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Make Windows 11 more useful and less annoying with these 11 Registry hacks
hands on Windows 11 has a number of puzzling or annoying UI changes from Windows 10 that power users might wish to change. But you can't make these tweaks from the Settings menu or even the legacy Control Panel. To make these changes, you’ll need to edit the Registry.…
SaaS vendors are hiking costs faster than inflation, but squeaky wheels can still get deals
SaaS vendors are increasing prices faster than both inflation and the typical growth rate of corporate IT budgets, but Gartner VP analyst Jo Liversidge thinks that canny buyers can reduce their bills by anticipating price hikes and planning to negotiate hard.…
Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact
The UK has struck a defense deal with US spy-tech biz Palantir, which the government says will unlock £1.5 billion ($2 billion) of investment in Britain.…
Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry
On Friday, President Trump signed a presidential proclamation to sharply raise the cost of employing H-1B workers by restricting entry unless employers make a $100,000 payment with the petition.…
Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity
AI model training and serving require vast quantities of power, but not necessarily all at once. With the first of several gigawatt-scale datacenters due to come online next year, Meta is looking at ways to offload excess energy capacity by selling it on the wholesale market.…
ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt
ChatGPT can be tricked via cleverly worded prompts to violate its own policies and solve CAPTCHA puzzles, potentially making this human-proving security mechanism obsolete, researchers say.…
Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000
Chinese AI darling DeepSeek's now infamous R1 research report was published in the Journal Nature this week, alongside new information on the compute resources required to train the model. Unfortunately, some people got the wrong idea about just how expensive it was to create.…
Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says
An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.…
Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees
Comment Microsoft suspects that a "transformative shift" is being driven in personal and enterprise computing by its Copilot+ PCs and an expanding Windows on Arm ecosystem.…
Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe faces a tougher mission after new measurements revealed its target asteroid is nearly three times smaller and spinning about twice as fast as originally estimated.…
Ding ding: Fortra rings the perfect-10 bell over latest GoAnywhere MFT bug
Budding ransomware crooks have another shot at exploiting Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT product now that a new 10/10 severity vulnerability needs patching.…
Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants
A US court has cleared the way for the National Science Foundation to press ahead with the cancellation of more than 1,700 research grants worth upwards of $1 billion. …
Scattered Spider teen cuffed after buying games and meals with extortion bitcoin
Thalha Jubair, one of the two UK teens arrested on Tuesday and accused of being members of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime gang, allegedly played a role in bilking more than 100 organizations out of at least $115 million in ransom payments. The cops nabbed him after following a number of clues, including paying for gift cards from a wallet on the same server that also held wallets receiving extortion payments.…
One token to pwn them all: Entra ID bug could have granted access to every tenant
A security researcher claims to have found a flaw that could have handed him the keys to almost every Entra ID tenant worldwide.…
Nice try, sinners: Pope nixes idea of AI pontiff blessing netizens
Pope Leo XIV has crucified the idea of creating an AI version which would've allowed Catholics around the world to have a virtual audience with him – without the need for a trip to Vatican City.…
User group says SAP's licensing models make cloud migration harder
SAP's German-speaking user group has warned that the enterprise software giant's current licensing regime is creating unwanted difficulties in launching cloud migration and upgrade projects.…
OpenAI plugs ShadowLeak bug in ChatGPT that let miscreants raid inboxes
ChatGPT's research assistant sprung a leak – since patched – that let attackers steal Gmail secrets with just a single carefully crafted email.…
Charities warn Ofcom too soft on Online Safety Act violators
As UK ministers continue to quiz stakeholders over the effectiveness of the Online Safety Act, one charity chief raised concerns over the robustness of Ofcom's enforcement of the controversial legislation.…
British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown
The inaugural finals of the UK Excel Championship have come and gone, and there is now one spreadsheet wrangler to rule them all, at least in the United Kingdom.…
Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel
On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday frolic through your tales of delightful tech support encounters.…