The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive
Opinion Microsoft, tacitly admitting it has failed at talking all the Windows 10 PC users into moving to Windows 11 after all, is – sort of, kind of – extending Windows 10 support for another year.…
Microsoft's next Windows 11 update is more 'enablement' than upgrade
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 25H2 is almost here. However, the upgrade will be little more than an exercise in feature enablement since Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 share the same source code.…
Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet
Arm-based servers are rapidly gaining traction in the market with shipments tipped to jump 70 percent in 2025, however, this remains well short of the chip designer's ambitions to make up half of datacenter CPU sales worldwide by the end of the year.…
Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and Siemens Mobility have managed to get an ICE test train to 405 km/h (251 mph) on the Erfurt-Leipzig/Halle high-speed line.…
Cloud lobby warns EU: Clamp down on water rules and we'll evaporate
The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body has put forward recommendations for the EU's Water Resilience Strategy, perhaps mindful that datacenters are perceived as hugely wasteful of precious water resources.…
Junior sysadmin’s first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company
Who, Me? Welcome again to Who, Me? It's the Monday morning column in which readers of The Register admit to making big mistakes and somehow swerving the consequences.…
Don't pay for AI support failures, says Gradient Labs CEO
interview Dimitri Masin, CEO of Gradient Labs, argues that companies using AI agents for customer support should only pay when the bot does its job.…
DoJ clears HPE to buy Juniper if it sells Instant On Wi-Fi and licenses some code
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has cleared the way for HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks.…
China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers
Chinese chip designer Loongson last week announced silicon it claims is the equal of western semiconductors from 2021.…
Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP
Asia In Brief Canada’s government has ordered Chinese CCTV systems vendor Hikvision to cease its local operations.…
It's 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators
Infosec in Brief Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the malware send cash to the crooks who planted it, according to infosec software slinger Sophos.…
How to get free software from yesteryear's IT crowd – trick code into thinking it's running on a rival PC
Before plug and play was blowing up Windows 98 on a Comdex stage, Windows 95 engineers were grappling with the technology – and on one fateful day they found some unusual text in the BIOS of several PCs that they had to work around.…
The network is indeed trying to become the computer
Analysis Moore's Law has run out of gas and AI workloads need massive amounts of parallel compute and high bandwidth memory right next to it – both of which have become terribly expensive. If it weren't for this situation, the beancounters of the world might be complaining about the cost of networking in the datacenter.…
Ex-NATO hacker: 'In the cyber world, there's no such thing as a ceasefire'
interview The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won't carry any weight in cyberspace, according to former NATO hacker Candan Bolukbas.…
Anthropic chucks chump change at studies on job-killing tech
AI biz Anthropic is trying to recruit academics to find out exactly how much its technology could crater the jobs market.…
Crims are posing as insurance companies to steal health records and payment info
Criminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI.…
Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult material
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Texas' age certification law for viewing sexually explicit content is valid, meaning that viewers of such material will have to prove their age.…
How Broadcom is quietly plotting a takeover of the AI infrastructure market
feature GPUs dominate the conversation when it comes to AI infrastructure. But while they're an essential piece of the puzzle, it's the interconnect fabrics that allow us to harness them to train and run multi-trillion-parameter models at scale.…
Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator!
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates the frolicsome fun that readers have experienced when asked to deliver tech support.…
Aloha, you’ve been pwned: Hawaiian Airlines discloses ‘cybersecurity event’
update Hawaiian Airlines said a "cybersecurity incident" affected some of its IT systems, but noted that flights are operating as scheduled. At least one researcher believes Scattered Spider, which previously targeted retailers and insurance companies, could be to blame.…
