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Linux vendors are getting into Ubuntu – and Snap

Fri, 2025-10-31 10:45
Ubuntu's much-maligned format may be finally reaching critical mass

Ubuntu Summit More than one Linux-adjacent vendor presented at the Ubuntu Summit, and a small but recurring theme is offering official Snap packages.…

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VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India

Fri, 2025-10-31 10:00
TUPE or not TUPE? Not for roles being sent overseas amid a push to meet post-merger rollout targets

Exclusive VodafoneThree has told some staff their roles may be offshored to India under new contracts with Ericsson and Nokia – and that employment protections won't apply.…

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England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache

Fri, 2025-10-31 09:15
Surrey to be divided into two new councils in first phase of countrywide reorg

The UK government will replace Surrey County Council and its 11 borough and district councils with two new unitary councils, which will provide most local services to the area's 1.2 million residents.…

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O2 cranks prices mid-contract, essentially telling customers to like it or lump it

Fri, 2025-10-31 08:31
Ofcom 'disappointed' by decision that 'goes against the spirit of our rules'

Britian's comms regulator has criticized O2 for hiking prices beyond what customers agreed to, exploiting a loophole in rules designed to end unpredictable mid-contract increases.…

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NHS left with sick PCs as suppliers resist Windows 11 treatment

Fri, 2025-10-31 07:29
Hospitals told to upgrade, but some medical device makers haven't prescribed compatibility yet

NHS hospitals are being blocked from fully upgrading to Windows 11 by a small number of suppliers that have yet to make their medical devices compatible with Microsoft's latest operating system.…

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Actor couldn’t understand why computer didn’t work when the curtain came down

Fri, 2025-10-31 06:30
When tech support collides with Halloween, the results are scary

On Call Happy Halloween, dear reader! The Register wishes you a wonderfully scary day. To kick things off, we’ve twisted On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column about keeping computers alive despite the best efforts of zombie coworkers and demonic bosses, to bring tales of times tech support turned spooky.…

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Europe preps Digital Euro to enter circulation in 2029

Fri, 2025-10-31 05:20
Because fewer people like banknotes, and payment sovereignty is a problem

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided the bloc needs a digital version of the Euro, and ordered work that could see it enter circulation in 2029.…

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Japan’s new space truck is also a temporary space lab, just worked first time

Fri, 2025-10-31 01:19
HTV-X capsule is designed to hang around in space after delivering cargo to ISS

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is celebrating after its new cargo carrier docked at the International Space Station.…

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Amazon juggernaut continues hauling in more cash despite recent bad news

Fri, 2025-10-31 00:06
The spending will continue until AI revenue improves

Despite a trickle of bad news from Amazon in recent weeks, the company's business is thrumming along, with AWS leading the way.…

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Hacking LED Halloween masks is frighteningly easy

Thu, 2025-10-30 21:49
No costume idea? We've got you covered

Hacking makes the holidays so much more enjoyable, and nothing says trick or treat quite like pwning LED Halloween masks belonging to every neighborhood kid during candy-collection hours.…

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Claude code will send your data to crims ... if they ask it nicely

Thu, 2025-10-30 21:00
Company tells users concerned about exfiltration to 'stop it if you see it'

A researcher has found a way to trick Claude into uploading private data to an attacker's account using indirect prompt injection. Anthropic says it has already documented the risk, and its foolproof solution is: keep an eye on your screen.…

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Suspected Chinese snoops weaponize unpatched Windows flaw to spy on European diplomats

Thu, 2025-10-30 19:20
Expired security cert, real Brussels agenda, plus PlugX malware finish the job

Cyber spies linked to the Chinese government exploited a Windows shortcut vulnerability disclosed in March – but that Microsoft hasn't fixed yet – to target European diplomats in an effort to steal defense and national security details.…

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Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot

Thu, 2025-10-30 19:15
People, Files, and Calendar companion apps gain an auto-installed dose of AI

Just when you thought Microsoft had run out of Windows apps to stuff with Copilot, it's cramming the AI into your taskbar companions - People, Files, and Calendar are next.…

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Google parent company spending like a drunken sailor as capex triples over 2 years

Thu, 2025-10-30 19:02
Microsoft also ramping up spending, but investors concerned about overshooting demand

Alphabet, Google's parent company, expects capital expenditures to hit $93 billion in 2025, largely to meet demand from cloud customers, according to its recent financial report.…

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Proton trains new service to expose corporate infosec cover-ups

Thu, 2025-10-30 18:44
Service will tell on compromised organizations, even if they didn't plan on doing so themselves

Some orgs would rather you not know when they've suffered a cyberattack, but a new platform from privacy-focused tech firm Proton will shine a light on the big breaches that might otherwise stay buried.…

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Colorado launches lawyers at Trump admin over space base relocation

Thu, 2025-10-30 18:37
State cries foul over "crooked elections" claim in Alabama move

The State of Colorado has thrown a sueball at the Trump administration over the president's decision to relocate the headquarters of the US Space Command from Colorado Springs to Alabama.…

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Docker Compose vulnerability opens door to host-level writes – patch pronto

Thu, 2025-10-30 16:27
Windows Desktop installer also fixed after DLL hijack flaw rated 8.8 severity

Docker Compose users are being strongly urged to upgrade their versions of the orchestration tool after a researcher uncovered a flaw that could allow attackers to stage path traversal attacks.…

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Trump and Xi ease trade tensions, but Nvidia still can't sell Blackwell in China

Thu, 2025-10-30 15:49
US President did discuss chip exports with his counterpart, but made no breakthroughs

Talks between US President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea yielded a modest thaw, with the two agreeing to trim tariffs and pause new rare-earth export curbs. But whether Nvidia can sell its latest GPUs to China remains an open question.…

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US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast

Thu, 2025-10-30 15:48
Enterprise software giant lifts guidance but adds 'prudence' as federal contracts stall

ServiceNow has built some "prudence" into its earnings guidance due to the ongoing US government shutdown.…

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KDE tidies up Plasma 6.5 with 60-odd fixes and smoother setup for OEMs

Thu, 2025-10-30 14:51
Big release with a lot of new features – and a few inevitable glitches

The KDE Plasma 6.5 graphical shell arrived last week for Unix-like operating systems, and now 6.5.1 is here for the more cautious. The team's squashed over 60 bugs – and they're by no means all new.…

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