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Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog
An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data.…
SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement
SpaceX is counting down to today's 11th flight test of its monster Starship rocket, with weather looking suitable for the opening of the launch window at 18:15 CT (or around 17:00 CT, if the company's billionaire boss is to be believed).…
Datacenter water use? California governor says don't ask, don't tell
California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation requiring data centers to disclose their water consumption, even as he champions efforts to address the state's water scarcity challenges.…
China probes Qualcomm's Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions
China's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing.…
End of Windows 10 support is the perfect time for the Windows 11 installer to fail
Microsoft has broken its own Windows 11 media creation tool just as millions of users face a deadline to abandon Windows 10 — and with less than 24 hours until support officially ends.…
Fujitsu pumps £280M into UK arm to keep lights on after Horizon scandal
Fujitsu's UK business has received £280 million ($374 million) in equity from its Japanese owner in the last two years to meet ongoing funding and capital requirements.…
Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist
Ofcom, the UK's Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan £20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content.…
Dutch government puts Nexperia on a short leash over chip security fears
The Dutch government has placed Nexperia - a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain's Newport Wafer Fab — under special administrative measures, citing serious governance failures that threaten European tech security.…
We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills
Opinion When I was a wet-behind-the-ears developer running my programs on an IBM 360, a mainframe that was slower than a Raspberry Pi Zero W, my machine used about 50 kilowatts (kW). I thought that was a lot of power. Little did I know what was coming.…
Senators try to save cyber threat sharing law, sans government funding
in brief A bipartisan Senate duo has introduced a bill to revive and extend America's cyber threat-sharing law for another ten years after its authorization lapsed during the government shutdown.…
Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again
The government-owned company that runs the UK's most important nuclear site is weighing up whether to keep its legacy SAP software running beyond the vendor's extended support deadline.…
Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise
Opinion The successful, sector-defining, open source Italian embedded platform provider Arduino had a little bash in Turin recently. It made a few announcements, including a new single-board computer (SBC) with a Qualcomm system on a chip (SoC). Oh, and that it had been bought by American dragon-themed mobile chip monster Qualcomm in a deal with total fealty (WTF).…
UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders
The British government is putting out feelers to industry ahead of the procurement process for the country's most powerful supercomputer, set to begin next year.…
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company
Who, Me? Welcome to another week of nimble newsifying from The Register, which as always kicks off the working week with a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes that almost trashed your career.…
Inside the belly of the beast: A technical walk through Intel's 18A production facility at Fab52
deep dive Not long after rejoining Intel in 2021, former CEO Pat Gelsinger announced an ambitious plan to reinvent the chipmaker as a contract semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse.…
Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual
A venture capital fund is looking for ideas that are out of bounds for traditional investors, seeding technology that may only come to fruition decades down the line, but where researchers can show real results in the lab.…
Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide
Most corporate laptop fleets consist primarily of PCs. However, there’s always a contingent of users who beg for Macs. Deciding who gets a Mac in your organization involves balancing IT’s need for simplicity, finance’s requirement to keep costs under control, and users’ desire to work with their preferred tools.…
Chinese phishing kit helps scammers who send fake texts impersonate TikTok, Coinbase, others
Exclusive A Chinese-developed phishing kit hosted on thousands of domains and boasting 97 different brands to make criminals' scams look more believable is driving a surge in financial fraud around the globe, according to security researchers.…
OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias
OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.…
Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI
ai-pocalypse Business leaders are racing to jump aboard the AI bandwagon, and a new study from the British Standards Institute suggests young college grads are being hit hardest.…