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Businesses need to adopt AI, says WEF, but uncertainty is a blocker

There are two things keeping chief economists awake around the globe, if the World Economic Forum's latest survey is any indicator: US President Donald Trump's trade policies and AI.…

No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect

Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for backdoor access.…

No, that's not someone on your team who doesn't pull their weight

Salesforce is promising every Slack user a "digital teammate" to help with tasks such as providing summaries of channels and taking notes from meetings. And responding to office banter on the user's behalf, The Register can only assume.…

Hiked prices and thinks that will make buyers nervous

HP Inc. is close to ending production of North-America-bound products in China, after US tariffs kicked a hole in its quarterly profits.…

One of the new smaller monthly releases – and how to tweak it

Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has released the latest version of its messaging client, with some handy extras.…

Tianwen 2 probe launched Thursday and will also get up close with a comet

China’s National Space Agency today launched the nation’s first asteroid sample mission.…

Against backdrop of EU rules on spread of misinfo plus UK probing role of online hate in far right riots

The US government says it'll refuse visas to foreign officials judged to have censored social media posts of American citizens - a move aimed at countries trying to stem the flow of online misinformation.…

Wiggles tiny price for FishOS Ceph-based wares as deprecation of Ceph continues

Updated  Sardina hopes to entice anyone still using SUSE Enterprise Storage (SES) over to FishOS instead with a price-based hook: a license fee of €1 per core, regardless of storage volume.…

Law enforcement crackdowns are gathering pace but online marketplaces still teeming with valuable tokens

A VPN vendor says billions of stolen cookies currently on sale either on dark web or Telegram-based marketplaces remain active and exploitable.…

Users leaving App Store to make a third party payment must be free of charge, says Euro Commish

The European Commission (EC) this week released the full text of its decision that found Apple in violation of its digital competition rules, known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA).…

Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims

A research organization claims that OpenAI machine learning model o3 might prevent itself from being shut down in some circumstances while completing an unrelated task.…

Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up

The European Commission (EC) has kicked off a scheme to make Europe a better place to nurture global technology businesses, providing support throughout their lifecycle, from startup through to maturity.…

Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more

With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their data, which is often spread across different systems.…

Telegram to get 50% cut of xAI subscriptions too

Telegram founder Pavel Durov on Wednesday announced that the Dubai-based messaging service will make unspecified Grok models from Elon Musk's xAI available to users.…

‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber

India’s government has reminded big tech companies that it has rules that prohibit the use of dark patterns – deceptive design practices that deliberately mislead and confuse customers of online services and apps – and called for an end to their use.…

Hardware biz gets a reprieve but administration’s plans are unchanged

World War Fee  The USA’s Court of International Trade has ruled the Trump administration improperly implemented its “Liberation Day” tariff policy, effectively blocking the imposition of the duties.…

But don't worry, sales are still up 69 percent

US export controls blocking the sale of Nvidia’s H20 GPUs to will cost the company $10.5 billion in lost revenues in the first half of the 2026 fiscal year, executives revealed on Wednesday's Q1 earnings call.…

Knickers outlet knackered

Underwear retailer Victoria's Secret’s website has been down for three days, with the company blaming an unspecified security problem.…

Also in preview: a settings backup feature to support OS upgrades

Microsoft is previewing a Windows Update orchestration platform for app developers and management tool vendors, aiming to centralize update scheduling across Windows 11 devices.…

Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick

Over the past few years, Uncle Sam has made it progressively harder for US chip designers to flog their AI wares in China. But not impossible.…