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Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers An alliance of cloud service providers in Europe is investing 1 million into the Fulcrum Project, an open source cloud federation tech that gives an alternative to local customers anxious about using US hypercalers....

Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging 100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration....

What counts as failure in New Space? Comment Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and - you guessed it - its CEO called the test flight "a great success." This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-called "New Space" - the VC-fueled and risk-friendly private rocket sector?...

Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware....

Lenders told of 175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly 1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, overshooting its original three-year timeline....

Not exactly Snowden levels of skill A student at Britain's top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial....

Optimistic much? Arm expects to see its architecture account for half of the datacenter CPU market by the end of this year, up from 15 percent in 2024, all thanks to the AI boom....

Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April....

How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too Microsoft has quietly revealed it's redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that Windows presents after it crashes so badly a reboot is the only way out....

OK, AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ... Intel's newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn things around....

Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find? Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet - all of which disappeared after he tipped off the team seemingly behind the highly questionable pictures....

Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug Owners of Ivanti's Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA....

Indiana Uni rm -rf online profiles while agents haul boxes of evidence A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week....

1990s incident response in 2025 Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly - it may be scrubbing the web of evidence, too....

Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE's G42 planned stake AI chip startup Cerebras Systems says it has cleared a key hurdle ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO), claiming it resolved concerns about its sources of funding with the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS)....

Explanation leaves a 'lot of questions unanswered,' says infosec researcher A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the American-Israeli security biz claims is a huge exaggeration....

Silicon Valley's latest energy fixation won't stop the coming power panic Analysis Atomic energy is becoming the preferred solution to address the projected bump in megawatts needed to charge AI in the future, but it simply won't come soon enough in many cases....

Only the strong will survive, but analyst says cull will not be as rapid as during dotcom era Gartner says the market for large language model (LLM) providers is on the cusp of an extinction phase as it grapples with the capital-intensive costs of building products in a competitive market....

Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the other Windows Insiders will soon get their hands on Microsoft's attempt to ward off another CrowdStrike incident, and the company is also closing a loophole for users who don't want a Microsoft account....

But will they really upend the enterprise PC market? How about software? Networking, anyone? Analysis Disrupt? It's an awful hackneyed term that some analysts, consultants and technologists like to use....

From smartphones to surveillance cameras to security snafus, there's no escape Opinion I was going to write a story about how Amazon is no longer even pretending to respect your privacy. But, really, why bother?...

Social media platform magically worth a billion more than what he bought it for Comment Billionaire Elon Musk's xAI is to acquire billionaire Elon Musk's X in a deal that values the former at $80 billion and the latter at $33 billion....

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is shutting down its computers and boosting out into a retirement orbit around the Sun....

Crims are disabling security tools early in attacks, Talos says interview Antivirus and endpoint security tools are falling short as ransomware crews increasingly deploy "EDR killers" to disable defenses early in the attack - a tactic Cisco Talos observed in most of the 2024 cases it handled....

FCA still splashing on customizing, integrating HR and finance system way after 2021 go-live The UK's financial regulator is signing a deal worth up to 12.3 million ($15.9 million) with tech services biz Cognizant to make "enhancements" to a Workday HR and finance system it implemented several years ago....

Make things that work for the billions, not the billionaires Opinion Since it is currently fashionable to make laws by whim and decree, here are three that should apply immediately across techdom. The following are banned: DoNotReply messages, updates that reset your configuration choices to default, and forced incomprehensible choices....

'I'm glad you asked that question. We'll get to that tomorrow' (After I research the answer) Who, Me? Wait, what? It's Monday again? That means it's time for another instalment of Who, Me? What's that, you ask? It's The Register's Monday column in which we tell your tales of technological messes and celebrate your escapes....

NHS boffins think there's a connection, but snot all good news: Swallowing batteries is even more dangerous Researchers from the UK's National Health Service believe increasing adoption of cashless payments may be having an unexpected payoff: Fewer kids are swallowing coins and seeking medical help to remove them....

