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'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear Boeing issued a software safety patch for the VHF radio systems used on its 787 aircraft, and the update turned out to be ineffective, Qatar Airways has complained....

What a MIME field A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment - and, to be fair, it doesn't take much craft to pull that off....

70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot Comment There is something about Elon Musk's career trajectory that compels onlookers to hang around for the seemingly inevitable crash landing. Tesla, SpaceX, and X - formerly known as Twitter - have all become hosts to the man's galactic ego....

Disconnected device scenarios cause headaches for Microsoft Microsoft is extending support for a product scheduled for deprecation. Sadly for some, it's not Windows 10....

Small IT hardware firms feel the heat from Trump making prices great World War Fee Modular laptop maker Framework is pausing sales of models it would make a loss on, while a small US keyboard biz is facing hundreds of dollars slapped on its products that American consumers will have to pay....

Windows maker marks milestone with Clippy-esque additions that resemble tools from OpenAI, Google Microsoft used its 50th birthday to announce a slew of new Copilot features, many of which will be eerily familiar to anyone who's used rival AI platforms....

Despite arrests, eight-legged menace targeted more victims this year Despite several arrests last year, Scattered Spider's social engineering attacks are continuing into 2025 as the cybercrime collective targets high-profile organizations and adds another phishing kit to its arsenal along with a new version of Spectre RAT malware....

No-Nvidia networking club is banking on you running different GPUs on one network The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium has delivered its first GPU interconnect specification: UALink 200G 1.0....

Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal Procter & Gamble says organizations should rethink how they're run to take better advantage of innovation enabled by generative AI....

Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth You've perhaps heard of using Moon dirt for building roads and other structures for future lunar explorers. But a group of German scientists reckon they've found another use for the grey stuff: Turn it into glass and use it to assemble solar power cells right there on the Moon....

Who wouldn't want predictive business insights in a week like this? (We jest, it can't solve for Trump tariffs) IBM's latest mainframe builds on the platform's traditional attributes of security and reliability for mission-critical workloads, adding AI to support large language models (LLMs), assistants, and agents....

Government boasts of 14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes 300M hit Despite ambitions to position itself as a science and tech superpower, the UK has cut the budget for the government body responsible for university research funding....

Multiple red-rated performance metrics blamed on inability to answer rising numbers of data protection worries The UK's data protection watchdog is recruiting more warm bodies to tackle its red-rated backlog of unresolved complaints....

Chinese tech giant has fired two staff, but Europe's anti-fraud org isn't probing European authorities last week charged eight people with offenses including corruption and money laundering linked to the European Parliament - and perhaps also to Huawei....

May also have fixed AI memory biz if better-than-expected revenue guidance is anything to go by World War Fee Samsung Electronics doesn't fear the impact of the USA's new tariffs regime on its displays business because it makes many of them in Mexico, according to Yong Seok-woo, president and head the company's visual display business,...

Will 'gutting' the civilian defense agency make American cybersecurity great again? Analysis Slashing staff at the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, and scrapping vital programs, isn't exactly boosting national security, say infosec and national security officials watching America's digital defenses unravel in real time....

Reliability, honesty, accuracy. And then there's this lot Oracle has briefed some customers about a successful intrusion into its public cloud, as well as the theft of their data, after previously denying it had been compromised....

Redmond's not alone: AWS, Alibaba, DeepSeek also rely on others blazing the trail Analysis Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has extolled the virtues of playing second fiddle in the generative-AI race....

As costs for US shoppers set to rise, markets slump, orange is new red, we speak to economic experts World War Fee President Donald Trump last week announced a sweeping new round of tariffs, setting the stage for price hikes across consumer tech, pro gear, and almost anything else that crosses a border....

But this mystery isn't over yet, Unit 42 opines That massive GitHub supply chain attack that spilled secrets from countless projects? It traces back to a stolen token from a SpotBugs workflow - exposed way back in November, months earlier than previously suspected....

President to up tariffs on Middle Kingdom goods to 104% from 54% World War Fee President Donald Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on Chinese goods by a further 50 percent this week, meaning imports from the Middle Kingdom into America would have a 104 percent levy. And buyers are expected to pick up the extra cost....

Crummy OPSEC leads to potentially decades in prison Noah Michael Urban, 20, of alleged Scattered Spider infamy, has pleaded guilty to various charges and potentially faces decades in prison....

Video app's future once again caught between trade war and political whiplash World War Fee A deal to sell off TikTok's US operations to White House-approved owners appears to have hit a tariff-shaped roadblock, with the Chinese government signalling it won't allow the move....

ULA wins $5.4B and Blue Origin $2.4B The US will spend $5.9 billion on Elon Musk's SpaceX in the name of national security. United Launch Alliance (ULA) follows with $5.4 billion, and Blue Origin is set to receive $2.4 billion....

We're on a roadmap to nowhere. Come on inside Opinion Nvidia has just shown off its vision of the near future in the shape of its Blackwell Ultra. Aptly for a company that helps gamers explore dystopian science-fiction hellscapes, Nvidia's actual future involves vast, heat-soaked stacks of silicon, guzzling energy by the half-gigawatt....

