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Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide
Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband network went dark today as thousands of users around the globe reported connectivity issues.…
Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union
The UK's chief automotive workers' union is calling on the government to establish a Covid-esque furlough scheme for the thousands of individuals who face losing their jobs due to the cyber-related downtime at Jaguar Land Rover.…
Bharti big shots storm BT boardroom after £3.6B raid
BT - Britain's former state-owned telecoms monopoly - has confirmed that execs from Bharti Global, its largest shareholder, are joining the board with immediate effect.…
UK.gov decides tech projects worth billions are major but not 'mega'
UK ministers have questioned the government's decision to seemingly downgrade huge public sector tech projects as HM Treasury takes a greater role in so-called "mega-projects."…
UK Lords take aim at Ofcom's 'child-protection' upgrades to Online Safety Act
The House of Lords is about to put the latest child-protection plans of UK regulator the Office of Communications (Ofcom) under the microscope.…
Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Opinion The Voyager space probes are dear to the hearts of every geek who can remember the 1980s.…
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'
Who, Me? It's Monday morning, and a week of possibilities presents itself to IT pros everywhere. Which is why The Register brings you another edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we remind you what not to do with your day, your week, and your career, by sharing stories of your worst workplace mistakes and the contortions you made to survive them.…
Open source Cloud Hypervisor adds (maybe futile) no-AI-code policy
The Cloud Hypervisor project has introduced a No AI code policy.…
Cyber-scam camp operators shift operations to vulnerable countries as sanctions strike
Criminals appear to be moving cyber-scam centers to vulnerable countries.…
15 ransomware gangs ‘go dark’ to enjoy 'golden parachutes'
Infosec In Brief 15 ransomware gangs, including Scattered Spider and Lapsus$, have announced that they are going dark, and say no more attacks will be carried out in their name.…
Data destruction done wrong could cost your company millions
With the end of Windows 10's regular support cycle fast approaching, and a good five years since the COVID pandemic spurred a wave of hardware replacements to support remote work, many IT departments are in the process of refreshing their fleets. But what they do with decommissioned systems is just as important as the shiny new ones they buy.…
It's time mobile devs started to think seriously about foldable smartphones
hands on Folding smartphones have been with us for six years without winning much market share, but after two weeks using Samsung's latest model, and recent reports of surging sales in the category, it feels to me like dual-screened devices are something developers now need to consider.…
Bring back your old Mac: 5 ways to refresh the OS on elderly Apples
Any day now, a new version of Apple's macOS is due to launch, and it will exclude the bulk of the Intel-powered models the company has ever sold. However, there are multiple ways to breathe new life into Macs that go back as far as 10 or even 15 years.…
Inventor who encouraged Elon Musk to make Optimus says most humanoid robots today are 'terrifying'
interview Scott LaValley, founder and CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, suspects he may have helped encourage Elon Musk to get into the humanoid robot business.…
HybridPetya: More proof that Secure Boot bypasses are not just an urban legend
A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched vulnerability to bypass Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot on unrevoked Windows systems, making it the fourth publicly known bootkit capable of punching through the feature and hijacking a PC before the operating system loads.…
Fire up the gas turbines, says US Interior Secretary: We gotta win the AI arms race
You would think that the government official responsible for safeguarding the US' natural resources would be opposed to abandoning climate change mitigation pledges in favor of firing up fossil fuels to power AI development. …
SK Hynix cranks up the HBM4 assembly line to prep for next-gen GPUs
AMD and Nvidia have already announced their next-gen datacenter GPUs will make the leap to HBM4, and if SK Hynix has its way, it’ll be the one supplying the bulk of it.…
CISA program gave out $20k+ payments to unqualified employees, auditor says
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) mismanaged a program designed to retain skilled security professionals so badly that auditors have concluded it left the agency "unable to adequately protect the Nation from cyber threats." …
Samsung fixes Android 0-day that may have been used to spy on WhatsApp messages
Samsung has fixed a critical flaw that affects its Android devices - but not before attackers found and exploited the bug, which could allow remote code execution on affected devices.…
Your call is very important to us – which is why we're connecting you to a human
ai-pocalypse You'll be able to talk to a human when you need help for many years to come. A new Gartner study shows that fears about AI replacing humans with bots in call centers are unfounded, at least among Fortune 500 companies.…