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Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users

Microsoft has created a version of its 365 productivity suite that runs on-premises, as part of a move to satisfy European regulations.…

Google threat analysts warn the team behind the Marks & Spencer break-in has moved on

Cyber-crime crew Scattered Spider has infected US insurance companies following a series of ransomware attacks against American and British retailers, according to Google, which urged this sector to be on "high alert."…

No need to plagiarize if you can have AI do it for you

A series of Freedom of Information requests shows that students in British universities are increasingly getting busted for using AI to cheat.…

MAGA MVNO and the gold-plated telephone of destiny

The Trump family is getting into the wireless business - and what better way to do it than with a gold-colored Android smartphone that could someday be designed and manufactured in the USA?…

Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet

Gaze into the temporal distance and you might spot the end of the age of silicon looming somewhere out there, as a research team at Penn State University claims to have built the first working CMOS computer entirely from two-dimensional materials.…

For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0

Japan is the latest nation hoping to tempt disgruntled US researchers alarmed by the Trump administration's hostile attitude to academia to relocate to the Land of the Rising Sun.…

Next version to drop Windows 7 through 8.1, and 32-bit Windows support is on the way out, too

The LibreOffice project is preparing to cut some Windows support – and encourages users to switch to Linux.…

Evaluation of latest repairs to Russian segment ongoing

NASA has pushed back the launch of Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station (ISS), citing concerns over persistent leaks aboard the aging orbital outpost. A new No Earlier Than (NET) date is set for June 19.…

Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250M

Operation Deep Sentinel is the latest international law enforcement collaboration against cybercrime, shutting down Archetyp – one of the largest dark web drug marketplaces.…

But lose your code and it's gone for good

Updated  Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area will shortly receive a new Recall Export feature, allowing Recall snapshots to be shared with third-party apps and websites.…

6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks

A new benchmark developed by academics shows that LLM-based AI agents perform below par on standard CRM tests and fail to understand the need for customer confidentiality.…

As others roll back use of tech due to quality, customers preferring to talk to humans

Not content with a corporate blueprint to cut up to 55,000 employees by 2030, UK telecoms giant BT now says even more staff could be replaced with AI, despite the experience of some orgs that have already tried this.…

PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more

Asia In Brief  Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security company’s armored cash transport unit.…

Student 'believed he could finish' software dev 'project alone and therefore that the rules did not apply to him'

A former GCHQ intern was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for stealing top-secret files during a year-long placement at the British intelligence agency.…

Scandal-hit IT giant said it wouldn't take on new UK.gov contracts or continue bidding on existing ones unless asked

Exclusive  The Northern Ireland government did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for a £125 million ($167 million) contract, yet the Japanese tech giant to continued to do so, despite promising to quit competing for UK government work during the fallout from the Horizon scandal.…

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hype

Opinion  Among the forever wars in geekdom, defining the difference between science fiction and fantasy is a hot potato destined to outlive the heat death of the universe.…

Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protest

Who, Me?  The only certainties in life are death, taxes … and tech causing trouble, a topic that The Register covers each week in this reader-contributed column we call “Who, Me?” that celebrates the moments you made trouble at work and somehow escaped.…

Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes

Google Cloud has explained the massive outage it created last week and, as has happened many times previously, admitted that it broke itself.…

German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA

German giant Siemens AG has tried to convince a US court to throw out the case in which VMware alleged it used unlicensed software.…

PLUS: Discord invite links may not be safe; Miscreants find new way to hide malicious JavaScript; and more!

Infosec In Brief  A pair of Congressional Democrats have demanded a review of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program amid uncertainties about continued US government funding for the scheme.…