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Efforts to build easier off-ramps are ... err ... ramping up Private cloud platform vendor Platform9 has a new lure for disaffected VMware users: A tool that allows migrations without requiring extra hardware....

'Hung' is out and 'Unresponsive' is in, according to the Academy Software Foundation and the Alliance for OpenUSD A Linux Foundation project has published an Inclusive Language Guide to recommend replacements for common tech terms deemed potentially offensive to some users....

US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang - but the crooks remain at large In a display of bureaucratic bravado, US law enforcement agencies say they've disrupted" the BlackSuit ransomware gang (also known as Royal), freeing millions of dollars in virtual currency from its clutches....

Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month Java 25, an LTS (long-term support) version, is now at release candidate (RC) stage with general availability scheduled for September 16....

Designs scheduled for launch in 2026, developer kit for programmers out today Chip designer Arm is bringing dedicated neural accelerator hardware to its GPU blueprints used in phones. It expects this to deliver higher quality visuals while boosting AI performance....

Aside from glam, includes cool features like standalone GNOME Flashback session with no GNOME shell Debian 13 has arrived, now with RISC-V and preconfigured "blends" right in the main installer....

Chip giant praises 'president's strong leadership,' promises to 'restore this great American company' US President Donald Trump has now reversed his opinion of Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan following their meeting at the White House yesterday, hinting that the two will work more closely together....

Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ spent the weekend bragging to each other on a Telegram channel Prolific cybercrime collectives Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ appear to be working together to break into businesses' networks, steal their data, and force an extortion payment....

Automaker's answer to spate of car thefts is to charge customers for extra Hyundai is charging UK customers 49 ($66) for a security upgrade to prevent thieves from bypassing its car locks....

UK online reseller bought out of administration in -pre-pack agreement, say sources London Stock Exchange-listed Fraser Group is understood to have bought struggling UK online tech bazaar Ebuyer from administrators in a pre-pack agreement, sources have told The Register....

Microsoft's AI-centric code editor and IDE adds the ability to rollback misguided AI prompts The Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) team has rolled out version 1.103 with new features including GitHub Copilot chat checkpoints....

Joburg and Warsaw among the hotspots for sprawling server farm construction Lagos, Warsaw and Dubai are among the fastest growing cities for colocation services - with metro areas in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA regions expanding more rapidly than traditional datacenter hotspots....

Legacy tech for nation's farmers must migrate ... contract swells to 245M The UK's government department for agriculture and the countryside has upped the potential contract value on offer for cloud and datacenter hosting by more than 100 million....

Home Office officials reportedly concede Brit government on back foot as Trump moves to protect US Big Tech players Analysis The Home Office's war on encryption - its most technically complex and controversial aspect of modern policymaking yet - is starting to look like battlefield failure after more than ten years of skirmishes....

Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation An independent taskforce commissioned by the UK government has warned of the nation's "unnecessarily slow, inefficient, and costly" approach to nuclear power (and weaponry)....

Sysadmins, your job is safe Automating IT operations using AI may not be the best idea at the moment....

Don't laugh, a French nuclear power plant just shut down for a while after invertebrates overwhelmed its intakes Proponents of increased use of nuclear energy to power datacenters have a new foe: Jellyfish....

Outages, degraded service, and login troubles hit 10 regions and 27 services IBM Cloud experienced a Severity One outage on Monday that left customers unable to access resources....

70W TDP means the new RTX Pro 4000 SFF and RTX Pro 2000 won't blow power budgets Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs are a pair of itty-bitty workstation cards that aim to deliver the highest performance possible for professional visualization and local AI workloads within a 70-watt energy diet....

Biden-era program has reduced FedRAMP processing times to just five weeks from previous year or more The US Government's process for certifying cloud services safe for official use has long been slow, but that's no longer the case. Approvals so far this fiscal year are more than double the total for all of FY 2024....

And shave 15% of the top no doubt. Nerfed versions of Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs could soon join its H20 on the list of AI accelerators approved for sale in China....

A few weeks earlier 'zeroplayer' advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix....

Code hosting biz takes a back seat within Microsoft's CoreAI division GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke plans to leave the company and corporate parent Microsoft will not appoint a successor....

