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Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says

2 hours 44 minutes ago
When? Sean Cairncross wouldn't say

America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive – he just isn't saying when.…

Brandon Vigliarolo

FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon mess

3 hours 5 minutes ago
Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls.…

Connor Jones

China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew

3 hours 14 minutes ago
Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company

China is preparing for an early launch of the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft to rescue the crew of Shenzou-21, who were left stranded aboard the Tiangong space station after their emergency rescue of the Shenzou-20 crew earlier this month.…

Richard Speed

Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soar

4 hours 5 minutes ago
Rising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclear

Gartner warns that fossil fuel dominance in on-site power generation is not sustainable, given the rapid rise in datacenter energy consumption due to AI servers.…

Dan Robinson

Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown

4 hours 18 minutes ago
European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act

The European Commission has launched investigations into Amazon and Microsoft's cloud services, and plans to review if legislation introduced in 2022 is being applied effectively to the cloud market.…

Lindsay Clark

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

5 hours 23 minutes ago
Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along

Updated  Internet services provider Cloudflare is suffering a major outage that has knocked chunks of the web offline – including The Register.…

Richard Speed

Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

7 hours 28 minutes ago
Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers

Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.…

Tim Anderson

Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually

9 hours 7 minutes ago
Chang'e 6's soil sample turns up iron oxides where none were supposed to exist

A Chinese-led team of boffins has uncovered tiny grains of hematite and maghemite in materials scooped from the Moon's far-side South Pole-Aitken Basin by the Chang'e 6 probe – iron oxides more at home on rusty tools on Earth than on our bone-dry satellite.…

Carly Page

Vodafone, EE, O2, Three hit with £3B overcharging lawsuit

11 hours 7 minutes ago
Case alleges loyal customers continued to pay bundled rates after minimum contract terms ended

Britain's biggest mobile phone companies face legal action over claims they overcharged customers through a "loyalty penalty" after a tribunal permitted the cases to proceed.…

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