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Thursday May 22, 2025. 08:59 PM
Budget slashing has 'outsized impact' on us, says commander who fears branch not ready for orbital war The US Space Force has been struggling to achieve its technological goals, and Chief of Space Operations General B. Chance Saltzman told senators this week that civilian...
Intrusions began weeks before Trimble patched the Cityworks hole A suspected Chinese crew has been exploiting a now-patched remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Trimble Cityworks to break into US local government networks and target utility management systems, according to...
Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers Investment biz Bain Capital is getting further into the datacenter sector with the launch of an operation serving hyperscalers in Europe, potentially positioning itself to benefit from customer unease over US hyperscalers.…
Vendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs News that SAP users face a 30-50 percent premium to get some cloud products – including core ERP – to industry-standard service levels threatens to overshadow the German vendor's annual...
Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over The Irish Data Protection Commission has cleared the way for Meta to begin slurping up the data of European citizens for training AI next week, ongoing legal challenges notwithstanding. …
4-year trial is second major initiative this year that clamps down on 'illegal immigrants' Foreigners in Moscow will now be subject to a new experimental law that affords the state enhanced tracking mechanisms via a smartphone app.…
A media-ready remix with KDE, codecs, and clutter from its BeOS-flavored past Neptune is a moderately tweaked Debian remix with KDE Plasma 5, a few alternative app choices, and a longer history than we anticipated.…
Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos Chat app biz Signal is unhappy with the current version of Microsoft Recall and has invoked some Digital Rights Management (DRM) functionality in Windows to stop the tool from snapshotting...
Claude passed 80% of tasks assigned in a recent study Freelance coders take solace: while AI models can perform a lot of the real-world coding tasks that companies contract out, they do so less effectively than a human.…
Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts European organizations wanting to break free of American cloud operators may find their hopes dashed, according to industry analysts, for a number...
And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget The FOSS recreation of AmigaOS is making progress. A new edition runs entirely from a USB key, so you can temporarily turn your PC into an Amiga – without any tricky installation process.…
Parents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected Scotland's West Lothian Council has confirmed that data was stolen from its education network after the Interlock ransomware group claimed responsibility for the intrusion...
Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom Broadcom has upped VMware licensing costs by between eight to 15 times since it took over the organization, and a lack of alternatives in the tech industry means ...
Names spies, web hosts, GPS jammers, fishing (not phishing) biz The European Union has sanctioned Russia-linked entities it says jammed GPS signals, sabotaged undersea cables, and ran a web hosting business that aided 'information manipulation interference and...
Don’t panic! It's related to an earthly bug, eats gelatin, not astronauts, and may have adapted to life in space Chinse scientists have found a previously unknown species of microbe on the nation’s Tiangong space station, and it may have evolved characteristics that help ...
Cable Labs predicts two percent packet loss and 10ms latency in some buildings unless more spectrum freed Rapid growth in Wi-Fi use means the 6 GHz band’s carrying capacity may soon be exhausted, according to CableLabs, the nonprofit networking think tank run by cable...
The agentic era may not be all that it's cracked up to be google i/o At Google I/O this week, the Chocolate Factory argued for its AI supremacy, making the case with benchmark-topping machine learning models, developer tools, and a few promising products.…
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mo failed to alert lawmakers about surveillance, senator says Updated AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US failed to set up systems to notify lawmakers when government snoops came calling for their phone records - a contractual obligation that went ignored until...
Wednesday May 21, 2025. 11:33 PM
The 19-year-old and a partner first tried to extort an unnamed telco, but failed A 19-year-old student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into the systems of two companies as part of an extortion scheme, and The Register has learned that one of the targets was...
LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper Scientists have developed a machine learning model that can outperform official agencies at predicting tropical cyclone tracks, and do it faster and cheaper than traditional physics-based systems.…
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