TheRegister

Subscribe to TheRegister feed TheRegister
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Updated: 52 min 18 sec ago

Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again

1 hour 2 min ago
Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-off

The government-owned company that runs the UK's most important nuclear site is weighing up whether to keep its legacy SAP software running beyond the vendor's extended support deadline.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise

1 hour 47 min ago
Getting swallowed by a whale is a life-changing event no matter what the whale says

Opinion The successful, sector-defining, open source Italian embedded platform provider Arduino had a little bash in Turin recently. It made a few announcements, including a new single-board computer (SBC) with a Qualcomm system on a chip (SoC). Oh, and that it had been bought by American dragon-themed mobile chip monster Qualcomm in a deal with total fealty (WTF).…

Categories: Linux fréttir

UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders

2 hours 32 min ago
Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher

The British government is putting out feelers to industry ahead of the procurement process for the country's most powerful supercomputer, set to begin next year.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company

3 hours 32 min ago
Illicit colo cleanup seemed like a good way to get out of the house during Covid

Who, Me? Welcome to another week of nimble newsifying from The Register, which as always kicks off the working week with a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes that almost trashed your career.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Inside the belly of the beast: A technical walk through Intel's 18A production facility at Fab52

Sun, 2025-10-12 08:00
Now if Lip Bu Tan can just find a willing customer

deep dive Not long after rejoining Intel in 2021, former CEO Pat Gelsinger announced an ambitious plan to reinvent the chipmaker as a contract semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual

Sat, 2025-10-11 10:26
Nuclear power is getting hot, but don't hold your breath for everlasting batteries

A venture capital fund is looking for ideas that are out of bounds for traditional investors, seeding technology that may only come to fruition decades down the line, but where researchers can show real results in the lab.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide

Sat, 2025-10-11 08:10
You can't always get what you want

Most corporate laptop fleets consist primarily of PCs. However, there’s always a contingent of users who beg for Macs. Deciding who gets a Mac in your organization involves balancing IT’s need for simplicity, finance’s requirement to keep costs under control, and users’ desire to work with their preferred tools.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Chinese phishing kit helps scammers who send fake texts impersonate TikTok, Coinbase, others

Fri, 2025-10-10 22:01
Researchers tracking 2,158 domains hosting YYlaiyu phishing pages

Exclusive A Chinese-developed phishing kit hosted on thousands of domains and boasting 97 different brands to make criminals' scams look more believable is driving a surge in financial fraud around the globe, according to security researchers.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias

Fri, 2025-10-10 20:20
AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product

OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI

Fri, 2025-10-10 19:49
Does it work? Inconclusive. Still, 55% of business leaders say that adopting AI is worth the impact on workers

ai-pocalypse Business leaders are racing to jump aboard the AI bandwagon, and a new study from the British Standards Institute suggests young college grads are being hit hardest.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Ransomware crims that exploited SharePoint 0-days add Velociraptor to their arsenal

Fri, 2025-10-10 17:58
And they’re likely still abusing the same SharePoint flaws for initial access

The ransomware gang caught exploiting Microsoft SharePoint zero-days over the summer has added a new tool to its arsenal: Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response app not previously tied to ransomware incidents.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Kyndryl sued for firing non-white workers, disabled vet

Fri, 2025-10-10 17:30
Security team cuts allegedly targeted workers based on race, national origin, age, and whistleblowing

Five former members of Kyndryl's internal IT security team have sued the IBM spinoff alleging that they were terminated as part of a campaign targeting employees based on their race, national origin, age, disability, and whistleblowing activities.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Senate says Nvidia chips are for America first as China tightens import controls

Fri, 2025-10-10 16:28
Xi to the left of me, Trump is to the right; Huang I am, stuck in the middle with GPUs

The US Senate has passed a provision that would give US firms first dibs on advanced chips, just as China tightens customs checks on Nvidia GPUs, leaving the company caught between competing policies across the Pacific.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Zero-day in file-sharing software leads to RCE, and attacks are ongoing

Fri, 2025-10-10 15:56
Usually we’d say patch up… not this time

Security research firm Huntress is warning all users of Gladinet's CentreStack and Triofox file-sharing tools to urgently apply an available mitigation, as a zero-day is being actively exploited and there's no patch available.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

Fri, 2025-10-10 15:30
Viva Insights turns AI guzzling into a leaderboard

Microsoft is adding Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights, a tool that lets managers monitor teams to spot those that are gulping down the AI Kool-Aid fastest.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers' trap

Fri, 2025-10-10 14:16
Forescout's phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shop

Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

Fri, 2025-10-10 13:44
High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stack

US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Microsoft warns of 'payroll pirate' crew looting US university salaries

Fri, 2025-10-10 13:21
Crooks phish campus staff, slip into HR systems, and quietly reroute paychecks

Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity

Fri, 2025-10-10 12:57
Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos

NASA's Voyager project could be facing a 26 percent budget cut while the plug is pulled on other programs, according to insiders familiar with the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America

Fri, 2025-10-10 12:40
Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruption

Microsoft 365 services toppled over in North America last night due to an infrastructure misconfiguration.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Pages