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More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn

Fri, 2025-07-11 12:33
Intro of package for cloud ERP is creating challenges, and more changes likely next year

Biz customers should expect further changes to SAP's licensing as the company introduces the reboot of its Business Suite construct into its product packages, the German-speaking user group has warned.…

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Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs

Fri, 2025-07-11 11:32
'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected'

The German arm of telecoms biz Telefónica has shifted support for its VMware installed base to Spinnaker after Broadcom quoted it a renewal figure five times the size of what it was previously paying.…

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UK Online Safety Act 'not up to scratch' on misinformation, warn MPs

Fri, 2025-07-11 10:31
Last summer's riots show how some content can be harmful but not illegal

The Online Safety Act fails to tackle online misinformation, leaving the UK in need of further regulation to curb the viral spread of false content, a report from MPs has found.…

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Microsoft offers EU cloud providers fresh commercial terms, staves off risk of litigation

Fri, 2025-07-11 09:30
Agreement or otherwise expected from CISPE top brass before August

Exclusive Microsoft has tabled a fresh set of commercial terms for an association of cloud providers in Europe that earlier filed a complaint with antitrust authorities in the trading bloc over allegations of anti-competitive licensing practices.…

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Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well

Fri, 2025-07-11 07:29
First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career

On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of tech support terror and triumph.…

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French cops cuff Russian pro basketball player on ransomware charges

Fri, 2025-07-11 06:29
'He's useless with computers and can't even install an application' says lawyer

A Russian professional basketball player is cooling his heels in a French detention center after being arrested and accused of acting as a negotiator for a ransomware gang.…

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Chinese censorship-busters claim Tencent is trying to kill its WeChat archive

Fri, 2025-07-11 05:44
Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved

Anti-censorship organization GreatFire.org has accused Singapore infosec outfit Group-IB of helping Chinese web giant Tencent to quell its activities.…

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China's biggest car rental company now offers autonomous cars

Fri, 2025-07-11 03:59
Three-seater from Baidu delivers itself, follows directions, then finds its way home

China’s largest car rental operator, Car Inc., now rents autonomous cars.…

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Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app

Thu, 2025-07-10 23:58
Oh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today?

A lovestruck US Air Force employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit confidential national defense information after sharing military secrets information about the Russia-Ukraine war with a woman he met on a dating app.…

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Now everybody but Citrix agrees that CitrixBleed 2 is under exploit

Thu, 2025-07-10 22:13
Add CISA to the list

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added its weighty name to the list of parties agreeing that CVE-2025-5777, dubbed CitrixBleed 2 by one researcher, has been under exploitation and abused to hijack user sessions.…

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Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time

Thu, 2025-07-10 21:49
Not even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employees

Comment Pat Gelsinger's tenure as Intel's chief executive was epitomized by his unwavering optimism and ambitious plan to return the ailing chipmaker to its former glory. His successor has no such delusions of grandeur.…

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Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed

Thu, 2025-07-10 20:58
It could have the same headcount as 1960 by the end of the month

NASA senior staff are being offered the opportunity to leave voluntarily before the axes start swinging, and it seems likely that thousands will take the escape hatch.…

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Ex-ASML engineer who stole chip tech for Russia gets three years in Dutch prison

Thu, 2025-07-10 20:29
'Whether those files were allowed to go to Russia? I didn't ask'

A former ASML and NXP semiconductor engineer will spend three years in a Dutch prison after stealing secret chip technology from his employers and sharing it with Russia.…

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IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center

Thu, 2025-07-10 20:00
Company mum on whether the site will be shuttered

IBM, which employees say stands for "I've Been Moved" due to frequent relocation directives, is moving research scientists from its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, to its Silicon Valley Lab a few miles east.…

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EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law

Thu, 2025-07-10 19:25
A new code aims to make it easy to figure out

The EU has a new set of AI regulations poised to take effect soon. While debate over them continues, Brussels has put out a handy guidebook to help companies make sense of what they can and cannot do. …

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Slow down on building power plants for all those new AI datacenters, report warns

Thu, 2025-07-10 18:39
Projections are likely exaggerated, a new analysis from an environmental group says

Datacenters are slurping ever more energy to meet the growing demands of AI, but some estimates of future demand imply an increase in hardware that would be beyond the capacity of global chipmakers to supply, according to an environmental nonprofit.…

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Please don't cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress

Thu, 2025-07-10 18:01
TraCSS is like an FAA for space, and it's slated for the chopping block

Space industry bigwigs have sent letters to Congressional leaders urging them not to eliminate funding for preventing space collisions, as requested in a budget proposal for FY 2026. …

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Red Hat sweetens the RHEL deal for biz devs – just don't put it in prod

Thu, 2025-07-10 17:32
Up to 25 instances for free, but only to play with

IBM's Linux subsidiary is offering a new way to get RHEL without paying, now with up to 25 instances.…

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Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have to

Thu, 2025-07-10 16:28
Gemini CLI integration is nice, but there's little polish in building apps from prompts

Google today unveiled updates to Firebase Studio at its Cloud Summit event in London, adding Gemini command-line interface (CLI) integration, initial Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and "Agent Mode."…

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Russia, hotbed of cybercrime, says nyet to ethical hacking bill

Thu, 2025-07-10 15:15
Politicians uneasy over potential impact on national security, local reports say

Russia, home to some of the world's most lucrative and damaging cybercrime operations, has rejected a bill to legalize ethical hacking.…

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