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Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:06:09 GMT)Roscosmos confirms 'damage' as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damage during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos.… |
PostHog admits Shai-Hulud 2.0 was its biggest ever security bungle - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:22:08 GMT)Automation flaw in CI/CD workflow let a bad pull request unleash worm into npmPostHog says the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm compromise was "the largest and most impactful security incident" it's ever experienced after attackers slipped malicious releases into its JavaScript SDKs and tried to auto-loot developer credentials.… |
Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:52:20 GMT)Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable'British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files.… |
GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:44:12 GMT)Project cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepensFrench cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company's servers over concerns about France's approach to digital privacy.… |
KDE Plasma sets date to dump X11 as Wayland push accelerates - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:03:09 GMT)If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE – and tmuxThe oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up.… |
SK hynix wants you to bond with HBM, so it coated corn in banana chocolate - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:15:11 GMT)Pushes semiconductor familiarity via chip-shaped edible squaresSK hynix has launched HBM-themed square corn snacks at 7-Eleven, because nothing explains bandwidth like carbs and chocolate.… |
TryHackMe races to add women to Christmas cyber challenge roster after backlash - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:32:12 GMT)Training outfit scrambles to fix all-male lineup before December kickoffCybersecurity training provider TryHackMe is scrambling to recruit women infosec pros to help with its Christmas challenge following backlash concerning a lack of gender diversity.… |
GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:57:08 GMT)Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounceFor as long as I have been a reporter and analyst in the IT sector, November has always been supercomputing month. Way before there was a TOP500 ranking of supercomputers in June 1993 but just as I was leaving university, the first Supercomputing Conference was held in Orlando in 1988. And that November SC show set the cadence for high-performance computing for the decades that followed.… |
Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:31:14 GMT)Another reason why the OS seems to swell with every updateChanging text in Microsoft Windows requires freezing string updates well before code changes stop, often leading to strange wording that persists for years.… |
OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:02:10 GMT)Ex-NCSC chief Ciaran Martin asked to examine how forecast ended up online ahead of scheduleThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has drafted in former National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief Ciaran Martin to sniff out how its Budget day forecast wandered onto the open internet before the Chancellor had even reached the dispatch box.… |
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:19:52 GMT)OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savingsThe UK government has finally put a £1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans – days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure.… |
UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:00:15 GMT)Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in BritainThe UK government collected just £800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent tax year.… |
Digital Realty, Equinix battle for €4.5B atNorth acquisition - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:00:11 GMT)Nordic datacenter operator's cool-climate facilities attract bids amid AI-driven market frenzyDigital Realty and a consortium including Equinix are competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian datacenter operator, according to reports.… |
Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:00:13 GMT)A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a careerOn Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions.… |
VMware isn’t budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:24:00 GMT)Fresh court filings try to keep the case about copyright, and in US courtsVMware has come out swinging in its case against Siemens over alleged unlicensed use of its software.… |
Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:52:00 GMT)‘Our soup’s not toxic but this chap’s behavior was’ is the gist of the defenseFood company Campbell’s, best known for its soups and the iconic cans they come in, has parted ways with a vice president for IT after another member of the company’s tech team recorded him criticizing the company’s products.… |
Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later - (pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:41:58 GMT)Talk about buyer’s remorseSouth Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a serious cyberattack.… |
Zendesk users targeted as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters spin up fake support sites - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:30:10 GMT)ReliaQuest finds fresh crop of phishing domains and toxic ticketsScattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest.… |
OpenAI cuts off Mixpanel after analytics leak exposes API users - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:45:08 GMT)ChatGPT maker places other vendors under review following breachOpenAI says API users may be affected by a recent breach at its former data analytics provider, Mixpanel.… |
Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:00:07 GMT)$12K machine promises performance that can scale to 32 chip servers and beyond but immature stack makes harnessing compute challenginghands on Tenstorrent probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when it comes to AI infrastructure. But unlike the litany of AI chip startups vying for VC funding and a slice of Nvidia's pie, Tenstorrent's chips actually exist outside the lab.… |
Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA reaffirms commitment - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:30:11 GMT)ExoMars project may actually get to the red planet one dayThe European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project.… |
FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:00:08 GMT)Agency flags hijacks of insecure studio-to-transmitter gear after attackers pipe in fake alerts and vulgar audioMalicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system.… |
Asahi admits ransomware gang may have spilled almost 2M people's data - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:15:13 GMT)Brewer finally tallies fallout from September attack as it pushes earnings into 2026Asahi has finally done the sums on September's ransomware attack in Japan, conceding the crooks may have helped themselves to personal data tied to almost 2 million people.… |
Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:30:06 GMT)OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand accessA Canadian court has ordered French cloud provider OVHcloud to hand over customer data stored in Europe, potentially undermining the provider's claims about digital sovereignty protections.… |
Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:15:15 GMT)Audit sympathetic toward Comhairle nan Eilean Siar as staff stretched to capacity trying to recoverAuditors remain concerned about the cyber resilience of a Scottish council as some systems are yet to be fully rebuilt following a ransomware attack in November 2023.… |
One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:00:06 GMT)IT in the firing line as 'legacy' roles under the microscopeAI-pocalypse New research suggests AI deployment is creating significant workforce redundancies across major organizations.… |
