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With just over two months left, enterprises look to Extended Security Updates as a stay of execution 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....

Let US and China compete in the AI development arms race, says former Brit PM's non-profit org 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....

Desktop project's in-house distro is impressively ambitious, but nowhere near ready The former "Project Banana" now has a more sober name, albeit one a bit trickier to search for....

Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart 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....

Founder miffed over prosecutors holding onto its Bitcoin 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....

If it's not on-prem, it's on the menu 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....

But it's OK, claims Brit government, no personal data stored 'unless absolutely necessary' 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."...

Canonical lays off one of its old hands - a longstanding FOSS developer - after nearly two decades Till Kamppeter, the lead developer of the OpenPrinting subsystem for Linux, has been laid off by Canonical after 19 years....

Startups aren't good at testing software, or respecting contracts 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....

Attempts to censor QUIC traffic create chance to block access to offshore DNS resolvers 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....

Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy from its cloudy resources last week, before restoring access ahead of a court clash....

PLUS: Nightmare insect found in Australia; Arista makes more stuff in India; Atlassian job cuts; And more! Asia In Brief China's Cyberspace Administration last week reported increased uptake of IPv6....

PLUS: Slow MFA rollout costs Canucks $5m; Lawmakers ponder Stingray ban; MSFT tightens Teams; And more! Infosec In Brief North Korea's Lazarus Group has changed tactics and is now creating malware-laden open source software....

Plus: why takedowns aren't in threat-intel analysts' best interest interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and account information, thus allowing them to drain their accounts....

New Uptime survey flags cost, power, outages Being able to forecast future capacity requirements is a growing concern for datacenter operators as they face conflicting factors such as rising costs, power constraints, and meeting the demands of AI workloads....

We almost got more butterfly keyboards and foldable workstations Interview Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's laptop has a following of people who collect old models and celebrate each new innovation....

Community content site aims to profit from real conversation Reddit has found that trafficking in human-authored content pays well in the AI era....

Plaintext passwords, shared admin accounts, and insufficient logging rampant at mystery org CISA is using the findings from a recent probe of an unidentified critical infrastructure organization to warn about the dangers of getting cybersecurity seriously wrong....

Plaintiffs argued that the company massively oversold the assisted-driving capabilities of its cars After two weeks of testimony, a Florida jury has found Tesla partially responsible for the death of one person and causing serious injuries to another in a crash where the driver was using the company's much-touted Autopilot system....

Kodane code was either machine-generated or done by a teenager An NPM package packed with cryptocurrency-stealing malware appears to have been largely AI-generated, as evidenced by its liberal use of emojis and other telltale signs....

Checkbox to make chatbot conversations appear in search engines deemed a footgun OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines to prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information....

Crashes the multibillion-dollar DoD party alongside Boeing, Lockheed, and Raytheon There are no official criteria for what constitutes membership in the upper echelon of the US military industrial complex, but a $10 billion deal that consolidates dozens of contracts under a single blanket purchase agreement sure makes it seem like Palantir has earned entry....

Paramount Penguin Linus Torvalds still uses a 2017 graphics card As work picks up on the forthcoming Linux 6.17, many joystick-wigglers are shocked by its millionaire dev's positively ancient AMD graphics card....

Our tests have shown there are ways to get around the promised security improvements exclusive Microsoft Recall, the AI app that takes screenshots of what you do on your PC so you can search for it later, has a filter that's supposed to prevent it from screenshotting sensitive info like credit card numbers. But a The Register test shows that it still fails in many cases, creating a potential treasure trove for thieves....

Spy vs. spy China has accused US intelligence agencies of exploiting a Microsoft Exchange zero-day exploit to steal defense-related data and take over more than 50 devices belonging to a "major Chinese military enterprise" for nearly a year....

Appeals panel says Chocolate Factory abused its dominance in Android app distribution A panel of judges has dismissed Google's appeal against an antitrust verdict over its Play Store business practices....

Budget educational computing is now Google's game to lose Microsoft is discontinuing support for its Windows 11 SE variant meant to compete with ChromeOS in the education space, leaving schools that chose Microsoft over Google in the lurch just four years after the cloud-based Windows variant was released....

