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Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it?
Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance This year will be Ground Zero for the commercialization of satellite smartphone services, but a key question is whether operators will charge extra for this capability or include it as part of customer subscriptions....
Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana
Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing' Atlassian has decided to make its Rovo AI suite free but will in future introduce fees for use beyond a yet-to-be-determined threshold....
AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason
Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice Belgian software house Hyperion Entertainment has released Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2, the version of the classic operating system it launched in 2021. The update targets Amigas with 680x0 processors, including systems enhanced with PiStorm accelerator boards....
Amazon Nova Sonic AI doesn't just hear you, it takes tonal cues too
The foundation model supports real-time bi-directional speech Amazon has introduced a foundation model that claims to grasp not just what you're saying, but how you're saying it - tone, hesitation, and more....
M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'
License to freak out? El Reg reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub Final update Readers have flooded our mailboxes with reports that Microsoft 365 Family licensing has fallen over this morning, so those of you who provide tech support to relatives or those using the office suite for a small business, consider yourself warned....
Tech CEO: 4-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity
'There are challenges' but staff recruitment and retention isn't one of them Interview Civo shifted its workforce to a four-day working week and while it hasn't changed productivity much at the cloud biz, it has helped attract "new talent" and retain existing staff, CEO Mark Boost says....
Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack
Scammers are already cashing in with fake invoices for import costs World War Fee As the trade war between America and China escalates, some infosec and policy experts fear Beijing will strike back in cyberspace....
OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?
Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting The UK government's AI Energy Council held its first meeting this week, in an attempt to square the circle of its AI ambitions with the state of the country's power infrastructure and having the most expensive energy in Europe....
Staff at UK's massive health service still have interoperability issues with electronic records
Government plans to boost efficiency with IT need to get people onside UK health professionals remain "skeptical" about electronic patient records, despite the NHS in England achieving more than 90 percent coverage....
Europol: Five pay-per-infect suspects cuffed, some spill secrets to cops
Officials teased more details to come later this year Following the 2024 takedown of several major malware operations under Operation Endgame, law enforcement has continued its crackdown into 2025, detaining five individuals linked to the Smokeloader botnet....
Meta's AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you
Llama 4 Scout is just the right size to ingest a lifetime of Facebook and Insta posts In the last twelve months generative AI has transformed from a helpful and cheeky tool into something more worrying....
The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned
TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here - an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast Oracle's letter to customers about an intrusion into part of its public cloud empire - while insisting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was untouched - has sparked a mix of ridicule and outrage in the infosec community....
Fear of tariffs made the PC market great again in Q1 as vendors emptied factories to dodge price future hikes
Expected sales surge sparked by Windows 10 support ending could yet be trumped, analysts suggest World War Fee The first quarter of 2025 saw shipments of new PCs surge, as vendors and buyers tried to move machines before tariffs made them more expensive....
Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in
Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though Cloud Next This week Google joined a throng of tech vendors pushing the concept of "agentic AI" on an unsuspecting and perhaps unreceptive collection of enterprise users. Questions remain about how effective this tranche of tools will be at solving business problems and how much it might all cost....
Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons
Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it? Cloud Next Google's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216 chips....
Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs
Alleges cybersecurity agency was weaponized' to suppress debunked theories Updated The Trump administration on Wednesday ordered a criminal investigation into alleged censorship conducted by the USA's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, plus revocation of any security clearances held by the agency's ex-head Chris Krebs and anyone else at SentinelOne, the cybersecurity company where he now works....
Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager
Whistleblower Ashley Gjovik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights Apple has agreed to settle charges of labor rights violations filed with America's employment watchdog by whistleblower Ashley Gjovik....
Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown
Best after-dinner mint ever Nvidia may have been served a particularly delicious digestif after dropping a million bucks for dinner at President Trump's Florida home Mar-a-Lago: A reprieve on restrictions of its AI chips to China....
Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board
From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos Clearview AI has booted founder and former CEO Hoan Ton-That from its board, just weeks after he stepped down as president....
April's Patch Tuesday leaves unlucky Windows Hello users unable to login
Can't Redmond ask its whizz-bang Copilot AI to fix it? Updated Those keen to get their Microsoft PCs patched up as soon as possible have been getting an unpleasant shock when they try to get in using Windows Hello....
Wyden blocks Trump's CISA boss nominee, blames cyber agency for 'actively hiding info' about telecom insecurity
It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again? Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has been "actively hiding information" about American telecommunications networks' weak security for years, according to Senator Ron Wyden....
Sensitive financial files feared stolen from US bank watchdog
OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago A US banking regulator fears sensitive financial oversight data was stolen from its IT systems in what's been described as "a major information security incident."...
Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right
One's a world power with extensive cutting-edge electronics manufacturing empire, the other is America World War Fee President Trump's trade war with China kicked into gear this week. The upshot is Americans face having to pay more for products and components sourced from the Middle Kingdom, as the eye-watering import tariffs on the gear are set to be passed onto them....
EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad import levy hike – China excepted
Middle Kingdom gets 125%. So this is what it's like living in reality TV World War Fee The EU voted Wednesday to introduce 25 percent import tariffs on American goods, with the first duties being collected from European consumers on April 15....
