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Thinks customers may have forgiven it after revenue hits a record CrowdStrike can't yet confidently predict the financial impact of the failed update to its Falcon software that crashed millions of computers around the world last July, but is confident its third quarter results show customers can't find a better security product....

But PCs and Nvidia are weak points, because you're not buying one and can't buy the other Dell believes its customers are consolidating server fleets to save energy and free up rack space for AI hardware - and has a giant jump in revenue to to prove it....

Provides insight to how China gets inside US systems, perhaps at Verizon and Infosys A 59 year-old Florida telco engineer was sentenced to 48 months in prison after he served as a spy for China and provided Beijing with details like his employer's cybersecurity, according to the US Department of Justice....

Software snafu took five minutes to roll back. The mess it made took hours to clean up Cloudflare has admitted that it broke its own logging-as-a-service service with a bad software update, and that customer data was lost as a result....

Connection will tie remote territory to Darwin in North Australia A Google-funded subsea cable will connect the Australian territory of Christmas Island to Darwin on the mainland....

You need to know in advance when your kit will be bricked or downgraded - it's the law Makers of software-enabled products have been put on notice by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for failing to disclose how long their products will receive software updates....

America's neighbors now face 25% because of fentanyl and immigration, China just 10% on top of existing duties President-elect Donald Trump's tariff threats have been formalized with a pair of social media statements that, while not nearly as steep as promised on the campaign trail, still threaten to complicate relations with the US's three largest trade partners....

Impact of AI-integrated notebooks on overall market remains limited for now, says TrendForce The global laptop market is forecast to grow by 4.9 percent during 2025, but commercial upgrade cycles and the looming Windows 10 end of life are driving this rather than demand for AI-capable PCs....

Complaint claims he trespassed, gave himself discounts, and sorted CCTV access... A Kansas City man who stands accused of having a disregard for basic opsec made his first court appearance on Friday over a series of alleged cybercrimes....

Scanners, printers, and... fax machines? Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 24H2 has issues with USB-connected devices that support the Scanner Communication Language (eSCL) protocol. A compatibility hold has been applied to the hardware....

A mere 13 years since the last point release FLTK, one of the oldest and most stable FOSS toolkits for programming GUI apps, is back with new shiny....

In case anyone forgot about Change Healthcare American hospitals and healthcare organizations would be required to adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) and other minimum cybersecurity standards under new legislation proposed by a bipartisan group of US senators....

Microsoft free tool snooping on users? Surely not! If you've been tempted to download the Bing Wallpaper app to spice up your Windows 11 desktop backgrounds, you may want to think twice....

Outgoing administration rushes to allocate money ahead of Inauguration Day Intel has finalized an agreement with the US Department of Commerce to receive up to $7.86 billion awarded via the CHIPS and Science Act, funding that has come into question since the election....

Ad slinger alleged to have abused position, resulting in higher prices for consumers Google must face a 7 billion ($8.8 billion) claim in the UK over allegations it abused its search engine dominance, a tribunal has ruled....

Third time this year an NHS unit's IT systems have come under attack A UK hospital is declaring a "major incident," cancelling all outpatient appointments due to "cybersecurity reasons."...

Just what you want to find when you start a new week Updated Taiwanese NAS maker QNAP addressed 24 vulnerabilities across various products over the weekend....

Meanwhile, budget clambered from 2.6M to nearly 40M, says report A UK council had no fully costed and resourced plan in place to deliver a critical Oracle ERP project two years after beginning an SAP-replacement program, one which has seen years of delay with costs set to climb to 15 times the initial budget....

Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM are all doing it. Andy Jassy's rent-a-server shop may have felt it was leaving money on the table Amazon Web Services has introduced a VMware-as-a-service offering that conforms to Broadcom's licensing schemes....

X rival also under fire for failing to designate legal representative Updated The Bluesky social network is not yet big enough to be considered "Very Large Online Platform" subject to special obligations under Europe's Digital Services Act (DSA) - but it's already having trouble complying with the law....

'Be in no doubt: the UK and others in this room are watching Russia' The government of the United Kingdom on Monday announced the formation of a Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) to make the nation more resilient to AI-powered cyber threats from Russia....

Wants Cook to look under the couch again and find at least another $15 million Indonesia's Ministry of Industry has snubbed Apple's proposal to invest 1.6 trillion Rupiah ($100 million) in an iPhone accessory and component factory, saying it's not enough to justify lifting a ban on sales of the iPhone 16 in the world's fourth-most populous nation....

'Global Scheduling Ethernet' looks a lot like tech the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is also working on Chinese tech giants last week announced the debut of chips to power a technology called "Global Scheduling Ethernet" that is intended to offer a version of the networking protocol tuned to the needs of AI and other demanding workloads....

Petition claims database titan maintained its mark by making a fraudulent claim Deno Land, maker of the Deno runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly, has filed a petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark....

And it looks like major UK retailers that rely on it are feeling the pinch US-based supply chain SaaS vendor Blue Yonder has revealed a service disruption caused by ransomware, and its customers are reportedly struggling to get goods onto shelves as a result....

