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FOSS bods file amicus brief in hope of preserving core GNU tenet of freedom forever The Free Software Foundation (FSF) on Monday backed a lone developer's brave effort to overturn a pivotal court ruling that threatens to undermine the AGPLv3 - the foundation's GNU Affero General Public License, version 3....

The heap overflow zero-day in the memory unsafe code by Miss Creant Broadcom today pushed out patches for three VMware hypervisor-hijacking bugs, including one rated critical, that have already been found and exploited by criminals....

But factor in the price increase, and it might be worth sitting this one out Apple has launched a new budget iPhone. Rather than discussing specifications or the price hike, the real question is whether the company's latest and cheapest can be repaired....

Vertical tabs, native Arm64 Linux version, and AMD GPU-accelerated video playback Mozilla's Firefox 136 is out today. Despite recent Mozilla moves, it's still a better choice for the privacy-conscious than Chrome....

Eggheads claim breakthrough in step toward making ancient beasts 'de-extinct' US scientists have created a "woolly" mouse by expressing genetic information gathered from woolly mammoths and elephants, which they see as a step toward bringing the extinct species back to life....

Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing March 3 was a tough day for SpaceX. The company was forced to scrub flight test 8 of its monster Starship rocket and also lost a Falcon 9 first stage, which landed then caught fire and tipped over....

GPU farm discloses 77% of revenue tied to just two customers, putting Redmond giant front and center GPU cloud provider CoreWeave has filed for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) in the US, aiming to ride the AI wave and capitalize on the huge growth it has experienced recently....

Wasn't the cloud supposed to be the cheap, reliable option? Microsoft's Exchange Administration Center (EAC) has fallen over and appears to be struggling to get up....

Presumably hosted by AWS? Microsoft has launched Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus, a service designed to rapidly bring Cloud PCs back online in the event of an outage....

But what will the parabola specialist do when spares for Boeing's classic run dry? interview Zero-G currently flies researchers and consumers in simulated lunar and zero gravity. And now a trip to Europe and beyond, as well as new aircraft are on the cards for the parabola specialist....

The fate of Skype is sad, but the clock is ticking for enterprises Microsoft SQL Server 2019 quietly slipped out of mainstream support last week, accompanied by fellow retiree SQL Server Big Data Clusters....

Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass Users of some of the less well-known web browsers are getting blocked from accessing multiple sites by Cloudflare's flaky browser-detection routines....

No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent Research from a leading academic shows Android users have advertising cookies and other gizmos working to build profiles on them even before they open their first app....

That's competition, that's protecting our IP, Redmond's lawyers tell UK competition regulator For AWS and Google to urge the UK competition regulator to "intervene and constrain the price" that Microsoft charges them to license its software in their clouds is both "extraordinary and unprecedented."...

Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly High-profile deepfake scams that were reported here at The Register and elsewhere last year may just be the tip of the iceberg. Attacks relying on spoofed faces in online meetings surged by 300 percent in 2024, it is claimed....

Five flaws found in Paragon Partition Manager's kernel-level .sys Ransomware crooks are exploiting a third-party Windows kernel-level driver used and provided by disk management tool Paragon Partition Manager....

Pricing, licensing changes won't feel so bad once you take this private cloud stack for a spin, apparently Exclusive Broadcom has quietly started a closed beta of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9, a major release that fully expresses the tech giant's vision for what a private cloud should be....

Three more fabs on the way which will come online just in time for - checks calendar - Donald to leave office Standing alongside US President Donald Trump, the CEO of Taiwanese chipmaking champ TSMC on Monday announced a plan to invest $100 billion on expanded operations in Arizona....

Mixed messages from Pentagon, CISA as Trump gets pally with Putin and Kremlin strikes US critical networks Comment America's cybersecurity chiefs in recent days have been sending mixed messages about the threat posed by Russia in the digital world....

Judge slams 'significant chaos' that's become Uncle Sam's standard operating procedure The US government's National Science Foundation has reinstated most of its cadre of probationary employees after laying them off en masse last month....

With friends like these... US stock markets have dipped after President Donald Trump confirmed the imposition of a 25 percent tariff on most goods coming into America from Canada and Mexico, and an extra ten percent tariff on China....

Shareholders urged to press CTRL-Z on loyal Gelsinger's 'retirement' Comment Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett has a simple solution to the x86 giant's woes....

Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant The Opera web browser now boasts "agentic AI," meaning users can ask an onboard AI model to perform tasks that require a series of in-browser actions....

And Monday's not looking that steady, either This weekend's Microsoft 365 outage, which left unlucky subscribers unable to login and use its Outlook email service as expected, has been blamed on a "problematic code change" by the Windows giant....

Annual Barcelona tech fest brings demo devices that aren't commercially available... will they ever see light of day? MWC Lenovo has used the MWC event in Barcelona to demo some unusual concept devices including a laptop with a folding screen and another that can be powered by the sun....

