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Digital canvas slinger indicates dot-com was skimmed for over a month

Graphics tablet maker Wacom has warned customers their credit card details may well have been stolen by miscreants while they were buying stuff from its website.…

Stealing crypto is so 2024. Supply-chain attacks leading to data exfil pays off better?

North Korea's Lazarus Group compromised hundreds of victims across the globe in a massive secret-stealing supply chain attack that was ongoing as of earlier this month, according to security researchers.…

SpaceX was already planning to return 'virtually abandoned' astros. Did Elon forget?

An early morning post by US President Donald Trump caused some furrowed brows in the space community after he instructed Elon Musk to "go get" the crew of Boeing's Starliner, who are currently enjoying an unexpected stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS).…

Microsoft-backed startup now valued at $5.4B

Fusion energy startup Helion has yet to prove it can generate electricity, but that hasn't stopped investors from dumping another $425 million into the venture.…

If you want a desktop that's secure and reliable, forget about Microsoft

Opinion  Come October 14, 2025, Windows 10 support dies. Despite that, more users than ever are using Windows 10 rather than moving to Windows 11.…

Popular community site became unmentionable – the irony is thick enough to compile

Facebook has lifted a temporary ban preventing users from posting links to popular OS comparison site Distrowatch – after going so far as to lock the account of the site's editor.…

Lawsuit challenges effort to create federal-wide centralized inbox expected to be used for mass firings

Two anonymous US government employees have sued Uncle Sam's HR department – the Office of Personnel Management – claiming the Trump administration's rapid roll out of a new federal email system broke the law.…

Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues

Updated  DeepSeek's open source reasoning-capable R1 LLM family boasts impressive benchmark scores – but its erratic responses raise more questions about how these models were trained and what information has been censored.…

Uncle Sam will 'no longer blindly dole out money,' State Dept says

Updated  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to defend America's allies from cyberattacks as well as steer international computer security policies.…

Slew of embarrassing answers sends open source chatterbox back for more schooling

As China demonstrates how competitive open source AI models can be via the latest DeepSeek release, France has shown the opposite.…

Think government cybersecurity is bad? Guess again. It’s alarmingly so

The UK government is significantly behind on its 2022 target to harden systems against cyberattacks by 2025, with a new report from the spending watchdog suggesting it may not achieve this goal even by 2030.…

And now you won't stop calling me, I'm kinda busy

A new variant of the Mirai-based malware Aquabot is actively exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel phones to build a remote-controlled botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team.…

Exploding market led to $73B in M&A activity in 2024

Updated figures from Synergy Research Group show the datacenter market was even hotter last year than thought, with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) topping $73 billion in value and showing no sign of slowing down.…

US civil sector boldly goes where Concorde has gone before

The US civilian aviation sector has achieved what Concorde managed half a century ago – piloted supersonic flight in a domestically built jet.…

Blue Screen of Death becomes the Blue Triangle of Doom for your wrist

Garmin has experienced its very own CrowdStrike incident after owners of the company's smartwatches complained the faces were showing a blue triangle of death following a seemingly faulty update.…

If you need legacy drivers, you might want to keep your older OS version – possibly indefinitely

The Reg FOSS desk spent some quality time downgrading Ubuntu to restore graphics acceleration. How and why would we do this?…

Cops relied on unreliable tech for search warrant, omitted details ... so judge bins off evidence

updated  A murder case in Cleveland, Ohio, could collapse because the city's police relied on AI-based facial recognition software to obtain a search warrant.…

Fallout continues from per-employee licensing shift in 2023, survey finds

Only around one in ten Oracle Java customers are likely to stick around following costly licensing changes Big Red made to its development and runtime environments in January 2023, according to research.…

Mastermind begs colluders to bury evidence later used to imprison him

In announcing the sentencing of three Brits who ran OTP Agency, an account-takeover business, the National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed how a 2021 report sent the fraudsters into a panicked frenzy.…

Netherlands biz riding AI boom, though China crackdown looms

Dutch tech giant ASML is buoyed up by a wave of new orders during Q4 2024, and expects its business in China to return to a more normal level after a period of high revenue. However, there is uncertainty over whether the Trump administration may try to further restrict its sales there.…