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Future Androids may let you dock them and use them as a desktop - as standard It's been tried before, more than once, but if it comes as a stock feature, maybe people will actually start to use the feature....

OK, now tell us why this isn't an EU DMA violation - asking for a friend in Brussels Running a Chromium-based browser, such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge? The chances are good it's quietly telling Google all about your CPU and GPU usage when you visit one of the search giant's websites....

German software giant says open source is a 'catalyst for innovation' but is unlikely to release proprietary code SAP's bid to cast itself as an open source friendly company is being met with some scepticism from the community, who suggest the projects are largely based on the German software giant's interests....

They're called role-playing games for a reason ... On Call Life on the frontlines of tech support can be tough, which is why each Friday The Register brings you a fresh instalment of On Call, our reader-contributed column in which you tell your peers what you've endured in the name of work....

Red clouds are in no rush to go green China's major cloud computing and datacenter players aren't going green in a hurry, according to a Greenpeace study - leaving Microsoft tied to a datacenter operator that uses just 4.35 percent renewable energy....

Ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side South Korea has commenced an effort to shoot drones out of the sky using lasers - and has named it the Star Wars project"....

Accessibility be damned, preventing phishing is the priority After around two decades of allowing one-time passwords (OTPs) delivered by text message to assist log ins to bank accounts in Singapore, the city-state will abandon the authentication technique....

Potential for combo with Arm tantalizes Japan's SoftBank, which owns CPU designer Arm, has acquired UK chip house Graphcore for an unspecified sum....

Meet DodgeBox, son of StealthVector Chinese government-backed cyber espionage gang APT41 has very likely added a loader dubbed DodgeBox and a backdoor named MoonWalk to its malware toolbox, according to cloud security service provider Zscaler's ThreatLabz research team....

Ultra-conservative org funnily enough not ready to turn the other cheek After claiming to break into a database belonging to The Heritage Foundation, and then leaking 2GB of files belonging to the ultra-conservative think tank, the hacktivist crew SiegedSec claims to have disbanded....

Ice ICE, baby The Biden administration's electric vehicle ambitions are getting another boost, this time in the form of $1.7 billion in public funding to convert 11 at-risk and shuttered auto manufacturing plants into electric vehicle (EV) factories....

If you were wondering how the US White House race is going in 2024, it's going like this... Florida Man Donald Trump has said that if elected President of the United States again, he will jail "election fraudsters" - with a direct warning to Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg. Or Zuckerbucks as Trump put it....

Newly discovered flaw affects OpenSSH 8.7 and 8.8 daemon The founder of Openwall has discovered a new signal handler race condition in the core sshd daemon used in RHEL 9.x and its various offshoots....

And the AI PC revolution probably won't help, we're told Owners of Apple Mac devices simply aren't buying new hardware as quickly as they used to....

Just 12% of providers have completed rip and replace of ZTE, Huawei The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reiterated to Congress that more cash is needed if smaller broadband providersare to be compensated for removing Chinese telecoms kit deemed a security risk....

Sushovan Hussain's failure in 2020 to appeal his 2018 fraud conviction in the US means he won't be a member of ICAEW for 20 years The expulsion of Sushovan Hussain, Autonomy's former CFO, from a chartered accountant organization is now set in stone....

Foundry and AI plaform available in OCI Palantir and Oracle are hooking up to promote the US spy-tech company's technology on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform....

Yesterday's settlement between MS and Euro cloud providers shouldn't 'fool' you, says Alphabet arm's cloud boss Google says Microsoft's confidential settlement with a group of European cloud providers is merely about using its financial muscle to make complaints about software licensing costs vanish....

Letters from CISO Ethan Steiger suggest the data related to job applications Advance Auto Parts' CISO just revealed for the first time the number of individuals affected when criminals broke into its Snowflake instance - a hefty 2.3 million....

Makes third-party wallets getting iOS NFC access a 'legally binding' thing Apple has avoided a potential hefty fine and an antitrust case in Europe after making concessions that include opening up access to iPhone hardware needed for "tap and go" applications....

First it comes for market leader's GPUs ... now it's nibbling at software AMD is set to swallow software biz Silo AI for $650 million in a bid to boost its own enterprise AI wares....

We all know the pain of reproducing that one pesky problem in test Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is set to spend a little longer attached to the International Space Station (ISS) as engineers on the ground work to recreate the oddities seen in orbit....

Scumbag targeted many victims - and those who tried to help them A scumbag who used to work as a privacy consultant has been put behind bars for nine years for a "grotesque" cyberstalking campaign against more than a dozen victims....

Get comfortable, it'll be here for a while Firefox 128 is out with a relatively modest feature set - but it will also be the latest Extended Support Release (ESR) release, meaning that the end for Firefox 115 is coming into view....

Driving a new car in the EU? Get ready for a cacophony of beeps and whistles if you're a bit heavy on the go pedal It was a big week for road safety campaigners in the European Union as Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) technology became mandatory on all new cars....

LockBit variant targets backup software - which you may remember is supposed to help you recover from ransomware Yet another new ransomware gang, this one dubbed EstateRansomware, is exploiting a Veeam vulnerability that was patched more than a year ago to drop file-encrypting malware, a LockBit variant, and extort payments from victims....

