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EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering
Problems with a new digital European system for certifying fishing catches are hampering producers and delaying exports, according to ministers from several EU member states.…
Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) employees who had their details exposed in a significant 2023 data breach will each receive £7,500 ($10,279) as part of a universal offer of compensation.…
SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly
SpaceX has paused flights of its workhorse Falcon 9 after a second stage failure resulted in the spent rocket tumbling uncontrollably back to Earth.…
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 European tech leaders are waking up to the risk of the US simply turning off their IT services.…
AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking
Amazon is warning users of its media services that it will not protect them against patent infringement claims relating to media codec technology supported by those services.…
Lego shrinks NASA's biggest rocket – accuracy sold separately
The launch of the Artemis II mission to send humans around the Moon is fast approaching. The Register had a go at building Lego's latest SLS set and found it a lot of fun, particularly making whooshing noises as the rocket "launches."…
UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a probe into Elon Musk’s xAI, after its Grok chatbot produced sexual images of real people, without their consent.…
Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings
If you’re brave enough to want to run the demonstrably insecure AI assistant OpenClaw, several clouds have already started offering it as a service.…
For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters
In recent years, Supermicro’s regulatory filings often have delivered dramas such as losing its listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange, an admission its books may not be accurate, another possible delisting, and missing the AI boom.…
Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors
Usually diversity is a sign of a healthy and resilient business. But for the folks on Wall Street, the breadth of AMD's portfolio is a bug, not a feature – one that sent the House of Zen's share price down by more than eight percent in after hours trading on Tuesday.…
VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files
Linux users who installed Microsoft's Visual Studio Code as a Snap package may want to check to see whether files they sent to the trash with the app have actually been deleted.…
AI agents can't yet pull off fully autonomous cyberattacks - but they are already very helpful to crims
AI agents and other systems can't yet conduct cyberattacks fully on their own - but they can help criminals in many stages of the attack chain, according to the International AI Safety report.…
Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support
It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.…
GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop
GitHub, the Microsoft code-hosting shop that popularized AI-assisted software development, is having some regrets about its Copilot infatuation.…
Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years
Amazon Web Services' European expansion has hit the buffers as the American cloud provider grapples with aging grid infrastructure and lengthy interconnect delays.…
'Lethal' and 'magical' Palantir tech is in demand by Pentagon, China, Middle East, CEO says
Palantir is shaping the "under-the-hood" practices of the US Defense Department as demand for its software grows across warfighting, shipbuilding, and weapons procurement, CEO Alex Karp said during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Monday.…
Critical React Native Metro dev server bug under attack as researchers scream into the void
Baddies are exploiting a critical bug in React Native's Metro development server to deliver malware to both Windows and Linux machines, and yet the in-the-wild attacks still haven't received the "broad public acknowledgement" that they should, according to security researchers.…
Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin
The Department of Energy says advanced nuclear reactor designs - many of which have so far existed mainly at the experimental, testing, or demonstration stage - generally pose limited environmental risk and can qualify for a streamlined environmental review for future projects.…
Snowflake plugs PostgreSQL into its AI Data Cloud
Snowflake is launching a PostgreSQL database-as-a-service within its AI data environment to place transactional workloads alongside analytics and AI under a single set of governance rules.…
CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders
On 59 occasions throughout 2025, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) silently tweaked vulnerability notices to reflect their use by ransomware crooks. Experts say that's a problem.…