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Get your creds in order or risk BEC, ransomware attacks, orgs warned

A rise in advanced phishing kits and info-stealing malware are to blame for a 156 percent jump in cyberattacks targeting user logins, say researchers.…

Digital map of subterranean infrastructure promised in 2021 set to launch by year end

Ordnance Survey, the UK's official map maker, is seeking a tech supplier to help it obtain and manage data from utilities companies for a project that aims to avoid damage to subterranean infrastructure, which costs around £2.4 billion a year.…

Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't

Comment  Few IT leaders or staffers realize just how much automation, AI, and cloud delivery are disrupting the legal and human frameworks that underpin outsourcing - especially when it comes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, better known as TUPE.…

Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?

Updated  Britain's space agency is looking for a supplier to build a robotic spacecraft to capture and de-orbit two defunct UK-licensed satellites from low Earth orbit.…

Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error

Who, Me?  Monday morning brings many readers a return to the world of adults, which The Register marks by bringing you a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of making mistakes for which you are somehow forgiven.…

Airlines get the chance to cool their jets rather than burn fuel on the ground

Airbus last week revealed it has certified a “Taxibot” to transport its single-aisle planes from stand to runway.…

Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust

As VMware pushes its vision for private clouds built around its core virtualization technology, rival vendors are ramping their efforts to create an alternative stack.…

PLUS: Lexmark’s Chinese owners sell to Xerox; India, Australia, target underwater drones; JPMorgan drops custom TLDs; and more!

Asia In Brief  Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has migrated the four million Postgres databases that back its customers’ Jira implementations to Amazon Web Services’ Aurora.…

Also, Swiss ransomware posture looks like its cheese, the CVE Program wants YOU, more sus checks and more

Infosec In Brief  A security researcher looking at samples of stalkerware discovered an SQL vulnerability that allowed him to steal a database of 62,000 user accounts. …

It's not cheap or high end, but it should last you for years to come

The sixth generation of the Fairphone repairable mobile was launched at the end of June. Now spudger-flingers iFixit have got their hands on it, and liked the result.…

¡Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds

Cybersecurity experts are reporting a 19x increase in malicious campaigns being launched from .es domains, making it the third most common, behind only .com and .ru.…

Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze

A UK minister has told Parliament that joining Europe's answer to Starlink — Elon Musk's satellite-based mobile internet service — would be a "stretch" given the nation's current financial challenges.…

Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits

The former head of the US Copyright Office has pushed back against arguments from President Donald Trump's team that her dismissal was lawful.…

New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared

New models from recent Martian probe data suggest the fourth planet from the Sun once hosted a fluctuating desert environment with intermittent oases of water.…

Venerable command line tool to depart Windows

Users still clinging on to PowerShell 2.0 just received notice to quit as the command-line tool is officially leaving Windows.…

It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate

deep dive  Amazon Web Services (AWS) is in the process of building out a massive supercomputing cluster containing "hundreds of thousands" of accelerators that promises to give its model building buddies at Anthropic a leg up in the AI arms race.…

Fears mount while distie remains silent and phone lines down

Exclusive  Widespread outages across Ingram Micro's websites and client service portals are being attributed to "technical difficulties." …

There's more to the Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia

Comment  Multiple other projects also use the vast linked data store that underpins ubiquitous internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia, and some of them are helping the fight for democracy.…

'JFC, again?'

Microsoft's latest round of layoffs has triggered an outpouring of emotion from inside and outside the company, with at least one former staffer asking: "How many billions must be burned in the AI furnace before this stops?"…

Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not

On Call  Friday dawns with the promise of precious freedom, yet the world of tech support is seldom free from trouble. The Register always finds a way to celebrate anyway, by bringing you a fresh instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that tells your tales of breaking away from bad bosses and ungrateful users.…