ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease

(2025/05/05)

Asia in brief PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more!



Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers

(2025/05/05)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: AirPlay exploits; Six-year old backdoor opens; Raytheon settles federal charges; and more!



RSA Conf wrap: AI and China on everything, everywhere, all at once

(2025/05/04)

RSAC With North Korean IT workers storming the gates, too



Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America

(2025/05/04)

El Reg checks out shop in SF



Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025

(2025/05/03)

Not, it's not the plot of a sci-fi disaster movie



Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme

(2025/05/03)

A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption



Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

(2025/05/02)

Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030



Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills

(2025/05/02)

World War Fee Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says



Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is running on fumes

(2025/05/02)

Shakeup in US higher education funding means FOSS incubator is short a quarter of a million bucks



NATS custody battle ends with CNCF, Synadia sharing nicely

(2025/05/02)

Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now



Raspberry Pi slices Compute Module 4 prices

(2025/05/02)

Grab more headroom with the 4 and 8 GB variants



Disney Slack attack wasn't Russian protesters, just a Cali dude with malware

(2025/05/02)

25-year-old fella pleads guilty to stealing, dumping 1.1TB of data from the House of Mouse



Generative AI makes fraud fluent – from phishing lures to fake lovers

(2025/05/02)

RSAC Real-time video deepfakes? Not convincing yet



20% discount offer on Windows 365 expires around same time as Windows 10 support

(2025/05/02)

Can't run Windows 11? Microsoft suggests renting it instead



Three Brits charged over 'active shooter threats' swattings in US, Canada

(2025/05/02)

UK starts prosecution days after FBI vowed to clamp down on the crime



TikTok fined €530M after EU user data ends up on servers in China

(2025/05/02)

Ireland privacy watchdog says transfers violated GDPR, as Chinese app confirms €1B datacenter in Finland



UK's smaller broadband operators face tough road ahead, consolidation possible

(2025/05/02)

Report into alternative networks says competition with BT and co making life harder than ever



British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

(2025/05/02)

Experts suggest the obvious: There is an ongoing coordinated attack on UK retail sector



The Telegraph jumps the gun on World War III

(2025/05/02)

Trigger-happy Taiwan headline sparks instant apocalypse vibes



Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone

(2025/05/02)

Easy fix: Telling LLMs to cosplay Lenin makes 'em more gender blind



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