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Rather than enjoying some downtime at the weekend, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri made the classic mistake of reading the replies to his post about the operating system's "agentic" future.…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is returning to the CEO seat – though not at his best-known creation.…

Teams that think they're ready for a major cyber incident are scoring barely 22 percent accuracy and taking more than a day to contain simulated attacks, according to new data out Monday.…

SAP has apologized for the recent outage of its SAP for Me portal, a cloud-based tool that gives users a view of their SAP functions, metrics, and service. But the downtime has opened up some reliability questions.…

French telco Eurofiber says cybercriminals swiped company data during an attack last week that also affected some internal systems.…

Palantir is working with "AI upskilling platform" Multiverse to provide an apprenticeship program specific to its Federated Data Platform (FDP), the NHS analytics system being run under a controversial contract.…

British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O'Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to solicit digital currency and threaten high-profile individuals.…

On the eve of its Ignite conference, Microsoft has managed to break the first Extended Security Update (ESU) for many commercial Windows 10 customers.…

Opinion Remember when the hottest news in the schoolyard was which band was the hottest this week? Those days are back, baby. An AI-generated band called Breaking Rust has just hit the top of the Billboard Country chart in the US with a song called Walk My Walk. Some questions will never be answered – could it ever release a sea shanty, and will all the albums be compilations? What this means for the future of the music industry, the AI industry, and music itself, is less funny.…

Who, Me? Welcome to another week of work, a moment The Register celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you 'fess up to follies, false moves, and faux pas – and explain how you escaped.…

The market for server virtualization tools is about to fragment, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

Asia In Brief India’s Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar Land Rover, has revealed the cyberattack that shut down production in the UK has so far cost it around £1.8 billion ($2.35 billion).…

INFOSEC IN BRIEF The US Senate passed a resolution in July to force the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to publish a 2022 report into poor security in the telecommunications industry but the agency has not delivered the document.…

Exclusive Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs announced a new collaboration with Global Unichip Corp (GUC) on Sunday to integrate its optical I/O chiplets into the Taiwanese semiconductor design services provider's XPU reference designs.…

Interview In the datacenter biz, power is the product. You either have it or you don't, Chris Sharp tells El Reg.…

Apple has cut its take to 15 percent on purchases inside mini apps running within other iOS apps, and reached a parallel agreement with Tencent that brings WeChat's vast mini-program ecosystem into its revenue net.…

If you haven't noticed, DRAM memory has gotten a lot more expensive in recent weeks. …

Large language models frequently ship with "guardrails" designed to catch malicious input and harmful output. But if you use the right word or phrase in your prompt, you can defeat these restrictions.…

Fortinet finally published a security advisory on Friday for a critical FortiWeb path traversal vulnerability under active exploitation – but it appears digital intruders got a month's head start.…

Last year, Canonical increased its paid extended support lifespan to 12 years. Now, it's increasing it again, to 15 years ... for a price.…