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WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference
After 32 years of maturation, even now, WINE is Not an Emulator, but it can work alongside them to run Windows apps on Arm Linux.…
First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works
India's ambition to become a semiconductor manufacturing player will bear fruit later this year with the debut of the first silicon designed and built in the nation.…
User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?
On Call Friday brings the prospect of spending time with loved ones. But before we get there, The Register offers another instalment of On Call, the column that chronicles experiences from the global family of readers who have traumatic tech support tales to tell.…
China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps
A group established by six Asian nations to fight criminal cyber-scam slave camps that infest the region claims it’s made good progress dismantling the operations.…
Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional
It was revealed this week a court in New York made a landmark ruling that sided against the warrantless state surveillance of people's private communications in America.…
Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths
Scale AI, which labels training data for machine-learning models, was sued this month, alongside labor platform Outlier, for allegedly failing to protect the mental health of contractors hired to protect people from harmful interactions with AI models.…
One of Salt Typhoon's favorite flaws still wide open on 91% of at-risk Exchange Servers
One of the critical security flaws exploited by China's Salt Typhoon to breach US telecom and government networks has had a patch available for nearly four years - yet despite repeated warnings from law enforcement and private-sector security firms, nearly all public-facing Microsoft Exchange Server instances with this vulnerability remain unpatched.…
OpenAI's Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task
OpenAI on Thursday launched a human-directed AI agent called Operator that can use a web browser by itself to accomplish various online tasks, or at least try to do so.…
Patch now: Cisco fixes critical 9.9-rated, make-me-admin bug
Cisco has pushed a patch for a critical, 9.9-rated vulnerability in its Meeting Management tool that could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges to escalate to administrator on affected devices.…
Intel pitches modular PC designs to make repairs less painful
Intel claims a more modular approach to PC design could make systems easier to repair and reduce electronic waste – and it has some proposals for you.…
Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back
The world has been treated to tech bro squabbling over Stargate, the $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure project, while the grown-ups look on.…
SonicWall flags critical bug likely exploited as zero-day, rolls out hotfix
SonicWall is warning customers of a critical vulnerability that was potentially already exploited as a zero-day.…
Meta's pay-or-consent model under fire from EU consumer group
Meta has again come under fire for its pay-or-consent model in the EU.…
ChatGPT has a Thursday lie down
OUTAGE Reactivate your brain. ChatGPT has gone down.…
FortiGate config leaks: Victims' email addresses published online
Thousands of email addresses included in the Belsen Group's dump of FortiGate configs last week are now available online, revealing which organizations may have been impacted by the 2022 zero-day exploits.…
VMware users gripe over 3-year commitment to renew licenses
VMware users continue to be unhappy with licensing changes since the virtualization giant was acquired by Broadcom, and are now complaining that they are being forced into three-year commitments when renewing vSphere licenses.…
SK hynix wobbles on market uncertainty, despite record 2024 earnings
Market uncertainty and fears around trade protectionism are overshadowing SK hynix's latest earnings, with its shares sliding despite revenue doubling for the financial year just completed.…
Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?
Opinion Copilot in Microsoft 365 and Apple Intelligence on iDevices are the latest examples of the tech industry's obsession with making services opt-out rather than opt-in.…
Brit competition watchdog takes aim at Google, Apple's mobile ecosystems
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching Strategic Market Status (SMS) investigations into both Apple and Google, probing the duo's control of their respective mobile ecosystems.…
OpenZFS 2.3 is here, with RAID expansion and faster dedup
The latest version of OpenZFS offers RAID expansion, plus faster data deduplication donated by iXsystems. The code will be available very soon in the beta of TrueNAS SCALE 25.04.…