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Waymo chalks up another four-legged casualty on San Francisco streets

Tue, 2025-12-02 13:47
Passenger recounts chaotic scene after robotaxi runs over small dog

Self-driving car company Waymo has confirmed that one of its vehicles ran over a dog in San Francisco on Sunday.…

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Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever

Tue, 2025-12-02 13:00
2025 Xmas knitware nightmare could be yours if you make us smile: When was peak Microsoft?

Free Wear It's that time of year again when Microsoft dispatches its latest Ugly Sweater to The Register, and we spoil a lucky reader that makes us smile by sending you the garment in time for Christmas.…

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Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one

Tue, 2025-12-02 12:30
We're getting it baked into Windows whether we like it or not

Opinion Making software would be the perfect job if it wasn't for those darn users. Windows head honcho Pavan Davuluri would be forgiven for feeling this of late as his happy online paean about Windows becoming an "agentic OS" was met by massive dissent in the comments. "Agentic schmentic, we want reliability, usability, and stability" was the gist.…

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UK sinks to fifth in ESA funding league behind Spain

Tue, 2025-12-02 11:45
Brit astro Tim Peake's much-vaunted mission to the ISS a distant memory

Nearly ten years after Brit astronaut Tim Peake visited the International Space Station (ISS), the UK has slipped behind Spain in European Space Agency funding rankings.…

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Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward

Tue, 2025-12-02 11:00
Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you covered

AV Linux and MX Moksha are a pair of distros tweaked for audio and music production, each using a different branch of the Enlightenment family of desktops.…

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Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11

Tue, 2025-12-02 10:15
Corrected document clears up rollout timeline and confirms switch well ahead of deadline

The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed its £312 million Windows 10 laptop refresh was, in fact, followed by a Windows 11 upgrade after an earlier letter to Parliament misstated the department's operating system timeline.…

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Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling

Tue, 2025-12-02 09:30
Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome

Opinion There were lots of announcements about Kubernetes at KubeCon North America in Atlanta. I should know, I was there from beginning to end. But the biggest Kubernetes story of all didn't get much attention. Kubernetes is retiring its popular Ingress NGINX controller. Ingress NGINX goes to that big bit farm in the sky in March 2026. After that, "there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered."…

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Samsung reveals its first tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode

Tue, 2025-12-02 07:00
Buyers get a one-time discount on screen repairs, which hardly screams ‘we nailed this three-screen thing’

Samsung has revealed its first tri-fold phone, and it runs the Korean giant’s DeX desktop environment without the need for an external monitor.…

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IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators

Tue, 2025-12-02 06:11
Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance

Early in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a proposal has emerged suggesting the same community be granted a substantial chunk of the IPv6 numberspace.…

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India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset

Tue, 2025-12-02 03:24
'Sanchar Saathi' shares data to help fight fraud and protect carrier security

India’s government has issued a directive that requires all smartphone manufacturers to install a government app on every handset in the country and has given them 90 days to get the job done – and to ensure users can’t remove the code.…

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Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

Tue, 2025-12-02 01:12
Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons

The Foundation that promotes the Zig programming language has quit GitHub due to what its leadership perceives as the code sharing site's decline.…

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AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite

Tue, 2025-12-02 00:38
Drive around a virtual track in Las Vegas while watching Matt Garman speak on in-game billboards

RE:INVENT Amazon Web Services has decided to stream all five keynotes from its re:Invent conference in the hit multiplayer game Fortnite, which is more than a little bit bonkers.…

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OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI

Mon, 2025-12-01 23:05
Thrive will use the AI-maker's tech in its managed services and accounting businesess

Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. OpenAI says that it has taken an undisclosed ownership stake in Thrive Holdings, the management-focused offshoot of private equity heavyweight Thrive Capital, which itself is a major investor in the ChatGPT maker.…

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Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

Mon, 2025-12-01 21:45
Caveat coder

In what appears to be the latest example of a troubling trend of "vibe coding" software development tools behaving badly, a Reddit user is reporting that Google's Antigravity platform improperly wiped out the contents of an entire hard drive partition. …

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UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server

Mon, 2025-12-01 21:30
Predictable URLs break security through obscurity and lack of server access controls don't help

WordPress is the world's most popular content management system, but not so much with the UK government. The country's Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has blamed an inadvertent budget disclosure last week on misconfiguration of its WordPress website.…

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Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers

Mon, 2025-12-01 21:22
You could do that on a CPU, but who can say no to a 30x GPU speed boost?

As part of its effort to spread GPUs everywhere, Nvidia is investing $2 billion into simulation giant Synopsys. …

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Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware

Mon, 2025-12-01 19:14
And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store

A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than 4 million installs are still live in the Edge marketplace.…

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Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension

Mon, 2025-12-01 18:16
Surf Google SERPs like it's November 29, 2022, with this workaround for the age of AI slop

ChatGPT's public debut on November 30, 2022, is widely seen by critics as the start of the AI-slop era online. Those yearning for a more human-written web can get some relief from a browser extension that filters Google searches to pre-ChatGPT results.…

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Four arrested in South Korea over massive IP camera snooping spree

Mon, 2025-12-01 17:58
Plus: Aussie Wi-Fi phisher and Brit dark web dealer nailed

Cybercrime suspects and offenders across three continents have been rounded up this week, with cases spanning hacked IP cameras in South Korea, evil twin Wi-Fi traps in Australia, and a dark web drug empire in rural England.…

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HSBC partners with Mistral AI as banking giants spend billions looking for LLM boost

Mon, 2025-12-01 16:30
Move follows Bank of America's $4B new tech war chest

Global bank HSBC and Mistral AI have announced a deal they say will spread the use of generative AI across the financial institution, saving employees time and improving processes.…

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