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Roscosmos confirms 'damage' as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027 The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damage during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos....

Automation flaw in CI/CD workflow let a bad pull request unleash worm into npm PostHog says the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm compromise was "the largest and most impactful security incident" it's ever experienced after attackers slipped malicious releases into its JavaScript SDKs and tried to auto-loot developer credentials....

Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable' British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files....

Project cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepens French cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company's servers over concerns about France's approach to digital privacy....

If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE - and tmux The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up....

Pushes semiconductor familiarity via chip-shaped edible squares SK hynix has launched HBM-themed square corn snacks at 7-Eleven, because nothing explains bandwidth like carbs and chocolate....

Training outfit scrambles to fix all-male lineup before December kickoff Cybersecurity training provider TryHackMe is scrambling to recruit women infosec pros to help with its Christmas challenge following backlash concerning a lack of gender diversity....

Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce For as long as I have been a reporter and analyst in the IT sector, November has always been supercomputing month. Way before there was a TOP500 ranking of supercomputers in June 1993 but just as I was leaving university, the first Supercomputing Conference was held in Orlando in 1988. And that November SC show set the cadence for high-performance computing for the decades that followed....

Another reason why the OS seems to swell with every update Changing text in Microsoft Windows requires freezing string updates well before code changes stop, often leading to strange wording that persists for years....

Ex-NCSC chief Ciaran Martin asked to examine how forecast ended up online ahead of schedule The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has drafted in former National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief Ciaran Martin to sniff out how its Budget day forecast wandered onto the open internet before the Chancellor had even reached the dispatch box....

OBR says the scheme will cost 600M a year with no identified savings The UK government has finally put a 1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans - days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure....

Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain The UK government collected just 800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent tax year....

Nordic datacenter operator's cool-climate facilities attract bids amid AI-driven market frenzy Digital Realty and a consortium including Equinix are competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian datacenter operator, according to reports....

A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions....

Fresh court filings try to keep the case about copyright, and in US courts VMware has come out swinging in its case against Siemens over alleged unlicensed use of its software....

Our soup's not toxic but this chap's behavior was' is the gist of the defense Food company Campbell's, best known for its soups and the iconic cans they come in, has parted ways with a vice president for IT after another member of the company's tech team recorded him criticizing the company's products....

Talk about buyer's remorse South Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a serious cyberattack....

ReliaQuest finds fresh crop of phishing domains and toxic tickets Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest....

ChatGPT maker places other vendors under review following breach OpenAI says API users may be affected by a recent breach at its former data analytics provider, Mixpanel....

$12K machine promises performance that can scale to 32 chip servers and beyond but immature stack makes harnessing compute challenging hands on Tenstorrent probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when it comes to AI infrastructure. But unlike the litany of AI chip startups vying for VC funding and a slice of Nvidia's pie, Tenstorrent's chips actually exist outside the lab....

ExoMars project may actually get to the red planet one day The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project....

Agency flags hijacks of insecure studio-to-transmitter gear after attackers pipe in fake alerts and vulgar audio Malicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system....

Brewer finally tallies fallout from September attack as it pushes earnings into 2026 Asahi has finally done the sums on September's ransomware attack in Japan, conceding the crooks may have helped themselves to personal data tied to almost 2 million people....

OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access A Canadian court has ordered French cloud provider OVHcloud to hand over customer data stored in Europe, potentially undermining the provider's claims about digital sovereignty protections....

Audit sympathetic toward Comhairle nan Eilean Siar as staff stretched to capacity trying to recover Auditors remain concerned about the cyber resilience of a Scottish council as some systems are yet to be fully rebuilt following a ransomware attack in November 2023....

IT in the firing line as 'legacy' roles under the microscope AI-pocalypse New research suggests AI deployment is creating significant workforce redundancies across major organizations....

Debian 13.2 freshness, better HiDPI support, and 101 other things to run on your Pi Raspberry Pi Ltd has shipped two updates for its single-board computers: a very small refresh to Pi OS 6, and a more substantial upgrade to the tool that writes your Pi's operating system to an SD card....