Commercial space station outfit plans two Orbital Data Center nodes by the end of 2025
Yep. It's Axiom's datacenters in SPAAAAACE Axiom Space says it is planning to launch a pair of Orbital Data Center (ODC) nodes to low Earth orbit by the end of 2025....
Microsoft puts $1B US datacenter builds on hold amid AI, tariff uncertainty
Committed $80B capex for DCs as recently as January. We wonder what changed? World War Fee Microsoft has called a halt to the construction of three datacenter campuses in central Ohio, in a sign the tech giant is having to reappraise its infrastructure requirements amid uncertain economic circumstances and weaker-than-expected AI demand....
Tech hiring stalls as AI hype, layoffs, tariffs, economic uncertainty, more collide
And coming up next, Trump's World War Fee The hint of optimism to be found in February's tech jobs numbers? Yeah, it's pretty much gone, according to multiple analyses of the latest data out from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for March....
UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract
Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers The UK's justice department has confirmed it is working on developing algorithms to predict which criminals will later become murderers....
Google's got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz
How Chocolate Factory hopes to double down on enterprise-sec Cloud Next Google will today reveal a new unified security platform that analysts think can help it battle Microsoft for a bigger chunk of the enterprise infosec market....
FreeDOS 1.4: Still DOS, still FOSS, more modern than ever
The 1990s called - they're impressed The FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS - but you'll need a BIOS for bare metal....
Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0
SenseShield the latest company to fall foul of 24H2 Microsoft has thrown up a Windows 11 24H2 compatibility hold for devices running SenseShield Technology's sprotect.sys driver....
UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants
Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has appointed a second tranche of program leaders and announced new program areas, suggesting confidence in its long-term funding....
Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users
Strangely no eighth tip to use something else Microsoft has published seven tips for getting the most out of Windows 11, and the pitches for the operating system - which has failed to win hearts and minds of users - are not very compelling....
Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you
Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027 A startup backed by Sandia National Laboratories thinks it's found a cool new way to keep the world's supercomputers and datacenters cool enough to run efficiently: Zap em with lasers....
Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it
Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast The Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a group it hopes will create a standard that lets content creators tell AI developers whether it's OK to use their work....
DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale
Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky The United States Social Security Administration's internet portal has frequently gone offline in recent weeks, and presented inaccurate or incomplete information to users, perhaps because of changes steered by Elon Musk's cost-trimming DOGE unit....
Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home
Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization's IT systems to ogle female clinicians using webcams at their workplace and at their homes....
AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast
We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future Interview The founder of an AI startup who attempted to use an artificially generated avatar to argue his case in court has been scolded by a judge for the stunt....
Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited bug
A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix....
TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei – that may cost it $1B+
What did we learn today, hm? TSMC could end up paying $1 billion or more to settle a US investigation into whether the Taiwanese outfit busted sanctions, inadvertently or not, by indirectly manufacturing AI accelerators for Huawei....
Canada OKs construction of first licensed teeny atomic reactor
Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That's another slip of paper entirely Canadian nuclear regulators have approved an Ontario company's request to build a single small modular reactor (SMR) - the first such license issued in the country....
Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank
Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so Meta submitted a specially crafted, non-public variant of its Llama 4 AI model to an online benchmark that may have unfairly boosted its leaderboard position over rivals....
Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar
'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear Boeing issued a software safety patch for the VHF radio systems used on its 787 aircraft, and the update turned out to be ineffective, Qatar Airways has complained....
Don't open that JPEG in WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE
What a MIME field A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment - and, to be fair, it doesn't take much craft to pull that off....
Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney
70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot Comment There is something about Elon Musk's career trajectory that compels onlookers to hang around for the seemingly inevitable crash landing. Tesla, SpaceX, and X - formerly known as Twitter - have all become hosts to the man's galactic ego....
Windows Server Update Services live to patch another day
Disconnected device scenarios cause headaches for Microsoft Microsoft is extending support for a product scheduled for deprecation. Sadly for some, it's not Windows 10....
Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock
Small IT hardware firms feel the heat from Trump making prices great World War Fee Modular laptop maker Framework is pausing sales of models it would make a loss on, while a small US keyboard biz is facing hundreds of dollars slapped on its products that American consumers will have to pay....
Microsoft celebrates 50 years with, sigh, AI
Windows maker marks milestone with Clippy-esque additions that resemble tools from OpenAI, Google Microsoft used its 50th birthday to announce a slew of new Copilot features, many of which will be eerily familiar to anyone who's used rival AI platforms....
Scattered Spider stops the Rickrolls, starts the RAT race
Despite arrests, eight-legged menace targeted more victims this year Despite several arrests last year, Scattered Spider's social engineering attacks are continuing into 2025 as the cybercrime collective targets high-profile organizations and adds another phishing kit to its arsenal along with a new version of Spectre RAT malware....
UALink debuts its first AI interconnect spec – usable in just 18 short months
No-Nvidia networking club is banking on you running different GPUs on one network The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium has delivered its first GPU interconnect specification: UALink 200G 1.0....
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