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NASA is short of options when it comes to alternatives SpaceX has published an update on its lunar Starship progress, and it still has a long way to go before the impressive-looking renders are translated into reality....

Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026 Users have six months to migrate from MySQL 8.0 if they are to stay on a supported version of the open source database, or face security and reliability risks....

Price hikes, politics, and platform fatigue drive organizations back toward open alternatives OpenInfra Summit Sovereignty might be the word of the hour, but the OpenStack community has another - resilience....

Ubuntu's much-maligned format may be finally reaching critical mass Ubuntu Summit More than one Linux-adjacent vendor presented at the Ubuntu Summit, and a small but recurring theme is offering official Snap packages....

TUPE or not TUPE? Not for roles being sent overseas amid a push to meet post-merger rollout targets Exclusive VodafoneThree has told some staff their roles may be offshored to India under new contracts with Ericsson and Nokia - and that employment protections won't apply....

Surrey to be divided into two new councils in first phase of countrywide reorg The UK government will replace Surrey County Council and its 11 borough and district councils with two new unitary councils, which will provide most local services to the area's 1.2 million residents....

Ofcom 'disappointed' by decision that 'goes against the spirit of our rules' Updated Britian's comms regulator has criticized O2 for hiking prices beyond what customers agreed to, exploiting a loophole in rules designed to end unpredictable mid-contract increases....

Hospitals told to upgrade, but some medical device makers haven't prescribed compatibility yet NHS hospitals are being blocked from fully upgrading to Windows 11 by a small number of suppliers that have yet to make their medical devices compatible with Microsoft's latest operating system....

When tech support collides with Halloween, the results are scary On Call Happy Halloween, dear reader! The Register wishes you a wonderfully scary day. To kick things off, we've twisted On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column about keeping computers alive despite the best efforts of zombie coworkers and demonic bosses, to bring tales of times tech support turned spooky....

Because fewer people like banknotes, and payment sovereignty is a problem The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided the bloc needs a digital version of the Euro, and ordered work that could see it enter circulation in 2029....

HTV-X capsule is designed to hang around in space after delivering cargo to ISS Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is celebrating after its new cargo carrier docked at the International Space Station....

The spending will continue until AI revenue improves Despite a trickle of bad news from Amazon in recent weeks, the company's business is thrumming along, with AWS leading the way....

No costume idea? We've got you covered Hacking makes the holidays so much more enjoyable, and nothing says trick or treat quite like pwning LED Halloween masks belonging to every neighborhood kid during candy-collection hours....

Company tells users concerned about exfiltration to 'stop it if you see it' A researcher has found a way to trick Claude into uploading private data to an attacker's account using indirect prompt injection. Anthropic says it has already documented the risk, and its foolproof solution is: keep an eye on your screen....

Expired security cert, real Brussels agenda, plus PlugX malware finish the job Cyber spies linked to the Chinese government exploited a Windows shortcut vulnerability disclosed in March - but that Microsoft hasn't fixed yet - to target European diplomats in an effort to steal defense and national security details....

People, Files, and Calendar companion apps gain an auto-installed dose of AI Just when you thought Microsoft had run out of Windows apps to stuff with Copilot, it's cramming the AI into your taskbar companions - People, Files, and Calendar are next....

Microsoft also ramping up spending, but investors concerned about overshooting demand Alphabet, Google's parent company, expects capital expenditures to hit $93 billion in 2025, largely to meet demand from cloud customers, according to its recent financial report....

Service will tell on compromised organizations, even if they didn't plan on doing so themselves Some orgs would rather you not know when they've suffered a cyberattack, but a new platform from privacy-focused tech firm Proton will shine a light on the big breaches that might otherwise stay buried....

State cries foul over "crooked elections" claim in Alabama move The State of Colorado has thrown a sueball at the Trump administration over the president's decision to relocate the headquarters of the US Space Command from Colorado Springs to Alabama....

Windows Desktop installer also fixed after DLL hijack flaw rated 8.8 severity Docker Compose users are being strongly urged to upgrade their versions of the orchestration tool after a researcher uncovered a flaw that could allow attackers to stage path traversal attacks....

US President did discuss chip exports with his counterpart, but made no breakthroughs Talks between US President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea yielded a modest thaw, with the two agreeing to trim tariffs and pause new rare-earth export curbs. But whether Nvidia can sell its latest GPUs to China remains an open question....

Enterprise software giant lifts guidance but adds 'prudence' as federal contracts stall ServiceNow has built some "prudence" into its earnings guidance due to the ongoing US government shutdown....

Big release with a lot of new features - and a few inevitable glitches The KDE Plasma 6.5 graphical shell arrived last week for Unix-like operating systems, and now 6.5.1 is here for the more cautious. The team's squashed over 60 bugs - and they're by no means all new....

PhantomRaven slipped over a hundred credential-stealing packages into npm A new supply chain attack dubbed PhantomRaven has flooded the npm registry with malicious packages that steal credentials, tokens, and secrets during installation. The packages appear safe when first downloaded, making them particularly difficult for security apps to identify....

Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye Bending Spoons, an Italian tech biz, is buying AOL from Yahoo, funded by a $2.8 billion debt financing package that will also bankroll future acquisitions....

'We should be a public company,' Shuttleworth tells The Reg, just not 'with our trousers around our ankles' Interview An initial public offering is a matter of when, not if, for Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth, though interested stock owners shouldn't expect a prospectus anytime soon....

Investment will fund 250 MW, three-facility campus near London as AI and cloud demand surge Equinix will occupy a massive datacenter campus near London's M25, investing 3.9 billion ($5.1 billion) in the 85-acre (0.34 square kilometers) Hertfordshire plot close to South Mimms services....

Infosec agency warns hacktivists broke into critical infrastructure systems to tamper with controls Hacktivists have breached Canadian critical infrastructure systems to meddle with controls that could have led to dangerous conditions, marking the latest in a string of real-world intrusions driven by online activists rather than spies....

Time to put eggs in more than one basket? As Azure staggers back to its feet following an hours-long outage last night, British and European businesses are questioning their reliance on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure....

Biz says 'technical error' caused short-lived leak affecting small number of users A major UK lottery organization says it has resolved a technical error that exposed customer data to other users....

Governments eye comms alternatives as sovereignty worries mount Comment Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo....

Ohio State boffins coax shiitake and button varieties into behaving like memristors US boffins claim early tests indicate edible mushrooms can function as organic memory devices, though significant challenges remain before the lab experiment can be turned into something practical....

We're guessing that turning it off and on again won't help given qubits can be on and off at the same time IBM has one-upped AWS and Microsoft by reporting an outage in one of its cloudy quantum computers....

Brings its largely unloved browser to PCs and promises to make its Exynos SoCs more competitive Samsung has signaled it intends to take on Google and Qualcomm....

So they're increasing spending on infrastructure to keep it that way When generative AI exploded into public view in late 2022, plenty of pundits predicted it would be bad news for the likes of Google and Meta as nimble AI-powered rivals found new ways to capture netizens' attention and monetize it....

Snoops remained undetected for nearly 10 months Nation-state snoops broke into Ribbon Communications - an outfit that provides software and networking gear to Verizon, CenturyLink, and the US Defense Department - last December, remained hidden for about nine months, and stole files belonging to three customers, according to the US telecommunications firm....

More convenient layout saves you a click Four years after the debut of Windows 11, Microsoft has finally fixed one of the biggest problems with its Start menu: The need to click the All" button to view a complete list of all of your apps. A new Start menu, which gives you three different ways to view all installed programs without that extra click, is slowly rolling out to users....

Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised Microsoft reported earnings for the quarter ended Sept. 30 on Wednesday after market close and buried in its financial filings were a couple of passages suggesting that OpenAI suffered a net loss of $11.5 billion during the quarter....

Azure Front Door service outage disrupts airlines and other online services Microsoft Azure has been experiencing a global outage since around 1600 UTC, or 0900 PDT on Wednesday, October 29, 2025....

Petition seeks to rally community opposition and alert regulators Starting next year, Google plans to require all apps installed on certified Android devices, including sideloading, to come from developers it has verified. Many Android developers see the move as a power grab and have started a movement to "Keep Android Open."...

Team begs for help as teenage dev who revived Canonical's old Unity desktop prioritizes studies The Ubuntu Unity project is in trouble because its maintainer, a Linux whiz kid, has had less time to work on it due to his studies. Now other team members are appealing to the wider Ubuntu community for help....

Edge, Atlas, Brave among those affected Exclusive A critical, currently unpatched bug in Chromium's Blink rendering engine can be abused to crash many Chromium-based browsers within seconds, causing a denial-of-service condition - and, in some tests, freezing the host system....

Half a million Trainium2 chips now running Anthropic workloads, with half a million more waiting in the wings Never mind Sam Altman's Stargate, which is just beginning to open its portal to distant AI-fueled worlds: Amazon's competing mountain of AI compute power is already up and running....

Think a custom Yoke is cool? Check this out... How far would you take your flight simulation hobby? Perhaps some extra screens? Maybe some custom controllers? Or would you go as far as to revive a scrapped Boeing 747 cockpit to satisfy your simulation needs?...

The Big Four biz's big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp's secrets....

Noncitizens, prepare to have your mugshot stored for up to 75 years Planning to visit the United States in the near future? If so, get ready to have your picture taken - and stored for decades - upon both entry and exit under a new Customs and Border Protection rule....

TypeScript was ranked top programming language The Indian software developer community will outgrow the US's by 2030, GitHub's Octoverse 2025 report shows. However, today, the United States remains in the lead....

Oscar-winning author and performer would prefer Copilot did not offer her writing assistance Dame Emma Thompson's expletive-laden takedown of AI writing assistants may strike a chord with frustrated users everywhere....

GPU giant teams with partners to create digital twin blueprint for next-gen datacenters Nvidia unveiled Omniverse DSX at its GTC event in Washington DC - a blueprint for designing and operating gigawatt-scale AI datacenters using digital twin technology....

Bosses banking on automation? 55% will regret those job cuts Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles - often "offshore or at lower salary."...