Arm and RISC-V would like a word Feature Remember when high-performance computing always seemed to be about x86? Exactly a decade ago, almost nine in ten supercomputers in the TOP500 (a list of the beefiest machines maintained twice yearly by academics) were Intel-based. Today, it's down to 57 percent....

Chipzilla can certainly use foundry smarts, but denies the allegation Taiwanese foundry TSMC believes a former executive has leaked company secrets to Intel and is testing the matter in court....

Africa is again at the center of strife ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group's proposal....

Analyst Counterpoint says second-hand phones are also helping Cupertino to the smartphone shipment summit Apple is set to displace Samsung as the world's top smartphone manufacturer, measured by shipment volume, according to analyst firm Counterpoint....

60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen The cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or problems at Amazon Web Services' US East region. The cloud giant has now made a change that will make its own role in such outages less painful....

Maybe if your hand has 200+ fingers... Gainsight CEO Chuck Ganapathi downplayed the victim count related to his company's recent breach, saying he's only aware of "a handful of customers" who had their data affected after Salesforce flagged unusual activity involving Gainsight's connected app....

HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential This week the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to deliver a 16-fold boost to the nation's computing capacity - and eventually put fresh fish on the table....

Even worse, it might have been a 'test run' for future attacks A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, according to Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs....

GSMA says fragmented, poorly designed laws add burdens without making networks any safer Mobile operators' core cybersecurity spending is projected to more than double by 2030 as threats evolve, while poorly designed and fragmented policy frameworks add extra compliance costs, according to industry group the GSMA....

Engineer bends layout tool into vector renderer, then pushes frames through a MacBook's headphone jack There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope....

Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the product Towns and cities across the US are without access to their CodeRED emergency alert system following a cyberattack on vendor Crisis24....

Service limits 20-ship line to two hulls after redesigns and delays torpedo schedule The US Navy is scrapping an entire shipbuilding program in an effort to find alternatives that can be delivered faster to counter expected threats....

HR software vendor pushes cross-selling as modest workforce growth exposes vulnerability of per-seat pricing Workday is confronting a troubling reality. Customers aren't hiring much and some are actively cutting staff. The solution? Cross-selling to squeeze more revenue per user out of its installed base....

Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030 OpenAI needs to secure $207 billion in new financing by 2030 to fulfill its expansion plans, according to HSBC Global Investment Research - a challenge that could ripple across Big Tech....

Time to test just how far fandom and taste will stretch If Xbox console prices are going to leave Santa short this year, fear not as an alternative is at hand - Xbox Crocs are here for $80....

From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower Feature A silent arms race is accelerating in the world's most advanced laboratories. While headlines focus on chatbots and consumer AI, the United States is orchestrating something far more consequential: a massive expansion of supercomputing power that may reshape the future of science, security, and technological supremacy....

Three boroughs confirm investigation amid service outages, disrupted phone lines, and limited online access Two London councils are scrambling for answers after declaring a cybersecurity issue that began on Monday....

Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will survive German Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art....

Google Workspace switch drags on amid Excel dependencies, compliance requirements, and compatibility issues Exclusive Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch....

Lessons from COVID and tariff shocks getting Mike D's tech shop through AI-induced memory maze Dell has predicted PC sales will be flat next year, despite the potential of the AI PC and the slow replacement of Windows 10....

Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less so Supercomputing Month In the decade since India launched its National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the nation has commissioned 37 machines with a combined power of 39 petaFLOPS, with another 35-petaFLOPS hybrid due to come online later this year. But while plenty of those machines use locally developed technology, India is yet to deliver on its ambition to become a leader or major semiconductor player....

Warns memory price explosion means PCs may have less RAM, or use low-cost parts HP Inc will sack between 4,000 and 6,000 workers under a plan that calls for the PCs-and-printers prodigy to use AI to improve its operations....

Chinese giant adds to No AI bubble' babble by citing oversubscribed infrastructure and surging demand China's Alibaba Cloud can't deploy servers fast enough to keep up with demand for AI, so is rationing access to GPUs so that customers who use all of its services enjoy priority access....