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Notepad sheds Copilot from toolbar as Microsoft gives subtlety a try
Copilot is on its way out of Notepad, but a return to the basic text editor is not on the cards.…
Booking.com warns reservation data may have checked out with intruders
Booking.com is warning customers that their reservation details may have been exposed to unknown attackers, in the latest reminder that the travel giant still can't quite keep a lid on the data flowing through its platform.…
Microsoft attempts to untangle 'confusing' Windows Insider program
Microsoft is giving the Windows Insider program another makeover in the hope of making it less baffling.…
Veterans Affairs has lost track of software licenses amid $985M bill
A federal spending watchdog has found the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) faced "challenges" in understanding the correct number of licenses it should hold for the top five vendors in its $985 million annual software expenditure.…
UK defense startup to supply drone interceptors for Britain and allies
Britain is set to buy interceptors from a homegrown startup to counter Iranian Shahed-style attack drones, equipping both its own armed forces and allies in the Persian Gulf region.…
Adobe finally patches PDF pest after months of abuse
Adobe has released a fix for an Acrobat and Reader zero-day that attackers had been exploiting for months.…
Gym giant Basic-Fit confirms data on a million members stolen in cyberattack
Basic-Fit, Europe's largest gym chain, has confirmed data including the bank details of around a million customers was stolen from its systems.…
Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data amid ShinyHunters threat of 'Pay or leak'
ShinyHunters is back, this time pinning Rockstar Games to its leak site and claiming it didn't so much hack its way in as walk through a door someone else left wide open.…
Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future
Opinion You want to know who's even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? European governments and companies who are realizing that putting all their eggs in one US basket was a stupid move.…
NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round
NHS England is spending £46,000 on "benchmarking" as it gears up for what looks like the next round of negotiations behind one of the UK public sector's biggest software deals.…
AI went viral among attorneys. We have the numbers on what happened next
Opinion For a sector at the heart of US economic growth, AI claims and counter-claims remain curiously hard to reconcile. Models are improving at the speed of light, AI firms claim, yet the message from the codeface remains that benefits are still more than balanced by the downsides.…
France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead
France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead.…
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it
Who, Me? The best part of the working day is lunchtime, but The Register tries to start Mondays in a pleasant fashion by bringing you a new installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your mistakes and detail your escapes.…
China wants AI to prepare school lessons and mark homework
Asia In Brief China’s National Data Administration last Friday published its action plan for AI in education which calls for upskilling of the nation’s citizens to ensure they can put the technology to work.…
Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's bug-finding powers and their impact on release process
Linus Torvalds has released version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…
Anthropic's mysterious Mythos AI threatens to upend the infosec world
Kettle Anthropic dropped a doozy on us this week with the launch of Mythos, an AI model it says is able to find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with a shocking level of ability. …
I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable
Vibe coding works. I wish it didn't. But it does, well enough. And barring some revolution that overturns the new world disorder, machine learning cannot be undone.…
Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight
FEATURE Spring has sprung and that means another wave of open weights AI models from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Nvidia. But this time feels a bit different.…
Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode.…
How Salesforce and ServiceNow are squaring off in the battle for the helpdesk
FEATURE Salesforce CEO and chief “SaaSquatch” Mark Benioff boasted about the wins his company's ITSM product had last quarter in the terms a proud dad uses to talk about the art work his kids taped to the refrigerator.…

