- CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun
MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF? Comment The splintering of the global system for identifying and tracking security bugs in technology products has begun.…
- Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother
Lad who 'stays in his bedroom on his computer' emerged ready to deliver brilliant tech support On Call It may be a holiday Friday in much of the Reg-reading world but that won't stop us from delivering another installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales.…
- IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices
'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge Exclusive IBM, which employees wryly or ruefully say stands for I've Been Moved, is once again moving its employees.…
- Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law
After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won For the second time in less than a year, a federal judge has found that some parts of Google broke US antitrust law.…
- Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances
Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target, has resigned from SentinelOne following a recent executive order that targeted him and revoked the security clearances of everybody at the company.…
- Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek
As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit Nvidia's troubles with the US government have just begun: The day after the Trump administration's export restrictions on its AI chips triggered a $5.5 billion charge, US elected officials are now demanding answers about how advanced silicon ended up in China. Meanwhile, CEO Jensen Huang has flown to China to try and smooth things over with the regime there.…
- No rest for the rocketry as NASA's Easter weekend heats up
Returning crew and a vital supply launch distract managers from chocolate eggs The US Space Agency has a busy few days ahead as a trio of International Space Station (ISS) residents prepare to return to Earth this weekend, and a critical SpaceX Dragon freighter is readied for launch on Monday.…
- Small ocean swirls may have an outsized affect on climate, NASA satellite shows
SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time A NASA-led satellite mission has suggested that swirls and eddies in the middle of the ocean have a bigger influence on Earth's climate system than scientists previously realized.…
- Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure
Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed When moving to the cloud, companies with significant investments in Microsoft infrastructure wares simply can't afford to rewrite everything for Linux, so they end up migrating to Azure to dodge the markups Redmond charges for running its server software in competitors' clouds.…
- MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk
Bookworm 12.10-based release is a few steps ahead of upstream MX Linux 23.6 is here, taking the baseline of Debian 12.10 and adding some selected tweaks and updates of its own.…
- Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers
'It's amazing how fast the change has been' Are customers on the European side of the pond considering a move from US hyperscalers in the wake of recent events? Some of the region's vendors are reporting an uptick in inquiries as organizations mull their options.…
- TSMC prepping for tariff turmoil, denies joint venture talks with Intel
Chip contract manufacturer not immune to 'uncertainties and risks' caused by Trump's import taxes TSMC's top brass insist it is not entertaining a joint venture with beleaguered chip biz Intel, though it is steeling itself for potential effects from the Trump administration's ever-changing tariff schemes.…
- Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don’t bet on it, say operators
Bit barns in Dublin doubled as battery farms, the rest of the world isn’t buying it Analysis The idea of datacenters feeding power back into the electricity grid during peak demand may sound promising, but operators say it's unlikely to catch on beyond a few trials in Ireland because of the cost and technical complexity involved.…
- Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies
Truck-mounted demonstration weapon costs 10p a pop, says MOD British soldiers have successfully taken down drones with a radio-wave weapon.…
- Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh
No signal? No problem. But also no solid commitment to Britcoin yet The Bank of England has shown offline digital payment systems can work but plans to study policy choices before giving them the green light.…
- Competition boffin launches class action against Google UK over search dominance
Alleges £5B in harm caused by Android deals, anticompetitive actions A British academic has launched a class-action suit against Google, alleging abuse of its market dominance in online search caused £5 billion ($6.6 billion) of damage to advertisers.…
- Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes
Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us A bad mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for almost two hours on Wednesday afternoon, US time.…
- Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins
Future chargers could re-arrange battery chemistry to make them live longer Researchers at China’s Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering have found a way to restore the energy density of old Lithium-Ion batteries by heating them to over 150°C.…
- Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog
Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation after a tech staffer at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) blew the whistle on the cost-trimming DOGE's activities at the employment watchdog – which the staffer claims included being granted superuser status in contravention of standard operating procedures, exfiltrating data, and seemingly leaking credentials to someone with a Russian IP address.…
- Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims
Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly Tesla has been accused of somehow sneakily altering a customer's odometer to hasten the end of his vehicle's warranty period.…
- California sues President Tariff
Ah yes, the courts, that'll totally work World War Fee President Trump's reign of tariffs has been challenged on the left and right by the State of California and the Liberty Justice Center.…
- Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?
Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI Microsoft will soon let Copilot agents drive computers through the GUI just like humans – by clicking buttons, selecting menus, and even completing forms on screen.…
- White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo
Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President World War Fee No, it wasn't a typo. Some Chinese imports are indeed subject to a 245 percent tariff in the United States.…
- Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users
Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes.…
- Signalgate chats vanish from CIA chief phone
Extraordinary rendition of data, or just dropped it out of a helicopter? CIA Director John Ratcliffe's smartphone has almost no trace left of the infamous Signalgate chat – the one in which he and other top US national security officials discussed a secret upcoming military operation in a group Signal conversation a journalist was inadvertently added to.…
- Microsoft admits it's not you, Classic Outlook can be a real CPU, power hog sometimes
Bug or migration strategy for New Outlook, we wonder Far be it from us to suggest Microsoft is trying to force people onto its New Outlook application, but it has admitted Classic Outlook occasionally and mysteriously turns into a system resource hog.…
- First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales
Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible? World War Fee Turns out Nvidia's not the only chip shop caught in the crossfire of Trump's tit-for-tat trade battle with China.…
- Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades
Intune policies turn out to be mere suggestions Microsoft has admitted some users are being offered Windows 11 upgrades despite Intune policies configured otherwise.…
- Figma bucks market trends, plunges into IPO waters after Adobe's failed buyout
Timing not ideal with Wall Street fearing recession It's been a little over a year since Adobe abandoned its plans to purchase web-based design tool Figma. Now, the smaller of the two app makers is bucking market uncertainty by filing for an IPO.…
- CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home
Uncertainty is the new certainty In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the globally used Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program.…
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