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Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University have sounded the alarm on "gaming-adjacent platforms" including Discord, Twitch, and Steam being used as "digital playgrounds" to funnel new recruits into far-right and other extremist ideologies – with a focus on those showing interest in "hyper-masculine gaming titles."…

Windows 11 is maintaining its lead over Windows 10, but millions of PCs are still running Microsoft's legacy operating system with less than three months until support ends.…

Britain should not try to compete with America and China in the race to build cutting-edge AI models and focus instead on widespread AI adoption, but even this will require a boost local compute capacity.…

The former "Project Banana" now has a more sober name, albeit one a bit trickier to search for.…

In the beginning there was Jeff Bezos. He created Amazon in 1994 and became filthy rich in the decades that followed, reaching a net worth exceeding $241 billion in 2025.…

The founder of a German mobile phone repair and insurance biz has begun insolvency proceedings for some operations in his company after struggling financially following a costly ransomware attack in 2023.…

Opinion The details of cloud data regionalization are rarely the stuff of great drama. When they’ve reached the level of an exe admitting to the Senate that a foreign power can help itself to that nations data, no matter where it lives, things get interesting.…

The UK government has reported that an additional five million age checks are being made daily as UK-based internet users seek to access age-restricted sites following the implementation of the Online Safety Act."…

Till Kamppeter, the lead developer of the OpenPrinting subsystem for Linux, has been laid off by Canonical after 19 years.…

Who, Me? Welcome to the opening day of another working week, an occasion The Register always celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the Monday column that revisits readers' worst moments at work, and celebrates your ability to rebound and reinvent in their wake.…

China’s attempts to censor traffic carried using Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) are imperfect and have left the country at risk of attacks that degrade its censorship apparatus, or even cut access to offshore DNS resolvers.…

Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy from its cloudy resources last week, before restoring access ahead of a court clash.…

Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration last week reported increased uptake of IPv6.…

Infosec In Brief North Korea’s Lazarus Group has changed tactics and is now creating malware-laden open source software.…

interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and account information, thus allowing them to drain their accounts.…

Being able to forecast future capacity requirements is a growing concern for datacenter operators as they face conflicting factors such as rising costs, power constraints, and meeting the demands of AI workloads.…

Interview Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's laptop has a following of people who collect old models and celebrate each new innovation.…

Reddit has found that trafficking in human-authored content pays well in the AI era.…

CISA is using the findings from a recent probe of an unidentified critical infrastructure organization to warn about the dangers of getting cybersecurity seriously wrong.…

After two weeks of testimony, a Florida jury has found Tesla partially responsible for the death of one person and causing serious injuries to another in a crash where the driver was using the company's much-touted Autopilot system.…