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Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN
Mozilla is working on a built-in VPN for Firefox, with beta tests opening to select users shortly.…
Oracle rushes out another emergency E-Business Suite patch as Clop fallout widens
Oracle is rushing out another emergency patch for its embattled E-Business Suite as the fallout from the Clop-linked attacks continues to spread.…
Shadow AI: Staffers are bringing AI tools they use at home to work, warns Microsoft
Microsoft, the corporation that just 13 days ago implored customers to bring their Copilot to work, has now published a report warning of the dangers of Shadow AI.…
Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust
A fledgling file format that aims to address limitations in the widely-used Parquet is under review for adoption by an open source foundation.…
British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%
Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government's cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled.…
Ofcom refuses to bite over Openreach's fiber freebies
Ofcom has declined to intervene after smaller network providers complained that a special upgrade offer from Openreach could threaten competition in the broadband market.…
Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic
The UK units of some US technology companies are paying average salaries of well into six figures, with some more than matching that with share-based payments, according to annual accounts recently published by Companies House.…
Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken
The latest interim release of Ubuntu is here, showcasing some significant changes. This isn't a long-term release, yet many of its differences will be in 26.04 next year.…
Unwary SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, warns Gartner
Gartner has reported that SAP customers opting for private cloud have seen price increases of 10 percent or more on renewal proposals if they fail to negotiate a renewal price cap in the original deal.…
EU biometric border system launches, suffers teeting problems
The European Union's new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague's international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals manually.…
Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag
Nvidia's tiniest Grace-Blackwell workstation is finally making its way to store shelves this week, the better part of a year after the GPU giant first teased the AI mini PC, then called Project Digits, at CES.…
Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily
Microsoft's OneDrive is increasing the creepiness quotient by using AI to spot faces in photos and group images accordingly. Don't worry, it can be turned off – three times a year.…
Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb
Audio equipment biz Bose is discontinuing cloud support for its SoundTouch product line, effectively reducing the premium devices to basic speakers with limited functionality.…
Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers
Vodafone fell over in the UK this afternoon, with Register readers reporting that many services including mobile coverage, internet services, and even the company's own status page went down.…
Broadcom cozies up to OpenAI for 10 GW custom chip love-in
Broadcom has cuddled up with OpenAI as the ChatGPT outfit looks for ever more help building out the vast infrastructure it needs to deliver on its dreams of advanced intelligence – and possibly even a profit some day.…
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters rage-quit the internet (again), promise to return next year
The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site.…
Bun 1.3 stuffs everything and kitchen sink into JS runtime
Version 1.3 of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit has landed, pushing forward the project's goal to consolidate fragmented JavaScript toolchains into a single solution. Yet the rapid expansion has some developers questioning whether Bun is trying to do too much, too fast.…
Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco
San Francisco’s political establishment rounded on Marc Benioff over the weekend after the Salesforce founder backed the idea of sending in the National Guard to clean up the city’s streets.…
Android 'Pixnapping' attack can capture app data like 2FA codes
Security researchers have resurrected a 12-year-old data-stealing attack on web browsers to pilfer sensitive info from Android devices.…
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog
An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data.…