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Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England
Labour health secretary's vision for one record to rule 'em all, for each patient, set to come to market The state health service for England has asked tech suppliers to submit ideas to help it build an online service for a single health record, as promised by the country's Health Minister last year....
Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition Exclusive European software vendor Nextcloud has accused Google of deliberately crippling its Android Files application, which it says has more than 800,000 users....
Türkiye-linked spy crew exploited a messaging app zero-day to snoop on Kurdish army in Iraq
'MarbledDust' gang has honed the skills it uses to assist Ankara Turkish spies exploited a zero-day bug in a messaging app to collect info on the Kurdish army in Iraq, according to Microsoft, which says the attacks began more than a year ago....
OpenAI wants to build a subscription for something like an AI OS, with SDKs and APIs and 'surfaces'
CEO Sam Altman has no master plan but imagines custom models built on everything you've ever said or read OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company doesn't have a master plan but does hope to develop a product that's akin to a subscription operating system, but for AI, and models that ingest every experience you have in your life...
Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos
Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things up Linux kernel project boss Linus Torvalds has re-joined the ranks of full-size mechanical keyboard aficionados....
Mars may have vast underground oceans and enough HO to make it a water world
Chinese and Australian boffins ask what else could be slowing down seismic waves as they pass through the Red Planet? Mars may still be home to oceanic quantities of liquid water, according to a recent paper published by the National Science Review....
Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans
Rise of the machines postponed ... for now Robots in Amazon's fulfillment warehouse can pick and stow products well enough that the e-tail giant is happy to begin beta testing, but not well enough to leave human workers behind....
Fusion eggheads claim modeling fix for particle escape - at least in stellarators
One problem down, x - 1 problems go There are plenty of reasons why fusion energy has yet to become reality, but according to a group of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and their collaborators, we may be one modeling breakthrough closer....
M365 apps on Windows 10 to get security fixes into 2028
Support for the underlying OS is another story Microsoft has pledged to support and issue security fixes for M365 apps on Windows 10 into late 2028. That's well past a cut-off point of October 14 this year, when Redmond's support for Windows 10 officially ends unless you buy an extended support package....
Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start their own biz
All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now Companies with higher levels of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic saw more of their employees launch startups, economists have found. They argue this entrepreneurial spillover is a factor policymakers and firms should weigh when shaping remote work policies....
CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email
Cripes, we were only joking when we called Elon's social network the new state media The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced Monday that going forward, only urgent alerts tied to emerging threats or major cyber activity will appear on its website. Routine updates, guidance, and other notifications will instead be shared via email, RSS, and X....
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off TrueNAS is alive and well, but iXsystems has shifted its focus to the Linux-based SCALE edition. For the FreeBSD faithful left clinging to CORE, a new contender is limbering up: zVault....
Attackers pwn charter airline helping Trump's deportation campaign
Intruders claim they stole GlobalX's flight records and manifests GlobalX, a charter airline used for deportations by the US government, has admitted someone broke into its network infrastructure....
CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost
So alchemists had the right idea - they just lacked a 27 km particle accelerator The dream of every medieval alchemist - turning lead into gold - has finally come true thanks to some impractical physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider....
US, China agree to roll back tariffs – but only for 90 days
IT projects may remain in limbo due to deal being far from final, but markets are up, so Trump'll declare a win world war fee The impending disaster of trade-freezing tariffs on Chinese imports to the US has been averted, but like a Chinese cargo ship anchored off the coast of California, it's not gone entirely....
OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release
Canary fans told it hurts functionality to the point that it makes 'using your PC to do even basic things difficult' The Windows team has come up with a bug so bad that Microsoft has had to postpone some Insider builds until the issue is dealt with....
Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping
Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright More than 400 of the UK's leading media and arts professionals have written to the prime minister to back an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, which promises to offer the nation's creative industries transparency over copyrighted works ingested by AI models....
LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true
As long as those fit into a 20 x 20 x 20 grid and can be built from 8 basic bricks At last, an AI model we can really get behind: LegoGPT takes a text prompt and spits out a physically stable design....
Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software
Providers argue that if end users prioritized security, they'd get it CYBERUK Intervention is required to ensure the security market holds vendors to account for shipping insecure wares - imposing costs on those whose failures lead to cyberattacks and having to draft in cleanup crews. The security market must properly incentivize security vendors to do security better....
Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness
We need to make taking IT systems 'off the books' a problem for corporate types Opinion It's been a devastating few weeks for UK retail giants. Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op, and now uber-posh Harrods have had massive disruptions due to ransomware attacks taking systems down for prolonged periods....
So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?
It was acceptable in the '80s Who, Me? Sometimes, a favor done for friends years ago can come back to bite you in a very corporate way. Welcome to another cautionary tale from the files of Who, Me?...
US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired
Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI The head of the US Copyright Office has reportedly been fired, the day after agency concluded that builders of AI models use of copyrighted material went beyond existing doctrines of fair use....
DOGE worker's old creds found exposed in infostealer malware dumps
PLUS: Celsius scammer sent to slammer; Death-by-hacking victim warns you're never safe; and more Infosec in brief Good cybersecurity habits don't appear to qualify anyone to work at DOGE, as one Musk minion seemingly fell victim to infostealer malware....
TikTok's Chinese app - Douyin - in trouble after spat over the price of jade
PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more Asia In Brief Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, has struck trouble at home after a user falsely claimed a retailer sold inferior jade products at enormous and unjustified markups....
You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs
Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he's not releasing it RSAC If Rapid7's Christiaan Beek decided to change careers and become a ransomware criminal, he knows exactly how he'd innovate: CPU ransomware....
