Ransomware thugs threaten Tata Technologies with leak if demands not met
A subsidiary of Indian multinational Tata has allegedly fallen victim to the notorious ransomware gang Hunters International.…
Free Software Foundation rides to defend AGPLv3 against Neo4j license add-ons
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) on Monday backed a lone developer's brave effort to overturn a pivotal court ruling that threatens to undermine the AGPLv3 – the foundation's GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.…
Hey, remember iPads? Those fondleslabs? Apple still does
Apple on Tuesday unveiled an updated iPad Air with fresh-ish new M-series silicon alongside a new Magic Keyboard with function keys.…
Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers
Users of some of the less well-known web browsers are getting blocked from accessing multiple sites by Cloudflare's flaky browser-detection routines.…
TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat
Standing alongside US President Donald Trump, the CEO of Taiwanese chipmaking champ TSMC on Monday announced a plan to invest $100 billion on expanded operations in Arizona.…
VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild
Broadcom today pushed out patches for three VMware hypervisor-hijacking bugs, including one rated critical, that have already been found and exploited by criminals.…
Scientists create woolly ma-mouse by looking at mean genes from the Pleistocene
US scientists have created a "woolly" mouse by expressing genetic information gathered from woolly mammoths and elephants, which they see as a step toward bringing the extinct species back to life.…
So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?
Comment America's cybersecurity chiefs in recent days have been sending mixed messages about the threat posed by Russia in the digital world.…
Firefox 136 finally brings the features that fans wanted
Mozilla's Firefox 136 is out today. Despite recent Mozilla moves, it's still a better choice for the privacy-conscious than Chrome.…
Apple dares users to fix 'budget' iPhone 16e themselves
Apple has launched a new budget iPhone. Rather than discussing specifications or the price hike, the real question is whether the company's latest and cheapest can be repaired.…
SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship
March 3 was a tough day for SpaceX. The company was forced to scrub flight test 8 of its monster Starship rocket and also lost a Falcon 9 first stage, which landed then caught fire and tipped over.…
The ups and down of a virtual trip to the Moon in Zero G's 727
interview Zero-G currently flies researchers and consumers in simulated lunar and zero gravity. And now a trip to Europe and beyond, as well as new aircraft are on the cards for the parabola specialist.…
CoreWeave rides AI wave with IPO filing – but its fate hinges on Microsoft
GPU cloud provider CoreWeave has filed for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) in the US, aiming to ride the AI wave and capitalize on the huge growth it has experienced recently.…
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes
Microsoft has launched Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus, a service designed to rapidly bring Cloud PCs back online in the event of an outage.…
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 shuffles out of mainstream support
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 quietly slipped out of mainstream support last week, accompanied by fellow retiree SQL Server Big Data Clusters.…
Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows
Microsoft has completed its EU data boundary, however, analysts and some regional cloud players are voicing concerns over dependencies on a US entity, even with the guarantees in place.…
It's bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake
High-profile deepfake scams that were reported here at The Register and elsewhere last year may just be the tip of the iceberg. Attacks relying on spoofed faces in online meetings surged by 300 percent in 2024, it is claimed.…
Microsoft signed a dodgy driver and now ransomware scum are exploiting it
Ransomware crooks are exploiting a third-party Windows kernel-level driver used and provided by disk management tool Paragon Partition Manager.…
Broadcom starts beta for VMware Cloud Foundation 9, the release it reckons will douse user anger
Exclusive Broadcom has quietly started a closed beta of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 9, a major release that fully expresses the tech giant's vision for what a private cloud should be.…
America's National Science Foundation workers fired in bulk by Trump now reinstated
The US government's National Science Foundation has reinstated most of its cadre of probationary employees after laying them off en masse last month. …
