The security advisory explains that the bug allows attackers to easily gain root access to a target system. "The telnetd server invokes /usr/bin/login (normally running as root) passing the value of ...

On Wednesday evening, the Lords voted 261 to 150 in favor of amending the children's wellbeing and schools bill to require ...

The Alan Turing Institute's Chief Scientist has temporarily stepped into the hot seat at the UK's flagship AI research ...

Cisco has finally shipped a fix for a critical-rated zero-day in its Unified Communications gear, a flaw that's already being weaponized in the wild, and which CISA previously flagged as an emergency ...

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The Constitution of the United States of America is about 7,500 words long, a factoid The Register mentions because on ...

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The UK tax collector has awarded SAP a £275 million ($370 million) contract to move the system, which handles over £800 billion (c $1 trillion) in tax revenue and payments annually, off an aging ...

Bay has decided to ban agentic shopping bots from its digital tat bazaar. The company’s decision emerged in an update to its ...

The UK government is investing in a defense-focused degree course to train both civilian students and soldiers to become drone technology specialists. However, it's only targeting a small number of ...

President Trump's decision to green-light the sale of Nvidia H200 GPUs to China isn't sitting well with some of his ...

Naming their tech MorphoChrome, the team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has ...