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But will they really upend the enterprise PC market? How about software? Networking, anyone?

Analysis  Disrupt? It's an awful hackneyed term that some analysts, consultants and technologists like to use.…

Social media platform magically worth a billion more than what he bought it for

Comment  Billionaire Elon Musk's xAI is to acquire billionaire Elon Musk's X in a deal that values the former at $80 billion and the latter at $33 billion.…

Crims are disabling security tools early in attacks, Talos says

interview  Antivirus and endpoint security tools are falling short as ransomware crews increasingly deploy "EDR killers" to disable defenses early in the attack – a tactic Cisco Talos observed in most of the 2024 cases it handled.…

Thanks to Collabora's work on Zink and NVK… and indirectly to GPU-maker's FOSS release, too

Not one but two new drivers for some Nvidia GPUs is a promising, if indirect, offshoot of the GPU maker's open-saucy moves.…

'I'm glad you asked that question. We'll get to that tomorrow' (After I research the answer)

Who, Me?  Wait, what? It's Monday again? That means it's time for another instalment of Who, Me? What's that, you ask? It's The Register's Monday column in which we tell your tales of technological messes and celebrate your escapes.…

11 companies, including SMIC, accused of disguising outposts so they can illicitly serve Beijing

Chinese tech companies created entities in Taiwan and disguised them so they had no connections to China, so they could lure top tech talent to work on significant projects.…

PLUS: Indonesia crimps social media, allows iPhones; India claims rocket boost; In-flight GenAI for Japan Airlines

Asia In Brief  China last week commenced a crackdown on inappropriate collection and subsequent use of personal information.…

PLUS: OpenAI bumps bug bounties bigtime; INTERPOL arrests 300 alleged cyber-scammers; And more!

Infosec in brief  Oracle Health appears to have fallen victim to an info stealing attack that has led to patient data stored by American hospitals being plundered.…

There's also a new release of the Zorin OS distro

The handy GNOME extension Dash to Panel will live on, under its present maintainer, after winning financial backing from one of the distros that uses it.…

Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project

Airbus UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the European aerospace giant, has won the £150 million contract to complete a landing system for the long-delayed ExoMars rover.…

More silicon, more power, more pain for datacenter operators

Comment  As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead – and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is.…

Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection

Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell.…

A peek behind the curtain in one corner of online advertising

AppLovin, which provides a way for software developers to make money by embedding ads in their mobile apps, has been sued for a third time this month – after short-seller reports accused the biz of fraud and deceptive revenue practices.…

SAMOSA digested by House last year, but choked on in Senate. Second time's a charm?

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is once again pushing legislation aimed at reining in the federal government's fragmented and wasteful software licensing practices.…

Department director admits Welsh capital's council still trying to get heads around threat of dark web leaks

Cardiff City Council's director of children's services says data was leaked or stolen from the organization, although she did not clarify how or what was pilfered.…

That stands for I Probably Overestimated?

CoreWeave has pared back the scope of its initial public offering amid growing investor uncertainty in an overheating AI marketplace and risks posed by the GPU cloud specialist's exposure to a small number of customers.…

More than 70 percent of anomalies closed out, but those pesky thrusters are still a problem

Updated  NASA says Boeing's Starliner – dubbed the Calamity Capsule – could fly again, but not before the end of 2025 or start of 2026.…

Bad news about the Linux system monitor may be on the way

Updated  Veteran sysadmin and tech blogger Rachel Kroll posted a cryptic warning yesterday about a popular Linux system monitoring tool. Maybe it's better to be safe than sorry.…

How's that for Platform-as-a-Service?

You've seen small 3D printed models, heard about 3D printers being used to make guns, and even read news about printed food, but a 3D printed train station? Where else could this be but Japan?…

Microsoft promises clarity, gets partway there

Microsoft has introduced a roadmap for Windows 11 that takes customers all the way to ... April 2025.…