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Ubuntu 25.04 beta takes flight – but this Plucky Puffin is still molting
The beta version of Ubuntu 25.04, the next interim release of this Linux OS, has arrived.…
30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery?
Maintaining good-quality backups is often seen as the spine of any organization's ability to recover from cyberattacks quickly. Naturally, given the emphasis placed on them by experts of all stripes, you'd be forgiven for thinking that prioritizing them over anything else would be the way to go.…
Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption
Governments continue to adopt cloud services, for better or worse, hoping to modernize their IT services, leading big cloud operators to aggressively court public sector bodies for lucrative contracts.…
Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system
The effectiveness of new IT systems designed to speed up asylum claim processing in the UK continues to be held back by the Home Office's failure to decommission its 25-year-old case management database, five years after it promised to retire it.…
Alan Turing Institute: UK can't handle a fight against AI-enabled crims
The National Crime Agency (NCA) will "closely examine" the recommendations made by the Alan Turing Institute after it claimed the UK was ill-equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime.…
How do you explain what magnetic fields do to monitors to people wearing bowling shoes?
On Call The working week sometimes speeds by, sometimes crawls, and often ends with a crash. Each Friday, we try to avert the latter by delivering a new edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed tales of handling ridiculous, ribald, and remarkable tech support requests.…
Ex-ASML, NXP staffer accused of stealing chip secrets, peddling them to Moscow
A Russian national appeared in a Netherlands court on Thursday accused of industrial espionage against ASML, the world’s leading manufacturer of chip factory equipment and a key supplier that helps the likes of TSMC pump out top-drawer processors.…
Retirement funds reportedly raided after unexplained portal probes and data theft
Australian retirement fund operators are scrambling after reports emerged of unauthorized access to customer accounts leading to theft of cash.…
China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too
Chinese chip designer Loongson, whose products have been promoted by China’s government, has teased two new designs that will make it more of a contender for mobile and industrial applications. It may also have a new server up its sleeve.…
Signalgate: Pentagon watchdog probes Defense Sec Hegseth
A US Department of Defense watchdog has opened an investigation into its own Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, over his use of instant-messaging app Signal to discuss government business.…
Flux off: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat
The US govt's Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency, aka CISA, on Thursday urged organizations, internet service providers, and security firms to strengthen defenses against so-called fast flux attacks.…
Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud
Microsoft's Windows 365 Link has reached general availability, although some may question its value.…
Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years
Suspected Chinese government spies have been exploiting a newly disclosed critical bug in Ivanti VPN appliances since mid-March. This is now at least the third time in three years these snoops have been pwning these products.…
Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance
The first batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites is due to be lofted into orbit next week.…
When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance
As Benjamin Franklin famously said: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and that's especially true when it comes to disaster recovery.…
Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs
MediaTek is bringing out a new chip for Chromebooks that blurs the boundary with Copilot+ PCs, sporting an 8-core CPU cluster and a neural processing unit (NPU) rated at 50 TOPS.…
Bill Gates unearths Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC.…
Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products?
Someone or something is probing devices made by Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks, and researchers think it could be evidence of espionage attempts, attempts to build a botnet, or an effort to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities.…
Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox
Comment The latest version of Zorin OS, a popular Windows-macOS-like Ubuntu Linux remix, looks good, but there's one change that causes this vulture some concern.…
EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!
The EU has issued its plans to keep the continent's denizens secure and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the political union wants to backdoor encryption by 2026, or even sooner.…