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Study finds radical nutjobs targeting gamers via Discord, Twitch, Steam
Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University have sounded the alarm on "gaming-adjacent platforms" including Discord, Twitch, and Steam being used as "digital playgrounds" to funnel new recruits into far-right and other extremist ideologies – with a focus on those showing interest in "hyper-masculine gaming titles."…
Windows 11 leads as October looms, but millions still cling to Windows 10
Windows 11 is maintaining its lead over Windows 10, but millions of PCs are still running Microsoft's legacy operating system with less than three months until support ends.…
Tony Blair Institute: UK needs bit barns to lead in AI deployment, not training
Britain should not try to compete with America and China in the race to build cutting-edge AI models and focus instead on widespread AI adoption, but even this will require a boost local compute capacity.…
Project Banana ripens into a pre-alpha for KDE Linux, and you can test it
The former "Project Banana" now has a more sober name, albeit one a bit trickier to search for.…
Untangling the Jeff Bezos web: Who pays for the billionaire's space lust?
In the beginning there was Jeff Bezos. He created Amazon in 1994 and became filthy rich in the decades that followed, reaching a net worth exceeding $241 billion in 2025.…
German phone repair biz collapses following 2023 ransomware attack
The founder of a German mobile phone repair and insurance biz has begun insolvency proceedings for some operations in his company after struggling financially following a costly ransomware attack in 2023.…
When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead
Opinion The details of cloud data regionalization are rarely the stuff of great drama. When they’ve reached the level of an exe admitting to the Senate that a foreign power can help itself to that nations data, no matter where it lives, things get interesting.…
Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safey Act gets rolling
The UK government has reported that an additional five million age checks are being made daily as UK-based internet users seek to access age-restricted sites following the implementation of the Online Safety Act."…
Legendary OpenPrinting architect looking for new role
Till Kamppeter, the lead developer of the OpenPrinting subsystem for Linux, has been laid off by Canonical after 19 years.…
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady
Who, Me? Welcome to the opening day of another working week, an occasion The Register always celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the Monday column that revisits readers' worst moments at work, and celebrates your ability to rebound and reinvent in their wake.…
China’s botched Great Firewall upgrade invites attacks on its censorship infrastructure
China’s attempts to censor traffic carried using Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) are imperfect and have left the country at risk of attacks that degrade its censorship apparatus, or even cut access to offshore DNS resolvers.…
Microsoft briefly turned off Indian company’s cloud due to EU sanctions on Russia
Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy from its cloudy resources last week, before restoring access ahead of a court clash.…