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European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill
The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is shutting down its computers and boosting out into a retirement orbit around the Sun.…
Ransomware crews add 'EDR killers' to their arsenal – and some aren't even malware
interview Antivirus and endpoint security tools are falling short as ransomware crews increasingly deploy "EDR killers" to disable defenses early in the attack – a tactic Cisco Talos observed in most of the 2024 cases it handled.…
UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago
The UK's financial regulator is signing a deal worth up to £12.3 million ($15.9 million) with tech services biz Cognizant to make "enhancements" to a Workday HR and finance system it implemented several years ago.…
When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making
Opinion Since it is currently fashionable to make laws by whim and decree, here are three that should apply immediately across techdom. The following are banned: DoNotReply messages, updates that reset your configuration choices to default, and forced incomprehensible choices.…
Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own
Who, Me? Wait, what? It's Monday again? That means it's time for another instalment of Who, Me? What's that, you ask? It's The Register's Monday column in which we tell your tales of technological messes and celebrate your escapes.…
Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses
Researchers from the UK’s National Health Service believe increasing adoption of cashless payments may be having an unexpected payoff: Fewer kids are swallowing coins and seeking medical help to remove them.…
Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan
Chinese tech companies created entities in Taiwan and disguised them so they had no connections to China, so they could lure top tech talent to work on significant projects.…
China cracks down on personal information collection. No, seriously
Asia In Brief China last week commenced a crackdown on inappropriate collection and subsequent use of personal information.…
Oracle Health reportedly warns of info leak from legacy server
Infosec in brief Oracle Health appears to have fallen victim to an info stealing attack that has led to patient data stored by American hospitals being plundered.…
Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship
The handy GNOME extension Dash to Panel will live on, under its present maintainer, after winning financial backing from one of the distros that uses it.…
Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore’s Law is dead and buried
Comment As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead – and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is.…
Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel
Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell.…
Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing
Airbus UK, a wholly-owned subsidairy of US aerospace giant, has won the £150 million contract to complete a landing system for the long-delayed ExoMars rover.…