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Boeing's Starliner may fly again, pending fixes to literally everything
More than 70 percent of anomalies closed out, but those pesky thrusters are still a problem Updated NASA says Boeing's Starliner - dubbed the Calamity Capsule - could fly again, but not before the end of 2025 or start of 2026....
Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers
Thanks to Collabora's work on Zink and NVK... and indirectly to GPU-maker's FOSS release, too Not one but two new drivers for some Nvidia GPUs is a promising, if indirect, offshoot of the GPU maker's open-saucy moves....
Meanwhile, in Japan, train stations are being 3D-printed in an afternoon
How's that for Platform-as-a-Service? You've seen small 3D printed models, heard about 3D printers being used to make guns, and even read news about printed food, but a 3D printed train station? Where else could this be but Japan?...
Windows 11 roadmap great for knowing what's coming next week. Not so good for next year
Microsoft promises clarity, gets partway there Microsoft has introduced a roadmap for Windows 11 that takes customers all the way to ... April 2025....
From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everything
JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team' Interview The team behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science....
Cardiff's children's chief confirms data leak 2 months after cyber risk was 'escalated'
Department director admits Welsh capital's council still trying to get heads around threat of dark web leaks Cardiff City Council's director of children's services says data was leaked or stolen from the organization, although she did not clarify how or what was pilfered....
Windows Server 2025 locking up after February patch, no word of when a fix will land
Similar issue in Windows 11 resolved as of Wednesday Microsoft is warning that a faulty patch pushed out in February is causing Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop sessions to freeze under certain circumstances....
UK govt data people not 'technical,' says ex-Downing St data science head
Despite pockets of excellence, many wouldn't make the grade in business, AI advisor implies A former director of data science at the UK prime minister's office has told MPs that people working with data in government are not typically technical and would be unlikely to get a similar job in the private sector....
Nuclear center must replace roof on 70-year-old lab so it can process radioactive waste
Project sees 7-year delay and budget swell to 1.5B, but nuclear leadership 'confident' it has an alternative The center of the UK's nuclear industry has agreed on alternatives for how it will process waste into the next decade after delays and overspending hit a lab project....
Tech support session saved files, but probably ended a marriage
Self-described 'visionary' made life hell for our hero, then some oily vids returned the favor On Call The working week can be ugly, which is why The Register beautifies each Friday morning with a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of tech support splendor....
VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores
Claims Broadcom will levy 20 percent penalty for customers who don't pay before renewal deadlines The French limb of global tech distributor Arrow has emailed VMware partners it serves with news of big price increases....
After Chrome patches zero-day used to target Russians, Firefox splats similar bug
Single click on a phishing link in Google browser blew up sandbox on Windows Google pushed out an emergency patch for Chrome on Windows this week to stop attackers exploiting a sandbox-breaking zero-day vulnerability, seemingly used by snoops to target certain folks in Russia....
SK hynix has probably already sold most of the HBM DRAM it will make next year
As this year's buyers rush to beat Trump's tariffs Korean chipmaker SK hynix has told investors the future looks bright thanks to strong demand for its memory products and early delivery of its first HBM4 samples....
TSMC's US builds won't make America great at chips again, says ex-Intel boss Gelsinger
Argues making stuff using foreign-designed tech isn't leadership, as x86 giant shakes up board Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger has thrown shade on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC's plans to build fabrication plants in the USA, saying the factories will do nothing to advance American semiconductor leadership....
Cyber-crew claims it cracked American cableco, releases terrible music video to prove it
WOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?! A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!)...
Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms
DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software The US Justice Department on Thursday weighed into an antitrust legal war that alleges algorithmic price fixing by healthcare services by MultiPlan and its health insurance clients....
China’s FamousSparrow flies back into action, breaches US org after years off the radar
Crew also cooked up two fresh SparrowDoor backdoor variants, says ESET The China-aligned FamousSparrow crew has resurfaced after a long period of presumed inactivity, compromising a US financial-sector trade group and a Mexican research institute. The gang also likely targeted a governmental institution in Honduras, along with other yet-to-be-identified victims....
IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India
Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America Following our report last week on IBM's ongoing layoffs, current and former employees got in touch to confirm what many suspected: The US cuts run deeper than reported, and the jobs are heading to India....
Panic averted: It was just a bug in Atop after all
Warning of possible problems sparks controversy: Was it OverDAtop? Rachel Kroll has clarified the Atop alarm: Turns out it was just a weird little bug, and it's probably already been fixed....
Dems dub Trump cuts to chip export controls a 'gift' to Xi and Putin
Concerns over whether Bureau of Industry and Security, which maintains entity list, would be able to do its job Keeping critical tech out of the hands of US adversaries is about to get harder for the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) with the Trump administration seemingly poised to slash its already meager budget by $20 million....
Security shop pwns ransomware gang, passes insider info to authorities
Researchers say 'proactive' approach is needed to combat global cybercrime Here's one you don't see every day: A cybersecurity vendor is admitting to breaking into a notorious ransomware crew's infrastructure and gathering data it relayed to national agencies to help victims....
ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch
All eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo freighter, the NG-22, is being delayed indefinitely after engineers confirmed the Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) had sustained damage in its shipping container....
Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education
Vendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously Tech vendors are awaiting the outcome of a constitutional battle to decide the fate of government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the federal Department of Education to be dismantled....
CrushFTP CEO's feisty response to VulnCheck's CVE for critical make-me-admin bug
Screenshot shows company head unhappy, claiming 'real CVE is pending' CrushFTP's CEO is not happy with VulnCheck after the CVE numbering authority (CNA) released an unofficial ID for the critical vulnerability in its file transfer tech disclosed almost a week ago....
