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Ubuntu 24.04.3, with a prettified Xfce 4.18 Linux Lite 7.6 is the latest, slightly updated release of this technologically moderate distro from New Zealand....

Overly complex architecture featuring SpaceX's Starship to blame A former NASA administrator has told the US Senate Commerce Committee that it is "highly unlikely" the US will return humans to the Moon before a Chinese taikonaut plants a flag on the lunar surface....

Nexthink estimates ESU bills could top $7.3B as millions of devices set to miss upgrade deadline Free support is ending for many editions of Windows 10 on October 14, and enterprises unable to make the jump are on the hook for billions to keep the fixes flowing....

German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoric SAP says it will pump 20 billion into expanding sovereign cloud infrastructure in Europe over the next ten years, pitching itself as a secure and compliant alternative to American cloud giants....

ARIA spent 16.5M, has 600M in the tank, and no one asked for it back ARIA - the UK science and technology agency inspired by DARPA in the US - was not asked to make savings leading up to the Spending Review, unlike other government departments....

AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex A UK government department's three-month trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot has revealed no discernible gain in productivity - speeding up some tasks yet making others slower due to lower quality outputs....

Privacy campaigners cry foul as grocer joins Asda, Iceland, and others in retail surveillance boom Sainsbury's, Britain's second-largest supermarket chain, has caught the attention of privacy campaigners by launching an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech in two of its stores to curb shoplifting....

GOTO 1976 Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers....

Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permission France's data protection authority levied massive fines against Google and SHEIN for dropping cookies on customers without securing their permission, and also whacked Google for showing ads in email service....

Shift to self-service will apparently improve support, presumably Big Blue's bottom line too IBM Cloud will update the services it provides under its Basic Support tier, which will move to a self-service model in January 2026....

Seven-year-old Cisco vuln that remains inexplicably unpatched is their way in The US State Department has put a $10 million bounty on the heads of three Russians accused of being intelligence agents hacking America's critical infrastructure - primarily via old Cisco kit, it seems....

Clock is ticking US security leaders have urged lawmakers to reauthorize two key pieces of cyber legislation, including one that facilitates threat-intel sharing between the private sector and federal government, before they expire at the end of the month....

Big Red bloodbath not yet acknowledged by the company Oracle on Tuesday laid off more than 100 workers in Washington State and more than 250 in California, though we're told that the database giant may be firing thousands around the world....

September bundle the largest this year, and possibly the most serious Patch Tuesday is next week, but Android is ahead of the game, dropping its biggest patch bundle this year while attackers actively exploit two of the now-fixed flaws....

LLMs and 0-days - what could possibly go wrong? Attackers on underground forums claimed they were using HexStrike AI, an open-source red-teaming tool, against Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure, according to Check Point cybersecurity evangelist Amit Weigman....

When AI runs recruiting, the winning move is using the same bot Job seekers who use the same AI model to compose their resumes as the AI model used to evaluate their application are more likely to advance through the hiring process than those submitting human-written materials, according to researchers....

The first one's always free - or at least deeply discounted for the first year Not wanting to miss the opportunity to grow its federal footprint, ServiceNow has signed a deal to offer the US government discounts on its latest AI innovations....

World's largest foundry operator joins Samsung and SK Hynix, which recently lost their validated end-user status The Trump administration terminated the world's largest foundry operator's validated end-user (VEU) status this week in an apparent bid to push Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) out of China....

AI-powered ransomware, extortion chatbots, vibe hacking ... just wait until agents replace affiliates It's no secret that AI tools make it easier for cybercriminals to steal sensitive data and then extort victim organizations. But two recent developments illustrate exactly how much LLMs lower the bar for ransomware and other financially motivated cybercrime - and provide a glimpse to defenders about what's on the horizon....

Now you've gone and done it: Privacy lawyer says he's working on challenge to 2023 Data Protection Framework The European Union General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge to the US-EU Data Privacy Framework (DPF) allowing data to continue flowing across the pond, but the challenges are unlikely to stop there....

From cloud IDEs to autonomous assistants, company says future is agentic Gitpod, best known for cloud-hosted dev environments, has rebranded as Ona and is now pitching itself as an AI agent platform....

New Alabama HQ to be named the Donald J. Trump Space Command Center, says local Senator The US President, Donald Trump, has announced his intention to relocate the US Space Command headquarters from its current location in Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama....

Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up A RAID failure has taken the Matrix.org homeserver offline, leaving users of the decentralized messaging service unable to send or receive messages while engineers attempt a 55 TB database restore....

The beatings will continue until usage improves Techie hiring service Andela says it has trained 200 software developers in the nuances of GitHub Copilot as part of a multi-year effort to bridge the alleged AI talent gap....

But it's OK to use it for docs and translations The latest status report from the FreeBSD Project says no thanks to code generated by LLM-based assistants....

