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Research from a leading academic shows Android users have advertising cookies and other gizmos working to build profiles on them even before they open their first app.…

For AWS and Google to urge the UK competition regulator to "intervene and constrain the price" that Microsoft charges them to license its software in their clouds is both "extraordinary and unprecedented."…

High-profile deepfake scams that were reported here at The Register and elsewhere last year may just be the tip of the iceberg. Attacks relying on spoofed faces in online meetings surged by 300 percent in 2024, it is claimed.…

Ransomware crooks are exploiting a third-party Windows kernel-level driver used and provided by disk management tool Paragon Partition Manager.…

Exclusive Broadcom has quietly started a closed beta of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9, a major release that fully expresses the tech giant's vision for what a private cloud should be.…

Standing alongside US President Donald Trump, the CEO of Taiwanese chipmaking champ TSMC on Monday announced a plan to invest $100 billion on expanded operations in Arizona.…

Comment America's cybersecurity chiefs in recent days have been sending mixed messages about the threat posed by Russia in the digital world.…

The US government's National Science Foundation has reinstated most of its cadre of probationary employees after laying them off en masse last month. …

US stock markets have dipped after President Donald Trump confirmed the imposition of a 25 percent tariff on most goods coming into America from Canada and Mexico, and an extra ten percent tariff on China.…

Comment Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett has a simple solution to the x86 giant's woes.…

The Opera web browser now boasts "agentic AI," meaning users can ask an onboard AI model to perform tasks that require a series of in-browser actions.…

This weekend's Microsoft 365 outage, which left unlucky subscribers unable to login and use its Outlook email service as expected, has been blamed on a "problematic code change" by the Windows giant.…

MWC Lenovo has used the MWC event in Barcelona to demo some unusual concept devices including a laptop with a folding screen and another that can be powered by the sun.…

SAP paid former CTO Jürgen Müller €7.1 million ($7.5 million) after he left the German software company by mutual agreement in September last year.…

Analysis It's a familiar refrain in the security industry that there is a massive skills gap in the sector. And while it's true there are specific shortages in certain areas, some industry watchers believe we may be reaching the point of oversupply for generalists.…

There has been a clear uptick in the adoption of Windows 11 as enterprises migrate PC fleets ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10.…

SpaceX is set to have another go at launching its monster Starship rocket today after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the venture the green light.…

Microsoft has completed its EU data boundary, however, analysts and some regional cloud players are voicing concerns over dependencies on a US entity, even with the guarantees in place.…

The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is currently dealing with a "cybersecurity incident," it confirmed via its X account on Sunday.…

The UK's data protection watchdog has launched three investigations into certain social media platforms following concerns about the protection of privacy among teenage users.…