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Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit on an Atlas V
Amazon’s first attempt to hoist production versions of its Project Kuiper broadband-beaming satellites appears to have succeeded.…
Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users
Researchers at Canada’s Citizen Lab have spotted a phishing campaign and supply chain attack directed at Uyghur people living outside China, and suggest it’s an example of Beijing’s attempts to target the ethnic minority group.…
Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus
Former Disney employee Michael Scheuer was sentenced to 36 months in prison and fined almost $688,000 for screwing up a software application the entertainment giant used to cook up its restaurant menus.…
Cybersecurity CEO accused of running malware on hospital PC blabs about it on LinkedIn
An Oklahoma City cybersecurity professional accused of installing spyware on a hospital PC confirmed on LinkedIn key details of the drama.…
How to survive as a CISO aka 'chief scapegoat officer'
RSAC Chief security officers should negotiate personal liability insurance and a golden parachute when they start a new job – in case things go sideways and management tries to scapegoat them for a network breach.…
Admission impossible: NSA, CISA brass absent from RSA Conf
RSAC There's a notable absence from this year's RSA Conference that kicked off today in San Francisco: The NSA's State of the Hack panel.…
DOGE may help Elon Musk's biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe
The Trump-blessed DOGE unit could help its boss Elon Musk avoid more than $2.37 billion in potential legal liabilities by stripping power from the regulators tasked with supervising the billionaire's businesses. …
Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky
AST SpaceMobile says it is working with US astronomers and America's National Science Foundation (NSF) to mitigate the impact of satellites on observations, after a prototype became one of the brightest objects in the sky a couple of years back.…
CNCF tells main NATS contributor Synadia that it's free to fork off
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has filed a petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office to prevent Synadia from using the logo and domain for NATS, the open source messaging system.…
State Dept reorg could harm US in tech battle with China
The US State Department announced a major reorg this month, and the changes could weaken America's ability to counter China's growing technological influence.…
Artist formerly known as Indian Business Machines pledges $150B for US ops, R&D
Comment IBM – a company understood to employ at least one-third of its global workforce in India and Bangladesh – is pledging to spend $150 billion over the next half decade on making America great again.…
From PlayStation to routers, you've probably been using FreeBSD without knowing it
Interview Many FOSS projects are backed by nonprofit foundations. One such example is the FreeBSD Foundation, started by Meta software engineer Justin T Gibbs. He spoke with The Register about the project's copyright philosophy, what the foundation does, and why it matters.…
EU Chips Act heading for failure, time for Chips Act 2.0
The European Chips Act is unlikely to meet its target of hitting a 20 percent share of the global semiconductor market by 2030.…
Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline
A massive power outage has left Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France without electricity, and the cause has yet to be identified.…
Windows profanity filter finally gets a ******* off switch
Customer feedback wins – Microsoft is adding a toggle to turn off the Windows 11 profanity filter.…
From 112k to 4 million folks' data – HR biz attack goes from bad to mega bad
Houston-based VeriSource Services' long-running probe into a February 2024 digital break-in shows the data of 4 million people – not just a few hundred thousand as it first claimed - was accessed by an "unknown actor".…
4chan back online after 'catastrophic' attack, says it's too broke for good IT
Clearweb cesspit 4chan is back up and running, but says the damage caused by a cyberattack earlier this month was "catastrophic."…
Fujitsu and its no public sector bids promises... what happened to them?
Comment It's easy to miss £125 million ($166 million). It could happen to anyone. Take Paul Patterson, for example. In January 2024, the director of Fujitsu Services Ltd emailed the UK government's commercial arm to confirm the Japanese tech services provider would pause bidding for public sector work after the Post Office Horizon scandal became public knowledge.…
Even untouched by tariffs, UK financial IT braces for the blow
The ripple effects of recent US tariffs could hit sectors well beyond those currently in the firing line, or so warns TechMarketView.…
Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%
In the months following Tesla CEO and Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, now rebranded to X, business collapsed in the UK, according to recently filed profit and loss accounts for the year ended December 31 2023.…