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UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act
Amid the furor around surging VPN usage in the UK, many users are eyeing proxies as a potential alternative to the technology.…
After 30 years PHP still evolving: Team adds pipe operator, considers generics
The PHP team is considering adding a partial implementation of generics to the language, has confirmed that a pipe operator will be in the forthcoming 8.5 release, and has formally adopted the FrankenPHP app server into the PHP Foundation.…
Behold the wood-block wonder of the Kilopixel display
Feature In a world where resolution, refresh rates, and frames per second can generate furious discussion, sometimes it's good to kick back and let a wood-flipping robot take the strain. Welcome to Kilopixel.…
Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK
Opinion One of the dangers of stories based on big cash numbers is distraction. The numbers get all the attention, the bigger story behind them gets missed.…
Tech support team won pay rise for teaching customers how to RTFM
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of helping confused, caustic, and curmudgeonly customers to crank their computers into correct configurations.…
Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act
Opinion You might think, since I write about tech all the time, my degrees are in computer science. Nope. I'm a bona fide, degreed historian, which is why I can say with confidence that the UK's recently passed Online Safety Act is doomed to fail.…
North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme
Institutions in the North of England are being left out of the government's Global Talent Fund (GTF), designed to attract top scientific brains from abroad to come and work in Britain.…
Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them
The US Air Force wants to blow up two Tesla Cybertrucks.…
Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0’s speed and reach 256.0 GT/s
The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has confirmed that version 8.0 of the PCI Express (PCIe) specification will allow up to 256 gigatransfers per second, which equates to up to 1 TB/s bi-directionally in a x16 configuration.…
$500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board
The $500 billion Stargate project that aims to build a network of AI datacenters around the globe is off to a slow start, but its main backer – Japan’s SoftBank – isn’t worried.…
Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them?
Black Hat Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it's much easier and cheaper just to hack them.…
OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations
OpenAI unveiled its most capable model yet on Thursday with the launch of GPT-5.…
German security researchers say 'Windows Hell No' to Microsoft biometrics for biz
Black Hat Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows users to shift from using passwords to its Hello biometrics system, but researchers sponsored by the German government have found a critical flaw in its business implementation.…
AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028
The US government is about to get more AWS in more places thanks to a new $1 billion deal between Uncle Sam and Amazon. …
Microsoft, CISA warn yet another Exchange server bug can lead to 'total domain compromise'
Microsoft and the feds late Wednesday sounded the alarm on another high-severity bug in Exchange Server hybrid deployments that could allow attackers to escalate privileges from on-premises Exchange to the cloud.…
NASA changes the rules of the game for commercial space stations
NASA has moved the goalposts for companies seeking to replace the aging International Space Station (ISS) and changed the minimum capability required to four crew for one-month "increments." The change means that the permanent occupation of the ISS will be a thing of the past, at least as far as the US space agency is concerned.…
Politically hot parts of US Constitution briefly deleted thanks to 'coding error'
Several sections of the online annotated US Constitution maintained by the Library of Congress vanished recently due to what the Library maintains was a coding error. However, the content of the now-restored sections has raised suspicions that the move was political. …
Euro Commish on US lobbying against EU DSA rules: 'Our standards are not up for discussion'
The second Trump administration has repeatedly complained about Europe's tech laws targeting Silicon Valley's finest, but now its antipathy is going into overdrive.…
Black Hat's network ops center brings rivals together for a common cause
Black Hat Neil "Grifter" Wyler is spending the week "looking for a needle in a needle stack," a task he'll perform from the network operations center (NOC) that powers the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.…
CISA releases malware analysis for Sharepoint Server attack
CISA has published a malware analysis report with compromise indicators and Sigma rules for "ToolShell" attacks targeting specific Microsoft SharePoint Server versions.…