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... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both French cloud business, OVHcloud, claimed yesterday that it is in discussions with the European Commission (EC) regarding a possible migration to a sovereign cloud - in an X post that has since been deleted....

Seizures up 830% since 2021, with devices linked to interference in emergency responses The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is concerned about the rate at which outlawed signal-jamming devices are being found across the US....

VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO Customers dismayed by Broadcom's move to selling costly bundles such as VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) will realize its value if they'd just use more of the components, the company's CTO says....

What about notebooks, including AI-ready devices? Ah well, still months to go, eh Microsoft With fewer than four months before Microsoft pulls the plug on standard support for Windows 10, businesses are replacing dusty - but in some cases perfectly working - desktop PCs in preparation for the migration to the little loved next generation of the Windows OS....

Third-party provider pledges to support legacy ERP until 2040 Enterprise software support specialist Rimini Street has announced that it will continue to support SAP's ECC 6.0 until 2040, more than ten years after the German vendor plans to retire support for the legacy ERP platform....

Services coming back online after legacy systems compromised Oxford City Council says a cyberattack earlier this month resulted in 21 years of data being compromised....

Framework agreement may rescue some unis from 'financial abyss' after Oracle per-employee Java license, says insider Exclusive Oracle requested Java audits with UK higher education institutions leading up to the negotiation of a national framework agreement - set to be worth up to 9.86 million ($13.33 million) - which aims to save the institutions 45 million when compared to standard commercial pricing....

'Black side down,' Lego style Lego has released another NASA-themed set; this time, a version of the US space agency's Boeing 747-based Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with a Space Shuttle perched on top....

Sometimes the 'R' in RTFM stands for 'Remember' On Call The trek through the working week can be long and tiring, which is why The Register always offers a little Friday morning refresher in the form of On Call - the reader-contributed column in which you share tech support stories....

Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties Australia's trial of age assurance technology has found it's up to the task of preventing children under 16 years of age from using social media, despite many problems....

Regulator remains concerned about election integrity Elections at troubled regional internet registry the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) will continue, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN's) attempt to appoint new officials to oversee the poll failed....

Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance China's AI and chipmaking prowess lags the USA's by just two years, and America's efforts to slow its progress could be hobbling its own semiconductor industry, according to Trump administration tech czar David Sacks....

Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs Fujitsu has bagged the contract to design Japan's next-gen supercomputer to succeed the Fugaku system, and it looks set to be another Arm-based behemoth, using a CPU derived from its upcoming MONAKA datacenter silicon....

Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming US-based software developers are the world's most prolific users of AI coding assistants, a trend that researchers believe has national economic implications....

To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems Researchers based in Israel and India have developed a defense against automated call scams....

FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of 'Secure by Default' Microsoft has warned administrators that legacy authentication protocols will be blocked by default from July, meaning that anyone who hasn't made preparations already could be in for a busy summer....

Case over bundling Play Store with Chrome and Google Search set to continue A European court has advised [PDF] that Google's appeal against a ruling that found it had abused its market dominance should be dismissed....

Feds told they can't demand a haystack to find a needle The United States is requesting [PDF] a month-long extension to the deadline for its final decision regarding an appeal against a judge's ruling that obtaining tower dumps is unconstitutional....

Observatory maps datacenter hubs and power demand worldwide The International Energy Agency (IEA) has unveiled an online platform to closely monitor and analyze the impact of AI across the energy sector worldwide....

Experts note 'major red flags' in donut giant's security as 161,676 staff and families informed of attack details Krispy Kreme finally revealed the number of people affected by its November cyberattack, and it's easy to see why analyzing the incident took the well-resourced company several months....

Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works Astronomers have found a filament of hot gas, ten times as massive as our galaxy, that they reckon could explain where at least some of the universe's "missing" matter might be lurking....

Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking 'ops' people Cybersecurity experts have started a formal review into the UK cybersecurity market, at the government's request, to identify future growth opportunities as it looks to grow the industry that's core to the country's Industrial Strategy....

Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero SpaceX has made excellent progress with its Starship rocket. The stainless steel vehicle can now explode before even leaving the Earth....

Probably the easiest way to a Google-free smartphone or tablet Murena's /e/ OS is arguably the most mainstream de-Googled Android OS, and the new version catches up with important features....

Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space America's aviation regulator has issued its first license for unmanned spacecraft to reenter the Earth's atmosphere to Varda, a startup that's trying to build a space-based manufacturing business....

Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop em are hopeless The European Commission has found Chinese e-tail giant AliExpress in breach of its obligation to assess and mitigate risks related to the dissemination of illegal products as required under the Digital Services Act (DSA)....

Phishing, Python and RATs, oh my A sneaky malware campaign slithers through Cloudflare tunnel subdomains to execute in-memory malicious code and give unknown attackers long-term access to pwned machines....

Windows 365 Reserve' will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee Microsoft has announced a preview of Windows 365 Reserve", a service that provides pre-configured cloud PCs it suggests as ideal when physical machines aren't usable....

Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to other areas' The government of Iran appears to have shut down the internet within its borders, perhaps in response to Israel-linked cyberattacks....

$650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030 Datacenter operators' desire for cheap and clean energy to power their facilities has led to renewed interest in nuclear energy and small modular reactors (SMRs) - a tech Nvidia has just decided is worthy of investment....

Move fast and blow things up Silicon Valley-backed weapons maker Anduril and German armaments biz Rheinmetall have signed a deal to see US-designed drones and missiles integrated into European military platforms....

EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much Using AI chatbots actually reduces activity in the brain versus accomplishing the same tasks unaided, and may lead to poorer fact retention, according to a new preprint study out of MIT....

Infostealers posing as popular cheat tools are cropping up on GitHub Trojanized Minecraft cheat tools hosted on GitHub have secretly installed stealers that siphon credentials, crypto wallets, and other sensitive data when executed by players....

New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks Asana has fixed a bug in its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that could have allowed users to view other organizations' data, and the experimental feature is back up and running after nearly two weeks of downtime to fix the issue....

In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for Exclusive Support for AMD's Instinct GPUs is coming to Voltron Data's accelerated SQL engine Theseus in the latest sign Nvidia's CUDA moat is getting shallower....

Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right? A federal judge has temporarily blocked an attempt by the Department of Defense to cut funding for university research programs, perhaps inadvertently saving the DoD from an own-goal....

The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix The second of three KDE point releases planned for 2025 is here, with more tiling options, accessibility improvements, and much more....

Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips Less than a third of European consumers trade in or sell their old phones, limiting the supply of secondhand devices that might otherwise stimulate a more environmentally friendly alternative to buying brand new....

Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though Mastodon is the latest platform to push back against AI training, updating its terms and conditions to ban the use of user content for large language models (LLMs)....

Version 13 can't come soon enough Veeam Backup & Replication users are urged to apply the latest patches that fix another critical bug leading to remote code execution (RCE) on backup servers....

Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm ScyllaDB, the wide-column database used by Comcast, Samsung, and banking giant Santander, has released a new database service it claims improves scalability and lowers cost....

Some servers can't renew IP addresses, and there's no fix yet Microsoft has admitted that June's Patch Tuesday updates could break the DHCP service on Windows Server....

UK needs skills task force to get slice of $1.8 trillion pie, Lords told The British space industry is struggling to compete for math, physics, and engineering graduates against a banking sector that can offer 90,000 ($120,000) salaries....

For that laptop feel without the laptop Logitech has embraced the sound of silence with its Signature Slim Wired K620 keyboard and M520 mouse combo....

Amid growing unease that US may compel cloud providers to hand over European data Capitalizing on the new interest in sovereign cloud, UK datacenter biz Pulsant has teamed up with Nine23, a firm specializing in high-assurance managed services for users such as the government, law enforcement, and defense sectors....

Meanwhile, next-gen script kiddies are levelling up faster thanks to agentic AI Interview Iran's state-sponsored cyber operatives and hacktivists have all increased their activities since the military conflict with Israel erupted last week - but not necessarily in the way that Amazon chief information security officer CJ Moses expected....

Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions Google has been testing a new way for websites to ask permission to access sensitive browser controls, such as the microphone and camera, despite longstanding opposition from Mozilla and Apple. Following recent refinements to the proposal, Mozilla now appears to be warming to the changes....

France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day Japanese automotive giant Honda has successfully launched and landed a small rocket....

Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act' The Trump administration is set to again waive the 2024 law that requires the made-in-China social network TikTok to either sell its US operations to a local company or stop operating on US soil....

Expect headcount reductions over the next few years, says Andy Jassy Amazon staff on Tuesday got an email from their CEO advising that some of them will probably be replaced by bots....