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Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands Police in India are demanding Starlink turn over customer details to assist its investigation into the country's biggest ever single seizure of narcotics....

Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations WordPress hosting firm Automattic and its CEO Matthew Mullenweg have been ordered to stop interfering with the business of rival WP Engine....

Funding to support development of memory vendor's $125B fab expansion in New York and Idaho American memory vendor Micron will receive $6.1 billion in CHIPS Act funding under a deal finalized by the US Commerce Department on Tuesday....

With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor Tesla is facing a lawsuit alleging its claims about Autopilot and Full Self Driving's (FSD) capabilities contributed to a fatal crash, giving the courts yet another chance to hash out claims similar to those in previous lawsuits....

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, patching was done with the click of a mouse Patch Tuesday Microsoft hasn't added too much coal to the stocking this Patch Tuesday, with just 72 fixes, only one of which scored more than nine on the CVSS threat ranking scale....

Boeing-Bell V-22 can't outfly its checkered past, it seems The US Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps have grounded their fleet of Boeing-Bell-made Osprey V-22s on safety grounds....

Strong year ends with a dip, but Ellison signs Meta deal to boost AI cred Oracle shares tumbled around 7 percent on Monday after Q2 2025 revenues disappointed financial markets....

Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory Researchers have found that the security mechanism AMD uses to protect virtual machine memory can be bypassed with $10 of hardware - and perhaps not even that....

Buckle up, because limbed creatures are about to get weird OpenAI has put its video generation tool, Sora, into the hands of ChatGPT Plus and Pro users....

Thousands of servers targeted while customers wait for patches Researchers at security shop Huntress are seeing mass exploitation of a vulnerability affecting three Cleo file management products, even on patched systems....

Sounds like th-aorta get this sorted quickly A manufacturer of devices used in heart surgeries says it's dealing with "a cybersecurity incident" that bears all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack....

Quiet festive season for admins, but next year will be busy Microsoft has pushed the final Cumulative Update for Exchange Server 2019 into 2025....

As 2027 support deadline looms, German vendor puts faith in on-trend tech to help SIs do more with less SAP has claimed that its systems integrator partners will avoid a skills crunch in the looming 2027 support deadline by using GenAI to get to grips with legacy software....

Streamer's trademark dramatic style takes on Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde A documentary examining the 2016 Bitfinex burglars hits Netflix, bringing the curious case to living rooms for the first time....

Whoever takes over has some tough decisions to make Analysis There has already been much speculation about who will succeed Pat Gelsinger as Intel chief, but perhaps a more pertinent question is whether the company wants to continue to be a manufacturer or join the ranks of fabless semiconductor firms....

Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code' Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" - and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results produced by machine learning assistants....

And it only took four months, tut WhatsApp has fixed a problem with its View Once feature, designed to protect people's privacy with automatically disappearing pictures and videos....

Wants to defer shutdown order that takes effect a day before the presidential inauguration Made-in-China social network TikTok has appealed the decision to shut it down in the US, arguing that the deadline for its destruction should be deferred to give another regime a chance to review its case....

'I am carefree, I like to joke,' says guy who fines workers if they glance at phones during meetings The CEO of Chinese tech giant Alibaba's entertainment division fines his staff if they look at their phones during meetings - a little nugget he revealed during a speech that included insults sprayed at both colleagues and customers....

'Navix' follows OpenELA rules, comes with ten years support, and is already used in production at scale Korean web giant Naver has gone into the operating system business, releasing its very own Linux distribution....

If this were a US scandal, we'd cal it 'Gategate' Malaysia's automated border control equipment - known as e-gates or automates - glitched out over the weekend, leaving travelers crossing the very busy border between Johor Bahru and Singapore required to spend hours waiting in line....

McDonald's worker called it in, cops swooped, found 'gun, suppressor, manifesto' Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a man suspected of shooting dead the CEO of insurer UnitedHealthcare in New York City, thanks to a McDonald's employee who recognized the suspect in a burger joint - and largely without help from technology....

Starlink satellites might annoy astronomers, but at least they're easy to spot Space debris tracking specialist Neuraspace added another optical telescope to extend satellite tracking over the Southern Hemisphere....

Many users unhappy with current state of search, want to know why this got priority Reddit's internal search engine is often criticized as one of the site's weakest features but the platform claims AI integration will make it "faster, smarter, and more relevant."...

No word yet on who was snooped on. Any bets? Chinese cyberspies recorded "very senior" US political figures' calls, according to White House security boss Anne Neuberger....

More Windows Insiders get to see if the snapshotter is fixed Microsoft is widening the rollout of the Recall Preview to include Dev Channel Windows Insiders running AMD and Intel-based Copilot+ PCs....

Is the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province? A mystery disease with a fatality rate higher than COVID-19 has broken out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and while the global pandemic risk is currently considered to be low, some of the world's biggest tech giants may want to dust off those pandemic supply chain disruption plans....

ShinyHunters-linked heist thought to have been ongoing since March Exclusive A massive online heist targeting AWS customers during which digital crooks abused misconfigurations in public websites and stole source code, thousands of credentials, and other secrets remains "ongoing to this day," according to security researchers....

