# The Register: latest headlines

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- Type: Digital news
- Country: United Kingdom
- Website: https://theregister.com
- About 10.1 headlines a day
- First to report 33% of 6 shared stories (last 36 hours)

Mostly covers: Tech (90%), U.S. (7%)

## Latest headlines

- Nov 11, 2026, 8:55 AM: [Microsoft's Patch Tuesday can't break stuff if it won't install](<https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/11/11/microsofts-patch-tuesday-cant-break-stuff-if-it-wont-install/5309059>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1045880.md)
  KB5132061 throws 0x800F0993 and 0x800F0989 errors, and Redmond is saying nothing
- Nov 11, 2026, 8:13 AM: [NASA asks Earthlings to wave as Voyager 1 reaches a light-day away](<https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/11/nasa-asks-earthlings-to-wave-as-voyager-1-reaches-a-light-day-away/5309127>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1045881.md)
  Flash VGR in Morse code on November 17 to salute the veteran probe – just don't expect it to see you
- Nov 11, 2026, 7:28 AM: [2013 breach at Russian cybercrime forum resurfaces with millions of victims' credentials](<https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/11/11/2013-breach-at-russian-cybercrime-forum-resurfaces-with-millions-of-victims-credentials/5309065>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1045882.md)
  YouHack thought protecting members' passwords with mostly unsalted MD5 hashes would do
- Nov 11, 2026, 6:43 AM: [Apple tells its Support Community to STFU](<https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/11/11/apple-tells-its-support-community-to-stfu/5309090>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1045883.md)
  User-to-user forum goes read-only ahead of November 20 closure, with archive's fate unclear
- Nov 11, 2026, 6:05 AM: [Shipping giant Maersk probes 'IT security incident,' data theft](<https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/11/shipping-giant-maersk-probes-it-security-incident-data-theft/5309096>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/1045884.md)
  Says it 'strongly' suspects attack limited to legacy system, and that nothing sensitive is at risk
- Nov 11, 2026, 5:30 AM: [Google gooses Python AI performance by... removing Python](<https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/11/11/google-gooses-python-ai-performance-by-removing-python/5308995>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/869719.md)
  Newly open sourced XSE handles six million queries a second across services including Search, Ads, and YouTube Shorts
- Nov 11, 2026, 4:44 AM: [Linux joins Heathrow's grounded fleet of information screens](<https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/11/linux-joins-heathrows-grounded-fleet-of-information-screens/5308738>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/835554.md)
  Anything Windows can bork, the penguin can bork sideways
- Nov 11, 2026, 3:59 AM: [AMD: Where we're going we don't need (as much) DRAM](<https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/11/11/amd-where-were-going-we-dont-need-as-much-dram/5308953>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/798752.md)
  The House of Zen's Mext team promises smarter SWAP through the power of, you'll never guess: AI
- Nov 11, 2026, 3:15 AM: [UK's 'buy British' tech ambitions hit reality as less than £1 in £6 stays at home](<https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/11/11/uks-buy-british-tech-ambitions-hit-reality-as-less-than-1-in-6-stays-at-home/5308814>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/766749.md)
  Whitehall's biggest IT suppliers are overwhelmingly foreign, and Uncle Sam is making a killing
- Nov 10, 2026, 11:20 PM: [OpenAI builds a kill switch for its research models](<https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/11/openai-builds-a-kill-switch-for-its-research-models/5309006>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/614279.md)
  How much damage can a rogue agent do in 35 seconds? Asking cos that’s how long it might take to shut one down
- Nov 10, 2026, 8:14 PM: [Australia may make knowingly selling unsafe AI a crime](<https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/11/11/australia-may-make-knowingly-selling-unsafe-ai-a-crime/5308999>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/614280.md)
