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Appeals court revives lawsuit alleging IBM bilked pensioners
IBM may have seen off a lawsuit accusing it of using outdated mortality data to underfund retiree pensions, but an appeals court has now reopened the matter to further litigation.…
Ukraine's techies a 'pillar of support' for national economy after Russian invasion
Ukraine's technology industry has held up during Russia's invasion, with activity falling markedly less than other industries and increasing as a proportion of national exports since 2019.…
UK convicts five romance fraudsters who stole millions from duped singles
Five romance scammers-turned-money launderers were convicted in the UK today after police shuttered a multimillion-pound fraud operation.…
US DoE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land
The US Department of Energy (DoE) is looking to co-locate datacenters with energy generation facilities to further America's AI ambitions, and is putting up its own land for this purpose.…
Windows 11 poised to beat 10, mostly because it has to
The gap between Windows 10 and Windows 11 continues to narrow, and Microsoft's flagship operating system is on track to finally surpass its predecessor by summer.…
Ubuntu 25.04 beta takes flight – but this Plucky Puffin is still molting
The beta version of Ubuntu 25.04, the next interim release of this Linux OS, has arrived.…
30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery?
Maintaining good-quality backups is often seen as the spine of any organization's ability to recover from cyberattacks quickly. Naturally, given the emphasis placed on them by experts of all stripes, you'd be forgiven for thinking that prioritizing them over anything else would be the way to go.…
Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption
Governments continue to adopt cloud services, for better or worse, hoping to modernize their IT services, leading big cloud operators to aggressively court public sector bodies for lucrative contracts.…
Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system
The effectiveness of new IT systems designed to speed up asylum claim processing in the UK continues to be held back by the Home Office's failure to decommission its 25-year-old case management database, five years after it promised to retire it.…
Alan Turing Institute: UK can't handle a fight against AI-enabled crims
The National Crime Agency (NCA) will "closely examine" the recommendations made by the Alan Turing Institute after it claimed the UK was ill-equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime.…
How do you explain what magnetic fields do to monitors to people wearing bowling shoes?
On Call The working week sometimes speeds by, sometimes crawls, and often ends with a crash. Each Friday, we try to avert the latter by delivering a new edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed tales of handling ridiculous, ribald, and remarkable tech support requests.…
Ex-ASML, NXP staffer accused of stealing chip secrets, peddling them to Moscow
A Russian national appeared in a Netherlands court on Thursday accused of industrial espionage against ASML, the world’s leading manufacturer of chip factory equipment and a key supplier that helps the likes of TSMC pump out top-drawer processors.…
Retirement funds reportedly raided after unexplained portal probes and data theft
Australian retirement fund operators are scrambling after reports emerged of unauthorized access to customer accounts leading to theft of cash.…
China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too
Chinese chip designer Loongson, whose products have been promoted by China’s government, has teased two new designs that will make it more of a contender for mobile and industrial applications. It may also have a new server up its sleeve.…
Signalgate: Pentagon watchdog probes Defense Sec Hegseth
A US Department of Defense watchdog has opened an investigation into its own Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, over his use of instant-messaging app Signal to discuss government business.…
Flux off: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat
The US govt's Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency, aka CISA, on Thursday urged organizations, internet service providers, and security firms to strengthen defenses against so-called fast flux attacks.…
Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud
Microsoft's Windows 365 Link has reached general availability, although some may question its value.…
Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years
Suspected Chinese government spies have been exploiting a newly disclosed critical bug in Ivanti VPN appliances since mid-March. This is now at least the third time in three years these snoops have been pwning these products.…
Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance
The first batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites is due to be lofted into orbit next week.…
When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance
As Benjamin Franklin famously said: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and that's especially true when it comes to disaster recovery.…