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Evaluation of latest repairs to Russian segment ongoing

NASA has pushed back the launch of Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station (ISS), citing concerns over persistent leaks aboard the aging orbital outpost. A new No Earlier Than (NET) date is set for June 19.…

Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250M

Operation Deep Sentinel is the latest international law enforcement collaboration against cybercrime, shutting down Archetyp – one of the largest dark web drug marketplaces.…

But lose your code and it's gone for good

Updated  Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area will shortly receive a new Recall Export feature, allowing Recall snapshots to be shared with third-party apps and websites.…

6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks

A new benchmark developed by academics shows that LLM-based AI agents perform below par on standard CRM tests and fail to understand the need for customer confidentiality.…

As others roll back use of tech due to quality, customers preferring to talk to humans

Not content with a corporate blueprint to cut up to 55,000 employees by 2030, UK telecoms giant BT now says even more staff could be replaced with AI, despite the experience of some orgs that have already tried this.…

PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more

Asia In Brief  Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security company’s armored cash transport unit.…

Student 'believed he could finish' software dev 'project alone and therefore that the rules did not apply to him'

A former GCHQ intern was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for stealing top-secret files during a year-long placement at the British intelligence agency.…

Scandal-hit IT giant said it wouldn't take on new UK.gov contracts or continue bidding on existing ones unless asked

Exclusive  The Northern Ireland government did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for a £125 million ($167 million) contract, yet the Japanese tech giant to continued to do so, despite promising to quit competing for UK government work during the fallout from the Horizon scandal.…

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hype

Opinion  Among the forever wars in geekdom, defining the difference between science fiction and fantasy is a hot potato destined to outlive the heat death of the universe.…

Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protest

Who, Me?  The only certainties in life are death, taxes … and tech causing trouble, a topic that The Register covers each week in this reader-contributed column we call “Who, Me?” that celebrates the moments you made trouble at work and somehow escaped.…

Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes

Google Cloud has explained the massive outage it created last week and, as has happened many times previously, admitted that it broke itself.…

German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA

German giant Siemens AG has tried to convince a US court to throw out the case in which VMware alleged it used unlicensed software.…

PLUS: Discord invite links may not be safe; Miscreants find new way to hide malicious JavaScript; and more!

Infosec In Brief  A pair of Congressional Democrats have demanded a review of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program amid uncertainties about continued US government funding for the scheme.…

Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel

Feature  For artificial intelligence researchers, the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, changed the world in a way similar to the detonation of the first atomic bomb.…

Microsoft veteran on breaking down numbers at the computer store

Windows 95 will soon turn 30. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen recalled that when testing Microsoft's reimagining of Windows, an overflow was discovered that had nothing to do with the operating system itself.…

Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied on

Scientists in the US have built a system for creating truly random numbers which cannot be tampered with by a third party.…

We take a quick look at the headline features – and the growing differences

Rocky Linux 10 has caught up to the other high-profile RHELatives, but gaps between them are widening, both in tech and other ways.…

Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201

Several of Silicon Valley's top techies are joining the Army Reserve as part of a newly created unit that will be trying to accelerate the use of AI in military planning and operations.…

With Tehran’s military weakened, digital retaliation likely, experts tell The Reg

The current Israel–Iran military conflict is taking place in the era of hybrid war, where cyberattacks amplify and assist missiles and troops, and is being waged between two countries with very capable destructive cyber weapons.…

But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window

A messy legal fight between Ligado and Inmarsat over direct-to-cellular (D2C) spectrum has been settled, giving upstart AST a chance to gain ground on Starlink.…