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Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controls

A co-founder of Supermicro is among three people charged with diverting servers fitted with Nvidia GPUs worth $2.5 billion to Chinese customers in violation of US export controls.…

Government looks for sovereign tech as NHS deal nears break clause

The UK government has promised a different approach to tech procurement following the award of controversial contracts to Palantir.…

Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around

Opinion  Last week's UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. It did not include a price estimate - something it said was due to decisions yet to be taken on the scheme's scope - or how long the government would keep "audit trail" records of ID checks.…

Beats getting roasted on the mailing list

AI is coming to the Linux kernel in the form of a code review system - not code submissions.…

Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028

GNOME 50 is here, codenamed Tokyo after the location of the GNOME Asia Summit 2025, and the biggest change is in fact more or less invisible, unless you look for an options button on the login screen.…

CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse'

A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal squeeze on customer choice.…

Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefits

You'll use AI and like it too – if you work for PwC. Paul Griggs, US chief executive of the global professional services giant, has made clear there is no room at the corporation for AI skeptics.…

He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USB

On Call  Each Friday The Register offers a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.…

‘Project Sunrise’ needs a network that doesn’t exist, a rocket that’s hardly flown, and FCC approval

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has applied to launch up to 51,600 datacenter satellites.…

Enterprise tools have detected impossible logins for years. Zuck’s human mods couldn’t join the dots

Meta has revealed it’s tested using AI for content moderation chores and found it does better than humans.…

Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete

Chinese web giant Alibaba has revealed its T-Head chipmaking business has shipped 470,000 AI chips, and admitted they are currently inferior to rival products, but believes it can build a mutually optimized stack that makes performance gaps moot.…

From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia's latest kit

GTC DEEP DIVE  At Nvidia’s GTC conference this week, CEO Jensen Huang finally addressed a $20 billion question he’s dodged for months: Why spend so much to license AI chip startup Groq’s tech and hire away its engineers rather than build it themselves?…

Deal helps company build out its Codex team

In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal to strengthen the ecosystem for its Codex programming agent.…

Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline

There is enough evidence going back far enough that it's reasonable to conclude social media platforms are responsible for population-level mental health harms. …

Kash Patel says the FBI uses all the tools it has to accomplish its mission - even if those tools are questionable

It's been three years since an FBI director admitted to purchasing the location data of Americans, potentially in violation of the Constitution. Here we go again.…

Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next?

Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US government warned.…

Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed

Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.…

Better than seismometers?

Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions.…

Annual billed sub scrubbed after 14 days? Expect to pay 50% of yearly price

Britain’s competition watchdog is opening an investigation into Adobe’s early cancellation fees on membership plans to ascertain if it breaks consumer law.…

Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using Intune

The US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week's cyberattack against med-tech firm Stryker.…