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Customers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealings Ingram Micro says it is gradually reactivating customer's ordering capabilities across the world, region by region, now its ransomware attack is thought to be "contained"....

Activists argue the resources spent on tech aren't leading to worthwhile numbers Privacy activists are unimpressed with London's Metropolitan Police and its use of live facial recognition (LFR) to catch criminals, saying it is not effective use of taxpayer money and an overreach by government....

Akkodis report suggests people skills may be helpful to bring out the best in AI Executives are losing faith in AI initiatives despite rising investment, according to a study conducted by consultancy Akkodis....

Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fire An Iranian ransomware-as-a-service operation with ties to a government-backed cyber crew has reemerged after a nearly five-year hiatus, and is offering would-be cybercriminals cash to infect organizations in the US and Israel....

A big bet that RISC-V can make a dent in the AI market GlobalFoundries has acquired chip design firm MIPS, creating a company that both designs and creates semiconductors....

Envisions info from your watch informing treatment. What could possibly go wrong? Samsung has acquired US company Xealth to combine data drawn from its wearable devices and hospital records....

Operations king Jeff Williams abdicates - just don't give him a watch Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is stepping down from his role next month and leaving the company later this year to spend more time with friends and family....

Sure, 130 fixes were sent out, but bask in the security goodness For the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public already, and there are ten critical flaws to fix....

More efficient cores plus an optional energy saver mode in Big Blue's latest CPUs In case you'd forgotten, IBM is still blazing its own trail with regard to silicon. And in terms of speeds and feeds, Big Blue's latest crop of Power chips boasts up to 55 percent faster cores than its Power9 chips....

It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet Serial entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and currently acts as CEO of payments company Block, has released the source code for a peer-to-peer messaging app called bitchat that relies on Bluetooth for network connectivity....

You want that military contract? Then no more proprietary repairability clauses! A bipartisan pair of Senators is so happy with the US Army's right to repair policy that they want to enshrine it in federal law as the standard across military branches....

These extensions weren't malware-laced from the start, researcher says A Chrome and Edge extension with more than 100,000 downloads that displays Google's verified badge does what it purports to do: It delivers a color picker to users. Unfortunately, it also hijacks every browser session, tracks activities across websites, and backdoors victims' web browsers, according to Koi Security researchers....

Including frequencies that overlap with Wi-Fi 6E and private mobile networking updated A provision in the new US budget bill opens a wide swath of spectrum for sale, including some that overlaps with frequencies currently allotted for private mobile networks and Wi-Fi 6E....

Climate risks threaten to fry the supply chain for essential chipmaking metal Climate change could pose a threat to the technology industry as copper production is vulnerable to drought, while demand may grow to outstrip supply anyway....

'If this is the priority for our tax dollars, we are doomed' The US Congress has passed President Donald Trump's budget bill. In addition to the possibility of a Space Shuttle move, significant changes are on the way for NASA....

First volume of inquiry report focuses on the scandal's human impact Senior Post Office staff - and those working for suppliers Fujitsu and ICL - knew or should have known about the defects causing errors in the Horizon system that contributed to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of branch workers, 13 of whom committed suicide, most probably as a result, according to the first volume of a government report into the computer scandal....

Modern threats demand modern defenses. Cloud-native is the new baseline Partner content Every organization is investing in cyberresilience tools, training, and processes. Unfortunately, only some of them will be able to successfully respond and recover from an attack. Regardless of how hard they work, many IT and security teams are constrained by legacy technology architectures that were built for the challenges of 2015, not 2025....

'We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court's order' The Georgia Court of Appeals has tossed a state trial court's order because it relied on court cases that do not exist, presumably generated by an AI model....

Move targets European orgs wary of cross-border data exposure Linux veteran SUSE has unveiled a new support package aimed at customers concerned about data sovereignty....

If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is The US General Services Administration (GSA) has announced an agreement with Oracle it claims offers a 75 percent discount on the vendor's license-based technology....

Zewei Xu's family reportedly bemused at arrest as extradition tabled A man who US authorities allege is a member of Chinese state-sponsored cyberespionage outfit Silk Typhoon was arrested in Milan last week following a tipoff from the US embassy....

Official figures for network performance don't play out in user's reality, says monitoring biz The UK's 5G networks are among the worst in Europe when it comes to measurements such as download speed, upload speed, latency, and packet loss, according to a report published today....

Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature Opinion Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users....

Those pirated video nasties won't last forever The UK police service is planning to launch a procurement to purchase tech and services worth up to 75 million ($102 million) in order to digitize its VHS archive....

The mighty Z80 processor ran the code at astounding speed, proving retro-tech got a lot of things right A Microsoft senior software engineer named Alice Vinogradova has ported a database she wrote in SAP's ABAP language to the venerable Z80 processor that powered the Sinclair ZX Spectrum - and marveled at the results....

Plus: Qantas makes contact with 'potential cyber criminal' While the aviation industry has borne the brunt of Scattered Spider's latest round of social engineering attacks, the criminals aim to catch manufacturing and medical tech companies - and even Chipotle Mexican Grill -in tjeor web, as evidenced by hundreds of domains that security researchers say look a lot like phishing websites used by the criminal crews....

