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More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn
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.…
Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs
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.…
UK Online Safety Act 'not up to scratch' on misinformation, warn MPs
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.…
Microsoft offers EU cloud providers fresh commercial terms, staves off risk of litigation
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.…
Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of tech support terror and triumph.…
French cops cuff Russian pro basketball player on ransomware charges
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.…
Chinese censorship-busters claim Tencent is trying to kill its WeChat archive
Anti-censorship organization GreatFire.org has accused Singapore infosec outfit Group-IB of helping Chinese web giant Tencent to quell its activities.…
China's biggest car rental company now offers autonomous cars
China’s largest car rental operator, Car Inc., now rents autonomous cars.…
Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app
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.…
Now everybody but Citrix agrees that CitrixBleed 2 is under exploit
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.…
Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time
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.…
Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed
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.…
Ex-ASML engineer who stole chip tech for Russia gets three years in Dutch prison
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.…
IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center
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.…
EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law
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. …
Slow down on building power plants for all those new AI datacenters, report warns
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.…
Please don't cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress
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. …
Red Hat sweetens the RHEL deal for biz devs – just don't put it in prod
IBM's Linux subsidiary is offering a new way to get RHEL without paying, now with up to 25 instances.…
Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have to
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."…
Russia, hotbed of cybercrime, says nyet to ethical hacking bill
Russia, home to some of the world's most lucrative and damaging cybercrime operations, has rejected a bill to legalize ethical hacking.…