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Asia in Brief India’s government has proposed giving its tax authorities sweeping powers to access private email systems and applications.…

Meta says it has managed to reduce the CPU cycles of its top services by 20 percent through its Strobelight profiling orchestration suite, which relies on the open source eBPF project.…

Apple has been working to harden the XNU kernel that powers its various operating systems, including iOS and macOS, with a feature called "exclaves."…

Is AI an appropriate source of moral guidance about which patients should be given kidney transplants?…

A new, lightweight version of Pi-Hole is here. Just how easy is it to block advertising on your home network?…

A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his employer's systems – and he's now facing a potential ten years behind bars.…

The Athena lander, which touched down on the Moon on Thursday and promptly fell over, has been declared dead by its operators.…

Comment It's official: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to create a US Bitcoin reserve and stockpile of related digital assets, though instead of boosting the value of the coins, the market reacted negatively to the news.…

Axiom Space plans to send a shoebox-sized node running Red Hat Device Edge to the International Space Station (ISS).…

The Feds today revealed more details about the US Secret Service-led Garantex takedown, a day after seizing websites and freezing assets belonging to the Russian cryptocurrency exchange in coordination with German and Finnish law enforcement agencies.…

Facebook parent Meta is exploring the use of QLC flash as an additional storage tier in its datacenters to address growing volumes of data as it juggles performance maintenance and energy efficiency.…

Friday FOSS fest There are some idiosyncrasies about macOS that long term Mac users may never notice, but cause frustration in people more used to how Windows does things – or the much more customizable Linux desktop experience. Here are a few of The Reg FOSS desk's favorite tools we routinely install on new machines to make life a little more comfortable or convenient.…

Oracle's Federal electronic health records software suffered a US-wide outage this week, causing Veterans Affairs hospitals to invoke "standard contingency procedures."…

Police have made two arrests in their quest to start a cybercrime crew's prison eras, alleging the pair stole hundreds of Taylor Swift tickets and sold them for huge profit. …

Eggheads have taken a look at previously developed techniques that can be used to trick self-driving cars into doing the wrong thing – and found cheap stickers stuck on stop and speed limit signs, at least, are pretty effective.…

HPE is feeling the effects of the Trump administration's gamesmanship, seeing shares slide after lowering earnings expectations due to uncertainty over how tariffs may affect the cost of imported parts.…

Microsoft is suggesting alternatives to its doomed Publisher product ahead of the software's demise in 2026.…

Interview There's a handful of cybercriminal gangs that Jason Baker, a ransomware negotiator with GuidePoint Security, regularly gets called in to respond to these days, and a year ago only one of these crews — Akira — was on threat hunters' radars and infecting organizations with the same ferocity as it is today.…

Talks are underway between European leaders and Eutelsat about a possible replacement for Starlink in Ukraine.…

Following protracted negotiations, French outsourcer Atos has scooped up a £474.4 million ($612 million) contract without competition to build systems for a UK state bank at nearly three times the annual rate initially advertised three years ago.…