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Moody's raises Big Red flag over Oracle's AI datacenter buildout blueprint

Mon, 2025-09-22 14:30
Ratings agency points out there's a risk of relying on a small number of buyers

Ratings agency Moody's has pointed to the dangers inherent in Oracle's $300 billion agreement with OpenAI - one of the deals contributing to a staggering $455 billion pipeline of obligations for Big Red's cloud infrastructure.…

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Don't despair. iFixit says you can still repair that iPhone Air

Mon, 2025-09-22 13:45
Thinnest yet still fixable, though not without effort

iFixit has given Apple's slimline new smartphone, the iPhone Air, a thumbs-up for repairability, praising its easy access to key components, despite being the thinnest handset Cupertino has built so far.…

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EU’s cyber agency blames ransomware as Euro airport check-in chaos continues

Mon, 2025-09-22 13:11
Airport staff revert to manual ops as travellers urged to use self-service check-in where possible

The EU's cybersecurity agency today confirmed that ransonmware is the cause of continued disruption blighting major airports across Europe.…

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Windows 11 update leaves Blu-ray and TV apps stuttering

Mon, 2025-09-22 12:33
Protected content in some Blu-ray and DVD applications broken

Microsoft has added another entry to its growing list of problematic updates in the Windows Hall of Shame, this time causing Digital TV and Blu-ray applications to stutter and freeze when playing protected content.…

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Car giant Stellantis says customer data nicked after partner vendor pwned

Mon, 2025-09-22 11:32
Automaker insists only names and emails exposed, no financials

Car giant Stellantis is admitting that attackers targeted one of its third-party partners, spilling its own customers' details in the process.…

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Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil

Mon, 2025-09-22 10:45
It's one small sip for man...

British boffins say they've discovered a way of taking one of the country's favorite pastimes – having a nice cup of tea – into outer space.…

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Linux has the lineage to out-evolve the deadliest of cyber threats, given the right push

Mon, 2025-09-22 10:00
Darwin would understand microkernels. We need microkernels that understand Darwin.

Opinion The IT industry is not only full of sharks, it has shark nature itself. It must keep moving forward to survive. Not all sharks are obligate ram ventilators, and not all IT changes all the time, but without innovation the sector would curdle and die.…

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'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service'

Mon, 2025-09-22 09:19
Project rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls

The risk rating of the UK's crime intelligence database is being elevated to "Red" by the governments projects' watchdog as the DB struggles to migrate from a legacy Oracle platform.…

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FOMO? Brit banking biz rolls out AI tools, talks up security

Mon, 2025-09-22 08:16
Lloyds Data and AI lead doesn't want devs downloading models from the likes of Hugging Face – too risky

Lloyds Banking Group is leaning into 21st century tech - yet trying to do so in a way that the data of its 28 million customers is kept away from untested AI models developers might be tempted to deploy.…

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Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery

Mon, 2025-09-22 07:30
Revenge on managers who slow things down is a drink best served with floating fungus

Who, Me? The world of work can sometimes drive IT pros to drink, leaving them more likely to make the sort of mistakes that The Register celebrates each week in Who, Me? It’s our reader-contributed column in which you share stories of making a mess at work, and cleaning up afterwards to the best of your ability.…

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Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs

Mon, 2025-09-22 06:17
The Register looks forward to learning more about a possible Dell hyperscale sovereign social SaaS platform

Dell CEO Michael Dell is part of the consortium that intends to acquire TikTok’s US operations, according to US president Donald Trump.…

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Tech troubles create aviation chaos on both sides of the Atlantic

Mon, 2025-09-22 05:18
‘Cyber-attack’ on ticketing outfit Collins and cable cuts at Dallas ground hundreds of flights

Technology problems hit the commercial aviation industry hard over the weekend, leading to hundreds of cancelled flights and myriad delays on both sides of the Atlantic.…

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Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won’t bother Beijing

Mon, 2025-09-22 02:24
PLUS: India ponders tax breaks for datacenters; Samsung plans hiring spree; Taliban bans fiber internet; and more

Asia In Brief Huawei last week revealed that China’s Zhejiang University used its Ascend 1000 accelerators to create a version of DeepSeek’s R1 model that improves on the original by producing fewer responses that China’s government would rather avoid.…

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Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits

Mon, 2025-09-22 00:48
PLUS: Luxury brands under fire; FBI warns crims are spoofing it again; ICE buys phone cracking software

Infosec in brief Online criminals prefer to deal in digital assets, but a side effect of a ransomware attack has seen a French museum robbed of $705,000 in physical gold nuggets.…

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Firewall upgrade linked to three deaths after Australian telco cut off emergency calls

Sun, 2025-09-21 22:39
Optus was unaware network changes caused a problem, and ignored some customer complaints

Australian telco Optus says its staff may not have followed established processes when a firewall upgrade they conducted resulted in customers not being able to call emergency emergency services for fourteen hours – a period during which it is thought three of the carrier’s customers died after trying to seek help, according to the company's CEO.…

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Make Windows 11 more useful and less annoying with these 11 Registry hacks

Sun, 2025-09-21 08:20
From pain-free shutdowns to crap-free search, these tweaks will improve your experience

hands on Windows 11 has a number of puzzling or annoying UI changes from Windows 10 that power users might wish to change. But you can't make these tweaks from the Settings menu or even the legacy Control Panel. To make these changes, you’ll need to edit the Registry.…

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SaaS vendors are hiking costs faster than inflation, but squeaky wheels can still get deals

Sat, 2025-09-20 13:15
And also force them to improve resilience

SaaS vendors are increasing prices faster than both inflation and the typical growth rate of corporate IT budgets, but Gartner VP analyst Jo Liversidge thinks that canny buyers can reduce their bills by anticipating price hikes and planning to negotiate hard.…

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Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

Sat, 2025-09-20 08:30
Arrangement follows big tech tie-ins claiming to offer £31B investment

The UK has struck a defense deal with US spy-tech biz Palantir, which the government says will unlock £1.5 billion ($2 billion) of investment in Britain.…

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Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry

Sat, 2025-09-20 01:14
It will hit outsourcing companies hardest

On Friday, President Trump signed a presidential proclamation to sharply raise the cost of employing H-1B workers by restricting entry unless employers make a $100,000 payment with the petition.…

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Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

Fri, 2025-09-19 21:25
With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over

AI model training and serving require vast quantities of power, but not necessarily all at once. With the first of several gigawatt-scale datacenters due to come online next year, Meta is looking at ways to offload excess energy capacity by selling it on the wholesale market.…

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