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To thwart reverse engineering by agents, dev proposes blinding them

Now that LLMs can help analyze commercial software binaries and recreate their functionality, one software developer and student has created a project designed to make this process more difficult.Timo Zhang's project is called Blind LLM Agents (BLA)...

Barracuda’s email security gateways bitten by make-me-root vulns

Security company Barracuda warns that attackers are exploiting a pre-authentication authorization bypass bug and a command-injection vulnerability in its popular Email Security Gateway (ESG) products that, when chained, could allow the crims to run...

14-year-old creates tool for AI agents to band together like a team

Built by a 14-year-old developer, a new tool called Autark treats AI agents as a virtual team that can work without constant prompting.Users put tasks in an inbox, where a manager agent delegates them to other agents that carry out the work and repo...

Mozilla Thunderbird email service edges closer to launch with early access

The Mozilla-backed Thunderbird project is getting closer to a wider launch of a hosted email service designed to complement its desktop mail app.Now known as Thundermail (what else?), the service was originally developed under the Thunderbird Pro ba...

AMD winds up Zen 6 cores for faster clock speeds

After teasing its 256-core Epycs for more than a year, AMD is finally ready to talk about architectural changes to the Zen core that not only make it possible, but will eventually power its next generation of Ryzen processors in desktop and mobile P...

AMD's Epyc X-chips are back after a three-year hiatus

AMD's cache-packed Epyc X chips are officially making a comeback.Based on the House of Zen's frequency-optimized SKUs we looked at back in September, its HPC-optimized Venice-X parts will offer up to 96 cores and use the company's 3D V-Cache chip st...

A closer look at Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin

AMD's upcoming Verano processors aren't like any Epyc CPUs we've seen before. Rather than general-purpose workloads, Verano is designed specifically to power AMD's next generation of GPU servers.In an interview with The Register during a press event...

Oura is acquiring medical AI chatbot startup Counsel Health

Oura announced its quarterly earnings today and said it agreed to acquire Counsel Health for $625 million, after adding the company's AI chatbot to its app earlier this year. Counsel Health calls itself an "AI-native primary care company," usin...

Trump taps Palantir security chief to run battered US cyber defense agency

President Donald Trump has nominated Palantir security chief Michael LoSapio to lead CISA, putting an executive from the controversial government supplier in line to run America's civilian cyber defense agency.The nomination, announced on Monday, co...

Sony cancels live-service shooter Fairgames

Sony has canceled Fairgames, a heist game announced in 2023, according to Bloomberg. Fairgames had once been part of Sony's big planned push for PlayStation live service games, but the company ended up canceling some planned live service titles...

Fireworks AI gets burned twice as customer data exposure widens

Fireworks AI has disclosed another cyberattack in October and a wider customer data exposure involving billing records, datasets, and incomplete model weights.The company, which lets customers train and run AI models, said a third-party cloud provid...

Another contract extension for Fujitsu on the Post Office's Horizon

The UK Post Office is extending its contract with Fujitsu to give it time to move services to a new supplier, after a scandal that has long marred the relationship between the two. The current contract runs until March 2027, and the publicly owned c...

The PlayStation Plus PC app is shutting down next month

Sony is retiring the PlayStation Plus app for PC on December 10th. Sony says it will notify users directly about the shutdown. The app allowed PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers to stream certain games on PC, but according to Sony, not many p...

Starlink Mini 2 adds a swappable battery

SpaceX announced a new version of its all-in-one satellite internet terminal that integrates a dish, Wi-Fi router, and now a battery into a single device about the size of a laptop. According to some users on X who shared screenshots of invita...

The US is winning the AI race. Jensen Huang could have blown it

As espionage targets go, Jensen Huang is perhaps one of the least surprising on Earth. The Nvidia CEO runs one of the world's most valuable companies, controls the in-demand technology fueling the AI boom, and is cozy with presidents, CEOs, and...

Stanford's century-long AI study admits it's already out of date

Twelve years into Stanford's 100-year study of artificial intelligence, the project's third report raises more questions than it answers.The 2026 AI100 Study Panel report acknowledges its limitations in its twelfth takeaway: "This report will be out...

Google’s Pixel Tag tracker is now available

After years of third-party Android trackers from companies like Samsung, Motorola, and Pebblebee, Google's Pixel Tag is now available for purchase. First announced in August, the Pixel Tag is designed to work with Google's tracking network and...

Google is making Pixel HiLight slightly more useful

Google is adding a new feature to its underwhelming HiLight light on the back of Pixel 11 Pro phones: as part of the November 2026 Pixel Drop, the light can light up when you get Google Messages texts from your favorite contacts. Sure, it's a s...

One of our favorite multi-filament 3D printers is $100 off

The Bambu P2S Combo. | Image: Bambu If you’re tired of filament jams and clogged nozzles, perhaps it’s time for a new 3D printer. Through December 1st, the Bambu Lab P2S Combo, currently one of the best models that’s easy to use, is discounted...

Chrome zero-day whack-a-mole continues as 2026 tally hits 8

Google has patched its eighth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026, matching its total for the whole of last year with nearly two months still left on the calendar.The latest flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-125350, is a high-severity use-after-free...