Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs Updated It’s a feature not a bug, and what the US electorate voted for, says analyst
Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing Exclusive From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it
Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch Feature Everyone agrees defense matters. How to do it is up for debate
App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground Analysis El Reg asked a lawyer to explain WTH is going on
Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon Old flaws that keep causing trouble haunt Big Red Patches23 Jan 2025 |
LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages Microsoft's IG-for-suits insists lawsuit's claims are without merit AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 1
Apple sued for using dangerous 'forever chemicals' in Watch bands Markets smartwatches as health helpers even as they expose some owners to PFAS Personal Tech22 Jan 2025 | 1
Trump 'waved a white flag to Chinese hackers' as Homeland Security axed cyber advisory boards And: America 'has never been less secure,' retired rear admiral tells Congress Security22 Jan 2025 | 15
Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors The (good old) boys are back in town Offbeat22 Jan 2025 | 23
Supply chain attack hits Chrome extensions, could expose millions Threat actor exploited phishing and OAuth abuse to inject malicious code Cyber-crime22 Jan 2025 | 2
Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest Meanwhile, datacenter emissions continue to soar On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 5
Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, allegedly resists quantum decryption First fondle This year's model adds lots of AI, improved management, and support for biz buyers Personal Tech22 Jan 2025 | 14
NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans Science22 Jan 2025 | 8
Microsoft issues out-of-band fix for Windows Server 2022 NUMA glitch Update addresses boot failures on multi-node systems Patches22 Jan 2025 | 4
Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin Ross Ulbricht's family are now appealing for donations to support his reintegration into society Legal22 Jan 2025 | 79
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How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian
Better power management, security, and scheduling in Linux kernel 6.13 But no changes to bcachefs OSes22 Jan 2025 | 4
Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 6
Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch Feature Everyone agrees defense matters. How to do it is up for debate CSO22 Jan 2025 | 10
UK tax collector's phone service 'deliberately' bad to push users online, say MPs Cut off nearly 44k peeps who had been waiting 70 minutes for advice on unavoidable chore Public Sector22 Jan 2025 | 40
Former Amazon exec appointed as chair of UK's competition watchdog Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being 'sufficiently focused on growth' CxO22 Jan 2025 | 8
Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner CxO22 Jan 2025 | 12
Ransomware scum make it personal for Reg readers by impersonating tech support That invitation to a Teams call on which IT promises to mop up a spamstorm may not be what it seems CSO22 Jan 2025 | 17
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that Science22 Jan 2025 | 43
Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Science22 Jan 2025 | 27
Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3 Plus: Google stuffs Gemini into Workspace, with a hidden off switch? AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 46
OpenAI wants to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself, with help from pals Updated SoftBank, Oracle, MGX form Stargate Project with ChatGPT maker, intend to outspend Microsoft this year AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 14
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions? Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers
PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen Updated Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Cyber-crime22 Jan 2025 | 25
App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground Analysis El Reg asked a lawyer to explain WTH is going on Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 31
Patch procrastination leaves 50,000 Fortinet firewalls vulnerable to zero-day Seven days after disclosure and little action taken, data shows Patches21 Jan 2025 | 2
Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more Also, prepare for paused wind projects and the Gulf of America from Trump 2.0 – and that's just day 1 Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 132
Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation Science21 Jan 2025 | 8
Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars Comment So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have? Science21 Jan 2025 | 120
Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech Under Digital Services Act, monitors will be allowed to report abusive language and platforms should respond in 1 day Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 101
Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs Updated It’s a feature not a bug, and what the US electorate voted for, says analyst Personal Tech21 Jan 2025 | 27
HPE probes IntelBroker's bold data theft boasts Incident response protocols engaged following claims of source code burglary Cyber-crime21 Jan 2025 |
Another open source project shifts to restrictive license: Fluent Assertions following Xceed partnership
Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing Exclusive From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2025 | 9
UK aims to fix government IT with help from AI Humphrey Ring a bell? Suite of tools named after Yes Minister's master of manipulation Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 70
Asda tech divorce from Walmart delays cut-over for 55 stores Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program' On-Prem21 Jan 2025 | 23
Banks must keep ahead of risks and reap AI rewards AI has transformed banking across APAC. But is this transformation secure? Partner Content
AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads Now if only the councils could afford to fill them Offbeat21 Jan 2025 | 128
VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon Virtualization21 Jan 2025 | 32
TSMC pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan Geopolitical rumblings one day, geological rumblings the next Off-Prem21 Jan 2025 | 9
This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service Tycoon's auditors to probe Uncle Sam's IT with full access to unclassified data Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 159
China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale Updated President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy
Improved Windows Search arrives... but only for Copilot+ PCs Semantic indexing does some discreet rifling through local drawers of Insiders
Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format
Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf
A rethink of parental leave policy IT workers and programmers set to benefit as Sandvik implements HR reboot
Why AI builds best on private clouds AI projects under pressure to show real value in the tightest of timeframes might be worth keeping on-premises
SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment' Science20 Jan 2025 | 20
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency Personal Tech20 Jan 2025 | 116
Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors Students have work to complete at home in the meantime Cyber-crime20 Jan 2025 | 101
BT unplugs plans to turn old cabinets into EV chargepoints Your battery might be flat, but the Wi-Fi signal is going to be great Personal Tech20 Jan 2025 | 96
VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon
Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors The (good old) boys are back in town
This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service Tycoon's auditors to probe Uncle Sam's IT with full access to unclassified data
Patch procrastination leaves 50,000 Fortinet firewalls vulnerable to zero-day Seven days after disclosure and little action taken, data shows
Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more Also, prepare for paused wind projects and the Gulf of America from Trump 2.0 – and that's just day 1
UK aims to fix government IT with help from AI Humphrey Ring a bell? Suite of tools named after Yes Minister's master of manipulation
HPE probes IntelBroker's bold data theft boasts Incident response protocols engaged following claims of source code burglary
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that
App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground Analysis El Reg asked a lawyer to explain WTH is going on
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account? Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble Columnists20 Jan 2025 | 85
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior 'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs AI + ML20 Jan 2025 | 22
Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic Infosec in brief PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more Security20 Jan 2025 | 7
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When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight Asia In Brief PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company Software20 Jan 2025 | 5
Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service The same Florida Man who wanted to ban the app in the first place Public Sector20 Jan 2025 | 124
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries The S in LLM stands for Security AI + ML19 Jan 2025 | 31
Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home OSes18 Jan 2025 | 24
Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper Gaia makes its final science observation Science18 Jan 2025 | 11
How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history Opinion With added manga and snark. What's not to like? OSes18 Jan 2025 | 114
CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump's Homeland Sec pick: And that's none of your concern Cyber agency too 'far off mission,' says incoming boss Kristi Noem Public Sector18 Jan 2025 | 79
Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 40
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FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping CSO17 Jan 2025 | 29
Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it Analysis Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there's something for everyone in the presidential directive Public Sector17 Jan 2025 | 39
China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors Systems17 Jan 2025 | 10