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CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun
Comment The splintering of the global system for identifying and tracking security bugs in technology products has begun.…
Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother
On Call It may be a holiday Friday in much of the Reg-reading world but that won't stop us from delivering another installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales.…
IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices
Exclusive IBM, which employees wryly or ruefully say stands for I've Been Moved, is once again moving its employees.…
Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke antitrust law
For the second time in less than a year, a federal judge has found that some parts of Google broke US antitrust law.…
Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances
Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target, has resigned from SentinelOne following a recent executive order that targeted him and revoked the security clearances of everybody at the company.…
Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek
Nvidia's troubles with the US government have just begun: The day after the Trump administration's export restrictions on its AI chips triggered a $5.5 billion charge, US elected officials are now demanding answers about how advanced silicon ended up in China. Meanwhile, CEO Jensen Huang has flown to China to try and smooth things over with the regime there.…
No rest for the rocketry as NASA's Easter weekend heats up
The US Space Agency has a busy few days ahead as a trio of International Space Station (ISS) residents prepare to return to Earth this weekend, and a critical SpaceX Dragon freighter is readied for launch on Monday.…
Small ocean swirls may have an outsized affect on climate, NASA satellite shows
A NASA-led satellite mission has suggested that swirls and eddies in the middle of the ocean have a bigger influence on Earth's climate system than scientists previously realized.…
Google and AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to dodge Azure
When moving to the cloud, companies with significant investments in Microsoft infrastructure wares simply can't afford to rewrite everything for Linux, so they end up migrating to Azure to dodge the markups Redmond charges for running its server software in competitors' clouds.…
MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk
MX Linux 23.6 is here, taking the baseline of Debian 12.10 and adding some selected tweaks and updates of its own.…
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers
Are customers on the European side of the pond considering a move from US hyperscalers in the wake of recent events? Some of the region's vendors are reporting an uptick in inquiries as organizations mull their options.…
TSMC prepping for tariff turmoil, denies joint venture talks with Intel
TSMC's top brass insist it is not entertaining a joint venture with beleaguered chip biz Intel, though it is steeling itself for potential effects from the Trump administration's ever-changing tariff schemes.…
Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don’t bet on it, say operators
Analysis The idea of datacenters feeding power back into the electricity grid during peak demand may sound promising, but operators say it's unlikely to catch on beyond a few trials in Ireland because of the cost and technical complexity involved.…
Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies
British soldiers have successfully taken down drones with a radio-wave weapon.…
Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh
The Bank of England has shown offline digital payment systems can work but plans to study policy choices before giving them the green light.…
Competition boffin launches class action against Google UK over search dominance
A British academic has launched a class-action suit against Google, alleging abuse of its market dominance in online search caused £5 billion ($6.6 billion) of damage to advertisers.…
Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes
A bad mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for almost two hours on Wednesday afternoon, US time.…
Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins
Researchers at China’s Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering have found a way to restore the energy density of old Lithium-Ion batteries by heating them to over 150°C.…
Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog
Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation after a tech staffer at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) blew the whistle on the cost-trimming DOGE's activities at the employment watchdog – which the staffer claims included being granted superuser status in contravention of standard operating procedures, exfiltrating data, and seemingly leaking credentials to someone with a Russian IP address.…
Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims
Tesla has been accused of somehow sneakily altering a customer's odometer to hasten the end of his vehicle's warranty period.…