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We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds!

Elon Musk's monster rocket, Starship, remains firmly on the launchpad after two scrubs in a row, first due to an oxygen leak and then some clouds.…

Isolation? We've heard of it

Docker has patched a critical hole in Docker Desktop that let a container break out and take control of the host machine with laughable ease.…

Crims raided third-party systems and lifted personal data, including license numbers and partial SSNs

US insurance giant Farmers Insurance says more than a million customers had personal data nicked after a third-party vendor was compromised.…

Phone lines also down as officials rely on social media to issue updates

The state of Nevada is now two days into a cyberattack that has brought down many of its digital services.…

Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us

Cloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded more than 19 million instances of malware-laden apps that evaded the web giant’s security scans.…

What the Dickens is going on in Germany?

Opinion  Let’s talk law and let’s talk donkey. Or. in the British vernacular, ass. In particular, let’s go back to Charles Dickens, a pungent critic of the law, who had one of his characters in Oliver Twist say of a legal assumption that “If the law supposes that, the law is a ass - a idiot.”…

Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware

hands on  VirtualBox 7.2 is here, bringing improved Arm-on-Arm virtualization features and better 3D acceleration support.…

Because AI, like everything else this year

EXCLUSIVE  VMware will port its flagship hypervisor and Cloud Foundation suite to the Arm processor architecture.…

10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape

Comment  We know US President Donald Trump isn't a fan of the US Chips Act. But, turn a government handout into a tit-for-tat transaction and the self described "master dealmaker" is singing a different tune.…

GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latency

Nvidia has released a new brain for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor that promises more compute power and more memory than its predecessor.…

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license

The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document database's permissive MIT license as if it were an "Open for Business" sign.…

Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage

Infosec in brief  PLUS…

Lawsuit 'consistent with Mr Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment' says Altman's crew

Elon Musk's xAI and X businesses have shown a bad case of the Mondays by launching an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI that claims the duo are trying to stifle competition in the mobile machine-intelligence world.…

Okay, who has the gold leaf, paint, and #FFD700?

US government websites are getting an aesthetic and functional overhaul under a Trump executive order and a new "America by Design" initiative headed by a Silicon Valley veteran and DOGE insider. …

Are tech giants getting nervous? They should be

Opinion  There tend to be three AI camps. 1) AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world. 2) AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilization as we know it. And 3) "Write an A-Level paper on the themes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet."…

Ideal for that one weird project you've been thinking about

HANDS ON  A $40, 5-inch touchscreen has landed for the Raspberry Pi, offering a smaller sibling for the existing 7-inch model.…

Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative

The US military’s Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane is in space again for its eighth mission.…

Windows giant takes aim at spammers exploiting new 365 tenants

Microsoft has issued a warning to companies using the onmicrosoft.com domain for emails: get your domain sorted out or face throttling.…

It was a simpler time

It's 2025 and the latest mega-album has just been released – on cassette tape. Taylor Swift dropped Life of a Showgirl on digital, vinyl, and the old jewel-cased pencil spinners. They're still with us, complete with tape tangling and endless rewinding to find that specific track you love.…

Firewall pro enjoyed European travel to fix the fallout

Who, Me?  Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your missives about massive mistakes, and how you managed to move on after them.…