Microsoft boffins promise entire game worlds made from AI slop (2025/02/19) WHAM, bam, no thank you, ma'am?
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites (2025/02/19) Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone
Your days of driver sync via Windows Server Update Services are numbered (2025/02/19) Microsoft suggests a move to the cloud
Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market (2025/02/19) 15GB of sensitive files traced back to former software biz
Mobile operators brace for bigger, faster headaches with 6G (2025/02/19) NGMN reports what telcos want, but admits most can be delivered by 5G
Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen (2025/02/19) The FOSS world has replicated most of it in Lazarus
Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy (2025/02/19) Also hammers another nail into Cortana's coffin with the end of Location History
London celebrity talent agency reports itself to ICO following Rhysida attack claims (2025/02/19) Showbiz members' passport scans already plastered online
HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin' (2025/02/19) Tech and people behind IoT brooch that reviewers instantly hated will one day pep up printers
Einstein Probe finds two stars that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other (2025/02/19) Odd X-ray flashes gave the game away, just few weeks after China-led mission launched
Trump teases 25% semiconductor tariffs that will go ‘substantially higher’ (2025/02/19) Envisions phased introduction dependent on manufacturing commitments
Healthcare outfit that served military personnel settles allegations it faked infosec compliance for $11M (2025/02/19) If this makes you feel sick, knowing this happened before ransomware actors started targeting medical info may help
Palo Alto firewalls under attack as miscreants chain flaws for root access (2025/02/19) If you want to avoid urgent patches, stop exposing management consoles to the public internet
Acer signals 10% laptop price hike in US, blames Trump's extra China tariff (2025/02/18) Analyst tells El Reg to expect more of this across hardware brands
Snake Keylogger slithers into Windows, evades detection with AutoIt-compiled payload (2025/02/18) Because stealing your credentials, banking info, and IP just wasn’t enough
Looks like paywalls are coming soon to a subreddit near you (2025/02/18) What do Redditors think? Well, it wouldn't be Reddit if they were happy
GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin (2025/02/18) Our first look at the default desktop for Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 'Plucky Puffin'
US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware (2025/02/18) Called it an 'incident' in SEC filing, but encrypted apps and data exfiltration suggest Lee just can’t say the R word
City-slaying space rock 2024 YR4 still has 2.4% shot at smacking Earth (2025/02/18) Scientists refine estimates, but can't yet rule out an impact