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Chinese cyber-spies peek over shoulder of officials probing real-estate deals near American military bases
Chinese cyber-spies who broke into the US Treasury Department also stole documents from officials investigating real-estate sales near American military bases, it's reported.…
Tongue-zapping spoons, tea-cooling catbots, lazy vacuums and more from CES
CES As the gadget-filled spectacle that CES draws to a close, there's much to anticipate and just as much that leaves us completely baffled.…
Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping
Microsoft on Friday warned Azure cloud service users may continue to experience "intermittent errors," blaming the problem on a US East regional networking service configuration change.…
Blue Origin postpones New Glenn's maiden flight to January 12
Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin has postponed the inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket to January 12, the day before SpaceX hopes to launch another Starship test flight.…
Drug addiction treatment service admits attackers stole sensitive patient data
BayMark Health Services, one of the biggest drug addiction treatment facilities in the US, says it is notifying some patients this week that their sensitive personal information was stolen.…
New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left
Microsoft's new Outlook will be automatically installed on Windows 10 machines as part of an upcoming monthly security release.…
Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL
Sebastian Steck, a software developer based in Germany, has obtained the source code and library installation scripts for his AVM FRITZ!Box 4020 router, thanks to a lawsuit funded by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC).…
Scammers exploit UK's digital landline switch to swipe cash
UK consumer champion Which? warns that scammers are using the ongoing phone line digital switchover program in Britain and Northern Ireland to trick customers into handing over their payment details.…
Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error
UK insurer Hastings Direct had a few technical issues this week after some of its customers were told they'd receive refunds, only to have their hopes dashed by a hasty apology.…
Two accused of COVID-19 vaccine fraud under Computer Misuse Act
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has taken its case against two Luton men further by charging them over the alleged distribution of fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination records.…
Devs sent into security panic by 'feature that was helpful … until it wasn't'
On Call Velkomin, Vælkomin, Hoş geldin, and welcome to Friday, and therefore to another edition of On Call – The Register's end-of-week celebration of the tech support tasks you managed to tackle without too much trauma.…
Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them
Think tank and advocacy org the World Economic Forum has predicted strong growth in jobs that AI can’t replace, plus big demand for skills to automate those that can.…
Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content
Meta allegedly downloaded material from an online source that’s been sued for breaching copyright, because it wanted the material to train its AI models, according to a new court filing.…
Is that a bird’s nest, a wireless broadband base station, or both?
Australia’s National Broadband Network has started building bird’s nests.…
Rollable laptop displays to roll off the production line from April, says Samsung
Laptops with rollable displays that allow expanded screens are about to become a thing, thanks to Lenovo and Samsung.…
Look for the label: White House rolls out 'Cyber Trust Mark' for smart devices
The White House this week introduced a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for technology products so that consumers can have some assurance their smart devices aren't spying on them.…