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Are they shoe-ins for an award? Hard to say

It is a sound evocative of high school: the characteristic squeak of sneakers on a basketball court. UK readers may, however, be familiar with the same sound from their trainers while playing badminton.…

Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings?

Vibe-coding platform Lovable has been accused of hosting apps riddled with vulnerabilities after saying users are responsible for addressing security issues flagged before publishing.…

Smaller crews piled in as old names splintered and rebranded

Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but it seems like the cybercrooks launching the attacks didn't get the memo.…

Report highlights too many firsts in Artemis III mission

The latest report from NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) raises questions about the mission objectives for Artemis III.…

Government and 32 private-sector backers fund push to take on TSMC and Samsung at leading-edge nodes

Japan's fledgling foundry biz Rapidus has secured funding of $1.7 billion to help it progress to mass production of 2nm semiconductors by 2027, making it a potential rival for Taiwan's TSMC.…

Company refuses to pay ransom as attackers threaten larger daily dumps

The Netherlands' national police is backing Odido's refusal to pay a ransom after ShinyHunters leaked a second round of records belonging to the telco.…

To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this year

About 140 datacenters are in the queue to be connected to Britain's power grid, and their combined energy requirements are estimated to be more than the current peak electricity use for the entire country.…

Most DSAG members willing to pay a premium to stay on legacy platform until 2030

About half of German-speaking SAP users on its legacy ECC ERP system are set to ignore the 2027 support deadline, according to a survey of users in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.…

French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rules

Sopra Steria is suing the UK government, alleging it accepted a bid from rival Capita for an outsourcing contract worth up to £958.7 million that it failed to recognize as too low to comply with procurement rules.…

Typing 8x more than your peers? You better have the work to show for it

Avon and Somerset Police this week confirmed a former officer was dismissed after she was found weighing her laptop keyboard down with photo frames to simulate activity.…

'I was no longer field support. I was collateral'

On Call  Friday has arrived, bringing a promise of fleeting freedom – and a new instalment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that retells your tales of tech support incidents that became memorable for all the wrong reasons.…

Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link fun

Microsoft has found some friends to make desktop devices that boot into its Windows 365 cloud PCs.…

Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination

The Chinese agency that has accused the USA of cyberattacks on its own infrastructure to make Beijing look bad is back with another theory: Washington’s actions against cryptocurrency crooks are just attempts to dominate the global financial system.…

One massive round of firings is apparently better for morale than a drip-drip-drip of death

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s financial services company Block has announced it will fire 40 percent of staff – around 4,000 people – because new "intelligence tools" the company is implementing “can do more and do it better.”…

Grants for critical, unappreciated projects

Open source projects, ever short of funding, have a potential new source of revenue in the form of the Open Source Endowment (OSE).…

Processor is one of roughly half a dozen designs based on Broadcom's XDSiP platform

Fujitsu’s 144-core Monaka CPU will be built using 3D-chip stacking tech from Broadcom, the merchant silicon slinger revealed on Thursday.…

When it gets stuck, the bot will escalate rather than hallucinate

ServiceNow claims it has created an AI agent that is currently solving 90 percent of the inbound IT tickets to the company's own employee help desk.…

Because nothing says hospitality like a bot counting your pleases

The bot’s nagging will continue until morale improves. Burger King is rolling out a new employee-facing AI that, among other things, will listen to employees’ customer interactions to ensure they’re being friendly enough - as if working in fast food weren’t hard enough already.…

Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful

As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After “retirement” interviews, Claude Opus 3 said it wanted to keep sharing its “musings,” so Anthropic suggested a blog.…

Report claims more vulnerabilities created than fixed as remediation gap widens

Veracode has posted its annual State of Software Security report, based on data from 1.6 million applications tested on its cloud platform, finding that more vulnerabilities are being created than are being fixed, and that high-velocity development with AI is making comprehensive security unattainable.…