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On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries

Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.…

Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware…sounds like something that rhymes with 'schmero-day'

SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it's investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit in its VPNs.…

Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders

Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.…

One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record

The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopted. They want the President to form a US "Cyber Force" too. …

Fermi America will also have 4GW of gas generators for the Amarillo 'HyperGrid'

Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power.…

PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome

More than 4,000 victims across 62 countries have been infected by stealthy infostealers pilfering people's passwords, credit card numbers, and browser cookies, which are then sold to other criminals on Telegram-based marketplaces.…

If it’s not on-prem, it’s on the menu

Opinion  The details of cloud data regionalization are rarely the stuff of great drama. When they’ve reached the level of an exec admitting to the Senate that a foreign power can help itself to that nation's data, no matter where it lives, things get interesting.…

Kludge causing production outages

Oracle has come under fire for failing to fix a known issue with Windows instances on its cloud infrastructure (OCI).…

Let US and China compete in the AI development arms race, says former Brit PM's non-profit org

Britain should not try to compete with America and China in the race to build cutting-edge AI models and focus instead on widespread AI adoption, but even this will require a boost local compute capacity.…

The payroll growth we thought we experienced in May and June? Gone, like tears in the rain

The US IT jobs market hasn't exactly been robust thus far in 2025, and downward revisions to May and June's Bureau of Labor Statistics data mean IT jobs lost in July are part of an even deeper sector slowdown than previously believed.…

Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors

NASA's Europa Clipper probe checked out its radar as the spacecraft hurtled past Mars on the way to Jupiter's moon Europa.…

Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts

Mozilla is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting developers of Firefox add-ons.…

With just over two months left, enterprises look to Extended Security Updates as a stay of execution

Windows 11 is maintaining its lead over Windows 10, but millions of PCs are still running Microsoft's legacy operating system with less than three months until support ends.…

Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves

Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy from its cloudy resources last week, before restoring access ahead of a court clash.…

Desktop project's in-house distro is impressively ambitious, but nowhere near ready

The former "Project Banana" now has a more sober name, albeit one a bit trickier to search for.…

Founder miffed over prosecutors holding onto its Bitcoin

The founder of a German mobile phone repair and insurance biz has begun insolvency proceedings for some operations in his company after struggling financially following a costly ransomware attack in 2023.…

But it's OK, claims Brit government, no personal data stored 'unless absolutely necessary'

The UK government has reported that an additional five million age checks are being made daily as UK-based internet users seek to access age-restricted sites following the implementation of the Online Safety Act."…

Canonical lays off one of its old hands – a longstanding FOSS developer – after nearly two decades

Till Kamppeter, the lead developer of the OpenPrinting subsystem for Linux, has been laid off by Canonical after 19 years.…

Company blames license violations and infrastructure changes for abrupt move

Updated  KubeSphere has become the latest service to abruptly yank an open source edition of a product, triggering outcry from users.…

Startups aren't good at testing software, or respecting contracts

Who, Me?  Welcome to the opening day of another working week, an occasion The Register always celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the Monday column that revisits readers' worst moments at work, and celebrates your ability to rebound and reinvent in their wake.…