The alleged perpetrators remain at large The US Department of Justice is trying to recoup around $1 million that three IT specialists secretly working for the North Korean government allegedly stole from a New York company....

He wants Microsoft to keep supporting Windows 10 until its market share drops below 10% Many are unhappy about Microsoft's Windows 10 retirement plans, but a California man appears to be angrier than most. He's sued Redmond over the matter, and is demanding continued free Win 10 updates until the OS's popularity wanes....

The bad news? The machines, and their operators, are coming on fast Black Hat/DEF CON At the opening of Black Hat, the largest security shindig in the Hacker Summer Camp week ahead of DEF CON and BSides, the opening keynote speaker suggested the current state of AI slightly favors defenders over attackers, but he warned that was not a given for much longer....

But it can contest if it lands up in 'Category 1,' and the move hurts operations, says judge Wikipedia today lost a legal battle against the UK's tech secretary to tighten the criteria around the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), as it seeks to exclude itself from the strictest regulations....

Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update Viennese virtualization veteran Proxmox has updated its hypervisor and its storage offering to new, Debian 13 versions....

A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms! From the department of "Want to feel old?" comes news that AOL is finally pulling the plug on dial-up Internet access....

Tech biz tweaks GPT-5, brings back 4 and others as options after customer backlash OpenAI has brought back GPT-4o after a weekend of user protests - mostly about removal of model choice - following the rollout of GPT-5....

Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move comes as Intel's former CEO Craig Barrett weighs in on the troubled chipmaker's future....

By video, picture, and voice - the fakers are coming for your money DEF CON While AI was on everyone's lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in Sin City - BSides, Black Hat, AND DEF CON - there were a lot of people using the F-word too: fraud....

Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97 Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97....

Many core offerings now back in action, says retailer British retailer Marks and Spencer updated its website today, confirming its Click & Collect service is once again available to customers....

Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bomb Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer "on notice" for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which "makes the world actively a worse place to live" - in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old....

Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins In space, no one can hear you sneeze - but that hasn't stopped a team of boffins researching exactly what happens when an astronaut gets a case of the sniffles, and why. The key takeaway, should you find yourself on board a space station and in need of a tissue: maybe skip the spacewalk....

AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey Feature Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV charger locations have all become part of its portfolio, alongside the paper-based maps beloved by the nation's legion of cagoule-clad outdoor types....

And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's best to think of this as dealing with a buggy lump of undocumented code, because frankly that's what is between you and your next job....

Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters Opinion Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding's universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that's a good thing. Meanwhile, real life AI coding tools make coders less productive while spreading the hallucination that they're more so....

Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries....

Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030 China's Manned Space Engineering Network says the country's first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna - and leaving it again afterwards....

Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that's full of anxious and depressed robots Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem and plans to fix it....

Trump administration's licenses come with an IOU Nvidia and AMD will reportedly be allowed to resume sales in China if they cough a license fee amounting to 15 percent of sales....

PLUS: Huawei open sources its CUDA equivalent; China boosts brain-computer interfaces; Scientists to visit penguins Trump taxed; And more! Asia In Brief Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services will shed over 10,000 staff but will give pay rises to most of those who remain....

PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro's Apex One endpoint security platform is under active exploitation, the company admitted last week, and there's no patch available....

Five pilot deployments are just a drop in the bucket, so it's time to turbo scale def con A DEF CON hacker walks into a small-town water facility...no, this is not the setup for a joke or a (super-geeky) odd-couple rom-com. It's a true story that happened at five utilities across four states....

Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involved Analysis Whether or not OpenAI's new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but their use of a relatively new data type called MXFP4 is arguably more important, especially if it catches on among OpenAI's rivals....

Acting Administrator has selected a lucky orbiter, but won't say which one The NASA acting Administrator has picked a Space Shuttle to move to Houston, and the lucky vehicle is... NASA's not telling....

It turns out no one was clean on OPSEC DEF CON On Saturday at DEF CON, security boffin Micah Lee explained just how he published data from TeleMessage, the supposedly secure messaging app used by White House officials, which in turn led to a massive database dump of their communications....

Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone People die but their data may endure, which troubles legal scholar Victoria Haneman....