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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.…
Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers
Huawei's business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from local telco networks.…
Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk
Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world's largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have allowed miscreants to manipulate temperatures and spoil food and medicine, leading to massive supply-chain disruptions.…
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector
Register debate series Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed it expects to spend £9 billion with the software giant over five years.…
Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane
A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on Russia.…
In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception
Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.…
Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins
Chinese web giant Alibaba has reduced network outages by 92 percent, cut load balancing costs by 18.9 percent, and found ways to improve SmartNIC performance by offloading workloads to idle infrastructure.…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity'
Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.…
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber
A team of networking boffins has published fresh research on hollow fiber cables that it claims could offer the lowest ever recorded optical loss for a fiber – meaning the signal would weaken less as it travels, leading to faster speeds and lower latencies.…
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty
Happy Labor Day. The US administration has removed union recognition from NASA as budget cuts and layoffs loom.…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire
Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget alerts.…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University
A research group funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to invest £118 million ($169.6 million) in applying AI to vaccine research with the UK's Oxford University.…
Norway's £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships
Norway has ordered British-made Type 26 frigates in a contract valued at roughly £10 billion to the UK economy, but this may delay the introduction of the Royal Navy's own desperately needed ships.…
DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that's getting bigger. Let's kill it off
Opinion Agatha Christie stuck a dagger in the notion that crime doesn't pay. With sales of between two and four billion books – fittingly, the exact number is a mystery – she built a career out of murder that out-bloodied Jack the Ripper. It's a fair bet that had she chosen to write about accountancy fraud instead, her sales would be between two and four billion fewer. Some crime is sexy. Some is not.…
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print
Researchers at security firm Pangea have discovered yet another way to trivially trick large language models (LLMs) into ignoring their guardrails. Stick your adversarial instructions somewhere in a legal document to give them an air of unearned legitimacy – a trick familiar to lawyers the world over.…
ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict desctructive coronal ejections
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter probe has pinpointed the source of electrons expelled by the Sun, with implications for forecasting space weather.…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA
Who, Me? No two mistakes are the same, but The Register thinks they're all worth celebrating each Monday when we serve up a fresh edition of Who, Me? – the reader-contributed column in which we share your most magnificent messes, and your means of making it out alive.…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks
Internet traffic to government domains often flows across borders, relies on a worryingly small number of network connections, or does not require encryption, according to new research.…