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Windows 11 24H2 now 'broadly available' ... complete with yet another 'known issue'
Microsoft is celebrating the milestone of Windows 11 24H2 reaching broad availability with… yet another "known issue." This time, it is related to Azure Virtual Desktop applications.…
30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world
Before Donald Trump became US president and the UK left the EU – both arguably the result of a new kind of online politics – a rather nervous-looking Mark Zuckerberg shuffled out onto a Harvard University lecture hall floor to offer some insight into the inner workings of a website he had created less than two years earlier.…
Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill
Exclusive The brain-inspired SpiNNaker machine at Manchester University suffered an overheating incident over the Easter weekend that will send a chill down the spines of datacenter administrators.…
Culture comes first in cybersecurity. That puts cybersecurity on the front line in the culture wars
Opinion It is a nation's first duty to protect its citizens from harm. A fine maxim, and one we can all agree on, even in these disagreeable times. Sadly, that's as far as it goes. What the harm is and how to protect against it is where light turns to heat.…
Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet
A Commodore-themed talking Linux desktop, complete with hundreds of games, makes for the biggest distro we've seen yet.…
Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us
RSAC Corporate AI models are already skewed to serve their makers' interests, and unless governments and academia step up to build transparent alternatives, the tech risks becoming just another tool for commercial manipulation.…
Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans
Microsoft partners can now tailor private offers that allow buyers to vary the amount and timing of payments for some SaaS products and services.…
Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches?
Omnissa, the company that acquired VMware’s end-user compute portfolio, is moving beyond its traditional territory of managing endpoint devices and into server management.…
China's Loongson gets OpenStack boost from Inspur on its MIPS-y silicon
Chinese chip designer Loongson claims more than 100 products now run on its homegrown LoongArch architecture, including an OpenStack-based cloud stack from domestic hyperscale heavyweight Inspur.…
CISA slammed for role in 'censorship industrial complex' as budget faces possible $500M cut
President Trump's dream 2026 budget would gut the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, by $491 million - about 17 percent – and accuses the organization of abandoning its core mission in favor of policing online speech.…
IT pros are caught between an AI rock and an economic hard place
The US jobs market grew faster than expected in April, but most IT pros aren’t among the beneficiaries.…
Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess
An unidentified miscreant is said to have obtained US government communications from TeleMessage, a messaging and archiving app based on the open-source Signal app and used by ousted national security advisor Michael Waltz.…
OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge
OpenAI's contentious plan to overhaul its corporate structure in favor of a conventional for-profit model has been reworked, with the AI giant bowing to pressure to keep its nonprofit in control, even as it presses ahead with parts of the restructuring.…
Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine
Who, Me? One of the joys of Monday mornings is arriving at work to find messes made over the weekend. The other is reading a new edition of Who, Me? It's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of somehow recovering from failure.…
Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’
US President Donald Trump has said TikTok will be “very strongly protected” as the made-in-China social network has “a warm spot in my heart”.…
India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease
PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more! India’s ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing player went backwards last week after two big players changed their plans.…
Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers
Infosec In Brief Microsoft has decided to push its consumer customers to dump password in favor of passkeys.…
RSAC wrap: AI and China on everything, everywhere, all at once
RSAC Another RSAC has come and gone, with almost 44,000 attendees this year spread across San Francisco's Moscone Center and the surrounding facilities, according to conference organizers. Hopefully, all of us made it home safely, didn't get deported to a Venezuelan prison, and didn't end up bringing home a virus - computer or corona.…
Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America
On Thursday, six stores across America opened their doors with a curious proposition: Come on in, let a metal orb scan your irises, and walk out with a new online profile that promises you're an individual human – and a few bucks in crypto for your troubles.…
Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025
A Soviet probe launched more than half a century ago is due to return to Earth in the next week or two, and there's every chance that the vehicle will make it all the way to our planet's surface.…