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Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'
The leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat party is opposing a Tesla subsidiary being granted a license to supply electricity in Britain, calling Elon Musk a threat to national security. …
UK patches air defense with 6 extra Land Ceptor missile launchers
Britain's threadbare defenses are getting a small boost. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) just announced that it's purchasing six new Land Ceptor anti-aircraft missile systems.…
Windows Security Update turns smooth NDI streams into jittery messes
Microsoft has admitted to yet another issue in the Windows 11 August 2025 Security Update: streaming apps might be disrupted by the changes.…
Criminal background checker APCS faces data breach
Exclusive A leading UK provider of criminal record checks for employers is handling a data breach stemming from a third-party development company.…
Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware
Microsoft's security team has published an in-depth report into ClickFix, the social engineering attack which tricks users into executing malicious commands in the guise of proving their humanity.…
Microsoft lets devs tell Copilot to STFU in Visual Studio
Good news for developers growing tired of Copilot's helpful suggestions. Microsoft has announced that it is now possible to make the programming assistant a little less irritating.…
Interpol bags 1,209 suspects, $97M in cybercrime operation focused on Africa
Interpol's latest clampdown on cybercrime resulted in 1,209 arrests across the African continent, from ransomware crooks to business email compromise (BEC) scammers, the agency says.…
Microsoft puts the squeeze on onmicrosoft.com freeloaders
Microsoft has issued a warning to companies using the onmicrosoft.com domain for emails: get your domain sorted out or face throttling.…
NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia
A county in the US state of Georgia is facing opposition to the construction of a massive hyperscale datacenter campus, reflecting the growing concerns of communities in America and elsewhere over the rush to build more cloud and AI infrastructure.…
Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two
Some joyless ne'er-do-well has loosed a botnet on the community-driven Arch Linux distro, with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack now in its second week of sustained disruption.…
Everything is 'different on Windows': Zed port delays highlight dev friction
Zed co-founder Max Brunfield has explained why the Windows port of the Rust-based editor is taking so long – illustrating the friction facing developers of cross-platform applications when including Microsoft's operating system.…
IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums
Boffins at IBM and NASA have concocted an AI model to help predict the weather, but this time it is taking on space weather that might disrupt satellites and spacecraft, possibly even terrestrial power grids and the internet.…
Basic projector repair job turns into armed encounter at secret bunker
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that tells tales of your tech support misadventures.…
Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms
The head of America's consumer watchdog has issued a stark warning to some of the biggest names in the tech sphere – don't backdoor encryption or censor content at the behest of foreign governments, or there may be consequences.…
Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs
Japanese research institution RIKEN has decided it needs GPUs for its next generation “FugakuNEXT” supercomputer and has signed Nvidia to supply them and design the systems needed to get them working.…
Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back
Dwarf planet Ceres, the unpleasant lump of icy rock orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, once had an environment in which microbes might have thrived.…
Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has decided not to fire 45 workers it planned to replace with an AI chatbot.…
DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon
Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an update to its flagship large language model that the company claims is already optimized for use with a new generation of homegrown silicon.…
Developer jailed for taking down employer's network with kill switch malware
A US court sentenced a former developer at power management biz Eaton to four years in prison after he installed malware on the company’s servers.…
Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason
Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear weapons.…