Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet
A Commodore-themed talking Linux desktop, complete with hundreds of games, makes for the biggest distro we've seen yet.…
Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us
RSAC Corporate AI models are already skewed to serve their makers' interests, and unless governments and academia step up to build transparent alternatives, the tech risks becoming just another tool for commercial manipulation.…
Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans
Microsoft partners can now tailor private offers that allow buyers to vary the amount and timing of payments for some SaaS products and services.…
China's Loongson gets OpenStack boost from Inspur on its MIPS-y silicon
Chinese chip designer Loongson claims more than 100 products now run on its homegrown LoongArch architecture, including an OpenStack-based cloud stack from domestic hyperscale heavyweight Inspur.…
CISA slammed for role in 'censorship industrial complex' as budget faces possible $500M cut
President Trump's dream 2026 budget would gut the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, by $491 million - about 17 percent – and accuses the organization of abandoning its core mission in favor of policing online speech.…
Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers
Infosec In Brief Microsoft has decided to push its consumer customers to dump passwords in favor of passkeys.…
OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge
OpenAI's contentious plan to overhaul its corporate structure in favor of a conventional for-profit model has been reworked, with the AI giant bowing to pressure to keep its nonprofit in control, even as it presses ahead with parts of the restructuring.…
China turns on ‘minors mode’ that ensures kids only see wholesome socialist content online
China has flicked the switch on ‘minors mode’, a subset of its internet in which under-18s will only see wholesome content.…
IT pros are caught between an AI rock and an economic hard place
The US jobs market grew faster than expected in April, but most IT pros aren’t among the beneficiaries.…
Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine
Who, Me? One of the joys of Monday mornings is arriving at work to find messes made over the weekend. The other is reading a new edition of Who, Me? It's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of somehow recovering from failure.…
RSA Conf wrap: AI and China on everything, everywhere, all at once
RSAC Another RSA Conference has come and gone, with almost 44,000 attendees this year spread across San Francisco's Moscone Center and the surrounding facilities, according to event organizers.…
India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease
Asia in brief India’s ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing player went backwards last week after two big players changed their plans.…
Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’
US President Donald Trump has said TikTok will be “very strongly protected” as the made-in-China social network has “a warm spot in my heart”.…
Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America
On Thursday, six stores across America opened their doors with a curious proposition: Come on in, let a metal orb scan your irises, and walk out with a new online profile that promises you're an individual human – and a few bucks in crypto for your troubles.…
Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone
Open source AI models are more likely to recommend men than women for jobs, particularly the high-paying ones, a new study has found.…
NATS custody battle ends with CNCF, Synadia sharing nicely
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has reached an agreement with Synadia, the company behind open source messaging system NATS, which will see it control the trademark, domain name, and GitHub repositories.…
Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025
A Soviet probe launched more than half a century ago is due to return to Earth in the next week or two, and there's every chance that the vehicle will make it all the way to our planet's surface.…
Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is running on fumes
Higher education across the USA is facing federal funding cutbacks – and now the Oregon State University (OSU) Open Source Lab (OSL) is in trouble.…
Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme
It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful attempt to loosen Microsoft Office's grip on the desktop.…
The Telegraph jumps the gun on World War III
World War III might have begun this week, according to British broadsheet The Telegraph.…
