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Sudden spike in demand causes issues in Azure East US region
A problem with resources for virtual machines is still affecting users in Azure's East US region after more than a week, frustrated admins have told us, despite Microsoft saying the incident is now resolved.…
Ex-White House cyber, counter-terrorism guru: Microsoft considers security an annoyance, not a necessity
Comment Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he'll experience a "political aneurysm" due to Microsoft's many security messes.…
NASA boss calls for nuclear reactor on the Moon
NASA's Acting Administrator, Sean Duffy, has directed the US space agency to come up with a plan to deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon.…
Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps
Black hat A trio of researchers has disclosed a major prompt injection vulnerability in Google's Gemini large language model-powered applications.…
UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases
Privacy groups report a surge in UK police facial recognition scans of databases secretly stocked with passport photos lacking parliamentary oversight.…
Sopra Steria bags £115 million legacy extension from UK pensions department after delays to replacement ERP project
The UK's pensions and social security department has modified a 12-year-old contract with Sopra Steria, tacking on more than £100 million to allow it to run legacy systems for another three years.…
UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act
Amid the furor around surging VPN usage in the UK, many users are eyeing proxies as a potential alternative to the technology.…
After 30 years PHP still evolving: Team adds pipe operator, considers generics
The PHP team is considering adding a partial implementation of generics to the language, has confirmed that a pipe operator will be in the forthcoming 8.5 release, and has formally adopted the FrankenPHP app server into the PHP Foundation.…
Behold the wood-block wonder of the Kilopixel display
Feature In a world where resolution, refresh rates, and frames per second can generate furious discussion, sometimes it's good to kick back and let a wood-flipping robot take the strain. Welcome to Kilopixel.…
Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK
Opinion One of the dangers of stories based on big cash numbers is distraction. The numbers get all the attention, the bigger story behind them gets missed.…
Tech support team won pay rise for teaching customers how to RTFM
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of helping confused, caustic, and curmudgeonly customers to crank their computers into correct configurations.…
Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act
Opinion You might think, since I write about tech all the time, my degrees are in computer science. Nope. I'm a bona fide, degreed historian, which is why I can say with confidence that the UK's recently passed Online Safety Act is doomed to fail.…
North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme
Institutions in the North of England are being left out of the government's Global Talent Fund (GTF), designed to attract top scientific brains from abroad to come and work in Britain.…
Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them
The US Air Force wants to blow up two Tesla Cybertrucks.…
Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0’s speed and reach 256.0 GT/s
The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has confirmed that version 8.0 of the PCI Express (PCIe) specification will allow up to 256 gigatransfers per second, which equates to up to 1 TB/s bi-directionally in a x16 configuration.…
$500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board
The $500 billion Stargate project that aims to build a network of AI datacenters around the globe is off to a slow start, but its main backer – Japan’s SoftBank – isn’t worried.…
Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them?
Black Hat Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it's much easier and cheaper just to hack them.…
OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations
OpenAI unveiled its most capable model yet on Thursday with the launch of GPT-5.…
German security researchers say 'Windows Hell No' to Microsoft biometrics for biz
Black Hat Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows users to shift from using passwords to its Hello biometrics system, but researchers sponsored by the German government have found a critical flaw in its business implementation.…
AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028
The US government is about to get more AWS in more places thanks to a new $1 billion deal between Uncle Sam and Amazon. …