# Token thieves costing companies $100K+ per day in illicit LLM charges > Source: > Published: 2026-11-02 16:00:00+00:00 ### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai) - OPINION #### Microsoft's moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn't want the people who built itFlash the cash, flush the cache - #### Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI useA lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession - #### Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titanHow a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot - #### Domestic droid gone amok? Don't worry, you're coveredInsurance firms look to insulate domestic humanoid robot owners against the inevitable chaos they will bring - #### Google's search revenue Ferrari hits an AI-powered speed bumpJust wait 'til we add more AI and this thing'll really fly ### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security) - Security #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! - Security #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more - Black Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included - Security #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified - Malware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career ### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS) - #### AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OSCombining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland - #### Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core DesktopCanonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing - #### Systemd adds support for RustWhat's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd! - #### FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releasesDaemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions - #### SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendriveInteresting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux - #### Red Hat helps teach about tech writingBut learns tough lessons about AI in the process