Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk Major flaws uncovered in Copeland controllers: Patch now Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world's largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have allowed miscreants to manipulate temperatures and spoil food and medicin… #theregister #IT

Frostbyte10 bugs put grocery refrigeration devices at risk

: Major flaws uncovered in Copeland controllers: Patch now

Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking Register debate series  Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed it expects to spend £9 billion with the software giant over five year… #theregister #IT

Reg readers say UK govt should move away from Microsoft

Register debate series: As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking

Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on Russia.… #theregister #IT

EU blames Russia as GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane

: Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help

In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.… #theregister #IT

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: Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks

Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins eBPF, shared SmartNICs, and smart scheduling have improved reliability and cut costs Chinese web giant Alibaba has reduced network outages by 92 percent, cut load balancing costs by 18.9 percent, and found ways to improve SmartNIC performance by offloading workloads to idle infrastructure.… #theregister #IT

Alibaba Cloud reveals uptime and efficiency secrets

: eBPF, shared SmartNICs, and smart scheduling have improved reliability and cut costs

Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity' Taylor Otwell says skip the clever code, keep it simple Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.… #theregister #IT

Beware clever devs, says Laravel inventor Taylor Otwell

: Taylor Otwell says skip the clever code, keep it simple

Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber Could dramatically reduce latency between datacenters and on mobile nets A team of networking boffins has published fresh research on hollow fiber cables that it claims could offer the lowest ever recorded optical loss for a fiber – meaning the signal would weaken less as it travels, leading to faster speeds and… #theregister #IT

Microsoft-backed hollow-core fiber boffins show speed boost

: Could dramatically reduce latency between datacenters and on mobile nets

White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff Happy Labor Day. The US administration has removed union recognition from NASA as budget cuts and layoffs loom.… #theregister #IT

White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty

: Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff

Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Cloud customers left reeling as forecasts leap hundreds of percent Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget alerts.… #theregister #IT

Microsoft cloud customers hit by messed-up migration

: Cloud customers left reeling as forecasts leap hundreds of percent

Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases A research group funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to invest £118 million ($169.6 million) in applying AI to vaccine research with the UK's Oxford University.… #theregister #IT

Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M vaccine research at Oxford

: Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases