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VMware spin-out is making friends and choosing some enemies

Omnissa, the independent company that acquired VMware’s former end-user compute portfolio, has tweaked its App Volumes product that packages and deploys desktop apps for use on virtual PCs so it works on physical machines too.…

Plus 'low-level' hacktivist attempts

The US Department of Homeland Security has warned American businesses to guard their networks against Iranian government-sponsored cyberattacks along with "low-level" digital intrusions by pro-Iran hacktivists.…

It would be the first major US nuclear plant built in over 15 years

New York State is set to build America's first major new nuclear plant in more than 15 years, amid growing energy demands, particularly from power-hungry AI datacenters.…

Criminals targeted the hospital and physician network’s Detroit cancer clinic this time

McLaren Health Care is in the process of writing to 743,131 individuals now that it fully understands the impact of its July 2024 cyberattack.…

$1.5 billion offered for database company valued at $1.2 billion four years ago

Document database company Couchbase is set to be bought by a private equity biz in all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion.…

Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler have dinner

Sysinternals founder Mark Russinovich's after-dinner photo just flipped the nerd world into Kardashian-like levels of internet meltdown.…

Power chip biz to hand over equity to lenders, wipe out most shareholders, and keep running during restructuring

Wolfspeed, maker of bandgap chips for power and radio frequency applications, is to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the "near future" after striking an agreement with creditors to cut its $6.5 billion debt by roughly 70 percent.…

Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch

Britain's Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of £270-440 million ($362-591 million).…

Turn out the lights, the internet is over

Google AI Overviews and other AI search services appear to be starving the hand that fed them.…

MPs hear doubts over efficiency savings that are reliant on speculative gains from IT, machine learning

Leading economists have questioned how the UK government's Spending Review can determine exactly 10 percent cuts to admin budgets — partly powered by AI and digital transformation — across central departments when they are starting from different places and have different projects to manage.…

Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off

Opinion  The smaller the org, the better the jobs. Not universally true, but a good rule of thumb. Small organizations have fewer layers of management, and each individual has much more influence. One voice in 50 is 100 times louder than one in 5,000. You get to say what you want to do and get to do it. Happiness. …

And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else

Who, Me?  Welcome to another working week and therefore another installment of Who, Me? – The Register's reader-contributed column where you confess to making a mess and somehow find safe egress.…

Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers

Huawei’s chairman Xu Zhijun – aka Eric Xu – has called out China’s enormous lead in fiber-to-the-room (FTTR) installations.…

PLUS: India tries to untangle TXT marketing opt-ins; China’s AI crackdown succeeds; Australia and Boeing team AWACS, drones; and more!

Asia In Brief  Chinese web giant Baidu last week staged a livestream hosted by an AI version of local influencer Yonghao Luo and scored 13 million hits and $7.5 million of sales.…

PLUS: 5.4M healthcare records leak; AI makes Spam harder to spot; Many nasty Linux vulns; and more

Infosec in brief  A former US Army sergeant has admitted he attempted to sell classified data to China.…

Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space

UPDATED  America's aviation regulator has issued its first license for unmanned spacecraft to reenter the Earth's atmosphere to Varda, a startup that's trying to build a space-based manufacturing business.…

Skull emoji knife emoji moneybag emoji

Seven people, including a 14-year-old, have been arrested or surrendered to Danish authorities after allegedly using encrypted messaging apps to hire other teenagers for contract killings in what Europol calls a "violence-as-a-service" operation.…

Don’t trust mystery digits popping up in your search bar

Scammers are hijacking the search results of people needing 24/7 support from Apple, Bank of America, Facebook, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, and PayPal in an attempt to trick victims into handing over personal or financial info, according to Malwarebytes senior director of research Jérôme Segura.…

Welcome to bill shock, AI style

Microsoft's GitHub this week said paying GitHub Copilot customers will now face monthly limits on certain types of high-powered AI requests, and will have to pay more if they want to surpass those limits.…

'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO

The US Patent and Trademark Office is exploring a plan for using AI at the agency to speed up the process of granting patents - but its initial request for information says that vendors should expect to be paid in exposure rather than cold, hard cash.…