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A crock of what now?

Microsoft is reportedly preparing to unleash its latest product on the public: limited edition XP-themed Crocs.…

Communication problems for recently launched small satellites

NASA is having trouble tracking down two of its spacecraft. One of the TRACERS spacecraft has lost contact with Earth while the Athena EPIC satellite failed to send an important beacon signal.…

Customers compare upgrade to Microsoft's mega-messy Windows 8

UPDATED  Angry users of Atlassian’s Trello project management tool users are dishing out harsh criticism about a recent redesign.…

October 14 is going to be a big day in the Redmond world

It isn't only Windows 10 due for the support axe on October 14. Other Microsoft products will soon be stashed in Redmond's cupboard of forgotten dreams, including the venerable Visual Studio 2015.…

Australia's Castlepoint Systems recruited to avoid repeat of Afghan breach scandal

The UK's Ministry of Defence is the latest to slap its hand on the big red AI button as it seeks solutions to prevent data leaks.…

Upstream changes force users to pick an init system at install instead of boot

Debian 13 "Trixie" is coming, closely followed by a new release of MX Linux, MX 25, which will lose some of its init-system switching abilities.…

Security hardening and DevOps activities the tipping point

It might not be the year of the Linux desktop just yet, but ongoing cyberattacks and a general desire for a more secure posture are driving some businesses to the way of the penguin, according to asset manager Lansweeper.…

Former Space Shuttle support vehicle surfaces after surplus slip-up

Space fans looking to camp out in style have a chance to pick up an Airstream trailer that once served as the Convoy Command Vehicle for NASA's Space Shuttle operations at Edwards Air Force Base – if they have a couple hundred thousand to spare, that is.…

Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch

The second attempt by Europe's largest local authority to implement an Oracle finance and HR system – after the first left it unable to produce auditable accounts – remains on an "Amber-Red" risk rating less than nine months before it is expected to go live.…

First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations

Satellite comms services to standard phones are officially here, but customers expecting a full voice and data experience may have to wait a while longer and make sure their current devices meet the right level of telecoms standard.…

PiStorm adapter and a parasitic OS hijack classic 68000 hardware in the name of retro carnage

Linux developer Matthew Garrett has taken inspiration from the fungus kingdom to give a classic Commodore Amiga a brain transplant – turning it into a single-minded device that does nothing but run id Software's 1993 classic first-person shooter Doom under a "parasitic Linux" operating system.…

Expect the price hikes and channel changes that proved controversial at VMware, Citrix, and DOGE

The Cloud Software Group has acquired data management tools vendor Arctera, the owner of Backup Exec and other data management tools.…

Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN

AMD’s revenue from AI products destined for datacenters dipped in the quarter ended June 28th, thanks to the USA’s ban on GPU exports to China.…

Maybe sooner in other places

Updated  Amazon’s Project Kuiper space broadband service will be ready for commercial services “from the middle of 2026” according to NBN Co, the operator of Australia’s National Broadband Network. The Register understands the network may be available elsewhere before that time.…

Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead

Broadcom on Monday unveiled a new switch which could allow AI model developers to train models on GPUs spread across multiple datacenters up to 100 kilometers apart. The switch could help pave the way for an alternative to the massive facilities currently being built to power the AI boom, allowing companies to stitch together distant and less power-hungry datacenters.…

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface

Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, silently swapping it for a malicious command without any user prompt.…

They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we'll show you how to get around it

hands on  Redmond really – and I mean really – wants you to log into Windows 11 with a Microsoft account.…

GPT-OSS now available in 120 and 20 billion parameter sizes under Apache 2.0 license

OpenAI released its first open weights language models since GPT-2 on Tuesday with the debut of GPT-OSS.…

The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options

A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by using data from menstruation and fertility app Flo to sell advertising to the social network.…

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it

AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network made technical errors in its analysis of Perplexity's operations.…