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SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months
SpaceX is preparing to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than 18 months, kicking off what could be a busy time for the vehicle.…
Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2BN of contractors and an AI sprinkle
The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.…
Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet
Cybersecurity professionals were the most overlooked workers in IT when it came to pay rises in 2025, according to new figures from recruiter Harvey Nash.…
Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt
A home security biz getting digitally burgled is not a great look - but that's exactly where ADT finds itself. The company has confirmed a cyber intrusion following an extortion attempt by the ShinyHunters crew, which claims to have made off with more than 10 million records.…
Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now
Microsoft has devised a solution to the problem of Windows Updates that break customer devices – users are now able to pause them for as long as they like.…
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis
Bork!Bork!Bork! From the beginning of time, there has always been Bork. Lurking within the heart of this ancient rock is not a precious crystal or a rare fossil. No, it's a Raspberry Pi desktop and dialog.…
ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds
The UK's data watchdog is without its chief after John Edwards stepped aside from the Information Commissioner's Office while an independent workplace investigation examines unspecified HR matters.…
Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot
HMRC is betting big on Microsoft Copilot, rolling it out to tens of thousands of staff after a Whitehall trial estimated it saved each user roughly 26 minutes of time per day.…
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now
Opinion In retrospect, calling it Mythos made it a hostage to fortune. Anthropic may have hoped that the name implied its AI code security model had mythical god-like powers, but there's an alternate reading. Another definition for Mythos is a set of beliefs of obscure origin which are incompatible with reality.…
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch
Who, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column that shares your stories of mistakes, occasional malice, and how you came out the other side.…
Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now
KETTLE If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year's Google Cloud Next show, which happened last week.…
Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy
What does AI cost? It's a simple question and an important one – the answer will determine the fate of companies and shape society. But it's also a question that can't be answered in a meaningful way without additional context.…
Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense
opinion You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and Windows 11 greets you with a confusing message: “You’re almost done setting up your PC.”…
Hot take: AI's not going to kill open source code security
Opinion Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent ripples through the broader open source world.…
Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work
Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.…
Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data
A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…
DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs
Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…
Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps
Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.…
Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs
Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems.…
US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit
America's telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the internet.…