- Users of PostgreSQL in the cloud say the uptime just ain't up to it
One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds A survey of PostgreSQL users has found that the levels of uptime experienced using cloud providers falls well short of their expectations in terms of reliability.…
- Microsoft fixes the ESU blues for Windows 10 users
WIndows 11 might have a bigger market share, but Windows 10 is still alive. Kind of Even as its market share is finally eclipsed by Windows 11, Windows 10 is still alive and in need of fixes. Alongside the replacement of the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11, Microsoft has released a fix for the Extended Security Updates wizard to Windows 10 Insiders.…
- More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn
Intro of package for cloud ERP is creating challenges, and more changes likely next year Biz customers should expect further changes to SAP's licensing as the company introduces the reboot of its Business Suite construct into its product packages, the German-speaking user group has warned.…
- Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs
'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected' The German arm of telecoms biz Telefónica has shifted support for its VMware installed base to Spinnaker after Broadcom quoted it a renewal figure five times the size of what it was previously paying.…
- UK Online Safety Act 'not up to scratch' on misinformation, warn MPs
Last summer's riots show how some content can be harmful but not illegal The Online Safety Act fails to tackle online misinformation, leaving the UK in need of further regulation to curb the viral spread of false content, a report from MPs has found.…
- Microsoft offers EU cloud providers fresh commercial terms, staves off risk of litigation
Agreement or otherwise expected from CISPE top brass before August Exclusive Microsoft has tabled a fresh set of commercial terms for an association of cloud providers in Europe that earlier filed a complaint with antitrust authorities in the trading bloc over allegations of anti-competitive licensing practices.…
- Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well
First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of tech support terror and triumph.…
- French cops cuff Russian pro basketball player on ransomware charges
'He's useless with computers and can't even install an application' says lawyer A Russian professional basketball player is cooling his heels in a French detention center after being arrested and accused of acting as a negotiator for a ransomware gang.…
- Chinese censorship-busters claim Tencent is trying to kill its WeChat archive
Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved Anti-censorship organization GreatFire.org has accused Singapore infosec outfit Group-IB of helping Chinese web giant Tencent to quell its activities.…
- China's biggest car rental company now offers autonomous cars
Three-seater from Baidu delivers itself, follows directions, then finds its way home China’s largest car rental operator, Car Inc., now rents autonomous cars.…
- Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app
Oh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today? A lovestruck US Air Force employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit confidential national defense information after sharing military secrets information about the Russia-Ukraine war with a woman he met on a dating app.…
- Now everybody but Citrix agrees that CitrixBleed 2 is under exploit
Add CISA to the list The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added its weighty name to the list of parties agreeing that CVE-2025-5777, dubbed CitrixBleed 2 by one researcher, has been under exploitation and abused to hijack user sessions.…
- Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time
Not even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employees Comment Pat Gelsinger's tenure as Intel's chief executive was epitomized by his unwavering optimism and ambitious plan to return the ailing chipmaker to its former glory. His successor has no such delusions of grandeur.…
- Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed
It could have the same headcount as 1960 by the end of the month NASA senior staff are being offered the opportunity to leave voluntarily before the axes start swinging, and it seems likely that thousands will take the escape hatch.…
- Ex-ASML engineer who stole chip tech for Russia gets three years in Dutch prison
'Whether those files were allowed to go to Russia? I didn't ask' A former ASML and NXP semiconductor engineer will spend three years in a Dutch prison after stealing secret chip technology from his employers and sharing it with Russia.…
- IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center
Company mum on whether the site will be shuttered IBM, which employees say stands for "I've Been Moved" due to frequent relocation directives, is moving research scientists from its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, to its Silicon Valley Lab a few miles east.…
- EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law
A new code aims to make it easy to figure out The EU has a new set of AI regulations poised to take effect soon. While debate over them continues, Brussels has put out a handy guidebook to help companies make sense of what they can and cannot do. …
- Slow down on building power plants for all those new AI datacenters, report warns
Projections are likely exaggerated, a new analysis from an environmental group says Datacenters are slurping ever more energy to meet the growing demands of AI, but some estimates of future demand imply an increase in hardware that would be beyond the capacity of global chipmakers to supply, according to an environmental nonprofit.…
- Please don't cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress
TraCSS is like an FAA for space, and it's slated for the chopping block Space industry bigwigs have sent letters to Congressional leaders urging them not to eliminate funding for preventing space collisions, as requested in a budget proposal for FY 2026. …
- Red Hat sweetens the RHEL deal for biz devs – just don't put it in prod
Up to 25 instances for free, but only to play with IBM's Linux subsidiary is offering a new way to get RHEL without paying, now with up to 25 instances.…
- Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have to
Gemini CLI integration is nice, but there's little polish in building apps from prompts Google today unveiled updates to Firebase Studio at its Cloud Summit event in London, adding Gemini command-line interface (CLI) integration, initial Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and "Agent Mode."…
- Russia, hotbed of cybercrime, says nyet to ethical hacking bill
Politicians uneasy over potential impact on national security, local reports say Russia, home to some of the world's most lucrative and damaging cybercrime operations, has rejected a bill to legalize ethical hacking.…
- Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax
Shipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoff Tariff uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump still hangs over the PC industry despite manufacturers navigating a "complex regulatory maze" to avoid being in the firing line over import taxes when the shooting begins.…
- Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion
'I don't think there's a spare megawatt sitting anywhere idle in all of Europe, or the US, as a matter of fact' Microsoft intends to more than double its European datacenter capacity by 2027, but suspects this won't be easy because of all the red tape and environmental safeguards it faces.…
- Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator
Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge? NASA has a new interim administrator. US President Donald Trump has announced that former reality TV star and current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be taking on the role.…
- NCA arrests four in connection with UK retail ransomware attacks
Crime-fighting agency cagey on details, probes into intrusions at M&S, Harrods, and Co-op continue The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals suspected of being involved in the big three cyberattacks on UK retail businesses in recent weeks.…
- Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support
Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in Blighty Google Cloud is attempting to ease concerns about where AI data is stored by offering organizations the option to keep Gemini 2.5 Flash machine learning processing entirely within the UK.…
- Outlook takes another sick day
Millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamed updated Microsoft Outlook was down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the more than 11 hours.…
- Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform
Controversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivity The benefits of the UK health sector's Palantir-powered data and analytics system are being suppressed by the limits of writing back to NHS software, MPs heard this week.…
- At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto
Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation Using AI models to generate exploits for cryptocurrency contract flaws appears to be a promising business model, though not necessarily a legal one.…
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