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Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery
Who, Me? The world of work can sometimes drive IT pros to drink, leaving them more likely to make the sort of mistakes that The Register celebrates each week in Who, Me? It’s our reader-contributed column in which you share stories of making a mess at work, and cleaning up afterwards to the best of your ability.…
Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs
Dell CEO Michael Dell is part of the consortium that intends to acquire TikTok’s US operations, according to US president Donald Trump.…
Tech troubles create aviation chaos on both sides of the Atlantic
Technology problems hit the commercial aviation industry hard over the weekend, leading to hundreds of cancelled flights and myriad delays on both sides of the Atlantic.…
Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won’t bother Beijing
Asia In Brief Huawei last week revealed that China’s Zhejiang University used its Ascend 1000 accelerators to create a version of DeepSeek’s R1 model that improves on the original by producing fewer responses that China’s government would rather avoid.…
Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits
Infosec in brief Online criminals prefer to deal in digital assets, but a side effect of a ransomware attack has seen a French museum robbed of $705,000 in physical gold nuggets.…
Firewall upgrade linked to three deaths after Australian telco cut off emergency calls
Australian telco Optus says its staff may not have followed established processes when a firewall upgrade they conducted resulted in customers not being able to call emergency emergency services for fourteen hours – a period during which it is thought three of the carrier’s customers died after trying to seek help, according to the company's CEO.…
Make Windows 11 more useful and less annoying with these 11 Registry hacks
hands on Windows 11 has a number of puzzling or annoying UI changes from Windows 10 that power users might wish to change. But you can't make these tweaks from the Settings menu or even the legacy Control Panel. To make these changes, you’ll need to edit the Registry.…
SaaS vendors are hiking costs faster than inflation, but squeaky wheels can still get deals
SaaS vendors are increasing prices faster than both inflation and the typical growth rate of corporate IT budgets, but Gartner VP analyst Jo Liversidge thinks that canny buyers can reduce their bills by anticipating price hikes and planning to negotiate hard.…
Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact
The UK has struck a defense deal with US spy-tech biz Palantir, which the government says will unlock £1.5 billion ($2 billion) of investment in Britain.…
Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry
On Friday, President Trump signed a presidential proclamation to sharply raise the cost of employing H-1B workers by restricting entry unless employers make a $100,000 payment with the petition.…
Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity
AI model training and serving require vast quantities of power, but not necessarily all at once. With the first of several gigawatt-scale datacenters due to come online next year, Meta is looking at ways to offload excess energy capacity by selling it on the wholesale market.…
ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt
ChatGPT can be tricked via cleverly worded prompts to violate its own policies and solve CAPTCHA puzzles, potentially making this human-proving security mechanism obsolete, researchers say.…
Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000
Chinese AI darling DeepSeek's now infamous R1 research report was published in the Journal Nature this week, alongside new information on the compute resources required to train the model. Unfortunately, some people got the wrong idea about just how expensive it was to create.…
Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says
An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.…
Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees
Comment Microsoft suspects that a "transformative shift" is being driven in personal and enterprise computing by its Copilot+ PCs and an expanding Windows on Arm ecosystem.…
Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe faces a tougher mission after new measurements revealed its target asteroid is nearly three times smaller and spinning about twice as fast as originally estimated.…
Ding ding: Fortra rings the perfect-10 bell over latest GoAnywhere MFT bug
Budding ransomware crooks have another shot at exploiting Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT product now that a new 10/10 severity vulnerability needs patching.…
Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants
A US court has cleared the way for the National Science Foundation to press ahead with the cancellation of more than 1,700 research grants worth upwards of $1 billion. …
Scattered Spider teen cuffed after buying games and meals with extortion bitcoin
Thalha Jubair, one of the two UK teens arrested on Tuesday and accused of being members of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime gang, allegedly played a role in bilking more than 100 organizations out of at least $115 million in ransom payments. The cops nabbed him after following a number of clues, including paying for gift cards from a wallet on the same server that also held wallets receiving extortion payments.…
One token to pwn them all: Entra ID bug could have granted access to every tenant
A security researcher claims to have found a flaw that could have handed him the keys to almost every Entra ID tenant worldwide.…