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Law enforcement facing huge gap in 'AI adoption'

The National Crime Agency (NCA) will "closely examine" the recommendations made by the Alan Turing Institute after it claimed the UK was ill-equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime.…

Techie demoed the effect in about 3 seconds, as On Call again tries to break tech-support world records

On Call  The working week sometimes speeds by, sometimes crawls, and often ends with a crash. Each Friday, we try to avert the latter by delivering a new edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed tales of handling ridiculous, ribald, and remarkable tech support requests.…

Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security

The US govt's Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency, aka CISA, on Thursday urged organizations, internet service providers, and security firms to strengthen defenses against so-called fast flux attacks.…

Espionage? Botnets? Trying to exploit a zero-day?

Updated  Someone or something is probing devices made by Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks, and researchers think it could be evidence of espionage attempts, attempts to build a botnet, or an effort to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities.…

Organizational, technological resilience combined defeat the disease that is cybercrime

When IT disasters strike, it can become a matter of life and death for healthcare organizations – and criminals know it.…

And it can be yours for a rather steep $349

Microsoft's Windows 365 Link has reached general availability, although some may question its value.…

ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too

The EU has shared its plans to ostensibly keep the continent's denizens secure – and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the political union wants to backdoor encryption by 2026, or even sooner.…

Tech slugged with higher duties, broad base 10% hike, semiconductors avoid retaliatory levies for now

US President Donald Trump has imposed a base ten percent tariff on imports into America, and higher levies on goods from major producers of digital tech, such as China, South Korea, and Taiwan.…

Simple denial-of-service blunder turned out to be remote unauth code exec disaster

Suspected Chinese government spies have been exploiting a newly disclosed critical bug in Ivanti VPN appliances since mid-March. This is now at least the third time in three years these snoops have been pwning these products.…

Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week

The first batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites is due to be lofted into orbit next week.…

Founder shares 4K Altair BASIC source ahead of 50th anniversary

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC.…

It's going to happen to you one day, so get your ducks in a row

As Benjamin Franklin famously said: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and that's especially true when it comes to disaster recovery.…

Arm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCs

MediaTek is bringing out a new chip for Chromebooks that blurs the boundary with Copilot+ PCs, sporting an 8-core CPU cluster and a neural processing unit (NPU) rated at 50 TOPS.…

To be fair, it sounds like the team has ironed out the more controversial features

Comment  The latest version of Zorin OS, a popular Windows-macOS-like Ubuntu Linux remix, looks good, but there's one change that causes this vulture some concern.…

Tariff moves threaten supply chain stability

The cost of buying servers for business will inevitably rise as a result of US President Donald Trump's trade policies, at least in the short term, as uncertainty grips the supply chain.…

Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure

Comment  Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it's not floods or fires causing most outages anymore - ransomware now leads the pack, taking down systems faster than any natural disaster.…

Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind

A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware.…

Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment

The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have heard.…

Fallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning

Opinion  Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all of the events as well as allegedly deleting evidence from the web.…

Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind

Opinion  Former UK prime minister Tony Blair became famous for standing shoulder to shoulder with allies, even though the fallout from the Iraq war forever sullied his reputation. Nonetheless, the institute that bears his name makes it clear who it stands with when it comes to using copyrighted material to fuel the expansion of machine learning into every human domain.…