Feds disrupt proxy-for-hire botnet, indict four alleged net miscreants
The FBI also issued a list of end-of-life routers you need to replace Earlier this week, the FBI urged folks to bin aging routers vulnerable to hijacking, citing ongoing attacks linked to TheMoon malware. In a related move, the US Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four foreign nationals accused of running a long-running proxy-for-hire network that exploited outdated routers to funnel criminal traffic....
UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans
France's share of MOD cash is growing while the US's shrinks The UK's Ministry of Defence (MOD) is gradually shifting its spending from the US to Europe, according to research from Tussell....
Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways
MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong It might sound like common sense - and it's echoed by science communicators and even ChatGPT - but it's wrong. New research shows eggs are less likely to crack when they land on their side than on their end....
Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests
AI phone home Despite stiff export controls on the legitimate sale of AI accelerators to China, stemming the flow of gray market GPUs streaming into the Middle Kingdom remains a point of concern for American lawmakers....
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties
DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom The US government's National Science Foundation (NSF) is reportedly axing more than three dozen divisions, including its equity-in-STEM unit, while prepping staff layoffs and yanking over a billion dollars in recently awarded grants. The purge has already sparked legal action and congressional scrutiny....
US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check
Price tag unknown US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has unveiled an ambitious plan to yank American air traffic control systems out of the 1960s - and he wants Congress to fund the whole project up front so it doesn't get derailed by political wind shifts....
A new Lazarus arises – for the fourth time – for Pascal programming fans
And if it's your first time around, there's a whole new free book on FreePascal Lazarus 4 is the latest version of the all-FOSS but Delphi-compatible IDE for the FreePascal compiler....
VC behemoth Insight Partners fears top-secret financial info swiped by cyber-miscreants
Weapons-grade fuel for fraud Insight Partners, a mega venture capital firm with more than $90 billion in funds under management, fears network intruders got their hands on internal sensitive data about employees, portfolio companies, investors, and more....
VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters
NASA cancels solicitation to get a partner to launch, land, and operate the bot for free NASA has quietly scrapped a plea for third parties to take its VIPER rover to the lunar surface....
Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese
Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules Execs from several top US tech companies, including Microsoft, AMD, and OpenAI, slammed the Biden administration's export rules for AI chips and said that winning the AI race against China hinges on making it easier, not harder, to use American technology....
Users advised to review Oracle Java use as Big Red's year end approaches
International Java sales operation and the prospects of audits per-employee license model make the move to open source irresistible Experts are warning of an increase in Oracle Java audits - as the tech giant nears its year end - following a switch to a per-employee license model that could see costs grow by up to five times....
openSUSE deep sixes Deepin desktop over security stink
Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior SUSE has kicked the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) out of its community-driven Linux distro, openSUSE, and the reasons it gives for doing so are revealing....
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI
This BS ends at some point, right? Microsoft believes AI can hasten development of nuclear fusion as a practical energy source, which could in turn accelerate answers to the question of how to power AI....
As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them
One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements The EU and nation states have already heralded schemes to attract top scientific talent seeking to escape the Republic of Trump. So where's Britain in the mix?...
If Google is forced to give up Chrome, what happens next?
It's going to be very, very interesting in a 'May you live in interesting times' way Opinion When Donald Trump entered the White House, I expect Google thought its worries were over. A million-dollar "donation" for the inaugural ball, some face time between Sundar Pichai and Trump, and President Joe Biden's pesky Department of Justice (DoJ) demanding Google divest itself of its Chrome web browser would all be forgotten....
People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative
PC repair chap turned pet detective to diagnose the defective On Call The unconditional love of a pet is often a solace, and perhaps never more so than at the end of a busy working week. Which is when The Register competes with the animal kingdom for your affection by delivering a new edition of On Call, our Friday column in which we share your stories of scratching out a living delivering tech support....
37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions
Industry pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way' says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson Web software biz 37signals has started to migrate its data out of the cloud and onto on-prem storage - and expects to save a further $1.3 million (980,000) a year after completing its high-profile cloud repatriation project and getting off AWS once and for all....
Stop Pakistani content at the border, India tells media, tech biz
Songs, social network vids threaten national security, apparently India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory calling for media companies and online platforms to block all content originating in Pakistan....
Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors
'I'm sorry, I can't help with that' Google's latest update to its Gemini family of large language models appears to have broken the controls for configuring safety settings, breaking applications that require lowered guardrails, such as apps providing solace for sexual assault victims....
Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency
Sole-source award raises eyebrows in rush to meet Trump's hiring mandates The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) awarded Workday a sole-source contract to overhaul its human resources systems - bypassing any formal competition - citing critical failures in its aging, fragmented HR infrastructure and binding deadlines from President Trump's executive orders on workforce restructuring....
‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix
As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters Next Dominic Johnston is fed up with VMware....
OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies
A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is leaving to become CEO of Applications at OpenAI, reporting directly to Sam Altman, the AI heavyweight announced on Thursday....
The final bookworm-based Raspberry Pi OS update arrives
Last big release until trixie shows up Debian bookworm is getting what could be its last hurrah as the basis for Raspberry Pi's operating system, with what's likely to be its final appearance on a release for the diminutive computers....
IRS hopes to replace fired enforcement workers with AI
Another mask-off moment, although fresh research says RoI for the tech is still lacking Following considerable cuts to its enforcement workforce, the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to use AI to supplement its ability to collect taxes from US citizens....
GNOME Foundation's new executive director is Canadian, a techie, and a GNOME user
Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk The GNOME Foundation has hired a new executive director to lead the organization, acting as GNOME's public face and leading the non-profit's fundraising efforts....
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