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SolarWinds slams SEC lawsuit against it as 'unprecedented' victim blaming
SolarWinds – whose network monitoring software was backdoored by Russian spies so that the biz's customers could be spied upon – has accused America's financial watchdog of seeking to "revictimise the victim" after the agency sued it over the 2020 attack.…
Things are going to get weird as the nanometer era draws to a close
Comment With 3nm production reaching maturity and 2nm on the way, TSMC is reportedly laying the groundwork for the next logical step, a 1nm fab.…
Japanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk
Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government.…
CockroachDB tempts legacy databases to crawl into the cloud age
CockroachDB has released its 23.2 iteration containing new features designed to tempt mainframe and other legacy database users to shift workloads to its distributed cloud-based system.…
X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety
Not long after it emerged that X, formerly Twitter, cut 1 in 3 Trust and Safety employees after Elon Musk's takeover in October 2022, the social media platform now claims it's ready to hire 100 full-time content moderators at a new office in Austin, Texas.…
Japan's lander wakes up, takes blurry snap of Moon
Japan's Moon lander has woken up on the lunar surface and begun transmitting data back to controllers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA.)…
Amazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators
Amazon's $1.7 billion bid to buy iRobot is off, and while Jeff Bezos's business faces a termination fee, almost a third of vacuum maker's staff face termination of an altogether different nature.…
DEA nabs $150M from dark web drug lord based... in Coventry
A dark web drug kingpin has handed more than $150 million in cryptocurrency to US authorities and pleaded guilty to selling hundreds of kilograms of drugs over the internet.…
Microsoft confirms Windows Server 2025 is on the way
Microsoft is unleashing build 26040 of Windows Server and has revealed the official branding for the product: Windows Server 2025.…
GPS interference now a major flight safety concern for airline industry
Europe's aviation safety body is working with the airline industry to counter a danger posed by interference with GPS signals - now seen as a growing threat to the safety of air travel.…
The real significance of Apple's Macintosh
Apple launched the original 128 kB Macintosh around 40 years ago, and in so doing changed the computer industry, in ways that a lot of people still don't fully understand.…
Cruise being investigated over car crash that dragged victim along the road
AI in brief The US Department of Justice and Securities Exchange Commission are both launching investigations into the Cruise accident that hit a woman and dragged her for six meters (20 feet) under the wheels of its driverless car.…
Native Chrome arrives fashionably late to the Windows on ARM party
It was a while coming, but Google has finally made a Windows on ARM-native version of Chrome.…
ESA gives gravitational wave space probe LISA the nod for a 2035 launch
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed off on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves from space.…
That runaway datacenter power grab is the best news for net zero this century
Opinion Datacenter power is a shocking business. The latest report from the International Energy Agency makes some hair-raising predictions, such as Irish datacenter electricity usage making up a third of that country's total juice budget by 2026.…
One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic
Who, Me? Why hello, dear reader – fancy seeing you here again on a Monday – the slot we The Register reserves for a fresh instalment of Who, Me? in which Register readers share their tales of tech tribulations.…
ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has proposed creating a new top-level domain (TLD) and never allowing it to be delegated in the global domain name system (DNS) root.…
Eyeing China, US may require clouds to report when foreign actors rent kit to build AI models
US-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) operators could soon be required to strengthen know-your-customer (KYC) procedures in order to prevent foreign actors renting the infrastructure needed to train AI models.…
Tencent explores a future where HPC, quantum, cloud and edge have converged
Chinese tech giant Tencent has predicted that high-performance computing (HPC), quantum computing, cloud computing and edge computing will soon merge.…
Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion
Linus Torvalds has dished up one of his most strongly worded Linux kernel mailing list posts in years, lashing a contributor from Google for his suggestions regarding filesystems.…