Admits it may struggle to fund and implement replacement infrastructure The Xen Project, creator and manager of the open-source Xen hypervisor and associated tools, has warned its community of potential problems flowing from the imminent closure of the colocation facility it uses....

Multiple malware attack saw personal data acessed, but rocket science remained safe The Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) discovered it was under attack using zero-day exploits while working with Microsoft to probe a 2023 cyberattack on its systems....

The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers Google and Apple have signed off on a tool that their cloud photo storage services interoperable, but it may come at a cost to some users....

Devs of OS named for a mythical beast join in the 'local models will will deliver legendary productivity' trope China has jumped on the AI PC bandwagon, with the team behind local OS openKylin creating a cut of its Linux-based software that can run AI models on the desktop....

Hitting youngsters with faked texts and calling them suckers is a bit of a no-no, watchdog sniffs The US Federal Trade Commission has thrown the book at NGL Labs and its founders for allegedly breaking a depressing amount of child internet safety law....

It'd be a shame if something happened to that HBM fab, warns NSEU Unionized Samsung workers in South Korea have extended their three-day strike indefinitely, claiming that company leadership refused to listen to demands when an end date was on the table....

Electric car sales break records, but Elon's luster is tarnished US sales of electric vehicles hit a new record in the second quarter of 2024, no thanks to Tesla, which saw its market share drop below 50 percent of total US electric vehicle sales for the first time in its history....

Taiwan's silicon supremo comfortably sails past analyst forecasts Semiconductor colossus TSMC appears more confident that its fortunes are on the upswing after posting strong growth in Q2 revenue based on demand for advanced chips such as GPUs for AI acceleration....

What's that Lassie? The IRS hopes to offer free direct tax filing for everyone next year? Intuit has announced plans to lay off 1,800 people, which is roughly 10 percent of its workforce....

Analysts hoping Windows 11 refresh adds fuel to fire, as OS market share finally on rise Typical demand for new and faster PCs is returning to the market, Canalys principal analyst Ishan Dutt tells The Register after he totted up a third straight quarter of growth following several woeful years in the sector....

Company announces intent following Ticketmaster, Santander break-ins A month after incident response giant Mandiant suggested the litany of data thefts linked to Snowflake account intrusions had the common component of lacking multi-factor authentication (MFA) controls, the cloud storage and data analytics company is offering a mandatory MFA option to admins....

ADRAS-J avoids adding to debris problem with autonomous collision avoidance Astroscale Japan has shown off images of orbital debris and demonstrated the ability of its spacecraft to avoid adding to the problem thanks to an autonomous collision avoidance system....

Pays 'lump sum,' setting up new Azure Stack for hosters and more but some concerned about the private deal A group of 27 cloud providers have agreed to settle the complaint they lodged with the European Commission over alleged anti-competitive behavior related to the cost they pay to run Microsoft's software in their datacenters....

Redmond 'confident in the company's direction' says withdrawal letter Microsoft is giving up its non-voting observer seat on OpenAI's board, citing progress in the company's direction - yet fear of regulatory scrutiny no doubt also played some part in the decision-making process....

Company says data exfiltration was extremely difficult to detect Fujitsu Japan says an unspecified "advanced" malware strain was to blame for a March data theft, insisting the strain was "not ransomware", yet it hasn't revealed how many individuals are affected....

'Supply chains still powered by coal and gas' scoffs Greenpeace Microsoft has inked a contract with Occidental Petroleum to buy 500,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) "credits" over six years to support its overall carbon strategy. The move follows a dramatic rise in Microsoft's CO emissions due to datacenter construction....

X co-designer David Rosenthal looks back at why his other project failed A couple of weeks after its anniversary, one of the original engineers behind X has explored why it succeeded where rivals - one of which he co-developed - failed....

Lenders bet you're willing to rent GPUs Datacenters-for-AI outfit CyrusOne has scored another $7.9 billion loan to build more bit barns to fill full of GPUs....

Market share increases for Microsoft's latest operating system There is finally some good news for Microsoft in the operating system market share stakes: use of Windows 11 continues to rise as Windows 10 falls....

BlackByte, LockBit among the criminals using bespoke tools As ransomware crews increasingly shift beyond just encrypting victims' files and demanding a payment to unlock them, instead swiping sensitive info straight away, some of the more mature crime organizations are developing custom malware for their data theft....

Sounds better than a British summer At the time of year when thoughts naturally turn to a much-earned vacation, news arrives of a planet with temperatures of 920C (1,688F), raining glass blown horizontal by 5,000 mph (8,047 kph) winds, and the constant smell of rotten eggs....

A handy standalone translator, but you'll need deep pockets, both figuratively and literally, if you want one Review One of the more useful applications of AI technology is translation and interpreting. The Timekettle X1 AI Interpreter hub attempts to move things forward with a pleasing industrial design....

Fixes have been made, it appears, but disclosure or discussion is invisible Column Found a bug? It turns out that reporting it with a story in The Register works remarkably well ... mostly. After publication of my "Kryptonite" article about a prompt that crashes many AI chatbots, I began to get a steady stream of emails from readers - many times the total of all reader emails I'd received in the previous decade....

Freeware AutoIt also used to hide entire PowerShell environments in scripts A rapidly-changing infostealer malware known as ViperSoftX has evolved to become more dangerous, according to security researchers at threat detection vendor Trellix....