Criminal probe understood to have ended following settlement over 'inconsiderate' behavior SAP paid former CTO Jurgen Muller 7.1 million ($7.5 million) after he left the German software company by mutual agreement in September last year....

Ghost positions, HR AI no help - biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts Analysis It's a familiar refrain in the security industry that there is a massive skills gap in the sector. And while it's true there are specific shortages in certain areas, some industry watchers believe we may be reaching the point of oversupply for generalists....

Microsoft Copilot reckons that it didn't have to be like this There has been a clear uptick in the adoption of Windows 11 as enterprises migrate PC fleets ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10....

Flying to the Turks and Caicos tonight? Good luck SpaceX is set to have another go at launching its monster Starship rocket today after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the venture the green light....

Some may have second thoughts about going all-in with an American vendor, no matter where their data is stored Microsoft has completed its EU data boundary, however, analysts and some regional cloud players are voicing concerns over dependencies on a US entity, even with the guarantees in place....

Officials vow to uncover who was behind it The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is currently dealing with a "cybersecurity incident," it confirmed via its X account on Sunday....

ICO looking at what data is used to serve up recommendations The UK's data protection watchdog has launched three investigations into certain social media platforms following concerns about the protection of privacy among teenage users....

Why churn up roads when there's thousands of miles of disused infrastructure underfoot? Network operators laying fiber infrastructure could cut their costs by taking advantage of "thousands of miles" of abandoned infrastructure, including gas and water pipes, according to a firm that tracks such things....

And that was on top of a 17.5 million underwriting bill for insolvent UKCloud The collapse of a relatively small "local" cloud hosting service caused "real business continuity issues" in the UK's central government, according to one commercial lead....

Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go Opinion With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for UK users, and Signal threatening to pull out of Swedenif that government demands E2EE backdoors, it's looking bleak....

Don't trust your tired self to do rm -rf right Who, Me? Well, would you look at the calendar? It's Monday already, and by lunchtime any fond memories of the weekend will have been erased by work worries of the sort The Register celebrates each week in Who, Me?" - the reader-contributed column that tells your stories of making messes and somehow escaping....

It's well-built and surprisingly easy to handle but let down by Android. And stupidly expensive First Look Huawei's triple-fold Mate XT smartphone is a classy creation that's easy to handle even when fully extended, but disappoints because it's ridiculously expensive and the included Android variant struggles to keep pace with the machine's contortions....

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech Sunday March 2nd has become a notable day in humanity's exploration of outer space, after Firefly Aerospace became the first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon....

PLUS: Phishing suspects used fishing gear as alibi; Apple's 'Find My' can track PCs and Androids; and more Infosec In Brief US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered US Cyber Command to pause offensive operations against Russia, as the USA's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has denied any change in its posture....

PLUS: China bans AI leaders from visiting USA; Acer data leak suspect cuffed; and more Asia In Brief India's top telco Reliance Jio , which boasts over 460 million subscribers, will soon introduce a cloud PC....

Bjarne Stroustrup says standards committee needs to show it can respond to memory safety push Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings....

Open source browser maker ties itself up in legalese and explanations Mozilla this week asked Firefox users to abide by new Terms of Use, and updated its Privacy Notice as well as an FAQ - only to quickly issue a clarification that it isn't actually claiming ownership of user data....

There's a lot going on at the orgs who regulate IP addresses as they revisit global governance and new leadership comes to APNIC and LACNIC APRICOT Global and local change is coming to the world's five Regional Internet Registries. The orgs that delegate and manage IP addresses are working on a policy that will allow them to stop one of their number going rogue, and the process is proving controversial....

Quantum dot technology allegedly absent from tellies Hisense USA has been sued for advertising televisions with quantum dot technology that allegedly lack quantum dot technology....

You probably shouldn't, but if you must, you can As the expiration date for Windows 10 presses ever closer, spare a thought for its classic forerunner. No, not Windows 8 - nobody ever loved that - but Windows 7, with its classic Start menu, tasteful transparency, lack of built-in advertising, and so on....

Free speech org criticized constitution and made hard-to-sustain accusations of possible censorship Membership of InternetNZ, the administrator of New Zealand's .NZ country code top-level domain, has more than tripled in a week after the org's review of its constitution was criticized by a free speech advocacy organization....

x86 giant still expects to ramp 18A process tech this year Intel's floundering foundry business hit another speed bump on Friday after executives delayed the completion of its $28 billion Ohio factory build-out until at least 2030....

Accused face up to 20 years in prison The authorities in Singapore have charged three men with fraud, allegedly in connection with the shipment of Nvidia GPUs into China in violation of US export controls....

1 in 3 entries are used to extort civilians, says new paper Fresh research suggests attackers are actively monitoring databases of vulnerabilities that are known to be useful in carrying out ransomware attacks....

After almost 23 years on the job, observations end for 2029 re-entry All good things must come to an end. So it is that the European Space Agency's (ESA) International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) is set to make its final observations....