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Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug
Microsoft has hustled out an out-of-band update to address a Message Queuing issue introduced by the December 2025 update.…
Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here’s how to try it
The Windows 11 Run dialog box is one of the oldest pieces of user interface still in use. It works just fine, but it has an aesthetic that harkens back to earlier versions of Microsoft’s operating system. Now, that’s set to change.…
Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat
Opinion Register readers of a certain age will recall the events of the 1970s, where a shortage of fuel due to various international disagreements resulted in queues, conflicts, and rising costs. One result was a drive toward greater efficiencies. Perhaps it's time to apply those lessons to the current memory shortage.…
Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time
Non-human travel agents are here. Virgin Atlantic earlier this month installed an AI travel agent on its website, calling the web-bound chatbot "the future of travel planning." …
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.…
Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming
Oracle's new AI-powered support portal is frustrating customers and support engineers who are struggling to find the basics, such as old tickets, links to database patch programs and release schedules for current databases.…
Pizza restaurant signage caught serving raw Windows
Bork!Bork!Bork! The bork desk has temporarily reopened during the festive period. The tech world might be having a nap on the sofa after one mince pie too many, but bork never sleeps.…
Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year
Robot taxis are coming to The Register’s London home in 2026.…
France’s post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident'
La Poste, France’s postal service, is largely offline, possibly due to an unexplained incident.…
Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried
Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has created a Special Task Force to investigate the failed launch of its H3 rocket on Monday.…
Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts
A malicious npm package with more than 56,000 downloads masquerades as a working WhatsApp Web API library, and then it steals messages, harvests credentials and contacts, and hijacks users' WhatsApp accounts.…
Palo Alto's new Google Cloud deal boosts AI integration, could save on cloud costs
Security vendor Palo Alto Networks is expanding its Google Cloud partnership, saying it will move "key internal workloads" onto the Chocolate Factory's infrastructure. The outfit also claims it is tightening integrations between its security tools and Google Cloud to deliver what it calls a "unified" security experience. At the same time, Palo Alto may trim its own cloud purchase commitments.…
SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year
Japanese tech investment giant SoftBank needs to secure $22.5 billion before the end of the year to make good on its commitments to AI partner OpenAI.…
Spy turned startup CEO: 'The WannaCry of AI will happen'
Interview "In my past life, it would take us 360 days to develop an amazing zero day," Zafran Security CEO Sanaz Yashar said.…
Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China
Now that it can legally export them, Nvidia has reportedly informed its Chinese customers that it'll begin shipping H200s, one of its most potent graphics accelerators for AI training and inference, in time for Chinese New Year. One caveat: Beijing could spike the deal before then.…
Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture
What would happen to the world's music collections if streaming services disappeared? One hacktivist group says it has a solution: scrape around 300 terabytes of music and metadata from Spotify and offer it up for free as what it calls the world’s first “fully open” music preservation archive.…
Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim
The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says a fraudster who claimed to be part of MI6 must repay £125,000 ($168,000) to a former love interest that he conned.…
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows
Opinion I've run Linux desktops since the big interface question was whether to use Korn or Bash for your shell. Before that, I'd used Unix desktops such as Visix Looking Glass, Sun OpenWindows, and SCO's infamous Open Deathtrap Desktop.…
EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031
The EU has extended its adequacy decision, allowing data sharing with and from the UK under the General Data Protection Regulation for at least six more years.…
Vultures rake our claws over COSMIC as Pop OS 24.04 LTS with 'Epoch 1' emerges
Hands On It's been a long time coming but version 1.0 of the first ground-up Rust-based desktop is here… and it is shaping up very well.…