  New regulator will require modelmakers to test and allow inspection, but not much more
- Nov 10, 2026, 5:45 PM: [Anthropic tiptoes into MS Office territory](<https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/10/anthropic-tiptoes-into-ms-office-territory/5308988>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/399929.md)
  Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data artifact types bring Claude closer to a productivity suite
- Nov 10, 2026, 5:25 PM: [Ye olde server consolidation has made Cisco push top-of-rack switching to 100G](<https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/10/ye-olde-server-consolidation-has-made-cisco-push-top-of-rack-switching-to-100g/5308970>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/399930.md)
  Newer server processors pack more cores into fewer boxes, creating a need for network speed
- Nov 10, 2026, 4:52 PM: [VMware floats new standard to make sure apps don’t break in hybrid K8s environments](<https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/11/10/vmware-floats-new-standard-to-make-sure-apps-dont-break-in-hybrid-k8s-environments/5308956>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/399931.md)
  Virtzilla also taking on KubeVirt by sharing VM API with the CNCF
- Nov 10, 2026, 4:37 PM: [November Patch Tuesday boasts over 1,000 bugs but only one zero-day so far](<https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/10/november-patch-tuesday-boasts-over-1000-bugs-but-only-one-zero-day-so-far/5308946>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/399932.md)
  Microsoft admins wail and gnash their teeth
- Nov 10, 2026, 3:45 PM: [Ring robots ready to patrol paranoids’ pads](<https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/10/ring-robots-ready-to-patrol-paranoids-pads/5308932>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/399933.md)
  Amazon calls its home security drone and business patrol bot 'proactive protection'
- Nov 10, 2026, 2:35 PM: [To thwart reverse engineering by agents, dev proposes blinding them](<https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/10/to-thwart-reverse-engineering-by-agents-dev-proposes-blinding-them/5308897>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/179346.md)
- Nov 10, 2026, 12:51 PM: [Barracuda’s email security gateways bitten by make-me-root vulns](<https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/10/barracudas-email-security-gateways-bitten-by-make-me-root-vulns/5308883>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/158781.md)
- Nov 10, 2026, 12:31 PM: [14-year-old creates tool for AI agents to band together like a team](<https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/10/14-year-old-creates-tool-for-ai-agents-to-band-together-like-a-team/5308841>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/80560.md)
  Autark can act without constant prompting, but leaves users to enforce their own security boundaries
- Nov 10, 2026, 12:13 PM: [Mozilla Thunderbird email service edges closer to launch with early access](<https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/10/mozilla-thunderbird-email-service-edges-closer-to-launch-with-early-access/5308826>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/80561.md)
  Some waitlist members get a first look at Thundermail, a paid alternative to Gmail
- Nov 10, 2026, 11:20 AM: [AMD winds up Zen 6 cores for faster clock speeds](<https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/11/10/amd-winds-up-zen-6-cores-for-faster-clock-speeds/5308603>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/19629.md)
  Chips boast up to 256 cores, clocks up to 5.3 GHz, and IPC gains of 20 to 31 percent, just not all on the same SKU
- Nov 10, 2026, 11:10 AM: [AMD's Epyc X-chips are back after a three-year hiatus](<https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/11/10/amds-epyc-x-chips-are-back-after-a-three-year-hiatus/5308269>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9722.md)
  Venice-X promises big speedup for EDA and HPC workloads
- Nov 10, 2026, 11:00 AM: [A closer look at Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin](<https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/11/10/a-closer-look-at-verano-amds-first-step-toward-a-zen-based-superchip-to-rival-nvidias-vera-rubin/5308523>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9723.md)
  Cores, clocks, memory, and interconnects all perfectly balanced for a singular mission: keeping instinct fed.
