Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount
The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, overshooting its original three-year timeline.…
GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison
A student at Britain's top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial.…
Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid
Opinion I was going to write a story about how Amazon is no longer even pretending to respect your privacy. But, really, why bother?…
LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite
Gartner says the market for large language model (LLM) providers is on the cusp of an extinction phase as it grapples with the capital-intensive costs of building products in a competitive market.…
Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’
Microsoft has quietly revealed it’s redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that Windows presents after it crashes so badly a reboot is the only way out.…
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it
OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.…
Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes
A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week.…
Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses
Researchers from the UK’s National Health Service believe increasing adoption of cashless payments may be having an unexpected payoff: Fewer kids are swallowing coins and seeking medical help to remove them.…
CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw
Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA.…
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed
Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly – it may be scrubbing the web of evidence, too.…
Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems says it has cleared a key hurdle ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO), claiming it resolved concerns about its sources of funding with the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS).…
When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making
Opinion Since it is currently fashionable to make laws by whim and decree, here are three that should apply immediately across techdom. The following are banned: DoNotReply messages, updates that reset your configuration choices to default, and forced incomprehensible choices.…
Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims
A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the American-Israeli security biz claims is a huge exaggeration.…
AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday
Analysis Atomic energy is becoming the preferred solution to address the projected bump in megawatts needed to charge AI in the future, but it simply won't come soon enough in many cases.…
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare
Analysis Disrupt? It's an awful hackneyed term that some analysts, consultants and technologists like to use.…
Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal
Comment Billionaire Elon Musk's xAI is to acquire billionaire Elon Musk's X in a deal that values the former at $80 billion and the latter at $33 billion.…
Ransomware crews add 'EDR killers' to their arsenal – and some aren't even malware
interview Antivirus and endpoint security tools are falling short as ransomware crews increasingly deploy "EDR killers" to disable defenses early in the attack – a tactic Cisco Talos observed in most of the 2024 cases it handled.…
Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers
Not one but two new drivers for some Nvidia GPUs is a promising, if indirect, offshoot of the GPU maker's open-saucy moves.…
Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own
Who, Me? Wait, what? It's Monday again? That means it's time for another instalment of Who, Me? What's that, you ask? It's The Register's Monday column in which we tell your tales of technological messes and celebrate your escapes.…
Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan
Chinese tech companies created entities in Taiwan and disguised them so they had no connections to China, so they could lure top tech talent to work on significant projects.…
