Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations
Changing text in Microsoft Windows requires freezing string updates well before code changes stop, often leading to strange wording that persists for years.…
OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has drafted in former National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief Ciaran Martin to sniff out how its Budget day forecast wandered onto the open internet before the Chancellor had even reached the dispatch box.…
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B
The UK government has finally put a £1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans – days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure.…
UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants
The UK government collected just £800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent tax year.…
India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions
Feature In the decade since India launched its National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the nation has commissioned 37 machines with a combined power of 39 petaFLOPS, with another 35-petaFLOPS hybrid due to come online later this year. But while plenty of those machines use locally developed technology, India is yet to deliver on its ambition to become a leader or major semiconductor player.…
Digital Realty, Equinix battle for €4.5B atNorth acquisition
Digital Realty and a consortium including Equinix are competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian datacenter operator, according to reports.…
Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions.…
Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks
Food company Campbell’s, best known for its soups and the iconic cans they come in, has parted ways with a vice president for IT after another member of the company’s tech team recorded him criticizing the company’s products.…
Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later
South Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a serious cyberattack.…
Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA reaffirms commitment
The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project.…
ICANN distances itself from radical proposal – which it funded – to give nations a role in internet governance
ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group’s proposal.…
Zendesk users targeted as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters spin up fake support sites
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest.…
OpenAI cuts off Mixpanel after analytics leak exposes API users
OpenAI says API users may be affected by a recent breach at its former data analytics provider, Mixpanel.…
Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole
hands on Tenstorrent probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when it comes to AI infrastructure. But unlike the litany of AI chip startups vying for VC funding and a slice of Nvidia's pie, Tenstorrent's chips actually exist outside the lab.…
FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover
Malicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system.…
Asahi admits ransomware gang may have spilled almost 2M people's data
Asahi has finally done the sums on September's ransomware attack in Japan, conceding the crooks may have helped themselves to personal data tied to almost 2 million people.…
Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty
A Canadian court has ordered French cloud provider OVHcloud to hand over customer data stored in Europe, potentially undermining the provider's claims about digital sovereignty protections.…
Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack
Auditors remain concerned about the cyber resilience of a Scottish council as some systems are yet to be fully rebuilt following a ransomware attack in November 2023.…
One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off
AI-pocalypse New research suggests AI deployment is creating significant workforce redundancies across major organizations.…
Tiny tweak for Pi OS, big makeover for the Imager
Raspberry Pi Ltd has shipped two updates for its single-board computers: a very small refresh to Pi OS 6, and a more substantial upgrade to the tool that writes your Pi's operating system to an SD card.…
