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Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government
The Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITOI), the government body that develops and implements IT services for the country, is looking for suppliers of cloud computing.…
Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe
Asia In Brief Indonesia’s government is investigating possible corruption during a $600 million program that saw around a quarter of a million Chromebooks installed in schools.…
Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks
Infosec In Brief Nvidia last week advised customers to ensure they employ mitigations against Rowhammer attacks, after researchers found one of its workstation-grade GPUs is susceptible to the exploit.…
You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem - here's how to stop it
By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don't have any phony resumes or imposters in your interview queue, you're asleep at the wheel.…
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Comment The new fork of the X.org X11 server is conservative… and we don't mean just technologically conservative.…
If MCP is the USB-C of AI agents, A2A is their Ethernet
We have protocols and standards for just about everything. It's generally helpful when we can all agree on how technologies should talk to one another. So, it was only a matter of time before the first protocols governing agentic AI started cropping up.…
Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer's websites
Recruit Holdings, the Japanese job site conglomerate that owns recruitment job site Indeed and employer reviewer Glassdoor, has eliminated about 1,300 positions.…
AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds
Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the opposite.…
Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video
video Flanked by a pair of buzzing drones that threatened to drown out his voice, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reached up to grab a memorandum hung from a third drone hovering above his head. …
Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show
ai-pocalypse Computer scientists say they've devised a way to remove image-based protection mechanisms developed to protect artists from unwanted use of their work for AI training.…
ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election
The receiver of the African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) has not explained why he chose to annul its recent election, prompting ICANN to again warn that it may need to step in, and longtime AFRINIC litigant Cloud Innovation to call for the body to be wound up.…
CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn
Huntress security researchers observed exploitation of the CVSS 10.0 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Wing FTP Server on July 1, just one day after its public disclosure.…
Rimini Street, Oracle edge toward truce after years of legal warfare
Enterprise software support giant Rimini Street has entered into a confidential settlement agreement with Oracle, signaling the two companies may be nearing the end of their long-running legal dispute.…
British Perl guru Matt Trout dead at 42
obituary Matt Trout will be missed by many, even though he was a divisive figure who featured several times on The Register.…
Pentagon snaps up ownership stake in America's only rare earths mine
There is only one active rare earth mine in the whole of the United States. As of Friday, the Department of Defense has become the largest shareholder in the company that owns and operates it. …
Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over
Many of the world's top 100 datacenter hubs are at risk from rising global temperatures, as growing cooling requirements push up costs and water consumption, while shutdowns to prevent overheating during heat waves may become more frequent.…
Users of PostgreSQL in the cloud say the uptime just ain't up to it
A survey of PostgreSQL users has found that the levels of uptime experienced using cloud providers falls well short of their expectations in terms of reliability.…
Microsoft fixes the ESU blues for Windows 10 users
Even as its market share is finally eclipsed by Windows 11, Windows 10 is still alive and in need of fixes. Alongside the replacement of the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11, Microsoft has released a fix for the Extended Security Updates wizard to Windows 10 Insiders.…
More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn
Biz customers should expect further changes to SAP's licensing as the company introduces the reboot of its Business Suite construct into its product packages, the German-speaking user group has warned.…
Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs
The German arm of telecoms biz Telefónica has shifted support for its VMware installed base to Spinnaker after Broadcom quoted it a renewal figure five times the size of what it was previously paying.…