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The world has changed. EU hosting CTO says not considering alternatives is 'negligent'

Interview  European cloud providers and software vendors used this week's Nextcloud summit to insist that not only can workloads be moved from the US hyperscalers, not considering it is "negligent" on behalf of IT bosses.…

The cash has been frozen for more than two years

The US is looking to finally capture the $7.74 million it froze over two years ago after indicting alleged money launderers it claims are behind North Korean IT worker schemes.…

Don't negotiate unless you must, and if so, drag it out as long as you can

Feature  So, the worst has happened. Computer screens all over your org are flashing up a warning that you've been infected by ransomware, or you've got a message that someone's been stealing information from your server.…

Concerns over lack of commercial expertise with big tech suppliers as country implements digital 'Blueprint'

The UK government employs just 15 commercial staff with direct expertise in digital procurement dedicated to dealing with the largest technical suppliers, according to a Parliamentary spending watchdog.…

No matter who wins, the US EV industry is likely to lose, expert tells us

Elon Musk has publicly broken with Donald Trump over the latter's budget reconciliation bill, calling it a "pork-filled … abomination" that would undermine the work his DOGE cost-cutting unit has done. But the bill also hits close to Tesla tycoon's pocketbook, and at least one expert thinks it spells terrible news for the US electric vehicle industry overall.…

Jared Isaacman reveals how space agency might have looked under his watch

Jared Isaacman, former NASA Administrator nominee, has shared how the US space agency might have looked under his leadership and blamed his connections with Elon Musk for the abrupt withdrawal of his nomination.…

Doctor? Why does this hospital network run in such strange places?

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares reader-contributed tales of tech support terror and triumph.…

One Dutch developer called it a 'nothingburger'

European leaders on Thursday announced an International Digital Strategy designed to help the bloc address technological change at a time of global political realignment.…

Show us another company that builds power plants, semiconductors, and hard disks

Japanese industrial giant Toshiba has created an internal organization to make itself more attractive to datacenter builders and operators.…

House version of software license management bill introduced in March has yet to budge amid distractions

Sloppy government software licensing practices are back on the menu in the US Senate. …

Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away

Broadcom’s takeover of VMware continues to deliver strong revenue and margin growth, and the company expects demand for AI hardware will do likewise in coming years.…

Any info on Maxim Rudometov and his associates? There's $$$ in it for you

The US government is offering up to $10 million for information on foreign government-backed threat actors linked to the RedLine malware, including its suspected developer, Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov.…

Plus: Plankey's confirmation process 'temporarily delayed'

Sean Cairncross, President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as national cyber director, doubled down on taking offensive cyber actions against foreign adversaries during a Senate homeland security committee nomination hearing on Thursday, and refused to condemn the president's proposed cuts to the main US cyber defense agency.…

Commerce secretary wants bigger bang for taxpayers' buck

Chipmakers waiting on billions of dollars of CHIPS Act funding should be prepared to return to the negotiating table, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested during a Senate hearing this week.…

Trump-pardoned hacker Chris Wade will join the company as CTO

Cellebrite has announced a $170 million deal to buy Corellium, bringing together two companies that have made names for themselves by helping law enforcement break into encrypted devices.…

OpenAI CEO enjoys speculative love-in with Snowflake boss as critics worry over what 1,000X compute would do to the planet

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week speculated that “most people” would have assumed Artificial General Intelligence had arrived if they'd they seen ChatGPT in action before its arrival in 2020.…

Dark web crime platform raked in $17M+ over three years of operation

Uncle Sam has seized 145 domains tied to BidenCash, the notorious dark web market that trafficked in more than 15 million stolen credit cards.…

Mini computer house comes out against 'vibe coding' fad

Raspberry Pi, a company started with the aim of democratizing computing and recreating the programming frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s, is warning that "vibe coding" cannot replace the skills picked up during the process of learning to code.…

It’s definitely not a cyberattack though! Really!

The UK's tax collections agency says cyberbaddies defrauded it of £47 million ($63 million) late last year, but insists the criminal case was not a cyberattack.…

Someone went to great lengths to prey on the next generation of cybercrooks

Sophos thinks a single person or group called "ischhfd83" is behind more than a hundred backdoored malware variants targeting novice cybercriminals and video game cheaters looking to get their hands on malicious code.…