11 companies, including SMIC, accused of disguising outposts so they can illicitly serve Beijing Chinese tech companies created entities in Taiwan and disguised them so they had no connections to China, so they could lure top tech talent to work on significant projects....

PLUS: Indonesia crimps social media, allows iPhones; India claims rocket boost; In-flight GenAI for Japan Airlines Asia In Brief China last week commenced a crackdown on inappropriate collection and subsequent use of personal information....

PLUS: OpenAI bumps bug bounties bigtime; INTERPOL arrests 300 alleged cyber-scammers; And more! Infosec in brief Oracle Health appears to have fallen victim to an info stealing attack that has led to patient data stored by American hospitals being plundered....

There's also a new release of the Zorin OS distro The handy GNOME extension Dash to Panel will live on, under its present maintainer, after winning financial backing from one of the distros that uses it....

More silicon, more power, more pain for datacenter operators Comment As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead - and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is....

Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell....

Airbus UK wins 150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project Airbus UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the European aerospace giant, has won the 150 million contract to complete a landing system for the long-delayed ExoMars rover....

A peek behind the curtain in one corner of online advertising AppLovin, which provides a way for software developers to make money by embedding ads in their mobile apps, has been sued for a third time this month - after short-seller reports accused the biz of fraud and deceptive revenue practices....

SAMOSA digested by House last year, but choked on in Senate. Second time's a charm? A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is once again pushing legislation aimed at reining in the federal government's fragmented and wasteful software licensing practices....

That stands for I Probably Overestimated? CoreWeave has pared back the scope of its initial public offering amid growing investor uncertainty in an overheating AI marketplace and risks posed by the GPU cloud specialist's exposure to a small number of customers....

More than 70 percent of anomalies closed out, but those pesky thrusters are still a problem Updated NASA says Boeing's Starliner - dubbed the Calamity Capsule - could fly again, but not before the end of 2025 or start of 2026....

Thanks to Collabora's work on Zink and NVK... and indirectly to GPU-maker's FOSS release, too Not one but two new drivers for some Nvidia GPUs is a promising, if indirect, offshoot of the GPU maker's open-saucy moves....

How's that for Platform-as-a-Service? You've seen small 3D printed models, heard about 3D printers being used to make guns, and even read news about printed food, but a 3D printed train station? Where else could this be but Japan?...

Microsoft promises clarity, gets partway there Microsoft has introduced a roadmap for Windows 11 that takes customers all the way to ... April 2025....

JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team' Interview The team behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science....

Department director admits Welsh capital's council still trying to get heads around threat of dark web leaks Cardiff City Council's director of children's services says data was leaked or stolen from the organization, although she did not clarify how or what was pilfered....

Similar issue in Windows 11 resolved as of Wednesday Microsoft is warning that a faulty patch pushed out in February is causing Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop sessions to freeze under certain circumstances....

Despite pockets of excellence, many wouldn't make the grade in business, AI advisor implies A former director of data science at the UK prime minister's office has told MPs that people working with data in government are not typically technical and would be unlikely to get a similar job in the private sector....

Project sees 7-year delay and budget swell to 1.5B, but nuclear leadership 'confident' it has an alternative The center of the UK's nuclear industry has agreed on alternatives for how it will process waste into the next decade after delays and overspending hit a lab project....

Self-described 'visionary' made life hell for our hero, then some oily vids returned the favor On Call The working week can be ugly, which is why The Register beautifies each Friday morning with a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of tech support splendor....

Claims Broadcom will levy 20 percent penalty for customers who don't pay before renewal deadlines The French limb of global tech distributor Arrow has emailed VMware partners it serves with news of big price increases....

Single click on a phishing link in Google browser blew up sandbox on Windows Google pushed out an emergency patch for Chrome on Windows this week to stop attackers exploiting a sandbox-breaking zero-day vulnerability, seemingly used by snoops to target certain folks in Russia....