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Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency

Donald Trump, US president again by the time many of you read this, launched his own cryptocurrency – $TRUMP – on the Solana blockchain network on Friday night. By the weekend, it had hit a market cap of nearly $15 billion, although by Sunday, that value dropped when Melania Trump launched her own meme coin.…

Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program'

Asda has postponed the tech transition of 55 stores to its new systems as US retail giant Walmart continues to support IT at outlets it sold to the new owner in 2021.…

Now if only the councils could afford to fill them

An oft-repeated myth is that potholes form through a combination of surface cracks, water, and traffic, but they're actually caused by chronic levels of underinvestment in public infrastructure.…

President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy

Updated  China appears to have softened its stance on the possible sale of TikTok’s US operations and is now perhaps open to the idea.…

Semantic indexing does some discreet rifling through local drawers of Insiders

Windows Search is improved in the latest Dev Channel Windows Insider build, but you'll need a Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC to use it.…

Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies

It's a bit later than we were expecting, but the latest Mint is here and should start to be offered as an upgrade soon.…

Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf

Picture this: It's 2030 and China's furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state. After deciding on a full military invasion, China attempts to first cripple its rebellious neighbor's critical infrastructure.…

Ready or not, here I come

Microsoft has begun distributing Windows 11 24H2 to user devices as the company enters the next stage of the operating system's rollout.…

Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian

Opinion  "As obsolete as warships in the Baltic" was a great pop lyric in Prefab Sprout's 1985 gem, Faron Young. Great, but ironically obsolete itself. Sweden has just deployed multiple warships in that selfsame sea to guard against the very modern menace of underwater cable cutting.…

NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects

UK government plans its technology purchases with limited assessment of technical feasibility, according to a spending watchdog's analysis of the £14-billion-a-year procurement of digital services.…

Students have work to complete at home in the meantime

A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware criminals.…

Your battery might be flat, but the Wi-Fi signal is going to be great

UK telecom giant BT is pulling the plug on its EV charging ambitions after falling a long way short of the 60,000 street cabinets it reckoned could be repurposed.…

A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble

Who, Me?  Accidents will happen, and every Monday The Register celebrates them – and your escape from the consequences – in a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that details the downside of working in tech.…

'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs

Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker's accounting tools, this month after it blurted customer information to other users.…

While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers

Comment  Nvidia is the uncontested champion of AI infrastructure — at least in the datacenter. In the emerging field of AI PCs, things aren't so clear cut.…

PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more

Infosec in brief  Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off with millions of customer records - except perhaps the wizardry of multifactor authentication.…

PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company

Asia In Brief  When food delivery “superapps” started operations in Indonesia, users started putting on weight – and that’s not an entirely bad thing.…