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108-year-old aerospace giant acting like a struggling startup as debts and losses soar updated Beleaguered Boeing is hoping millions of new shares and billions of dollars in convertible securities can stave off a credit downgrade as it leaks cash during an ongoing strike....

Legal action comes months after alleging negligence by Falcon vendor Delta Air Lines is suing CrowdStrike in a bid to recover the circa $500 million in estimated lost revenue months after the cybersecurity company "caused" an infamous global IT outage....

Microsoft agreed, then upped his payout 63% Comment Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission show that, at SatNad's request, the Microsoft board agreed to halve his incentive package, but then more than made up for that with the rest of his compensation award....

Nearly all of those without access live in low to middle income countries, GSMA says Just over half the global population now has access to mobile internet, but the rate of growth is slowing. While some of the remainder live in hard-to-reach areas, most are found in low and middle-income countries that aren't hurting for mobile broadband support....

Legal proceedings underway with more details to follow Dutch police (Politie) say they've dismantled the servers powering the Redline and Meta infostealers - two key tools in a modern cyber crook's arsenal....

UK CEO becomes EMEA president after taking on role in Brit industrial strategy Microsoft has reshuffled its EMEA team, moving Clare Barclay from UK CEO to president of enterprise and industry, EMEA, while effectively swapping roles with Darren Hardman....

$82B in investment shows we've still got it as a nation Interview Peter Kyle, the UK's new Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, has been in America this week promoting British expertise in AI and other areas. He took the time to sit down with journalists on Friday to explain his plans....

HarmonyOS NEXT sounds dissonant until you get the theme Opinion Launching a new mobile OS is what professional historians of technology refer to as a dumb move. It is so shatteringly stupid that even Microsoft stopped bothering after three or four goes - did we all just imagine the Kin?...

All the redundancy in the world can't help a 'brown trouser' mistake Who, Me? Greetings and salutations, dear reader, welcome to yet another fun-filled Monday at The Register. As you well know, each Monday (which is today) The Register (which you're reading) brings you an instalment of Who, Me? - our reader-contributed tales of tech gone wrong. This is that very column. To tell you again would surely be redundant....

One told to take down posts that said nice things about WP Engine Organisers of WordCamps, community-organized events for WordPress users, have been ordered to take down some social media posts and share their login credentials for social networks....

Just two of 'em, at a discount befitting the early stage of development for the kit involved China's first space tourism venture took a small step toward commercial reality last week, when it sold the first tickets on its rocket to space....

As Gartner rates the contenders for those contemplating a move off Virtzilla, with Nutanix on top of the list Fresh from debuting a version of its software for open source VMware alternative Proxmox, data management vendor Veeam has developed a prototype to backup another virtualization platform: the Xen Server fork XCP-NG....

When you say 'team' do you mean 'Teams' or a SharePoint 'team site'? Letmecorrectthatforyou.com explains the difference If you've lost track of what Microsoft's calling its AI assistant this week, Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant has created just the resource you need: a site called Let me correct that for you!...

Plus: Singapore building two Supercomputers; Toyota to rebuild IT with Fujitsu AI; Are Samsung engineers jumping ship? ASIA IN BRIEF Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has banned the import of Apple's iPhone 16....

Well, at least eventually since some companies have until 2030 to comply The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized a rule that requires banks, credit card issuers, and most other financial firms to provide consumers with access to their personal financial data - and to help them transfer it, generally at no cost....

Also, Change Healthcare sets a record, cybercrime cop suspect indicted, a new Mallox decryptor, and more in brief Senate intelligence committee chair Mark Warner (D-VA) is demanding to know why, in the wake of the bust-up of a massive online Russian disinformation operation, the names of six US-based domain registrars seem to keep popping up as, at best, negligent facilitators of election meddling....

It turns out morning light beats evening rays for health benefits The streets of Soho aren't alive with disco or bellbottoms anymore, so maybe it's time to ditch another '70s icon we should have outgrown by now, says the British Sleep Society (BSS)....

Also there's a beta of 9.5 - which is more than there is of RHEL The AlmaLinux team unveiled a new distribution, but don't get too excited. It's not meant to be a new flavor or intended for production use....

US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau demands transparency, accountability from sellers of employee metrics The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday published guidance advising businesses that third-party reports about workers must comply with the consent and transparency requirements set forth in the Fair Credit Reporting Act....

If only all Android apps were so effortlessly stylish BORK!BORK!BORK! As large and cheap LCD displays become ever more common, techies on the move can see there is no rest for the IoT signage silage - but this does not seem to be the case if your name is Mr Biz Daemon....

Bit barns aren't going to hook up to nuclear in a rush Datacenter operators worried about securing enough energy supplies should turn to on-site generation such as gas turbines in the short term, while longer-term answers may include sources like small nuclear reactors - but there is no catch-all silver bullet solution....

'They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations' Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has hit back at a lawsuit claiming that it's unfairly harvesting data from Dow Jones & Co and the New York Post to feed its AI engine, as well as stealing and mangling content....

Allowing pretenders to co-opt the term is bad for everyone Opinion If you believe Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's AI large language model (LLM) Llama 3 is open source....

Puts Chief Tightwad Officers on notice Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don't cough up for the open source code that they use....

Also updates bug bounty program with $1M payout In June, Apple used its Worldwide Developer Conference to announce the creation of the Private Cloud Compute platform to run its AI Intelligence applications, and now it's asking people to stress test the system for security holes....

