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Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy
Picture this: It's 2030 and China's furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state. After deciding on a full military invasion, China attempts to first cripple its rebellious neighbor's critical infrastructure.…
Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users
Microsoft has begun distributing Windows 11 24H2 to user devices as the company enters the next stage of the operating system's rollout.…
SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes
SpaceX is not the only company involved in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mishap inquiry. Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin has also come under scrutiny after losing its New Glenn rocket's first stage.…
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap
Donald Trump, US president again by the time many of you read this, launched his own cryptocurrency – $TRUMP – on the Solana blockchain network on Friday night. By the weekend, it had hit a market cap of nearly $15 billion, although by Sunday, that value dropped when First Lady Melania Trump launched her own meme coin.…
How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish
Opinion "As obsolete as warships in the Baltic" was a great pop lyric in Prefab Sprout's 1985 gem, Faron Young. Great, but ironically obsolete itself. Sweden has just deployed multiple warships in that selfsame sea to guard against the very modern menace of underwater cable cutting.…
Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors
A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware criminals.…
BT unplugs plans to turn old cabinets into EV chargepoints
UK telecom giant BT is pulling the plug on its EV charging ambitions after falling a long way short of the 60,000 street cabinets it reckoned could be repurposed.…
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?
Who, Me? Accidents will happen, and every Monday The Register celebrates them – and your escape from the consequences – in a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that details the downside of working in tech.…
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior
Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker's accounting tools, this month after it blurted customer information to other users.…
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?
Comment Nvidia is the uncontested champion of AI infrastructure — at least in the datacenter. In the emerging field of AI PCs, things aren't so clear cut.…
Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic
Infosec in brief Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off with millions of customer records - except perhaps the wizardry of multifactor authentication.…
When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight
Asia In Brief When food delivery “superapps” started operations in Indonesia, users started putting on weight – and that’s not an entirely bad thing.…
Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service
US president-elect Donald Trump appears to have proposed the government he will soon lead should acquire half of made-in-China social media service TikTok’s stateside operations.…
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech giant has yet to acknowledge.…