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Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has reached an agreement with Synadia, the company behind open source messaging system NATS, which will see it control the trademark, domain name, and GitHub repositories.…

Not, it's not the plot of a sci-fi disaster movie

A Soviet probe launched more than half a century ago is due to return to Earth in the next week or two, and there's every chance that the vehicle will make it all the way to our planet's surface.…

Shakeup in US higher education funding means FOSS incubator is short a quarter of a million bucks

Higher education across the USA is facing federal funding cutbacks – and now the Oregon State University (OSU) Open Source Lab (OSL) is in trouble.…

A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption

It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful attempt to loosen Microsoft Office's grip on the desktop.…

Trigger-happy Taiwan headline sparks instant apocalypse vibes

World War III might have begun this week, according to British broadsheet The Telegraph.…

Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030

The White House has proposed slashing NASA's budget by 24 percent, dropping it from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion. If approved, it would mark one of the agency's deepest single-year cuts in federal support, and crash its inflation-adjusted funding to levels not seen in decades.…

Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says

World War Fee  Meta's AI ambitions are going to cost more than expected thanks to increased competition and — who could have seen this coming? — the Trump administration's obsession with tariffs, which is driving up the price tag of key components.…

iGiant shifted production to India and Vietnam but has no idea if that will help after tariff pause ends

Apple believes the USA’s new tariffs policy will impact its finances by at least $900 million in its next quarter, has re-organized its supply chains to protect itself from whatever comes next, but can’t predict the impact on its business.…

25-year-old fella pleads guilty to stealing, dumping 1.1TB of data from the House of Mouse

When someone stole more than a terabyte of data from Disney last year, it was believed to be the work of Russian hacktivists protesting for artist rights. We now know it was actually a 25-year-old California resident.…

Switching voltage allows search giant to swap out power delivery system

Google is planning for datacenter racks supporting 1 MW of IT hardware loads, plus the cooling infrastructure to cope, as AI processing continues to grow ever more energy intensive.…

Grab more headroom with the 4 and 8 GB variants

Raspberry Pi has bucked tech industry trends and cut prices for the 4 GB and 8 GB variants of its Compute Module 4.…

Real-time video deepfakes? Not convincing yet

RSAC  Spam messages predate the web itself, and generative AI has given it a fluency upgrade, churning out slick, localized scams and letting crooks hit regions and dialects they used to ignore.…

CEO, senior execs ‘at every turn chose the most anti-competitive option’

A federal judge has said Apple execs deliberately ignored an injunction and told lies in court – and so has asked US prosecutors to consider criminal charges against the iPhone titan.…

As military memo makes it official policy

The US Army intends to secure the right to repair its own equipment, a right that hasn't always been available under past procurement contracts - and one of the very few things that Democrats in Congress and the Trump administration broadly agree upon.…

Can't run Windows 11? Microsoft suggests renting it instead

Microsoft has announced a price cut for Windows 365 alongside a not-so-subtle suggestion that Windows 10 users might consider taking advantage of the offer to keep security updates flowing.…

UK starts prosecution days after FBI vowed to clamp down on the crime

Three young Brits are accused of stateside swatting offences and will appear in a UK court today to face their charges after a joint investigation by the FBI and Merseyside cops.…

Ireland privacy watchdog says transfers violated GDPR, as Chinese app confirms €1B datacenter in Finland

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has confirmed a fine of €530 million ($600 million) against social media biz TikTok for transferring European user data to China.…

Report into alternative networks says competition with BT and co making life harder than ever

Alternative network providers (altnets) are facing tough competition from the big players in the UK broadband market, with consolidation likely in the face of slowing growth in fiber internet uptake.…

Experts suggest the obvious: There is an ongoing coordinated attack on UK retail sector

Harrods, a globally recognized purveyor of all things luxury, is the third major UK retailer to confirm an attempted cyberattack on its systems in under two weeks.…

Used his loaf and found sweet solution for bakery borkage

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that each Friday serves up your stories of biting into half-baked tech support problems.…