They're both silent on what, if anything, has changed Epic Games has settled the case it brought against Samsung over the Korean giant's treatment of third-party app stores on its Galaxy handsets....

Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan World War Fee The Trump administration on Monday announced the tariff rates it will impose on fourteen nations starting on August 1st, and several big technology-producing nations made the list....

Investors advised to brace for massive fall from Q1 to Q2 Analysis During the AI gold rush, the next best thing to selling the shovels - that is, the GPUs -is manufacturing the silicon that makes them possible. But while TSMC and SK-Hynix continue to cash in on Nvidia's successes, Samsung hasn't been nearly so fortunate....

Using prompt injections to play a Jedi mind trick on LLMs A handful of international computer science researchers appear to be trying to influence AI reviews with a new class of prompt injection attack....

Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness The new nuclear age of small modular reactors may not have materialized yet, but that's not stopping the US Department of Energy from getting to work on even smaller, more modular reactors with a couple of new commercial partners....

NetScaler vendor issued a patch but otherwise, stony silence Multiple exploits are circulating for CVE-2025-5777, a critical bug in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway dubbed CitrixBleed 2, and security analysts are warning a "significant portion" of users still haven't patched....

All the GPUs in the world aren't worth much if you don't have a place to put them CoreWeave just added 1.3 gigawatts of datacenter capacity to its rent-a-GPU scheme with the $9 billion acquisition of crypto-mining outfit Core Scientific, the companies announced Monday....

The iMaker's fight with European regulators continues Apple is on the hook for a 500 million (US $587 million) anti-steering fine in the EU, so it's reportedly doing what any profit-driven enterprise in such a position would do: Appealing....

Lucy in the sky with calcium Astroboffins have found the first evidence of a double-detonated Type Ia supernova, which could explain why we have enough bright points of reference in the skies to plot our place in the universe....

As power concerns beset builds, this floating datacenter can plug into powership next door Japanese shipping biz Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is planning to fit out a ship as a floating datacenter that can draw energy from the shore or from an accompanying powership....

Line-judging tech flubs crucial point, leaving players and fans seeing red "You cannot be serious" was likely uttered by more than a few folk watching Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova versus Britain's Sonay Kartal at Wimbledon yesterday after the tennis tournament's AI line-calling tech dropped the ball....

Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings The US defense department satellite service that's cutting off the flow of data used for hurricane forecasting is doing so "to mitigate a significant cybersecurity risk" to government "high performance computing environments."...

Get your creds in order or risk BEC, ransomware attacks, orgs warned A rise in advanced phishing kits and info-stealing malware are to blame for a 156 percent jump in cyberattacks targeting user logins, say researchers....

Digital map of subterranean infrastructure promised in 2021 set to launch by year end Ordnance Survey, the UK's official map maker, is seeking a tech supplier to help it obtain and manage data from utilities companies for a project that aims to avoid damage to subterranean infrastructure, which costs around 2.4 billion a year....

Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't Comment Few IT leaders or staffers realize just how much automation, AI, and cloud delivery are disrupting the legal and human frameworks that underpin outsourcing - especially when it comes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, better known as TUPE....

A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor Opinion In human imagination, AIs have been good for two things: trying to take over, and loving a good game. The earliest post-war AI thinkers took it almost for granted that once computers could beat humans at chess, true artificial intelligence would have arrived. Such thinking was disproved 50 years on when IBM's Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997. Computers could be very, very good at chess while still having the IQ of a pebble....

Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error Who, Me? Monday morning brings many readers a return to the world of adults, which The Register marks by bringing you a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of making mistakes for which you are somehow forgiven....

Airlines get the chance to cool their jets rather than burn fuel on the ground Airbus last week revealed it has certified a Taxibot" to transport its single-aisle planes from stand to runway....

Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust As VMware pushes its vision for private clouds built around its core virtualization technology, rival vendors are ramping their efforts to create an alternative stack....

PLUS: Lexmark's Chinese owners sell to Xerox; India, Australia, target underwater drones; JPMorgan drops custom TLDs; and more! Asia In Brief Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has migrated the four million Postgres databases that back its customers' Jira implementations to Amazon Web Services' Aurora....

Also, Swiss ransomware posture looks like its cheese, the CVE Program wants YOU, more sus checks and more Infosec In Brief A security researcher looking at samples of stalkerware discovered an SQL vulnerability that allowed him to steal a database of 62,000 user accounts....

SafePay crew claims responsibility for intrusion at one of world's largest tech distributors Ingram Micro, one of the world's largest distributors, has confirmed it is trying to restore systems following a ransomware attack....

Got to be a 'clean space superpower' - right, Brits? Britain's space agency is looking for a supplier to build a robotic spacecraft to capture and de-orbit two defunct UK-licensed satellites from low Earth orbit....

Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds Cybersecurity experts are reporting a 19x increase in malicious campaigns being launched from .es domains, making it the third most common, behind only .com and .ru....