UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK
Microsoft's attempt to claim that its software can't be resold has hit a wall at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, which decided that Office having clipart does not mean customers can't sell their licenses on.…
Digital overhaul at UK's NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late
Updated The UK's state-owned savings bank has blown past its budget by £1.3 billion on a digital transformation program beset by delays, according to the National Audit Office.…
Clop claims it hacked 'the NHS.' Which bit? Your guess is as good as theirs
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is investigating claims of a cyberattack by extortion crew Clop.…
Execs make rules that control AI usage, then break them for their own work
More than two-thirds of corporate executives say they've violated their own AI usage policies in the past three months, and over half of the leaders also ranked security and compliance as the greatest AI implementation challenge.…
Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of tech support troubles and other workplace woes.…
Chinese web giant Tencent can't buy all the GPUs it wants
Chinese web giant Tencent’s capital expenditure is slowing and the company expects it will decelerate further due to its inability to buy all the GPUs it wants.…
Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving
Kubernetes maintainers have decided it’s not worth trying to save Ingress NGINX and will instead stop work on the project and retire it in March 2026.…
Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded
Chinese cyber spies used Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool to attempt digital break-ins at about 30 high-profile companies and government organizations – and the government-backed snoops "succeeded in a small number of cases," according to a Thursday report from the AI company.…
Ransomed CTO falls on sword, refuses to pay extortion demand
Digitial extortion is a huge business, because affected orgs keep forking over money to get their data back. However, instead of paying a ransom demand after getting hit by extortionists last week, payment services provider Checkout.com donated the demanded amount to fund cybercrime research.…
Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out
Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The org has decided that AI deserves its own new environment in the browser, a move its fans met with withering criticism.…
Baidu answers China's call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators
Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled two new AI accelerators this week amid a national push to end reliance on Western chips.…
To 'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 has arrived
MX Linux 25 "Infinity" is now available, and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices having become pre-install decisions.…
States that aren't nice to ICE still sharing key database full of personal info
Democratic lawmakers say some states that don't want to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be unintentionally allowing the agency access to residents' driver and criminal records through a law-enforcement data network.…
AI pilots keep crashing, mostly because firms skip the prep, survey finds
It is the best of AI times; it is the worst of AI times, depending on whom you ask. Nearly a third of firms are seeing almost total failure of their AI proof-of-concept (PoC) projects, while 46 percent are successfully moving more than 10 percent of theirs into operational use.…
Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut
Two vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 25.10's new "sudo-rs" command have been found, disclosed, and fixed in short order.…
Avalonia brings Linux, browser support to Microsoft's MAUI cross-platform app solution
Microsoft's MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), the official .NET solution for cross-platform desktop and mobile apps, will get Linux and browser support via Avalonia, a third-party framework.…
ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared
In Barcelona this week, consultancy Gartner once again tried to answer one of the perennial questions in IT: what is it about ERP projects that makes them so likely to fail?…
Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches
A blast from the Sun kept Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on the pad as the Northern Lights forced NASA to halt the launch.…
HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-gen Cray supercomputers
HPE's next-gen Cray supercomputing platform will offer a choice of compute nodes with Nvidia's Vera Rubin or AMD's upcoming Venice Epyc CPUs – or a mix of both.…
Extra, extra, read all about it: Washington Post clobbered in Clop caper
The Washington Post has confirmed that nearly 10,000 employees and contractors had sensitive personal data stolen in the Clop-linked Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attacks.…
