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Volvo North America confirms staff data stolen following ransomware attack on IT supplier
Volvo North America is the latest large organization to announce attackers accessed employee data after a ransomware attack struck its HR system provider.…
SpaceX Dragon huffs, puffs... and fizzles out as NASA aborts ISS boost
NASA has made progress with plans to boost the rapidly decaying orbit of the Swift observatory while calling an abrupt halt to an attempt to reboost the International Space Station (ISS) using SpaceX's Dragon.…
Microsoft digs up Vista-era animated wallpaper for Windows 11. Here's how to get it
hands on If you're tired of staring at the same old static wallpapers in Windows 11, there's help on the way. Microsoft has just added support for animated video backgrounds in the latest Insider builds of its popular operating system, heralding their likely appearance in a production update soon.…
UK and US security agencies order urgent fixes as Cisco firewall bugs exploited in wild
Cybersecurity agencies on both sides of the Atlantic are sounding the alarm over Cisco firewall vulnerabilities that are being exploited by an "advanced threat actor."…
UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029
The UK government plans to issue all legal residents a digital identity by the end of the current Parliament, which could run until August 2029, with its use required to get a job.…
Brits warned as illegal robo-callers with offshored call centers fined half a million
The UK's data protection watchdog fined two Brit businesses with offshore call centers £550,000 (c $735,000) over illegal automated marketing calls.…
Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions
Microsoft will give consumers in the European Economic Area no-strings extended support for the soon-to be-EOL Windows 10.…
Just using open source software isn't radical any more. Europe needs to dig deeper
Feature It is 2025. Linux will turn 34 and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) 40. For the EU and Europe at large, which is famously experimental with government deployments of open source tech, behind initiatives to promote open licensing, and whose governments promote equal opportunity for FOSS vendors in public tendering, it's a crunch point.…
Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find
On Call Welcome again to On Call, The Register's weekly column in which readers share stories of earnestly trying to fix broken tech, and end up feeling broken afterwards.…