Beijing cites GPU giant's Mellanox merger conditions from four years ago Updated Nvidia has been slapped with an antitrust probe by China's state regulator, likely a response to US export restrictions as part of the ongoing chip wars between the two countries....

A couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time OpenWrt users should upgrade their images to the same version to protect themselves from a possible supply chain attack reported to the open source Wi-Fi router project last week....

Meanwhile, 365 Enterprise users have a date for new Outlook rollout Microsoft has admitted that an issue in Windows 11 24H2 could stop Outlook from starting. It has also been confirmed that Microsoft 365 Enterprise users will switch to the new Outlook in April 2026....

Outsmart an AI, win a little Christmas cash Microsoft and friends have challenged AI hackers to break a simulated LLM-integrated email client with a prompt injection attack - and the winning teams will share a $10,000 prize pool....

Pat Gelsinger has unexpectedly quit. Gore dump follows Opinion In the dystopian world of Blade Runner, the killing of rogue superhuman replicants wasn't called that. Rather, they were "retired." Pat Gelsinger is far more human than many of the current crop of cyborg-lite tech execs, and the Intel board is no Harrison Ford, but they "retired" him just the same....

Faster, whiter, a tad more expensive - and a little baffling Hands On The Raspberry Pi 500 and monitor have been released just in time for Christmas. The machine itself is an undeniably impressive bit of hardware, but the monitor is slightly puzzling....

Misplaced shortcut led to communication breakdown Who, Me? Rejoice, dear reader, for it is Monday - the day to which everyone looks forward. No? Well, the silver lining to this particular cloud is another instalment of Who, Me? - The Reg's weekly tales of techies who thought they were fixing something, but flamed out....

Proba-3's Occulter will blot out the sun to create eclipse-like effect Coronagraph can observe India's space agency last week launched a pair of European Space Agency satellites that will hopefully demonstrate high-precision formation flight techniques that make it possible to create virtual satellites"....

Meanwhile, Sauron secures funding. Really Two tech businesses that were independently named after objects from The Lord of the Rings have formed a partnership - or should that be a fellowship?...

Also: Mystery US firm compromised by Chinese hackers for months; Safe links that aren't; Polish spy boss arrested, and more Infosec in brief Still smarting over that grocery disruption caused by a ransomware attack on supply chain SaaS vendor Blue Yonder? Well, now you have someone to point a finger at: the Termite ransomware gang....

PLUS: Politician thought Korea's martial law declaration was a deepfake; Apple finds a billion for Indonesia; China worries about open source intel; and more Asia In Brief Chinese web and AI giant Baidu last week teamed with government communications organ Xuexi to create a tool that generates politically correct documents for bureaucrats....

Insiders say it's largely a matter of labeling Special report Kyndryl has bet on becoming a consulting-led business, but among those who recently left the IT biz there's skepticism about the corporation's claims....

'It's a double-edged sword,' security researchers tell The Reg Feature Chinese tech company employees and government workers are siphoning off user data and selling it online - and even high-ranking Chinese Communist Party officials and FBI-wanted hackers' sensitive information is being peddled by the Middle Kingdom's thriving illegal data ecosystem....

Maybe start getting better at sorting your trash before these ML garbage bots gain sentience? If our AI robot slaves ever decide to revolt, they might start in the most thankless place possible: The municipal solid waste facilities where AMP Robotics is using them to sort recyclables from all the rest of the municipal solid waste (MSW) that us meatbags regularly fail to separate properly....

Carbon-14 decay could be coming to an implant in you Video The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Bristol have built a diamond battery capable of delivering power, albeit a tiny amount, for thousands of years....

Edge-exclusive tool promises 'second set of eyes' for browsing Microsoft has rolled out a Copilot Vision preview that says more about how poorly websites are designed rather than justifying the need to bring more AI into users' lives....

Wine-tasting seems to be an essential part of an EU-friendly Azure Local Exclusive Microsoft and the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers of Europe (CISPE) trade body this week kicked off their technical summit to assess the Windows maker's progress in making available a version of Azure Local for hosters....

Fantasizing about leaving the mess at home behind? Pretty island packed with medieval ruins promotes itself as a venue for e-business The Isle of Man Government runs an annual conference to promote the tiny nation as a destination for online businesses....

Plus, xAI scores another $6B to fuel Tesla tycoon's war on OpenAI Elon Musk gave more than $270 million to political groups supporting Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign and others on the American right running for office, according to donation figures released by the Federal Election Commission this week....

Microsoft's OS sure loves throwing your creds at remote systems Updated Acros Security claims to have found an unpatched bug in Microsoft Windows 7 and onward that can be exploited to steal users' OS account credentials....

Video slinger looks to Supremes for salvation, though anything could happen under Trump A US federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to the law that prevents popular apps that collect data on Americans from being controlled by a foreign adversary....

Crashing stock, plummeting reputation, but yeah, of course, let's focus on office usage Boeing has paused its efforts to install and use employee-monitoring sensors, including at its office in Everett, Washington, after media inquiries followed an employee's leak of the plans....