Tiny tweak for Pi OS, big makeover for the Imager - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:15:06 GMT)Debian 13.2 freshness, better HiDPI support, and 101 other things to run on your PiRaspberry Pi Ltd has shipped two updates for its single-board computers: a very small refresh to Pi OS 6, and a more substantial upgrade to the tool that writes your Pi's operating system to an SD card.… |
HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:30:11 GMT)Arm and RISC-V would like a wordFeature Remember when high-performance computing always seemed to be about x86? Exactly a decade ago, almost nine in ten supercomputers in the TOP500 (a list of the beefiest machines maintained twice yearly by academics) were Intel-based. Today, it's down to 57 percent.… |
TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:26:13 GMT)Chipzilla can certainly use foundry smarts, but denies the allegationTaiwanese foundry TSMC believes a former executive has leaked company secrets to Intel and is testing the matter in court.… |
ICANN distances itself from radical proposal – which it funded – to give nations a role in internet governance - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:32:14 GMT)Africa is again at the center of strifeICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group’s proposal.… |
Apple’s lousy AI didn’t stop it beating Samsung’s smartphone sales for the first time since 2011 - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:52:51 GMT)Analyst Counterpoint says second-hand phones are also helping Cupertino to the smartphone shipment summitApple is set to displace Samsung as the world’s top smartphone manufacturer, measured by shipment volume, according to analyst firm Counterpoint.… |
AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles - (pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:04:05 GMT)60-minute RTO means big outages can still happenThe cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or problems at Amazon Web Services’ US East region. The cloud giant has now made a change that will make its own role in such outages less painful.… |
Gainsight CEO downplays breach, says only a 'handful' of customers had data stolen - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:37:31 GMT)Maybe if your hand has 200+ fingers...Gainsight CEO Chuck Ganapathi downplayed the victim count related to his company's recent breach, saying he's only aware of "a handful of customers" who had their data affected after Salesforce flagged unusual activity involving Gainsight's connected app.… |
Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:47:10 GMT)HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potentialThis week the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to deliver a 16-fold boost to the nation's computing capacity – and eventually put fresh fish on the table.… |
Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:44:29 GMT)Even worse, it might have been a 'test run' for future attacksA Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, according to Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.… |
Mobile industry warns patchwork cyber regs are driving up costs - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:12:47 GMT)GSMA says fragmented, poorly designed laws add burdens without making networks any saferMobile operators' core cybersecurity spending is projected to more than double by 2030 as threats evolve, while poorly designed and fragmented policy frameworks add extra compliance costs, according to industry group the GSMA.… |
Doom hits KiCad as PCB traces become demons and doors - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:11:30 GMT)Engineer bends layout tool into vector renderer, then pushes frames through a MacBook's headphone jackThere's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope.… |
CodeRED emergency alert system CodeDEAD after INC ransomware attack - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:33:38 GMT)Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the productTowns and cities across the US are without access to their CodeRED emergency alert system following a cyberattack on vendor Crisis24.… |
US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:10:06 GMT)Service limits 20-ship line to two hulls after redesigns and delays torpedo scheduleThe US Navy is scrapping an entire shipbuilding program in an effort to find alternatives that can be delivered faster to counter expected threats.… |
Workday confronts existential threat as customers freeze hiring - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:51:10 GMT)HR software vendor pushes cross-selling as modest workforce growth exposes vulnerability of per-seat pricingWorkday is confronting a troubling reality. Customers aren't hiring much and some are actively cutting staff. The solution? Cross-selling to squeeze more revenue per user out of its installed base.… |
HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:50:06 GMT)Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030OpenAI needs to secure $207 billion in new financing by 2030 to fulfill its expansion plans, according to HSBC Global Investment Research – a challenge that could ripple across Big Tech.… |
Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80 - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:35:54 GMT)Time to test just how far fandom and taste will stretchIf Xbox console prices are going to leave Santa short this year, fear not as an alternative is at hand - Xbox Crocs are here for $80.… |
The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:45:13 GMT)From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepowerFeature A silent arms race is accelerating in the world's most advanced laboratories. While headlines focus on chatbots and consumer AI, the United States is orchestrating something far more consequential: a massive expansion of supercomputing power that may reshape the future of science, security, and technological supremacy.… |
London councils probe cyber incident as shared IT systems knocked offline - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:04:09 GMT)Three boroughs confirm investigation amid service outages, disrupted phone lines, and limited online accessTwo London councils are scrambling for answers after declaring a cybersecurity issue that began on Monday.… |
Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:15:08 GMT)Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will surviveGerman Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art.… |
Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:30:07 GMT)Google Workspace switch drags on amid Excel dependencies, compliance requirements, and compatibility issuesExclusive Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch.… |
Dell says Windows 11 transition is far slower than Win 10 shift as PC sales stall - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:27:10 GMT)Lessons from COVID and tariff shocks getting Mike D's tech shop through AI-induced memory mazeDell has predicted PC sales will be flat next year, despite the potential of the AI PC and the slow replacement of Windows 10.… |
India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:29:13 GMT)Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less soFeature In the decade since India launched its National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the nation has commissioned 37 machines with a combined power of 39 petaFLOPS, with another 35-petaFLOPS hybrid due to come online later this year. But while plenty of those machines use locally developed technology, India is yet to deliver on its ambition to become a leader or major semiconductor player.… |
HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:41:39 GMT)Warns memory price explosion means PCs may have less RAM, or use low-cost partsHP Inc will sack between 4,000 and 6,000 workers under a plan that calls for the PCs-and-printers prodigy to use AI to improve its operations.… |
Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to satisfy demand for AI - (pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:18:00 GMT)Chinese giant adds to ‘No AI bubble’ babble by citing oversubscribed infrastructure and surging demandChina’s Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to keep up with demand for AI, so is rationing access to GPUs so that customers who use all of its services enjoy priority access.… |
