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Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, resists quantum decryption
First fondle Samsung has announced the Galaxy S25, the latest version of its flagship smartphone range, and, as you'd expect, made new AI features the hero.…
NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life
Two NASA astronauts are set to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) in search of signs of life.…
Microsoft issues out-of-band fix for Windows Server 2022 NUMA glitch
Microsoft is releasing an out-of-band patch to deal with a problem that prevented some Windows Server 2022 machines from booting.…
Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is now a free man after US President Donald Trump made good on his promise to issue a federal pardon upon taking office.…
Better power management, security, and scheduling in Linux kernel 6.13
Linux kernel 6.13 is here, but don't get too excited. It's not a biggie and, given the timing, probably won't appear in many familiar distros.…
Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret
As more businesses shift an ever greater number of workloads to the cloud, hyperscalers aren't doing enough to help CIOs or tech buyers, who are already under legislative pressure, to be more transparent about their own corporation's carbon footprint regarding compute services.…
Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch
Feature The Trump administration came to office this week without a detailed information security policy, but analysis of cabinet nominees’ public remarks and expert comments suggest it will make significant changes in the field.…
UK tax collector's phone service 'deliberately' bad to push users online, say MPs
The UK tax collector must "take responsibility for its own failings to offer sufficiently effective digital services to customers," according to a committee of MPs which accused HMRC of "deliberately" poor phone service to push callers online.…
Former Amazon exec appointed as chair of UK's competition watchdog
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has a new chair after the sudden departure of the previous incumbent.…
Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom
Tech analysts have forecast 9.8 percent year-over-year growth in worldwide IT spending in 2025, reaching $5.61 trillion and driven by continuing AI investments, despite “moonshot” projects seeing a high failure rate.…
Ransomware scum make it personal for <i>Reg</i> readers by impersonating tech support
Two ransomware campaigns are abusing Microsoft Teams to infect organizations and steal data, and the crooks may have ties to Black Basta and FIN7, according to Sophos.…
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run
China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that in theory will produce vast amounts of energy at little cost.…
Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent
Clinical trials of the first drugs designed with the help of artificial intelligence could commence this year, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis suggested Tuesday.…
Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3
Ready or not, generative AI assistants and productivity aids are getting harder to avoid with a growing number of software vendors enabling them by default.…
OpenAI to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself with help from pals
OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and investment firm MGX on Tuesday announced plans to spend $500 billion on AI infrastructure in America over the next four years, to be used by the ChatGPT super-lab.…
PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen
Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.…
App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground
Analysis President Trump's executive order stalling the enforcement of the TikTok ban in the United States has created legal uncertainty for companies hosting or distributing the app. To further confuse the matter, it's not even clear that Trump's decree is within his power to issue or enforce. …
Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud went down 'hard' today
If you were unable to access Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud today, it's because in the words of the IT giant, the service was "hard down."…
Patch procrastination leaves 50,000 Fortinet firewalls vulnerable to zero-day
Fortinet customers need to get with the program and apply the latest updates as nearly 50,000 management interfaces are still vulnerable to the latest zero-day exploit.…
Trump hits undo on Biden AI order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more
US President Donald Trump has wasted no time in culling Biden-era programs, including the elimination of the prior administration's executive orders on AI safety and electric vehicles, and freezing funds for EV infrastructure.…