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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.…
Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction
Opinion Windows is at that awkward stage any global empire has to go through. Around one in five of the world population is a Windows user – 1.5 billion humans. Aside from the relatively small slice that Mac takes, everyone else is happy with smartphones, so until we make contact with credulous aliens, there are no new worlds for Microsoft to conquer. In an industry obsessed with growth, this is untenable.…
What the **** did you put in that code? The client thinks it's a cyberattack
Who, Me? Welcome to another Monday morning! We hope your weekend could be described in pleasant terms. That's what The Register strives for at this time of week in each installment of "Who, Me?" – the column that shares your stories of making decidedly unpleasant mistakes and somehow mopping up afterwards.…
Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025
Microsoft has announced that its preview of hotpatching for on-prem Windows Server 2025 will become a paid subscription service in July.…
Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions
Google has given up on smart thermostats in Europe.…
Samsung admits Galaxy devices can leak passwords through clipboard wormhole
Infosec in brief Samsung has warned that some of its Galaxy devices store passwords in plaintext.…
Toyota picks Huawei’s Android-killer HarmonyOS for its Chinese electric sedan
Asia In Brief Toyota last week launched a range of electric vehicles in China, one of which use Huawei’s HarmonyOS…
New APNIC director general steps up to steer the internet for 4 billion users
Interview Before you get to know Jia Rong Low, the recently appointed director general of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), you might want to check your definition of "the internet."…
DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. And yes, with AI
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aka DARPA, believes mathematics isn't advancing fast enough.…
Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims
WORLD WAR FEE The Trump administration's tariffs are famously raising the prices of high-ticket products with lots of chips, like iPhones and cars, but they're also hurting small businesses like game makers. In this case, we're not talking video games, but the old-fashioned kind you play at your kitchen table.…
Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a $2 USB key
Sometimes, the size and complexity of modern OSes – even the FOSS ones – is enough to make us miss the days when an entire bootable OS could fit in three files, when configuring a PC for production meant editing two plain-text files, which contained maybe a dozen lines each. DOS couldn't do very much, but the little it did was enough. From the early 1980s for a decade or two, much of the world ran on DOS. Then Windows 3 came along, which is arguably the point where the rot set in.…
UK bans game controller exports to Russia in bid to ground drone attacks
The British government is banning the export of video game controllers to Russia, claiming these can be repurposed for piloting drones on the frontline in Ukraine.…
AI-powered 20 foot robots coming for construction workers' jobs
Rise of the machines Construction workers could soon find themselves laboring alongside 20-foot (6 meter) tall AI-powered autonomous robots capable of welding, carpentry, and 3D printing buildings. What could possibly go wrong?…
Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed
Opinion Just when it seems they couldn't be that careless, US officials tasked with defending the nation go and do something else that puts American critical infrastructure, national security, and troops' lives in danger.…
Amid CVE funding fumble, 'we were mushrooms, kept in the dark,' says board member
Kent Landfield, a founding member of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and member of the board, learned through social media that the system he helped create was just hours away from losing funding.…