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'Huge architectural change' to JetBrains ReSharper cuts Visual Studio freezes
JetBrains has updated ReSharper, its .NET plugin for Visual Studio, with an out-of-process design that achieves a 61 percent reduction in UI freezes, the company claims. However, the new mode has reduced functionality.…
GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months
The GNOME Foundation is once again hunting for a new boss after executive director Steven Deobald departed less than four months into the role, a move the board described as mutual.…
UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs
The UK Home Office has upped its planned spending on external data and tech consultants by £100 million to a maximum of £350 million.…
Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply
UK supermarket giant Tesco has sued Broadcom for breach of contracts pertaining to its VMware licenses, named Computacenter as a co-defendant, and warned it may not be able to put food on the shelves if the situation goes pear-shaped.…
Internet mapping and research outfit Censys reveals state-based abuse, harassment
Censys Inc, vendor of the popular Censys internet-mapping tool, has revealed that state-based actors are trying to abuse its services by hiding behind academic researchers.…
India hails 'first' home-grown chip as a milestone despite very modest specs
India’s government yesterday celebrated an “important milestone” in the development of its semiconductor industry, and therefore the nation’s ambition to become a global contender, but the celebrations seem premature because the chip that was the star of the show is nothing special.…
Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up
Champagne will be flowing at Google HQ after US District Judge Amit Mehta decided to do very little to rein in the monopolistic web giant.…
How big will this Drift get? Cloudflare cops to Salesloft Drift breach
The list of victims keeps growing, as yet another company — Cloudflare — today disclosed that some of its customers' data was also compromised in the Salesloft Drift breach.…
Who watches the watchmen? Surveillanceware firms make bank, avoid oversight
Governments can't get enough of hacking services to use against their citizens, despite their protestations that elements of the trade need sanctioning.…
Biden stopped ICE from buying Israeli spyware, but Trump admin allows it to proceed
ICE may soon have a new weapon in its arsenal. The White House has reversed a Biden-era decision to suspend the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)'s purchase of software from commercial spyware maker Paragon Solutions.…
Total recall: Mistral AI's Le Chat can now remember your conversations
Mistral AI can now remember personal details about you and use them to offer better prompts. It also has new MCP connectors that businesses can deploy to connect their users to third-party tech services.…
Zscaler latest victim of Salesloft Drift attacks, customer data exposed
Zscaler is the latest company to disclose some of its customers' data was exposed in the recent spate of Salesloft Drift attacks affecting Salesforce databases.…
Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US government contract
Microsoft, the latest tech firm to agree to big software discounts for the US government, is digging even deeper into its bargain bin than the competition by offering a year of free Copilot access to government agencies willing to put up with its other problem products. …
Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI
Speaking ahead of Labor Day – celebrated in the US to recognize the nation's labor movement – Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff said the company had slashed 4,000 customer support roles through the application of AI agents.…
Tesla Model Ys recalled Down Under for overly enthusiastic electric windows
Tesla vehicles sold in Australia have been recalled over a window that could "close with excessive force" on a body part of an unwary driver.…
Stolen OAuth tokens expose Palo Alto customer data
Palo Alto Networks is writing to customers that may have had commercially sensitive data exposed after criminals used stolen OAuth credentials lifted from the Salesloft Drift break-in to gain entry to its Salesforce instance.…
Apple iOS 26 set to dump 75M iPhones on the e-waste pile
The pending release of Apple's iOS 26 could see around 75 million iPhones rendered obsolete, generating more than 1.2 million kilograms of e-waste globally, according to new research.…
Microsoft readies Windows 11 25H2 while Windows 10 circles the drain
Microsoft has made Windows 11 25H2 available to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, as market share figures show the company's flagship operating system continues to enjoy a lead over its doomed predecessor, Windows 10.…
Four more execs man the decks at leaky sales vessel Atos
A publication less kind than The Reg might couch Atos's latest leadership intake as the recruitment of more expensive execs coming armed with buckets to bail water from a sinking vessel.…
Goldman Sachs warns AI bubble could burst datacenter boom
Datacenter capacity is forecast to surge 50 percent by 2027 driven by AI demand, with the sector's energy consumption doubling by 2030, according to the latest research from Goldman Sachs. But the financial services biz says it's watching for signs that AI adoption may fall short of current hype.…