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Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports
Debian's APT package manager will have a "hard requirement" on Rust from May 2026. This move may make some rather big waves.…
ESA tests bacterial powder to feed Moon and Mars crews
The European Space Agency (ESA) has coined a tortured acronym for its project to feed astronauts on long-duration missions: HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition).…
Paradox: Agentic AI dev roles are less in demand as agents take over
Demand for software development skills in AI-related roles is set to fall next year as agentic AI accelerates across business markets, according to an IEEE industry survey.…
Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests
London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says the hundreds of live facial recognition (LFR) deployments across the Capital last year led to 962 arrests, according to a new report on the controversial tech's use.…
Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs
The maker of the Grand Theft Auto game series, Rockstar Games, has fired more than 30 coders and graphic designers in an act described by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) as "the most blatant and ruthless act of union busting in the history of the games industry."…
Pop!_OS deejays prepare to release holiday remix along with Cosmic v 1.0
Ubuntu Summit System76's POP!_OS is one of the more substantially modified Ubuntu based distros out there, and so it was something of a surprise to see the company's substantial presence at the Ubuntu Summit. And its stable release along with version 1.0 of its custom desktop, COSMIC, is imminent.…
The race to shore up Europe’s power grids against cyberattacks and sabotage
Feature It was a sunny morning in late April when a massive power outage suddenly rippled across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southwestern France, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity for hours.…
Students using ChatGPT beware: Real learning takes legwork, study finds
A study of how people use ChatGPT for research has confirmed something most of us learned the hard way in school: to be a subject matter expert, you've got to spend time swotting up.…
Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu
Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.…
From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world
Opinion It's not been a year since his ouster as Intel's CEO, but Pat Gelsinger is firmly back on the tech leadership pony. He's done hardware with Intel, software with VMWare. This time, it's faithware.…
‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’
Who, Me? Another Monday is upon us and The Register therefore presents a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It’s the reader-contributed confessional column in which you admit to making mistakes, and explain how you made it out alive afterwards.…
Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land
African carrier Seacom is investigating the feasibility of building a submarine cable that would run across the heart of Africa, on land.…
ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare
Before the potential of the internet was appreciated around the world, nations that understood its importance managed to scoop outsized allocations of IPv4 addresses, actions that today mean many users in the rest of the world are more likely to find their connections throttled or blocked.…
White House says China to lift rare earth export bans, stop probes into US tech companies
Asia In Brief Last week’s trade talks between the USA and China have seen the two countries ease some trade restrictions.…
Attackers targeting unpatched Cisco kit notice malware implant removal, install it again
Infosec in brief Australia’s Signals Directorate (ASD) last Friday warned that attackers are installing an implant named “BADCANDY” on unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices and can detect deletion of their wares and reinstall their malware.…
Fortytwo's decentralized AI has the answer to life, the universe, and everything
Fortytwo, a Silicon Valley startup, was founded last year based on the idea that a decentralized swarm of small AI models running on personal computers offers scaling and cost advantages over centralized AI services.…
Robotic lawnmower uses AI to dodge cats, toys
The tentacles of AI seem to be reaching everywhere, even to the humble lawnmower. We tested the Sunseeker Elite X5, a robotic mower that uses machine learning to steer around your lawn, to see what happens when artificial intelligence meets whirling blades of doom.…
AI blew open software security, now OpenAI wants to fix it with an agent called Aardvark
After helping expand the modern software attack surface with the rise of AI services prone to data poisoning and prompt injection, OpenAI has thrown a bone to cyber defenders.…
Datacenter biz and nuke startup join forces for Texas AI ranch
Texas is set to get another nuclear-powered datacenter project thanks to Blue Energy and Crusoe, but any atomic action isn't likely until the next decade.…
Ransomware gang runs ads for Microsoft Teams to pwn victims
Imagine searching for Microsoft Teams, seeing a text link at the top of the results, visiting it, and then getting hit with malware. The Rhysida ransomware gang, an especially insidious criminal organization that has stolen millions of people's info, has been placing fake ads for Microsoft Teams in search engines and then infecting victims who make the mistake of clicking them.…