Microsoft-owned social media for suits site gets 310M fine, told to get compliant When LinkedIn asked its European users for their personal data, it did not receive "informed" nor "freely given" consent for the business to ship it off to third parties for generating targeted advertising, a Euro data watchdog has said....

TrendForce reports significant capacity gains as Beijing targets reduced reliance on imported semiconductors While most industry attention is focused on cutting-edge silicon, China continues to ramp up production of so-called mature nodes, leading to overall capacity increasing by 6 percent in 2025, according to TrendForce....

A single gram can hold 215,000 TB. Technique inspired by epigenetics might help unlock that potential Scientists have developed a new approach to using DNA as a data storage medium, slashing the cost and time of writing to the biological substance....

McKinsey warns an additional 25GW of mostly green energy will be needed Datacenter power consumption across Europe could roughly triple by the end of the decade, driven by mass adoption of everyone's favorite tech trend: AI....

Lightweight 'FMV Zero' is only sold online in Japan, dammit Fujitsu Japan's client computing operation claims to have seized the title of world's lightest laptop, after launching the 634-gram "FMV Zero."...

Not paying what you agreed for a job can prove expensive in the long run On Call Welcome to another edition of On Call, the weekly reader-contributed column in which Reg readers share tech support tales in which they triumph over terrible and tyrannical taskmasters....

Artificial General Intelligence readiness advisor Miles Brundage bails, because nobody is ready OpenAI has lost another senior staffer, and on his way out the door this one warned the company - and all other AI shops - are just not ready for artificial general intelligence....

Loose juice led to cooling issue in one zone, but the pain was widespread Google Cloud apologized on Thursday after its europe-west3 region - located in Frankfurt, Germany - experienced an outage lasting half a day....

Station claims it's visionary, ex-employees claim it's cynical; reality appears way more fiscal A Polish radio station has ditched its on-air talent for AI in what its editor-in-chief calls an experiment on the effect of AI in society, though it looks like a bid to save cash....

Not much more than a slap on the wrist as WiseTech boss stays on in new role and keeps salary The billionaire founder and CEO of Australian SaaS giant WiseTech Global, Richard White, has stepped down after a week of allegations of improper conduct....

Plus: Iran's IRGC probes election-related websites in swing states Russian, Iranian, and Chinese trolls are all ramping up their US election disinformation efforts ahead of November 5,but - aside from undermining faith in the democratic process and confidence in the election result - with very different objectives, according to Microsoft....

We don't really need a letter full of circumstantial evidence to prove what we already know needs doing US elected officials are urging the Commerce Department to take action to prevent Huawei from building a network of "clandestine semiconductor facilities used to circumvent US law."...

Remember Bucket Monopoly? Yeah, it gets worse Amazon Web Services has fixed a flaw in its open source Cloud Development Kit that, under the right conditions, could allow an attacker to hijack a user's account completely....

Boffins say it's absurd that the US comms watchdog won't consider atmospheric harms One hundred and twenty astronomy researchers on Thursday sent a letter asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to end the "absurd" environmental review exemption given to SpaceX's Starlink and other firms launching large constellations of satellites....

Warns the Middle Kingdom is drinking Detroit's milkshake at the moment Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, has made a surprising confession - he has been driving a Chinese-made electric vehicle, and he loves it....

AI model repo promises lower costs, broader compatibility for NIMs competitor Hugging Face this week announced HUGS, its answer to Nvidia's Inference Microservices (NIMs), which the AI repo claims will let customers deploy and run LLMs and models on a much wider variety of hardware....

Who doesn't love abusing buggy appliances, really? Cisco has patched an already exploited security hole in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software that miscreants have been brute-forcing in attempted denial of service attacks....

No specs and few details, but the promise of access to an exclusive community is still drawing buyers Imagine that your USB flash drive came with software that lets an unknown cloud platform scan its contents and upload files, inform your friends about whatever you publish, and then them download your stuff for themselves....

Reveals why your functions start slowly on its cloud and maybe others too Huawei Cloud has released a huge trove of data describing the performance of its serverless services in the hope that other hyperscalers use it to improve their own operations....

Hitachi Rail contract inked by SF transport board will kill the throwback San Francisco's Muni Metro could be finally getting ready to wave goodbye to the antiquated and archaic floppy disk-based train control system....

Epycs or Xeons, more cores = more silicon, and it only gets more complex from here Analysis Shortly after the launch of AMD's first-gen Epyc processors codenamed Naples in 2017, Intel quipped that its competitor had been reduced to gluing a bunch of desktop dies together in order to stay relevant....

Kelly Ortberg's turnaround express heads back to the hangar Thousands of unionized Boeing machinists will remain on strike after rejecting their employer's latest contract offer, dealing a swift blow to recovery plans CEO Kelly Ortberg outlined yesterday....

EU isn't keeping up with US and China investments, AI arms dealer says European nations need to invest more in artificial intelligence if they want to close the gap between the US and China, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during a visit to Copenhagen on Wednesday to inaugurate Denmark's shiny new Gefion supercomputer....

Conditional rebates settled, but $400M matter of naked restrictions remains Intel has a spot of good news for a change. The EU Court of Justice has upheld an earlier ruling that canceled a 1.06 billion ($1.1 billion) fine against the chipmaker imposed in 2009 for anti-competitive practices....

How embarrassing for Samsung SK hynix posted on Wednesday what it called its "highest revenue since its foundation" for Q3 2024 as it pledged to continue minuting more AI chips....