Company blames license violations and infrastructure changes for abrupt move KubeSphere has become the latest service to abruptly yank an open source edition of a product, triggering outcry from users....

Russian boffins searching for root cause in their segment of the outpost, former cosmonaut says The International Space Station (ISS) is still leaking air from the Russian segment of the outpost despite efforts to eliminate the losses....

Victims fear leak at Everglades Correctional Institution could lead to violent extortion A data breach at a Florida prison has inmates' families concerned for their welfare after their contact details were allegedly leaked to convicted criminals....

NetCo is a no-go amid ongoing 'strategic review' by co-parent Telefonica Virgin Media has ditched plans to use its network infrastructure to create a UK national fixed line operator to rival BT's Openreach just 18 months after the project was made public....

Kludge causing production outages Oracle has come under fire for failing to fix a known issue with Windows instances on its cloud infrastructure (OCI)....

Oracle, SAP, Salesforce et al are tightening the screws, Forrester warns The largest enterprise application vendors are using their entrenched positions among customers to end discounting and push high-margin AI products, an analysis by Forrester Research has warned....

Everything's fine, says Department of Energy report A wasp nest positively glowing with radiation was found at a Cold War-era nuclear weapons site near Aiken, South Carolina....

Criminals used undocumented techniques and well-placed insiders to remotely withdraw money A ring of cybercriminals managed to physically implant a Raspberry Pi on a bank's network to steal cash from an Indonesian ATM....

From one platform to rule them all to a carousel of half-baked visions Comment It is July 2015. Microsoft has just released Windows 10. Developers, weary from the false trail of Windows 8 and being urged to make "Metro style" apps, are now being pitched a new vision from Microsoft: the Universal Windows Platform (UWP)....

Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots On Call Mornings are hard, and Friday mornings doubly so. Which is why The Register gives readers a little kick along on the last day of the working week in the form of a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that tells your tales of tech support treachery and triumph....

Workers on joint US/UK/Australia nuclear submarine program are painting a target on themselves The Director-General of Security at the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) has lamented the fact that many people list their work in the intelligence community or on sensitive military projects in their LinkedIn profiles....

iBiz warns import imposts set to rise World War Fee The USA's evolving tariff policy wasn't all bad news for Apple, which manufactures most of its products overseas....

Malaysia's attitude of 'This could be worse and our neighbours are copping it too' is a typical response World War Fee US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced new tariff rates that reduce the import duties on goods from several major tech-producing nations....

Good old machine learning, not LLMs, are what's really paying for Zuck's genAI splurge Believe it or not, Meta's AI investments made a meaningful difference to its advertising business in Q2 - it's just that those models aren't the kind that's got everyone, including the Social Network, plowing tens of billions of dollars a year into datacenters....

Hang in there, it's early days, insists CEO Andy Jassy Amazon CEO Andy Jassy insists "AI will change every customer experience," but it's making investors nervous....

US Army Sec appears to fold under pressure from far-right conspiracy theorist comment Jen Easterly has weighed in on the US Army Secretary firing her from a prestigious West Point teaching post a day after the US Military Academy announced the appointment....

DeepMind geospatial AI model offers comprehensive view of Earth image data Google has released a new AI model that maps the world in 10-meter squares for machines to read....

There's a driver at the wheel Elon Musk's goal of a fully autonomous car that could serve as a Robotaxi is getting another trial this week, albeit with a human operator behind the wheel....

Crims warned 40% of respondents that they and their families would suffer Ransomware gangs now frequently threaten physical violence against employees and their families as a way to force victim organizations into paying their demands....

Illumina allegedly lied about its testing devices meeting government standards Biotech firm Illumina has agreed to cut the US government a check for the eminently affordable amount of $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it has been selling the feds genetic testing systems riddled with security vulnerabilities the company knew about but never bothered to fix....

Facility to be built with $1 billion investment from Nscale and Aker OpenAI's Stargate initiative has teleported to Europe, where the AI flag bearer has enlisted datacenter builder Nscale and Norwegian energy magnate Aker ASA to deploy a 100,000-GPU compute cluster in the Arctic by 2026....

What's next - gonna tell us it's time to migrate to Windows 8? Watch out, world: The US government has finally found out about DevSecOps, and it has become a late evangelist for the security-by-default software development practice....

No way this will be abused Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech....