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America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive – he just isn't saying when.…

Google pushed an emergency patch on Monday for a high-severity Chrome bug that attackers have already found and exploited in the wild.…

Gartner warns that fossil fuel dominance in on-site power generation is not sustainable, given the rapid rise in datacenter energy consumption due to AI servers.…

A Sydney resident died after their Samsung handset failed to connect to 000, Australia's primary emergency number, triggering a stark warning from telco TPG that outdated mobile software could be a matter of life or death.…

Microsoft has shipped a fix for commercial customers who believed they were enrolled in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program but received error messages on the first Patch Tuesday after support ended.…

The European Commission has launched investigations into Amazon and Microsoft's cloud services, and plans to review if legislation introduced in 2022 is being applied effectively to the cloud market.…

NetApp has accused its former senior vice president and CTO of secretly building a rival cloud control platform while still on its payroll, triggering an urgent legal scramble.…

Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.…

Breaking Internet services provider Cloudflare is suffering a major outage that has knocked chunks of the web offline – including The Register.…

Gen Z can get off their digital high horses because their passwords are no more secure than their grandparents'.…

A Dutch wind farm operator learned the hard way that its turbines weren't just spinning to generate electricity – they were also powering someone else's crypto wallet.…

A Chinese-led team of boffins has uncovered tiny grains of hematite and maghemite in materials scooped from the Moon's far-side South Pole-Aitken Basin by the Chang'e 6 probe – iron oxides more at home on rusty tools on Earth than on our bone-dry satellite.…

SC25 France will get its first exascale supercomputer — Europe's second — when Atos subsidiary Eviden builds Alice Recoque using AMD chips.…

Servo is an all-new and all-Rust browser rendering engine. As Mozilla falters, it's the world's best option for avoiding a Google monopoly.…

While UK households face some of the world's highest energy prices, datacenter operators are set to receive electricity discounts under government plans to accelerate AI infrastructure development.…

Britain's biggest mobile phone companies face legal action over claims they overcharged customers through a "loyalty penalty" after a tribunal permitted the cases to proceed.…

AI assistants can sometimes provide misleading or incorrect answers. However, almost half of British consumers using the services put more faith in them than they maybe should.…

Researchers have found Starlink’s efforts to mitigate the effects of solar storms can create degraded performance that persists for a day or more after geomagnetic conditions ease.…

Chinese tech giant Alibaba yesterday launched a new chatbot that reported errors soon after launch and is very touchy about some subjects Beijing doesn’t like to discuss.…

VMware has admitted that its guidance about the hardware needed to run its vSAN virtual storage arrays has been wrong for years.…