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It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination

AnduinOS, a one-man project from a Chinese Microsoft engineer, is quite a new Ubuntu remix that reshapes GNOME in the image of Windows 11.…

Care board defers decision to adopt national system

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has decided not to adopt a national data platform – prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir – until it has more evidence of the benefits and risks.…

Callous fraudster tricked elderly gents into smuggling meth hidden in chocolate truffles

A ruthless cyber conman who duped elderly pensioners – including an 80-year-old man – into smuggling deadly class A drugs was this week locked up.…

Annoyed at poor or missing salary increase offer as Brit telco pays out dividend

BT is facing a revolt over pay from its line managers, with unions complaining today about the telco giant dishing out increased dividends to shareholders from its fiscal 2025 earnings.…

For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer

On Call  Welcome to a fresh instalment of On-Call, The Register’s reader-contributed column in which you share your tales of tech support triumph, and we try to retell them in an amusing fashion.…

Says it will serve half of humanity but testing that claim produced a hilarious ChatGPT fail

Stargate, the Open AI led consortium that aims to build giant AI datacenters, has picked the United Arab Emirates as its first non-US destination.…

Consumer affairs Minister is not happy with Uber for following local players with this scheme to encourage rapid pickups

India’s consumer affairs minister has criticized Uber for adding a feature that allows users to tip their driver before a trip as an incentive to take a job.…

If it ain't broke?

A suspected Chinese government spy group is behind the rash of attacks that exploit two Ivanti bugs that can be chained together to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), according to analysts at threat intelligence outfit EclecticIQ.…

Agents thought they shut this all down in 2023, but the duck quacked again

Uncle Sam on Thursday unsealed criminal charges and a civil forfeiture case against a Russian national accused of leading the cybercrime ring behind Qakbot, the notorious malware that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and helped fuel ransomware attacks costing victims tens of millions of dollars.…

Cable Labs predicts two percent packet loss and 10ms latency in some buildings unless more spectrum freed

Rapid growth in Wi-Fi use means the 6 GHz band’s carrying capacity may soon be exhausted, according to CableLabs, the nonprofit networking think tank run by cable television operators.…

Names spies, web hosts, GPS jammers, fishing (not phishing) biz

The European Union has sanctioned Russia-linked entities it says jammed GPS signals, sabotaged undersea cables, and ran a web hosting business that aided "information manipulation interference and cyber-attacks."…

Blackmailed teen allegedly scared into carving his handle onto her arm

The FBI has filed an affidavit detailing how it identified a US Navy man who was allegedly distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM) through Discord.…

Open the pod bay door

Anthropic on Thursday announced the availability of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, the latest iteration of its Claude family of machine learning models.…

Budget slashing has 'outsized impact' on us, says commander who fears branch not ready for orbital war

The US Space Force has been struggling to achieve its technological goals, and Chief of Space Operations General B. Chance Saltzman told senators this week that civilian layoffs and budget cuts aren't helping matters at all. …

Intrusions began weeks before Trimble patched the Cityworks hole

A suspected Chinese crew has been exploiting a now-patched remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Trimble Cityworks to break into US local government networks and target utility management systems, according to Cisco's Talos threat intelligence group.…

And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions

A single person with a serious AI habit may chew through enough electricity each day to keep a microwave running for more than three hours. And the actual toll may even be worse, as so many companies keep details about their AI models secret.…

Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers

Investment biz Bain Capital is getting further into the datacenter sector with the launch of an operation serving hyperscalers in Europe, potentially positioning itself to benefit from customer unease over US hyperscalers.…

Vendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs

News that SAP users face a 30-50 percent premium to get some cloud products – including core ERP – to industry-standard service levels threatens to overshadow the German vendor's annual conference as new pricing models, performance, and partner arrangements dominate the conversation.…

When 'AI-powered' means 'mostly humans and bad decisions'

Comment  The collapse of Builder.ai has cast fresh light on AI coding practices, despite the software company blaming its fall from grace on poor historical decision-making.…

Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over

The Irish Data Protection Commission has cleared the way for Meta to begin slurping up the data of European citizens for training AI next week, ongoing legal challenges notwithstanding. …