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$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack
Apollo Global Management, the $1 trillion investment firm, has disclosed that hackers gained unauthorised access to some of its cloud platforms between 6 and 10 July after a successful social engineering attack. The company reported the breach to California’s attorney general, confirming that intruders spent four days inside its systems and accessed personal data including…
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Taliban governor denies Afghan abuse survivor’s divorce request
A BBC documentary team gained rare access to senior Taliban figures in Afghanistan, capturing an exchange in which an 18-year-old woman, given the pseudonym Tuba, asked provincial governor Abdullah Sarhadi for permission to divorce her husband after months of alleged abuse and beatings. Sarhadi, a former Taliban military commander once held at Guantanamo Bay, urged…
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AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows
A Register podcast episode discusses two parallel shifts: AI vendors increasingly moving beyond Nvidia’s GPUs towards alternative datacentre silicon, and Microsoft finally loosening long-standing restrictions in Windows 11. Register Systems Editor Tobias Mann explains why companies are turning to chipmakers such as Cerebras and Marvell to handle inference workloads, and why Waymo is developing custom…
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Thames Water creditors accused of ‘shuffling deckchairs’ with plan for new board
A consortium of Thames Water’s creditors has proposed installing a new board, including a former Yorkshire Water chief executive and a former Openreach boss, in an attempt to persuade the government against placing the struggling utility into temporary nationalisation. The move is designed to reassure ministers, particularly Andy Burnham, who has pushed for greater public…
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Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia
Australian post offices have started selling small paper “password books” for AU$4.90 (about US$3.51), and a viral social media post about the find has drawn a surprisingly warm response from security professionals who once dismissed the idea as poor practice. Where password books were traditionally seen as a security risk, many infosec commentators now argue…
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Inside story of the brazen WhatsApp group that told M9 crash teen when it was safe to go on a car robbing spree… and the infuriating reason Gardai know there is little they can do to stop them
A member of the so-called “M9 gang”, 17-year-old Kamil Pustkowski, was arrested driving a stolen car just three weeks before the crash that killed him and four other teenagers, but was released and back stealing cars the same night because Ireland’s only juvenile detention centre, Oberstown in Lusk, Co Dublin, had no available spaces. The…
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Taiwan reportedly indicted NVIDIA employees for exporting prohibited AI servers to China
Prosecutors in Keelung, Taiwan, have indicted nine people, including employees of NVIDIA and Super Micro, for illegally exporting high-end AI servers to China in breach of export controls. The case highlights how smuggling networks have continued to circumvent restrictions even as the United States has eased some rules on selling older-generation chips, such as the…
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Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI
Canonical is co-funding a three-year PhD project at the University of Bristol to investigate whether AI can translate large C codebases into safe, idiomatic Rust. Announced by engineering vice-president Jon Seager on Ubuntu’s Discourse forum, the project is a research effort rather than a plan to rewrite Ubuntu wholesale, and aims to produce evidence on…
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Fast-fashion giant Shein lowers value to $27bn for Hong Kong IPO
Shein, the China-founded fast-fashion retailer, has cut the valuation it is seeking for its long-delayed Hong Kong stock market listing to around $27bn (£19.8bn), a sharp drop from the near-$100bn it was worth at its 2022 private funding peak. The reduced price reflects mounting pressure on the company, which reported a $99m loss in the…