Tuesday January 7, 2025
Monday January 6, 2025
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Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'Slumping market share, unwanted features... no, it's the consumers who are wrong! CES Microsoft is continuing its push for users to adopt its new software paradigm, declaring 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh' and reminding everyone that Windows 10's end-of-support date is just around the corner.
18:30Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking...If you can't beat 'em, just imitate their branding, hide yours and hope they don't notice It looks like Microsoft has come up with a new trick to keep those who accidentally end up on Bing from leaving for Google: Simply mimic the look of Google's homepage and hope no one will notice.
15:31FireScam infostealer poses as Telegram Premium app to surveil Android...Once installed, it helps itself to your data like it's a free buffet Android malware dubbed FireScam tricks people into thinking they are downloading a Telegram Premium application that stealthily monitors victims' notifications, text messages, and app activity, while stealing sensitive information via Firebase services.
14:22Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disasterLeap year curse strikes satellite broadband vendor Eutelsat's OneWeb constellation suffered a date-related meltdown last week while the rest of the IT world patted itself on the back for averting the Y2K catastrophe a quarter of a century ago.
13:28MediaTek rings in the new year with a parade of chipset vulnsManufacturers should have had ample time to apply the fixes MediaTek kicked off the first full working week of the new year by disclosing a bevy of security vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution bug affecting 51 chipsets.
12:46AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait The AI datacenter spending splurge looks likely to continue in 2025, with Microsoft alone saying it will invest $80 billion this year on building out infrastructure to train and deploy AI models.
10:45Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for...Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap Google promised a decade of updates for its Chromebooks in 2023 to stop them being binned so soon after purchase, but many are still set to reach the end of the road in 2025 and over the next several years.
10:01Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacentersBut investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand Datacenter operators are facing a paradoxical crisis demand for their services is greater than ever before, just as access to power, environmental concerns, rising costs and skill shortages have begun to threaten necessary infrastructure expansion.
08:31After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts nowIf 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, dont rebuild with the rubble Opinion When a typhoon devastates a land, it takes a while to understand the scale of the destruction. Disaster relief kicks in, communications rebuilt, and news flows out. Salt Typhoon is no different.
06:35Brackets go there? Oops. Thats not where I used them and now things...Weird syntax AND/OR a junior techie can be very bad for business Who, Me? Have you remembered its 2025 yet? The Register asks the question because its often the small things that make for the kind of big problems that we share each week in Who, Me?, the column that celebrates readers escapes from their errors.
04:30Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in...Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom's Buy. Chop up. Raise prices' business plan? Broadcoms annual report reveals two items of note for VMware customers: two planned major releases of its flagship VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) suite due in March and July this year.
00:24Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed onlinePLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Infosec in Brief Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security operations center without incident - unlike Volkswagen, which last week admitted it exposed data describing journeys made by some of its electric vehicles, plus info about the ...
Sunday January 5, 2025
22:00Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%'State masks up finally its IP addresses, that is Florida witnessed a massive rise in VPN demand on New Year's Day after Pornhub began prohibiting people from accessing its site from within the Sunshine State, it is claimed.
12:28How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern softwareEven Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure Opinion The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop
and its long-term consequences.
10:01Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school...New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Software developed to investigate more detailed differences between ancient DNA data has proved its worth this week after a paper describing human population movements in Europe in the first millennium AD was published in the science journal Nature.
Saturday January 4, 2025
08:30Shackleton's Endurance sets sail for polar peril in LegoBecause we're all still kids just richer The debate as to whether Lego is a toy or not largely depends on your willingness to accept revisiting childhood excitement as an adult, especially when it's now far more likely to be you footing the bill than your parents.
07:30Atos denies Space Bears' ransomware claims with a 'but'Points finger at third-party infrastructure being breached updated French tech giant Atos today denied that Space Bears criminals breached its systems - but noted that third-party infrastructure was compromised by the ransomware crew, and that files accessed by the crooks included 'data mentioning the Atos company name.'
00:30Amazon worker struck and shot in New Orleans terror attack ...Web giant now pledges full support A warehouse worker at an Amazon facility in Mobile, Alabama, who was struck by a truck and shot in the New Orleans New Year's Day deadly terror attack, was initially denied medical leave by the internet mega-giant, possibly due to an HR mix-up.
Friday January 3, 2025
20:00First Foxconn, now Microsoft: Wisconsin town dissed by big techRedmond's pause to redesign planned datacenters won't scuttle this project, say Mount Pleasant officials Count the residents of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin opposed to their town becoming a tech hub lucky: First, Foxconn abandoned its original $10 billion LCD factory plan in the town, and now Microsoft has reportedly paused construction on portions of its $3. ...
18:30Were paying for what we dont get: East D.C. ...Locals demand transparency - and a refund wouldn't hurt Feature When data scientist Andrew Breza learned that the Washington, D.C. attorney general was suing Amazon for excluding his zip code from its fastest delivery service, he immediately wanted to see the proof for himself - and he found it.
17:00With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to...Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too Constellation Energy has won contracts worth more than $1 billion from the US government to supply nuclear power to over 13 federal agencies, validating efforts by datacenter operators to secure their own atomic sources.
15:32US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevailWith Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push Comment The US once led the world in the development and manufacturing of semiconductors and integrated circuits. And the $280 billion US CHIPS and Science Act sought to reestablish the country as a semiconductor manufacturing superpower and alleviate reliance on foreign fabs.
14:31How a good business deal made us underestimate BASICA somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language Feature A generation of gray-haired IT folks learned computing using BASIC on 1980s home computers. Every pro since then holds it in disdain. What happened?
13:00Tech titans hide in shadows awaiting Trump tariff threatsBeing more diplomatic than the politicians makes sense amid fear of upsetting the next US President A eerie quiet has descended upon elements in the tech exec community, and even the typically more vocal souls in the highest seats in corporations are scared to put the wrong foot forward ahead of a certain President Elect coming to power.
12:15CAPTCHAs now run Doom on nightmare modeAs if the bot defense measure wasn't obnoxious enough Though the same couldn't be said for most of us mere mortals, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch had a productive festive period, resulting in a CAPTCHA that requires the user to kill three monsters in Doom on nightmare mode.
11:33Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to RustMini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss Computer scientists affiliated with France's Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a subset of C code into safe Rust code, in an effort to meet the growing demand for memory safety.
