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With more to come, no doubt At least three Chinese groups are attacking on-premises SharePoint servers via a couple of recently disclosed Microsoft bugs, according to Redmond....

Used stolen info to pitch for Chinese tech talent program A Silicon Valley engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of trade secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including crucial military technology....

Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspot Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation....

Credulous minister claims MoU - not contract - with chatbot biz could help 'fix NHS' and 'drive economic growth' The UK's Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) is jumping into bed with chatbot biz OpenAI, signing a memorandum of understanding to expand OpenAI's footprint in the nation while inserting its tech firmly into the public sector....

Admins urged to rotate machine keys, restart IIS after emergency fix Microsoft has good news for administrators running SharePoint Server 2016. The cloud and software megacorp has published updates to close a gaping hole in the document management service....

The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions Column When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course....

High Court judge slashes tech titan's $4B damages claim by almost 80% A High Court judge has ruled that the estate of Autonomy founder Dr Mike Lynch will not have to pay the billions of dollars sought in damages by HPE following its ill-fated acquisition of Autonomy in 2011....

Voyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics research Updated NASA's Goddard Center Director, Makenzie Lystrup, is to depart after just over two years in the role....

'We're going to smash the business model' NHS, councils, and schools told The UK government is proposing to "ban" public sector organizations and critical national infrastructure from paying criminal operators behind ransomware attacks, under new measures outlined today....

After abandoning in-house replacement for scandal-hit system, government company looks to off-the-shelf software The UK Post Office has said the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal is a risk to its 410 million ($552 million) plan to replace its ageing POS and accounting system, and may force changes to awarded contracts....

The modern art form that redeemed a Windows utility has lessons for all Opinion The speedrun is one of the internet's genuinely new artforms. At its best, it's akin to a virtuoso piano recital. Less emotional depth, more adrenalin. Watching an expert fly through a game creates an endorphin rush without the expense or time of doing it for yourself....

Ofcom suggests government should use legislation to back PSB content on the platform Public service broadcasters (PSBs) need to work with Google-owned YouTube "urgently," says the UK's communications watchdog, Ofcom....

As long as you get paid like a 5-day gig Employees work better and tire less when working a four-day week, according to a six-month trial involving thousands of individuals....

Smaller vendors offering alternatives cash in concerns Analysis Recent research suggests customers are concerned about the uptime reliability of hyperscalers' PostgreSQL instances, giving smaller alternative vendors an opening to fill the gap....

Announces beta for separate production and development databases that will land in a few weeks Vibe coding service Replit has announced changes to its product that should prevent the database deletion disaster reported by one of its users....

Deliberate overheating brought relief to Juno probe's camera, twice NASA has revealed that one of the cameras on the Juno craft it sent to Jupiter malfunctioned, and that it fixed it with some very, very, remote hardware hacking....

Raided homes despite known likelihood that aircon or EVs could explain high electricity consumption The Electronic Frontier Foundation has advanced a lawsuit in which it alleges the City of Sacramento misused energy records to accuse residents of growing cannabis, often with disastrous results....

No customer, partner info stolen, spokesperson tells The Reg Dell has confirmed that criminals broke into its IT environment and stole some of its data -but told The Register that it's "primarily synthetic (fake) data."...

Fight back against Redmond's productivity sinks Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop operating system, finally beating Windows 10. But it's also loaded with head-scratching default settings that sap your productivity and treat you like a computer illiterate....

Claims it's all a witch hunt by local lawmakers The site formerly known as Twitter has said it will not hand over any information to French police over an investigation into its recommendation algorithms....

You only live once, but regret is forever Cursor's AI coding agent will run automatically, in YOLO mode, if you let it. According to Backslash Security, you might want to think twice about doing so....

Move along, nothing to see here comment Here we go again. Another major Microsoft attack, with this one seeing someone - most likely government-backed hackers - exploiting a zero-day bug in SharePoint Server that Redmond failed to fix....

The prime beneficiary of the AI boom has global ambitions Nvidia is officially bringing its CUDA software stack to RISC-V CPUs....

As US lawmakers wrangle over NASA's stake in ExoMars, at least the chutes work video The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted a successful parachute test for the ExoMars Mars landing rover earlier this month, even as uncertainty looms over US involvement in the project....

Former astronaut laments software shutdowns, staff reductions amid ongoing budget squeeze Interview "I would say I'm cautiously optimistic, but that probably overstates how I'm feeling."...

In 2025, social media has moved from self-expression to self-entrapment Column We don't want to believe what we deeply understand: nothing is really deleted, and someone, somewhere can (and probably will) use that record against us....

Chipmaker halts updates and support, urges users to migrate immediately Intel has abruptly killed off Clear Linux OS, ending Chipzilla's decade-long adventure in this part of the Linux world....

