- Trump hits undo on Biden AI 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 US President Donald Trump has wasted no time in culling Biden-era programs, including the elimination of the prior administration's executive orders on AI safety and electric vehicles, and freezing funds for EV infrastructure.…
- Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming
Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation Scientists in the US have developed a neural interface that enables an individual with paralysis to control a virtual quadcopter by decoding brain activity into distinct finger movements.…
- Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars
So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have? Comment "America is going to Mars," said Elon Musk at yesterday's inauguration of US President Donald Trump. America is already there, thanks to decades of robotic exploration.…
- Meta and 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 Online platform companies, including X and Meta, have signed up to a new code of conduct aimed at targeting online hate speech, which the European Commission has now baked into the Digital Services Act.…
- Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs
It’s a feature not a bug, and what the US electorate voted for, says analyst As US president Donald Trump's inauguration passes into history, tech leaders face uncertainty as they wait to see if repeated promises of global US import tariffs are put into action.…
- HPE probes IntelBroker's bold data theft boasts
Incident response protocols engaged following claims of source code burglary Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is probing assertions made by prolific Big Tech intruder IntelBroker that they broke into the US corporation's systems and accessed source code, among other things.…
- Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing
From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it Exclusive Microsoft is to become the latest member of CISPE months after negotiating a settlement with the trade association of European cloud providers over alleged anti-competitive software practices. However, not all in the group are happy with the enrollment.…
- 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 The UK government is striving to end its checkered record in managing large-scale projects with a "plan to put technology to work across public services."…
- Asda tech divorce from Walmart delays cut-over for 55 stores
Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program' Asda has postponed the tech transition of 55 stores to its new systems as US retail giant Walmart continues to support IT at outlets it sold to the new owner in 2021.…
- AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads
Now if only the councils could afford to fill them An oft-repeated myth is that potholes form through a combination of surface cracks, water, and traffic, but they're actually caused by chronic levels of underinvestment in public infrastructure.…
- VMware migrations will be long, expensive, and risky, warns Gartner
And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon If the changes Broadcom brought to VMware have you thinking of a move to an alternative virtualization platform, expect a long, costly, and risky project – and perhaps a longer, costlier, and riskier one if you put off pondering the move.…
- TSMC reportedly pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan
Geopolitical rumblings one day, geological rumblings the next Taiwan has experienced an earthquake so significant that chipmaking champ TSMC has shuttered plants.…
- Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency emerges with tech modernization mission
US Digital Service re-named and told to audit government tech and work on data-sharing US President Donald Trump has re-named the US Digital Service the Department of Government Efficiency and given it a mission to modernize government technology.…
- China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale
President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy Updated China appears to have softened its stance on the possible sale of TikTok’s US operations and is now perhaps open to the idea.…
- Improved Windows Search arrives... but only for Copilot+ PCs
Semantic indexing does some discreet rifling through local drawers of Insiders Windows Search is improved in the latest Dev Channel Windows Insider build, but you'll need a Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC to use it.…
- Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late
Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies It's a bit later than we were expecting, but the latest Mint is here and should start to be offered as an upgrade soon.…
- AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise
Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format AWS bet on the Apache Iceberg open table format (OTF) across its analytics, machine learning, and storage stack as a concerted response to demand from customers already using its popular S3 object storage.…
- Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy
Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf Picture this: It's 2030 and China's furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state. After deciding on a full military invasion, China attempts to first cripple its rebellious neighbor's critical infrastructure.…
- Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users
Ready or not, here I come Microsoft has begun distributing Windows 11 24H2 to user devices as the company enters the next stage of the operating system's rollout.…
- SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes
Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment' SpaceX is not the only company involved in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mishap inquiry. Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin has also come under scrutiny after losing its New Glenn rocket's first stage.…
- 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 Donald Trump, US president again by the time many of you read this, launched his own cryptocurrency – $TRUMP – on the Solana blockchain network on Friday night. By the weekend, it had hit a market cap of nearly $15 billion, although by Sunday, that value dropped when Melania Trump launched her own meme coin.…
- How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish
Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian Opinion "As obsolete as warships in the Baltic" was a great pop lyric in Prefab Sprout's 1985 gem, Faron Young. Great, but ironically obsolete itself. Sweden has just deployed multiple warships in that selfsame sea to guard against the very modern menace of underwater cable cutting.…
- Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors
Students have work to complete at home in the meantime A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware criminals.…
- 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 UK telecom giant BT is pulling the plug on its EV charging ambitions after falling a long way short of the 60,000 street cabinets it reckoned could be repurposed.…
- Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?
A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble Who, Me? Accidents will happen, and every Monday The Register celebrates them – and your escape from the consequences – in a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that details the downside of working in tech.…
- Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior
'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker's accounting tools, this month after it blurted customer information to other users.…
- Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?
While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers Comment Nvidia is the uncontested champion of AI infrastructure — at least in the datacenter. In the emerging field of AI PCs, things aren't so clear cut.…
- Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic
PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more Infosec in brief Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off with millions of customer records - except perhaps the wizardry of multifactor authentication.…
- When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight
PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company Asia In Brief When food delivery “superapps” started operations in Indonesia, users started putting on weight – and that’s not an entirely bad thing.…
- Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service
Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark US president-elect Donald Trump appears to have proposed the government he will soon lead should acquire half of made-in-China social media service TikTok’s stateside operations.…
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