Now Windows Longhorn is long gone, witness reflects on Microsoft's OS belly-flop
'This was not good dog food' Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has taken to his YouTube channel to explain Redmond's missteps with Windows Longhorn and the background to the company's failed attempt at an XP follow-up....
Newport Wafer Fab rebooted with £250M silicon carbide investment
Britain's biggest semiconductor plant to produce EV chips that can take the heat The former Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) facility in South Wales is getting 250 million ($323 million) to start making silicon carbide semiconductors, a year after the sale of the site was approved by UK government....
The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2
Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took another trip down memory lane this week to explain just how dumb the USB-to-PS/2 adapters that shipped with Microsoft Mouse devices really were....
UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London
As if living in Croydon wasn't bad enough The Metropolitan Police has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras is coming this summer and the lucky location will be the South London suburb of Croydon....
Ransomwared NHS software supplier nabs £3M discount from ICO for good behavior
Data stolen included checklist for medics on how to get into vulnerable people's homes The UK's data protection watchdog is dishing out a 3.07 million ($3.95 million) fine to Advanced Computer Software Group, whose subsidiary's security failings led to a ransomware attack affecting NHS care....
Today's jobs Microsoft thinks could use an AI assist: Researchers and analysts
If coworkers cranking out biz strategies and fussing over balance sheets seem robotic, you ain't seen nothing yet Microsoft on Wednesday introduced out two "reasoning agents" it claims can handle research and analysis projects....
Vivaldi bakes Proton VPN into browser to boost privacy
Desktop users get free access - assuming they're cool with logging in and limited speeds Vivaldi has become the latest browser to include a virtual private network (VPN) option with its product, working with Proton VPN to up user privacy....
From MP3 to Web3 to now 3D, Napster gets a new owner
Beating a dead horse to a 4-4 beat Napster, the original file-sharing troublemaker that shook the music industry, is about to change hands once again in yet another attempt to drag the brand into relevance....
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks
Reveals it dramatically improved IOPS and throughput' of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache Google has revealed that it still relies on hard disk drives for most of its storage needs, but has been able to dramatically' improve the performance of its storage systems with a homebrew automated data tiering system....
Dell sheds ten percent of staff for the second year in a row
Confirmed: 12,000 people let go over 12 months Rumours of swingeing layoffs at Dell were not exaggerated, a statement The Register offers after reading the hardware giant's most recent annual report which reveals its workforce shrank by 12,000 in the year to January 31st, 2025....
Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn't a sign the AI bubble is bursting
Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters? Comment Microsoft has walked away from negotiations to lease two gigawatts worth of datacenter capacity in the US and Europe, and has deferred and cancelled other datacenter leases, according to a new report from investment bank TD Cowen....
Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat
So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew? The Atlantic's editor-in-chief who was inadvertently added to a Signal group in which the US Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and others discussed secret military plans has now publicly released the messages....
US defense contractor cops to sloppy security, settles after infosec lead blows whistle
MORSE to pay -- .. .-.. .-.. .. --- -. ... for failing to meet cyber-grade A US defense contractor will cough up $4.6 million to settle complaints it failed to meet cybersecurity requirements on military contracts and knowingly submitted false claims for payment....
Files stolen from NSW court system, including restraining orders for violence
Victims' details at risk after criminals download 9,000 files from court database Australian police are currently investigating the theft of "sensitive" data from a New South Wales court system after they confirmed approximately 9,000 files were stolen....
It's International Datacenter Day for those who colocate, er, celebrate
It's not a party until someone builds a bit barn on greenbelt land It's International Datacenter Day, when people around the world get together to share their love of faceless concrete edifices....
Credible nerd says stop using atop, doesn't say why, everyone panics
Bad news about the Linux system monitor may be on the way Veteran sysadmin and tech blogger Rachel Kroll posted a cryptic warning yesterday about a popular Linux system monitoring tool. Maybe it's better to be safe than sorry....
Microsoft patches patch that broke USB printing in Windows 11
Now the only nonsense printed out will come from the user Months after releasing a patch that left some printers spouting gibberish, Microsoft is issuing another update to deal with it....
US closes subsidiary loophole on dozens of Chinese entity list members
Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies The US government has initiated another crackdown on Chinese businesses skirting chip export bans, adding a few dozen new names, and offshoots of repeat offenders, to the entity list....
50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building
Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center....
Schneider Electric pumps $700M into US ops as AI datacenter demand surges
Meanwhile, Apple is lining up '$1B' of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra kit Schneider Electric plans to spend $700 million through 2027 to expand its US operations and bolster the supply of its power equipment necessary to sustain the proliferation of AI datacenters....
NCSC taps influencers to make 2FA go viral
Who knew social media stars had a role to play in building national cyber resilience? The world's biggest brands have benefited from influencer marketing for years - now the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has hopped on the bandwagon to preach two-factor authentication (2FA) to the masses....
UK satellite smartphone services could get green light this year
At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE Britain's telecoms regulator could authorize satellite-to-smartphone services in the UK before the end of this year....
British govt wants to mainline AI, but its arteries are clogged with legacy tech
Spending watchdog says digital professionals need seat at top table to ensure 'transformation' The parlous state of UK government legacy IT systems is hampering attempts to adopt AI, a report from MPs has warned....
Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting
PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost Aardvark, a novel machine learning-based weather prediction system, teases a future where supercomputers are optional for forecasting - but don't pull the plug just yet....
Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that?
Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss's Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission Elon Musk may have launched hundreds of rockets and sent his own Tesla Roadster into space, but rival billionaire Jeff Bezos will soon be able to boast he's built a moon rover....
VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software
As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens's US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations....
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