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Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage

Fri, 2025-05-30 09:29
Greater Manchester Police reprimanded over hours of video that went AWOL

The UK’s data watchdog has reprimanded Greater Manchester Police (GMP) force for losing CCTV footage the cop shop was later requested to retain.…

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The UK wants you to sign up for £1B cyber defense force

Fri, 2025-05-30 08:31
War in Ukraine causes major rethink in policy and spending

The UK is spending more than £1 billion ($1.35 billion) setting up a new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command and is recruiting a few good men and women to join up and staff it.…

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Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor

Fri, 2025-05-30 07:30
After three service calls, user reflected on their utter stupidity

On Call As the door closes on another working week, The Register brings you another edition of On Call, our reader-contributed column that recounts your amazing stories from the frontlines of tech support.…

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The House of Zen joins the co-packaged optics race with Enosemi buy

Fri, 2025-05-30 06:32
Light is faster than copper, which is important with rack scale architecture

Analysis AMD officially entered the co-packaged optics race with the acquisition of photonic chip startup Enosemi, announced this week.…

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Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud

Fri, 2025-05-30 04:57
Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery

A trio of scientists have published a paper that explains how they found a dwarf planet in a database.…

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Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war

Fri, 2025-05-30 01:01
Cadence Systems, Synopsys, and Siemens among those subject to export licenses targeting Middle Kingdom

In the latest assault on China's burgeoning semiconductor industry, the Trump administration has erected new curbs on the sale of chip design software in the region.…

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Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage

Fri, 2025-05-30 00:33
Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look

Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday.…

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Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans

Fri, 2025-05-30 00:15
Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams

The US Treasury has sanctioned a Philippine company and its administrator after linking them to the infrastructure behind the majority of so-called "pig butchering" scams reported to the FBI.…

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Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud

Thu, 2025-05-29 22:25
Yet more juicy data for the all-seeing eye

Trump administration darling Palantir has scored another data-guzzling win by partnering with Fannie Mae to detect mortgage fraud using AI. …

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