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Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming
Who, Me? After a weekend of R&R, The Register welcomes you back to the working week with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace errors and indiscretions and reveal how you survived to tell the tale.…
Japan just sent origami to space to unfurl possibilities for outsized antennas
Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is celebrating after the successful Sunday launch of its Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration No. 4, which is packed with 16 intriguing payloads.…
Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite
Asia In Brief A SpaceX executive has claimed that a Chinese satellite launch came within 200 meters of hitting a Starlink satellite.…
Honeypots can help defenders, or damn them if implemented badly
Infosec In Brief The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has found that cyber-deception tactics such as honeypots and decoy accounts designed to fool attackers can be useful if implemented very carefully.…
The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years
After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.…
British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted
British Airways' chief executive has warned that the airline industry is fast heading for a future where AI agents, not humans, decide which brands get booked – and carriers that fail to adapt are at risk of quietly disappearing from the digital shop window.…
Microsoft RasMan DoS 0-day gets unofficial patch - and a working exploit
A Microsoft zero-day vulnerability that allows an unprivileged user to crash the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager (RasMan) service now has a free, unofficial patch - with no word as to when Redmond plans to release an official one - along with a working exploit circulating online.…
New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks
If you're running React Server Components, you just can't catch a break. In addition to already-reported flaws, newly discovered bugs allow attackers to hang vulnerable servers and potentially leak Server Function source code, so anyone using RSC or frameworks that support it should patch quickly.…
Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger
President Trump and his patrons in big tech have long wanted to block states from implementing their own AI regulations. After failing twice to do so in Congress, the US president has issued an executive order that would attempt to punish states that try to restrain the bot business.…
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
The total cost of a Workday implementation project at Washington University in St. Louis is set to hit almost $266 million, it was revealed after the project was the subject of protests from students.…
The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens
Earth's orbit is starting to look like an LA freeway, with more and more satellites being launched each year. If you're worried about collisions and space debris making the area unusable – and you should be – scientists have proposed a new metric to contribute to your anxiety: the CRASH Clock.…
AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns
Goldman Sachs warns that datacenter investments may fail to pay off if the industry is unable to monetize AI models, but hedges its bets by saying that demand could also overwhelm available capacity by 2030.…
Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
Microsoft is overhauling its bug bounty program to reward exploit hunters for finding vulnerabilities across all its products and services, even those without established bounty schemes.…
Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims
The US is suing a former senior manager at Accenture for allegedly misleading the government about the security of an Army cloud platform.…
Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing
Stop us if you've heard this one before. Microsoft is in court regarding allegedly sharp software licensing practices.…
UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout
Civil society groups are urging the UK's data watchdog to investigate whether the Home Office's digital-only eVisa scheme is breaching GDPR, sounding the alarm about systemic data errors and design failures that are exposing sensitive personal information while leaving migrants unable to prove their lawful status.…
Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation
Half of the internet-facing systems vulnerable to a fast-moving React remote code execution flaw remain unpatched, even as exploitation has exploded into more than a dozen active attack clusters ranging from bargain-basement cryptominers to state-linked intrusion tooling.…
Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff last week came closer to answering a multibillion-dollar question when he said seat-based pricing – with some caveats – was becoming the norm for its AI agents after flirting with pricing based on consumption and per-conversation payments.…
Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system
Despite completing its rollout of a new case management system, Home Office caseworkers are still referring back to data in a 25-year-old legacy system when processing asylum claims, according to a public spending watchdog.…
User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't
On Call Welcome once more to On Call, the Friday column in which we share stories of tech support incidents that went pear-shaped until cunning Reg readers stepped in to save the day.…