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Imagine your favorite app encouraging you to surrender during a war. That's happening right now in Iran.…

GrapheneOS is headed to Motorola smartphones in 2027, pending hardware from the Lenovo-owned brand that satisfies the privacy-focused Android fork's requirements.…

The Pentagon has confirmed that US forces struck Iranian targets using weapons that are copies of Iran's own Shahed 136 suicide drones.…

The UK's cybersecurity agency is warning British organizations to brace for potential digital blowback as the Middle East conflict spills further into the online world.…

It seems like just yesterday that the 5G rollout started. Now, at Mobile World Congress, major companies are already talking about commercializing 6G. Never mind that binding 6G standards haven't been nailed down yet.…

Datacenters increasingly want dedicated power, and Singapore has a unique solution. Bridge Data Centres (BDC) and Concord New Energy (CNE) are working to put hydrogen power generators on barges, saying that this arrangement is particularly suited to the local environment.…

The Go team has approved generic methods, reversing a longstanding position in the language's FAQ. The proposal, from Go co-designer Robert Griesemer, now moves to implementation.…

Averse to "liquid glass"? Are you happy enough with your Mac as it is? Try this local policy and banish those upgrade nag screens for a few months.…

NASA has reshuffled its Artemis program, pushing the first crewed lunar landing in more than half a century back to Artemis IV, with Artemis III performing a check-out of the lunar lander in Earth orbit.…

Data warehousing and analytics biz Teradata and SAP have ended their long-running legal dispute after the German ERP vendor agreed to cough up $480 million to bring the fighting to a close.…

Web scraping bots are increasing the pressure on the tech supply chain by scouring sites for DRAM, so their minders can snap up increasingly scarce inventory and resell it for a quick profit.…

Scammers targeted Dubai citizens mere hours after missiles struck the city, attempting to gain access to their bank accounts, police have warned.…

Windows 11 has leapt ahead of Windows 10 in market share, according to the latest Statcounter figures.…

The new beta of the next version of Firefox lets you view two web pages side by side, with a split you can drag with your mouse.…

Iran's internet has plunged into a near-total blackout, with traffic down to around 1 percent of normal levels and connectivity described as "close to zero" as authorities curb access amid widening regional conflict.…

Opinion There is more joy in heaven over a single report of genuinely new technology than in a thousand desperate AI marketing pitches. What the angels will make of Microsoft's Project Silica, a mixture of the two, is less clear.…

The Document Foundation (TDF) has pulled LibreOffice Online out of its "attic" – its term for retired projects – and is resuming development.…

Who, Me? A weekend of unwinding is behind us, so The Register returns to work on Monday with a fresh installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column that reveals how you got in a tangle, and then extricated yourself.…

OpenAI has signed a deal with the United States Department of War (DoW) that allows use of its advanced AI systems in classified environments, and urged the Pentagon to make the same terms available to its rivals.…

Infosec In Brief DNS vulnerabilities are being addressed 84 percent faster in the UK public sector thanks to an automated vulnerability scanning system established as part of a program kicked off early last year.…