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The latest in a long line of techies to face Putin’s wrath

A Russian programmer will face the next 14 years in a "strict-regime" (high-security) penal colony after a regional court ruled he leaked sensitive data to Ukraine.…

IT leaders in region eyeing American hyperscalers escape hatch

Amid the economic uncertainty of Trump 2.0, dependence on American tech has become a growing concern for many businesses, and a survey of 1,000 IT leaders claims that data sovereignty is now one of the most pressing issues.…

Musk’s rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either

SpaceX's Starship has failed, again.…

Easy, medium, and the sledgehammer approach – or any combination you fancy

hands on  If you're thinking about switching to Linux but there are a few Windows apps you just can't do without, you do have options… and some of them are free.…

Space broadband and space-linked phones all very well, but someone's got to track them

Satellites have evolved, thanks to SpaceX's Starlink and incomer AST SpaceMobile pumping out high-speed broadband and cellular services for everyday phones delivered from low Earth orbit (LEO) hardware.…

And it's all your fault

There is growing dissatisfaction over cloud computing, according to Gartner, and much of this can be put down to unrealistic expectations or customers simply not implementing the tech properly.…

More cases about 2015 software swindle stuck in legal traffic jam

Germany’s Braunschweig Regional Court has reportedly sentenced four Volkswagen executives to jail over “Dieselgate” – the 2015 scandal in which the automaker was found to have fudged software used to test its vehicles’ pollution emissions.…

Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements

Computex  Analysts rate Taiwan’s ASUS the world’s fifth most prolific PC-maker, but the company wants to climb the charts by targeting business buyers, according to Shawn Chang, Head of Go-To-Market for the outfit’s Commercial Business Unit.…

Millions may fall for it - and end up with malware instead

A group of miscreants tracked as UNC6032 is exploiting interest in AI video generators by planting malicious ads on social media platforms to steal credentials, credit card details, and other sensitive info, according to Mandiant.…

He was responding to a gripe from a Russian IT provider about competition from Microsoft and Zoom

Russian President Vladimir Putin said foreign tech providers still operating in Russia should be "strangled" as the country develops domestic alternatives.…

400,000 GB200s could be more than a 1.2GW datacenter can chew

Oracle will reportedly shell out around $40 billion on Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to provide compute power to OpenAI from the first US Stargate datacenter in Abilene, Texas, assuming the site can deliver enough electricity to handle the load.…

No more features for the design darling - now it’s all about chatting with your tabs like they’re sentient

AI is rapidly reshaping how we use the web, or so The Browser Company founder Josh Miller argues. That belief helped drive his team's decision to stop building new features for its Arc browser and shift focus to an "AI browser" dubbed Dia.…

'Your well-honed customer experience is noise to an agent'

As software agents powered by foundation models become more commonplace, marketers need to revisit their assumptions about website design and advertising.…

Dutch intel services, Microsoft go big-game hunting

A previously unknown Kremlin-linked group has conducted cyber-espionage operations against Dutch police, NATO member states, Western tech companies, and other organizations of interest to the Russian government since at least April 2024, according to Dutch intelligence services and Microsoft.…

The rebellion grows and it seems resistance is not futile

Despite high-profile calls for employees to get their butts back behind their desks in a traditional workplace setting, more people - at least in the UK - are ignoring return-to-office mandates, a study has found.…

Nick Clegg, former politico and Zuckcorp policy Prez, seems confused, can Reg readers help him?

Former British deputy PM and Meta apologist Sir Nick Clegg says that forcing AI companies to ask for the permission of copyright holders before using their content would destroy the AI industry overnight.…

He'll need to be way more aggressive than a 25% tariff, say analysts, and even then it would take years

US President Donald Trump can huff, puff, and threaten to blow Tim Cook's house down with a 25 percent iPhone import tariff, but analysts say even that threat is unlikely to bring Apple's manufacturing home.…

Hackers take personal data bytes from the brand with three stripes

Adidas is warning customers some of their data was stolen after an "unauthorized" person lifted it from a "third-party customer service provider."…

Marc Benioff eyes up all those lovely data tools for AI push

Salesforce is to buy Informatica, the enterprise data management and analytics biz, for around $8 billion.…

Commercial customers, STEM students all feeling the pain after mega outage of engineering data-analysis tool

Software biz MathWorks is cleaning up a ransomware attack more than a week after it took down MATLAB, its flagship product used by more than five million people worldwide.…