Claude maker hits $183B valuation as bubble fears grow Opinion Anthropic has just pocketed another $13 billion, pushing its valuation to a staggering $183 billion - fresh proof that investors still can't kick their AI habit....

Six years in the making, but some features do not work yet, and has the tool been overtaken by AI? JetBrains has updated ReSharper, its .NET plugin for Visual Studio, with an out-of-process design that achieves a 61 percent reduction in UI freezes, the company claims. However, the new mode has reduced functionality....

Board calls move a mutual decision but offers no details on what went wrong The GNOME Foundation is once again hunting for a new boss after executive director Steven Deobald departed less than four months into the role, a move the board described as mutual....

Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding The UK Home Office has upped its planned spending on external data and tech consultants by 100 million to a maximum of 350 million....

Goes after Computacenter too, seeks 100 million damages UK supermarket giant Tesco has sued Broadcom for breach of contracts pertaining to its VMware licenses, named Computacenter as a co-defendant, and warned it may not be able to put food on the shelves if the situation goes pear-shaped....

Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political' Censys Inc, vendor of the popular Censys internet-mapping tool, has revealed that state-based actors are trying to abuse its services by hiding behind academic researchers....

It's been to space. It likely won't launch India as a semiconductor superpower India's government yesterday celebrated an important milestone" in the development of its semiconductor industry, and therefore the nation's ambition to become a global contender, but the celebrations seem premature because the chip that was the star of the show is nothing special....

Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI Champagne will be flowing at Google HQ after US District Judge Amit Mehta decided to do very little to rein in the monopolistic web giant....

Show of hands: who WASN'T targeted? The list of victims keeps growing, as yet another company -Cloudflare - today disclosed that some of its customers' data was also compromised in the Salesloft Drift breach....

Enough governments love it and it's highly lucrative Governments can't get enough of hacking services to use against their citizens, despite their protestations that elements of the trade need sanctioning....

Privacy advocates don't care if Paragon is based in the US now - they still don't want ICE armed with spyware ICE may soon have a new weapon in its arsenal. The White House has reversed a Biden-era decision to suspend the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)'s purchase of software from commercial spyware maker Paragon Solutions....

A host of plugins also make it a better business tool Mistral AI can now remember personal details about you and use them to offer better prompts. It also has new MCP connectors that businesses can deploy to connect their users to third-party tech services....

Joins Google, Palo Alto Networks in the ever-growing supply chain compromise Zscaler is the latest company to disclose some of its customers' data was exposed in the recent spate of Salesloft Drift attacks affecting Salesforce databases....

Free Copilot for any agency who actually wants it Microsoft, the latest tech firm to agree to big software discounts for the US government, is digging even deeper into its bargain bin than the competition by offering a year of free Copilot access to government agencies willing to put up with its other problem products....

Benioff boasts bots now handle half of customer chats as doubts over reliability linger Speaking ahead of Labor Day - celebrated in the US to recognize the nation's labor movement - Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff said the company had slashed 4,000 customer support roles through the application of AI agents....

Software glitch means glass may clamp down harder than intended Tesla vehicles sold in Australia have been recalled over a window that could "close with excessive force" on a body part of an unwary driver....

Security firm's Salesforce instance accessed using credentials stolen from Salesloft's Drift platform breach Palo Alto Networks is writing to customers that may have had commercially sensitive data exposed after criminals used stolen OAuth credentials lifted from the Salesloft Drift break-in to gain entry to its Salesforce instance....

XR, XS, and XS Max owners left with $268M worth of scrap The pending release of Apple's iOS 26 could see around 75 million iPhones rendered obsolete, generating more than 1.2 million kilograms of e-waste globally, according to new research....

Preview build drops as end-of-support deadline looms for predecessor Microsoft has made Windows 11 25H2 available to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, as market share figures show the company's flagship operating system continues to enjoy a lead over its doomed predecessor, Windows 10....

'Leading provider of AI-powered digital transformation' plays buzzword bingo as 'seasoned leaders' climb on board A publication less kind than The Reg might couch Atos's latest leadership intake as the recruitment of more expensive execs coming armed with buckets to bail water from a sinking vessel....

Investment bank predicts capacity surge to 92 GW by 2027 but remains on high alert for market weakness Datacenter capacity is forecast to surge 50 percent by 2027 driven by AI demand, with the sector's energy consumption doubling by 2030, according to the latest research from Goldman Sachs. But the financial services biz says it's watching for signs that AI adoption may fall short of current hype....

Brit limb books just 188M in revenue - down 85% since 2019 Huawei's business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from local telco networks....

Major flaws uncovered in Copeland controllers: Patch now Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world's largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have allowed miscreants to manipulate temperatures and spoil food and medicine, leading to massive supply-chain disruptions....

As government says 9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking Register debate series Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed it expects to spend 9 billion with the software giant over five years....

Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on Russia....