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India's banking on the bank.in domain cleaning up its financial services sector
India’s Reserve Bank last week announced a plan to use adopt dedicated second-level domains – bank.in and fin.in – in the hope it improves trust in the financial services sector.…
DeepSeek's iOS app is a security nightmare, and that's before you consider its TikTok links
Infosec In Brief DeepSeek’s iOS app is a security nightmare that you should delete ASAP, according to researchers at mobile app infosec platform vendor NowSecure.…
Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China's scoffing at sanctions
Asia In Brief Huawei chair Liang Hua last week told a conference in China that the company expects to meet its revenue targets for 2024, meaning it earned around ¥860 billion ($118.25 billion) – 22 percent growth compared to its 2023 result.…
Does DOGE really have what it takes to usefully tackle Uncle Sam's tech spending?
Comment Tesla reportedly decided not to upgrade its SAP's enterprise software a decade ago, opting to build its own system instead. Now, with Elon Musk heading up the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his cost-cutting mindset could have major implications for federal IT spending - and the big tech vendors cashing in on government contracts.…
France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France this week announced plans for a one-gigawatt AI datacenter campus dedicated to advancing development of artificial intelligence.…
New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned
Roscosmos boss Yury Borisov has been fired from the Russian space agency by executive order of the country's president, Vladimir Putin.…
Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM
US Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Friday sent letters to the CEOs of Amazon and Google asking why their ad businesses fund websites hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and allow government ads to appear on sites with illegal imagery.…
Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out
If you were hoping the Biden administration's $5 billion investment in building a cross-country network of EV chargers would soon have you road-tripping in an electric car without range anxiety, think again: The Trump-led US Dept of Transport has put the plan under review and halted new funding.…
'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama
Weighed in on yet another Linux kernel spat - this time over Rust device drivers - Linux supremo Linus Torvalds shot the messenger.…
NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco
They can put a man on the Moon - but back on Earth, a busted water pipe managed to knock out NASA's solar mission data for months.…
UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order
The UK's Home Office refuses to either confirm or deny reports that it recently ordered Apple to create a backdoor allowing the government to access any user's cloud data.…
SoftBank woos OpenAI with $40B, making Microsoft's $13B look quaint
The AI investment landscape is shifting once again, with SoftBank reportedly finalizing a $40 billion stake in OpenAI - pushing its valuation to around $300 billion.…
Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst
AI's thirst for electricity will see datacenter energy use more than double by the end of the decade – just five years from now – according to the latest forecast from investment banker Goldman Sachs.…
Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button)
Users are now receiving notifications regarding their Microsoft 365 subscriptions and must take action if they wish to avoid Copilot and its extra charges.…
Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data
Governments are allowing AI developers to steal content – both creative and journalistic – for fear of upsetting the tech sector and damaging investment, a UK Parliamentary committee heard this week.…
UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks
A world-first organization assembled to categorize the severity of cybersecurity incidents is up and running in the UK following a year-long incubation period.…
Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov
Opinion 120-hour work weeks, firing government staffers and dismantling agencies? Oh my. The US government under pseudo President Musk is in for a world of radical change.…
I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?
On Call Each week at work creates memories many are happy to forget, but some are willing to share with fellow Register readers in On Call, our Friday column that tells your tales of tech support.…
Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions still hasn't satisfied developers
Google's overhaul of Chrome's extension architecture continues to pose problems for developers of ad blockers, content filters, and privacy tools.…
Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build
Amazon Web Services is struggling to get the high-quality servers it needs to build AI infrastructure and has retired other hardware early to make room to accelerated machines.…