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Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations
Changing text in Microsoft Windows requires freezing string updates well before code changes stop, often leading to strange wording that persists for years.…
OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has drafted in former National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief Ciaran Martin to sniff out how its Budget day forecast wandered onto the open internet before the Chancellor had even reached the dispatch box.…
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B
The UK government has finally put a £1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans – days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure.…
UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants
The UK government collected just £800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent tax year.…
Digital Realty, Equinix battle for €4.5B atNorth acquisition
Digital Realty and a consortium including Equinix are competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian datacenter operator, according to reports.…
Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions.…
VMware isn’t budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses
VMware has come out swinging in its case against Siemens over alleged unlicensed use of its software.…
Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks
Food company Campbell’s, best known for its soups and the iconic cans they come in, has parted ways with a vice president for IT after another member of the company’s tech team recorded him criticizing the company’s products.…
Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later
South Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a serious cyberattack.…
Zendesk users targeted as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters spin up fake support sites
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest.…
OpenAI cuts off Mixpanel after analytics leak exposes API users
OpenAI says API users may be affected by a recent breach at its former data analytics provider, Mixpanel.…
Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole
hands on Tenstorrent probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when it comes to AI infrastructure. But unlike the litany of AI chip startups vying for VC funding and a slice of Nvidia's pie, Tenstorrent's chips actually exist outside the lab.…
Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA reaffirms committment
The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project.…
FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover
Malicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system.…
Asahi admits ransomware gang may have spilled almost 2M people's data
Asahi has finally done the sums on September's ransomware attack in Japan, conceding the crooks may have helped themselves to personal data tied to almost 2 million people.…
Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty
A Canadian court has ordered French cloud provider OVHcloud to hand over customer data stored in Europe, potentially undermining the provider's claims about digital sovereignty protections.…
Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack
Auditors remain concerned about the cyber resilience of a Scottish council as some systems are yet to be fully rebuilt following a ransomware attack in November 2023.…
One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off
AI-pocalypse New research suggests AI deployment is creating significant workforce redundancies across major organizations.…
Tiny tweak for Pi OS, big makeover for the Imager
Raspberry Pi Ltd has shipped two updates for its single-board computers: a very small refresh to Pi OS 6, and a more substantial upgrade to the tool that writes your Pi's operating system to an SD card.…
HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show
Feature Remember when high-performance computing always seemed to be about x86? Exactly a decade ago, almost nine in ten supercomputers in the TOP500 (a list of the beefiest machines maintained twice yearly by academics) were Intel-based. Today, it's down to 57 percent.…