After 23 years, the privacy plumber has finally arrived to clean up this mess A 23-year-old side-channel attack for spying on people's web browsing histories will get shut down in the forthcoming Chrome 136, released last Thursday to the Chrome beta channel....

Last month's secret hearing comes to light Details of Apple's appeal against the UK's so-called "backdoor order" will now play out in public after the Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on national security grounds....

By putting services in scope, 18 trillion trade bloc looks to focus tech sector minds Speaking ahead of today's extraordinary meeting of the European Union's trade ministers, a spokesperson for the French government was clear that the trading bloc's response to blanket tariffs on goods could include services, bringing US tech giants within its scope....

Digital Connectivity Forum lays out climate goals, but enforcement is strictly optional A group of UK telecoms operators has signed a joint letter calling on their suppliers to do more on emissions targets to help combat climate change, but they face little pressure to comply....

With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don't have a product to show CISPE Microsoft has weeks to produce a multi-tenant hybrid cloud for service providers in Europe - a failure to do this or to even out alleged anti-competitive pricing for its software licenses could again put it in a legal dogfight with smaller rivals....

ONS acknowledges it might be a costly decision in the long run The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) is slowing migration away from legacy systems in response to budget limitations set by HM Treasury....

The graybeard wasn't doing a great job and morale improved once he left. How would you handle this? Who, Me? It's hard to confront the start of a working week, but each Monday morning, The Register tries to keep the weekend fun going for another few minutes by delivering a fresh edition of Who, Me? It's the column in which we take your tales of your most ticklish moments at work and share them for the amusement and/or education of your fellow readers....

Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers Mozilla plans to make life easier for developers of Firefox browser Add-ons, aka extensions, by reducing the burden of presenting custom consent dialogs to those installing extensions....

Says they're done right as they don't lean so far left Meta has debuted the first two models in its Llama 4 family, its first to use mixture of experts tech....

Fixed it the next day but a few lucky folk may have dodged a five percent Copilot price hike Exclusive Microsoft published inaccurate price lists for some of its products on, of all days, April the 1st....

PLUS: Qualcomm acquires Vietnamese AI outfit; China claims US hacked winter games; India's browser challenge winner disputed; and more Asia In Brief Asian nations and tech companies are trying to come to terms with the USA's new universal import tariffs and additional reciprocal tariffs"....

PLUS: Google re-patches Quick Share flaws; Critical Cisco flaw exploited; WordPress plugin trouble; and more Infosec in Brief How did journalist Jeffrey Goldberg's phone number end up in a Signal group chat? According to The Guardian, US national security adviser Mike Waltz accidentally saved it into the contact file of a campaign staffer who later took a job at the US National Security Council official....

Pixel Watch 3 boots Microsoft's OS in latest feat of delightful pointlessness Windows on Arm has been around since the Surface RT - but this is another kind of arm altogether....

Heads up to those living on lunar base in 2032: DUCK!! The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon, during Christmas 2032, has more than doubled....

Shock and ore, -style Beijing has responded to the Trump administration's latest round of import taxes with retaliatory tariffs and new restrictions on rare earth minerals....

'Nonpartisan' intelligence chief booted less than two years into the job President Trump yesterday fired the head of the NSA and US Cyber Command and his deputy....

Panel finds plaintiffs should get a chance to prove docs not submitted too late Updated IBM may have seen off a lawsuit accusing it of using outdated mortality data to underfund retiree pensions, but an appeals court has now reopened the matter to further litigation....

Experts in IT services held up while other sectors fell over the last 5 years, says report Ukraine's technology industry has held up during Russia's invasion, with activity falling markedly less than other industries and increasing as a proportion of national exports since 2019....

Prosecutors said individuals were scammed repeatedly until they had nothing left Five romance scammers-turned-money launderers were convicted in the UK today after police shuttered a multimillion-pound fraud operation....

But analysts say tariffs could disrupt equipment supply chains The US Department of Energy (DoE) is looking to co-locate datacenters with energy generation facilities to further America's AI ambitions, and is putting up its own land for this purpose....

Market share increase accelerating, but Microsoft's flagship OS not yet at the 50% mark The gap between Windows 10 and Windows 11 continues to narrow, and Microsoft's flagship operating system is on track to finally surpass its predecessor by summer....

'Pudgy' might be more apt given the download size The beta version of Ubuntu 25.04, the next interim release of this Linux OS, has arrived....

The industry's approach to keeping quality backups may be masking the importance of other recovery mainstays Maintaining good-quality backups is often seen as the spine of any organization's ability to recover from cyberattacks quickly. Naturally, given the emphasis placed on them by experts of all stripes, you'd be forgiven for thinking that prioritizing them over anything else would be the way to go....

The need to scale still battling security worries ... on both sides Governments continue to adopt cloud services, for better or worse, hoping to modernize their IT services, leading big cloud operators to aggressively court public sector bodies for lucrative contracts....

'Full benefit' of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns The effectiveness of new IT systems designed to speed up asylum claim processing in the UK continues to be held back by the Home Office's failure to decommission its 25-year-old case management database, five years after it promised to retire it....