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Users report the sound of silence from operating system update Microsoft has logged some new known issues with Windows 11 24H2 and thrown up more safeguard holds until the problems are resolved....

Aiming to be freeflying by 2028. Handy if anything should happen to the ISS Axiom Space has shuffled the assembly sequence of its space station to remove any dependence it would have on the International Space Station (ISS) by as soon as 2028....

Chair Jay Obernolte urges Congress to act - whether it will is another matter After 10 months of work, the bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in the US house of Congress has unveiled its report, outlining recommendations for federal AI policy....

It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire - the entire industry is chasing the AI dragon Comment Next year will see some truly monstrous compute projects get underway as the AI boom enters its third year. Among the largest disclosed so far is xAI's plan to expand its Colossus AI supercomputer from an already impressive 100,000 GPUs to a cool million....

Week-long mission set to stretch into ninth month Two astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station aboard Boeing's problem-plagued Starliner are facing another extended delay....

Both are only thinking about the best interests of users, of course The European Commission (EC) has continued pushing Apple to open up more of iOS to third parties, and Apple has pushed back, warning that doing so risks user privacy....

Misleading listing on a recruitment site? Whatever next? The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has slapped IT Career Change Ltd on the wrist over a September 2024 ad promoting a career in Health & Safety....

Amid plans to convert smaller stores, retailer opted to stall December shift as Walmart tech divorce continues Exclusive Asda decided not to go ahead with planned cut-over dates to introduce new systems at some smaller stores earlier this month as part of its technical divorce from Walmart, the previous owner of the UK's third-largest supermarket....

Dodgy AI chatbots as brains - what could go wrong? Feature The first telephone call in 1876 was marked by Alexander Graham Bell's request to his assistant, Thomas, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you."...

Recent campaign targeted 20,000 folk across UK and Europe with this tactic, Unit 42 warns Unknown criminals went on a phishing expedition that targeted about 20,000 users across the automotive, chemical and industrial compound manufacturing sectors in Europe, and tried to steal account credentials and then hijack the victims' Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure....

The EV race is well and truly running, and no-one wants to be left in the dust The automotive industry has been shaken this week by news that giant Japanese carmakers Nissan and Honda are contemplating a merger, with Mitsubishi Motors apparently keen to become part of the mix....

Will consider free speech arguments just nine days before the clock runs out The US Supreme Court has decided to consider made-in-China social network TikTok's appeal against the law that requires it to shift to local ownership, or close, by January 19....

Derivatives claim seeks damages from execs and board members Beleaguered chipmaker Intel has been sued yet again by shareholders over its foundry business, this time in a derivative lawsuit targeting executives and board members....

It could end up like Huawei -Trump's gonna get ya, get ya, get ya The Feds may ban the sale of TP-Link routers in the US over ongoing national security concerns about Chinese-made devices being used in cyberattacks....

Authorization comes less than a month after flight 6: 'The FAA continues to increase efficiencies' The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing a license authorization for the next test flight of SpaceX's Starship....

Enrollment invitations will continue until security improves Microsoft last week lauded the success of its efforts to convince customers to use passkeys instead of passwords, without actually quantifying that success....

All it took to make an Google Edge TPU give up model hyperparameters was specific hardware, a novel attack technique ... and several days Computer scientists from North Carolina State University have devised a way to copy AI models running on Google Edge Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), as used in Google Pixel phones and third-party machine learning accelerators....

The Unixi-est of desktops gets a wide-ranging update Comment The new version of the longest-established Linux desktop is here, and at last, it's possible to use Wayland - although not everything works yet....

State-owned retail company was not subordinate to Japanese multinational in technical matters, legal rep says Fujitsu has said it continually told the Post Office about problems with Horizon, the computer system at the center of one of the UK's widest miscarriages of justice, as its client prosecuted branch managers for accounting discrepancies....

Chicago is my kind of driver model Pour a cup of cocoa and settle down for another episode of Microsoft Storytime. Why do codenames sometimes linger on in the implementation of products?...

Spirits of the NeXTcube, the web ad, and the cursed smartphone deliver a seasonal Technicarol Column On a Christmas Eve when nothing felt right, I lapsed into a deep yet disturbed sleep....

If you have trouble keeping track of your various streaming subscriptions, you're gonna love the irony Keeping track of the amount of cloudy resources an org uses, and the cost of doing so, is notoriously tricky - so tricky, indeed, that even Netflix isn't on top of it....

In case of submarine cable failure, call Jeff Bezos Taiwan has started talks with Amazon regarding access to its Kuiper satellite broadband service....

Not that you needed another reason to enable the 'known senders' setting Criminals are spoofing Google Calendar emails in a financially motivated phishing expedition that has already affected about 300 organizations with more than 4,000 emails sent over four weeks, according to Check Point researchers....

Victims' feelings might get hurt, global cops contend, and that could hinder reporting Interpol wants to put an end to the online scam known as "pig butchering" - through linguistic policing, rather than law enforcement....

You applied the patch that could stop possible RCE attacks last week, right? A critical security hole in Apache Struts 2 - patched last week - is currently being exploited using publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) code....

