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With no allowance to sell and little room to buy, and markets on the slide, it's UB40 time: Red, red, whine

Comment  It's official: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to create a US Bitcoin reserve and stockpile of related digital assets, though instead of boosting the value of the coins, the market reacted negatively to the news.…

Space is hard. Hopefully not so hard the three rovers on this spaceship are lost

For the second time this week, a privately operated spacecraft has touched down on the Moon – but this one landed badly.…

Increasingly shaky relationship with the States has Europe considering options

Talks are underway between European leaders and Eutelsat about a possible replacement for Starlink in Ukraine.…

To boldly go where HPE and Raspberry Pi have been for a while

Axiom Space plans to send a shoebox-sized node running Red Hat Device Edge to the International Space Station (ISS).…

Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort

Human Security’s Satori research team says it has found a new variant of the remote-controllable Badbox malware, and as many as a million infected Android devices running it to form a massive botnet.…

Did US Secret Service not get the memo, or?

Updated  A coalition of international law enforcement has shut down Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, a favorite of now-defunct ransomware crew Conti and others criminals for money laundering.…

$96B in transactions, some even labeled 'dirty funds,' since 2019, say prosecutors

The Feds today revealed more details about the US Secret Service-led Garantex takedown, a day after seizing websites and freezing assets belonging to the Russian cryptocurrency exchange in coordination with German and Finnish law enforcement agencies.…

Trying to find a middle ground between spinning rust and performant TLC

Facebook parent Meta is exploring the use of QLC flash as an additional storage tier in its datacenters to address growing volumes of data as it juggles performance maintenance and energy efficiency.…

Moved from Windows or Linux? Smooth some of the rough edges

Friday FOSS fest  There are some idiosyncrasies about macOS that long term Mac users may never notice, but cause frustration in people more used to how Windows does things – or the much more customizable Linux desktop experience. Here are a few of The Reg FOSS desk's favorite tools we routinely install on new machines to make life a little more comfortable or convenient.…

Big Red pushes restart button after users locked out of apps across Veterans Affairs hospitals, other govt departments

Oracle's Federal electronic health records software suffered a US-wide outage this week, causing Veterans Affairs hospitals to invoke "standard contingency procedures."…

Difficulties unpicking 25 years of technical entanglement secure £474.4M without competition

Updated  Following protracted negotiations, French outsourcer Atos has scooped up a £474.4 million ($612 million) contract without competition to build systems for a UK state bank at nearly three times the annual rate initially advertised three years ago.…

I knew you were trouble, Queens DA might have said

Police have made two arrests in their quest to start a cybercrime crew's prison eras, alleging the pair stole hundreds of Taylor Swift tickets and sold them for huge profit. …

Now that's sticker shock

Eggheads have taken a look at previously developed techniques that can be used to trick self-driving cars into doing the wrong thing – and found cheap stickers stuck on stop and speed limit signs, at least, are pretty effective.…

PDFs and Powerpoint also lie in wait as 2026 looms

Microsoft is suggesting alternatives to its doomed Publisher product ahead of the software's demise in 2026.…

Thousands brace for layoffs as shares slide 20%

HPE is feeling the effects of the Trump administration's gamesmanship, seeing shares slide after lowering earnings expectations due to uncertainty over how tariffs may affect the cost of imported parts.…

Which is why taking down chiefs and infra behind big name brand operations isn't working

Interview  There's a handful of cybercriminal gangs that Jason Baker, a ransomware negotiator with GuidePoint Security, regularly gets called in to respond to these days, and a year ago only one of these crews — Akira — was on threat hunters' radars and infecting organizations with the same ferocity as it is today.…

'Energetic event' did for Flight 8 after a few minutes. Super Heavy Booster recovered again, so there's that

SpaceX's latest attempt to fly its Starship has again ended in a rapid unscheduled disassembly.…

When 'pickup' means more than just a ride

On Call  The week has ebbed away with embarrassing speed, so here we are again with a fresh installment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that immortalizes tech support stories.…

€240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI

A 38-strong group of tech players have founded a project with the snappy name Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, aka DARE, that aims to develop processor units to power the continent’s supercomputers and other high-performance machines.…

President ordered immigration officials to ramp up vetting of foreigners 'to the maximum degree'

The US government's Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is considering monitoring not just the social media posts of non-citizens coming into the country, but also all those already in America going through an immigration or citizenship process.…