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Claims Broadcom will levy 20 percent penalty for customers who don’t pay before renewal deadlines

The French limb of global tech distributor Arrow has emailed VMware partners it serves with news of big price increases.…

JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team'

Interview  The team behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science.…

Similar issue in Windows 11 resolved as of Wednesday

Microsoft is warning that a faulty patch pushed out in February is causing Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop sessions to freeze under certain circumstances.…

Despite pockets of excellence, many wouldn't make the grade in business, AI advisor implies

A former director of data science at the UK prime minister's office has told MPs that people working with data in government are not typically technical and would be unlikely to get a similar job in the private sector.…

Project sees 7-year delay and budget swell to £1.5B, but nuclear leadership 'confident' it has an alternative

The center of the UK's nuclear industry has agreed on alternatives for how it will process waste into the next decade after delays and overspending hit a lab project.…

Self-described 'visionary' made life hell for our hero, then some oily vids returned the favor

On Call  The working week can be ugly, which is why The Register beautifies each Friday morning with a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of tech support splendor.…

Argues making stuff using foreign-designed tech isn't leadership, as x86 giant shakes up board

Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger has thrown shade on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC's plans to build fabrication plants in the USA, saying the factories will do nothing to advance American semiconductor leadership.…

Single click on a phishing link in Google browser blew up sandbox on Windows

Google pushed out an emergency patch for Chrome on Windows this week to stop attackers exploiting a sandbox-breaking zero-day vulnerability, seemingly used by snoops to target certain folks in Russia.…

As this year’s buyers rush to beat Trump’s tariffs

Korean chipmaker SK hynix has told investors the future looks bright thanks to strong demand for its memory products and early delivery of its first HBM4 samples.…

WOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?!

A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!)…

DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software

The US Justice Department on Thursday weighed into an antitrust legal war that alleges algorithmic price fixing by healthcare services by MultiPlan and its health insurance clients.…

Crew also cooked up two fresh SparrowDoor backdoor variants, says ESET

The China-aligned FamousSparrow crew has resurfaced after a long period of presumed inactivity, compromising a US financial-sector trade group and a Mexican research institute. The gang also likely targeted a governmental institution in Honduras, along with other yet-to-be-identified victims.…

So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew?

Updated  The Atlantic's editor-in-chief who was inadvertently added to a Signal group in which the US Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and others discussed secret military plans has now publicly released the messages.…

Thoughtful and considered … even if it is based on an American distro

EU OS is a proposal for an immutable KDE-based Linux distribution with a Windows-like desktop, designed for use in European public-sector organizations.…

Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America

Following our report last week on IBM's ongoing layoffs, current and former employees got in touch to confirm what many suspected: The US cuts run deeper than reported, and the jobs are heading to India.…

Warning of possible problems sparks controversy: Was it OverDAtop?

Rachel Kroll has clarified the Atop alarm: Turns out it was just a weird little bug, and it's probably already been fixed.…

Concerns over whether Bureau of Industry and Security, which maintains entity list, would be able to do its job

Keeping critical tech out of the hands of US adversaries is about to get harder for the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) with the Trump administration seemingly poised to slash its already meager budget by $20 million.…

Researchers say 'proactive' approach is needed to combat global cybercrime

Here's one you don't see every day: A cybersecurity vendor is admitting to breaking into a notorious ransomware crew's infrastructure and gathering data it relayed to national agencies to help victims.…

All eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo freighter, the NG-22, is being delayed indefinitely after engineers confirmed the Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) had sustained damage in its shipping container.…

Vendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously

Tech vendors are awaiting the outcome of a constitutional battle to decide the fate of government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the federal Department of Education to be dismantled.…