A desire for cycle accuracy results in 32 million recorded CPU states derived entirely from original hardware The developer of MartyPC, an emulator for vintage Intel-compatible hardware that targets cycle accuracy, has released a test suite for Intel's classic 80286 processor and compatibles - created, in a fit of raw enthusiasm and hyperfocus, by single-stepping a physical chip from the mid-1980s through the execution of almost 1.5 million instructions....

'Actually not terrible' says industry watcher Corey Quinn - but pricing plans have disappeared AWS has introduced daily usage limits and a user waitlist for Kiro, its preview spec-driven AI editor, citing unexpectedly high demand as it works to scale the system....

The End of Windows 10 is looming. The world needs a simpler, easy, quick, snackable alternative Comment Dear Santa. For Windows-10-end-of-support-day in October, please may we have a dead simple bulletproof all-free OS that gets old PCs online without a Google account, and does nothing else?...

Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) set to shut down a key satellite data stream used in US hurricane forecasting, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts has stepped in with a decoder they say could fill the gap....

Persians added snooping capabilities to DCHSpy after Israeli bombs fell Four new samples of Android spyware linked to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) that collects WhatsApp data, records audio and video, and hunts for files by name, surfaced shortly after the Iran-Israel conflict began....

Peter Connelly inflated turnover and claimed second payment when only entitled to one Sad news for the three people who fondly remember the soundtracks to turn-of-the-millennium Tomb Raider - their composer, Peter Connelly, has been sentenced to 16 months behind bars for COVID-19 loan fraud....

But an emergency fix for SharePoint Server 2016 is still MIA Microsoft is releasing out-of-band security updates for SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, following a warning that vulnerable versions were now under attack....

Getting carded is one thing. A full strip search? Welcome to Britain Opinion On June 10, social network Bluesky announced that in 15 days it would introduce age verification for UK users, to comply with the UK Online Safety Act. As this law threatens non-compliant content companies with eight-figure fines from July 25, you can see why. The how, however, is breathtakingly inexcusable....

'This, many considered, was bad' Who, Me? Welcome again to "Who, Me?" - The Register's Monday column in which readers admit to making mistakes and explain how they managed to keep their careers going afterwards....

Now flying again, but not saying what went wrong UPDATED US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet due to an unspecified IT issue....

PLUS: Perplexity AI scores 360-million-customer win in India; Australian billionaire's political party suffers data breach, won't contact victims; and more Asia In Brief Japan's National Astronomical Observatory last week announced the discovery of a small body with an orbit beyond Pluto's, and scientists think its presence means the Planet 9" theory should be revisited....

AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code without permission....

PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more Infosec In Brief Microsoft has warned users of SharePoint Server that three on-prem versions of the product include a zero-day flaw that is under attack - and that its own failure to completely fix past problems is the cause....

Foreign worker program represents betrayal of US computer science students, advocacy group argues The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) intend to reevaluate how H-1B visas are issued, according to a regulatory filing....

Fancy Bear can't keep its claws out of Outlook inboxes The UK government is warning that Russia's APT28 (also known as Fancy Bear or Forest Blizzard) has been deploying previously unknown malware to harvest Microsoft email credentials and steal access to compromised accounts....

OpenAI delayed its promised open-weights model since GPT-2, leaving the Middle Kingdom clearly in the lead Comment OpenAI was supposed to make good on its name and release its first open-weights model since GPT-2 this week....

Keep It Simple, Stupid Interview Scattered Spider and Iranian government-backed cyber units have more in common than a recent uptick in hacking activity, according to Ariel Parnes, a former colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces' cyber unit 8200....

Moolenaar demands answers from Commerce Secretary The Republican chair of the US House Select Committee on China has protested the Trump administration's decision this week to lift restrictions on the sale of Nvidia H20 GPUs and similar processors, warning the chips could be used to advance Chinese AI and military interests....

GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges Two weeks before the EU AI Act takes effect, the European Commission issued voluntary guidelines for providers of general-purpose AI models. However, Meta refused to sign, arguing that the extra measures introduce "legal uncertainties" beyond the law's scope....

That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else Japanese foundry upstart Rapidus says it's on track to begin volume production of 2nm process tech after achieving a major milestone this week....

And we're the ones building it Comment A tech executive's alleged affair exposed on a stadium jumbotron is ripe fodder for the gossip rags, but it exhibits something else: proof that we need not wait for an AI-fueled dystopian surveillance state to descend on us - we're perfectly able and willing to surveil ourselves....

Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device Apple has sued tech YouTuber Jon Prosser for allegedly leaking iOS 26 information to the public ahead of its reveal at WWDC in June....

Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters Oracle began incentivizing perpetual licenses in favor of subscription deals as it introduced its database systems via rival cloud vendors, say licensing experts....