Camp Century could spill millions of gallons of sewage, diesel fuel, and nuclear waste as climate warms Deep within the ice sheet of Greenland lies a US military secret that hasn't been seen since the 1960s, but a NASA flyover earlier this year has provided an unprecedented look at the buried Cold War relic....

Mac Mini and iPhone repairability strides have yet to make it to flagship computer Despite improved repairability scores for Apple's latest iPhone and Mac Mini, the iFixit team says it was left underwhelmed after tearing into the new M4 MacBook Pro....

Remedies should be refined with an eye toward broad platform rights and responsibilities Opinion The US Justice Department's proposed remedies to address Google's monopoly control of the search services and search text advertising markets should be reconsidered in light of the broader problems with technology platforms....

Did we say CrowdStrike? We meant, er, The July Incident... IGNITE The sound of cyber security professionals spraying their screens with coffee could be heard this week as Microsoft claimed, "security is our top priority," as it talked up its Secure Future Initiative (SFI) once again and explained how Windows could be secured....

Plus, soon you'll be able to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a supported option under WSL The latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is here, as are the leading RHELatives. Also, interestingly, Red Hat is working with Microsoft to make it available on top of Windows....

Affected customers gripe about storage biz's tech support Owners of QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) boxes are finding that a firmware update has left them unable to log into their device, and a reset doesn't seem to fix the issue....

Forget the 10x programmer. How about 10x satellites? SpaceX boss Elon Musk has backed claims that the ballooning number of satellites in orbit around the Earth isn't a problem, signing off on a comment stating that "10 times the number of spacecraft" would still not present a challenge....

Senate Intelligence Committee chair says his 'hair is on fire' as execs front the White House The Biden administration on Friday hosted telco execs to chat about China's recent attacks on the sector, amid revelations that US networks may need mass rebuilds to recover....

Another offer IT services giant possibly can't refuse IT services giant Atos has received another offer from the French state, this time for just its Advanced Computing assets, in a transaction that could be worth up to 625 million ($656 million)....

AI snapshot tool stumbles back into the spotlight with more issues Comment The second coming of Windows Recall has brought with it a litany of issues, reminding users that there's a reason why the snapshotting technology remains a preview for Windows Insiders....

Labour government keen, though critics paint it as a severe threat to privacy UK government has launched a 20 million ($25 million) competition for tech companies to provide live facial recognition to a number of police forces....

It's never aliens, but it could be underground TV repair techs Opinion The oldest functional off-Earth space hardware? Well, that is a great question for those into pub quizzes, aka bar trivia. 1977's Voyagers hold some impressive records beside those golden discs, just not that one. Any guesses?...

Spreading the content around other sites - and may also sprinkle some AI around because why not Microsoft has quietly revealed it's binning a site dedicated to software licensing info and education that it currently promotes as "a complete and up-to-date resource for anyone who needs to learn about Microsoft licensing."...

To avoid lock-in, it helps if you remember your keys Who, Me? Welcome once again to Monday morning at the coalface, which as Reg readers know is when we publish reader-submitted tales of tech support gone awry under the banner of Who, Me?...

Beijing's propaganda buddies aren't just using social media Google's Threat Intelligence Group has blocked a network China-related firms from its search results for operating fake news services and websites....

China is trying to become that land, with a government crackdown on the things that make the internet no fun Internet echo chambers and nasty e-commerce tricks that analyze your behavior to milk you for more cash are set to be banned - in China....

Teams-like DingTalk gets an enterprise edition, and virtual Androids unleashed Alibaba Cloud has started to expand its SaaS portfolio by bringing products it once offered only in China to other territories....

Plus: Microsoft seizes phishing domains; Helldown finds new targets; Illegal streaming with Jupyter, and more Infosec in brief Not to make you paranoid, but that business across the street could, under certain conditions, serve as a launching point for Russian cyber spies to compromise your network....

Plus: Korea cracks down on Temu; US, Vietnam, sign infosec pact; India extends controversial hardware import law; and more Asia In Brief Chinese chip designer Loongson last Friday announced its processors are powering a cloud computing platform that has been launched into space....

Six sites targeted for security clean-up, just 49,994 to go A plan for hackers to help secure America's critical infrastructure has kicked off with six US water companies signing up to let coders kick the tires of their computer systems and fix any vulnerabilities....

Oh, AI wanna be like you, AI wanna walk like you, talk like you, too Computer scientists have devised a technique for making AI models behave like specific people....

Our vultures think this tech is interesting but in its 8-bit stage Kettle It's been a fairly bumpy week for enterprise AI, as a string of stories have shown today's neural networks in a less-than-flattering light....

Meanwhile, CISA chief Jen Easterly will step down prior to inauguration Analysis President-elect Donald Trump has announced several unorthodox nominations for his cabinet over the last two weeks, including South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, whom he tapped to serve as Homeland Security Secretary....

Haven't we heard this story before? Opinion The US Department of Justice has accused a major tech company of an illegal web monopoly and tried to force them to split off their web browser. Sound familiar?...

Pope, Depeche Mode, silent on digital second coming If you find yourself in the Swiss tourist destination of Lucerne with a guilty conscience, there's someone waiting at the historic Peterskapelle Catholic Church to hear your prayers - someone who cares, you might say: Your own personal AI Jesus....