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And that was on top of a £17.5M underwriting bill for insolvent UKCloud

The collapse of a relatively small "local" cloud hosting service caused "real business continuity issues" in the UK's central government, according to one commercial lead.…

Criminal probe understood to have ended following settlement over 'inconsiderate' behavior

SAP paid former CTO Jürgen Müller €7.1 million ($7.5 million) after he left the German software company by mutual agreement in September last year.…

You probably shouldn't, but if you must, you can

As the expiration date for Windows 10 presses ever closer, spare a thought for its classic forerunner. No, not Windows 8 – nobody ever loved that – but Windows 7, with its classic Start menu, tasteful transparency, lack of built-in advertising, and so on.…

Officials vow to uncover who was behind it

The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is currently dealing with a "cybersecurity incident," it confirmed via its X account on Sunday.…

Annual Barcelona tech fest brings demo devices that aren't commercially available... will they ever see light of day?

MWC  Lenovo has used the MWC event in Barcelona to demo some unusual concept devices including a laptop with a folding screen and another that can be powered by the sun.…

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech

Sunday March 2nd has become a notable day in humanity’s exploration of outer space, after Firefly Aerospace became the first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon.…

Monopoly watchdogs forever hold their peace, unlike developers still unhappy about Terraform license switch

IBM has finally completed the $6.4 billion takeover of Hashicorp days after Britain's competition regulator gave the corporate marriage its seal of approval.…

PLUS: Phishing suspects used fishing gear as alibi; Apple's 'Find My' can track PCs and Androids; and more

Infosec In Brief  US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered US Cyber Command to pause offensive operations against Russia – as the USA’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has denied any change in its posture.…

Ghost positions, HR AI no help – biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts

Analysis  It's a familiar refrain in the security industry that there is a massive skills gap in the sector. And while it's true there are specific shortages in certain areas, some industry watchers believe we may be reaching the point of oversupply for generalists.…

Microsoft Copilot reckons that it didn't have to be like this

There has been a clear uptick in the adoption of Windows 11 as enterprises migrate PC fleets ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10.…

Flying to the Turks and Caicos tonight? Good luck

SpaceX is set to have another go at launching its monster Starship rocket today after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the venture the green light.…

ICO looking at what data is used to serve up recommendations

The UK's data protection watchdog has launched three investigations into certain social media platforms following concerns about the protection of privacy among teenage users.…

Why churn up roads when there's thousands of miles of disused infrastructure underfoot?

Network operators laying fiber infrastructure could cut their costs by taking advantage of "thousands of miles" of abandoned infrastructure, including gas and water pipes, according to a firm that tracks such things.…

Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go

Opinion  With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for UK users, and Signal threatening to pull out of Sweden if that government demands E2EE backdoors, it's looking bleak.…

Executives pull on the baggy trousers to distribute the pink slips

HP says it intends to elbow up to 2,000 workers overboard with the aim to help it save up to $300 million in its current fiscal year that runs until October.…

Don’t trust your tired self to do rm -rf right

Who, Me?  Well, would you look at the calendar? It’s Monday already, and by lunchtime any fond memories of the weekend will have been erased by work worries of the sort The Register celebrates each week in “Who, Me?” – the reader-contributed column that tells your stories of making messes and somehow escaping.…

It’s well-built and surprisingly easy to handle but let down by Android. And stupidly expensive

First Look  Huawei’s triple-fold Mate XT smartphone is a classy creation that’s easy to handle even when fully extended, but disappoints because it’s ridiculously expensive and the included Android variant struggles to keep pace with the machine’s contortions.…

With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start?

APRICOT  The networking industry should address its perennial staff shortage by giving early-career techies the kind of hands-on training delivered during apprenticeships for trainee carpenters or electricians.…

Bit barn developer says your real estate can't take the heat, and forget nuking it to change that

APRICOT  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if you own real estate and think you can cash in by using it to host an AI datacenter, you're probably wrong.…

There's a lot going on at the orgs who regulate IP addresses as they revisit global governance and new leadership comes to APNIC and LACNIC

APRICOT  Global and local change is coming to the world's five Regional Internet Registries. The orgs that delegate and manage IP addresses are working on a policy that will allow them to stop one of their number going rogue, and the process is proving controversial.…