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Ransomware criminals love CISA's KEV list – and that's a bug, not a feature
Fresh research suggests attackers are actively monitoring databases of vulnerabilities that are known to be useful in carrying out ransomware attacks.…
ESA's Integral gamma-ray gazer gasps its last
All good things must come to an end. So it is that the European Space Agency's (ESA) International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) is set to make its final observations.…
Skype for consumers kicks the bucket on May 5
If you hadn't already noticed when Skype Credit sales were first suspended in December 5, 2024, the once ubiquitous IP telephony and vid calling wunderkind is no more – at least as a paid service for consumers.…
Microsoft warns Trump: Where the US won't sell AI tech, China will
Microsoft would like the Trump administration to row back AI export restrictions introduced by his predecessor that affect countries where the cloud services giant has datacenters.…
AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series
With the launch of AMD's RX 9070-series graphics cards, AMD is going back to its roots. Rather than trying to compete with Nvidia on raw performance with another flagship GPU beyond the means of most gamers, the House of Zen aims to undercut its competitor by delivering more frames per dollar.…
Profit slide at HP can only mean one thing: Hammer time
HP says it intends to elbow up to 2,000 workers overboard with the aim to help it save up to $300 million in its current fiscal year that runs until October.…
UK government's cloud strategy: Pay more, get less, blame vendor lock-in?
UK central government departments need to better align their requirements in cloud computing to get better deals out of the big providers, MPs heard this week.…
Payday from hell as several UK banks report major outages
The UK is full of unhappy workers that are unable to manage their payday cash amid online service outages at a host of major banks.…
IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it
IBM has finally completed the $6.4 billion takeover of Hashicorp days after Britain's competition regulator gave the corporate marriage its seal of approval.…
One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates your escapes from dangerous tech support requests.…
Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU
The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) 2025 Board of Directors election is again mired in controversy.…
Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching 'Azure Abuse Enterprise' operators
Microsoft has named four of the ten people it is suing for allegedly snatching Azure cloud credentials and developing tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI services – ultimately to generate deepfake smut videos of celebrities and others.…
Feds: Army soldier accused of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’
The US Army soldier accused of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump's call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.…
FBI officially fingers North Korea for $1.5B Bybit crypto-burglary
The FBI has officially accused North Korea's Lazarus Group of stealing $1.5 billion in Ethereum from crypto-exchange Bybit earlier this month, and asked for help tracking down the stolen funds.…
AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot
Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced Ocelot, a quantum computing chip based on "cat qubits."…
Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM
Framework's modular mini desktop has received glowing approval from the repair experts at iFixit, despite having non-upgradeable memory because of its Ryzen AI Max processor.…
DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures'
The US Department of Defense's research arm, DARPA, has put out a Request for Information (RFI) for "large bio-mechanical space structures."…
Ampere bets on Arm to muscle into Intel's telco territory
Ampere Computing is looking to target the telecoms market with its Arm-based server chips, hoping to take a slice of the growing compute needs of 5G and edge processing, which it believes Intel is no longer best served to meet.…
No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce
Salesforce will not hire any more engineers this year after investment in AI coding tools provided a 30 percent productivity boost, its CEO claimed as he sought to charm investors.…
FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the nod to the Loss of Pulse Detection feature of the Pixel Watch 3.…