'Super' edition promises 67 TOPS and 102GB/s of memory bandwidth for your GenAI projects Nvidia is bringing the AI hype home for the holidays with the launch of a tiny new dev board called the Jetson Orin Nano Super....

NASA to bid a final farewell to InSight Two years after NASA retired the InSight lander, scientists are continuing to use the vehicle to learn more about Mars....

Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like Analysis Nvidia is facing its stiffest competition in years with new accelerators from Intel and AMD that challenge its best chips on memory capacity, performance, and price....

251 million? Zuck can find that in his couch cushions, but Meta still vows to appeal It's been six years since miscreants abused some sloppy Facebook code to steal access tokens belonging to 30 million users, and the slow-turning wheels of Irish justice have finally caught up with a 251 million ($264 million) fine for the social media biz....

Feds insist they still don't know what's happening - but note sightings cluster around airport flight paths Analysis Mystery drone fever continues to grip the US East Coast - and appears to be moving inland - as elected officials beg the federal government to do something. Meanwhile the feds reiterate what they've been saying all along: We don't know what's going on, but you all need to calm the hell down....

A cool mountain breeze blowing in after the new LTS kernel A fresh release of the minimalist and very lightweight Alpine Linux is here, with support for Chinese LoongArch64 CPUs....

Meanwhile, some iPhone users apathetic about introduction of AI features Things are not entirely going to plan for Apple's generative AI system, after the recently introduced service attracted the ire of the British Broadcasting Corporation....

Contract could be worth a cool 1 billion if associated organizations join The UK's largest police force is scoping the market for business outsourcing, an ERP upgrade and support in a tender that could be worth 1 billion ($1.27 billion) if other organizations join....

Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them Amazon Web Services usually stays schtum about the exact disposition of the servers it rents in its Elastic Compute Cloud, but made an exception on Tuesday with the announcement it is offering instances based on a single HPE server: the Compute Scale-up Server 3200....

Fresh attempt to mix the perfect cocktail of IoT and Infosec BlackBerry's ambition to mix infosec and the Internet of Things has been squeezed, after the Canadian firm announced it is offloading Cylance's endpoint security products....

The likes of SHA-256, RSA, ECDSA and ECDH won't be welcome in just five years Australia's chief cyber security agency has decided local orgs should stop using the tech that forms the current cryptographic foundation of the internet by the year 2030 - years before other nations plan to do so - over fears that advances in quantum computing could render it insecure....

Details? Who needs 'em! But AI seems a likely focus SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son revealed plans to invest $100 billion in the US and create a minimum of 100,000 jobs in the next four years....

But can you really take crims at their word? Supply chain integration vendor Cleo has urged its customers to upgrade three of its products after an October security update was circumvented, leading to widespread ransomware attacks that Russia-linked gang Cl0p has claimed are its evil work....

The Nuvia buyer's alleged violations of license terms expected to last through Friday The battle between British chip designer Arm Holdings and Qualcomm kicked off today in Delaware District Court....

The US has never attacked Chinese critical infrastructure before, right? President-elect Donald Trump's team wants to go on the offensive against America's cyber adversaries, though it isn't clear how the incoming administration plans to achieve this....

Personal and financial data probably stolen A cyberattack on a Deloitte-managed government system in Rhode Island carries a "high probability" of sensitive data theft, the state says....

Service promised by 2030 for bloc's take on Starlink A competitor for Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband constellation is on the way after Eurocrats signed the concession contract for the Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS^2)....

Seek and ye shall find Opinion Perplexity offers several advantages over Google as a search engine, making it a compelling alternative for many....

Campaign groups, non-profit orgs urge action to prevent GPU maker tightening grip on AI industry A left-of-center think tank along with other non-profits are urging the European Commission to "fully investigate" Nvidia's purchase of workload management startup Run:ai amid worries its will help to tighten the GPU titan's grip on the AI industry....

Moxie maker Embodied is going under, teaching important lessons about cloud services Comment The maker of Moxie, an "AI"-powered educational robot for kids, is going out of business - and the $800 bots will die with it....

Best way to demystify modern computing? Brick it Opinion The Raspberry Pi is a moral hazard because it's been far too good to us. For the past 12 years, the Pi series has bombarded the world with extremely affordable, extremely useful computers designed purely to promote education, innovation and the democratization of digital skills....

Working for a startup is supposed to end with getting rich overnight, but not like this Who, Me? Welcome once again to Who, Me? The Register's Monday morning feature in which we share tales of technological messes your fellow readers made, and escaped, to give you hope in case you err during the coming week....

Giant distributor couldn't do a deal that delivered 'appropriate shareholder return' Exclusive Tech distribution behemoth Ingram Micro will stop doing business with Broadcom and its VMware range in many territories next year....

'Star Flash' is said to include 5G tech and leave rival wireless protocols struggling in the crack of a sofa China's Electronics Video Industry Association last week signed off on a standard for a universal remote control - a gadget Beijing thinks locals need because they're struggling with multiple remotes, but which is also a little more significant in other ways....