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Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work

Updated  The creators of the unique Chimera Linux distro are dropping support for RISC-V because kit built on the open instruction set architecture just isn't fast enough and this is holding up the development pipeline.…

Attorney General warns people tempted to join 'wave of domestic terrorism'

Three individuals face federal arson charges labeled as domestic terrorism after a spate of Molotov cocktail attacks on Tesla properties in the US.…

Regulator reviews wholesale telecoms markets and decides healthy fiber is its biggest concern

Britain's telecoms watchdog is giving itself a pat on the back for overseeing the UK's fiber broadband rollout thus far, so doesn't want to rock the boat by making any drastic changes to the regulations at this point, despite admitting there is no effective competition for BT.…

With only BASIC knowledge to fall back on, and a typing pool in tears, the OFF switch looked very attractive

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that tells your stories of tech support jobs performed under stress, duress, and all sorts of mess.…

Plus: Customer info stolen from 'parental control' software slinger SpyX; F-35 kill switch denied

Infosec newsbytes  Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions pitches its tools as helping governments and law enforcement agencies to catch criminals and terrorists, but a fresh Citizen Lab report claims its software has been used to target journalists, activists, and other civilians.…

Qubit awkward, you might say

GTC  Nvidia is investing in a research center to advance quantum computing development, just weeks after its head honcho torpedoed the share price of quantum firms by declaring the tech is decades away from being useful.…

We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue

IBM insiders believe Big Blue is laying off thousands of people at various locations around the US, including a quarter of staff at the corp's Cloud Classic operation.…

Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet

Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.…

Feds want book thrown at Paige Thompson, who pinched 100M customer records

Paige Thompson, the perpetrator of the Capital One data theft, may be sent back behind bars – after an appeals court ruled her sentence of time served plus five years of probation was too lenient.…

Enterprise Edition to be offered on OCI inside Redmond's cloud

Oracle is expanding its database services on hyperscale clouds outside of its muscle-car Exadata system.…

Broken commitment to deliver hyped Intelligence upgrade branded false advertising

Apple on Wednesday was sued in a US federal court for allegedly misrepresenting the AI capabilities of its Siri personal digital assistant.…

Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS

A year after kicking off its probe into three American tech giants, the European Union has fired off two sets of preliminary findings accusing Google parent Alphabet of failing to comply with Europe's monopoly-busting Digital Markets Act (DMA).…

Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues

​A Norwegian man was shocked when ChatGPT falsely claimed in a conversation he murdered his two sons and tried to kill a third - mixing in real details about his personal life.…

So much for that vacation

A US Department of Defense electrical engineer has turned his world upside down after printing 155 pages from 20 documents, all of which were marked top secret and classified, from his DoD workspace, brought them home with him – and was collared on his way to Mexico.…

Palming off the blame using an ‘unknown’ best practice didn’t go down well either

In patching the latest critical remote code execution (RCE) bug in Backup and Replication, software shop Veeam is attracting criticism from researchers for the way it handles uncontrolled deserialization vulnerabilities.…

Not even the parts want to be associated with Elon's steel monster

Tesla has issued its eighth Cybertruck recall, this time over exterior trim panels that risk detaching while driving - the second time loose body trim has triggered a safety fix.…

Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market

Japanese tech investment house SoftBank Group has announced its intention to acquire Ampere Computing, the chip design firm that makes server-grade silicon based on the Arm architecture.…

Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt

After a seven-year nap, version 3.0 of FOSS image editor GIMP is arriving with a splash, while a long-dormant open video format wakes from its slumbers and lumbers into beta.…

Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough?

Comment  The return of Crew-9 from the International Space Station (ISS) in a Crew Dragon has raised the question of what the future holds for Boeing's Calamity Capsule, also known as the CST-100 Starliner.…

Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty

European chipmakers want local politicians to look beyond the region's Chips Act and do more to support research and development, materials, and design, not just manufacturing.…