all its ducks in a row.… #theregister #IT
Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.… #theregister #IT
AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200 The new native 68K AmigaOS web browser leans on the machines' underlying emulation system to offer modern facilities on a retro OS.… #theregister #IT
'It isn't designed to solve privacy concerns,' Grafana CTO says of Bring Your Own Cloud Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point INTERVIEWΒ  Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is a concept gaining traction as companies seek ways to resolve sovereignty and privacy issues, but its implementation can vary widely depending on interpretation.… #theregister #IT
Google and Zed push protocol to pry AI agents out of VS Code's clutches Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden Google and code editor company Zed Industries have introduced the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) as a standard way for AI agents to integrate with an IDE, with the idea that this will prevent developers getting locked into VS Code.… #theregister #IT
SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot Regulator points to lack of 'basic access controls' between internet-facing systems, internal network South Korea's privacy watchdog has slapped SK Telecom with a record β‚©134.5 billion ($97 million) fine after finding that the mobile giant left its network wide open to hackers through a catalog of … #theregister #IT
Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart Company cleared to launch again after April failure Firefly Aerospace has been given the green light to resume launches after its April failure.… #theregister #IT
TransUnion admits 4.5M affected after third-party support app breached Credit agency offers own services as compensation Credit scoring and monitoring biz TransUnion says that it recently suffered a breach affecting nearly 4.5 million individuals.… #theregister #IT