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FBI flags scam targeting Chinese speakers with bogus surgery bills
Chinese speakers in the US are being targeted as part of an aggressive health insurance scam campaign, the FBI warns.…
GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast
The supercomputing landscape is fracturing. What once was a relatively unified world of massive multi-processor x86 systems has splintered into competing architectures, each racing to serve radically different masters: traditional academic workloads, extreme-scale physics simulations, and the voracious appetite of AI training runs.…
CISA flags imminent threat as Akira ransomware starts hitting Nutanix AHV
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued new guidance to organizations on the Akira ransomware operation, which poses an imminent threat to critical sectors.…
Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica
Retro Games Ltd (RGL), the company behind THESPECTRUM and THEA500 Mini, has started accepting pre-orders for its full-size Amiga 1200 replica, THEA1200.…
Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike
The Shenzhou-20 astronauts have returned to Earth on the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft after engineers deemed the Shenzhou-20 vehicle unsafe following a debris strike while it was docked to the Tiangong space station.…
The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta
The holiday season is almost upon us, but the new gear on gamers' wish lists won't arrive until next year.…
Google pitches EU on adtech fixes to dodge breakup after €2.95B slap
Google has proposed a plan to the European Commission aimed at addressing antitrust concerns following a €2.95 billion fine imposed on the company for its online advertising practices.…
Europe's IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold
IT spending in Europe will grow 11 percent next year to hit $1.4 trillion amid a desire for cloud sovereignty, according to Gartner.…
Tales from the pit: AI and the software engineer
Feature Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way software gets built, tested, and maintained — but not in the simplistic, headline-grabbing sense of "AI replacing developers."…
Report blasts UK Ministry of Defence over Afghan data-handling failures
The UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed to appropriately improve its data protection mechanisms, three years after the infamous 2022 Afghan data breach.…
Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares
Opinion At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas, more than 75 percent of voting shares backed a compensation deal for CEO Elon Musk that would make him history's first trillionaire.…
UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK
Microsoft's attempt to claim that its software can't be resold has hit a wall at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, which decided that Office having clipart does not mean customers can't sell their licenses on.…
Digital overhaul at UK's NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late
The UK's state-owned savings bank has blown past its budget by £1.3 billion on a digital transformation program beset by delays, according to the National Audit Office.…
Clop claims it hacked 'the NHS.' Which bit? Your guess is as good as theirs
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is investigating claims of a cyberattack by extortion crew Clop.…
Execs make rules that control AI usage, then break them for their own work
More than two-thirds of corporate executives say they've violated their own AI usage policies in the past three months, and over half of the leaders also ranked security and compliance as the greatest AI implementation challenge.…
Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of tech support troubles and other workplace woes.…
Chinese web giant Tencent can't buy all the GPUs it wants
Chinese web giant Tencent’s capital expenditure is slowing and the company expects it will decelerate further due to its inability to buy all the GPUs it wants.…
Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving
Kubernetes maintainers have decided it’s not worth trying to save Ingress NGINX and will instead stop work on the project and retire it in March 2026.…
Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded
Chinese cyber spies used Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool to attempt digital break-ins at about 30 high-profile companies and government organizations – and the government-backed snoops "succeeded in a small number of cases," according to a Thursday report from the AI company.…
Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects
Picture the scene: It's Christmas morning and your child is happily chatting with the AI-enabled teddy bear you got them when you hear it telling them about sexual kinks, where to find the knives, and how to light matches. This is not a hypothetical scenario. …