Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority (2025/10/01) Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account
US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew (2025/10/01) The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex federal CISO tells The Register
'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover (2025/10/01) Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes?
AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study (2025/10/01) Other studies are finding the same thing
Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach (2025/10/01) Exclusive Uncle Sam can't quit Redmond
Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing (2025/10/01) Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs
Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future (2025/10/01) Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running
Hundreds of orgs urge Microsoft: don’t kill off free Windows 10 updates (2025/10/01) Petitions pile up on Satya’s desk while Windows 7 mysteriously surges back from the grave
Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out (2025/10/01) Microsoft's Secure Future pitch lands with old bugs still in tow
SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13 (2025/10/01) Once more with feeling...
OpenStack in the pink with Flamingo release that escapes ancient Python constrictions (2025/10/01) Project boss pleased to be getting on top of technical debt
Taiwan gets chippy about US request it shifts manufacturing (2025/10/01) US has threatened even higher tariffs and the possible loss of military support
Export controls now a key factor in AI chip development – adding risk for the whole industry (2025/10/01) Analysis The physics of transistors and politics of trading licenses are colliding on the AI frontier
Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory (2025/10/01) Another thing you can blame on the hypefest: demand sends HBM costs up 120% in a year
3.7M breach notification letters set to flood North America's mailboxes (2025/10/01) Allianz Life and WestJet lead the way, along with a niche software shop
JetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets (2025/10/01) Dangles free product licenses in return for code-related data for its training
AI agent hypefest crashing up against cautious leaders, Gartner finds (2025/10/01) Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years
Judge dismisses Arm's last legal claim against Qualcomm in licensing spat (2025/10/01) Chip designer tells The Reg it plans to appeal
Imgur yanks Brit access to memes as parent company faces fine (2025/10/01) ICO investigation into platform's lack of age assurance continues
Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told (2025/10/01) Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead