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Spy vs. spy

China has accused US intelligence agencies of exploiting a Microsoft Exchange zero-day exploit to steal defense-related data and take over more than 50 devices belonging to a "major Chinese military enterprise" for nearly a year.…

Appeals panel says Chocolate Factory abused its dominance in Android app distribution

A panel of judges has dismissed Google's appeal against an antitrust verdict over its Play Store business practices.…

Workers on joint US/UK/Australia nuclear submarine program are painting a target on themselves

The Director-General of Security at the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) has lamented the fact that many people list their work in the intelligence community or on sensitive military projects in their LinkedIn profiles.…

Malaysia's attitude of 'This could be worse and our neighbors are copping it too' is a typical response

World War Fee  US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced new tariff rates that reduce the import duties on goods from several major tech-producing nations.…

Kludge causing production outages

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

Russian boffins searching for root cause in their segment of the outpost, former cosmonaut says

The International Space Station (ISS) is still leaking air from the Russian segment of the outpost despite efforts to eliminate the losses.…

Victims fear leak at Everglades Correctional Institution could lead to violent extortion

A data breach at a Florida prison has inmates' families concerned for their welfare after their contact details were allegedly leaked to convicted criminals.…

NetCo is a no-go amid ongoing 'strategic review' by co-parent Telefónica

Virgin Media has ditched plans to use its network infrastructure to create a UK national fixed line operator to rival BT's Openreach just 18 months after the project was made public.…

Oracle, SAP, Salesforce et al are tightening the screws, Forrester warns

The largest enterprise application vendors are using their entrenched positions among customers to end discounting and push high-margin AI products, an analysis by Forrester Research has warned.…

Everything's fine, says Department of Energy report

A wasp nest positively glowing with radiation was found at a Cold War-era nuclear weapons site near Aiken, South Carolina.…

From one platform to rule them all to a carousel of half-baked visions

Comment  It is July 2015. Microsoft has just released Windows 10. Developers, weary from the false trail of Windows 8 and being urged to make "Metro style" apps, are now being pitched a new vision from Microsoft: the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).…

Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots

On Call  Mornings are hard, and Friday mornings doubly so. Which is why The Register gives readers a little kick along on the last day of the working week in the form of a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that tells your tales of tech support treachery and triumph.…

iBiz warns import imposts set to rise

World War Fee  The USA’s evolving tariff policy wasn't all bad news for Apple, which manufactures most of its products overseas.…

Good old machine learning, not LLMs, are what’s really paying for Zuck’s genAI splurge

Believe it or not, Meta's AI investments made a meaningful difference to its advertising business in Q2 — it's just that those models aren't the kind that's got everyone, including the Social Network, plowing tens of billions of dollars a year into datacenters.…

Hang in there, it's early days, insists CEO Andy Jassy

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy insists "AI will change every customer experience," but it's making investors nervous.…

US Army Sec appears to fold under pressure from far-right conspiracy theorist

comment  Jen Easterly has weighed in on the US Army Secretary firing her from a prestigious West Point teaching post a day after the US Military Academy announced the appointment.…

DeepMind geospatial AI model offers comprehensive view of Earth image data

Google has released a new AI model that maps the world in 10-meter squares for machines to read.…

There's a driver at the wheel

Elon Musk's goal of a fully autonomous car that could serve as a Robotaxi is getting another trial this week, albeit with a human operator behind the wheel.…

Investors cash in as design firm goes public after takeover dreams dashed

updated  Adobe competitor and one-time acquisition target Figma debuted on public markets on Thursday with 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock at $33 apiece, valuing the web design tool developer at $19.3 billion. But the price-setters apparently underestimated demand dramatically, as investors sent the price up more than threefold by the end of the trading day.…

Crims warned 40% of respondents that they and their families would suffer

Ransomware gangs now frequently threaten physical violence against employees and their families as a way to force victim organizations into paying their demands.…