- Nov 10, 2026, 10:15 AM: [Trump taps Palantir security chief to run battered US cyber defense agency](<https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/10/trump-taps-palantir-security-chief-to-run-battered-us-cyber-defense-agency/5308763>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9724.md)
  Michael LoSapio could inherit a depleted workforce and a political headache or two, courtesy of his current employer
- Nov 10, 2026, 9:28 AM: [Fireworks AI gets burned twice as customer data exposure widens](<https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/11/10/fireworks-ai-gets-burned-twice-as-customer-data-exposure-widens/5308722>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9725.md)
  Inference biz pins latest breach on cloud provider and LLMJacking miscreants
- Nov 10, 2026, 8:45 AM: [Another contract extension for Fujitsu on the Post Office's Horizon](<https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/11/10/another-contract-extension-for-fujitsu-on-the-post-offices-horizon/5308793>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9726.md)
  Just a few more months until Accenture takes over running scandal-hit Horizon system
- Nov 10, 2026, 8:00 AM: [Stanford's century-long AI study admits it's already out of date](<https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/10/stanfords-century-long-ai-study-admits-its-already-out-of-date/5308574>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9727.md)
  Five-year review charts upheaval in work, science, and public life – with little consensus on who's in control
- Nov 10, 2026, 7:28 AM: [Chrome zero-day whack-a-mole continues as 2026 tally hits 8](<https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/10/chrome-zero-day-whack-a-mole-continues-as-2026-tally-hits-8/5308732>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9728.md)
  Another Chrome memory bug gets squashed, but not before attackers got their hands on it
- Nov 10, 2026, 7:00 AM: [Ransomware threat blares from Vanderbilt University computers during cyberattack](<https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/11/10/ransomware-threat-blares-from-vanderbilt-university-computers-during-cyberattack/5308687>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9729.md)
  BYOD claims extensive data theft as campus Wi-Fi returns, most systems remain restricted, and classes carry on
- Nov 10, 2026, 6:38 AM: [Smart meters to cost the UK billions: 2G switch-off means replacing 12-13 million](<https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/10/smart-meters-to-cost-the-uk-billions-2g-switch-off-means-replacing-12-13-million/5308728>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9730.md)
  Sunset of legacy cellphone tech means forced upgrade for many millions of smart energy meter users
- Nov 10, 2026, 6:00 AM: [Google DeepMind melds humans and AI agents to vet Signal's secure messaging techniques](<https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/10/google-deepmind-melds-humans-and-ai-agents-to-vet-signals-secure-messaging-techniques/5308625>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9731.md)
  Post-quantum handshake and Triple Ratchet get a formal security check
- Nov 10, 2026, 5:30 AM: [Microsoft is giving Claude the keys to UK Copilot tenants by default](<https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/10/microsoft-is-giving-claude-the-keys-to-uk-copilot-tenants-by-default/5308693>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9732.md)
  Admins have until December 9 to review access settings as Anthropic processes data in the US
- Nov 10, 2026, 5:01 AM: [EU's €212M border IT project lands IBM and Atos in legal water](<https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/11/10/eus-212m-border-it-project-lands-ibm-and-atos-in-legal-water/5308669>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9733.md)
  After years of missed deadlines, ballooning costs, and a blame game over who was responsible, Brussels has finally called in the lawyers
- Nov 10, 2026, 4:15 AM: [Royal Navy stands up first autonomous boat squadron](<https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/10/royal-navy-stands-up-first-autonomous-boat-squadron/5308494>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9734.md)
  Force deploys an operational squadron to gain experience in uncrewed systems as part of its Hybrid Navy vision
- Nov 10, 2026, 3:29 AM: [Microsoft teaches schools that free email was just a phase](<https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/11/10/microsoft-teaches-schools-that-free-email-was-just-a-phase/5308371>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9735.md)
  Office 365 A1 and Student Use Benefit face retirement, leaving institutions to budget for paid replacements at renewal
- Nov 9, 2026, 9:32 PM: [Cisco to link all future products to its SaaS-y Cloud Control management tool](<https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/10/cisco-to-link-all-future-products-to-its-saas-y-cloud-control-management-tool/5308660>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9736.md)
  Global rollout of unified portal finally happening in 2027
- Nov 9, 2026, 6:00 PM: [Anthropic's super bug-finding Mythos model is going into Cisco and IBM products](<https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/10/anthropics-super-bug-finding-mythos-model-is-going-into-cisco-and-ibm-products/5308616>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9737.md)
  Enterprise security tools will offer its capabilities without handing customers the model itself
- Nov 9, 2026, 4:45 PM: [France blames Iran for supermarket hack meltdowns](<https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/09/france-blames-iran-for-supermarket-hack-meltdowns/5308591>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9738.md)
  The 'first cyber offensive campaign carried out purely for the purpose of sabotage on national territory'
- Nov 9, 2026, 1:59 PM: [Attackers backdoor trusted AWS integrations to steal secrets](<https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/09/attackers-backdoor-trusted-aws-integrations-to-steal-secrets/5308553>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9739.md)
  Wiz researchers uncovered the secret-stealing supply-chain attack
- Nov 9, 2026, 11:31 AM: [Researchers pwn automakers’ Android apps to remotely unlock cars, honk horns](<https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/09/researchers-pwn-automakers-android-apps-to-remotely-unlock-cars-honk-horns/5308483>) · [All coverage](https://helixnews.one/story/9740.md)
  Pair of researchers chain WAF bypasses and default logins to command vehicles in Australia and the US
